Interestingly, while many Protestants object to the idea of development of doctrine within the Catholic Church, they seem to have no problem with developments in their own camp—even novelties and inventions. Take for example theRapture, another word not found in the Bible and not used in any ...
A noble disciple carefully and properly attends to dependent origination itself: ‘When this exists, that is; when this doesn’t exist, that is not. Due to the arising of this, that arises; due to the cessation of this, that ceases. Ignorance is a condition for choices. ...
Israel's behaviour has not been exemplary, in the last several years its treatment of Palestinians has been as bad as the suicide bombers. But despite the emotional hatred in the region, Israel's economy depends on low-wage Palestinian workers and Palestine depends on Israel for jobs. Even wi...
The other is a reflection that I shared at our most recent World Meeting of Popular Movements, and I feel is important to say it again: no people is criminal and no religion is terrorist. Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, andMuslim terrorism does not exist...