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Taking a stand for Christianity

Plato_Today “Truth is not determined by a majority vote.” ― Pope Benedict XVI What we are seeing in our time is a generation, where truth is relative to what people wish to believe. Those with this...

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Had Jesus a wife? Professor Karen L. King publish or perish: “Gospel of...

There has been a bit of noise about a dubious a “business card size” piece of papyrus which purportedly provides evidence that Jesus had a wife. That Jesus was married, many hope, is somehow...

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The Self – God’s window between pantheistic Taoism and Catholic personal god

Last Saturday (yesterday). I went on a retreat (religious exercise) at the Benedictine monastery St. Ottilien with twenty others men and women looking after their private center and true selves:...

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From language games to mysticism – Allan Watts and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

This article explores Wittgenstein’s Tractatus as a mystical, metaphysical insight in the light of Eastern philosophy, Catholic mysticism and C. G Jung. Please be gentle and read this as an (intuitive)...

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The Templars – Gods militia or Gnostic warlords?

Things are never as they appear but also not otherwise The Templars were the first  trans-national  financial and military organisation,  comparable to a blend of Goldman & Sachs,  Benedictine...

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Charismatic Roman-Catholic’s with Pope Francis?

Charismatic Christian (Whitsun) movements have been a huge challenge for the Roman-Catholic church in Africa, South America and India largely ignored by Europe’s clerical mainstream. I was first made...

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Pope Francis refers to “sweet and comforting joy of evangelizing” and warns...

refocus its energy on the “peripheries,” not only geographical but existential: sin, suffering, injustice and ignorance. Pope Francis has already warned the Catholic  Cardinals of an ”egocentric...

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The four archetypes of love and their shadows – an Jungian view

This sunday sermon in St. Ottilien (http://mp3.erzabtei.de/2014-05-25-0915-konventamt.mp3) addressed (from minute 23) an interesting line of thought: the four shades of love – derived from the...

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Who were the Gnostics?

Who were the Gnostics? Christian commentators described them as dualists who pitted ‘divine spark or ‘light’ against the of the material world. Christianity painted many Gnostics as heretics for...

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