Becoming

Dalai Lama – on compassion

in pursuit of the obvious

nota bene

expanding

I cannot explain it……but I feel a deep inner urge to send LOVE to everyone – and everything – in the world

Guess what? It's raining….again.

Going within

"It is the purpose of dogma, ritual and formalised 'worship' to create a 'socially approved' methodology of expressing belief.

In reality, true belief neither requires, nor desires, social approval – or any other kind of approval."

gkr

always remembered - 22711

C.M.Blow

 

Happy Birthday – and thanks for your presence

all is not as it seems

Sometimes being silent is a supremely strong statement.

It can often be that it is not the absence of action but the energised pre-cursor to manifested action

Priorities-001

the crumbling edifice

I prophecy this is the first of many,many such cases!

picture/article via Newser.com

Extract from the document "Crimens Sollicitationis" issued by the 'Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith', a department of which the present Pope was once the head.

"I do promise, vow and swear that I will maintain inviolate secrecy about each and every thing brought to my knowledge in the performance of my aforesaid function, excepting only what may happen to be lawfully published when this process is concluded and put into effect … and that I will never directly or indirectly, by gesture, word, writing or in any other way, and under any pretext, even that of a greater good or of a highly urgent and serious reason, do anything against this fidelity to secrecy, unless special permission or dispensation is expressly granted to me by the Supreme Pontiff."

So, perhaps it's better to be the 'fall guy' and go to prison…than to be excommunicated for telling the Police/civil authorities about crimes committed by the clergy! Oh, what a martyr to hypocrisy!

 

 

look inside first

multinational manoeuvres

Well, after already paying out in excess of $2.5 BILLION in America alone for legal fees, settlements and prevention programmes, one can understand a certain reticence.

It is worth reminding ourselves, however, that this is a self-inflicted wound to this institution and a wound made worse by it's own inability to self-medicate or to follow it's own rule-book!

 

full story here

questionable "Multinational" financial dealings

The Olympus scandal was precipitated on 14 October 2011 when British-born Michael Woodford was suddenly ousted as chief executive of international optical equipment manufacturer, Olympus Corporation. He had been company president for six months, and two weeks prior had been promoted to CEO, when he exposed "one of the biggest and longest-running loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history", according to the Wall Street Journal.^[4]

 

full story here

 

Spot the difference?

perceptions-1000

via

Joe Biden…on grief

 

 

 

“Folks, it can and will get better,” Biden said. “There will come a day – I promise you, and your parents as well – when the thought of your son or daughter, or your husband or wife, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen.”

Holy….porn????? Huh?

Vati Leaks

Catholic Church wholly owns German pornographic publishing house

 

"Controversy erupted in Germany … with revelations about the Catholic Church’s ownership of Weltbild, one of the world’s largest pornographic publishing groups. The Church originally purchased Weltbild during the early years of the papacy of John Paul II (1978-2005) and gradually transformed it into one of Germany’s largest media companies that every year sells hundreds of thousands of erotic books from its 2500 titles. ‘To arrive at such a level, millions and millions of offerings and money transfers by the church have gone up in smoke. As far as the German bishops are concerned,‘Weltbild‘ represents a kind of bank; over the years, they have invested nearly 182 million Euros in church dues‘ (The Independent, November 13th, 2011).

Bishops buy-up pornographic publishing houses
In 1998, and with the help of millions of dollars in a Church tax levied on believers, the company merged with five publishing houses of the ‘Georg von Holtzbrinck‘ group and became the ‘Droemer&Knaur‘ publishing corporation that specializes in producing pornographic material. ‘German bishops currently hold 50% of ‘Droemer&Knaur‘, which means that they are no longer just peddlers of erotic and pornographic material (through ‘Weltbild‘), they are now also producers‘ (The Independent). Another Catholic acquisition was Blue Panther Books, which was excluded from the list of participating publishers at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair allegedly because of the pornographic content of its titles"

Gibran – The Well

 

timing

"There is no wrong time to do the right thing"

CHARLES M. BLOW   NYT