Growing up in Ireland in the 1940’s and 50’s, there was a wonderful Catholic custom on the feast of All Souls. Each time you visited a church and offered an “Our Father”, “Hail Mary” and “Glory be” for the pope’s intentions, you gained a plenary indulgence, to spring a soul out of purgatory and send it on to heaven. Read more
November 14, 2019
Purgatory, Suffering, Love and “The Prophet”
November 14, 2019 By Karen Azar Rubin
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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, purgatory comes from the Latin ‘purgare’ to make clean, to purify, a place of temporal punishment for those who depart life in God’s grace, but have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions. To us young children purgatory promised a little less fire than Hell. Read more
November 5, 2019
Pythagoras and Eithne
November 5, 2019 By Father Seán ÓLaoire, PhD
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I remember well the day I fell in love with geometry. I was 10 or 11 years old and had recently been exposed to it in school. At first it was merely another subject, like geography or English Literature, and it didn’t seem any more useful than either of those. Read more
October 23, 2019
Secondary Reinforcement . . . or How to Destroy Society and Planet Without Really Trying
October 23, 2019 By Bill Miller
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Who would have thought that a century ago, a couple of dogs, a buzzer, and a psychologist would uncover and demonstrate the means by which life as we know it can be destroyed? A simple principle from behavioral psychology may illuminate forces that are accelerating current global challenges. Read more
October 15, 2019
Bath Time
October 15, 2019 By Father Seán ÓLaoire, PhD
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Only now did I understand that most of my dog Kayla’s fear was that she had detected, long before I had, that we were about to jump dimensions, to step through the veil into a “Caol Áit.” Read more
October 2, 2019
Angel Leaves
October 2, 2019 By Father Seán ÓLaoire, PhD
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Life is not about reaching a destination, nor yet of hunkering down awaiting salvation. Life is a great journey in which dreams of destinations are merely the seductress enticing us to let go of our fears. Read more
September 18, 2019
Born To Be Wild
September 18, 2019 By Father Seán ÓLaoire, PhD
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Today, I came across a most exotic piece of evidence. I waded upstream from pool to pool. Sometimes the water just reached mid calf, sometimes it was chest high. Then I noticed a bleached pig skull on a branch six feet above the water. Read more
September 10, 2019
Keeping Conversations Open: Three Things to Consider
September 10, 2019 By Karen Azar Rubin
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Why do some conversations seem to flow easily, while others careen off the cliff faster than we can intercede? So much of what feels satisfying/empowering or isolating/troubling in life seems to be related to the positive or negative emotions resulting from our conversations with each other. What are we missing? Read more
September 3, 2019
What Did Jesus Know?
September 3, 2019 By Father Seán ÓLaoire, PhD
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We read in Luke’s Gospel that Jesus grew in wisdom and grace. but, wasn’t Jesus divine? Wasn’t he God-incarnate? Wasn’t he God’s only son? Ipso facto, he must have been omniscient and, if so, why would he have needed to grow in wisdom and in grace? Read more
August 27, 2019
On the Way to Higher Consciousness – Part 5
August 27, 2019 By Constance Vincent
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Enlightenment is the ultimate human level of higher consciousness. It is also the most intriguing change of all. There are those who seek it and never find it. Others gradually reach it after years of spiritual practice. And others who experience an instantaneous awakening, Read more
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