Pope Benedict Hears it in German
What was it like to hear the truth in his own native language? Pope Benedict XVI met victims of sexual abuse by clergy on the second day of his visit to his German homeland, an encounter that left him “deeply shaken”, Vatican officials said. … During a 30-minute meeting with abuse victims in Erfurt, the [...]
Waiting
No surprise that we’re here waiting. This is life when you get to the age when you count your blessings and count the days. The worst thing we could do to our parents would to pre-decease them, so the best requires us to say goodbye. There’s a Buddhist story. A peasant man saves up until [...]
Rapture Date Moved Up
Harold Camping has emerged from hiding to announce a new Rapture date. OAKLAND, Calif. – California preacher Harold Camping said Monday his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months because Judgment Day actually will come on October 21. Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday [...]
Thief in the Night
There’s those that will knock you over to get your wallet, and those who con you into throwing away your life’s savings… The sky turned dark Saturday afternoon, but it wasn’t a sign of the world’s impending doom – just passing rain. Welcome to the No-pacalypse – a disappointing finish to what doomsday believer Robert [...]
Two Visions of the Apocalypse
Today when I got out of work the weather had taken a turn to sunny and warm. I have a brand new sun dress, and anyway, the world is due to end today. So I’m wearing it. Strangely enough, I think I heard the end of the world prophet, Harold Camping, on Family Radio about [...]
This Will Save You Some Money
Three women in Florida are charged with taking advantage of troubled souls. Three women are accused in Florida with scamming people out of thousands of dollars by promising to cleanse them of evil spirits. Federal prosecutors in Fort Lauderdale say 36-year-old Polly Evans, 32-year-old Bridgette Evans, and 22-year-old Olivia Evans are facing federal fraud charges. [...]
Happy Beltane
May Day has many meanings across the centuries. Perhaps the primary one in the Northern Hemisphere is that you can put the ice scraper in the trunk and hope the gods don’t smote you. This year we have the unusual good fortune to have the first of May on a Sunday with mild weather and [...]
The Buddha on Religion
If you find yourself in the middle of a rushing river, going down for the third time, and you reach out desperately and find a raft, you better climb on it. And you can climb on that raft, and find your way to dry land. That raft saved your life. Will you put it on [...]
Holy Saturday
Driving through Olneyville I saw a woman draping purple silk over a large wooden cross she had put up in front of her triple-decker. She had a folding table with flowers on it. I won’t be driving back there to see how she completed her temporary shrine, but what she had started was quite beautiful. [...]
Good Friday
Some time ago a traveling preacher walked from town to town speaking to anyone who would listen about God and scripture and sin and salvation. He was one of many street preachers, but his words found a place in the hearts of the poor and the outcast. Soon crowds gathered wherever he appeared. He renounced [...]
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