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<h2>Monday, 30 November</h2>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2015/11/tell-us-please-pope-francis-who-are.html">Tell us please, Pope Francis; who are these terrible fundamentalist Catholics?</a></span>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ncronline.org/sites/default/files/styles/article_slideshow/public/stories/images/20151130T0921-668-CNS-POPE-PLANE%20%28700x516%29.jpg?itok=Hm3vittp" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="http://ncronline.org/sites/default/files/styles/article_slideshow/public/stories/images/20151130T0921-668-CNS-POPE-PLANE%20%28700x516%29.jpg?itok=Hm3vittp" width="400" /></a></div><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n his way back from Africa today, the Francis, Bishop of Rome gave another ad libitum interview on the plane to assembled journalists, he spoke for about an hour. These are dangerous moments for this Pope. It is generally when he says some of the least intelligent and charitable things emanating from his Jesuitical and Peronist mind.</span><br /><br /><span>We remember how "who am I too judge" has been so distorted by the sodomite movement and that Catholics should not "breed like rabbits." </span><br /><span><br /></span><span>Today the Pope said:</span><span> </span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="EN-CA">"Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions. We Catholics have some -- and not some, many -- who believe in the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. </span>They do evil, I say this because it is my church. We have to combat it. Religious fundamentalism is not religious, because it lacks God. It is idolatry, like the idolatry of money."</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><span>What exactly is "religious fundamentalism" when it comes to Catholics?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>Is it a Catholic who goes to Mass every Sunday and the Sacrament of Confession monthly or at least minimally of yearly? How about one who prays the rosary or wears a scapular? Is it a Catholic who believes what the Church teaches even when those teachings might be difficult? What about a Catholic who believes that doctrine cannot be changed? Is he referring to anyone specifically or any group of Catholics? Is it Catholics who blog? What about Catholics who attend the traditional liturgy or home school? Is it Catholics who believe the fundamental teaching of Holy Scripture and Our Lord to nurse the wounds of the poor?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>Who exactly are these terrible, miserable fundamentalist Catholics? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>They must be those "self-absorbed, promethean, neo-pelagians" he wrote about it in that waste of paper called Evangelii Gaudium -- his apostolic exhortation of incoherent babble mixed with Lutheranesque claptrap.<br /><br />These fundamentalist Catholics must be put out of the Church immediately. W</span><span>e must show them no mercy; and if this is not enough, it seems that he may think <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/12/another-papal-interview-another-massive.html">condoms are just fine in Africa</a>, or does he? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>Quick, close the unholy door before a poor, sinful, fundamentalist Catholic might enter.</span></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://ethikapolitika.org/2015/11/30/americas-embarrassing-perplexing-situation/">America’s Most Embarrassing and Perplexing Situation</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="https://ethikapolitika.org">Ethika Politika</a>]</span>
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<p><img alt="Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn), Bangkok, Thailand" class="attachment-rssimage wp-post-image" height="100" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ethikapolitika/wp-content/uploads/chalk-100x100.jpg" width="100" /></p>Bangkok, where I have lived as an expat American for more than a year, is notorious for a lot of things, and high on that list is its ubiquitous “ladyboy” community. Ladyboys are men who dress up as women—sometimes quite persuasively—and haunt the city's buzzing nightlife. Many of them are involved in the city's lucrative sex trade. Sometimes on my commute I must consciously avoid ladyboys, as many of them are particularly aggressive towards potential customers. It can often be quite difficult to discern these individuals' true sex, so much so that less virtuous tourists have at times found themselves in unwanted situations of a most embarrassing and perplexing sort.
Meanwhile back in the U.S. this summer, the Supreme Court's <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Obergefell v. Hodges</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> decision declared that liberty "includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity." Yet with this ruling — as with ladyboys in Bangkok — identity, and particularly female identity, seems to be increasingly unintelligible.</span>
<b>Jenner and Clinton</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Athlete-turned-reality-star Bruce Jenner morphed into Caitlyn Jenner and subsequently received awards from ESPN and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Glamour</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> magazine for "courage." Jenner, in that iconic </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vanity Fair</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> cover, traded short hair for long, a suit for a dress, and a man's name for a typically female one. Of course his transformation involved more than hairdo, clothes, and a name—he's also presumably receiving hormone injections and a realignment of his sexual organs. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Although Jenner has been lauded for the bravery and assertiveness to declare to the world what he “really is”—supposedly a woman—so much of his personal redefinition is only a fairly conventional expression of femininity, an expression at odds with our culture’s intolerance for anything smelling of stereotyping, and certainly stereotyping of women. The establishment culture in its glowing praise of Jenner appears to have overlooked the fact that his transition validates specific images of femininity viewed by many women as sexist, misogynist, or archaic.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Simultaneously, Hillary Clinton, assessed to be America's likely first female president, evinced a quite different image of femininity. Hillary, unlike Jenner whose </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vanity Fair</span></i> <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/06/caitlyn-jenner-photos-interview-buzz-bissinger"><span style="font-weight: 400;">interview</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">projected a timid and gentle soul, has short hair, typically wears suits, and </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2015/04/23/would-we-like-hilary-more-if-she-were-a-man/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">is</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a fiercely ambitious and aggressive politician and stateswoman. We might ask her to shed light on what exactly it means to be a woman. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">At her </span><a href="http://www.hillaryhq.com/2015/05/women-in-world-summit-2015-keynote.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">keynote address</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at the 2015 Women in the World Summit, she praised women as being capable of being students, professionals, or reaching the highest echelons of political leadership. Women and girls can enjoy “full participation...in every aspect of their societies.” They just "need that extra bit of encouragement...need to be surrounded by people who believe in them, that lift them up and help them find their paths as well." Furthermore, "when women are strong, families are strong" and “when women get ahead, everyone gets ahead.” All true, though all these qualities can equally be described of men. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Is there anything for Clinton, such as one's chromosomes, that designates women as different from men? It wouldn't appear so: "We move forward when gay and transgender women are embraced as our colleagues and our friends, not fired from good jobs because of who they love or who they are." Is she talking about men who become women, women who become men, or both?</span>
<b>Confusing Resemblances</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Our nation's highest educational institutions might alternatively offer guidance on femininity—the topic has certainly been the focus of many reports and surveys cataloging a national crisis of sexual assaults against women on our nation's campuses. Such a debacle would presumably bring clear thinking to determining why one sex is experiencing such disproportionate suffering.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet as University of Virginia professors Vigen Guroian and William Wilson recently </span><a href="http://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/05/sex-and-danger-at-uva"><span style="font-weight: 400;">observed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, university cultures steeped in language of equality, empowerment, and sexual license seem unable to "acknowledge the special vulnerability of women to men while disallowing distinct codes of conduct for men and women." Universities seem insistent on a "unisex ideal" that either obscures or rejects male-female differences.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Our culture's definition of what it means to be a woman bears an increasingly confusing resemblance to what it means to be a man. Just ask Miley Cyrus and Chelsea Handler, leading figures in the trending "free the nip" movement. To be a woman, they say, means freedom to treat the female form as essentially equivalent to that of a man. Henry Higgins in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">My Fair Lady</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> asks "Why can't a woman, be more like a man?" Miley and Chelsea retort: "She can!"</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Indeed, many seem eager to eliminate any conception of sexual difference. Definitions of authentic femininity based on irreversible biological realities or an appeal to an objective truth derived from philosophy or religion are branded sexist, archaic, or just "mean." Yet the alternative is to declare that authentic femininity bears no essential difference from authentic masculinity.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Planned Parenthood's return to the public spotlight this summer in a bizarre irony showed pro-choice voices giving implicit affirmation to the idea that authentic femininity does indeed have something to do with the inherent ability to conceive children, as they demanded male legislators keep their hands off women's bodies. But in a world with more Caitlyn Jenners and Chelsea Mannings, transgenderism seems to confuse the calculus of pro-choice rhetoric. Would, for example, a male politician who undergoes a sex change have more legitimacy in proposing legislation on women's reproductive issues? </span>
<b>Aretha Franklin’s Question</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">For our culture to determine a coherent definition of womanhood, we will need better answers than those our celebrities, politicians, or secular universities can give us. Their answer, it seems, is an outworking of Nietzsche's appeal to the will as the ultimate determinant of our being. Whatever I want to be, that I am. However I want to define what it means to be a woman, that it becomes, all in the name of self-actualization and self-discovery. This is, in essence, the realization of the ladyboy ethos applied through every strata of society.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet while we take a wrecking ball—a la Miley Cyrus—to established sexual norms and concepts, I am curious what conception of womanhood will take its place. The challenge for the supporters of the Caitlyns, the Mileys, and the Chelseas is to provide some definition of the female species that is any way categorically exclusive from the male. So I ask, to quote Aretha Franklin, what exactly is "a natural woman"?</span>
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Casey J. Chalk is a writer living in Bangkok, Thailand, and a student in the Notre Dame Graduate School of Theology at Christendom College. He is also an editor and contributor to the ecumenical website </span></i><a href="http://www.calledtocommunion.com"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Called to Communion</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><p>The post <a href="https://ethikapolitika.org/2015/11/30/americas-embarrassing-perplexing-situation/" rel="nofollow">America’s Most Embarrassing and Perplexing Situation</a> appeared first on <a href="https://ethikapolitika.org" rel="nofollow">Ethika Politika</a>.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://taylormarshall.com/2015/11/top-10-manly-christmas-gifts-for-men-2015-edition.html">Top 10 Manly Christmas Gifts for Men (2015 Edition)</a></span>
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<p>It’s time for the 2015 Manly Christmas Gift Guide!</p>
<p>For the sixth year in a row, I am featuring the <strong>Top Ten Manly Christmas Gifts for Men</strong> – stuff that men want <em>but</em> don’t ask for.</p>
<p><a href="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Manly-Christmas-Gifts.jpg"><img alt="Manly Christmas Gifts" class="aligncenter wp-image-4271 size-full" height="400" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Manly-Christmas-Gifts.jpg" width="366" /></a></p>
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<p>Every year you’ve come to expect it, and every year I get ready for angry liberals complaining about my advocacy for pocket knives, guns, scotch, pipes, and leather.</p>
<div style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 8px 0 20px; padding: 15px 20px;">After doing this list for six years, I now get stopped by wives who say, “Thanks for your annual Men’s Christmas Gift Guide. My husband loved the thermos and knife that you recommended.” Recently, a Catholic dad related to me, “My wife followed your Christmas manly gift guide. Thanks for recommending the scotch decanter. I love it.” Last year we even caused Amazon to sell out of pocket Bibles.</div>
<p>Like last year I have an improved list with more information on knives and how a lady can choose the right knife for the men in her life.</p>
<p>Men, it’s not bad taste to forward this post to your wife’s email account.</p>
<p>When your man gets back to work after Christmas and someone asks, “So what did you get for Christmas?” let him say something more than “Oh you know, a couple of new shirts and a tie.”</p>
<h2>Top Ten Manly Christmas Gifts for Men (drumroll…)</h2>
<p>Below is a guide for <strong>Manly Christmas Gifts</strong>: your husband, brother, or grandpa. Seriously, you can’t wrong with the following ten gifts. They’re all winners. So here we go:</p>
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<p>10) Cigarette Case for Business Cards</p>
<p>Almost every man carries his business cards in his wallet where they get rounded corners, warped, and stained. Those last 2 or 3 business cards in your wallet have been sat on <em>thousands</em> of times. Nobody wants that. So instead…</p>
<p>Place your business cards nicely in a cigarette case!</p>
<p><a href="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Screen-Shot-2014-11-28-at-11.45.17-AM.png"><img alt="Screen Shot 2014-11-28 at 11.45.17 AM" class="alignnone wp-image-5688 size-medium" height="300" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Screen-Shot-2014-11-28-at-11.45.17-AM-206x300.png" width="206" /></a></p>
<p>Nothing says “cool” like a cigarette case – but few men smoke cigarettes…so why not get one anyway and fill it with business cards?</p>
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<li>First of all, your cards will remain fresh, crisp and unabused.</li>
<li>Secondly, you’ll look totally legit when you pull out an old school Victorian cigarette case and give someone your business card.</li>
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<p>This gift idea is something that men will love and will later reflect, “Why didn’t I think of this earlier?”</p>
<p>Get him the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Classic-Metallic-Cigarette-Diamond/dp/B008JH97NC/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=WEPCGBMQ6CF5AYSW&creativeASIN=B008JH97NC">Victorian Etched Cigarette Case by clicking here</a>.</p>
<h2><b>9) Timeless Thermos for the Outdoors</b></h2>
<p>This “Manly Christmas Gift” also has a backstory:</p>
<p>I was fly-fishing in Montana in October. It was fun, but it was cold. I was catching monster trout, but my body temp was diving.</p>
<p>Our fishing guide pulled out three timeless thermoses from his bag. They could have been 100 years old. They were beautiful. He offered us coffee or, get this, hot chicken broth to drink from these old beautiful thermoses. I don’t drink coffee, so I reached for the chicken broth. Wow. It warmed me from the inside out.</p>
<p>I admired the fly fishing guide’s amazing collection of thermoses. “They just don’t make them like that anymore.”</p>
<p><a href="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Stanley-Thermos.jpg"><img alt="Stanley Thermos" class="aligncenter" height="450" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Stanley-Thermos.jpg" width="331" /></a></p>
<p>Well now they do. Check out this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FZX93K/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B000FZX93K&adid=1QBRTSA6YMDEQEWSX0YA" target="_blank">beautiful thermos from Stanley for only 24.99</a>.</p>
<h2><b>8) Shoe Shine Valet and Kit</b></h2>
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<p>Call me prejudicial but I judge a man by his shoes. When I interview an employee or intern, the first things I look at are his hair and his shoes. A great looking suit can be ruined by scuffed shoes. A man must learn to care for his leather.</p>
