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Yesterday, Mark Stevenson from the AP wrote an article about the latest discovery in Mexico. According to Stevenson, archaeologists announced yesterday that they had found the oldest pyramid beneath the ruins of a Catholic religious site.

The structure, supposed to have been built by the mysterious Teotihuacan culture, was apparently abandoned 1,000 years before Catholics started worshiping at the site in 1800.

• Google Search for Teotihuacan
• AP Story

Reuters reported last week that the teaching of Limbo may be removed.

Limbo, the traditional Catholic answer to the age old question, “where do deceased infants go?” has started to show its age evidently. I have never been able to find any sort of reference in the Bible even hinting of a Limbo or state of waiting for infants.

Apparently neither did Pope John Paul II because last October he asked the Vatican’s theological commission to “come up with ‘a more coherent and enlightened way’ of describing the fate of such innocents.”

Now, Pope Benedict, who lead the theological commission until his crowning is said to be considering the recommendation of the commission to eliminate the Limbo teaching.

My question is if the Pope is supposed to be the Divine, and sole, representation of Christ on modern earth, how come Popes keep changing theologies. God never changes. Hmmmmmm.

I went to see the movie last week … Defiantly a cinematic event like no other with beautiful photography, writing and directing.

The film really was a political tool and toward the end of the film this became very apparent. For those of you who know me, this may come as a shock…. I agreed completely with Hollywood on this one. The underlying voice of the movie resonates throughout the notion of a kingdom of heaven becoming the political and oppressive tool of tyrants though out the world.

I certainly don’t wish to ruin the show for those of you who have not seen this yet, but there are some underlying concepts that need to be understood.

1. The utopian vision of this Kingdom can not be achieved. As long as man is in the picture there will be no competent decision about who God is and His wishes.
2. One can not say that all religions point to the same God. Hinduism, Christianity and Islam certainly do not view the basic idea of God the same.
3. As our hero finds in the movie, it is each individual’s right and duty to determine what is right before God and then do that. We can’t let the Kingdom of Heaven become our God.