The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Funny way to put this, since being “doored” is a peril cyclists face as what surprises them: Driver opens door without looking, down goes cyclist.
Investigators still investigating, and at this point incident is apparently being considered as unwary cyclist, not careless door-opener.
via Chicago Tribune
Interviewer (Kath.net) to auxiliary bishop of Chur, Switzerland after close of World Meeting of Families in Dublin:
Interviewer, August 30, 2018). “The attempts to rewrite the traditional doctrine that regards homosexual acts as disordered in themselves, and therefore forbids them, are conspicuous. Pope Francis is surrounded by cardinals and advisors who are headed in this direction.”
So says the Auxiliary Bishop of Chur and former Jugendbischof of the (Catholic) Episcopal Conference of Switzerland [i.e. the bishop delegated to oversee programs for the pastoral care of young people] in this interview with kath.net.
Kath.net: The World Meeting of Families in Dublin was completely overshadowed by the topic of sexual abuse, and not just because of the revelations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Nuncio in Washington, D.C. Well, the Pope himself would like to say nothing about the accusations. What do you say about this?
Bishop [Marian] Eleganti, [O.S.B.]: The fact that Pope Francis does not want to say a single word about them is a classic non-denial. Lying, of course, is completely out of the question.
Speaks softly, carrying big stick of getting to the point.
More here at Catholic World Report
A story that is less about Vigano et al. than about secrecy and the Vatican in the 21st Century, where need to know is stretched to its limits, becoming covering up, that is in effect, deceiving the public.
Question is, how long the church will be able to get away with this.
Expected him before this. Poll on his credibility, anyone? But they do make splash for a while.
Throw mud or drag out and put between covers what main streamers have been pushing for months, some sticks.
Catnip for Beltway, as Fox hostess Dana Perino said.
It’s Drudge’s main headline for the nonce. (In fact, I just looked, and it’s been demoted.)
All will pass.
First of all, apart from the Vigano accusations, if Francis did not know about the deposed cardinal, why didn’t he?
He’s the chief executive of a major international organization; and one of its most prominent operatives, of international renown, has been demoted to private-citizen status, sent apparently to a monastery.
Busting a cardinal is a very big deal. Francis was apparently shocked and amazed when he found out about it. When was that?
The guy had presumably been vetted, was considered trustworthy and loyal to Francis. What went wrong?
Asked about it, he administers a stunning no-comment and recommends silence for all concerned in one of the most stunning I’m-above-all-that performances since what a prominent Middle Eastern governor pulled off some 20 centuries ago.
Is Francis trying to make Hollywood executives in the Weinstein case look like shouters-from-housetops by comparison?
Francis, won’t you please either come clean or disprove the nay-sayers, to put our hearts at ease? Please?
Question is: Are we to believe Woodward? At least no deathbed interview with this one. I don’t think there is.
Second question: In view of mainstream reporting since he got elected, what’s new about this, as reported?
Third question: Who cares, in view of our booming economy and at least some activity to solve the Iran, N. Korea and other problems, not to mention his huge success in judicial appointments etc. By their fruits you know them.
The success story whose origins very few dare to name.
American manufacturers are on a roll: Business conditions surged in August to a 14-year high, according to a a survey of industry executives.
The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index jumped to a 14-year high of 61.3% last month from 58.1% in July. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast the index to total 57.9%.
Readings over 50% indicate more companies are expanding instead of shrinking.
In 14 years! A biggie.
via MarketWatch
So shut up about it.
As for the beauty of silence, on the other hand, consider Cardinal Sarah’s The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, keeping mind that as one of Francis’ cabinet members — with liturgy as his portfolio — he has been rebuked publicly and privately by him on several occasions.
Why Francis puts up with him is explored and explained here.
. . . . the same who is subject of the hugely successful musical, for what that’s worth.
[A] constitutional framework that bids Congress shrink from ousting a president confronts a party that lusts for the chance. Which vindicates a warning from Alexander Hamilton.
Impeachment, Hamilton warned in the Federalist papers, is bound to “agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties.” It would “enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence and interest.”
Hamilton feared that the decision would be “regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.”
See how the founders talked?
It would be a first in our history, as we know. Worth it, you think?
