Chicago’s most important Catholic, Alderman Ed Burke, 43 years on city council (a record) and longtime chairman of the council’s finance committee, professed himself defeated by a recently passed privatization plan but voted for it anyway.
“The good Dominican sisters” had not prepared him for this, he said during debate . . .
The rest is here.
After failing a few weeks ago to allow women to become bishops, Anglicans have much to make them anxious about their place in the modern world this Christmas season. They do, however, as our Religion editor, Rupert Shortt, points out, at least have a long and successful experience of translating liturgy into language which those without Latin can understand.
This expertise has not been emulated, he complains, in the latest attempt by Roman Catholics to translate their Mass. The Vatican has centralized its control over all future translations intended for use in the anglophone world and the version under review, The CTS New Sunday Missal, is, Shortt says, a mixture of the clumsy and the outlandishly baroque.
Ignoring Anglican anxiety about failure to make bishops of women, consider their Englished liturgy. And then consider what the Vatican hath done with its various committees. And what the heaven difference does it make if we say with yr spirit and not with you, etc. The big fat translation of a year or so ago produced tempest in teapot, leaving opening for yet a new back-to-Latin movement. Short of that, “the clumsy and ‘. . . outlandishly baroque.'”
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While it may do little to end disagreements among liturgists over recent changes to the Roman Missal, a survey conducted in September, nearly a year after controversial revisions of the English language Mass took effect, found that seven in 10 Catholics agree that the new translation of the Mass “is a good thing” (20 percent agree “strongly”).
Nearly a quarter of the Catholics surveyed (23 percent) disagreed, however, and an additional 7 percent “strongly” disagree with the view that the changes were for the better.
Which goes to show . . . what?
I don’t know anything more than anyone else about the shooting in Connecticut at the moment, but it seems fairly obvious that there was no one at or near the school who could have tried to fight back.
Fight back? Now there’s an idea.
She fainted, hit her head.
News Alert
from The Wall Street Journal
(subscription only)The State Department said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who skipped an overseas trip this past week because of a stomach virus, sustained a concussion after fainting.
She’s now recovering at home and being monitored by doctors.
Congressional aides said they didn’t [don’t] expect her to testify as scheduled at congressional hearings on Thursday into the Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya. [italics added]
I’m suspicious.
. . . at Ascension Parish, Oak Park, where someone stood and objected.
The pastor in the bulletin, pages 2 & 3:
Please be assured that the incident at Mass last Sunday is being well taken care of pastorally and legally both for our Parish Family and for the family involved.
We have contacted a number of resources asking for their wisdom and advice in handling such a situation if it occurs again Hopefully, as a Parish Family, we will not have to deal with this again.
I know I don’t have to say this as 99% of you know it already, if you don’t like what is being said from the pulpit, please come and talk with the preacher after Mass and a private appointment will be set up. If I am not the one being rightfully challenged, I am willing to sit in on such a discussion.
I do understand that you may need to leave Mass because of what is being said but still hope that you will come and talk about it. I thank you all for your cooperation in this matter; God bless us all
“A” for straightforwardness, I don’t know what for willingness to see people walk out on a sermon, which in this case reportedly dealt with political issues.
Interesting, to say the least, if only in its reference to “a number of resources asking for their wisdom and advice in handling such a situation if it occurs again.” That’s tantalizing.
A religious perspective on the Connecticut killings:
What the killer(s) did today was nothing less than a contemporary sacrifice to Moloch, in whatever form Moloch manifests himself today—the appeasement of a voice in the head, most likely. Evil, even if it is loosed due to mental illness, is an effort to destroy the common good by making good appear powerless, ineffectual, weak. Today saw a horrifically effective effort to give evil a victory. It has opened a portal and brought Hell to earth.
Screwtape would report a job well done.
OP Resident #545 from Oak Park
Posted: December 14th, 2012 7:04 PM
Mr Planek is a fine businessman & an asset to OP. Chet, you know not of what you speak. His ability to turn the bldg condo was in the lease you signed. Deal with it. MTO, let’s cut the “human right” nonsense. Housing, like healthcare, is first & foremost a service that costs money. Bldg owners shouldn’t be mandated to take them here. What about RF? Forest Park?Elmwook Pk?
Joanne Haman from oak park
Posted: December 14th, 2012 6:32 PM
As the owner of a two flat, living in one of the flats, I have the right to reject any tenant. This is still America.
C Dobbin
Posted: December 14th, 2012 6:08 PM
I lived in a nice apartment complex in Oak Park on Garfield. Never had a problem with anything. When the owner decided to turn it into a Section 8 haven, my car was broken into twice, my storage locker was broken into and items stolen (along with everyone else’s), drugs were sold openly in front of the building and tons of noisy kids were everywhere. High turnover rate because of non-payment of rent. So I completely understand Oak Park Apts. reasoning. Not the type of people I would want to have
Chet from Forest Park,ill
Posted: December 14th, 2012 5:59 PM
I rented a unit from Bil Planek years ago. I move in and six months later he turned the building into condos. I then had to find another apartment to move into. Bill Planek is a Jerk! one of the worst landlords I have ever experience…not a nice guy!!!!
Mas Takiguchi from Oak Park
Posted: December 14th, 2012 5:55 PM
As the former President of the Board of Directors of the Residence Corporation and Chairman of the Housing Authority, I would welcome the opportunity to sit down with the representatives of the interested parties to discuss collaborative solutions.
Says the WaPo blogger about the Fox News contributor (not staff reporter, hence not “journalist”) who got punched out by union members in Michigan and said later on Fox he had gone to the event to prove leftists to be thugs:
Journalists don’t go to events to “prove” anything.
Muffling hoo-ha, this blogger, former “journalist”: Amend that to No journalist would admit he went to prove anything, or No good (ideal) journalist would go to prove something.
But staffers have their preconceived notions, do they not? Having read of UAW triumphs of many years ago, for instance, and often being union members themselves and having gone to college where the profs have honed their preconceptions by careful study and vowed to set their students straight, etc., they have their narrative at the ready, do they not?
Hoo-ha.
Blithe Spirit 