Sisters for Justice . . .
. . . in the matter of them vs. Vatican:
Alma, Mich., Jun 14, 2012 / 02:15 am (CNA).- Physicians who are also Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma are criticizing the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and its defenders for using an impoverished language of politics instead of the language of faith in the dialogue with the Catholic hierarchy.
There is no basis for authentic dialogue between these two languages. The language of faith is rooted in Jesus Christ, His life and His mission, as well as the magisterial teaching of the Church, said the physician-sisters statement, which was issued after a June 2 meeting on the contributions of religious women in the healing ministry of the Catholic Church.
The language of politics arises from the social marketplace, they said. The Sisters who use political language in their responses to the magisterial Church reflect the poverty of their education and formation in the faith.
Can they say that? What would Carol Marin say?
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Meanwhile, from a knowledgeable source regarding this group of Mercies:
The three founding mothers are incredible ladies. They “re-founded” the Sisters of Mercy going back to their foundress’ spirit. Most of them are professional women: doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists and they have been a great help to the Church, even if they are a small group.
The sort of thing that restores faith . . .
Chicago, Chicago, my kind of second-rate city
Chicago was the cat’s meow in the ’90s. Millennium Park and all that. “The Milan of the Midwest,” said Wash Post. No more, says Aaron M. Renn in City Journal.
. . . [D]espite the chorus of praise, its becoming evident that the city took a serious turn for the worse during the first decade of the new century. The gleaming towers, swank restaurants, and smart shops remain, but Chicago is experiencing a steep decline quite different from that of many other large cities. It is a deeply troubled place, one increasingly falling behind its large urban brethren and presenting a host of challenges for new mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Two hundred thousand people left town. It was the only one of the 15 biggest U.S. cities to lose anyone in the 2010 census. Cook County also lost people, one of only two to do so of the nation’s 15 largest counties. The other one? Detroit’s Wayne County. The Loop lost 18.6% of its private sector jobs. The city’s “real per-capita GDP ranks eighth out of the countrys ten largest metros,” says Renn.
I don’t remember reading anything like this in Chi newspapers. Can you imagine reading this?
Its easy to see how fiascoes like the parking-meter lease happen where civic culture is rotten and new ideas cant get a hearing. Chicagos location already isolates it somewhat from outside views. Combine that with the culture of clout, and you get a city thats too often an echo chamber of boosterism lacking a candid assessment of the challenges it faces.
Echo chamber of boosterism, yes. It’s in the papers every day, defensive, wagon-circling, self-protective. Second-rate indeed.
Renn? He’s an urban analyst, consultant, and publisher of the urban policy website The Urbanophile. Frankly, if he were Joe the Bartender, it wouldn’t matter, the points are so telling.
This sales review at Oak Park’s The Book Table, is wrong in at least one major respect. First, the review:
Twilight of the Elites
America after Meritocracyby Christopher Hayes
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another–from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball–imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into…
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Vatican 2 approval not a requisite for full communion with Vatican
Thus spake the head man of St. Pius X Society, which has been on the outs with mainline Catholicism and apparently is on its way back in.
You need not show up on election day, you know. Your vote still counts — a lot.
At the Illinois Republican convention yesterday in Tinley Park, emphasis was on AB/EB, absentee ballot/early ballot as supremely important come election time. Wall St. Jnl has that today.
The Candidate: Scott Walker
The Play: Getting out the absentee vote
The Strategy: As Mr. Walker, Wisconsin’s Republican governor, tried to fend off an effort to recall him from office over his law limiting union power, Republicans rolled out a program to encourage less-than-reliable GOP voters to cast their ballots before Election Day using the state’s absentee-ballot option. The goal was to identify Wisconsin Republicans who were likely to support Mr. Walker but occasionally skipped elections. Mr. Walker prevailed, and RNC officials say they hope to use their absentee-voting efforts in Wisconsin as a model for …
Luckless in New Mexico
| You have this Christian quirk about gay marriage. Hey, you were practically born with it.You become a latter-day Bartleby the Scrivener(apologies to Herman Melville, wherever he is, and if there’s a heavenly niche for great writers, that’s probably his location).That is, you’d prefer not to be the photographer at a gay wedding.You do not intend to interfere with the gay ceremony.
You will not call out from the congregation your objection when the minister or judge asks, if he or she does, whether anyone has an objection to the procedure. You will not (let’s say, anyhow) write a letter to your local editor or, God forbid, blog the matter. You just, like Bartleby, prefer not, for your quirky Christian reasons, to be the photographer. What’s more, you reside and work in New Mexico. Wherefore: . |
Guest blogger Mike Fahy is a Chicago lawyer:
From 11AM until the Walker victory party on the isthmus, I worked the university campus wards in Madison doing vote-fraud lawyer work to prevent gov’t union thugs from stealing Scott Walker‘s job. A Madison judge had encouraged vote fraud by postponing implementation of photo I.D. cards for voting (a Walker reform) until the November election.
Strange election law in the People’s Republic of Madison: A voter cannot wear a small Walker campaign button, but it is legal to wear a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Barrett for Governor” and his big Blue Fist campaign emblem — the Marxist fist of international socialist tyranny.
Here is the fun part: Liberals in the People’s Republic of Madison actually began celebrating shortly before the polls closed at 8 PM. The Madison board of elections had announced the expected voter turnout in Madison would be…
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Sen. Barack at Bill and Bernardine’s picnic table
Coming up, FYI, is the 17th anniversary of the 4th of July barbecue in Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s backyard at which then U.S. Senator Obama appeared and socialized.
That should be worth a firecracker or two. We should have heard of this long ago, darn it. We could have been celebrating it.
Wed. Journal on Oak Park fire:
There is probable cause to indicate that arson may have been the cause of a fire early Sunday that destroyed a gay nightclub in a building on the northeast corner of Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue, according to a statement from the village.
Please. Is probable cause to think arson was the cause. Or simply is cause to think it may have been. That double clutch is annoying — probable and may have been. It shows the writer is or wants us to be doubly uncertain. Not necessary. News accounts are full of such doubling up.
