Am I still Catholic? (part V: Panentheism)

After several years of soul searching, to determine where I stand in my Catholicism verses my universalism, I believe I have stumbled upon the answer. For the last few years I’ve been calling myself “Beyond Catholic” to describe my foundation in Catholicism, but also explain that I’ve gone beyond the man-made limits of the “church” to the fuller universal meaning of the church. As I was suspecting, my forward climb was actually a background climb, to the original meaning of Catholicism.

I’ve summarized what I found on Wikipedia and shared the full link below. This is spot on with what I’ve been feeling and believing for the last several years but have been unable to define verbally. I’m a Panentheistic Catholic.

Panentheism (“all in God”, from the Greek) is the belief that the divine intersects every part of the universe and also extends beyond space and time. The term was coined by the German philosopher Karl Krause in 1828 to distinguish the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854) about the relation of God and the universe from the supposed pantheism of Baruch Spinoza.

In panentheism, the universal spirit is present everywhere, which at the same time “transcends” all things created. While pantheism asserts that “all is God”, panentheism claims that God is greater than the universe. Some versions of panentheism suggest that the universe is nothing more than the manifestation of God. Some forms also claim that the universe is contained within God.

A number of ordained Catholic mystics (including Richard Rohr, David Steindl-Rast, and Thomas Keating) have suggested that panentheism is the original view of Christianity. They hold that such a view is directly supported by mystical experience and the teachings of Jesus and Saint Paul.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism