“If you want peace, work for justice.” – Pope Paul VI
“If you want justice, work for chastity.” – Pope John Paul II
This begins a serious of articles I have decided to write in defense of the Catholic Church and her controversial teachings in our current post-modern culture. I have entitled this series “Catholisense” because this is a mystical apologetic rather than a theological one. It is my belief that the presence and teachings of the Catholic Church are not outdated or irrelevant but rather necessary. Indeed, I will argue it is the very presence alone of the Catholic Church and the Vatican that is preventing our society from falling off a cliff of self destruction. Continue Reading »
Brian Roberston has posted a good comparison between the teaching of Jesus and the Tao Te Ching on his blog Christian Mystics. Here are some excerpts below:
“What does it profit them if they gain the whole world, but lose their souls?” Luke 9:25
“To be proud with wealth and honor is to sow the seeds ofyour own downfall.” Tao Te Ching 9
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21
“The sage wears rough clothing and holds the jewel in his heart.” Tao Te Ching 70
“The least among all you of is the greatest.” Luke 9:49
“The best of people is like water. Water gives life to all things and does not compete with them. It flows in places people reject and so is like the Tao.” Tao Te Ching 8
Matt Stone, on his blog Global Christianity, brought attention to a YouTube posted discussion between Father George Coyne and Richard Dawkins. This is an amazingly disciplines and reasonable discussion, the likes of which I want to see more of:
Terrorists and fundamentalists think God is on their side. True saints try to be on God's side, and never assume they are succeeding. View Original Tweet ->>
Religion is a powerful blessing when used to discipline one's own life and a terrible abomination when used to control another's View Original Tweet ->>
yaholo: ya-hol-o [yah-hole-oh]
noun a Native American name meaning "One Who Yells"...
mystic: mys-tic [mistik]
noun a person who seeks contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Diety or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.
- Oxford American Dictionary
It is in this life (the Lord told us) that we will have...
