The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
“Enhance and enrich,” is it? It’s not enriched enough? Just what those Amazonians are looking for.
Proposals at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon for indigenous- or Amazonian-rite ceremonies are meant to enhance and enrich the liturgy with cultural signs and gestures, not change what is essential for Catholics, a bishop said.
Popular demand, apparently.
via Catholic Philly
Adam Schiff is at it again, tampering with witnesses.
Yesterday, he got caught trying to shove words into a witness’s mouth, to make him say things he didn’t want to say. I wrote about that here.
Today, he’s doing something just as bad, getting together with other witnesses and working out a pre-coordinated story for the coming show trial.
Read more: at American Thinker
Condemned!
“I think Jeff Zucker should be fired,” determined Dershowitz of CNN’s president. “He has destroyed CNN. He has made it impossible for people to hear two sides of a view or any side of a view other than Jeff Zucker’s view, and that’s not the way television should operate.”
Too bad.
Wow. From my old home town Oak Park IL comes “the most racist incident to happen in all of 2019.”
From a wild, wild woman in this amazing display.
I sat through many board and other meetings in the village where I grew up and lived 40-plus years as husband, father, activist, local-paper columnist, etc.
Never saw the likes of this.
From a U. of Illinois Chicago progressor no less. She apologized in that paper afterward, but now what?
. . . should be an annual awards dinner.
Said Chris Plante the other day. Hear him on Chi WLS 890 a.m. 9 a.m. CDT to 11 (when Rush takes over).
Blogger Dad 29 heard him in July, Me? Just the other day. It’s sort of thing he tosses in during rapid-fire commentary. Quite good.
. . . and to you if you show them some love:
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Out of the Orient a star has risen.
U.S.???The NBA has found itself at odds with its lucrative Chinese market, and the league is doing its best to appease the Chinese government. In a move intended to patch things up with China, the NBA announced that President Xi Jinping has made the All-Star team this year.
The president will tower under the competition at an intimidating 5’11”. Especially threatening to the opposing team will be the president’s ability to imprison or execute any player who dunks on him. He is also expected to execute players on his own team who speak out against him or suggest he’s unfit for the basketball team. . . .
Stunning development.
more more more here.
Like teachers, abandoning their charges?
Have hostages (THE CHILDREN), will negotiate.
He said he doesn’t buy Jesus’ divinity, for instance, the latest headline-grabber:
After each such story, the Vatican has issued clarifications and disclaimers, telling the world that Scalfari’s interviews cannot be considered accurate. That line of defense is no longer plausible.
If Scalfari is not reliable, why is he granted interviews? More important, if Scalfari’s stories “cannot be considered as a faithful account,” why can’t the Vatican furnish something that could be considered a faithful account? What did the Pope say? [boldface added]
In this latest case, why couldn’t the Vatican announce, in clear contradiction of Scalfari’s claim, that of course the Holy Father holds and teaches what the Church has always held and taught? The stakes are far too high to accept another bout of uncertainty; the confusion is far too widely spread. The faithful need unequivocal assurance that the Bishop of Rome accepts the Nicene Creed.
I have a theory: Francis is a sort of Peck’s Bad Boy of the church. He gets a kick out of causing a fuss.
Besides, he plays to the gallery of priests and bishops the world over, including Jesuits, who just don’t believe in that stuff and instead are vaguely, somehow, leaning on their good deeds — protesting global warming, etc. — to get them in acceptable condition into whatever after-life there is.
Equal parts of both, I suppose.
When all is said and done, he is the persecuted one.
Some conservatives have argued that Francis, who constantly denounces walls and champions the building of bridges, has shut them out by ignoring their formal complaints that he is diluting church doctrine and leading the faithful astray. They argue that when even his top Cardinals present him with such criticism, Francis responds with pink slips.
But Francis claimed that he respected such critics. “This is loyal,” he said. “This is to love the church.”
He should name them, even (maybe?) talk to them — and not to dress them down in private.
What he didn’t appreciate, he said, were “little closed groups” who refuse to hear an answer to their critiques, or worse, who feigned allegiance by “throwing a stone and hiding the hand.”
“I don’t like it when the criticism is under the table and they smile and show their teeth,” he said. “And then there is a knife in the back.”
Oh the bastard children! When will they ever learn?
He suffers, like contradicted fathers the world over.
via Pope Francis: ‘I Pray There Are No Schisms’ – The New York Times
Blithe Spirit 