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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PAEDOPHILIA Three more fo THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PAEDOPHILIA Three more former altar boys have claimed they were sexually abused by two priests in the Vatican, as the child abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic church zeroed in for a second time on its headquarters. The allegations of abuse in the Vatican’s youth seminary date back to the 1980s and 90s when the boys were aged between 10 and 14. The accusations come two months after the Vatican said it would seek to indict Father Gabriele Martinelli, 28, for allegedly abusing several altar boys in 2012 when he trained at the St Pius X youth seminary. That move was prompted by the Italian show Le Iene’s first investigation into the school in 2017. The Vatican said in September last year that an indictment was also being sought against a former rector at the youth seminary, Father Enrico Radice, who was accused of aiding and abetting the alleged crimes. The Catholic church has faced thousands of child sexual abuse allegations from around the world but Le Iene’s investigation in 2017 was the first time claims of paedophilia within the Vatican’s walls were exposed. “We decided to keep digging as we had the feeling that the previous cases were not isolated,” said Gaetano Pecoraro, one of the two authors of the investigation. “There were more victims and more priests involved in sexual abuse within the Vatican.” In the latest investigation, three former altar boys who served at papal masses claimed they were sexual abused by two priests, one a teacher. In the programme, one of the victims alleges that one of the priests, who was managing the school’s communal showers, tried to remove his bathrobe. “He wanted to undress me,” the victim alleges. “I tried to wriggle away. I was 13 years old. I fell to the ground and asked him ‘what are you doing?’. I then got up and ran away.” The second victim alleges he was abused at the Casa Santa Marta, where many priests stay, by a priest at the youth seminary when he was 10 or 11 years old. “He asked me to go upstairs to his room, made me sit on his legs, began to stroke my thigh and then put a hand on my private parts,” he told Le Iene. - Angela Giuffrida, Lorenzo Tondo, The Guardian
TO INTERRACIAL COUPLES EVERYWHERE I have always h TO INTERRACIAL COUPLES EVERYWHERE I have always had a fascination with interracial relationships. You do not only discover a new person, you discover an entire culture, heritage, language and country when the person you admire hails from a different land. - Pablo Ganguli 📸 Helmut Newton @helmutnewtonfoundation @gracejonesofficial @dolphlundgren
OUR DEEPEST FEAR Our deepest fear is not that we OUR DEEPEST FEAR Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. . Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. . It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Marianne Williamson 📸 @filipcustic1
WHY ARE YOU DECORATING YOUR EGO Nobody can say an WHY ARE YOU DECORATING YOUR EGO Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself… Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is irrelevant! When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet. - Osho 📸 @__adey__ 🧔🏻👩🏼 @faryad.mrt @marenbjorn
MEXICO’S CULTURES AT RISK OF A DANGEROUS CRISIS MEXICO’S CULTURES AT RISK OF A DANGEROUS CRISIS Mexico’s coronavirus-skeptical president is setting up his country for a health crisis. Some doctors say Mexico could become the new Italy — or worse. As Mexico fast approaches what’s highly likely to be a large coronavirus outbreak, the country’s leadership — mainly its president — mostly insists that everything is fine. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) tells Mexicans they shouldn’t fear Covid-19, even as hundreds of thousands of people have confirmed infections worldwide. Despite warnings from global health officials, he continues to hold political rallies, kiss supporters, and request that Mexicans go out shopping to prop up the country’s sputtering economy during a global slowdown. “Live life as usual,” he said in a video posted to Facebook on March 22, showing him outside at a restaurant. “If you’re able and have the means to do so, continue taking your family out to eat … because that strengthens the economy.” AMLO’s advice, experts say, is deadly. What makes matters worse is that his policies over the past few years have set the stage for a profound health crisis. In a major effort to cut government spending, AMLO has reduced funds for the country’s hospitals and medical centers by millions. It’s left the nation short of physicians, medical equipment, beds, and coronavirus tests. That last part is especially frustrating, because Mexico has been hit hard by outbreaks before. In 2009, the H1N1 influenza originated in Mexico before it spread around the world, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Then, Mexico aggressively tested hundreds of thousands of its citizens to identify clusters of infection and stem the tide against transmission, said Alejandro Macías, the “czar” for the government’s emergency response at the time. “We acted then like South Korea has today,” he told me. That’s not happening this time. The country has barely tested people, likely accounting for the low official number of 475 cases as of March 26. That comes as millions continued to move freely outside, including tens of thousands who attended a large outdoor festival. - Alex Ward, Vox 📸 @jimmy.nelson.official
