El Rio Debajo El Rio: The river beneath the river, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
| El Rio Debajo El Rio: The river beneath the river, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
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 Activist poet, psychoanalyst, cantadora (keeper of the old stories), Dr. Estés has practiced clinically as a post-trauma specialist since 1970. She served teachers and children after the massacre at Columbine High School and the survivor families of the 9/11 tragedy. She is an Associate with the Sisters of Charity, Leavenworth, Kans. Her teaching “spirit in healing” to young doctors at a Catholic hospital coincides with board appointment at Maya Angelou Minority Health Foundation, Wake Forest University Medical School. A former welfare mother, she testifies before state and federal legislatures on issues of mercy. Of Mestizo-Mexican heritage, adopted by immigrant Hungarians as an older child, Dr. Estés is a visiting diversity lecturer at universities and a Founder of La Sociedad de Guadalupe for adult literacy. As a grandmother from the Rocky Mountains and a disciple of nature, Dr. Estés holds that the largest endangered species on earth is the human soul. Learn more. |
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NCR Book Club: Reviews, interviews and recommendations
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NCR Podcasts with Tom Fox
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Podcasts on NCR Cafe offer visitors interviews with authors and other thinkers focused on spiritual and social transformation. Each week, former NCR publisher and editor Tom Fox engages in conversations with people often overlooked by the mainstream media. His goal is to share ideas aimed at building a more meaningful, just and peaceful global society.
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Introduction: On the Road to Peace
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 John Dear is a Jesuit priest, peace activist, and the author of more than 20 books, most recently, Transfiguration (from Doubleday, with a foreword by Archbishop Tutu). Other books include You Will Be My Witnesses, Living Peace, The Questions of Jesus and Mohandas Gandhi. He has served as the director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the U.S., and after 9/11, as a coordinator of chaplains for the Red Cross at the New York Family Assistance Center. From 2002-2004, he served as pastor of four churches in New Mexico. He has traveled the war zones of the world, been arrested some 75 times for peace, and given thousands of lectures on peace across the country. He lives in the high desert of northeastern New Mexico. For information about his books, articles and speaking schedule, see: www.fatherjohndear.org |
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Italian diocese defends plans for local mosque
Posted on May 11, 2008 05:37am CST.By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
New York
Amid tensions generated by Europe’s rising Muslim presence, it’s increasingly common for the continent’s Christian roots to be invoked as a means of preventing its transformation into what critics deride as “Eurabia,” meaning an outpost of Islamic civilization.
In the Italian diocese of Padua, on the other land, local Catholic leaders are appealing to the same Christian identity to make a very different case – for welcoming the growing Muslim community, including defending its right to construct a mosque.
Catholic relief agency in Myanmar faces travel restrictions
Posted on May 9, 2008 09:26am CST.By UCA News
BANGKOK -- A Catholic relief agency already working in Myanmar when Cyclone Nargis struck May 3 is grappling with travel restrictions as it tries to assess the situation and help survivors in the Irrawaddy River delta region.
Malteser International, formally the Order of Malta Worldwide Relief, has been working in Myanmar since 2001 on several humanitarian projects including health care and safe drinking water.
Lessons to learn from the papal trip
Posted on May 9, 2008 09:13am CST.| All Things Catholic by John L. Allen, Jr. | |
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On Wednesday I spoke at the annual World Communications Day luncheon of the Diocese of Brooklyn, hosted by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. For this group of media professionals in the New York area, as well as local Catholics, I was asked to ruminate on lessons to be learned from the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States.
Is India the next China on religious freedom?
Posted on May 9, 2008 08:37am CST.By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
New York
For years, followers of the Dali Lama, the Falun Gong movement, and underground Christian churches have all complained that China gets a “free pass” around the world on issues of human rights and religious freedom, mostly because everyone is eager to cash in on the country's exploding economy.
Today Catholic leaders in northeastern India, which has seen repeated outbreaks of anti-Christian violence in recent months at the hands of Hindu extremists, are saying much the same thing about Asia’s other rising superpower.
Top archbishop suggests ways to deal with abusive priests
Posted on May 9, 2008 08:06am CST.By Jeff Diamant
Religion News Service
NEWARK, N.J. -- A top U.S. archbishop, recently named to the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, said the panel of cardinals and bishops could help resolve a key issue in the clergy sex abuse scandal: how to remove priests from ministry who abused children decades ago.
Under the church's Code of Canon Law, the statute of limitation for clergy sex abuse of minors expires 10 years after the victim's 18th birthday. In older cases, a bishop can ask the Vatican to bypass that rule, but Archbishop John J. Myers of Newark, N.J., said he wants to explore ways for bishops to act in such matters without asking Rome.
The Catholic Worker: 'You go to where there is need'
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On the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Worker Movement (May 1), Tom Fox spoke with Catholic Worker veteran Louis Rodemann of Holy Family House in Kansas City, Mo. Rodemann tells Fox: “The Catholic Worker is such a nitty-gritty, down to earth expression of Christian Catholic life that -- I say this not out of arrogance, but out of pride -- I think this is what Jesus had in mind.”
