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Pope Benedict meets with victims of sex abuse
… has experienced as a result of the sexual abuse of minors,” the pope said. “No words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse.” The pope went on to ask all …
Pope Benedict meets with victims of clerical sexual abuse
… has experienced as a result of the sexual abuse of minors,” the pope said. “No words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse.” The pope went on to ask all …
The Lost Holy Books, and The Bear-Whale Prophesy
… for earth and us, comes most especially as we cease to destroy, pollute, overbuild, strip-mine ourselves and our truest hearts and ideas, and instead investigate ourselves, mend … or sense them through non-rational faculties. … Children’s dreams may act as canaries in the mines … I offer one example of changes in psyche as a result of assault to/on environs. As a …
The Lenten Journey of Gospel Nonviolence (Part 6)
… tanks in Tiananmen Square. Or Gandhi's nonviolent followers marching toward the Dharasana Salt Mines. Or Dr. King and the civil rights activists, facing the troops, the dogs and the fire hoses …
Archbishop Niederauer on cathedral ministries; Allen on church communication; Update on La Sapienza spat
… I develop in a daily update posting here: The pope, modern science, and a canary in the coal mine . The e-mail address for John L. Allen Jr. is … jallen@ncronline.org …
The Baptism of the Lord
… 2006, that terrible tragedy that took place in a tiny town in Lancaster County, Pa. Nickel Mines was the name of the village or town -- it was an Amish community -- and there was a …
The pope, modern science, and a canary in the coal mine
… the La Sapienza episode, at least from a PR point of view, is as a sort of “canary in the coal mine” – a warning of a potentially dangerous public impression about Benedict’s agenda that, at …
Second Sunday of Advent
… it to yourself. We live in a society where individualism is very highly cherished. "What's mine is mine, I worked for it" - maybe that's not what Jesus looks for. Even tax collectors came to John: …
Day Three: The most democratic day on the Vatican's calendar
… was finally allowed to begin ascending the steps towards the Bronze Door, a colleague of mine was actually impaled by the press of the crowd upon a barricade. Had a couple of people not …
DAY ONE: Transcript of Remarks on Papal Plane
… also on the relationship with the Orthodox and Islam, to overcome differences and polemics? … Mine is not a political visit, but a pilgrimage, as I said. I’ve really only got two days, and at …
And now for the rest of the story
… of Iraq? I doubt it, my friends. I doubt and fear the consequences for both your country and mine. A brilliant friend of mine "Mohammed," has forwarded this song to me today and I wanted to share it with you, since it …