Homer nodded . . .
In the middle of a complex but well organized story, this:
Poulos fatally shot a suspected burglar near a former Lincoln Park bar owned by he and his family in 2013. The man was unarmed, and Poulos was cleared in the shooting.
By he?
No no no no.
Who read the story after the writer sent it?
He does not fiddle while distractions abound . . .
While House Dems scurried about with their impeachment business, the chief executive and his helpers got this done.
The Senate has passed the new NAFTA titles USMCA sending the trade deal between the US, Mexico, and Canada to Trump’s desk for a signature.
This marks another major victory for Trump this week after signing “Phase One” of the China trade deal on Wednesday.
Something to keep in mind in the next few weeks as same House Dems take over the Senate business with what they are really interested in.
ALTHOUGH, worth noting, presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar supported the Mexico-Canada deal.
Popes also lose, as when facing a recalcitrant publisher:
The first edition of the Ratzinger/Sarah Book is already printed and the French publishing-house Fayard will not change anything.
Francis was not pleased, Was “Furious,” Wanted A “Total Defeat”
When the Ratzinger/Sarah book [arguing against removing
the celibacy requirement for priests] became known, “all hell broke loose in the Vatican,” Bergoglio [Francis] was “furious,” writes Francis critic Antonio Socci (FaceBook) referring to anonymous sources.
Why? Because:
Such an authoritative pronouncement from Benedict XVI prevents him from smashing priestly celibacy, as had been his intention to do in the forthcoming Post-[Amazon] Synodal Exhortation.
Details are messy indeed, with Francis personally calling and giving orders to Benedict’s spokesperson.
This homily set untoward thoughts in motion . . .
Last Sunday, to pep up his homily, a visiting monsignor regaled our Long Island congregation with an anecdote about how he had recently learned, at the cost of bruised ribs, just what a firm-grippin’, bear-huggin’ guy good old Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, actually is.
The Church previously did not inflict such incontinent showmen on America. All Americans deserve better. American Catholics need shepherds, not sellouts.
From monarchs to showmen in, say, 75 years.
Stormy weather at Vatican . . .
An unholy mess involving (some) holy people.
Pope-emeritus Benedict has requested that his name not be listed as the co-author of a new book defending the Church’s tradition of celibacy, after the release of excerpts from the book triggered a fiercely partisan reaction.
The book has an essay by Cardinal Sarah and another by Benedict, each in agreement with the other. But leave the latter off the cover!
Well look, it happens all the time in the wild world of book publishing. It doesn’t?
Meanwhile as happens often in the current papal incumbency, the cat has the Big Man’s tongue. By no means is he inactive, however. We may be sure of that.
So. Consider this by way of analysis by the veteran careful observer at Catholic World News:
The intemperate reactions to the appearance of a written work by the former Pope, and the embarrassing sequence of public statements…
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An unholy mess involving (some) holy people.
Pope-emeritus Benedict has requested that his name not be listed as the co-author of a new book defending the Church’s tradition of celibacy, after the release of excerpts from the book triggered a fiercely partisan reaction.
The book has an essay by Cardinal Sarah and another by Benedict, each in agreement with the other. But leave the latter off the cover!
Well look, it happens all the time in the wild world of book publishing. It doesn’t?
Meanwhile as happens often in the current papal incumbency, the cat has the Big Man’s tongue. By no means is he inactive, however. We may be sure of that.
So. Consider this by way of analysis by the veteran careful observer at Catholic World News:
The intemperate reactions to the appearance of a written work by the former Pope, and the embarrassing sequence of public statements by Church officials, highlights the tensions that now prevail at the Vatican.
It seems clear that intense pressure was put on Pope-emeritus Benedict, Cardinal Sarah, and Archbishop Ganswein [Benedict’s spokesman, and former secretary] to the lessen the impact of the new book.
Tight little island, full of jockeying for position.
It will be a serious problem, in fact, for Francis to make an opening for the married priesthood and the female diaconate after his predecessor and a cardinal of profound doctrine and of radiant holiness of life like Sarah have taken such a clear and powerfully argued position in support of priestly celibacy, addressing themselves to the reigning pope almost in the words of an ultimatum, through the pen of the one but with the full agreement of the other.
Speaking up, they rise to the occasion.
Joy to the world . . .
Sunday sermons, weekday observations
The Holy Father devoted more attention [than to
U.S. actions in the Middle East, about which he was “clearly distressed] to his own proposal for a “global compact on education”—an initiative that will be launched at a “worldwide event” on May 14. The Pontiff described this effort as a bid “to rekindle our commitment to and with young people,” to provide for “a process of education and the creation of an educational village capable of forming a network of open and human relationships.”
Something for the United Nations, maybe. Equally vaporous.
There he goes again, working to make the Church one big one-world social services provider — with a dollop of Catholicity, not enough to offend anybody.
Blithe Spirit 