https://international.la-croix.com/opinions/dawkins-cultural-christianity-political-theologies-and-the-church-of-pope-francis?at_source=piano&at_medium=email&at_campaign=11588&pnespid=Aacv71NX9npJi16M_ZTMDh9QrEJo0Osqr1hHRLsBOYDK1iC4NPJW19mGsB4I_SSO8p1L8LoYlw There needs to be a balance and this balance means that the traditional European cultural Christianity needs to be reconfigured anew as genuinely welcoming in that true, authentic, Internationalist, Universal spirit of favouring solidarity with other cultural expressions of the Gospel and it also needs to recognize the invaluable indigenous Hebraic cultural contribution to…
“Timorous or Bold”
https://international.la-croix.com/culture/the-passage-of-time?at_source=piano&at_medium=email&at_campaign=11588&pnespid=HbNz8ERctidLzU7P55TCSUVPuh8xxbBxtBxcRqAKIozKsvXr4tf.kOjhdP2gXFRuq3y8hH2f3w "The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life" Seamus Heaney God Forbid!! That is my earnest prayer. It need not be that way - the way that Seamus Heaney declared, as distilled from the cynicism of this quote - our lives 'set frozen in a mould of inertia, unable…
Veritatis Splendor!
The Resurrection by Carl Heinrich Bloch (digital commons media)
The Harrowing of Hell
The Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell) by Fra Angelico (circa 1440s) ¹ During the year of Our Lord's Passion, the Passover as it was celebrated according to Jewish Tradition was actually celebrated on Holy Saturday. Before His death at Calvary on Good Friday, Jesus celebrated the same Passover with His disciples on the Thursday because He…
The Tenth Station
"While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5 : 8) Today is Good Friday. The Stations of the Cross is an incredibly powerful meditation that can bring out for us those things and areas in our lives which Jesus is desiring that we understand more deeply, even though perhaps we have understood…
The Crisis of Our Present Age
Here is my commentary on this video by Robert Barron. It is a reflection on some of the pertinent issues and points he addresses here. And it is a robust critique of some of his analyses. https://youtu.be/Pw-_mFRNvu4?si=uEpbLu6g8x0lp0Zf Oh-oh! Looks like someone has deleted this video from YouTube! 😆 And so now, I don't know exactly…
The Bedrock of Experience
While faith can inform the bedrock of our experience, experience in and of itself does not always coincide with or reflect the Truth which faith so ardently professes or upholds. There are, I must say, those experiences which are by and large bitter & futile and therefore present themselves as none other than formidable obstructions…
The Year of the Giant Seahorse
As we come to the end of the Lunar New Year festival, a festival which each year, officially ushers in the new annual cycle of life as it is lived within the sphere of Oriental culture and tradition, it never ceases to amaze me upon reflecting throughout this two-week long adventure, how correlative and superlatively…
Behind the Swinging Door
And so 2024 has swung open for us all........what with January nearly behind us and another long year of unexpected twists and turns outstretched before us.....I have spent my New Year's month of unfolding recovering from quite a difficult bout of gastroenteritis and I kind of think I am most likely more prone to picking…
“The Time of the End is the Time of No Room” Redux
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/25/israel-intensifies-occupied-west-bank-raids-on-christmas-day?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=user%2FAlJazeera This post was originally written on the 28th December 2023 for The Commemoration of the Holy Innocents When you see something like:'Israel hits Bethlehem in Christmas raids on occupied West Bank' you then know it's finally time to write "The Time of the End is the Time of No Room" Redux ! There is…
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