May
12
Vatican Address to U.N. on Religious Tolerance
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“Meet Others on the Plane of Reason and Mutual Respect”
Here is the address Mary Ann Glendon, president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, delivered May 10 to the U.N. General Assembly panel on religion in contemporary society. Her intervention was entitled “Prospects for Cross-cultural and Interreligious Relations in Contemporary Society.”
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This afternoon’s panelists [...]
May
12
Three Doves in Fatima
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In 1946, two friends found themselves in a delirious crowd while the statue of Our Lady of Fatima was carried in procession from Bombarral to Lisbon, in the midst of ovations such as a prince had never received. Carlos, a believer in his youth, exclaimed jubilantly like everyone, but his friend, Fernando, on the contrary, [...]
May
12
Power of Salvific Suffering
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“Declaring the power of salvific suffering,
the Apostle Paul says:
‘In my flesh I complete what is
lacking in Christ’s afflictions
for the sake of his body, that is, the Church.’ . . .
Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ
is to suffer for the kingdom of God.”
Pope John Paul II
Salvifici Doloris
May
12
Thomas Merton, thoughts on solitude…
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“The solitary life is full of paradoxes, the solitary is at peace, but not as the world understands peace, happy but not in the worldly sense of a good time, going but unsure of the way, not knowing the way but arriving, arriving but likewise departing. The solitary possess all riches but of emptiness, embracing [...]
May
12
The Prayer of Nothingness
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Plunging into the abyss that is God each day.
Every morning starting again as the journey were just beginning.
He looks at me and loves me.
I am moved to tears.Called into this solitude by the voice of silence.
This world is too big for me to understand by travelling around it.
It will pass far to quickly for me [...]



