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Three decades ago, I predicted that if the Catholic Church wouldn’t make changes in many of its beliefs, by 2032 its institution would become irrelevant.
November 9, 2014
Three decades ago, I predicted that if the Catholic Church wouldn’t make changes in many of its beliefs, by 2032 its institution would become irrelevant.
I grade school in prewar St. Theresa’s, our chaplain, Fr. Vromant, brought large cardboard teaching aids to religion class. They were posters from Belgium, vividly illustrated scenes from the Old Testament.
“Man and woman are so involved with each other that one is the work of the other. Without woman, man could not be called man; without man, woman could not be named woman. Thus woman is the work of man, while man is a sight full of consolation for woman.” —Hildegard von Bingen
“Bamboo Birthing.” In the beginning, there were two gods: Captan, the land breeze, and Maguayen, the sea breeze. They challenged each other’s abilities but eventually fell in love.
On the sixth day of the Creation, God made Adam. A lump of clay was shaped into a man and God breathed life into his nostrils. After some time, God thought it over. “It is not good for man to be alone.”
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