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From Wire Services

Leaders of the G8 nations who will meet next month in Japan should commit to reducing global poverty and addressing worldwide climate change, say the presidents of each nation's Catholic bishops conferences.

"Our religious and moral commitment to protect human life and promote human dignity moves us to be particularly concerned for the poorest and most vulnerable members of the human family, especially those in developing countries," the prelates wrote in a joint letter.

"This is the best monastic building in the country," Thomas Merton wrote on May 17, 1968, while visiting the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in northern New Mexico. I drove over there last week, near Abiquiu, a hauntingly beautiful corner of the world and tasted for myself the "peace which the world cannot give."

Evolutionary consciousness brings to human awareness the transformational dynamic of rational “trimorphism”, the three-step processes of communication, consciousness and conscience. From this “process of rationality” (the design of intelligence) we come to understand moral valuation and other social dynamics that parallel and deepen the implications of communication, consciousness and conscience.

I went online to 'clonard.com' today and heard the novena Mass from Clonard monastery and heard Mass said by a Redemptorist priest and the sermon was given by a neighboring pastor but a funny thing the visiting preacher was a canon of the church of Ireland [Anglican] and the four previous preachers were Methodist,Presbyterian and Lutheran. Prayers of the faithful included the intentions of the meighbor anglican church.