Tag Archives: John Paul II

Depressed on Thanksgiving

Feel abandoned or rejected by the world? I do not reject your sadness. I stand with your not pretending to be other.

Soul. Ego. Communal Paradox (Rohr, Chittister, Merton)

My notions of ego and soul, and 3 influential sources

President Biden on abortion and Pope Francis on pastors. Magisterium vs. Magistrate

Joe Biden disagrees with the Catholic magisterium which teaches that life begins at conception. Some Catholic bishops have cast the judgment that he should therefore be denied the sacrament of Eucharist.

A psycho-spiritual role for logic

Despite how desperately you wish to embody some ideal, you can’t. Logically, ideals cannot be fully embodied by ANYbody.

We are not mere thinking machines; we are feelers as well.