<p>The Marshall Rule of Thumb is: “Don’t buy a $100 pair of church shoes every year for 5 years ($500 over 5 years), but buy a nice $350 pair of shoes every 5 years ($350 over 5 years). The only way that works is if you shine your expensive shoes. If you don’t shine shoes, don’t waste money on solid shoes.</p>
<p>Step 1 is having the right valet. I have one that looks like this:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ANVF91Q?creativeASIN=B00ANVF91Q&linkCode=w01&linkId=6MDMVYIF323OK7SD&ref_=as_sl_pc_ss_til&tag=canttalebytay-20" target="_blank"><img alt="shoe shine kit" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6528" height="400" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/shoe-shine-kit.jpg" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Your heel hooks on the lid and you (or ideally your 13 year old son) spit shines your shoes right there on the box. The box holds all your polish so that it stays clean. I don’t know how I shined shoes before having a box like this: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ANVF91Q?creativeASIN=B00ANVF91Q&linkCode=w01&linkId=6MDMVYIF323OK7SD&ref_=as_sl_pc_ss_til&tag=canttalebytay-20" target="_blank">Kiwi Shine Kit WITH VALET BOX for $39</a>.</p>
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<h2><b>7) Money Clip that also holds Credit Cards</b></h2>
<p>Lots of men have started thanking me for recommending this money clip. I should have bought stock in this company.</p>
<p>I really, really, really love this money clip. I finally gave up the big fat back-breaking leather wallet and now carry this minimal lightweight money clip. It holds my drivers license, my concealed carry gun license, and my business and personal cards. I don’t know how I lived without this clip before.</p>
<p><a href="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-06-at-8.56.23-AM.png"><img alt="Screen Shot 2014-12-06 at 8.56.23 AM" class="aligncenter wp-image-5729 size-full" height="379" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-06-at-8.56.23-AM.png" width="265" /></a></p>
<p>This money clip is the perfect stocking stuffer for teens and men:</p>
<p>Here it is on amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Money-Storus-Double-Sided/dp/B001RMO3NK/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=RJU6AQXUT4NNUFSV&creativeASIN=B001RMO3NK" target="_blank">Money clip that holds credit cards.</a></p>
<h2>6) A Good Novel (WARNING: shameless personal plug below)</h2>
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<p>This #1 Amazon Bestselling historical (Catholic) fiction novel:</p>
<p><img alt="Pageflex Persona [document: PRS0000037_00042]" class="size-medium wp-image-5689 aligncenter" height="300" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bookcover_99designsedit_2_noseal-Kindle-cropped-193x300.jpg" width="193" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Serpent-Taylor-Marshall-ebook/dp/B00Q09BFH2/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=QYEKYA6QDGY56MWZ&creativeASIN=B00Q09BFH2"><em>Sword and Serpent</em></a> has a lot of women fans, but it’s an uber-manly about historical Roman figures: Constantine, Saint George, Saint Nicholas, Diocletian, et al.</p>
<p>This Kindle version includes a map and other cool stuff. If he likes war, Rome, history, battles, legend, etc. then he’ll love <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Serpent-Taylor-Marshall-ebook/dp/B00Q09BFH2/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=QYEKYA6QDGY56MWZ&creativeASIN=B00Q09BFH2">Sword and Serpent</a>. </em></p>
<p><div style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 8px 0 20px; padding: 15px 20px;">SAMPLE REVIEW: <span class="a-size-base review-text">Excellent book ! I read this with my 13 year old son and it provided inspiration for him and great father-son bonding time for both of us ! (He usually HATES reading but says this was the best book he has read). It evokes a variety of emotions. Poignant, thought-provoking, humorous, inspirational, and exciting all in one ! It is a historical FICTION though. The author places the various characters (though true people in the same time period) in contact with each other though there may be no historical evidence of association. But it works for a great story. An added plus is a glossary at the end for those readers with limited knowledge of vocabulary referring to the Roman military or architecture or other Latin terms used in the book.</span></div></p>
<p>This historical fictional novel is 100% clean but it does have some blood and death it. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Not recommended for audiences under the age of 12.</span></p>
<p>Read a sample or read over 260 5 star reviews about Sword and Serpent by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sword-Serpent-Taylor-Marshall-ebook/dp/B00Q09BFH2/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=QYEKYA6QDGY56MWZ&creativeASIN=B00Q09BFH2" target="_blank">clicking here.</a></p>
<h2><b>5) A Nice Leatherbound Pocket Bible</b></h2>
<p>This is another great gift that makes the list year after year. About 30 years ago, people starting making lame <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>paperback</em></span> Bibles. If it’s the inspired, inerrant Word of God, at least wrap it in real leather and gild the page edges…</p>
<p>Here is the one you need to get him. It’s Douay Rheims (Catholic, yet old school language), but it’s only Psalms and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/095456314X?tag=canttalebytay-20&camp=213761&creative=393545&linkCode=bpl&creativeASIN=095456314X&adid=10BTGSRKNT3NY30RBJX4&&ref-refURL=" target="_blank">New Testament published by Baronius</a>. It fits perfectly into the side pocket of a suit or blazer. I carry it in my sports coat, and it holds up to use. It’s absolutely beautiful and has a ribbon to mark your place.</p>
<p><a href="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Baronius-NT.jpg"><img alt="Baronius NT" class="aligncenter wp-image-4281 size-medium" height="300" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Baronius-NT-189x300.jpg" width="189" /></a></p>
<p>Did I mention that it’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/095456314X?tag=canttalebytay-20&camp=213761&creative=393545&linkCode=bpl&creativeASIN=095456314X&adid=10BTGSRKNT3NY30RBJX4&&ref-refURL=" target="_blank">only 27.9</a>5?</p>
<div style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 8px 0 20px; padding: 15px 20px;">UPDATE: If you want the entire not just the Psalms and New Testament, get his: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Douay-Rheims-Bible-Standard-size-Black/dp/0954563115/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=Q5MZ2QWHR5SQKO3I&creativeASIN=0954563115" target="_blank">Full Douay Rheims Leather Bible.</a></div>
<p>Oh, and <i>please</i> buy him the <b>black</b> leather version. If you buy him a white Bible, you might as well throw in ballet lessons and a brassiere.</p>
<p>Baronius also makes an impressive <a href="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=canttalebytay-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=0954563115" target="_blank">real leather Family Bible</a>. This is the exact Bible that the Marshall family reads from for Advent and family devotionals at night. I’ve done a lot of research and this is the one that every Catholic home should have. Baronius makes wonderful Bibles.</p>
<h2>4) A Hip Flask</h2>
<p>Here’s the situation: Life in the American South calls for attending Baptist weddings. Baptist wedding receptions are dry. Yes, I know, if Our Lord Jesus Christ were there, he would turn the water into wine, but that policy is not observed at teatotalling wedding receptions…so…he needs this:</p>
<p>An 8 oz hip flask. It’s stainless and the perfect size.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Y3J9ETC?creativeASIN=B00Y3J9ETC&linkCode=w01&linkId=MEWVOSLR7H424RLF&ref_=as_sl_pc_ss_til&tag=canttalebytay-20"><img alt="Screen Shot 2014-12-06 at 10.53.42 AM" class="aligncenter wp-image-5731 size-medium" height="300" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-06-at-10.53.42-AM-205x300.png" width="205" /></a></p>
<p>Let’s do the math, a normal serving of scotch is 1.5 oz. So 8 oz / 1.5 oz = 5.33 servings. With this hip flask, you can save the day for your man and four of his friends. How cool is that. Scotch sold separately.</p>
<p>Get this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Y3J9ETC?creativeASIN=B00Y3J9ETC&linkCode=w01&linkId=MEWVOSLR7H424RLF&ref_=as_sl_pc_ss_til&tag=canttalebytay-20" target="_blank">perfectly sized hip flask on amazon.com.</a></p>
<p>PS: Don’t forget to also get the hip flask funnel or he may get irritated trying to fill the tiny mouth of the flask <em>and spill some! </em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Maxam%C2%AE-Large-Stainless-Steel-Funnel/dp/B004CC3BMG/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=UHEIRGUI2YGUUWQF&creativeASIN=B004CC3BMG" target="_blank">Here’s the funnel – sold separately.</a></p>
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<h2>3) The Gift of Catholic Theology and Leadership: NSTI</h2>
<p>Western culture is literally <em>rotting</em> <em>away</em> because authentic male leadership has evaporated. Christianity in many places is transforming into a sentimental and weak form of Churchianity – performing Church without a vital and virtuous connection to Jesus Christ. We need men to take the lead at the parish and in the home , but a man can only take lead IF HE KNOWS THE CATHOLIC FAITH WITH HEART <span style="text-decoration: underline;">AND HIS HEAD.</span></p>
<p>For over 2 years, we at the <a href="http://newsaintthomas.com/live" target="_blank">New Saint Thomas Institute</a> have been delivering high quality, HD video Catholic theology courses online to over 2,000 students in 50 nations. It’s real orthodox theology based on Scripture and the Church Fathers. Logic, not emotion, is stressed. And our classes are usually only 10 minutes long – designed for the busy person on the go. Classes can be watched on computer, tablet, or listened to on iPhone/Android or via bluetooth.</p>
<p>If you’re a reader of mine, but not yet a Member of the <a href="http://newsaintthomas.com/live" target="_blank">New Saint Thomas Institute</a>, please sign up. NSTI is where I now do the core of my theological teaching and leadership. Here’s a sample from our Apologetics training module:</p>
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<p>Sign up as student at the New Saint Thomas Institute by <a href="http://newsaintthomas.com/life" target="_blank">clicking here.</a></p>
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<h2>Your Top 2 Manly Christmas Gifts</h2>
<p>Like last year, the top Manly Christmas Gifts are <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Knives</span>. The knife is <em>the</em> most popular manly Christmas gift – year after year. I tried to think of something that would knock it out of first place. I couldn’t do it.</p>
<p>A man without pocket knife…woe is he. You can use a pocket knife to cut string, pull out splinters, slice apples on a picnic, etc. Growing up, my dad always carried a knife in his pocket. And if a thug jumps you, you’ve got something rather than nothing.</p>
<p>You can slip a knife into his Christmas stocking and he’ll be thrilled when he discovers it. It will be the first time in a long time that he had a toy to play with on Christmas morning. If you have a son who’s coming of age, you should slip a Swiss Army knife into his stocking. If you get your husband a knife for Christmas, he can use it all morning to open up Christmas gifts, toys, cards, and packages. He’ll be happy to use his new gift all morning.</p>
<p><strong>I’m recommending two knives this year depending on your need:</strong><br />
2) An Every Day Carry Knife for the pocket of his jeans and khakis<br />
1) Swiss Army Knife (especially for your 8-18 year old young man)</p>
<p>See details below:</p>
<h2>2) The Everyday Carry Knife: Ken Onion Tactical</h2>
<p>This is the knife that a man carries in his pocket every single day. With this knife he opens mail, cuts string, cuts tags off clothing, removes splinters, and all the other odd jobs suited for a knife.</p>
<p>My one criteria for an “every day carry” or “EDC” is that it have a pocket clip that keeps it from falling out of your trousers at the baseball game. The other important thing about an every day carry knife is that it be lightweight. You don’t want to carry a heavy lump in your jeans pocket. The pocket clip also keeps the knife high in your pocket so it’s comfortable whenever you sit down or drive.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009VCA1M/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B0009VCA1M&adid=103KDY1RXP9BAKZHQFXV&&ref-refURL=" target="_blank"><img alt="kershaw knife" class="aligncenter wp-image-6529 size-full" height="90" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/kershaw-knife-e1448922113437.jpg" width="400" /></a></p>
<p>This is the one in my pocket! I recommend the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009VCA1M/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=canttalebytay-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B0009VCA1M&adid=103KDY1RXP9BAKZHQFXV&&ref-refURL=" target="_blank">Kershaw’s Ken Onion Tactical</a> as your every day carry.</p>
<h2>1) Swiss Army for Younger Men and Boys</h2>
<p>If your man is a gadget guy then he’s probably a fan of the multi-tool or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009KF4GG?tag=canttalebytay-20&camp=213761&creative=393545&linkCode=bpl&creativeASIN=B0009KF4GG&adid=1P76KV348ZNYVQ6RPBCY&&ref-refURL=" target="_blank">Swiss Army</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/swiss-army-knife.jpg"><img alt="swiss-army-knife" class="alignnone wp-image-4279 size-full" height="367" src="http://1ywpi925eu8i25ne6noy0131.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/swiss-army-knife-e1417897604190.jpg" width="550" /></a></p>
<p>These are the knives that have many, many other tools attached: bottle opener, saw, tweezers, toothpick, pliers, etc. The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009KF4GG?tag=canttalebytay-20&camp=213761&creative=393545&linkCode=bpl&creativeASIN=B0009KF4GG&adid=1P76KV348ZNYVQ6RPBCY&&ref-refURL=" target="_blank">Swiss Army knife</a> if perfect for a boy’s first knife (age seven). If he’s reached the age of reason, he should have a knife.</p>
<p>PS: If you want your man and/or boy to get out into the outdoors and use their knifes, then check out our new Catholic bushcraft apostolate for priests, fathers and sons: <a href="http://troopsofsaintgeorge.org" target="_blank">The Troops of Saint George!</a> He’ll learn how to use a knife, start a fire without matches, and prayers in Latin. It’s legit, strenuous, and fun. Start a Troop in your town or parish. We have a <a href="http://troopsofsaintgeorge.org" target="_blank">TSG starter kit waiting for you.</a></p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/the-perils-of-popularity-critiquing-bishop-barron/">The Perils of Popularity: Critiquing Bishop Barron</a></span>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_9136" style="width: 712px;"><img alt="barronmedia" class="wp-image-9136 size-large" height="336" src="http://www.onepeterfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/barronmedia-1024x490.png" width="702" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Bishop Robert Barron – Image Courtesy of <a href="http://www.wordonfire.org/press-kit/" target="_blank">Word on Fire Ministries</a></p></div>
<p><strong>There is an oft-cited quote</strong> — attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt — which asserts the following maxim:</p>
<p>Great minds discuss <em>idea</em>s; Average minds discuss <em>events</em>;  Small minds discuss <em>people</em>.</p>
<p>I suppose the quote is popular because it gives off a certain aura of common sense. After all, one can see some truth reflected in the hierarchy of minds as laid out by Mrs. Roosevelt. There’s a big difference between theoretical physicists, philosophers, theologians, and the like, and the salacious rumor-mongers at the tabloids. As for the rest of us, we tend to aspire to the lofty goal of being idea-makers, trip and fall more often than we’d like into gossip, and spend most of our time existing somewhere in between.</p>
<p>A deeper look, however, reveals the superficiality of the observation.</p>
<p>Ideas exist as a product of human thought and endeavor. Events come about because of the application of ideas in the world. People produce ideas, and applied ideas give rise to events. Whether given ideas or events are good, bad, or evil, it behooves us to understand what we can about the thinkers who are behind them. We want to know whose ideas we should support and promote, and whose ideas should be condemned. <em>Mein Kampf, </em>for example, didn’t write itself, and neither did the <em>Summa Theologica</em>. We associate the ideas these texts contain — and the events that have been shaped by them — with those who created them. And because of this, we have no problem speaking disparagingly (and almost interchangeably) of Hitler and Nazism, or with admiration and praise for Aquinas and Thomism.</p>
<p>It is easy to apply value judgments of this kind to those who have lived in the past and have already made a clear mark on history. More difficult is the application of critical analysis to our contemporaries, inasmuch as we lack the certitude of hindsight. This is a particular challenge when it comes to those who have attained a certain level of celebrity. Cults of personality have always existed, but the rise of big media (and now social media alongside it) have made it easier than ever for a person to become larger than life, and loved (and thus defended) beyond reasonable measure. Often enough, those individuals who rise quickly to prominence do so primarily on the strength of their charisma. They are likeable, camera friendly, and seem “down to earth.” The kind of guy (or gal) you’d “like to get a beer with.”</p>
<p>When it comes to such figures in the Catholic world, few are more noteworthy than Bishop Robert Barron. His apostolate — <em>Word on Fire Ministries</em> — reaches millions through the artful use of multimedia and a <a href="http://www.wordonfire.org/" target="_blank">state-of-the-art website</a> that follows the latest trends in design, typography, and mobile responsiveness. Everything about Bishop Barron from his downloadable biography and neatly-packaged <a href="http://www.wordonfire.org/press-kit/" target="_blank">press kit</a> to pages of products and easily-embedded videos is parceled into conveniently-sized portions and ready to be re-used by providers who seek to feed a content-hungry online audience.</p>
