"Cosmos is originally a Greek word, meaning both "order" and "world," because the ancient Greeks thought that the world was perfectly harmonious and impeccably put in order. We now use cosmos without the idea of perfect order. Now it means, "all of creation," and particularly on the scale of the stars, the planets, the black holes, the other universes, …. "
>vocabulary.com
probably a better source, but that gets at the heart of it i think.
How many of you are converts?
Zachary Ramirez
Xavier Carter
The Roman “Catholic” Church is very of this world. Just look at the Vatican and now Francis. It’s a clown show after Vatican II.
Christ did not live like how any of these modern Popes do. You could take God out of the Vatican and it would keep on running.
Luke Hughes
I was born into a family of conservative lukewarm Christians.
Sebastian Richardson
Sadly true. The sad thing is that Francis actually has stripped himself of the more fanciful adornments and titles of Pope (and seems to like walking even.. rather than be carried around in a chair). But even his humility doesn't resemble the humble beginnings of Jesus, Mary in the manger, John the Baptist in the desert, the Apostles on the run..
Maybe the average Franciscan monk reflects the way of life (which was partly St. Francis' goal, I think), but it gets lost in higher ecclesiastical levels.