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As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Absolute Absolute Power Broad Divine Down Foundation Invest Kings Lesser Like Marble Over Power Ranks Right Rule Spread Staircase Stones Structure Those Top Who

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The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Deep Deepest Imagination Inexhaustible Object Our Possibilities Religion Understanding

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In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Across April Bleeding Deep Down Ears Everyday Field Fills Floor God Lie Like Long Long Way Ocean Off Our Passengers Personal Possessions Rhythmic Seas Slasher Speaks Things Titanic Us Victim Way Whose

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Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Because Claim Clearly Fixed Lost Manufacture Moment Most Mystery Offered Pocket Products Relic Resemble Time Watches Why

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From his first hours as pope, Francis has re-enacted or spoken of the great pastoral transformation of Vatican II as his own agenda.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Agenda First Francis Great His Hours Own Pope Spoken Transformation Vatican

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9/11 revealed that those about to die do not seem afraid or plead for forgiveness for their sins, if they think about them at all. They all have one thing in mind - those they love - and they all do the same thing: They call them up - spouses, family or friends - to tell them they love them.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: About Afraid Call Die Family Forgiveness Friends Love Mind One Thing Plead Revealed Same Same Thing Seem Sins Spouses Tell Them Thing Think Those Up

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The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Conversation Francis Making More People Person Pope Sense Sinning Suffering Than Things Toward Turn Turns Who World

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Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Blow Bottom Built Clergy Concerts Crowds Devoted Festival Francis Higher Only Pope Religious Rock Room Say Standing System They Say Whole

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The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Always Because Bill Black Feels Follows Francis He Heard Him Himself His Hotel John Knows Like Much Ordinary Own Pair Pay Peasant Preferred Seen Shoes Traditional Who Whole World

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Pope Francis reminds us of Pope John XXIII because both men share the same lack of self-consciousness, and neither needs to keep his guard up through the use of psychological defenses such as rationalization, projection or intellectualization.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Because Both Francis Guard His John Keep Lack Men Needs Neither Pope Projection Psychological Reminds Same Self-Consciousness Share Through Up Us Use

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: August 18th, 1928

Died: June 3rd, 2015

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