A STUDY IN CONTRASTS

I'm currently preparing an article for the new progressive blog, Open Tabernacle, entitled A Pilgrim in Rome: Living with Joy on the Margins, which I hope to finish by next weekend. The article will discuss my reflections...

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Wisdom and Tolerance versus Self Flaggelation!

Since I've been remiss in posting on this blog for several weeks, I wanted to reference two great articles at other sites. One is  by Redemptorist Bishop Kevin Dowling, the bishop of Rustenburg, South Africa - A very...

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HAITI VERSUS GAZA

; Excellent video contrasting images and news reportage of Haiti and Gaza. A very fine piece of demythologizing....

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The Vision of St. Luitgarda

The most famous and artistically the most important statue on the St. Charles Bridge in Prague, belonging to the top art works of Baroque sculpture, represents the Vision of St. Luitgarda, Cistercian...

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ROMANY LOVE SONG

Haven't been posting much lately because I'm working intensely on completing a novel set in Prague, both a political thriller and a love story between two young gay teens, one a Romany boy (of privileged circumstances)...

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SAINT MAGDELEINE and LIFE ON THE MARGINS

I'm currently doing research for a crime novel I'm writing set in Prague and Eastern Europe, a political thriller with religious overtones revolving around a gay teen love story. In the course of my research, I came across...

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HAITI AND US IMPERIALISM

Read this powerful article, Before and After the Quake The Incapacitation of Haiti By ASHLEY SMITH  on Counterpunch, from which I quote: "The media coverage of the earthquake is marked by an almost complete divorce of the disaster from the social and political history of Haiti," Canadian Haiti Solidarity Activist Yves Engler said in an interview....

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PAPAL PREFERENCES

Thanks to Joe.My God...

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The Peace of Assisi

I've just returned from a peaceful, prayerful two days in Assisi, after taking my Presbyterian cousins around Catholic sites in Paris and Rome. I found the whole experience deeply moving and these last three days gave...

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OFF TO ROME

Well, I'm off to Rome with my cousins, Anne and Martha, (and Anne's gay son, Glen). We have an audience scheduled with Pope Benedict :) so my Presbyterian cousins can tell poor Benedict what they think about the Church's...

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Response to Anyonomous

 An anonymous comment left on my previous posting asked me if I could find one Doctor of the Church or one Ecumenical Council which has not affirmed that homosexual relations are intrinsically sinful. The individual then went on to say that he had led an openly homosexual lifestyle for thirty years before 'returning to the Church. William Lindsey's...

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TABERNACLES OF OPENNESS

Just returned from Paris for the New Year and visits to these sacred places with my very Protestant cousins (and second cousins) on my father's side. Burned candles in each Tabernacle for friends and relatives - as well...

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