<p>Of course, the best marketing and communications plan in the world won’t do anything for an off-putting persona. Barron is affable and easy going, his congeniality so effortless that it’s almost completely disarming. He riffs on everything from theological topics to current events to movie reviews in his prolific series of YouTube videos. And his numbers are telling: <em>Word on Fire</em> has nearly 200,000 Facebook fans and 30,000 Twitter followers; Bishop Barron’s own Facebook page has another 600,000 fans, his Twitter account has 80,000 followers, and his YouTube channel has 74,000 subscribers. These are numbers that would make many of the best online content producers green with envy. Much of the credit no doubt goes to the clearly talented <a href="http://brandonvogt.com/" target="_blank">Brandon Vogt</a>, who acts as the Content Director for <em>Word on Fire</em> when he’s not busy producing and promoting his own series of Catholic books, videos, and educational courses.</p>
<p>As an example of the kind of professional mastery an effective Catholic apostolate should strive for in the 21st century, <em>Word on Fire</em> — along with those responsible for its high production values — are deserving of admiration and respect. In that regard, Bishop Barron is doing <em>exactly what he should be</em> to build a successful online media business and an army of fans and advocates.</p>
<p>Which is why it’s so incredibly important that the <em>content </em>be as good as the <em>packaging</em>. For obvious reasons, the absence of legitimate, corrective criticism can be a very dangerous thing indeed to anyone in Bishop Barron’s position, as well as to the souls they serve. But with so many adoring fans, critiquing anything Barron says invites trouble.</p>
<p>And this is truly a pity. Because Barron, while hitting many of the right notes and no doubt doing the best he knows how to inform people about Catholicism, nevertheless embraces some very bad ideas. When the incisive Maureen Mullarkey <a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/the-incredible-shrinking-bishop-barron/" target="_blank">sharply identified the fatal flaws</a> in his response to the ISIS attacks in Paris, her larger thesis was quickly lost in the defensive ring that spontaneously formed around the bishop. <span style="line-height: 1.5;">What was never substantively addressed in all the clucking was the thrust of her piece – that </span><strong style="line-height: 1.5;"><em>nonviolence is an untenable response to radical, genocide-seeking Islam – unless the goal is to be submitted to dhimmitude. </em></strong></p>
<p>She made her case adroitly, but few listened. (She <a href="http://Gandhi, trained as a lawyer in London, was intimate with the basic decency of British culture. His insistence on civil disobedience disarmed Britain only because the British were a people steeped in a Christian ethos, in a sense of fair play, and belief in human rights and the rule of law. As King knew, these animated the American soul as well. They do not apply to resurgent Islam. Genocide was never the end game of either the British or the segregationist forces in the United States. Genocide—mitigated only by conversion or the slavery of dhimmitude— is an objective of Islam. Barron misleads his audience with bankrupt, Vatican-stroking noises about nonviolence. The limited applications of non-violence were obvious when, in 1938, Gandhi advised Europe’s Jews to practice nonviolent resistance against Nazi persecution. In some mystical way, this would supposedly result in Germany’s moral reformation. Nearly eighty years later, Bishop Barron offers the same futile rationale—in the name of Christ crucified—to Catholics. Inversion of circumstances between Islam and the West is as bizarre as it is reckless. Non-violence is the resort of the weak against the strong. By inviting Catholics to adopt “a non-violent stance” against jihad, Barron insinuates assent to inferiority. It is a failure of will dressed in Christian idiom. Call it submission. In practical terms, what does it mean to respond with love to genocidal intention? How is non-violence applicable to a contest of civilizations in which one side is committed to the annihilation of the other? Wherein lies the moral force of non-violence against a bloodlust cultivated for fourteen hundred years? Gandhi’s notorious advice to Jews was tantamount to telling them to march quietly to the ovens. Whether satyagraha serves freedom or a final solution depends on the variables of situation. Bishop Barron’s inability to discern critical distinctions makes his ministry dangerous. He remains a cheery, good-natured promoter. Sadly, what he promotes is dhimmitude." target="_blank">added more on her own website</a> a few days later, though I doubt it was better received.) Meanwhile, Vogt — who stopped into our comment boxes to protest the original article without mentioning his role as the media point-man for Barron — took to his 10,000-fan Facebook page to lambast my editorial decision to keep the piece unaltered despite his objections. There, the number of <em>ad hominem</em> attacks on Mullarkey — the majority of which were predictably attempted puns on her surname — piled up high and deep, while some comments critical of Vogt’s handling of the issue went missing.</p>
<p>Through it all, the impression one was left with was that those who objected to the article think that <em>Mullarkey’s ideas are bad because she is mean, and Barron’s ideas are good because he is nice and we like him.  </em></p>
<p>It shouldn’t need to be said, but this is a <em>terrible</em> mechanism for discernment.</p>
<p>At the blog <em>Unam Sanctam Catholicam</em>, <a href="http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2015/11/bishop-barron-and-evolution-of-christs.html" target="_blank">another analysis of Barron</a> was mounted in the wake of the dust-up, this one moving beyond the question of the proper Christian response to Islam and into Barron’s Christology itself – with particular focus on the influence of the writings and theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar on his thinking. An excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>For years we have attempted to demonstrate that Hans Urs Von Balthasar is not an orthodox theologian, not only due to his controversial theory of a potentially empty hell, but just in terms of his basic Christology. Catholics need to understand that it is not just one theory that makes Balthasar questionable, but a whole slew of bizarre novelties. We recommend reviewing our previous articles “<a href="http://www.unamsanctamcatholicam.com/theology/81-theology/170-balthasar-denies-beatific-vision.html">Balthasar’s Denial of the Beatific Vision in Christ</a>” and “<a href="http://www.unamsanctamcatholicam.com/theology/81-theology/558-balthasar-faith-of-christ.html">Balthasar and the ‘Faith’ of Christ</a>” on the Unam Sanctam Catholicam website,  which both deal with Balthsar’s unorthodox Christology, as well as “<a href="http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2012/02/heresies-of-balthasar.html">The Heresies of Balthasar</a>” on this blog, which reveals Balthasar’s absurd position that sin has its own ontological reality.</p>
<p>One staple of Balthasarian Christology is his teaching that Christ only gradually came to understand His messianic identity, and that this did not happen by any infused knowledge by virtue of the Incarnation (Balthasar strongly rejected the idea that Christ had any knowledge given directly from God about His mission). Instead, Christ had to “learn” that He was the Messiah, basically through regular human intuition. It kind of slowly dawned on his consciousness as He grew.</p>
<p>The Catholic Tradition is that Christ had infused knowledge of His own identity and mission.</p>
<p>[…]</p>
<p>But Bishop Barron chooses instead to promote the heretical novelty of Balthasar that Christ had to learn about His identity through a gradual enlightening of His consciousness. For example, in his <a href="http://www.lentreflections.com/lent-day-4-undoing-the-damage/">Lenten Meditations</a>, then-Father Barron offers this commentary on the Baptism of the Lord:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Jesus has just been baptized. <strong>He has just learned his deepest identity and mission</strong> and now he confronts—as we all must—the great temptations. What does God want him to do? Who does God want him to be? How is he to live his life?”</p></blockquote>
<p>Jesus has “just learned his deepest identity and mission” at His baptism, implying that He was in positive ignorance of his identity and mission before this moment?</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2015/11/bishop-barron-and-evolution-of-christs.html" target="_blank">The full essay</a> tackles these issues in greater depth, and deserves to be read. These are substantive theological criticisms, and should thus be addressed <em>substantively</em>. The ideas under review from Von Balthasar are the same that infuse Bishop Barron’s work. Mentioned only in passing in the longer version of the above-cited post is an issue that gives me equal — if not greater — cause for concern. Namely, Barron’s all-but-full-throated embrace of <em>universalism</em> – the idea that hell is empty and that we may hope that all men are saved. This is of no small importance in evaluating his larger body of work. It undoubtedly has an impact on the urgency with which he understands our evangelical mission. In point of fact, such a belief cannot help but undermine any desire to convert those of other faiths to Catholicism <em>at all, </em>since in the end, it doesn’t really matter, because <em>everyone</em> is saved. Here is Barron on this topic in his own words:</p>
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<p>In this video, which has nearly 160,000 views, you’ll note, among other troubling comments, that Barron insists that</p>
<blockquote><p>…hell is not so much a place — we use spacial metaphors for it — it’s a condition, a state of being. It’s having refused in freedom the divine love. And it results in this terrible loneliness. We have to accept the <em>possibility </em>of hell, we have to accept the existence of it as a possibility because of human freedom — BUT — are any human beings in hell? We don’t know. We don’t know. The Church has never declared on that subject. And — <em>and</em> — we may pray that all be saved, and may even reasonably hope that all be saved. So, it’s a kind of universalism if you want…</p></blockquote>
<p>This is simply not the Catholic view. The Council of Florence taught that “the souls of those who depart in mortal sin, or only in original sin, go down immediately into hell…”, which indicates a belief that hell is indeed a place, as do the many Gospel passages cited in this <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm" target="_blank">article on hell</a> in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Hell is a place, in fact, which any reasonable interpretation of the fallen nature of mankind would make us hard-pressed to believe could be empty. As St. Anthony Mary Claret <a href="http://www.stpeterslist.com/2128/souls-falling-into-hell-like-snowflakes-10-saintly-quotes-on-hell/" target="_blank">observed</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A multitude of souls fall into the depths of Hell, and it is of the faith that all who die in mortal sin are condemned for ever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned! For, as their lives have been, so also will be their end.</p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://www.fatima.org/essentials/message/tspart1.asp" target="_blank">vision of hell</a> given to the children at Fatima gives further witness to this:</p>
<blockquote><p>She [Our Lady of Fatima] opened Her hands once more, as She had done during the two previous months. The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls [of the damned]in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. (It must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me). The demons could be distinguished [from the souls of the damned]by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals.<sup>1</sup> This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, Who had already prepared us by promising, in the first apparition, to take us to Heaven. Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror.<sup>2</sup></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Our Lady then explained to the children, “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The above examples notwithstanding, my point here is not to launch an exhaustive critique of Bishop Barron’s work and thinking. It is instead to point out that there are things in his work and thinking (just as there are in mine) that are <em>deserving of critique</em>. He has a far larger platform and a much louder microphone than most. His influence invokes a higher standard of scrutiny. We should not be afraid to examine these things carefully simply because he is a popular and congenial figure.</p>
<p>For those who have benefited from work of Catholic media personalities like Barron and thus feel compelled to rise instantly to their defense at any perceived slight, I would urge you to consider carefully whether your response is rooted in truth and justice, or in simple affinity. Do the critiques have merit? Do you know your faith well enough to recognize a subtle but important deviation?</p>
<p>I have no doubt that Bishop Barron, Vogt, and others who have demonstrated great alacrity with contemporary communications paradigms could do great and lasting work for the good of the Church if they adhere to the central points of her doctrines. This is why it is so critical that they apply as much diligence to the message as they do the medium.</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Pope_Francis_speaks_with_journalists_on_the_papal_plane_on_the_return_flight_to_Rome_August_18_2014_Credit_Alan_Holdren_CNA_4_CNA_8_18_14.jpg" /><p>Vatican City, Nov 30, 2015 / 02:17 pm (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- In a Q&A with journalists on his way from Africa back to Rome, Pope Francis answered questions posed by journalists from across the world. He touched on inter-religious relations, the role of the media, and his favorite memories from Africa.
Please read below for the full English transcription of the Q&A:
<strong>Fr. Lombardi: </strong>Holy Father, welcome to this encounter, which by now is a tradition we all wait for. We are grateful that after such an intense trip you still want to find the time for us. We understand well how available you are to help us.
Before beginning with the questions, I would like, in the name of some colleagues, thank the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), who organized the live feed from the Central African Republic. The feed was televised throughout the world from Central Africa, and was possible thanks to the EBU. So I thank them on behalf of everyone.
Now, as usual, we thought to begin with our guests from countries where we went. We have four Kenyans, and two questions from them now.
<strong>Bernard Namuname, Kenya Daily Nation: </strong>Your Holiness, I greet you. While in Kenya you met with poor families from Kangemi, you listened to their stories of exclusion from basic human rights, such as a lack of access to clean water. The same day you went to the Kasarani stadium where you met the youth, and they also told you their stories of exclusion because of selfish human greed and corruption. What were you feeling as you listened to their stories? And what should be done to end the injustices? Thank you.
<strong>Pope Francis: </strong>On this problem, I have spoke strongly at least three times. The first time was at the meeting of the popular movements in the Vatican, the second at the meeting of the popular movements in Santa Cruz della Sierra (Bolivia). Then two other times: in the (document) Evangelii Gaudium and then very strongly in the encyclical Laudato Si’. I don’t remember the statistics, so I ask you not to publish them, because I don’t know if they are true or not, but I believe that 80 percent of the world’s riches are in the hands of 17 percent of the population. I don’t know if it’s true, but if it isn’t true... (He asks if someone knows the statistics to say so, in order to be precise.)
There’s an economic system where money is at the center, the god of money. I remember that once a great French ambassador told me this expression – and he was not Catholic – “Nous sommes tombés de l'idolâtrie de l'argent” (speaks in French, “We have fallen into the idolatry of money”). If things continue like this, then the world will continue like this.
You asked me what I felt hearing the testimonies of the youth and at Kangemi. I spoke clearly about rights. I felt pain. I thought, how is it that people do not notice? I felt great pain. Yesterday, for example, I went to a pediatric hospital, the only one in Bangui and maybe in the country, and in the intensive care unit they do not have instruments of oxygen. There were many malnourished children there, many of them, and doctor told me that the majority of them will die soon because they have a very bad malaria and are seriously malnourished.
I don’t want to give a homily, but the Lord always rebuked the people of Israel...that we accept and adore, because the word is god, idolatry. Idolatry is when a man or woman loses their identity card for being a child of God, and prefers to look for a god according to their own measure. That’s the beginning. If mankind does not change we will continue to have more miseries, tragedies, wars, children who die of hunger, of injustice. What does one think of those who have 80 percent of the world’s wealth in their hands? And this is not communism. This is the truth. But the truth is not easy to see. Thank you for this question.
<strong>Michael Mumo Makau, 98.4 Capital FM Radio (Kenya): </strong>What is your most memorable moment of this your first trip to Africa? Are you coming back to the continent anytime soon? And where is your immediate next trip to?
<strong>Pope Francis: </strong>Let’s start with the last question. If things go well, I believe the next trip will be in Mexico. The details are not yet defined. Second: Will I return to Africa? I don’t know. I am old and the trips are difficult.