GRACE IS ALWAYS PRESENT Grace is always present. GRACE IS ALWAYS PRESENT Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you. . The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind. Solitude is in the mind of man. One might be in the thick of the world and maintain serenity of mind; such a one is in solitude. Another may stay in a forest, but still be unable to control his mind. He cannot be said to be in solitude. Solitude is a function of the mind. A man attached to desire cannot get solitude wherever he may be; a detached man is always in solitude. - Ramana Maharshi 📸 @luissh 👦🏻 @ivanmontis 👦🏾 @ladriade
ASIANS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VIRUS We’ve been ASIANS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VIRUS We’ve been down this road before, too many times. In the 14th century the Black Death provoked mass violence against Jews, Catalans, clerics and beggars; when syphilis spread in the 15th century, it was called variously the Neapolitan, French, Polish and German disease, depending on who was pointing the blame; when the plague struck Honolulu in 1899, officials burned down Chinatown. And so on, down to our times, when epidemics like Ebola, SARS and Zika fueled animus toward specific regions or peoples. Here we are in 2020, with Asians being assailed across the United States and around the world as purported sources of the “Chinese flu,” the “Wuhan coronavirus” or simply the “foreign virus.” Once again, a mysterious, fast-spreading and sometimes lethal disease is exacerbating racism and hatred — only now with the help of the potent megaphone of social media. As the coronavirus has spread from its beachhead in Wuhan, China, old anti-Asian prejudices have spread with it, from the “Yellow Peril” canard that led to the lynching of Chinese in the 1870s to stereotypes of Chinese as dirty and decrepit. As The Times reported on Monday, Chinese-Americans and other Asians lumped together with them by racists are being beaten, spat on, yelled at and insulted from coast to coast, driving some members of the maligned minority to purchase firearms in the fear of worse to come as the pandemic deepens. The United States is not alone in this blight of xenophobia. Japan’s Kyodo News agency described similar incidents of anti-Asian bigotry wherever the coronavirus has struck: Asian students pelted with eggs in Leicestershire, England, or people in Egypt yelling out “corona” when passing Asians in the street. Vile posts on social media have made graphic threats in rants against Asians over the coronavirus. However much mystery still surrounds the coronavirus, these are not the Dark Ages, and there really should be no reason to remind people that this terrible new virus makes no distinction among races or nations. - @nytimes
SOCIAL DISTANCING IN A COUNTRY WHERE MILLIONS WERE SOCIAL DISTANCING IN A COUNTRY WHERE MILLIONS WERE ALREADY FORGOTTEN BY SOCIETY Social Distancing Is Not an Option for India’s Poor. Indian PM Modi has announced a lockdown, but the strategies adopted in other countries simply aren’t possible for millions of Indians. As the world practices social distancing to keep the novel coronavirus at bay, 40-year-old Lata Jadhav still spends 13 hours a day in eight different homes in suburban Mumbai. Working as domestic help, she cooks, cleans, and picks up waste. She has heard of the COVID-19 pandemic from her employers, most of whom are now working from home. Already apprehensive, her fears escalated when another domestic worker in Mumbai tested positive for the virus after contracting it from her U.S.-returned employers. . Jadhav quickly bought a mask, but social distancing—a choice between life and livelihood—is unthinkable to her. “If I sit at home, I will lose pay for the days off. I have two daughters to marry, and loans to pay off,” says Jadhav. “I earn 14,000 rupees (U.S.$183) a month and 8,000 goes as monthly installment on my loans. My husband runs a food stall but is now out of work as the government has cleared all vendors from streets. Illness or its anticipation cannot be excuses to miss wages. . Every day of work counts.” But although limiting human-to-human interactions is the only way to control the spread of the coronavirus, public health experts say social distancing is not an option for the hundreds of millions in India’s unorganized sector. Tactics being employed in other countries are just aren’t possible here. “These are workers who need their daily wages to sustain their families and to afford food and nutrition. They work in crowded markets and travel by public transport. It is extremely difficult for them to adopt the social distancing approach,” says K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, a not-for-profit public-private health initiative. By PUJA CHANGOIWALA You can read the full article on slate.com 📸 @stevemccurryofficial
HORROR STORY The world will not forgive you. Two HORROR STORY The world will not forgive you. Two complete morons. This is what happens when people with brains the size of a peanut runs your country. Actually the peanut is more interesting.
