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Further Lessons from Navalny,
Sister Dorothy Stang, Putin & Aquinas 02/24/2024 |
We have been holding up the bravery, creativity and godlikeness of people like Sister Dorothy Stang and Alexei Navalny who paid a steep price for standing up to forces of evil. Of course, history is filled with martyrs like them, including MLK Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus, and many
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Thomas Aquinas, an amazing observer of human nature, teaches that a tyrant is more |
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afraid of good people than of bad people.This would seem to explain the fear in the Kremlin of Navalny, which resulted in poisoning him severely and, when treated successfully in Germany, on returning home was imprisoned, tortured and exiled to a prison in the arctic circle where he died at only 47 years of age. |
It also explains the murder of Sister Dorothy for standing with the peasants and against the mining and ranching interests who wanted to commandeer the Amazon rainforest to satisfy their greed. |
“Ex-CIA operative explains why Putin is ‘scared’ after Navalny’s death.” CNN | Now we have news that Putin, so afraid of Navalny in life, is equally afraid of him in death. He is refusing to return his body to Navalny’s mother for a
proper funeral, instead demanding that she promise a “secret funeral.” Her answer is to |
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public and point out how both illegal and immoral his demands are. Clearly, she carries her son’s courageous genes. Aquinas made another second insightful observation about politicans pertinent to a presidential election year in the United States. He said that “a politician must know more about the human
soul than a doctor knows about the human body.” What a profound insight! |
Whether a politican appeals to revenge, hatred and the shadow side of their constitutents such as Hitler or others, or a politician like Abraham Lincoln seeks to elicit what he called the “angels of our nature,” a leader’s calling is to appeal to the soul of their citizens. A successful politician reads the soul of his people for good or for
ill. Citizens ought to respond in kind and study the soul of those asking to lead them. |
Crowd at the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Photographer unknown, but believed to be Alexander Gardner. Wikimedia Commons. |
Adapted from Matthew Fox, Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality, pp. 393-401. See also, Fox, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times, pp. 101-136.
Banner image: “Yulia Navalny, Alexey Navalny and Ilya Yashin at Moscow rally 2013-06-12.” Wikimedia Commons. |
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Queries for Contemplation Do you agree with Aquinas that tyrants are more afraid of good people than of bad people? Can you give examples of
this? And that a politician must know more about the human soul than a doctor knows about the human body? Can you give examples of that also? |
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Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation
Spirituality
Matthew Fox renders Thomas Aquinas accessible by interviewing him and thus descholasticizing him. He also translated many of his works such as Biblical commentaries never before in English (or Italian or German of French). He gives Aquinas a forum so that he can be heard in our own time. He presents Thomas Aquinas entirely in his own words, but in a form designed to
allow late 20th-century minds and hearts to hear him in a fresh way.
“The teaching of Aquinas comes through will a fullness and an insight that has never been present in English before and [with] a vital message for the world today.” ~ Fr. Bede Griffiths (Afterword).
Foreword by Rupert Sheldrake
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The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times
A stunning spiritual handbook drawn from the substantive teachings of Aquinas’ mystical/prophetic genius, offering a sublime roadmap for spirituality and
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Foreword by Ilia Delio.
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