Ending the Doctrine of Discovery, continued
Matthew Fox
April 3, 2023
Two days ago we addressed what I consider to be major religious news—the repudiation by Pope Francis of the three papal bulls of the late
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Week of 3/27-4/1/2023: Compassion, Truth & the “Unregarded”
Matthew Fox
April 2, 2023
March 27, 2023. God, the Holy Spirit as Fire & CompassionMany mystics equate Divinity with fire and with compassion. Hildegard of Bingen said, “Who is
Creation: Original Blessing, Original Goodness at Work
Matthew Fox
March 30, 2023
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
Eckhart, Suzuki, Merton on Truth, Formlessness & the Original Mind
Matthew Fox
March 9, 2023
Yesterday we considered the understanding of God as our “ground” and how we can, in Julian’s words, access divinity and our true selves by “digging
Thanksgiving, 2022
Matthew Fox
November 24, 2022
In our recent daily meditations, we have been praising and therefore thanking Earth and Air, Fire and Water. As Thomas Berry put it in a recent
Yeats on Celebration, Praise and Festivity
Matthew Fox
November 19, 2022
Speaking of festivity and celebration, I am moved by Yeats’ simple poem: We must laugh and we must sing, We are blessed by everything Everything
Nolan on the Jesus Story, Politics and Religion
Matthew Fox
October 21, 2022
In a chapter on “Politics and Religion,” Albert Nolan, as for many theologians who followed him, reminds us that the fact that Jesus was executed on
On Gratitude for the Immanence of God in Nature
Matthew Fox
September 6, 2022
We continue our meditation with Italian psychologist and philosopher Vito Mancuso. In his Introduction to the Italian translation of Original Blessing, he compares myself and Giordano Bruno, who
A View on the Sacred Cosmos from Italy
Matthew Fox
September 5, 2022
Contemporary Italian philosopher and psychologist (and ex-priest) Vito Mancuso, wrote a very rich Introduction to my book Original Blessing when it was translated into Italian. In Italian the
Original Blessing: A Cosmic, not just a Human, Condition
Matthew Fox
April 28, 2022
This morning I was struck by a well-meaning and very bright person who wrote this about my work and the resistance aroused in some lofty
