Author: Jim Bowman
Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.
Meet the bishops thrown under the bus by Pope Francis . . . in Chinese prisons
Pope Francis again castigates fellow Catholics
He has a way with words. Whence comes such another?
#PopeFrancis at Mass to mark 60 years since opening of Vatican II says that progressivism and “traditionalism — or backwardness — aren’t evidence of love, but of infidelity” and “Pelagian egoisms which put our own tastes and plans above the love that pleases God.”
As chief shepherd of millions, he owes us an explanation. For instance, what are Pelagian egoisms? Try what duckduckgo (a google alternative) comes up with and see where you fit in. You might learn something.
It’s heretical, that much is for sure, and while denying original sin, is clearly something that puts the blame not only on Mame but on all of us. Born free of evil tendencies, we can make it on own after all and if we don’t, then . . . You get it.
In any case, the shepherd of us all . . . what? As I say, he should explain.
Here’s a stunner from Pope Francis. (Has he no shame?)
He appoints a prototypical leftist feminist to his (ours, but it has his title’s name on it) pro-life post.
‘VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Pontifical Academy for Life on Saturday announced Pope Francis’ appointment of pro-abortion, World Economic Forum-linked economist Mariana Mazzucato as one of its new “Ordinary Academicians.”’
As I say, has he no shame?
I took notes over the years, and here’s one about when God spoke to a friend . . . . . . who told me about it one day on the Green Line 13 years ago
Was talking to a fellow the other day who was celebrating his “epiphany” of twenty-some years ago, he being 70-ish now. Something of a mid-life crisis that turned out well. . . .
Rev. Michael Pfleger removed from St. Sabina again as Archdiocese probes another decades-old sex abuse claim
. . .less than two years after he was cleared of charges on separate accusations.
“Let me be clear — I am completely innocent of this accusation. While I am confident that the new allegation will also be determined to be unfounded, this process is so unfair and painful to me and to the community I serve,” Pfleger wrote.
He blames the process? Is this new for him?
The Rape of Berlin
During the months of April and May, 1945, as Soviet Red Army troops approached and eventually invaded Berlin, almost two million German women were raped on a level of violence never seen before or since. Figures provided by historians such as Antony Beevor (2002) suggest that of the two million victims, almost 100,000 eventually committed suicide, and in 1946 10% of all babies born in Germany had Soviet fathers.
THE RAPE OF BERLIN
We all know about the horrors of World War II and what Hitler and the Nazis did all over Europe in the name of Aryan supremacy. But what a lot of people don’t know is what actually happened in Germany in the final days of the Nazi regime.
During the months of April and May, 1945, as Soviet Red Army troops approached and eventually invaded Berlin, almost two million German women were raped on a level of violence never seen before or since. Figures provided by historians such as Antony Beevor (2002) suggest that of the two million victims, almost 100,000 eventually committed suicide, and in 1946 10% of all babies born in Germany had Soviet fathers.
While these figures are astonishing, what is maybe even more remarkable is the fact that for over 50 years there was a concerted effort to keep the facts of…
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Read a book or watch TV
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. tried meditating in the ’60s, he said, in his Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, [I think. Sorry] using a mantra, a Sanskrit word which he thinks may mean $85, what he paid for it. Later it dawned on him that “in our civilization” we meditate using “a medieval object, a book,” putting ourselves in touch with people in ages gone by. This kind of meditation, he says, gives “access to brains better than our own.” . . . .
Ecstatic and intoxicate A French poet who influenced Baudelaire and Breton
I love it how TLS comes up with these things I never heard of.
This one, from last week’s issue, is about a poet who kicked against the goad from start to finish. Stubborn bloke who I hope saw God in all things.
In translating these poems, Gallas and Kurt Gänzl have presented a reliquary of gems that glint and glare and burn, successfully evoking the energy of Borel’s verse. Produced through a two-step process of translating and “repoeming”, the book is a credit to Gallas’s poetic instinct, which colours and sculpts Gänzl’s initial translations. These translations may even rival the original French versions in verve and flourish. Perhaps Petrus Borel, who died in anonymity of heatstroke in Algeria, will finally have a more fortuitous moment in the sun.
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Sarah-Jean Zubair is a postgraduate student in English Literature at University College London. She holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, New York
Supreme Court takes case on content policing: Here’s how a Section 230 ruling could impact social media
The Supreme Court agreed this week to hear a challenge to a fundamental legal protection enjoyed by social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. The ruling could dramatically change how those platforms operate, even affecting search engines like Google, legal experts told ABC News.
Blithe Spirit 