And the first question, what was it? The moment I remember? The crowds. That joy. That capacity celebrate on an empty stomach. But for me, Africa was a surprise. I thought, God surprises us, but even Africa surprises us. There were many moments. But the crowds, They felt visited. They have a very great sense of welcome. I saw in the three nations that they had this sense of welcome because they were happy to feel visited. Moreover, each nation has its own identity. Kenya is a little more modern, developed. Uganda has the identity of martyrs. The Ugandan people, both Catholic and Anglicans, venerate the martyrs. I was at both shrines. The Anglican one, and then the Catholic. The memory of the martyrs is their ‘identity card,’ the courage to give their lives for a cause. The Central African Republic: the desire for peace, for reconciliation, for pardon. Until four years ago they had lived together – Catholics, Protestants, Muslims – like brothers! Yesterday, I went to the Evangelicals, who work hard. And then they came to Mass in the evening. Today I went to the mosque. I prayed in the mosque. Even the Imam got into the popemobile to take a ride around the small stadium. These are small gestures, is that which they want. Because, there is a small group. I think that is Christian, or they say they are Christian, which is is very violent. I don’t really understand this. But, it’s not ISIS, it’s another thing. It’s Christian. (The people) want peace. Now, they are having elections. They have chosen a state of transition. They have chosen that woman, who was mayor to be President of the Transition, and she now organizes the elections. But, they are seeking peace, reconciliation, not hate. Not hate.
<strong>Phil Pulella, Reuters:</strong> In Uganda you spoke off the cuff and you said corruption exists everywhere, and also in the Vatican. My question is this: what is the importance of the press, the free, secular press in rooting out corruption wherever it is found?
<strong>Pope Francis: </strong>The free press, secular and also religious, but professional; because the press, secular or religious, must be professional. It’s important that they are truly professional, that the news isn’t manipulated. For me it’s important, because the denunciation of corruption, of injustice, is good work, because there is corruption. And then the one in charge must do something, make a judgment, a tribunal. The professional press must tell everything, without falling into the three most common sins: misinformation, to tell one half but not the other; calumny, which is not professional – when there is no professionality, you dirty the other person, with or without truth; and defamation, to take away the good name of the person who right now hasn’t done anything wrong to anyone, maybe it’s something from the past. These are the three defects that are an attack against the professionality of the press. We need professionality, what’s right: things are like this and this. And on corruption? To see the data well and say it: this, this and this. If there is corruption, they should say it. And if a journalist, if they are truly professional, gets it wrong, he should excuse himself. Things go very well like this.
<strong>Philippine De Saint-Pierre, KTO (France): </strong>Holiness, good afternoon, you paid homage to the platform created by the archbishop, the imam and the pastor of Bangui. Today more than ever, we know that fundamentalism threatens the entire planet. We also saw this in Paris. Before this danger, do you think that religious leaders should intervene more in the political field? (Pope Francis asks for clarification) ...the religious “dignitaries,” bishops and imams?
<strong>Pope Francis:</strong> “To intervene in the political field.” If that means to make politics, no. Whoever is a priest, pastor, imam, rabbi, this is his vocation, but they make a “live politics” by preaching values. True values. And one of the greatest values is the fraternity among us. We are all children of God. We have the same father. In this sense, we have to make politics of unity, reconciliation. A word that I don’t like, but I have to use it is “tolerance.” But, not only tolerance, co-existence, friendship. That’s how it is. Fundamentalism is a sickness that exists in all religions. We Catholics have some, not just some, so many, who believe they have the absolute truth and they move forward with calumnies, with defamation and they hurt (people), they hurt. And, I say this because it’s my Church, also us, all of us. It must be combatted. Religious fundamentalism isn’t religious. Why? Because God is lacking. It’s idolatrous, as money is idolatrous. Making politics in the sense of convincing these people who have this tendency is a politics that we religious leaders must make, but fundamentalism that ends up always in tragedy or in crime, in a bad thing comes about in all religions a little bit.
<strong>Cristiana Caricato, TV2000 (Italy): </strong>Holy Father, while we were in Bangui this morning, in Rome there was a new audience of the trial of Msgr. Vallejo Balda, Chaouqui, (Maio) and two journalists. I’d like to ask you, and this is a question that many people have also asked us: why these two appointments? How was it possible that in the process of reform that you began, two people like this were able to enter into a commission like the COSEA? Do you think you made an error?
<strong>Pope Francis:</strong> I think an error was made. Msgr Vallejo Balda entered for the role he had and he had it up until now. He was secretary of the Prefecture of Economic Affairs. (That’s how) he entered. How she entered, I am not sure, but I think I’m right – but I think, and I am not sure, I think that it was he who introduced her as a woman who knew the world of commerce and such, no? They worked. When the work was done, the members of that commission that was called COSEA remained in some of their posts in the Vatican. Vallejo Balda was one. But, the woman, Chaouqui did not remain in the Vatican because she entered with the commission and she didn’t remain. Some say she was upset about this, but the judges will tell us the truth about the intentions, how they did it. For me, it was not a surprise. I didn’t lose any sleep because it showed the work that had begun with the commission of cardinals, the C9, of seeking out corruption and things that don’t work. And here, I want to say something, not about Vallejo Balda and Chaouqui, but everything. And then I’ll come back to this if you want.
The word “corruption,” one of the two Kenyans mentioned it. 13 days before John Paul II died, in that Via Crucis the then-Cardinal Ratzinger who was leading the Via Crucis spoke of the filth in the Church. He denounced it first. Then, in the Easter Octave after this Good Friday, Pope John Paul II died and he became pope. But, in the pro-eligendo pontefice Mass, he was Dean – or he was Camerlengo, no Dean – he spoke about the same thing, and we elected him for that freedom in saying things. So since then, it’s been in the air that in the Vatican, there is corruption. There is corruption there.
On this trial: I gave the judges the concrete charges, because what is important to the defense is the formulation of the accusations. I didn’t read the actual, technical charges, no? I would have liked to finish it before Dec 8 for the Year of Mercy, but I don’t think they’ll be able to do it, because I would like all of the lawyers who are defending to have the (necessary) amount of time to defend, that they have the freedom of defense. All of them. As they’re chosen, then (inaudible). But corruption has been around for a long time.
<strong>Caricato: </strong>What do you plan to do? How do you plan to proceed so these things don’t happen again?
I just thank God that Lucrezia Borgia isn’t around. (laughs) But, I don’t know, continue with the cardinals, with the commissions to clean.
<strong>Nestor Ponguta Puerto, Radio Colombia: </strong>Holiness, first of all thanks for all you have done for peace in our country, in Colombia and all you’ve done in the world. On this occasion, I’d like to ask you a timely question: There’s a specific theme that has to do with that “change of political chess” in Latin America that has brought even in your country Mr. Macri after more than 12 years of Kirchnerism, now things are changing a bit, what do you think of these new changes of how a new direction is taking over on the Latin American continent from which you come?
<strong>Pope Francis:</strong> I have heard some opinions, but honestly on this geopolitical question in this moment, I really don’t know what to say, I don’t know because there are problems in many countries on this line. But, really I don’t why or where it started. I truly don’t know. That there are many Latin American countries in this situation of a few changes in their routes is true, but I don’t know how to explain it.
<strong>Juergen Baetz, DPA (Germany): </strong>Your Holiness, HIV is ravaging Africa. Medication means more people now live longer, but the epidemic continues. In Uganda alone there were 135,000 new infections of HIV, in Kenya it’s worse. It’s the greatest cause of death in Africa. Your Holiness, you have met with HIV positive children, you heard a moving testimony in Uganda. Yet you have said very little on the issue. We know that prevention is key. We know that condoms are not the only method of solving the epidemic, but it’s an important part of the answer. Is it not time for the Church to change it’s position on the matter? To allow the use of condoms to prevent more infections?
<strong>Pope Francis: </strong>The question seems too small to me, it also seems like a partial question. Yes, it’s one of the methods. The moral of the Church on this point is found here faced with a perplexity: the fifth or sixth commandment? Defend life, or that sexual relations are open to life? But this isn’t the problem. The problem is bigger...this question makes me think of one they once asked Jesus: “Tell me, teacher, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? Is it obligatory to heal?” This question, “is doing this lawful,” … but malnutrition, the development of the person, slave labor, the lack of drinking water, these are the problems. Let’s not talk about if one can use this type of patch or that for a small wound, the serious wound is social injustice, environmental injustice, injustice that...I don’t like to go down to reflections on such case studies when people die due to a lack of water, hunger, environment...when all are cured, when there aren’t these illnesses, tragedies, that man makes, whether for social injustice or to earn more money, I think of the trafficking of arms, when these problems are no longer there, I think we can ask the question “is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” Because, if the trafficking of arms continues, wars are the biggest cause of mortality...I would say not to think about whether it’s lawful or not to heal on the Sabbath, I would say to humanity: “make justice,” and when all are cured, when there is no more injustice, we can talk about the Sabbath.
<strong>Marco Ansaldo, Repubblica:</strong> Holiness, I’d like to ask you a question like this because in the last week there were two big events on which the media were focused: one was your trip to Africa, for which all of us are obviously happy that it has concluded with a big success from every point of view, the other was a crisis on an international level between Russia and Turkey, with Turkey that shot down a Russian airplane for crossing into a Turkish airspace for 17 seconds with accusations, not pardons from one side and the other which blew up into a crisis… which frankly we didn’t need during this Third World War that you speak about fought “piecemeal” in our world. So, my question is, what is the position of the Vatican in this? And I’d like to go beyond (and ask) if you have thought about going for the 101st anniversary of the events in Armenia that will take place next year, just as you did last year in Turkey.
<strong>Pope Francis:</strong> Last year, I promised the three patriarchs that I would go. The promise is there. I don’t know if it can happen, but the promise is there.
Then, the wars. Wars happen for ambitions. Wars, I speak of wars not for defending oneself against an unjust aggressor but wars are an industry. In history, we’ve seen so many times that in a nation, the balance sheets aren’t going well, “Ah, let’s fight a war” and the offset is over. War is a business, a business of weapons. Terrorists, do they make weapons? Yeah, maybe just little ones. Who gives them to them to make war? There an entire network of interests where there is money or power behind, either imperial or joint power. But we have been at war for years and more all the time. The pieces are fewer and bigger. What do I think? I don’t know what the Vatican thinks, but what do I think? (laughs) That wars are a sin. They are against humanity. They destroy humanity. They are a cause of exploitation, of human trafficking, of so many things. They must be stopped. At the United Nations, twice I said this word, both in Kenya and in New York, that your work not be a “declarationist” nominalism, that it be effective, that they make peace. They do so many things. Here in Africa, I saw how the “Blue helmets” work. But this isn’t sufficient. Wars don’t come from God. God is a God of peace. God made the world. God made everything beautiful and then, according to the Biblical account, one brother kills another. It’s the first war, the first world war, between brothers. That’s what comes to me and it pains me greatly.
<strong>Francois Beaudonnet, France Television: </strong>Holy Father, even though I’m French, I’d like to ask you a question in Spanish. Today, in Paris the conference on climate change is going on. You have made a great effort to make everything turn out well. Do we expect too much from this conference? Are we sure that the COP21 will be the beginning of the solution?
<strong>Pope Francis: </strong>I am not sure. I am not sure. But, I can tell you: (it’s) now or never. But, from the first that was in Tokyo, no. They did few things. Every year, the problems are more serious. Speaking to a meeting of university students about what world we want to leave our children, one said, “But are you sure there will be children in this generation? We’ve reached the limit. We’re on the verge of suicide, to use a strong word. And, I’m sure that nearly the entirety of all of those in Paris for the COP21 have this awareness and want to do something. The other day, I read that in Greenland, the glaciers have lost thousands of tons. In the Pacific, there’s a nation buying land from another nation to move the country because within 20 years it won’t be there any more. I am confident, I’m confident that these people will do something because I’m sure that they have the good will to do it. And I hope it happens and I pray it happens.
<strong>Delia Gallagher, CNN: </strong>You’ve made many gestures of respect toward Muslims. I was wondering, what does Islam and the teaching of the prophet Mohammed have to say to the world today?
<strong>Pope Francis: </strong>They have virtues, many virtues and these virtues are constructive. I also have the experience of friendship – it’s a strong word, friendship – with a Muslim, a world leader, we can talk, and he had his beliefs and I had mine, he prayed and I prayed. (There are) many values, prayer for example, fasting, religious values. Also other virtues...We can’t cancel out a religious because there are some, or even many fundamentalist groups at a certain point in history. It’s true, wars between religions have always been there throughout history, always. We also need to ask for forgiveness, Catherine de’Medici was no saint, and that 30 years war, that night of St. Bartholomew, we must also ask for forgiveness from the fundamentalist extremists in the religious wars.
But they have virtues, one can dialogue with them. Today I was at a mosque, an Imam prayed with me, he wanted to go around the small stadium with me in the popemobile, where there were many who couldn’t enter, and in the popemobile there was the Pope and an Imam. It was possible to speak. As everywhere, there are people with religious values, there are people who don’t...how many wars, not only religious, wars we Christians have made. It wasn’t the Muslims who did the Sack of Rome. They have virtues.
<strong>Martha Calderon, Catholic News Agency:</strong> Holiness, we know you’re going to Mexico, we’d like to know a little bit more about that trip and also in that line are you going to visit nations that are experiencing problems? Do you think perhaps about visiting Colombia or possibly in the future other nations of Latin America like Peru for example that you once mentioned?
<strong>Pope Francis: </strong>Yeah, trips at my age aren’t healthy. One can survive them but they are leaving their mark. I’m going to Mexico. First, I’d like to visit Our Lady, because she’s the Mother of America, for this I’m going to Mexico City. If the Virgin of Guadalupe wasn’t there, I wouldn’t go to Mexico City for the criteria of the trip: to visit three or four cities that have never been visited by the Popes, but I will go to Mexico City for the Virgin.
Then, I’ll go to Chiapas, in the south, at the Guatemala border, then I’ll go to Morelia and almost certainly, on the way back to Rome, I’ll take perhaps a day, perhaps less in Ciudad Juarez. About the visit to other Latin American countries: In 2017, I have been invited to go to Aparecida, the other patroness of America of the Portuguese language, because there are two, no? From there I would be able to visit another country, as there I’ll celebrate Mass but I don’t know. There aren’t plans.
<strong>Mark Masai, National Media of Kenya:</strong> First of all, thanks for visiting Kenya and Africa. You’re welcome back to Kenya for a rest, not to work. Now this was your first visit and everyone was worried about security. What would you tell the world that thinks that Africa is only war-torn and full of destruction?
<strong>Pope Francis: </strong>Africa is a victim. Africa has always been exploited by other powers. From Africa, they came to America, sold as slaves. There are powers that only seek to take the great wealth of Africa, possibly the richest continent. But, they don’t think about helping to grow the nation, that they may work, that all may have work. Exploitation. Africa is a martyr, a martyr of exploitation. Those who say that from Africa come all calamities and all wars perhaps don’t understand well the damage they certain forms of development do to humanity. It’s for this that I love Africa, because Africa has been a victim of other powers.
