We are in a time where it is common to speak of spiritualities, ways of living our transcendental experience or ways to better our life of faith. As many are well aware, there are spiritual experiences outside the Roman Catholic Church, which at one time was inconceivable given the high amount of influence the Roman…
Tonight I feel compelled to talk about changes.. not just religious changes or bodily ones as we get older..nor necessarily spiritual ones..but change, and how it affects us. I of course can and will only speak of change personally. To do so otherwise would be to ‘talk of what I know not of” as a…
As time neared to put together this edition of Convergent Streams news of two deaths came to my attention. One was of Bishop Gus Howard Thompson. Bishop Gus was a kind and thoughtful individual. His struggle with cancer was short, but he battled hard and with dignity. I hope to have a memorial article next…
There is so much division in the world today. Society tends to put everyone into boxes without looking deeper into their souls. We are all guilty of this. We tend to separate ourselves from those who are different; physical appearance, race, religion, political and social ideals, and any number of other categories. In an ever-changing…
(This post will be a challenging read for some out there. I only ask you keep an open mind, and read all the way through before making and judgments. Be open to my style of presentation. No heresy exists, but I do challenge the age old ways of thinking, and I do toy with the…
The sacrament of marriage in the western church has not been connected with coronation as it has in eastern tradition. The concept of a royal wedding that mirrors a coronation of a king and queen is almost alien in our western train of thought. In the ancient world, human bodies were often viewed as being…
Guilty as sin. An old American colloquialism. It is an expression I heard often when I worked in law enforcement in New Jersey for thirty years, before I became a catholic priest. A phrase that was tossed about by cops, attorneys, witnesses and even on an occasion or two- by a judge from the bench…
