Day: April 11, 2019

Cardinal Sarah’s fearless cri de coeur | Catholic Herald

The cardinal who’s out in the cold . . .

Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground

The man who can’t make it with il papa;

Cardinal Robert Sarah is not the most influential figure within the Roman Curia. Although he is prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, one of the most important Vatican departments, his power is tightly circumscribed.

After he gave a speech in 2016 urging priests worldwide to celebrate Mass facing east, he received a rare public rebuke.

Later the Pope made sweeping changes to the membership of his Congregation – a move that was perceived as removing his supporters and replacing them with those who do not share his liturgical vision.

Il papa, probably for political reasons — he’s African, isn’t he? — has apparently decided he can’t fire him, or doesn’t have to. But the old bar bouncer can still poke fingers in his eye.

The bothersome cardinal in turn may be neutralized in his lofty position, but he can…

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Lincoln Yards deal reveals a bit of Lightfoot’s priorities, management style

Greg Hinz on two sides of the Lightfoot/Lincoln Yards question has this in middle of very good summary:

Though I had and still have reservations about the size of the Lincoln Yards project, a city can only have one mayor at a time. Our current mayor negotiated two enormous deals that may in the end yield $10 billion or more in private investment here. What message would it send to other potential investors if we walked away from the deal?

A discouraging one, of course.

Similarly, I think the progressives really are way, way off base in much of their opposition. The $2 billion-plus in subsidies mostly is for transportation infrastructure, the type of thing government generally pays for. And that money won’t “come from” public schools, however much the CTU screams. It will come from property taxes paid by the developers. With few exceptions, the schools will get that money back by raising their property tax rate a little higher on landowners not located in the TIF districts

Well. Should but won’t quiet the protestors.

What a nice balance to what we of the 40th (and other wards) heard by rote from runoff candidates. The progressive five on the council, including our giant-slayer Andre Vasquez, should take note.

Kim Foxx plays the race card to save herself from her Jussie Smollett fiasco – Chicago Tribune

Early in John Kass’s scintillating review of our chief prosecutor in our beloved County of Cook, he identifies the linguistic atrocity she committed in her round of self-exculpation:

At Rainbow/PUSH the other day, Foxx prattled on about how she recused herself because of these conflicts, but that’s nonsense. In reality she did no such thing. Her office admitted her so-called “recusal” was only in “the colloquial sense.”

She was KIDDING! How did such an unserious person get to be our chief prosecutor?!

The atrocity? She utterly misused language. First, who except after a few shooters at a party with a smirk or even friendly smile lips will talk about recusing himself from, say, some jocular debate that has ensued in the course of alcoholic jocularity?

Words MEAN SOMETHING, my old speech teacher would tell us young Jesuits. You say what you mean and mean what you say, honoring all the possible twists and turn of nuance, sardonic remarks, saying one thing OBVIOUSLY meaning another, for effect, you know, to get a laugh?

Answer is nobody.

That gotten off chest, this writer refers you back to Kass and his serious analysis of the old vs. new aspects of the Rainbow outburst of this Saturday.