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<div class="dropcap">For the feast of St Andrew, here is a picture of a wonderful reliquary containing some of the wood of both his cross and that of his brother, St Peter. Both sets of pieces are arranged in the shape of the crosses on which the two Apostles died, Andrew’s an X, and Peter’s like that of the Lord, but upside-down.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tCtg6MLyYR4/VlyuqOd2sXI/AAAAAAAAE6o/c-dtF-RkS1k/s1600/Crosses%2Bof%2BSs%2BPeter%2Band%2BAndrew.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tCtg6MLyYR4/VlyuqOd2sXI/AAAAAAAAE6o/c-dtF-RkS1k/s400/Crosses%2Bof%2BSs%2BPeter%2Band%2BAndrew.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />This photograph was taken by Dom Jakobus of Herzogenburg Abbey in Austria, a house of the Order of Canons Regular of St Augustine, and is reproduced here with his kind permission. Dom Jakobus also maintains <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CanonicorumRegularium/?fref=ts">a facebook page about the Order, (under their Latin title, “Ordo Canonicorum Regularium Sancti Augustini”)</a>, with lots of information about the various orders and houses of Augustinian Canons Regular, and many interesting pictures, both modern and historical, of the canons and their liturgies.</div><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~4/16J7fP2AXWA" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/2015/11/twin-cities-parishes-seek-to-ramp-up.html">Twin Cities parishes seek to ramp up security after recent crimes</a></span>
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<blockquote>Along with security issues some parishes regularly face, the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris have given them another reason to consider whether their security plans are comprehensive.<br /><br />While local experts identify risks and stress the need to be alert and take steps to increase security, they also say heightened awareness can enhance a parish’s ability to welcome and serve parishioners and guests.<br /><br />Serious incidents at churches are rare, but trending upward. In 2014, 74 violent deaths occurred at U.S. faith-based organizations, compared to 22 in 1999, according to Carl Chinn, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, who speaks to faith-based operators and law-enforcement groups about ministry security. Since 1999, he has compiled data about criminal incidents at religious institutions from major news outlets, law enforcement press releases and public court records.<br /><br /><b>In Minneapolis, two recent incidents at St. Olaf have led the downtown parish to evaluate its security.</b></blockquote><a href="http://thecatholicspirit.com/news/local-news/parishes-seek-to-ramp-up-security-after-recent-crimes/" target="_blank">continue at The Catholic Spirit</a>
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<p>Rorate Caeli: <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/11/for-record-vatican-cdw-head-corrects.html">For the record: Vatican CDW head corrects Pope Francis on Communion for non-Catholics</a> - <a href="http://aleteia.org/2015/11/30/cardinal-sarah-and-bishop-schneider-respond-to-pope-francis-comments-on-intercommunion/">Aleteia</a> (see also remarks by Bishop Athanasius Schneider)
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<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://initium-sapientiae.blogspot.com/">Diligite iustitiam</a>]</span>
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<p>Following up on our earlier post, which was devoted to an old hymn in honor of St. Andrew, we note that <em>Vultus Christi</em> <a href="http://vultuschristi.org/index.php/2015/11/11977/">has a wonderful piece about St. Andrew and the Cross</a>. We read,</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">In the Antiphon that will be sung in today’s Office, Saint Andrew <em>sings to the Cross</em>, something that, apart from a special grace of God, we are incapable of doing.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><em>O bona crux!</em> O precious cross, of a long time have I desired thee and now that thou art made ready for me, my soul is drawn to thee, and I come to thee in peace and gladness.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“I come to thee in peace and gladness.” More often than not we come to our crosses in fear and heaviness of heart. Far from singing to them we approach them murmuring, or in the sullen silence of our unspoken resistances and inability to trust. Saint Andrew was able to sing a greeting to his cross; he was able to come to it in peace and gladness, because he recognized that by means of it he would pass over to God.</p>
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<p>(Emphasis in original and quotation reformatted.)</p>
<p>It’s also late fall (or early winter or whatever you want to call it), in the United States at any rate, and it happens that travel and home are on everyone’s minds. Everyone is doing a lot of travel, going to and from various places for Thanksgiving, for Christmas, and for the rounds of Christmas parties with coworkers, with friends, and with family. And, of course, much of this travel involves <em>home</em>. Going home for Thanksgiving. Returning home after another dull party at the boss’s house. Splitting Christmas Eve and Christmas Day between in-laws homes, or, as is so often the (sad) case, between parents’ homes. But, more than that, home is on everyone’s mind, regardless of travel. We talk about going “home for the holidays,” whether it’s a happy prospect or not, and we talk about the importance of having “someplace to go” for Thanksgiving and Christmas, which seems to be home under another name. But we get the sense that home was very much on St. Andrew’s mind as he walked toward the Cross, too. But not quite the home of bright copper kettles, football, turkey, and Uncle Lewis’s latest political theories. Something better than that.</p>
<p>Consider some of the responsories from matins, which depict St. Andrew’s conversation with the Cross on his way to be martyred. For example, this one from the third reading:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>R.</strong></span><em>Doctor bonus et amicus Dei Andreas ducitur ad crucem, quam a longe aspiciens dixit: Salve, crux </em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>* </strong></span><em>Suscipe discipulum eius, qui pependit in te magister meus Christus. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>V.</strong></span><em>Salve, crux, quae in corpore Christi dedicata es, et ex membris eius tamquam margaritis ornata.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Suscipe discipulum eius, qui pependit in te magister meus Christus.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>G</strong></span><em>loria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Suscipe discipulum eius, qui pependit in te magister meus Christus.</em></p>
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<p>Or this one, from the fifth reading:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>R.</strong></span><em>O bona crux, quæ decorem et pulchritudinem de membris Domini suscepisti; accipe me ab hominibus, et redde me magistro meo: </em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>* </strong></span><em>Ut per te me recipiat, qui per te me redimit. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>V.</strong></span><em>Beatus Andreas expansis manibus ad cælum orabat, dicens: Salva me, bona crux:</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Ut per te me recipiat, qui per te me redimit</em>.</p>
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<p>Finally, this one from the eighth reading:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>R.</strong></span><em>Videns crucem Andreas exclamavit, dicens: O crux admirabilis, o crux desiderabilis, o crux, quæ per totum mundum rutilas: </em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>* </strong></span><em>Suscipe discipulum Christi, ac per te me recipiat, qui per te moriens me redimit. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>V.</strong></span><em>O bona crux, quæ decorum et pulchritudinem de membris Domini suscepisti.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Suscipe discipulum Christi, ac per te me recipiat, qui per te moriens me redimit. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>G</strong></span><em>loria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Suscipe discipulum Christi, ac per te me recipiat, qui per te moriens me redimit.</em></p>
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<p>Indeed, it does seem strange to praise the Cross as beautiful as one is marching toward it to be martyred. It does seem like exactly the sort of thing for which one would require special grace. But the logic of St. Andrew’s praise is plain to see. The Cross was beautiful to him not only because it was where Christ suffered and died to save men, though that was in no small part its glory, but also because it was for him <em>the way home</em>—not to his birthplace or his house, but to Christ and to heaven, to the true home of all souls. (As Paul reminds us repeatedly.)</p>
<p>At any rate, St. Andrew, who never had to be talked into following Christ or, indeed, even told that it would be to his benefit to follow Christ, understood this point. And understanding it, he praised the Cross even as he walked forward to be martyred on it. It is, we think, well worth taking the Church’s hint and meditating on St. Andrew and his praise of the Cross as we go forward. As we prepare for Christmas—to remember the first coming of Christ and to prefigure his coming in glory at the end of the world—we ought to think about the Cross, too. It is, after all, the way home for us, too.</p>
<p>It may seem a little out of place, of course, to spend time meditating on the Cross during the cheery, fire-lit season of Advent, so full of cozy sights and smells, to say nothing of all the Christmas cheer in the air, and maybe it is. However, the road to Calvary begins in earnest in Bethlehem, and the nativity scene doesn’t mean much without the very different scene on Calvary. But, as St. Andrew tells us today, both are equally glorious.</p>
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<p>Part OneO, my people,Can you hear the howling windAnd the bleating of the sheep?Can you see the darkened skyAnd the dimming of the moon?Can you hear the women weepAnd the little children cryWhen the...<br />
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It is, I hope we would all agree, extremely important that the Council, like all Ecumenical Councils, should be treated with respect and its wishes put into effect.
This is why I am disturbed that some Jews, and some Moslems, are allowed to go around without being distinctively dressed so that it can be seen who is Jewish, who is Moslem, who is Christian. I also have a
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<p>Während Redaktionen, Intellektuelle und solche, die es gern wären & Politiker darüber fachsimpeln, ob der Islam etwas mit dem Islam zu tun habe und wie man eine islamische Masseneinwanderung nach Europa am besten kaschiert - werden die Massaker an den Christen des Mittleren Ostens weiterhin ignoriert oder heruntergespielt. Auf die Idee, ihnen vielleicht praktische Hilfe zu leisten -oder wenigstens moralische Unterstützung - kommt man nicht (unter anderem sicherlich auch, weil man sich selbst nicht mehr als Christ fühlt). Und das könnte ja unsere gerade eingereisten Neubürger, die der Religion des Friedens folgen, beleidigen.<br />Aber so denken nicht überall alle.<br />Die Website <b>aleteia</b> berichtete über einen Mann, der verfolgten Christen im Mittleren Osten hilft, heute tauchte dieser Bericht bei twitter auf.<br />Hier geht´s zum Original: <b><a href="http://aleteia.org/2015/07/17/jewish-millionaire-publisher-rescues-christians-from-syria-to-pay-back-his-debt/">klicken</a></b><br /><br /><b>"JÜDISCHER VERLEGER UND MILLIONÄR RETTET CHRISTEN AUS SYRIEN UM SEINE "SCHULDEN ZU BEZAHLEN".</b><br />Lord Weidenfeld ist den Christen, die sein Leben retteten, dankbar.<br /><br />"Lord George Weidenfeld, in England lebender 95jähriger Verleger und Millionär, stattet eine Rettungsmission für 2000 Christliche Familien im Irak und in Syrien finanziell aus. Wie der Catholic Herald berichtet, sagt Weidenfeld er habe eine "Schuld zu begleichen",<br />Kurz vor Ausbruch des II. Weltkriegs hatten Quäker und Plymouth Brethren für die sichere Überfahrt von Wiener Juden - via Kindertransporte - nach England gesorgt, die so den Nazis entkommen konnten. Sie wurden mit Nahrung, Kleidung, Unterkunft und der Reisemöglichkeit versorgt - und Weidenfeld gehörte zu ihnen.<br />Gegenüber der Times sagte Weidenfeld: "Ich hatte eine Schuld zu bezahlen, die so viele junge Menschen betrifft, die in den Kindertransporten waren. Das war eine sehr hochherzige Operation und wir Juden sollten auch dankbar sein und etwas für die gefährdeten Christen tun."<br /><br />In der ersten Phase der Rettungsbemühung Weidenfelds - die den Namen "Operation sicherer Hafen" trägt, und vom Weidenfeld - sicherer-Hafen-Fond organisiert wird, wurden im vergangenen Juli 150 Personen in einem privat gecharterten Flugzeug von Syrien nach Polen geflogen - nachdem sowohl die polnische als auch die syrische Regierung dem zugestimmt hatten.<br />Weiter wird berichtet, daß der Fond für diese Menschen finanzielle Unterstützung für weitere 12 - 18 Monate leistet.<br />Andere Hilfsorganisationen und - auch die USA - weigern sich, mit Weidenfeld zusammen zu arbeiten weil sein Fond Muslime, die ja - wie die Jeziden, Drusen u.a. auch verfolgt würden - ausschließt.<br />Weidenfeld verteidigt seine Begrenzung: "Ich kann nicht die ganze Welt retten, aber es gibt eine ganz spezifische Möglichkeit auf Seiten der Christen. Lass die anderen für die Muslime tun, was sie wollen."<br /><br />Weidenfeld der 1919 in Österreich geboren wurde, völlig mittellos in England ankam und mit der Gründung des Verlages Weidenfeld & Nicolson ein Vermögen verdiente, wurde 1976 durch die Verleihung des Titels "Lord" in den britischen Adelsstand erhoben.<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Quelle: aleteia org., Zoe Romanowski</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/catholicnewsagency/dailynews-vatican/~3/SCNh8T3kSKY/">Pope Francis to journalist's condom question: the problem is much bigger</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Pope_Francis_speaks_to_journalists_on_the_papal_plane_on_his_way_to_Strasbourg_France_Nov_25_2014_Credit_Alan_Holdren_CNA_CNA_11_25_14.jpg" /><p>Vatican City, Nov 30, 2015 / 12:12 pm (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- On a Nov. 30 in-flight press conference returning from his trip to Africa, Pope Francis said that efforts to push the Church to allow condom use to prevent HIV are too narrow and do not see the whole picture.
A journalist asked the Pope about HIV in Africa, saying, “We know that prevention is key. We know that condoms are not the only method of solving the epidemic, but it’s an important part of the answer. Is it not time for the Church to change its position on the matter? To allow the use of condoms to prevent more infections?”
“The question seems too small to me, it also seems like a partial question,” the Pope replied.
He continued in his response: “Yes, it’s one of the methods. The moral of the Church on this point is found here faced with a perplexity: the fifth or sixth commandment? Defend life, or that sexual relations are open to life? But this isn’t the problem.”
“The problem is bigger,” the Pope said. “This question makes me think of one they once asked Jesus: ‘Tell me, teacher, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? Is it obligatory to heal?’ This question, ‘Is doing this lawful,’…but malnutrition, the development of the person, slave labor, the lack of drinking water, these are the problems.”
“Let’s not talk about if one can use this type of patch or that for a small wound, the serious wound is social injustice, environmental injustice,” Pope Francis continued. “I don’t like to go down to reflections on such case studies when people die due to a lack of water, hunger, environment...when all are cured, when there aren’t these illnesses, tragedies, that man makes, whether for social injustice or to earn more money – I think of the trafficking of arms – when these problems are no longer there, I think we can ask the question ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’”
He concluded, “Because, if the trafficking of arms continues, wars are the biggest cause of mortality...I would say not to think about whether it’s lawful or not to heal on the Sabbath, I would say to humanity: “make justice,” and when all are cured, when there is no more injustice, we can talk about the Sabbath.”
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AFRICA (CNS) -- Pope Francis told reporters he is well aware that God is a god
of surprises, but he had not been prepared for what a surprise his first visit
to Africa would be.</p>
<p>Obviously tired, but equally
content, Pope Francis told reporters he prayed in a mosque in Bangui, Central
African Republic, and rode around a Muslim neighborhood with the imam seated
with him in the popemobile. Both were spontaneous initiatives of the pope Nov.
