Having witnessed an instance of shocking abuse by a nun upon a friend in Catholic school in the 8th grade, I began to question, observe and research the religion in…
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I’m neither Christian nor Buddhist, but while recovering from food poisoning that had brought me within two days of death, I met an old Chinese woman that seemed to commune…
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A friend asked, “is what you’re talking about related to what some call samadhi, the highest state of meditation?” Undoubtedly, though I don’t like using Eastern terms.
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America has never felt like home to me. Now it doesn’t feel like home to millions of other Americans, whether they were born here as I was or not. Forget…
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Costa Rica News – If you are planning on getting divorced you might not be able to get communion anymore. It will be interesting on how they enforce this.
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Close Enough to Touch; Costa Rica’s Virgin of Los Angeles (La Negrita)
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2016/06/12Costa Rica News – Thousands have faith in the Virgin of Los Angeles, also known as “La Negrita.
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What need of churches when there of fields of orange poppies, and foothills framed by cumulus scudding across the sky? This isn’t a throwback to some druid-like philosophy, though the…
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Consecrated Virgins Meeting in Costa Rica
by Isabella Foster Villanueva 2016/01/05Costa Rica News – The Costa Rica Catholic Church has an Order of Consecrated Virgins that will hold their first national meeting this Saturday, January 9th in the Cartago campus of…