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The insitutional Catholic church is showing its bigotry by forcefully attacking the Spanish government as Spain proceeds with strengthening the institution of marriage. I hope that Spain, along with the Netherlands, will be supported by an ever widening circle of Christians who want to promote …
Echoing my last post about learning from negative examples, last night the screening of “Enron, The Smartest Guys In The Room” left me depressed. However,as soon as I stepped out of the theatre I realized that the filmmaker,Alex Gibney, edited a seamless, almost perfectly paced …
The one good thing about today’s white smoke at Vatican Square is that young people learned that the Pope is elected. This fact can lead to the election of bishops by lay people. Actually, another good thing is that the television coverage of so many …
This quick note to say that I’m alive and well. The long silence is due to my travels and fatigue. I get to my room and am quite tired and some of the places do not have Internet access. I’ve going through Latin America and …
The website of the forthcoming conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society presents a brief, crystal clear description of main issues of concern to religious and educational leaders. Scroll down the page to the section on “scope” and the issues are: Technologies, community, learners and knowledge. …
Read today in the Houston Chronicle that the man in Brazil who is accused of ordering the assassination of Sister Dorothy Stang surrendered and is under arrest. Sister Stang sacrificed her life for us, for Faith â into God. I have to say that we …
So good that the Catholic Church is visibly fighting in to abolish the death penalty. The Texas Catholic bishops are members of many coalitions, including the Texas Moratorium Network to stop the killing. The Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is doing wonderful work, …
Houston’s financially poor neighborhood, Pecan Park, has free wireless Internet access right now. Hurrah! And it is driving “respect for the free market” ignoramuses into convulsions…..as though for-profit companies have made any effort at all to serve poor households. Will Reed runs the not-for-profit “Technology …
Was awakened by a flood of loud waililng prayers from about 6 LOUD loudspeakers atop mosques in downtown Yogyakarta. Sometimes the prayers are taped and sometimes they are live. This happens 5 times each day, at 4:30 AM; 12:30 PM; 3:30 PM; 6:30 PM and …
I was met at the Yogyakarta airport by Mr. Emmanuel Surono who is the Vice President of WACC Asia, (AR-WACC). He says that the AR-WACC general assembly is held every three years and usually about 120 members attend.He deftly drove through the buzzing motorcycles that …