Very hot news in Catholic circles: the Society of St. Pius X, broken away from the Vatican since the 2nd Vatican Council, is “on the verge” of reconciliation with the church.
It’s remotely comparable to the resolution and dissolution of The Great Schism of the 14th century, the three-pope period when disarray was the order of the day.
Benedict XVI is making it happen. Standing objections by the SPX people to Vatican 2’s “rupture” or disruptive aspects will remain.
Trust me, folks, it’s like The Episcopal Church U.S.A. making room for Evangelical Christians. Somewhat like? Am working on that.
In Oak Park it means that the Pius X Latin mass church at Ridgeland and Washington, kitty-corner from Julian Middle School, is no longer out of bounds for venturesome Catholics.
Assorted Jesuits, Jesuit university teachers, and other liberal Catholics DO NOT LIKE Rep. Paul Ryan’s citing Catholic teaching in support of his budget.
Among his sins surely would be his embracing the long-ignored principle of subsidiarity, which says big organizations or governmental entities should butt out of matters better handled by smaller ones.
In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, neither the state nor any larger society should substitute itself for the initiative and responsibility of individuals and intermediary bodies.
No surprise here: A Jesuit history prof at a large Jesuit university told me 20 years ago that the principle no longer had currency. If it did, one might add, big government would not be considered the cure-all it is treated as today.
It was Dorothy Day, I believe, who referred ironically to “holy mother the state.” It’s a good phrase for today’s feckless reverence for big…
Alton L. Hayes III, of 1233 N. Woodbine Ave., was allegedly one of two people who attacked a man walking on the 600 block of North Kenilworth Avenue at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday.
One of the things that I still believe in, a person should apologize when they are actually remorseful for what theyve done. I believe it was an accident. I believe that it just got out of control and he couldnt turn the clock back. I would ask him, did he know that that was a minor, that that was a teenager, and that he did not have a weapon?
Which is what he said later at his bond hearing:
“I am sorry for the loss of your son,” he said. “I did not know how old he was. I thought he was a little bit younger than I am. And I did not know if he was armed or not.”
I hear you, he was telling the mother. Dr. Boyce Watkins, at KultureKritic.com, is not amused:
I havent spoken with Al Sharpton in a few months. But if we were still speaking and he were to ask me what to do with the mother of Trayvon Martin, my answer would be very simple: Get her off the stage right now.
Meanwhile, Martins mother raised eyebrows with her own comments on Today about the accidental nature of the case, but she clarified what she meant in another interview later in the day. Sybrina Fulton told The Associated Press that she was referring to the chance encounter between Zimmerman and her son.
Their meeting was the accident, Fulton said. That was the accident. Not the actual act of him shooting him. That was murder … They were never supposed to meet.
Yet and still, we still have the revealing response from the good doctor.
Blithe Spirit 