30, his last day in Africa.</p>
<p>Returning to Rome from Bangui
later that day, the pope spent more than 60 minutes with reporters in the back
of his plane, responding to their questions.</p>
<p>"The crowds, the joy, the
ability to celebrate even with an empty stomach" were impressions the pope
said he would take home with him after his six-day trip to Kenya, Uganda and
the Central African Republic.</p>
<p>After two years of civil war,
the pope told reporters, the people of the Central African Republic want "peace,
reconciliation and forgiveness."</p>
<p>"For years, they lived as
brothers and sisters," the pope said, and local Catholic, Muslim and
evangelical Christian leaders are doing their best to help their people return
to that situation of peace, coexistence and mutual respect.</p>
<p>Leaders of every religion must
teach values, and that is what is happening in Central African Republic, Pope
Francis said. </p>
<p>"One of the most-rare
values today is that of brotherhood," a value essential for peace, he said.</p>
<p>"Fundamentalism is a
disease that is found in all religions. We Catholics have some," he said. "I
can say this because it is my church."</p>
<p>"Religious fundamentalism isn't
religion, it's idolatry," he told the press. Ideas and false certainties
take the place of faith, love of God and love of others.</p>
<p>"You cannot cancel a whole
religion because there is a group or many groups of fundamentalists at certain
moments of history," the pope said.</p>
<p>As the pope ended his trip,
global representatives were beginning the U.N. climate conference in Paris to
discuss the possibility of forging a binding international agreement to reduce
climate change.</p>
<p>Pope Francis said he was not
sure what would happen at the conference, "but I can say this, it's now or
never." Too little has been done over the past 10-15 years, he said, and "every
year the situation gets worse."</p>
<p>"We are on the verge of
suicide, to put it strongly," he said.</p>
<p>Given his visits to Uganda and
Kenya, where new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths continue, Pope Francis
was asked if he thought the church "should change its teaching" about
the use of condoms.</p>
<p>Pope Francis responded that an
ongoing question for Catholic moral theology is whether condoms in that case
are an instrument to prevent death or a contraceptive -- in which case they
would violate church teaching on openness to life. </p>
<p>But, he said, the question is
too narrow. People are dying because of a lack of clean water and adequate
food. Once the world takes serious steps to solve those problems, then it would
be "legitimate to ask whether it is licit" to use condoms to prevent
the spread of HIV and AIDS. </p>
<p>Pope Francis said that at various
moments of his trip, he visited the very poor, people who lack everything and
have suffered tremendously. He said he knew that a small percentage of people
-- "maybe 17 percent" -- of the world's population controls the vast
majority of the world's wealth -- "and I think, 'How can these people not
be aware?' It's such suffering."</p>
<p>To say the world's economy has
put profits and not people at the center and to denounce "the idolatry of
the god money," he said, "is not communism. It's the truth."</p>
<p>The pope also was asked about
the Vatican trial underway in connection with the leak and publication of
confidential documents related to Vatican finances.</p>
<p>"I haven't lost any sleep"
over the leaks and the arrest of a monsignor, his assistant, a woman who served
on a former Vatican commission and the two authors who wrote books allegedly
based on the material, Pope Francis said.</p>
<p>However, he said, he had hoped
the trial would be over before the opening Dec. 8 of the Year of Mercy, but he
does not think that will be possible because the defendants' lawyers need
adequate time to defend their clients properly.</p>
<p>As for future trips, Pope
Francis was not full of surprises. He said he plans to go to Mexico and visit
cities where St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI never went. The trip is
expected in late February.</p>
<p>Pope Francis said he has to go
to Mexico City, "but if it wasn't for Our Lady I wouldn't." So he
will visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, then go to
Chiapas, Morelia and, "almost for sure, on the way back to Rome, I will
spend a day or part of a day in Ciudad Juarez," on the Mexican-U.S.
border.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://exlaodicea.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/definitions-of-the-second-vatican-council/">DEFINITIONS OF THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL</a></span>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>“Taking conciliar custom into consideration and also the pastoral purpose of the present Council, the sacred Council defines as binding on the Church only those things in matters of faith and morals which it shall openly declare to be binding.”</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Declaration of the Theological Commission, March 6, 1964</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>“The second problem concerns the interrelation of the principles of what is termed art and the standards of morality. Since increasing disputes on this subject frequently arise from false ethical and aesthetical principles, the council decrees that the absolute primacy of an objective moral law must be held by all.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><em>– </em></strong><strong><em>Inter mirifica 6</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>“This holy synod, following in the footsteps of the first Vatican council, along with that council teaches and declares that Jesus Christ, the eternal shepherd, built his holy church by sending apostles just as he himself had been sent by the Father; it was his will that their successors, namely the bishops, should be shepherds in his church right to the end of the world. So that the episcopate itself, however, should be one and undivided, he placed blessed Peter over the rest of the apostles, and in him he instituted a perpetual and visible principle and foundation for the unity of faith and communion. This doctrine of the institution, the perpetuity, the force and the nature of the sacred primacy of the Roman pontiff and of his infallible magisterium, the synod once more proposes to be firmly believed by all the faithful. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><em>– </em></strong><strong><em> Lumen gentium 18</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The Sacred Council, therefore, not only accords to this ecclesiastical and spiritual heritage the high regard which is its due and rightful praise, but also unhesitatingly looks on it as the heritage of the universal Church. For this reason it solemnly declares that the Churches of the East, as much as those of the West, have a full right and are in duty bound to rule themselves, each in accordance with its own established disciplines, since all these are praiseworthy by reason of their venerable antiquity, more harmonious with the character of their faithful and more suited to the promotion of the good of souls.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><em>– Orientalium Ecclesiarum 5</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Already from the earliest times the Eastern Churches followed their own forms of ecclesiastical law and custom, which were sanctioned by the approval of the Fathers of the Church, of synods, and even of ecumenical councils. Far from being an obstacle to the Church’s unity, a certain diversity of customs and observances only adds to her splendor, and is of great help in carrying out her mission, as has already been stated. To remove, then, all shadow of doubt, this holy Council solemnly declares that the Churches of the East, while remembering the necessary unity of the whole Church, have the power to govern themselves according to the disciplines proper to them, since these are better suited to the character of their faithful, and more for the good of their souls.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><em>– Unitatis Redintegratio 16</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Moreover Christ, as the Church has always held and holds, went willingly and with immense love to his passion and death because of the sins of all people so that all may obtain salvation.  </em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><em>– </em></strong><strong><em>Nostra aetate 4</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>“The four gospels originate from the apostles, as the church has always and everywhere held and still holds.” </em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><em>– </em></strong><strong><em>Dei verbum 18</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><em>– Dei Verbum 19</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>First, the council professes its belief that God Himself has made known to mankind the way in which men are to serve Him, and thus be saved in Christ and come to blessedness. We believe that this one true religion subsists in the Catholic and Apostolic Church, to which the Lord Jesus committed the duty of spreading it abroad among all men. Thus He spoke to the Apostles: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have enjoined upon you” (Matt. 28: 19-20). On their part, all men are bound to seek the truth, especially in what concerns God and His Church, and to embrace the truth they come to know, and to hold fast to it.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>This Vatican Council likewise professes its belief that it is upon the human conscience that these obligations fall and exert their binding force. The truth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth, as it makes its entrance into the mind at once quietly and with power.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Religious freedom, in turn, which men demand as necessary to fulfill their duty to worship God, has to do with immunity from coercion in civil society. Therefore it leaves untouched traditional Catholic doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion and toward the one Church of Christ.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Over and above all this, the council intends to develop the doctrine of recent popes on the inviolable rights of the human person and the constitutional order of society.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>This Vatican Council declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>The council further declares that the right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person as this dignity is known through the revealed word of God and by reason itself. This right of the human person to religious freedom is to be recognized in the constitutional law whereby society is governed and thus it is to become a civil right.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><em>– Dignitatis Humane 1-2</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>With all this in mind, this holy synod adopts the condemnations of total war which have already been uttered by recent popes, and declares: Every operation of war which aims indiscriminately at the destruction of whole cities, or of widespread areas with their inhabitants, is a crime against God and humanity itself which is to be firmly and unhesitatingly condemned.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><strong><em>– </em></strong><strong><em>Gaudium et spes 80</em></strong></p>
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<p>Christopher Howse:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is hard not to think that Hume was deranged if he thought that, when you put the kettle on the fire and it boiled, the putting the kettle on was not the cause of the boiling effect.</p></blockquote>
<p>But there’s a lot of daylight between (a) denying causality and (b<sub>1</sub>) denying distinct human knowledge of (b<sub>2</sub>) a necessary causal connection between objects that are (b<sub>3</sub>) not directly related to interior human states.  To explain:</p>
<p>(b<sub>1</sub>) The teaching referenced is from a section called <em>Of Knowledge and Probability,</em> in a book called <em>Of</em><em> the Understanding </em>in a larger treatise not on reality but <em>On Human Nature. </em>We’re clearly speaking about what can be <em>known</em> about causes. Rather than speaking about causes in every possible sense, he speaks about causes as they can arise in the relation of a subject to its object.</p>
<p>(b<sub>2</sub>) Hume’s critique of causality goes only as far as his critique of necessary connection. Stripped to essentials, the argument is:</p>
<blockquote><p>Necessary connection cannot be known.</p>
<p>Causes can be known so far as necessary connection can be.</p></blockquote>
<p>Since Hume’s idea of necessity is what is true at all times, and we never perceive something at all times, then we can’t perceive a necessary connection. <em>Prima facie, </em>denying necessity becomes as self-evident as denying we can see the future.</p>
<p>It’s interesting to use this idea to contrast the Ancient and Contemporary accounts of science. Until Newton, it was generally thought that if we could not know causes, we could not have science since science was nothing but the logical order of causes in some subject area. Working from Hume’s account of cause and our Contemporary account of science, the exact opposite is true: if we knew causes, we could not <em>verify predictions</em> about anything, and science is most of all about verifying predictions. “Knowing causes” means the future is already given and so could not be predicted and later verified. Future data could not confirm scientific laws any more than future unmarried men could confirm our definition of a bachelor.</p>
<p>(b<sub>3</sub>) This is my own theory of Humian causality, but it is the only way I can make sense of how he rules out the possibility of causes in the First Book of the <em>Treatise </em>while he appeals to causes on almost every page of the Second Book. We can understand the causal relations between our own passions, appetites, knowledge, and other interior states because – unlike when we look at billiard balls – we can understand these active powers from the inside. The mere use of a straw can’t tell us whether we are pulling the liquid up or whether we are creating the conditions under which the atmosphere will push it down, but the mere use of the straw <em>does</em> involve a known relation between the straw and our thirst.</p>
<p>This also helps us to see why Howse’s objection to Hume’s theory is too ambiguous: when we put the pot on the fire the fire is being used as an instrument to our intention, and so far as we take it in this way there is real causality between the flame and the pot. But so far as we abstract from this and try to speak about causality in natural things, then we can object that fire no more obviously heats than our use of a straw pulls the liquid up. Or perhaps fire heats like the gallows-executioner drops the condemned man or like ice cools water. So far as we are talking about these things as instrumental to our intention, we can abstract from these differences, but as soon as we try to figure out the cause in itself (is it adding a form? Taking one away? Removing an impediment to one?) we see that, at the very least, the problem is a good deal more complicated, demanding that we make guesses that are capable of being confirmed by future evidence.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thomism.wordpress.com/14962/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thomism.wordpress.com/14962/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=thomism.wordpress.com&blog=679086&post=14962&subd=thomism&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Is it possible that the American neo-Orthodox attack on Catholic sacraments is simply a manifestation of the same inferiority complex which has haunted other parts of world Orthodoxy for centuries? That question was proposed to me in a recent chat and I was simply unsure how to answer. It is important always to bear in mind how many Anglophone neo-Orthodox polemicists are either converts or, now, the children of converts. Having drunk the dregs of Protestantism for many years, many of these folks still can’t shake the idea that Rome is the “Great Satan” which has arbitrarily imposed its will on Western Christendom for a millennium, distorting doctrine and obscuring truth all along the way. Of course, these are the same folk who believe that the “Uniates” represent a class of duped-and-deluded wannabes who kneel before their king on the Tiber while liturgically play-acting with stolen rites. Far be it for the neo-Orthodox to take a frank look at history—including their own tumultuous history—before drawing radical conclusions about the spiritual state of millions of fellow Christians.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Catholics should keep in mind that the neo-Orthodox do not represent world Orthodoxy. In fact, they do not even represent American Orthodoxy despite the latter’s annoying penchant for repacking shopworn Protestant polemics and calling them “apologias” for the East. Some of the neo-Orthodox will parade about claiming that their “theological critiques” of, say, Roman ecclesiology or Latin sacramental theology have “never been answered.” The truth is that they are largely ignored. Why? Because all of this “stuff” has already been hashed out in respectable theological circles. Moreover, neo-Orthodox ignorance of what the Catholic Church actually believes and professes can be downright painful. As Fr. Robert Taft has stated numerous times, if you want to know what the Catholic Church actually holds to, Google it. The Catholic Church does not hide its doctrines or praxis; they are contained in numerous documentary sources for all to read. I know some Orthodox have an exaggerated interest in “mystery.” Well, I hate to break it to them, but Catholic teaching is not mysterious; it is right there, out there, and in the open for all to see, if they are so inclined.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This doesn’t mean that Catholicism is not riddled with its fair amount of theological disputes and hermeneutical quarrels. Drop by Google Scholar sometime and type in “Second Vatican Council” or, heck, “Dignitatis humanae” and you will quickly find yourself drowning in a sea of scholarship. What is wonderful today is how many of these disputes are carried out with an “Eastern perspective” as well. It is simply not possible to make absolute statements on what the Church has “always believed” without incorporating what the Eastern churches have also “always believed.” Is it neat and clean? No. Is it messy and divisive? Sometimes. But is it necessary? Absolutely. If the neo-Orthodox think for one second that the Catholic Church and her theologians have not seriously considered the Eastern perspective on sacraments, ecclesiology, liturgy, and spirituality, they are simply kidding themselves (or are woefully ignorant). Maybe the neo-Orthodox won’t always be pleased with the conclusions Catholic theologians draw, but those conclusions are not produced in ignorance of the Church’s universal intellectual patrimony. In other words, the neo-Orthodox are not sitting on a legitimate treasure chest of “secret knowledge” (Patristic consensus!) into which they can freely dip to trump Catholic doctrinal claims.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There’s always room for improvement, of course. Although the last half-century of Catholic thought has been something of a mixed bag, the introduction of Eastern sources, including contemporary Eastern theologians, into Catholicism’s theological discussion has been a great boon for the Church. I see no reason why Catholics should not take Orthodox claims seriously, at least so long as those claims are coming from individuals who are interested in doing more than grinding axes and spouting triumphalist rhetoric. As I have stated many times before, the Orthodox Church does not possess a greener pasture for any Christian to run to. Orthodoxy does have certain comparative advantages over present-day Catholicism, but it is also riddled with internal problems (not to mention doctrinal confusion) that no Catholic should envy (or mock for that matter). Most are well aware of Catholicism’s problems. They are advertised daily. Orthodoxy, for better or worse, skates by criticism in the West because it is largely an unknown quantity. That is its triumph and its tragedy.</p><br />Filed under: <a href="http://opuspublicum.com/category/eastern-orthodox-church/">Eastern Orthodox Church</a>, <a href="http://opuspublicum.com/category/roman-catholic-church/">Roman Catholic Church</a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1565/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=opuspublicum.com&blog=70036207&post=1565&subd=opuspublicum&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<p>Gerade feiert man landauf landab <i>Das Konzil</i> mit zahllosen Veteranentreffen und dergleichen Belobhudelungsfeten. Dass hiesiger Blogautor da nicht mit von der Partie ist, sollte keinen wundern. Und nun hat mir die stets scharfsinnige Theologische Kommission des <i>anderen Konzils</i> auch noch einen guten Grund dafür geliefert.<br /><br />Als nämlich Kardinal Bea (der sich nicht nur mit Vorliebe an der Liturgie, sondern auch an der Ekklesiologie zu schaffen machte) Einspruch gegen die Auffassung der <i>Commissio theologica</i> erhob, die da sagte, Leib Christi und römische Kirche seien identisch (Skandal! <a href="http://denzinger-katholik.blogspot.de/2015/04/der-mystische-leib-und-das-andere-konzil.html" target="_blank">Denzinger-Katholik berichtete</a>) ... und irgendwas von einem inklusivistischen Konzept faselte, das uns bis heute in arge Nöte bringt ... musste die CT darauf verweisen, dass dadurch - neben einer Infragestellung der Einheit, Unteilbarkeit, Unverletzlichkeit, Unfehlbarkeit und Heiligkeit der Kirche - kein Konzil mehr "ökumenisch" genannt werden könnte, dass nicht auch alle nichtkatholische Christen einschließt.<br /><br />Demzufolge lässt sich die ganze Veranstaltung<i> </i>wohl bestenfalls als Plenarsynode der rheinischen Kirchenprovinzen klassifizieren.<br /><br />Konzilfertigaus.
