Apology for mistake, saying IT WASN’T THE REPORTER’S FAULT! Point is, who cares whose fault within the NYT, which is giant COLLABORATION for the sake of the reader who is the consumer whose interests are supposed to be supreme.
It’s like the counter man at a local “juice bar” cum coffee shop who, when I took note of the high price of their coffee, began to explain it as the high cost of doing things organically, not how much more I would enjoy the coffee knowing it’s good for my health.
Is it?
Cardinal George would like to ask Pope Francis what’s going on.
To begin, George said he’d like to ask Francis if he fully grasps that in some quarters, he’s created the impression Catholic doctrine is up for grabs.
Does Francis realize, for example, “what has happened just by that phrase, ‘Who am I to judge?’ ”
. . . .“I don’t know whether he’s conscious of all the consequences of some of the things he’s said and done that raise doubts in people’s minds.”
“The question is why he doesn’t he clarify” these ambiguous statements, George said. “Why is it necessary that apologists have to bear the burden of trying to put the best possible face on it?”
. . . . .
George recalled that one of Francis’ favorite books is “The Lord of the World” by Robert Hugh Benson, a converted Catholic priest and son of a former Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. It’s an apocalyptic fantasy, written in 1907, culminating in a showdown between the Church and a charismatic anti-Christ figure.
George said he’d like to ask Francis a simple question: “Do you really believe that?”
“I hope before I die I’ll have the chance to ask him how you want us to understand what you’re doing, when you put [the end-times] before us as a key to it all,” he said.
Perhaps, George said, the sense that the end is near explains why Francis “seems to be in a hurry.”
Never weary of praying, fellow. We know people like that, pray for others at the drop of an email message about sickness, death, and other catastrophes.
Gospel lk 18:1-8
Jesus told his disciples a parable
about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.
He said, “There was a judge in a certain town
who neither feared God nor respected any human being.
And a widow in that town used to come to him and say,
‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’
For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought,
‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being,
because this widow keeps bothering me
I shall deliver a just decision for her
lest she finally come and strike me.’”
The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says.
Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones
who call out to him day and night?
Will he be slow to answer them?
I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily.
But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Faith on earth in men of good will.
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Later: and women! Sorry.
Is there something in this about school voucher programs? Or more to the practical point, federal aid to your favorite Catholic institute of higher learning?
Third Letter of John, 5-8:
Beloved, you are faithful in all you do for the brothers and sisters,
especially for strangers;
they have testified to your love before the Church.
Please help them in a way worthy of God to continue their journey.
For they have set out for the sake of the Name
and are accepting nothing from the pagans.
Therefore, we ought to support such persons,
so that we may be co-workers in the truth.
Take nothing from the pagans? From U.S. Government and become ‘holden to them? Fair question?
How an honest prosecutor in the early ’30s slowed down the Nazi machine:
Hitler’s First Victims exposes the chaos and fragility of the Nazis’ early grip on power and dramatically suggests how different history could have been had other Germans followed Hartinger’s example of personal courage in that time of collective human failure.
Execution of four Jews in Dachau, when it was a detention center for political prisoners, in 1933 led to evidence-gathering that led to Nuremburg in the mid-’50s.
It’s the story of a man of honor who did what he could at a time of crucial change.
Ten ways eggs are good for you:
"Eggs are among the few foods that I would classify as ‘superfoods.’ They are loaded with nutrients, some of which are rare in the modern diet. Here are 10 health benefits of eggs that have been confirmed in human studies.
Three to six a day, says this fellow . . .
What a wandering path he has walked!
He’s quite the fibber.
Archbishop-elect Cupich played hardball with his law firm?
The accuser, the vicar general who resigned the position is no Johnny-come-lately:
Father Steve Dublinski, rector of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes and the Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia of the diocese, has been named [5/18/2011] Director of Seminarians and Rector of Bishop White Seminary, Spokane, while continuing as Vicar General.
Father Dublinski, originally from Walla Walla, was ordained June 29, 1985, after seminary formation at Bishop White Seminary in Spokane and North American College, Rome.
He was associate pastor of St. John Vianney Parish, Spokane Valley, until June 1989, when he was assigned to St. Charles Parish, Spokane, also as associate pastor. In October 1990 he became pastoral administrator of the parish, and on Nov. 4 of that year, pastor.
In July 1997 he moved to St. Mary Parish, Spokane Valley, as pastor.
In 2002 Bishop Skylstad appointed him Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia for the diocese.
The following year, Father Dublinski became pastor of the parishes in Rosalia, Oakesdale, St. John, and Tekoa, and two years later, rector of the Cathedral.
Hell!
Make it the difference between good and bad waiting, including degrees of same.
As low as nil or (better, to make yr point) 5%, as high as . . . you decide (to show appreciation).
She’s turned into quite the operative:
Jarrett looks like the real guiding hand on this White House, taking the inchoate agenda offered by the 2008 campaign and crafting it into the approach Obama has deployed almost from the beginning.
Jarrett looks exactly like what the left claimed Dick Cheney was: dealmaker, corporatist, and the real administrative power behind a shallow and uninterested figurehead president, who’s just relieved he doesn’t have to answer to those progressives any more.
Progressives are finally getting the message: they have been snookered.
Blithe Spirit 