Abominable ordinance, maybe worst yet in terms of bureaucratic interference with the economic engine.
After Lori what? A deluge of God knows what.
Category: Blithe Spirit
The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Amazon synod to take church into uncharted territory?
The people who wrote this apparently have very high regard for their boss, quoting him as sufficient authority for apparently heavy changes to come:
Indigenous peoples “have much to teach us” (Evangelii Gaudium 198).
In their love for their land and their relationship with the ecosystem, they know
the Creator God, the source of life. “In their difficulties they know the suffering Christ” (ditto).In their concept of a social life in dialogue, they are moved by the Holy Spirit.
How he knows that is another mystery.
For this reason, Pope Francis pointed out that “we need to let ourselves be evangelized by them” and by their cultures, and that the new evangelization implies “lending our voice to their causes, but also [we are called] to be
their friends, to listen to them, to speak for them, and to embrace the mysterious wisdom which God wishes to share with us through them” (EG 198).
Go with the hitherto unrecognized Amazonian flow.
His teachings, therefore, could set the direction of priorities for the new paths of the Church in the Amazon.
If the November synod votes his way, but he’s generally good at that.
In Chicago public schools, 450-plus complaints of sexual misconduct by adults in a nine-month period . . .
All profs suspended, president dismissed as part of ‘destruction’ of John Paul II Institute
ROME, July 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In what critics see as an attack on the Catholic Church’s moral teaching, the successor of Cardinal Carlo Caffarra at the Institute on Marriage and family founded by John Paul II has been dismissed and the institute’s course on fundamental and specialized moral theology has been eliminated.
Named after a saint. Shut down by a . . .
Marriage and family matters.
via LifeSite
Celebrating the Mass Ad Orientem – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup
Death of the Impeachment Dream
Lede of the day (week? month? in a long while anyhow):
House Democrats hoped that Wednesday’s hearings would allow them to highlight their favorite portions of the Mueller report for people who haven’t read it.
Democrats didn’t expect this segment of Americans to include the author.
via WSJ
Home Equity Theft: How a Man’s Home Was Seized Over $8.41 in Unpaid Taxes
We’re from the government, we’re here to take your house.
(Apologies to memory of Ronald Reagan.)
Property taxes in Chicago area continue to rise, as does resentment
Politicians can’t afford to ignore growing public resentment of excessive property taxes, a powder keg that needs only a spark to explode into a full-fledged tax revolt with unpredictable consequences.
What did they expect?
Later: Dear old Oak Park has led the way:
For a glimpse of what’s to come for much of metropolitan Chicago, look to west suburban Oak Park, where property tax bills often exceed $10,000 and can range far higher. Home sales in Oak Park fell 22 percent in the first half of 2019, median selling prices dropped nearly 12 percent and houses sat on the market almost 40 percent longer than they did in the first six months of 2018. As Rodkin reported, Oak Park realtors blame sky-high property taxes for sending buyers elsewhere.
Beware.
Chicago aldermen may raise the minimum wage to $15. But with the city’s cost of living, is that even enough ? – Chicago Tribune
There they go again, pushing leftism with alleged news story.
Chi Trib, here with collusion by editors, by one Lolly Bowean.
Onward, peace-loving soldiers . . .
Your marching orders:
“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. ”
― Arundhati Roy, Public Power in the Age of Empire
Typical social justice claptrap.
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