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Although we didn't even report on the matter of Pope Francis recently telling a Protestant she should ask Jesus whether she should receive Holy Communion with no intention of converting (forgive us, there's just too much of this nonsense to cover on a daily basis), Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has now corrected Francis, and forcefully. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">N.B.: While positive, please don't think that this has repercussions beyond setting the public record straight, and stopping the further (daily?) confusion and scandal of the Faithful. Communion for adulterers may just as well move forward, but God willing, Cardinal Sarah will only make his voice louder in opposition to the sacrilege of placing Christ on the tongues of the divorced and remarried. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vaticans-liturgy-chief-contradicts-pope-francis-on-communion-for-non-cathol?utm_source=LifePetitions+petition+signers&utm_campaign=b391470d38-Update_to_Catholic_LifePetitions_list11_30_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c5c75ce940-b391470d38-397740949">LifeSiteNews</a>:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Vatican’s cardinal in charge of liturgy and the sacraments has strongly defended the Church’s tradition on reception of Communion in the wake of Pope Francis’ comments to a Lutheran woman suggesting she could choose in conscience to receive.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"A person cannot decide if he is able to receive Communion. He has to have the rule of the Church."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Speaking with Aleteia reporter Diane Montagna, Cardinal Robert Sarah said, “Intercommunion is not permitted between Catholics and non-Catholics. You must confess the Catholic Faith. A non-Catholic cannot receive Communion. That is very, very clear. It’s not a matter of following your conscience.”</span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a name="more"></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In responding to a Lutheran woman seeking to go to communion with her Catholic husband, Pope Francis said, “There are questions that only if one is sincere with oneself and the little theological light one has, must be responded to on one’s own. See for yourself.” The pope, who was speaking to a Lutheran community in Rome November 15, added that both Lutherans and Catholics believe the Lord is present in Holy Communion, and that while there are “explanations and interpretations” that may differ, “life is bigger than explanations and interpretations.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pope Francis concluded it was not within his competence to allow a Lutheran woman to receive Holy Communion with her Catholic husband, but to answer her question, she should, “Talk to the Lord and then go forward.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But Cardinal Sarah, who serves as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, contradicted this suggestion. “It’s not that I have to talk to the Lord in order to know if I should go to Communion,” he said. “No, I have to know if I’m in accord with the rule of the Church.”</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“It’s not a personal desire or a personal dialogue with Jesus that determines if I can receive Communion in the Catholic Church. How can I know that the Lord has really said: ‘Come and receive My Body.’ No. A person cannot decide if he is able to receive Communion. He has to have the rule of the Church: i.e., being a Catholic, being in a state of grace, properly married [if married].</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The cardinal warned that if Holy Communion is not received correctly it would not be a benefit to unity, but quoting St. Paul he said, “We will eat our condemnation.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">See the full interview at Aleteia <a href="http://aleteia.org/2015/11/30/cardinal-sarah-and-bishop-schneider-respond-to-pope-francis-comments-on-intercommunion/">here</a>.</span></div></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2015/11/pope-francis-words-to-lutheran-woman.html">Pope Francis words to Lutheran woman taken to task by two Prelates</a></span>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ_9MZ-ntO7eSZLRNvUvez4y8xJx0KivqXf0S9db4_baovn6Ypq" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Image result for cardinal sarah bishop schneider" border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ_9MZ-ntO7eSZLRNvUvez4y8xJx0KivqXf0S9db4_baovn6Ypq" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Cardinal Sarah</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A </span>few weeks ago, we had the situation of the <a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/11/is-jorge-bergoglio-skirting-around-what.html">Bishop of Rome speaking at a worship centre of the followers of the heretic Martin Luther</a>. At that time, he answered the question of a woman who was not Catholic and opined on her sorrow for not being able to receive Holy Communion together with her Catholic husband. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rather than the earthly head of the Catholic Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ encouraging her to become Catholic he told her instead to follow her conscience on the matter of receiving Holy Communion. He admitted that he did not have the authority to tell her to "go" and he joked about how he should say nothing more. It was a sarcastic and dismissive remark to Catholics whom he labels "</span><a href="http://marymagdalen.blogspot.ca/2013/11/self-absorbed-promethean-neo-pelagianism.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">self-absorbed promethean neo-pelagians</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">" who like to "</span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/25/us-pope-synod-idUSKCN0SH2O620151025" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sit in the chair of Moses to judge</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://aleteia.org/2015/11/30/cardinal-sarah-and-bishop-schneider-respond-to-pope-francis-comments-on-intercommunion/">Diane Montagna writes today at Aleteia</a> with comments from about the matter. When Francis returns from the environmental polluting and financially burdensome rock-star tour for poor African countries will he discipline these two prelates who have the faith and courage to speak with truth and clarity?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, and Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan provide the truth and clarity so lacking from the Bishop of Rome and the minions who surround him.</span><br /><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Intercommunion is not permitted between Catholics and non-Catholics. You must confess the Catholic Faith. A non-Catholic cannot receive Communion. That is very, very clear. It’s not a matter of following your conscience.” Cardinal Sarah</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“We read in the Second Vatican Council document that real ecumenism is not irenicism, but sincere dialogue in which we hide nothing of our identity.” He added that any gesture which is “not clear, not sincere, and ambiguous will never help true ecumenism” on “every level.” ... </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He said “pastors and shepherds” have to be “very careful” in their pronouncements not to “create ambiguity and confusion among the people,” leading them to believe that “Catholic and Protestant doctrine are basically the same, with only minor differences.” Bishop Schneider</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br /> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQIAR1Pl8FUWRi9PfAeEJa_mA1v6byElrTK_a1qwcjfyoo3UpoGiw" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Image result for bishop schneider" border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQIAR1Pl8FUWRi9PfAeEJa_mA1v6byElrTK_a1qwcjfyoo3UpoGiw" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bishop Athanasius Schneider</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">More Cardinals and Bishops must cease their silence. If the Bishop of Rome is attempting to change doctrine through pastoral </span>practice<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> affecting the Holy Eucharist he must be stopped. That begins with his brother bishops sending a clear warning to him as to what is at stake should he succumb to the pressure of the evil men around him.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></div></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-pope-from-camps.html">The Pope from the camps ...</a></span>
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5nVQKl0nHe0/VlyMN8vCKQI/AAAAAAAAqBQ/gENWEvuL-Rw/s1600/corrie%2Btenboom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5nVQKl0nHe0/VlyMN8vCKQI/AAAAAAAAqBQ/gENWEvuL-Rw/s1600/corrie%2Btenboom.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Pope Francis often seems to me to echo those who were imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps in WWII.</div><div><br /></div><div>His message reminds me of the Christian witness of people like Betsy and Corrie Ten Boom, Fr. Delp, Bonhoeffer and others, such as Fr. Walter Ciszek, imprisoned by the Soviets. In those desperate situations there surely seemed to be a deeper <i>ecumenism of blood.</i></div><div><span><br /></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq">"How could the Father refuse the grace of unity, albeit still imperfect, to His children who suffer together and, in different situations, join in serving their brothers and sisters?”</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“For all too long, your people have experienced troubles and violence, resulting in great suffering. This makes the proclamation of the Gospel all the more necessary and urgent. For it is Christ’s own flesh which suffers in his dearest sons and daughters: the poorest of his people, the infirm, the elderly, the abandoned, children without parents or left to themselves without guidance and education. There are also those who have been scarred in soul or body by hatred and violence, those whom war has deprived of everything: work, home and loved ones”.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“God makes no distinctions between those who suffer. I have often called this the ecumenism of blood. All our communities suffer indiscriminately as a result of injustice and the blind hatred unleashed by the devil." - <a href="http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2015/11/to-evangelical-communities-god-makes-no.html">Pope Francis</a></blockquote></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unequallyyoked/2015/11/big-discounts-on-arriving-at-amen-today.html">Big Discounts on Arriving At Amen Today</a></span>
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<p>If you’ve been meaning to check out my book on prayer, Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers That Even I Can Offer, today’s a great day to pick up a copy (or grab one as a gift for a friend).  The kindle edition is $4 on Amazon. If you’d prefer a paper copy, Ave Maria Press <a class="moretag" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unequallyyoked/2015/11/big-discounts-on-arriving-at-amen-today.html">[Read More...]</a>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/11/saint-denis.html">Saint-Denis</a></span>
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<p>Anyone who has followed the news in France recently has surely heard of Saint-Denis, the Paris suburb called "gritty" by <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/19c58884-8e17-11e5-a549-b89a1dfede9b.html#slide0">even</a> <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/terror-raids-put-paris-suburb-in-the-spotlight-1447876831">mainstream</a> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/11/14/timeline-terror-where-paris-attacks-took-place/75774088/">media</a>. Located a few miles north of Paris, it is a predominantly Moslem neighborhood that houses terrorists, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/18/world/gallery/french-raid-in-saint-denis/">raided</a> by French police on 18 November following this month's terrorist attacks there.<br /><br />What people may not know is the rich <a href="http://www.saint-denis.culture.fr/en/">history </a>in the town, anchored by the magnificent <i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Basilique royale de Saint-Denis. </i>It was such a prominent place that the anti-Catholic leaders of the French Revolution renamed it <i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Franciade </i>(reversed by Napoléon Bonaparte<span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">).</span></span><br /><br />The church was completed in 1144, which makes it the first Gothic church in the world. The other distinction for the church is that it houses the remains of nearly every monarch in the history of France, including all but three kings. It is named for the first bishop of Paris, who, having been martyred, is said to have carried his head to the site where the church was built.<br /><br />When this writer visited Paris in April of this year, my wife and I asked our hotel concierge for advice on visiting Saint-Denis. His stern response was not to go there. When pressed, knowing we really wanted to visit the church, he advised us to go in the morning, exit the Paris Métro Line 13 stop near (and named for) the church and to get into the sacred space as quickly as possible.<br /><br />The <i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Basilique royale de Saint-Denis </i>is a stunning place to visit (even if it is practically a museum in post-Christian France). The Republic (which owns all of the churches) is currently in the midst of a major restoration there.<br /><br />It was quite the intimidating site, to be honest, in the short distance between the Basilique de Saint-Denis stop and the church itself, but well worth it. Here are some photos we took:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QTEtscXZrsc/VluOlzSx40I/AAAAAAAAA58/QpAWZo1z8rA/s1600/IMG_0735.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QTEtscXZrsc/VluOlzSx40I/AAAAAAAAA58/QpAWZo1z8rA/s400/IMG_0735.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2yaP4ijuZo4/VluPz_PtEYI/AAAAAAAAA6E/u3kRLlUGvMQ/s1600/IMG_0731.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2yaP4ijuZo4/VluPz_PtEYI/AAAAAAAAA6E/u3kRLlUGvMQ/s400/IMG_0731.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RkBPmYR4rcM/VluRGkPyyNI/AAAAAAAAA6c/h3qsSPeJgt8/s1600/IMG_0716.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RkBPmYR4rcM/VluRGkPyyNI/AAAAAAAAA6c/h3qsSPeJgt8/s400/IMG_0716.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8jrVx1DPovY/VluRj0UrHjI/AAAAAAAAA6k/LfW0aRzR-qI/s1600/IMG_0717.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8jrVx1DPovY/VluRj0UrHjI/AAAAAAAAA6k/LfW0aRzR-qI/s400/IMG_0717.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2bIQoHYru74/VluR919SXOI/AAAAAAAAA6s/QzSf97NQRuE/s1600/IMG_0718.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2bIQoHYru74/VluR919SXOI/AAAAAAAAA6s/QzSf97NQRuE/s400/IMG_0718.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JQ0W97JnAcU/VluSg_Is22I/AAAAAAAAA64/sGndJ3qShGc/s1600/IMG_0719.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JQ0W97JnAcU/VluSg_Is22I/AAAAAAAAA64/sGndJ3qShGc/s400/IMG_0719.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FSAZ0xdzVps/VluS8aq96TI/AAAAAAAAA7A/XQy0s1gerLo/s1600/IMG_0723.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FSAZ0xdzVps/VluS8aq96TI/AAAAAAAAA7A/XQy0s1gerLo/s400/IMG_0723.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KVfS8yQGWt4/VluTkmIkz_I/AAAAAAAAA7I/AAbzCOlZlaY/s1600/IMG_0720.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KVfS8yQGWt4/VluTkmIkz_I/AAAAAAAAA7I/AAbzCOlZlaY/s400/IMG_0720.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B3hOqAavilM/VluQPgeAVrI/AAAAAAAAA6M/7vqj1eZO2Mo/s1600/IMG_0733.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B3hOqAavilM/VluQPgeAVrI/AAAAAAAAA6M/7vqj1eZO2Mo/s400/IMG_0733.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zntOA0Ot7jA/VluQk7PBD_I/AAAAAAAAA6U/irQ_Xb5zI4M/s1600/IMG_0726.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zntOA0Ot7jA/VluQk7PBD_I/AAAAAAAAA6U/irQ_Xb5zI4M/s400/IMG_0726.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://akacatholic.com/do-you-believe/">What do you believe?</a></span>
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<p>If you believe as I believe… – While she has always had wolves in sheep’s clothing in her midst, the Church is under attack from within in our day in an unprecedented way. – The current ecclesial crisis can be likened to a revolution; a modernist coup d’état that began in earnest at the Second Vatican Council. Today, the conciliar teachings, in spite of being both non-binding and demonstrably fallible, are treated by the authorities in Rome as the non-negotiable standard by which all things are measured. – One of the primary planks that form the foundation upon which the <a class="more-link" href="https://akacatholic.com/do-you-believe/#more-'">more »</a>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2015/11/growup-college-isnt-supposed-to-be.html"># GrowUp: College Isn't Supposed to be Daycare!</a></span>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/2015/11/something-so-right-pope-francis-visit.html">Something so right... Pope Francis visit to the Koudoukou mosque in Bangui.</a></span>