HUMANITY TRANSFORMED Part 2 of 2 (see previous po HUMANITY TRANSFORMED Part 2 of 2 (see previous post) . 8) It is reminding us to keep our egos in check. It is reminding us that no matter how great we think we are or how great others think we are, a virus can bring our world to a standstill. 9) It is reminding us that the power of freewill is in our hands. We can choose to cooperate and help each other, to share, to give, to help and to support each other or we can choose to be selfish, to hoard, to look after only our self. Indeed, it is difficulties that bring out our true colors. 10) It is reminding us that we can be patient, or we can panic. We can either understand that this type of situation has happened many times before in history and will pass, or we can panic and see it as the end of the world and, consequently, cause ourselves more harm than good. 11) It is reminding us that this can either be an end or a new beginning. This can be a time of reflection and understanding, where we learn from our mistakes, or it can be the start of a cycle which will continue until we finally learn the lesson we are meant to. 12) It is reminding us that this Earth is sick. It is reminding us that we need to look at the rate of deforestation just as urgently as we look at the speed at which toilet rolls are disappearing off of shelves. We are sick because our home is sick. 13) It is reminding us that after every difficulty, there is always ease. Life is cyclical, and this is just a phase in this great cycle. We do not need to panic; this too shall pass. 14) Whereas many see the Corona/ Covid-19 virus as a great disaster, I prefer to see it as a *great corrector* It is sent to remind us of the important lessons that we seem to have forgotten and it is up to us if we will learn them or not. - @thisisbillgates 📸 @aboya.8
A WORLD TRANSFORMED . I’m a strong believer tha A WORLD TRANSFORMED . I’m a strong believer that there is a spiritual purpose behind everything that happens, whether that is what we perceive as being good or being bad. As I meditate upon this, I want to share with you what I feel the Corona/ Covid-19 virus is really doing to us: 1) It is reminding us that we are all equal, regardless of our culture, religion, occupation, financial situation or how famous we are. This disease treats us all equally, perhaps we should too. If you don’t believe me, just ask Tom Hanks. 2) It is reminding us that we are all connected and something that affects one person has an effect on another. It is reminding us that the false borders that we have put up have little value as this virus does not need a passport. It is reminding us, by oppressing us for a short time, of those in this world whose whole life is spent in oppression. 3) It is reminding us of how precious our health is and how we have moved to neglect it through eating nutrient poor manufactured food and drinking water that is contaminated with chemicals upon chemicals. If we don’t look after our health, we will, of course, get sick. 4) It is reminding us of the shortness of life and of what is most important for us to do, which is to help each other, especially those who are old or sick. Our purpose is not to buy toilet roll. 5) It is reminding us of how materialistic our society has become and how, when in times of difficulty, we remember that it’s the essentials that we need (food, water, medicine) as opposed to the luxuries that we sometimes unnecessarily give value to. 6) It is reminding us of how important our family and home life is and how much we have neglected this. It is forcing us back into our houses so we can rebuild them into our home and to strengthen our family unit. 7) It is reminding us that our true work is not our job, that is what we do, not what we were created to do. Our true work is to look after each other, to protect each other and to be of benefit to one another. - @thisisbillgates To be continued. 📸 @elroysalam
SOUL, GENDER, GOD AND SEX When you find yourself SOUL, GENDER, GOD AND SEX When you find yourself in the depths of misery due to the judgement of others, you can feel completely burdened by societal pressures to the extent where you can’t even breathe. You go far away from everybody. . You spend months in isolation asking hundreds of questions to yourself. And to god. You wait for God’s answers. . One day you wake up from a dream that was a powerful message delivered especially for you. God says that they too don’t have a gender or even a sex. And that they created you in their image, you warrior angel. So go back to society and rise! Your mission is to save other angels. We are so fragile yet mesmerising and full of strength . Be more like GOD. 📸 @auksas 👩🏼 @amonterrosas_
AN EARLY DECISION I think it was when I was seven AN EARLY DECISION I think it was when I was seventeen that I actually understood the importance of being different. Of claiming my own identity. Of rejoicing in it. When you are surrounded by people who insist upon listening to the same lyrics on repeat without questioning why, it becomes very hard to break away. But if you don’t, you entrap yourself in somebody else’s melody. When your entire childhood is a collection of rejections, loneliness, heartbreaks, it could have the potent effect of turning you into a rather bitter person. I chose to be the opposite. Consciously. I was not someone who went to the ‘best’ school or even any of the ‘better’ ones. I think I changed schools about five or six times in a ten year period. And I failed exams several times. I was miserable at school in my later teens. I didn’t have a mother. Didn’t know who she was. Didn’t have siblings. No real friends. Being bullied was a constant occurrence that, in hindsight, gifted me an in-built system to defend myself and respond with wit. It gave me courage. It’s strange, you know. The ones who bully you often secretly admire you. They are in awe of you for doing seemingly fine despite your differences. And that sadly turns into a twisted hatred. They end up wanting to damage you but in fact they are scarring themselves. Looking at these photos, I ask myself what would I have done today had I not dared to follow my mind, my gut, my own, self made choices. I started Liberatum the same year as when this photo was taken. I would cold call CEOs, government ministers, companies and implore and eventually convince them into supporting and financing our projects to help local communities. I wore make up, concealer, coloured content lenses, danced the night away at nightclubs and at the same time I would spend hours learning about government policies, current affairs, humanitarian issues and cultural diplomacy. I was always a curious little being. Full of passion for the next day. Ready to jump and take risks. I had no money but I knew that I couldn’t allow not having it jeopardise my dreams. So I carried on eyes open skateboarding into the unknown. You must too. - Pablo Ganguli
