When factory towns worry about China as much as Trump does.
via America’s Factory Towns, Once Solidly Blue, Are Now a GOP Haven – WSJ
The old Peronista Francis mobilized vs. U.S. Protestants who like Trump and prosperity . . .
. . . through his alter egos, the sock-’em-bustem Jesuit Spadaro and his Protestant partner in same from Argentina. His slash-and-burn friends who take no prisoners going after the demon prosperity, i.e. capitalism.
[Jesuit-run] ‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ rails against prosperity Gospel and its support for Trump [is] not shy about making the link between the prosperity gospel and the crisis of globalization — political, social and economic.
And how are things in Argentina, Your Holiness? Barter economy picking up, right? Here are the ladies at the barter market, for instance:
As inflation soars, Facebook drives trading in Argentina’s barter clubs
Most are women, some accompanied by children. Cardboard signs with their names scrawled in black marker hang from strings around their necks. They walk slowly around the old concrete platform yelling out the names of people they had agreed to trade with in a forum on Facebook (FB.O).
They are the face of a resurgent but little-reported phenomenon in the suburbs surrounding the Argentine capital – barter clubs.
The clubs have tens of thousands of members and are attracting hundreds more every week. They have become an unofficial economic indicator, showing the toll that soaring inflation and high unemployment are exacting on South America’s second-biggest economy.
Field hospital, anyone? What, no prosperity? I’ll be darned.
The Day the Mass Changed – How American liturgical experts stormed Vatican II . . .
. . . while bishops slept, or rather found themselves putty in experts’ hands, knowing next to nothing about liturgy.
The ultimate in alarmist scare tactics . . .
What does it mean to trash the Latin mass?
How can there be such hostility toward the old ways of saying Mass? What’s the source of it?
Banned completely in the ’70s, restored by John Paul II and Benedict XIV, now clearly a bugaboo for the Francis wing of Catholic prelates amd curia biggies and assiduously ignored by many other influentials.
“I am of the opinion, to be sure, that the old rite [Latin mass etc.] should be granted much more generously to all those who desire it.
It’s impossible to see what could be dangerous or unacceptable about that.
A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent.
Can such a community be trusted any more about anything else?”
That was Joseph Ratzinger (to be Benedict XVI) in Salt of the Earth: The Church at the End of the Millennium- An Interview With Peter Seewald, 1997.
via Fr. Z’s Blog
Damage Control on Air Force One
Big guy admitted mistakes, asked for help, got it.
Ship hasn’t sunk yet, oh you foul jackals of the other side.
via WSJ
Janus not the end of public unions, I wrote to the Sun-Times
In response to (scrolling down):
State Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, in her July 13 letter [who] writes as if Janus were the end of public unionism, which it isn’t.
Rather, it’s reducing unions’ income from non-members, who are as free as they ever were to join. Her letter should be a plea to the not-yet-organized to persuade them as to the benefits she describes, black women included.
I’m surprised the senator seems not to realize this.
Jim Bowman, Andersonville
Short, sweet, to the immediate point, I trust, which is that Janus is not quite a right-to-work decision, rather a right-not-to-be-held-up.
In Sun-Times Letters to the Editor, 7-17-18 hard copy
Candidate Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Occupation of Airports, ICE Offices
See what happens when the president enforces the law?
Has this candidate for Congress ever considered what Congress might try to solve this problem, besides calling for provocative resistance?
The Priest’s “Art of Celebrating”
Getting right down to it: About this “Good morning, ” said by the priest at the start of mass:
At times even with the most solemn of celebrations of the Eucharist, once the priest celebrant arrives at the chair, he first addresses the assembly with a friendly “Good morning!”
Sometimes, he follows this with an introductory phrase to the Sign of the Cross,
“Let us begin our prayer, ‘In the name of the Father….’”
Most priests and most people may wonder why there is any question about the use of these two phrases.
The more important question, however, is what does the celebration of Mass expect at this point that renders both phrases out of order?
By Father Dennis Gill, Director of the Office for Divine Worship in Philadelphia and Rector of the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul.
First of a series at Adoremus Bulletin.
