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Las Casas, a pre-modern disciple of Jesus Christ
The Scriptures inspired the lives of many a woman and men of many cultures and times. We do not know about the reactions of the assembly...
Nov 24, 202414 min read
Jesus Christ, healing, caring, and sexual pleasure
In Tractatus 2.1 Wittgenstein describes an activity of consciousness of women, men and queer as “We make to ourselves pictures of facts.”...
Nov 24, 202454 min read
Christian life in the first and 21st centruy CE
I am reading, studying, and meditating Christian literature in the first and second century CE. The authors of the New Testament lived in...
Nov 1, 202450 min read
Finally, integrity, faith and happiness
In search of integrity Assessing my physical, psychic, social, economic, and spiritual integrity is a daily practice. I am thankful for...
Oct 9, 202441 min read
Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity Apostolicam Actuositatem
In February 1963, representatives from the international congress of the apostolate of the lay met in Rome and were consulted by the...
Sep 6, 202419 min read
Decree on priestly training Optatam totius
Some cardinals and bishops had large personal experience in the formation of priests as educators, instructors and confessors (Grootaers,...
Sep 1, 202422 min read
Declaration on Christian education Gravisssimum educationis
There were many discussions on the scheme of Christian education in the session of 1964 (Velati, Mauro. 2001. “Il completamento dell’...
Sep 1, 202442 min read
Decree on the adaptation and renewal of religious life Perfectae Caritatis
The text of the later decree Perfectae Caritatis appeared very late at the Council. During the Spring of 1964, the commission on...
Aug 28, 202418 min read
Decree on the ministry and life of priests Presbytorum Ordinis
The bishops discovered very late that the priests were essential for getting the teachings of the Council to the people and that the...
Aug 25, 202418 min read
Jesus includes women, Roman Catholic leaders exclude women
Even in the third millennium CE the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are not interested in the rule of Human Rights law within their...
Aug 25, 202420 min read
Decree concerning the pastoral office of the bishops in the Church Christus Dominus
The Decree concerning the pastoral office of bishops in the Church Christus Dominus. We must be clear about the fact that Christus...
Jul 29, 202443 min read
Women, men and queer protest discriminations and racism
Women identify and protest discriminations and racism Linda Martín Alcoff aims at revealing creative self-identity and making socially...
Jul 22, 202428 min read
Know thyself and care for your integrity
Engaging in self-scrutiny and critical assessment of one’s perspectives within the social and cultural orders of my environment is a...
Jun 29, 202434 min read
Women and the Government of the Roman Catholic Church
Old celibate white men had prepared the Second Vatican Council in the Vatican for two years, and from 1962 to the fall of 1964 the...
May 31, 202460 min read
Editing documents on the bishops, priests, religious and the lay
Looking at the Roman Catholic hierarchy of bishops, clergy and religious 60 years after the end of the Second Vatican Council is not a...
May 13, 202454 min read
Protests, checks and balances enhance justice.
Development of the polity for enhancing justice is a necessary continuous process in democracies. The 2022 democracy index gives 7,04...
Apr 21, 202435 min read
Listening and speech-acts
The persons participating in the speech-act perform their social choices of alternatively listening and speaking. This social practice...
Apr 7, 202435 min read
Hegel's challenge for Karl Rahner
If women, men and queer are concerned about their liberty and dignity, if they are concerned about a life within conditions of the rule...
Mar 9, 202421 min read
A Roman Catholic Woman Priest
Pope John XXIII acknowledged in his encyclical letter Pacem in terries of 1963 that Human Rights are important for the integral...
Feb 27, 202419 min read
Human Rights are the validity condition for Christian faith-sentences
If we cannot understand a sentence, this sentence does not make sense. Within the grammar of language understandability is the validity...
Feb 16, 202417 min read
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