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The pope and La Curandera, the Healer

  El Rio Debajo El Rio: The river beneath the river, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés  
Vol. 1, No. 21 -- Aug. 4, 2008Signup for Weekly E-mail  

Oh do not be too exuberant, for as you know, we’ll have to tie down those leaping bones, cramming them into a much smaller carapace. As in foot binding, we’ll let the true spirit ache under man-made strictures, and force the children to forget or else pretend that they cannot see what they truly see, hear what they truly hear, know what they truly know.

Thus the world will be made safe from inventive souls for another generation or two. And all the ill-made plans of the stick people would be satisfying to them, save for one thing...


Old women.
Old women who say,
“I’m here...
to interfere.â€

TV program explores present, future of Catholic media

By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.

Several leading lights among Catholic communicators, including the Vatican spokesperson and both the current and former heads of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, discuss the role and the future of Catholic media in a new program produced by Salt and Light TV, the national Catholic television network of Canada.

The program may be found on-line here: Salt and Light FOCUS