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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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, A Persistent Peace, Put Down Your Sword, Transfiguration, 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, 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 75 times for peace, and given thousands of lectures on peace across the country. He lives in New Mexico, and was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. For information about his books, articles and speaking schedule, see: www.fatherjohndear.org |
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Vatican, Israel lock horns over Gaza violence (again)
Posted on Jan 9, 2009 13:13pm CST.| All Things Catholic by John L. Allen, Jr. | |
| Friday, January 9, 2009 - Vol. 8, No. 16 |
No crisis in the Middle East would be complete without a mini-drama involving alleged Vatican bias in its criticism of Israel, and as if on cue, just such a spat erupted this week. On Wednesday, an Israeli official complained that the Vatican has swallowed "Hamas propaganda," following comments from Cardinal Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, comparing the Gaza Strip to a "huge concentration camp."
"Remarks that seem based on Hamas propaganda while ignoring its numerous crimes ... do not bring the people closer to truth and peace," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor objected Wednesday afternoon.
To seasoned observers, it should come as no surprise that Martino is at the eye of the storm.
Epiphany of the Lord
Posted on Jan 8, 2009 14:26pm CST.| The Peace Pulpit by Bishop Gumbleton | Sunday, January 4, 2009 |
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You may remember on Christmas day and the second Mass of Christmas, the Gospel of Luke told us, after the shepherds had come to tell Mary and Joseph all they had seen and heard and then were leaving, "Mary treasured all these messages and continually pondered them in her heart."
Now this is what I propose that we must do -- continue to ponder all that we have heard about the birth of Jesus and the events surrounding it. Ponder and continue to come to a deeper and deeper understanding of who Jesus is and what his meaning is for us, and for all peoples.
Cutting out the tongues of the holy people
Posted on Jan 7, 2009 17:28pm CST.| Blessed Mother: Appears To Us Daily, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés | |
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Small bright post-it notes flutter all around the monitor I use while transferring my handwritten work to computer. One of those paper “sails” I call el piloto, the smallest guiding sail, the one built to cup the wind to try to hold to the course ... even when shivering on its mast in the midst of gale.
Thus, decades ago now, I wrote on this tiny yellow sail these words: Be careful when thou art casting out demons, thou dost not allow the casting out of the best parts of thyself.
Holding to one’s gifts against countervailing winds ...
NCR's John Allen on PBS religion news show
Posted on Jan 6, 2009 13:53pm CST.Editor's Note:
John Allen appeared on the PBS show RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY for its annual look ahead at the new year.
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The Global Zero campaign
Posted on Jan 6, 2009 10:56am CST.| On the Road to Peace by John Dear S.J. | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 |
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One day, the nations of the world will beat their swords into plowshares and study war no more, the holy prophet Isaiah wrote 2,700 years ago. On Dec. 8, hundreds of politicians and leaders from around the world gathered in Paris to launch the Global Zero campaign, a new call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. As a new year of the perilous nuclear epoch begins, I regard the gathering as a rare sign of hope. The campaign is calling for millions to join their movement and sign their petition. I did and hope you will too.
This month there will be gatherings in Washington, D.C., and in Moscow. The number of nuclear weapons keeps growing, organizers say, and the possibility of nuclear terrorism remains high. And they insist something can be done. They're demanding a comprehensive agreement to eliminate all nuclear weapons worldwide through phased and verified reductions. All of it done in 20 years.
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)
Posted on Dec 31, 2008 13:06pm CST.| The Peace Pulpit by Bishop Gumbleton | Christmas Eve Midnight Mass 2008 |
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We’re grateful to the children and their leaders for providing us with a visual presentation of what we heard in the gospel lesson this evening. It takes much effort through pageants like that and even more through our reflection -- careful, prayerful reflection -- to try to get a grasp of the mystery that we celebrate tonight.
I think many of us, in a sense, find it almost too easy to believe that Jesus was Son of Man and son of God.
It’s really a profound mystery and if we are to begin to plumb the depth of the mystery, perhaps we should put ourselves in the situation of those first disciples, the ones that Jesus gathered about him when he began his public life, or even before that his own parents and relatives. They knew Jesus fully in his humanness, and they had no real idea that this was God living in their midst. All that came later when Jesus was executed, tortured and put to death, but then rose from the dead, and then suddenly the disciples began to understand. There was more to Jesus than they had ever realized: This is not just the son of Mary, it’s the son of God.
