
The Doctrine of Discovery & Papal Fallibility
The papacy being what it is, it finds it very difficult to admit mistakes. The fact that Pope Francis did so is significant. For years I
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The papacy being what it is, it finds it very difficult to admit mistakes. The fact that Pope Francis did so is significant. For years I

Buddhism offers the “Noble Eight-Fold Path” as a way that all should follow. Among these Eight Paths is that of “Right Speech.” One who follows that Path

My teaching about Original Blessing that so disturbed the previous two popes can be understood as an exegesis of the first page of the Bible. There

We have been meditating on God as Love and Compassion and Justice. Another way to say this is that when we are busy loving or doing

Rabbi Heschel cautions that it is not enough to have a regard for the Ground of Being. We must also have “concern for the unregarded.” This is

Yesterday we meditated on being, interbeing and compassion and how returning to our Source and touching being leads to fruitful action from non-action. To recognize

We have been meditating on being (and therefore on non-being also) as we consider names for Divinity that call to us today. A return to the

We have been meditating on how God is Being and how holy being is. The Book of Acts recalls the earliest days of Christianity and cites

Thomas Aquinas reminds us that “to exist is the most perfect thing of all, for compared to existence, everything else is potential.” And that “God is

In interacting with students and retreatants in my teaching over the years, and in responses to my writings, I have witnessed how deeply peoples’ lives
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