Sometimes, some folks get despondent about this world.Often pessimism can creep into our lives like a draught coming under the door. Well, If you sometimes doubt the innate goodness and lovingness that is the dominant factor in this world, check out this story. This will help restore your faith in humanity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/automobile-community-come_n_1848266.html
I cannot explain it……but I feel a deep inner urge to send LOVE to everyone – and everything – in the world
"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."
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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
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!
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!
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]
Spot the difference?
“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.”
