We have an election coming up. Ready? I want to address some issues on my mind. I won’t tell you how to vote.
Last week was Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birthday. And while it is true that his particular programs and positions have faded somewhat with age—Indians do not live in the past and have moved on, for better or worse.
I think, in my own way and by God’s grace, Mother Teresa’s good example set me on my course. Learning from the saints is rarely about literal imitation.
I often think of a conference I went to in the old city of Edinburgh as a good place to begin an introduction to the new discipline of interreligious learning. Edinburgh is lovely, much larger than the neighboring town of St. Andrews which is even older. Edinburgh was laid out in the nineteenth century, I think, and in most directions there are great vistas, avenues leading to imposing buildings.
Back in October, at the time of the Synod on the Amazon, there was much attention paid to the images of the pregnant woman, larger and smaller, present in the scene set up to mark the Synod. Later these were transferred to a nearby church.