Prem Mandir (Gujurat, India)

I honestly can't remember if I've shared this video with you before or not.  But, I just watched it again and thought that I wanted to be sure it was something that you were aware of.  I don't endorse the Prem Mandir (featured in this video) in its entirety.  However, I deeply appreciate their use of contextual art forms, architecture, music and dance from Gujurat.  I find it stirring and would love to visit the Prem Mandir some day.

By the way, the Prem Mandir is a part of the Roman Catholic Rajkot Diocese and is located in Gujurat, India.  The images that you see are mosaics of Christ, some of which I have made use here.

Communion or Disunion? | Sexuality/Gender

I do not belong to the Roman Catholic Church. However, I find this so-called "shift" in the Catholic community disturbing. Stories like this concern me about the times in which we are living. Seems to me that the author, Mary Hunt, is not a Catholic (or a Christian for that matter) in any meaningful sense of the word. She doesn't seem to have any sense of Scriptural authority or belief in basic historic Christianity. Anyway, I would greatly appreciate insight from my readers who may have a better perspective on such things.

Communion or Disunion? | Sexuality/Gender | Religion Dispatches: "The egregious breach of decency that led a Catholic parish priest to deny Communion to a lesbian woman at her mother’s funeral has received widespread and well-deserved condemnation. Even the Archdiocese of Washington DC admitted that the priest had violated their policy. In a little note, a vicar promised Barbara Johnson and her family that he would celebrate a Mass in memory of her mother. They deserve sympathy for their loss, a full-blown apology from the institutional Church, and time to deal with their grief in peace."


Addendum:


Thanks to Nate Taylor for referring us to a helpful article on this.  Check it out here: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/2012/03/01/the-priest-and-the-lesbian-communicant/  I also want to reference here the letter of apology that came from the Archdiocese.