Grief and Ritual
Matthew Fox
September 8, 2019
A big part of the spiritual journey is the Via Negativa that invites us to grieve. Without grieving we can get stuck spiritually with no
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Speaking of the Importance of Putting the Via Positiva First!
Matthew Fox
September 7, 2019
We are talking about the Four Paths and about how we begin our spiritual lives—and renew them—with the Via Positiva–which is so often dismissed or
Pope Francis: From the Via Negativa to the Via Transformativa
Matthew Fox
September 6, 2019
There lies a special relationship between the Via Negativa—feeling of pain and grief including that of Mother Earth—and the Via Transformativa. The best worker of
Pope Francis: Mixing Vias Positiva & Negativa in Appeal for Creation
Matthew Fox
September 5, 2019
In a recent Public Letter prepared for the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation,” Pope Francis addressed all people of good will
The Via Negativa in Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si” Encyclical
Matthew Fox
September 4, 2019
In discussing the Via Positiva, we considered Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si” which dealt with it in considerable depth and breadth. (See the meditations on
Science and the Via Positiva
Matthew Fox
September 3, 2019
Science has a profound role to play in awakening us anew to the Via Positiva today. (Of course it plays a primary role in the
Acedia, Ecology, and the Via Positiva
Matthew Fox
September 2, 2019
During the industrial revolution the captains of industry complained about “sloth,” as the deadly sin of acedia was translated at that time. They considered anyone
The Via Positiva, Apathy, and the Future of the Planet
Matthew Fox
September 1, 2019
Twenty-seven years ago it was my privilege to deliver a Schumacher Society Lecture in Bristol, England at a conference whose theme was “The Environmental Revolution.”
Speaking of Evil
Matthew Fox
August 31, 2019
The late Catholic monk Thomas Merton (who died a martyr for peace in 1968), said that “today wisdom begins with sorrow.” Can we so accept
Evil and the Desecration of the Earth
Matthew Fox
August 30, 2019
What is happening in the Amazon with the deliberate setting of fires is a desecration. A murder of Nature’s Sacred Temple to make money for
