M.J. Rose

Every once in a while a story pops up in the news about reincarnation that rings true. It’s rare, but it happens. The following instance is impressive. See for yourself…

The Boy Who Lived Before

By YVONNE BOLOURI
September 08, 2006

LITTLE Cameron Macaulay was a typical six-year-old, always talking about his mum and family.He liked to draw pictures of his home too — a long single-storey, white house standing in a bay.

But it sent shivers down his mum’s spine — because Cameron said it was somewhere they had never been, 160 miles away from where they lived.

And he said the mother he was talking about was his “old mum.”

Read the complete article at The Sun Online.

Overheard In New York:

[Bodies Exhibit, South St Seaport]

Woman in wheelchair: These models are fantastic!
Man pushing her: These aren’t models.
Woman in wheelchair: Oh, no!

I find the plastination of cadavers to be both educational and beautiful. What incredible detail and function we have in every single part of us …and the process lends itself to a good cause too – it’s not just for art or morbidity’s sake:

Donors Hope Plastinated Bodies Educate

By THOMAS PEIPERT (Source: Associated Press/AP Online)

DALLAS – Stace Owens has no intention of leaving this world when he dies. He plans to stick around for decades or longer, preserved in plastic and displayed in a museum or medical school…

Read the complete article here.

Think again Dante, there ain’t no nice place to have a chat with Aristotle anymore…

Whoa! Who said it was okay to change the structure of heaven? So where do all the “good pagans”, little unbaptised babies, jovial buddhists, and zebras and puppy dogs go if the church is going to insist on taking away limbo? And what exactly happened to limbo anyway? Wasn’t this pleasant, balmy, intellectually stimulating zone a place we could count on landing just in case those Christians were right about everything after all?

“Newspapers have been full of news about the abolition of limbo. How much of this is true?

A few weeks ago the International Theological Commission, an advisory panel for the Catholic Church, published a 41-page document entitled “The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized”. When this news was faxed to Reuters, I thought that it would furrow the editor’s brow: “The who published what?”. Perhaps through her mind would flit a brief recollection of Nichole Kidman as a neurotic mother in The Others, followed by the rapid processing of the fax into a crumbled ball and its trajectory into the the limbo of the wastepaper basket.

But that is not what happened. Catholic teaching on the afterlife suddenly became a hot topic. Why?”…

(by Dr Richard Umbers, Catholic priest, for MercatorNet)

Read the rest at MercatorNet.