What Is Eco-Spirituality? Eco-Justice?

We at Fidelity and Action stumbled upon the following job description at Catholic Jobs:

Program Coordinator for Eco-Spirituality Center

If the web page is no longer there, we saved a copy here: (click the link here, and on the new page click the image) eco-spirituality-catholic-job-listing-pdf

“THE WELL, a center for our sacred unity with God, Earth and one another.”

NETWORK lobby’s focus: “Material Justice”

Over at Catholic Culture there is a review of this organization and examples of NETWORK’s weakness for “material justice.”

Sr. Simone Campbell: “Amadinejad didn’t discuss Israel”

Sr. Simone Campbell, Director, NETWORK

Sister Campbell’s talk was dull.  All Saints Catholic Church in Portland is dull.  The architecture was dull.  The tiny crucifix (on a stand) was dull.

Why the heck does the Archdiocese of Portland need a social justice speaker in the first place?  I guess the United States Bishops are hen-pecked by the Catholic Feminists.  Women can’t be ordained.  I know!  Let’s throw out the Body and Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Savior — because he’s a male symbol of the “patriarchy” they hate and fear — and replace it all with Social Justice blather!  That’ll fill the pews!

“LIVE YOUR SOCIAL JUSTICE!  I LIVED MY SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE PARKING LOT”—Sr. Simone

No, actually, Sister, that’s “charity.”

Sr. Simone Campbell of NETWORK “Touched” by Ahmadinejad

NETWORK is the progressive Catholic social justice political lobby of graying Left-Wing Catholic Feminists.  Be sure to visit their website and read its laundry list of issues they lose sleep over, like the federal budget and a fair minimum wage.

Its current director, Sr. Campbell, is in Portland to speak about – what else – social justice and the 2008 Election.

Sr. Campbell is pro-abortion based on her close alliance with Call To Action.

SEPT. 22, 2008, 7:30 pm ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PORTLAND OR

Sr. Simone Campbell, a gifted and

faithful witness for justice and peace
and a national and international leader
for advocacy and reconciliation, will
be this year’s speaker for the Theresa
Willett Memorial Lecture at All Saints
Church. The lecture this Monday,
Sept. 22, will begin at 7:30pm. The
topic of Sister Simone’s remarks will
be:  Faith Alive: Catholic Social Teaching,
Spirituality & the 2008 Election. The
time with Sister Simone should assist all
of us in integrating our rich Catholic
Social Teaching with the decisions we
will soon make in the November
election.

SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL was among a group of Americans who met Iranian dranged and dangerous President Ahmadinejad at Columbia University.

MY REFLECTIONS ON THE EXPERIENCE: Simone Campbell, SSS

• I know so little about Iranian culture, and I sense that the rest of our country is the same. I was amazed at the religious/theological context for the dialogue that was presented. After conversation with others who have more experience than I, it seems that the President got elected as a populist, but now he is having to move in academic circles. Learning has been respected in the Persian culture for thousands of years. Apparently academic disputation is highly valued in Iran. He is not adept at doing this and is a bit insecure about it.

• In discussion following, I learned that the major religious leaders are the true leaders of Iran, and the President is actually quite far down on the power list. However, the U.S. administration keeps dealing with him as if he held the title in the same way as in the U.S. I understand that this is being dismissive of the religious leaders. Therefore, while they might not agree with President Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric, they are not moving to curb him

• Of his comments—I think I was most touched by his comments about poverty and how where there is absolute poverty there is a denial of someone’s human rights.

• Some of the questions asked were so culturally contained in an effort to connect at the human level, e.g. his fears, failings in Iran, etc. I don’t know how we get around this, but it seems unrealistic to expect him (or anyone from another culture) to respond to our U.S. human expectations of “bonding.”

Special thanks to Oregon Catholic  Citizens for contributing this story.

Fr. Richard Rohr coming to Portland

This lunatic Heretic will be in Portland September 12 and 13, 2008 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Rohr is a Guru to members of the “peace and justice” fanatics at St. Clare’s Catholic Community and St. Andrew’s “Faith Community.”

A call to the Archdiocese, to complain that Rohr will be spreading heresies as he represents the Catholic Church, elicited this response:

“He’s a priest in good standing.  He’s a citizen of the United States coming here to speak.  He’s not speaking at a Catholic Church.  There’s nothing we can do about it.”

But he presides at gay weddings and the Archbishop has said he is against gay marriage.  Rohr is a Catholic feminist and will be spreading heresies.  St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Portland is promoting Rohr’s talk.

“Then, if that’s the case, St. Andrews would be told that they should stop promoting the talk.”

—-Bud Bunce, Public Relations, Archdiocese of Portland

Mr. Bunce declined to investigate St. Andrew’s further.

IS FR. RICHARD ROHR A NEW AGE LUNATIC?

At the March, 1997, pro-”gay” New Ways Ministry Symposium, he
described his all-male retreats, in which men remove clothing and touch each other in “wounded areas,” as he calls them.  Abp. Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe once reprimanded Fr. Rohr for presiding at a lesbian “wedding.” Also, Fr. Rohr advises Catholics to use the New Age/occult Enneagram.—-Concerned Roman Catholics of America

WHY IS HE WILDLY POPULAR with NEW AGE NUNS?

“The Maternal Face of God” – ‘Rohr attends to developments in feminine consciousness to consider images of God and their evolution in our own understanding of the Divine, who is beyond gender. He considers aspects of God that can transform the spiritual understanding of both women and men.’—-CD Audio

Visit this RICHARD ROHR DOSSIER