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Recently, the discussions on who's got what God right left many among us without any energy to go on talking through the differences. The culture started to turn unreasonably polarized. The Bishops kept calling for political Catholicism, while they appeared to be withdrawing the public's attention from their own shortcomings and sins.

Thomas Wolfe wrote a famous novel, You Can’t Go Home Again. The home town changes, not always for the better. At school and family reunions, people have changed, sometimes with different attitudes and priorities than they had in the good old days.

El Rio Debajo El Rio: The river beneath the river, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Vol. 1, No. 28 - November 6, 2008

“New seed is faithful. It roots deepest in the places that are most empty.”
                   --cpe

The night after the election of Barack Obama, Collin Powell was interviewed by CNN. He did not say about Barack: “Look what he did!” Instead Powell said about the people: “Look what we did!”

Ironically, what has been brought to the fore in this election cycle, appears not to have occurred because we were plush-full with certainty, but rather from us being chronically emptied out …

Imagine, emptiness being one of the few conditions that attracts fresh assertion of worthy ideals.

I'm curious to hear from both Diocese leaders and leaders of religious orders on their response to paternity issues regarding priests. I am the son of a Catholic priest. He did not leave the priesthood and the order hid the truth for over 40 years. Why is the culture of secrecy, shame, and lies still being cultivated in 2008?

Wanting answers...

Child of a Priest