Post Vatican II Perspective: Penitential Pilgrimage of Pope Francis
The extraordinary “penitential pilgrimage” of Pope Francis to Canada opens up an array of questions about who we are as Vatican II Catholics. There is…
A Game of Chess in Black and White
While Knights upon the chessboard of salvation Do endless battle with the threatening black The dualistic paradigm of light and dark A moralistic, fatalistic bent…
Queen Elizabeth II
In alchemy, the sacred marriage of the white queen (Mercury) and the red king (Sulphur) symbolized the union of male and female principles to produce…
View From Chile of the Penitential Pilgrimage
I was virtually present, through live streaming, in all encounters with Pope Francis’s during his Pilgrimage of Penance to Canada. I felt at home again…
Honduran Padre Melo Recognized
The one-year old new government of Xiomara Castro, with a reform mandate to eliminate pervasive corruption throughout all levels of government and society, has through…
The Necessary Angel – By Wallace Stevens
“A society must assume that it is stable,” James Baldwin wrote in his timeless treatise on the creative process, “but the artist must know, and…
Spirituality and Polarization in Religion and Politics Part 2
Pentecost Sunday Insights Politics is well-known for being a school of hard knocks. While we recognize this to be intuitively true, how exactly do we…
New Hope Emerges in Israel/Palestine Crisis
“The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an…