THE AWAKENING TO HEAL US The beginning of freedom THE AWAKENING TO HEAL US The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. . You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken. - Eckhart Tolle 📸 William Ropp
THE WORLD AFTER CORONAVIRUS This storm will pass. THE WORLD AFTER CORONAVIRUS This storm will pass. But the choices we make now could change our lives for years to come. . Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come. They will shape not just our healthcare systems but also our economy, politics and culture. We must act quickly and decisively. . We should also take into account the long-term consequences of our actions. When choosing between alternatives, we should ask ourselves not only how to overcome the immediate threat, but also what kind of world we will inhabit once the storm passes. Yes, the storm will pass, humankind will survive, most of us will still be alive — but we will inhabit a different world. . Many short-term emergency measures will become a fixture of life. That is the nature of emergencies. They fast-forward historical processes. Decisions that in normal times could take years of deliberation are passed in a matter of hours. Immature and even dangerous technologies are pressed into service, because the risks of doing nothing are bigger. Entire countries serve as guinea-pigs in large-scale social experiments. What happens when everybody works from home and communicates only at a distance? What happens when entire schools and universities go online? In normal times, governments, businesses and educational boards would never agree to conduct such experiments. But these aren’t normal times. . In this time of crisis, we face two particularly important choices. The first is between totalitarian surveillance and citizen empowerment. The second is between nationalist isolation and global solidarity. - @yuval_noah_harari in the Financial Times 📸 @jimmy.nelson.official
WOMEN ARE THE REASON YOU EXIST We teach girls sha WOMEN ARE THE REASON YOU EXIST We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. . They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 📸 @danascruggs
YOU AND THIS PLANET When human beings lose their YOU AND THIS PLANET When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. . Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy each other. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world. - Chögyam Trungpa 📸 @omergaash
IN TIMES LIKE THESE, BE STRONG AND BE KIND. BE THE IN TIMES LIKE THESE, BE STRONG AND BE KIND. BE THE MIRACLE SOMEBODY DESPERATELY NEEDS TODAY . I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. . It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. . It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. . And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty. That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being. - Osho 📸 @daviduzochukwu
THE AGE OF AQUARIUS . Most people today sense som THE AGE OF AQUARIUS . Most people today sense something unprecedented in our world will happen soon. Prophesiers such as Edgar Cayce called for a "gradual change" starting in 1998 between the Piscean Age and the Age of Aquarius. He didn't call for a cataclysmic end. He also hinted that it's up to us through our actions and choices as to how much pain this change will bring. The intensity and end result of the cycle change depends on how we handle challenges in our live RIGHT NOW! "It may depend upon much that deals with the metaphysical...There are those conditions that in the activity of individuals, in line of thought and endeavor, keep oft many a city and many land intact through their application of spiritual laws." Century, Edgar Cayce It's uncanny how the Mayan Great Age and the Egyptian Age of Aquarius agree. These two ancient peoples were on opposite sides of the world with no physical contact. Both the Aquarian Age and the Mayan Great Cycle appear to have begun at the same time, around 2012. One could argue that there was contact since the word "maya" also can be found in Greek text. What's interesting is both are based on precession of the equinoxes. Scientists today confirmed the galactic alignment as the Maya predicted, "There's no question that one of the great cycles of the traditional ancient Mayan calendar comes to a completion of its count at that time in 2012," says E.C. Krupp, Ph.D., director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California. In fact, many scientists believe we should be paying closer attention to what the Maya predicted for our own sake. Hidden in their hieroglyphic text is the key to our own salvation, but we must open our minds to see it. The Maya calculated to the day the historic alignment on December 21, 2012 over 2,000 years ago. "...our ancestors devised every method imaginable to alert us to a single fact; now is the time of the most extraordinary conditions and opportunities that accompany the rarest of events, the shift from one world age to the next." Fractal Time, Gregg Braden 📸 @camilafalquez
THE REALITY OF SUFFERING Do not avoid contact wit THE REALITY OF SUFFERING Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, ...awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering. - Thich Nhat Hanh 📸 @whateverjuliana 👦🏽 @eugabemarques
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