When rights are wrong
Category: Blithe Spirit
Lebron cuts quite a figure of speech
Lebron thinks he’s at war. He isn’t.
Springpad: Listen up
This is one hot, that is, cool, app — http://springpadit.com/home/ :
Springpad gives you a place to quickly and easily save anything you want to remember. Take a note, create a task, scan a product barcode and look up the book your friend mentioned. The best part is that no matter where you are, Springpad is there with you to make sure you don’t forget something worth remembering.
Big tip of hat to Refdesk, specifically its Site of the Day, where many good things pop up regularly.
That said, I must admit that consigning a great thought to such a saving bin is often to forget about it, in my experience. But how about notes for something you are working on? Instant retrieval here, which following instant saving — by e-mail, for instance — makes for a great aid to putting something together.
Advice for preachers . . .
. . . and anyone else with something to say, from the sage of 19th-century New England.
Prayers for Fr. Corapi
More on Father Corapi, from Wm. Oddie at Catholic Herald:
We should pray for all those clergy falsely accused of sexual abuse: There are almost certainly far more of them than most of us realise.
The accused
Oak Park teachers face ax, voters face tax increase
On the one hand, we must feel their pain.
More staff at Oak Park Elementary District 97 received bad news this week when they found themselves on a list of cuts if the April tax referendum fails.
On the other, this is standard procedure/announcement prior to a school referendum. Can’t tell you how anxious I became to hear many years ago that the Beye principal would lose her job if the referendum did not pass.
Did Fr. Corapi do bad things?
Father John Corapi, of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, very big in conservative (orthodox, traditional) Catholic circles, accused by an adult woman, has this to say for himself (and arguably for others accused):
On Ash Wednesday I learned that a former employee sent a three-page letter to several bishops accusing me of everything from drug addiction to multiple sexual exploits with her and several other adult women. There seems to no longer be the need for a complaint to be deemed credible in order for Church authorities to pull the trigger on the Churchs procedure, which was in recent years crafted to respond to cases of the sexual abuse of minors. I am not accused of that, but it seems, once again, that they now dont have to deem the complaint to be credible or not, and it is being applied broadly to respond to all complaints. I have been placed on “administrative leave” as the result of this.
Ill certainly cooperate with the process, but personally believe that it is seriously flawed, and is tantamount to treating the priest as guilty just in case, then through the process determining if he is innocent. The resultant damage to the accused is immediate, irreparable, and serious, especially for someone like myself, since I am so well known. I am not alone in this assessment, as multiple canon lawyers and civil and criminal attorneys have stated publicly that the procedure does grave damage to the accused from the outset, regardless of rhetoric denying this, and has little regard for any form of meaningful due process.
All of the allegations in the complaint are false, and I ask you to pray for all concerned.
His day in bishops’ court is coming, it seems.
Relatively speaking, libs are children
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I’ve had it with Tom Roeser. One time too many have I been skimming my email alerts from hither and (also) yon, and he slows me down, and this when I am on my way to another sparkling chapter in my book yet to be announced.
This time, in discussion at Chicago Daily Observer of getting bogged down in land war in Asia and elsewhere:
. . . [U]nderstand that the emotional Leftrootless of principle, relativist to the core has been the trigger in all war involvements starting with WWIs make the world safe for democracycontinuing up to WWII and propagandist William Allen Whites Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies White the small town Kansas editor (bankrolled by Wall Street interventionists) notice how these programs extolled by White rolled off the tongue?Lend LeaseCash and Carry then the savageness of Pearl Harbor, caused by FDRs tightening the embargo noose that made an attack on us a possibility (although journalist White was winding down then) then in 1950 the crusade by the Luce press,spare heroic, doughty little South Korea from invasion by the awful Red North in the late `50s from of all papers The New York Times urging Ike to do what the French failed at by defending South Vietnam from the hideous NorthAll these wars were originally validated by the idealistic Left; then suddenly the Left swung back to non-involvementnot so much with Korea but certainly with South Vietnam.
Relativist to the core, yes. Rootless, impulsive, prey to the latest to hit them in headline, cutline, opening news shot. Not the only ones that way, but they do have a corner on that noxious commodity.
Wis. judge more than a union mother — she’s a Dem donor’s wife
Egad, what’s next? The anti-governor Wis. judge’s son is a union-activity organizer, now her husband comes out a campaign donor to three of the AWOL Dems and to Gov. Walker’s opponent in the Repub tsunami election of ’10! This lady is a study in interest conflict. Textbook material.
These sisters would like their money back
Is there a prince of darkness lurking somewhere in this dispute, between the Daughters of St. Paul and the Boston archdiocese? I refer to the J.F. Powers book title and his work in general, which exposed the seamy side of Catholic churchdom while credibly extolling its gritty, glorious side.
The Daughters, who run a very good book store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, gave their money in 1989 to the Boston pension fund, now want it back. Have been trying for five years to get it back, to go it on their own towards taking care of their oldsters.
But the archdiocese never kept track of Daughters’ money, and its accounting system is very complicated. They have taken it (them, including Cardinal Archbishop O’Malley) to court about it. Regretfully.
Prince of Darkness and Other Stories was on John Updike’s list of best American short stories of the century. Powers’ novel, Morte d’Urban won the National Book Award in 1963. It’s a morality play featuring Father Urban, who got himself in a jam on a boat with a scheming woman who surprised him by appearing before him unclothed. He turned away, because it wasn’t what he had in mind; spurned, she pitched her spike-heeled shoe, hitting him on the head and giving him a lifelong headache.
In Prince a memorable vignette has the priest in the rectory near an open window hearing the click-click of high heels on the pavement and turning to look — which was not how they taught him in the seminary.
Powers deserves resurrection — he himself, of course, a splendid individual and anyhow saved by the blood of the lamb, but more immediately his books. He’s up there, in his way, with Flannery O’Connor. We don’t have writers like that these days. The congenitally angry (Bostonian, by the way) James Carroll does not qualify. Anyone out there know who does?
