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Dear People Whom God Loves, Ken Wilbur also writes about lines of development.  Lines are the various capacities or energies that we have.  He writes about five.  They are called developmental lines because they show growth and development.  The five intelligences are 1) cognitive  2) interpersonal  3) psychosexual  4) emotional and  5) moral. These intelligences […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, Continuing with thoughts from Integral Spirituality.   We will look at the line of moral development through three stages.  There are others who trace that line through six or seven stages. Remember that stages could be called levels.  Also they are permanent and not passing.  For example, a person may be […]

Dear People Whom God Loves, I find the work of Ken Wilber helpful in looking at spiritual growth from another perspective. Growth goes through a series of stages.  This applies not only to spiritual growth but also to many kinds of growth.  He mentions cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, and musical intelligence as examples.  The common […]

Dear People Whom God Loves,   PURITY/DUTY – I   John the Baptist and Jesus both announced the reign of God.  Both made it clear that purity codes were not the way to enter the reign of God.  John called the Pharisees “a brood of vipers.”  Jesus called them “whitened sepulchers.”  Jesus was drawn to John and received baptism […]

  Dear People Whom God Loves,   XIII REFLECTIONS ON VATICAN COUNCIL II   The thoughts of this column are taken from Chapter 18 of Keys to the Council.  Our church has had many reforms since the beginning.  So reform is not something new.  Pope John XXIII made it clear in his opening address that the agenda of […]

Dear People Whom God Loves,   X REFLECTIONS ON VATICAN COUNCIL II     Again, these thoughts come from Keys to the Council.  What do we mean when we say that our church is Catholic?  We have often thought that our church is universal in the sense of spreading across the world.  That is a superficial meaning.  Rather, the […]

Dear People Whom God Loves,   VII REFLECTIONS ON VATICAN COUNCIL II   Continuing.   The same document says that the priest serves the baptismal priesthood through the pastoral leadership of empowering the people of God and ordering the many gifts of the baptized in a way that those gifts will help the church in its mission […]

 Dear People Whom God Loves,   IV REFLECTIONS ON VATICAN COUNCIL II   Again, these thoughts are based on the book Keys to the Council.   This concerns the relationship of the priesthood of the laity and the ordained priesthood.   Among Jesus’ first believers, class distinctions were not acceptable.  When these divisions arose, they were condemned.  Paul’s letter […]

Dear People Whom God Loves,   I REFLECTIONS ON VATICAN COUNCIL II This is taken from the book Keys to the Council  by Richard R. Gaillardetz  and Catherine E. Clifford, pp. XVI & XVII of the Introduction. The Jesuit church historian, John O’Malley, writes about an often overlooked feature of the documents from the council.  That is the […]