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- epsilon on 8 March 2010
Hello Roger – have just re-read this post – it is so profound! Are you still... - roger on 5 March 2010
Philip, thank you for this unexpected kind encouragement again and prayers! After finding your... - philip johnson on 3 March 2010
your faith is strong .you are in my prayers.god bless you and god bless the pope.... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you Benjamin for this beautiful quote and for your warm words. They help, for much the... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you so much Philip. This kind, warm encouragement means a lot to us. For this internet... - roger on 28 February 2010
Yes Edwin. Catholicism is a living, growing tradition. I cannot help but feel that part of... - Benjamin on 25 February 2010
Revisited your blog; I am thankful for your journey and witness to me. I will revisit... - philip johnson on 24 February 2010
great writing.you are true followers of the one true faith. god bless .philip. - Edwin Shendelman on 24 February 2010
“For I really have come to believe that a de-sacramentalised,... - roger on 23 February 2010
Yes Edwin. There is a favourite quote of mine that makes old friends of mine yawn by now.... - Edwin Shendelman on 23 February 2010
I guess what I am trying to get at here is the need to hold two different ideas... - roger on 22 February 2010
Thank you for this Edwin. My original post invoked the word STRUGGLE quite consciously I...
- epsilon on 8 March 2010
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Tag Archives: Materialism
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings Part I (Introduction)
Authority … one has authority or competence to speak about something the more consciously and fully one has experienced it. In writing of things New Age for example, I feel a certain degree of confidence, given that I have had long, intimate involvement with this phenomena. I completely identified with the New Age movement for many [...]
Posted in Roger's Weblog Also tagged Capitalism, Catholic Mystery, environment, Valentin Tomberg Leave a comment
Global Warming and Catholic Response
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII brought forth the encyclical Rerum Novarum. It was a milestone in the Catholic Tradition, inaugurating a new era of Papal Social Encyclicals responding to the social injustice of the modern world.
The latest being the magisterial Caritas in Veritate of His Holiness Benedict XVI.
In Rerum Novarum Leo XIII challenged unrestricted capitalism, [...]
Valentin Tomberg: The Judas Kiss of Demythologisation
In my last weblog entry, I made reference to the materialism of the liberal Protestant theology of the likes of Rudolf Bultmann. And I noted briefly that this materialism had now tragically made its way into Catholicism, as well.
Thus do I recall the teaching of a certain Jesuit, who explained the Crucifixion in terms of [...]
Posted in Roger's Weblog Also tagged Church in Crisis, Demythologisation, Valentin Tomberg 2 Comments
Just the Facts, Ma’am
When I was a teenager in America, an evangelical Christian friend tried to convert me. He assured me that heaven would be made of gold. A city literally made of gold …
I pressed him. What would we be living in? Golden houses. What would we travel in? Golden cars. Everything would be gold. I wonder [...]
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings II (Valentin Tomberg on Disintegration – Death)