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Another Mystic, Thomas Aquinas, Speaking Out on Truth 03/03/2023 |
In responding to a current trial against a prominent news agency that traffics in lies, we have called on mystics like Teresa of Avila, Jesus, Sister Dorothy Stang, and
others. |
Thomas Aquinas offers insight about truth when he says that “the proper objects of the heart are truth and justice.” If he is right, then our society may be inviting lots of
heart attacks, heart seizures and heartbreaks to the extent that falsity rules the air waves and faux news outlets and social media clouds and all the rest. It must be very bad food for the heart to dine on falsehoods and lies. Those who
deliver them are drawing astounding salaries for doing so. Further testimony from Rupert Murdoch (called the “number one killer of American democracy” this week by the former prime minster of Australia where Murdoch was born and began his career in journalism) reveals still more about how lies sell in the media today. And make certain people very rich. | |
But Aquinas and bell hooks
both warn us that the heart needs truth to survive. And justice that so often goes with it. “The heart of justice is truth telling.” So while our hearts need truth, truth needs justice and hooks says truth is the very heart of justice. Aquinas teaches that justice is a path to Divinity when he says, “the vision of God is arrived at through justice.” To look at it negatively, where lies and falsehoods thrive, justice is rare and
injustice thrives. Fix falsehoods and we are on the road to fixing injustices. Allow falsehoods to thrive and justice will become rarer and rarer. Injustice reigns. |
“Speak Truth to Power,” an animation exploring the ongoing fight for racial justice, developed by the Student Commission on Racial Justice to encourage awareness of the reality
of racial injustice. Leaders Unlocked | Aquinas also argues that the Holy Spirit is involved in truth finding and truth sharing and truth caring when he says, “revelation has been made to many pagans” because “every truth without exception—and whoever may utter
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is from the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit is the carrier of truth, to hunt after and gather truth is to encounter the Holy Spirit, to invite the Spirit in. Meditation, whatever kind we participate in, invites silence and listening and truth into the room and into the heart. And the Holy Spirit with it. This means scientists who pass on truth are passing on the Holy Spirit; and artists, architects, musicians, playwrights and film makers, and all who are trying to speak truth to us are passing on the Holy Spirit. And surely those prophets who dare to speak truth to power. Spirit is everywhere where truth is being honored. |
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Adapted from Matthew Fox, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times, pp. 101-112, 71, 109-111. 65f. Banner Image: “Truth and Justice.” Architectural Sculptures by William Silver Frith, London, 1893. Photo by Steve
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