Jonah 3 tells how God changed his mind (!) about Nineveh, thanks to Jonah’s pleading. Luke 11.29-32 builds on this. It took a Jonah, but a greater God-mover was among Jesus’ listeners, he told them, meaning himself.
More on this Jonah-Jesus comparison: Jonah was (a) thrown overboard at his request (b) to save his shipmates in the dreadful storm, (c) sacrificing himself for others.
Jesus also sacrificed himself, as we know, but achieved more, ransoming us all from perdition, not just a city. He is the hero of any day’s re-enactment of that self-sacrifice, namely the mass — a truly cosmic event.
Republican leaders: Give this party a break. Encourage a Scott Walker candidacy.spur a Chris Christie draftgoose up the Tim Pawlenty driveencourage a drive for Ohios Gov. John Kasich, who when he was House Budget chief under a GOP congress forced Clinton to sign welfare reformand who when Kasich left the House had paved the way for a$190 billion budget surplus.
In short:
We must widen the purview. A twittering ex-governor who gave up her posta Baptist minister pursing up his lips like Cheetah as a coaxes cornball music out of a gee-tara jowly Mississippi governor with a mouthful of hominy grits that sounds like youre in a heap-a-trouble, boy! next to a Sidney Poitier-llke drawing room creation made possible by a compliant press. A forlorn governor with a returned runaway bride.
Witnesses question accounts of homicide case tied to Daley nephew, says Sun-Times.
The police reports also attribute statements to friends of [the deceased David] Koschman and to a bystander described by prosecutors as one of the two unbiased witnesses that they say they didnt make or that distort what they told detectives.
Koschmans friends recently told the police theyd be willing to take lie-detector tests.
Instead, the Police Department closed the recently reopened case on March 1 without seeking criminal charges. The police concluded that the 6-foot-3, 230-pound Vanecko threw the punch that knocked the 5-foot-5, 140-pound Koschman to the street, where he struck his head, causing a brain injury that killed him 11 days later but that Vanecko acted in self-defense. They reached that conclusion without speaking to Vanecko, who they say ran away afterward and has refused to speak with detectives.
“The evidence [in a 500-page Indiana Dept of Labor
report, four months in the making] overwhelmingly demonstrated that the university made a decision to utilize its scissor lifts in known adverse weather conditions,” said Lori Torres, a state Department of Labor commissioner, describing the “knowing citation” issued against Notre Dame as “the most serious safety violation.”
Response:
In a statement, Notre Dame President John I. Jenkins reiterated his concession of last November that “we failed to keep [Declan Sullivan] safe, and for that we remain profoundly sorry.”
Chi Trib has this Dept. of Labor story in great detail, yesterday and today, where this:
INDIANAPOLIS Despite insisting the weather was uneventful even beautiful the day Declan Sullivan toppled to his death last fall while filming football practice, members of the University of Notre Dame athletic department worried about the safety of another student videographer and initially kept her from going up in a lift because of stiff winds, newly released records show.
Point is, people get hired on what basis and with what vetting, and they hire people on what basis etc. Top-down, we have Fr. Jenkins being hired and hiring, etc. All of it contributes. You fudge this issue, you fudge that one, and next thing you know, the enterprise begins to lose lustre.
Rev. Michael Pfleger in talks with archdiocese to take over struggling Leo High School, a few blocks from the St. Sabina rectory, says Jay Levine of CBS-2, as carried by Sun-Times.
To which Pfleger: neither confirm nor deny:
I’m in discussions with the Archdiocese but you know those are private conversations at this point and I cant comment at this point about those conversations.
Some creative thinking here?
Later: He’s going to fight this, says a Blithe Spirit source.
Yet later: He’s mobilizing the troops:
In response to the news broadcasts about St. Sabina, The Cabinet is holding a Parish Town Hall Meeting in the Church Sanctuary on Thursday, March 17th at 7pm. This meeting is for St. Sabina Members only.
Christ is made the sure foundation, . . . the entrance hymn for the Popes [recent] visit to Westminster Abbey: with its magnificent tune by Henry Purcell and equally majestic words by John Mason Neale (from a seventh-century Latin hymn) . . . it was such stuff as ceremonial dreams are made on.
Which begins:
Christ is made the sure foundation,
Christ the head and cornerstone,
chosen of the Lord, and precious,
binding all the Church in one;
holy Zions help for ever,
and her confidence alone.
All that dedicated city,
dearly loved of God on high,
in exultant jubilation
pours perpetual melody;
God the One in Three adoring
in glad hymns eternally.
Not for everyone, but there’s always Ray Repp, the guitar man, heh.
