Dalai Lama attends Pentecost Mass of Viennese Cardinal

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Cardinal Schönborn: "A person who is deeply rooted in their own faith, can show deep respect for the faith of others."

The Dalai Lama, contrary to earlier plans, taken part in the Pentecost Mass in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. The Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn said at the beginning of the Mass on Sunday that the Dalai Lama had asked to visit the St. Stephen as a "pilgrim" - in the same way he had visited the Marian shrines of Lourdes and Fatima and also Rome as a pilgrim. "A person who is deeply rooted in their own faith, can show deep respect for the faith of others", said Schönborn.

Schönborn had previously given the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism a tour of the Cathedral. The Dalai Lama placed a white Tibetan prayer shawl in the chapel of St. Barbara, which has been since 1983 a place of remembrance for the victims of the Nazi regime. During the tour through the St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Dalai Lama asked - differently from the originally scheduled program - to attend at least the first part of the service can be. A return flight to India was scheduled for Sunday afternoon. The Dalai Lama has lived there since he fled in 1959 into exile.

Sex education- Jesuit style- with added feminism

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In the Lassale House in Switzerland, which is run by the Jesuits, courses will now be also offered from May onwards giving "time and space for sensuality." Swiss media speak in this context of "sex courses", a term rejected by Christian Rutishauser, the Jesuit in charge.  In the Luzerner-Zeitung, Rutishauser can promote his courses, claiming that the Church has so far actually specified "particular obligations" and set "framework conditions for sex" (within marriage). "In the past, sex was a taboo and there was talk about faith. Today religious belief is often a taboo and we talk a lot about sex", said the Jesuit, and then claims that a "religious morality lacking freedom," burdens sexuality to this day, Evidence for this claim he does not, however provide. Rutishauser then uses stereotypes about the Catholic Church, which have little to do with reality, given the ever increasing uptake of natural birth control . "Mostly sex is only understood as a means of begetting children. We want to spell out in our new course, in addition to keynote talks, meditations, group and couple discussions and exercises which includes" time for love, "just the specific value of sexuality in the lives of couples ", said the Jesuit, who then finally throws in feminist theories and seriously argues that penetration represents an "enforcement of patriarchal possession ". In an emancipated society, this no longer applies according to Rutishauser.

The course offered under the heading of "gender" contains conditions giving no indication whether the pair of participants (Christian) must be married, or have at least made a binding decision to one another in some way, or whether they must be heterosexual. The target audience is only given as: "Couples who want to put into practice the new ideas of physical interaction and loving."

The Jesuit's view of the world-art- commerce- politics- science-Islam- (Christian)-Religion-Buddhism- and back again to art.  He recently addressed a conference on geothermal energy which he would well be advised to stick to, given his competences in other subjects.

See also Erotic church service- they could also add some ecumenism if they got together.

Buddhist group buys two closed Catholic churches

from The Buffalo News

A Buddhist group with locations across the United States and Canada has purchased two former Catholic churches in the Lovejoy section of Buffalo.

The International Sangha Bhiksu Buddhist Association paid $250,000 for the former St. Agnes Church and its accompanying buildings and $110,000 for the former Visitation Church, according filings with the Erie County clerk’s office.

The sale, in the works for months, was finalized Monday.

“I don’t know much about the group,” said Buffalo attorney Mark Peszko, who handled the closing for the buyers. “All I know is they’re going to use it for Buddhist meditation purposes.”

And from their website

The practice at this temple is an untypical mix of Chinese Zen, or Chan, and Pure Land.

"There is also a unique Vietnamese form of Buddhism which evolved in the southern provinces, and is a successful combination of Theravada and Mahayana. While much of the philosophy is Mahayana, the Sangha (monks and nuns) follow the Vinaya rules (code of ethics) quite strictly, and go on the traditional alms round every day. As for example, the Venerable Minh Dang Quang (see picture below) who was the founder of the Vietamese indigenous Buddhist order."

We are not associated with Cloud Water Zendo but this is a good explanation about this combination practice.

So there. Catholicism, it is not.

Syncretism is a syn

according to Dominus Jesus. But they haven't heard yet in the Church of the Beguins in Brussels, where they offer up in a "Meeting of Spirit and Music" a blend of klezmer, Buddhism, humanistic texts, Sufi and Byzantine chant.