The Progess of Gay Rights and the Return of the Divine Feminine

Return of the Divine FeminineA feminine understanding of the interconnectedness and sacred equality and harmony is beginning to seep into all areas of our lives and transform us. The Divine Feminine has begun to permeate...

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The Divine Feminine Assumes Her Place | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches

The Divine Feminine Assumes Her Place | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches The middle of August symbolizes the beginning of the end of summer to most persons in culturally Protestant America. ...

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IVETKA AND THE MOUNTAIN

With these final reflections, I bid farewell - for the time being - to the Marian shrine of Litmanova in Slovakia. The quite wonderful dvd above (with English subtitles) is unfortunately no longer available on Amazon.com,...

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Bishop Thomas Gumbleton: Walking Away from Blind Obedience.

The following is an excerpt from Bishop Gumbleton's brilliant,  piece,  A New Meaning of Obedience, published in the National Catholic Reporter yesterday, August 12th. It simply confirms what many of us have felt for years, that the Spirit is calling us to an alternative witness outside the formal boundaries of the institutional church. But...

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The Real Face of Jesus

Some photos taken from the History Channel's documentary on the shroud of Turin. following the work of a group of computer artists using cutting edge technology to 'reveal' the real face of the Shroud. Whether you are...

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Excised from the public record: Charles de Foucauld, Louis Massignon and the 'Gay Connection:

 (The following posting is not meant to cast aspersions upon the reputation of the great and saintly Charles de Foucauld, who is one of my mentors and the model for my own contemplative, heremitic lifestyle. It is...

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Blessed Charles de Foucauld, Louis Massignon and the Gay connection

(This posting, and more especially the one immediately following it,  is not meant to cast aspersions upon the reputation of the great and saintly Charles de Foucauld, who is one of my mentors and the model...

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X factor winner, Joe McElderry, reveals he is gay

  It's always uplifting to the heart when this happens. Britain's  2009 X Factor winner, Joe McElderry, always struck me as such a decent, mature, well-integrated young gay man. Now he admits he is! Joe...

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Surrender to the Mother

Truly wonderful video talk from Father Bede Griffiths O.S.B., one of the great teachers of the Catholic mystical tradition, given in the last years of his life. Would such a teacher be able to survive public scrutiny from...

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Talking Treason in Church

Many thanks again to Contemplative Catholic for a great link to an exciting new book. It feels like a stick of dynamite, explosive in it's proposals and perhaps a bit too iconoclastic and simplistic for some people's...

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The Sacred Spring of Litmanova

(Update: I'm not sure why the original photos included with this post are no longer visible, especially since they were my original photos. But I have 'deleted' the remnants of them, to remove the distracting exclamation points!) (In gratitude to Our Blessed Mother for the overturning of Proposition 8. Mary watch over us as the long...

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