Submitted by Acolyte (not verified) on Oct. 13, 2009.
Institutional Catholicism (bishops) is hung up on representational Sacrament (ritual) while being dismissive (insensitive to) the Real Sacrament of the Natural Order. The same is true of male exclusive priesthood fixated in ego-identity rather than identity in the Universal Priesthood of the Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis.
In deference to Vatican II rational consciousness (J.C. Murray: “faith supposes reason as grace supposes nature”) it needs to be understood that “biblical scripture (tradition) supposes natural scripture”, i.e., consciousness encoded in evolved DNA. http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?grpId=3659174697239231&articleI...
When we get materiality (vital, holistic sexuality) wrong we get spirituality wrong. The way back to authentic spirituality is living “secularity” authentically, holistically, i.e., through natural sense channels and the ascendancy of conscious intentionality — the realm of joined faith/ reason, of “catholic” consciousness, of Simple Catholicism, altruistic Christian Humanism.
Institutional Catholicism
Institutional Catholicism (bishops) is hung up on representational Sacrament (ritual) while being dismissive (insensitive to) the Real Sacrament of the Natural Order. The same is true of male exclusive priesthood fixated in ego-identity rather than identity in the Universal Priesthood of the Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis.
In deference to Vatican II rational consciousness (J.C. Murray: “faith supposes reason as grace supposes nature”) it needs to be understood that “biblical scripture (tradition) supposes natural scripture”, i.e., consciousness encoded in evolved DNA. http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?grpId=3659174697239231&articleI...
When we get materiality (vital, holistic sexuality) wrong we get spirituality wrong. The way back to authentic spirituality is living “secularity” authentically, holistically, i.e., through natural sense channels and the ascendancy of conscious intentionality — the realm of joined faith/ reason, of “catholic” consciousness, of Simple Catholicism, altruistic Christian Humanism.