Pope Francis: the Second Christ
Pope Francis is a force for positive change within the Roman Catholic Church. He represents a major change in direction for the church. By revitalizing and breathing new life into over 1.5 billion strong institution, like the Catholic Church, the new Pope is actually revitalizing and breathing new life into the whole mankind of the ‘global village’. This particular facet of his characteristics has been the focus of my study/Pope-Francis: the-Layman’s-Pope/ in page 342 to 347 in my book LIFE ON MELTDOWN published in Kerala–India in March 2014. As a first major step towards righting many wrongs in the Church, the pontiff has shown all the indication that celibacy of the clergy may be the foremost obstacle for bringing some inevitable positive changes in the Church, and therefore in the world. He may be certainly believing that married priesthood would right many wrongs. This aspect has already been extensively studied in chapter 13: rape-of-mind: role-of-organized-religions-in-the-degeneration-of-spiritual-faculties/ in my book LIFE ON MELTDOWN published in Kerala–India in March 2014. Recently when the Vatican’s Secretary of State has told a Venezuelan newspaper that the issue of mandatory priestly celibacy may be discussed, the news has not surprised...POPE FRANCIS (1936—): THE LAYMAN’S POPE
People’s Revolution here comes from the top, through religion. Pope Francis is a rare revolutionary and an everyman at the same time. “Pope Francis stood out as someone who has changed the tone and perception and focus of one of the world’s largest institutions in an extraordinary way,” Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs said, after Time magazine named Pope Francis as the Person of the Year 2013, and she described him as “the first Jesuit pontiff who won hearts and headlines with his humility and common touch”. The Vatican’s Gorbachev: As de facto ruler of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbacheve tried to reform the stagnating Party and the state economy by introducing Glasnost (“openness”), Perestroika (“restructuring”) and Gorbachev was largely hailed in the world for his ‘new thinking’. Here Pope Francis is sure to remind us of Mikhail Gorbachev, the same noble intention to open up a very old, very secret, very bureaucratic, very vertical organization, and make it more transparent and reform it. Much the same way Mikhail Gorbacheve cleansed the Soviet Party structure with Glasnost and perestroika, Pope Francis has launched nothing short of a revolution in the Catholic Church. When Gorbachev touched his organization it disintegrated like a termite-ridden antique chest and everyone, everywhere thought it was wonderful, except the people that lived in it. Everyone, everywhere loves Gorbachev except the many Russians, who hate and despise him. Pope Francis will be fortunate indeed to escape the same fate as Gorby’s. By revitalizing and breathing new life into over 1.5 billion strong institution, like the Catholic Church, the new Pope is actually revitalizing and breathing new life into the whole...
RAPE OF MIND: ROLE OF ORGANIZED RELIGIONS IN THE DEGENERATION OF SPIRITUAL FACULTIES
The evolution of man as the “Crown of Creation” or “the Highest Blossom of Nature” and so forth are all about the MAN or the Homo sapiens that walked this planet for millions of years. However the latest human subspecies, namely, modern man, who is largely confined to modern industrial civilization of the last few centuries has only a few features of the original man. How this mortal disintegration has come about, more so in his mental sphere, and the role of organized religions in the sudden drastic change, are all the topics of discussion here. Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. ~ VIRGIL, the Roman poet of first century BC Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the ‘wall of separation between church and state,’ therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society. ~ THOMAS JEFFERSON, the third president of the United States. When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. ~ ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU, the Nobel laureate of South Africa The environmental crisis is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind and spirit. There could be no greater misconception...
NARENDRA MODI: THE GREAT REDEEMER AND PHILOSOPHER KING
A highly insecure, unstable and embattled world today is witnessing the emergence of a great leader in India promising stability, peace and progress for her 1.3 billion humans. Even though I hold no brief for Narendra Modi nor do I have had any opportunity to watch him in close quarters, as an author on humanities and ecology and watching the global social and political scenes from a little far, as if from another civilization/culture since the last few decades, Modi has emerged highly visible in my mental radar since about the last 10 years. Surprisingly, Modi has slowly started to be visible, on a widened reckoning in the present highly tormented national/global situation, as the rising of an inevitable PHILOSOPHER KING to not only rescue India but also the whole more anguished world at a very crucial and delicate juncture in human history. Here, the great leader Narendra Modi will surely have to widen his vision. In this highly mechanized Global Village with no border, no leader and no order, and where globalized currency, monopoly media and mechanical might run the show, and where even individual action has its immediate and visible global effects (we claim that the whole world is at our fingertips), it is indeed a crude joke to claim that there are over 203 independent, sovereign nations in the world today. Today we claim that the whole world is at our fingertips; that planet Earth has become a ‘global village’ or ‘wired planet’; that Earth is turning into a global city and that this post-modern society is all a giant machine. Earth is now in a post-evolutionary phase, and...Download Life On Meltdown eBook
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