The respect for life, the affirmation of all life, is basic to the ecological conscience Jun 24, 2018 | BlogWhen Pope Francis came to the US after Laudato Si’ to speak to the US Congress, he lifted up Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton as leaders for us to follow. Thomas Merton wrote the following on Ecological Conscience… – mv Do not...
‘Nothing Is Impossible for God’ God does not depend on our logic and our limited human capacities. Prepare to be amazed, surprised and full of gratitude! Jun 24, 2018 | BlogIn his noon address today on 24 June 2018, Pope Francis reminded us: ‘Nothing Is Impossible for God’ . God does not depend on our logic and our limited human capacities. Prepare to be amazed, surprised and full of gratitude! We should dream and prepare, even when we...
There can be no ecumenism with proselytism, and we must abandon the desire to exploit and profit from others or direct public moneys to armaments Jun 24, 2018 | BlogVatican Media Screenshot – Pope Listening As Zenit’s Deborah Castellano Lubov Asks Question On Papal Flight In truth – in the collective subconscious there is an ugly motto to exploit (many developing and low income areas, where people cannot defend their...
Towards a Participatory Society Jun 24, 2018 | BlogTowards a Participatory Society: New Roads to Social and Cultural Integration Participants in a Vatican meeting on the participatory society addressed the theme by first defining the concepts of social participation, combating exclusion and social and cultural...
Roots of Liberation Jun 24, 2018 | BlogReflection from Richard Rohr, Sunday, June 24, 2018 One of the great themes of the Bible, beginning with the Hebrew Scriptures and continued by Jesus and Paul, is “the preferential option for the poor.” I call it “the bias toward the bottom.” The Hebrew people’s...