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tF2_mvbJk48/Vlx8pBne6tI/AAAAAAAAqBA/jx6V8EcpqjU/s1600/banqui%2Bmosque.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tF2_mvbJk48/Vlx8pBne6tI/AAAAAAAAqBA/jx6V8EcpqjU/s400/banqui%2Bmosque.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Pope Francis arrives at the Koudoukou mosque in Bangui</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Holy Father risked his life to go out to the peripheries.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I was really concerned for the Holy Father's safety while visiting Central African Republic. I'm so happy he was willing to go, despite warnings. God is with him. Prayers in thanksgiving.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq">After removing his shoes on entering the Koudoukou mosque and bowing towards the holy Muslim city of Mecca, the pope told several hundred men inside that “Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters”.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">“Together, we must say no to hatred, to revenge and to violence, particularly that violence which is perpetrated in the name of a religion or of God himself. God is peace. Salaam,” he added, using the Arabic word for peace.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Francis said his visit to CAR “would not be complete if it did not include this encounter with the Muslim community”.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">The chief imam at the mosque, Tidiani Moussa Naibi, thanked Francis for his visit, which he said was “a symbol which we all understand”.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Some Muslims are living in the mosque after being forced out of their homes by the violence. “We are very proud to welcome him. The pope is not only for the Christians, he is a servant of God for all Central Africans,” said Ibrahim Paulin, a spokesman for the displaced. - <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/30/pope-francis-mosque-central-african-republic">Guardian</a></blockquote><br /> I noticed this amazing comment on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FrJamesMartin">Fr. Martin's Facebook page</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;"><span class=" UFICommentActorName" dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Saadia Ahmad</span> <span>As a Muslim engaged in and studying interfaith dialogue and outreach and within the post-9/11 context, it can get exhausting feeling as though we're doing so much outreach and not getting much effort back (partially to get our religion back from those who use it to justify and motivate their violent actions), and often encounter hostility and anger instead. It's so heartening to see our Pope be active in playing the role we all need to for interfaith dialog and reconciliation. Subhan'Allah (Arabic phrase meaning "thanks be to God") for him and the blessings, reminders, and gifts he brings all of God's children, regardless of faith or creed.</span><br /><a class="UFICommentLikeButton" href="https://www.facebook.com/browse/likes?id=10153152210071496" rel="dialog">92</a><span> · </span><a class="uiLinkSubtle" href="https://www.facebook.com/FrJamesMartin/posts/10153152158431496?comment_id=10153152210071496&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R0%22%7D" style="color: #9197a3; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">1 hr</a><span> ·</span></blockquote><br /></div></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/on-eve-of-un-climate-summit-catholics-join-in-calls-for-change.cfm">On eve of U.N. climate summit, Catholics join in calls for change</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://image.catholicnews.com/imagehandler/photos/2015/11/29/20151129T0917-639-CNS-CLIMATE-MARCHES_310.jpg" /><p>IMAGE: CNS photo/Simone Orendain</p><p></p><p>By </p><p>PARIS (CNS) -- Hundreds of
thousands of people in at least 150 countries around the world demanded action
on climate change on the eve of a U.N. conference that aimed to find agreement
on greenhouse gas emissions.</p>
<p>Heads of state traveled to Paris
for the Nov. 30-Dec. 11 Conference of Parties, or COP21, in the Paris suburb of
Le Bourget. Catholic organizations advocating to protect the world and its
people from the impact of climate change said the terror attacks in Paris had
not dissuaded them from attending a major U.N. summit there.</p>
<p>Interfaith leaders gathered in
Saint-Denis, France, Nov. 28 to hand over a petition with more than 1.8 million
signatures -- 800,000 collected by Catholic organizations -- calling for action
on climate change. At the event, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, president
of the Pan-Amazonian Church Network, referred to Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato
Si', on Care for Our Common Home," and to an October appeal by Catholic
bishops worldwide that called "for a fair, binding and truly
transformational climate agreement in Paris."</p>
<p>"We ask for drastic cuts of
carbon emissions to keep the global temperature rise below the dangerous
threshold of 1.5°C," the cardinal said. "As the bishops' appeal
states, we need to 'put an end to the fossil fuel era' and 'set a goal for
complete decarbonization by 2050.'</p>
<p>"And we ask wealthier
countries to aid the world's poorest to cope with climate change impacts, by
providing robust climate finance," he added.</p>
<p>Originally, hundreds of
thousands were expected to march in Paris Nov. 29, but the march was canceled
after the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks. Instead, Parisians and others from around
the world donated shoes and set them up at Place de la Republique. The display
was disrupted as Paris police used tear gas to break up an unauthorized
demonstration.</p>
<p>Jesuit Father Michael Czerny,
who works at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, confirmed Pope
Francis donated a signed pair of shoes to the display. Cardinal Hummes and
Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and
Peace, also signed and donated shoes.</p>
<p>From Seoul, South Korea, to Ottawa, Ontario; New York to
Sao Paulo, people marched to demand climate change. Some, like those in
Oakland, California, marched more than a week ahead. Most advocates gathered
Nov. 28-29, such as in Nairobi, Kenya, where people planted trees in Uhuru
Park.</p>
<p>In
Washington, about 500 people, including members of parishes in Washington,
Maryland and northern Virginia, came out for a march around the White House Nov.
29. One couple, members of a parish in Los Altos, California, joined them after
learning about the march from the Global Catholic Climate Movement. Many
participants carried signs referring to "Laudato Si'."</p>
<p>In Ottawa, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia,
church leaders joined environmentalists and First Nations members in marches
Nov. 29. In London, hundreds of supporters of CAFOD, the overseas development
agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, braved wind and rain to
join more than 50,000 marchers. CAFOD said the march included an interfaith
service at Westminster Synagogue involving about 200 campaigners from
Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist traditions, who reflected on the issues that
united them and "recommitted themselves to caring for creation, for our neighbors
and to tackling climate change."</p>
<p>In Manila, Philippines, dozens
of religious added their voices to the cry of mostly Catholic activists during
a climate march on a humid, overcast morning.</p>
<p>In the plaza across the street
from Our Lady of Remedies Church, Sacred Heart Missionaries seminarian Reynon
Ajero held up colorful signs that said "Resist the plunder of our
environment" and a reference to the pope's "Laudato Si'."</p>
<p>Ajero said he grew up in a
mountainous village in the southern province of Zamboanga del Norte populated
with "plenty of diversity" in animals, trees and wild flowers. On
Nov. 29, he lamented the significant loss of trees to mining and the
disappearance of the animals from his childhood.</p>
<p>"I want to ask all the
people to be awake," he told Catholic News Service. "I want make the
people know that we are suffering for what is our mistake to our mother earth.
So whatever we do to ourselves, we do to the mother earth, it will return to
us."</p>
<p>This message in the plaza was
played out over and over in singing, dance numbers and dramatizations of the
impacts of the earth's rising temperatures.</p>
<p>Manila Auxiliary Bishop
Broderick Pabillo opened an outdoor Mass with a prayer of hope during the
lighting of the first candle on an Advent wreath.</p>
<p>"Hope for the enlightenment
of all peoples, that we are just a strand in the web of life, that what we do
to the environment, we do to ourselves," said Bishop Pabillo.</p>
<p>Lou Arsenio, head of the Manila
Archdiocese Ecology Ministry and one of the originators of the Global Catholic
Climate Movement, since the movement started about a year ago, she has seen
greater awareness among Catholics, but she told Catholic News Service there is
more work to do.</p>
<p>In Melbourne, Australia, Nov.
27, more than 40,000 people marched in the city's central business district to
call for action on climate change. A statement on the website of the
Archdiocese of Melbourne said Catholics were at the forefront of the march.
Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, former president of Caritas
Internationalis, told the crowd: "We were given a garden. We may not
deliver back a desert."</p>
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<p>Contributing to this story were
Simone Orendain in Manila and Simon Caldwell in Manchester, England. </p>
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The answer is definitely maybe. Or maybe not.
The Acra (the word means fortress or citadel) was built in 168BC by Seleucid ruler Antiochus Epiphanes following his sack of the city. It’s mentioned...<img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NCRegisterDailyBlog/~4/Ln1w0COygzo" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.barnhardt.biz/2015/11/30/cut-the-crap-unless-racketeering-is-a-species-of-heresy-islam-is-not-a-christian-heresy/">Cut the Crap: Unless “Racketeering” is a species of heresy, islam is NOT a “Christian heresy”.</a></span>
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<p>Time for a “Cut the Crap” post.</p>
<p>There is a lot of talk around the blogosphere about islam and its origins.  Many academics are debating if islam is a Christian heresy, and if so what flavor.  The consensus these days among the academic class is that islam emerged from Nestorianism.  You can read the definition of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10755a.htm" target="_blank">Nestorianism here</a>, but sufficed to say that it has to do with Christ’s nature, and it is all wrong and wonky, teaching that the natures of Christ, human and divine, are loosely united at best if not totally disjoined.  And academics, eager to use big words and make everything as complicated and inaccessible as possible, are now clambering on the bandwagon to somehow tie this actual Christian heresy to islam.</p>
<p>And I have had enough of it, because it is simply stupid.</p>
<p>Islam is a criminal racket, pure and simple.  It was conceived by a cadre of warlords –<a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/authors/roark/muhammad_exist.html" target="_blank"> I am skeptical that “mohammed” even existed</a> – as a pure scam to muster an army, seize landmass and capital, both physical and human, assert political power, levy taxes and amass enormous wealth as oligarchs.  Oh, and also get as much freaky, perverted sex as the oligarchs wanted. Interestingly, the word “mohammed” was not only a proper name, but also an honorific title.  I suspect that these warlords fanned out and were called “mohammed” by their respective gestapo toadies as a title/honorific, and the name stuck and was used as the fake “biography” of “the prophet of islam” when it was written over 100 years later.  Then, stories were passed down throughout the Arabian peninsula of ancestors having seen “mohammed”, who was, in fact, just one of these numerous warlord oligarchs.</p>
<p>The warlord oligarchs – perhaps we should call them “the mohammeds” – drew on local pagan, Jewish and Christian themes and motifs in order to <em><strong>give their evil scam the whiff of legitimacy</strong> </em>that comes with religion qua religion.  One of the key things they did was to “simplify”  three core revealed truths of Christianity, or mysteries, in order to appeal to the masses: they deny that God is Triune, Father, Son and Holy Ghost.  <em><strong>Because that’s HAAAAAAAARD.  Who can understand that? <a href="http://www.barnhardt.biz/2015/09/17/repost-by-request/">You don’t actually expect us to believe that bullshit, do you?</a> (Sound familiar?) </strong></em>Next, as an obvious corollary to denying the Trinity, they deny the Incarnation of Jesus Christ as True God and True Man<em><strong>. Because that’s HAAAAAAAARD. Who can understand that?  <a href="http://www.barnhardt.biz/2015/09/17/repost-by-request/">You don’t actually expect us to believe that bullshit, do you?</a> (Sound familiar?) </strong></em>And as a final corollary, they deny the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.  <em><strong>Because that’s HAAAAAAAARD. Who can understand that? <a href="http://www.barnhardt.biz/2015/09/17/repost-by-request/">You don’t actually expect us to believe that bullshit, do you?</a> (Sound familiar?)</strong></em></p>
<p>And then, kill everyone, especially the people of the book (Jews) and the idolators (Christians – the term “idolator” is a direct attack on the Eucharist).  But really, just kill everyone who doesn’t join up so that the oligarch warlords can seize those assets and landmass, and rape the cute ones.</p>
<p>It really is that simple.  To approach islam in a scholarly way as a development of an actual Christian heresy is utterly ridiculous.  It is like having a serious Catholic scholar dedicate his life to studying Mormonism or Scientology as “Christian heresies”.  Um, Mormonism and Scientology are pure, straight-up racketeering enterprises, founded by psychopathic arch criminals.  The absurdity of “studying” the “theology” of either racket cannot be quantified.  Both criminal enterprises were set up in order to amass money, power and sex for the upper-echelon oligarchs.  The pathetic attempts at religion are nothing more than a pose for the gullible – a facade so thin I describe it as sticking a piece of wet toilet paper to the wall.  Wet, DIRTY toilet paper. (Ew. Right?)</p>
<p>Also falling into this category, but inside the Church Itself, is the satanic cancer called “The Legionaries of Christ” and its arm, “Regnum Christi”.  <a href="http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/how-fr-maciel-built-his-empire" target="_blank">Or as I refer to it, “The Evil Sex Cult”</a>.  The Legion of Christ / Regnum Christi was founded, like islam, mormonism and Scientology by a psychopathic archcriminal named Marcial Maciel Degollado, who was a Mexican priest.  This piece of shit was a DRUG ADDICT BISEXUAL INCESTUOUS PEDOPHILE RAPIST.  Yeah.  He spent his entire life conning stupid, wealthy, oftentimes politically connected women out of their money (think John Edwards-Bunny Mellon), and screwing pretty much everything with a pulse, including his own children both male and female. He recruited other psychopaths into the oligarchy to share in his work of fleecing stupid and/or morally depraved rich and/or influential people with the promise of decadent living and unlimited sex (especially with pretty-boy seminarians!), while imprisoning and psychologically abusing thousands upon thousands of young people over the years in one of the most transparently obvious brainwashing cults of the last century – and the 20th century had some real doozies.  I could go on, but bottom line and a stern warning from me in these incredibly dark days in the Church, NEVER EVER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE LEGION OF CHRIST OR REGNUM CHRISTI. The whole evil mess should be suppressed, disbanded and liquidated, the empty shell burned to the ground, and then the earth where it stood should be salted and plowed.  And then, all of the kingpins should be arrested and tried under the RICO statutes (or local equivalent) and imprisoned. The fact that this cancerous crime syndicate operates INSIDE the Church makes the crime that much more severe.  Maciel used the complete legitimacy of The One True Church to imbue legitimacy upon his criminal cult – not merely coopting themes and motifs.  This is why he has been called <a href="http://taylormarshall.com/2010/04/marcial-maciel-refused-confession-and.html" target="_blank">perhaps the greatest ecclesiastical villain since Judas Iscariot</a>. But back to the original iteration of the evil sex, power and money cult, islam.</p>
<p>To “study” islam as anything other than the criminal enterprise that it is and always has been is to give it a false legitimacy that does nothing to advance the REAL goal, which is its utter, complete extermination from the face of the earth, and as soon as possible.  We must stop this drive by the academia – especially the Christian academia trying to prove itself “ecumenical” and “tolerant”- to wallow in these ridiculous mental masturbations, and start calling this monstrosity for what it is – an obvious, transparent criminal racket AND NOTHING MORE.  If you want to study islam as a “heresy”, you will be engaging in something every bit as ridiculous as studying the “space alien gods” of Mormonism, the “space alien volcano ghosts” of Scientology, and the personal piety and sanctity of Marcial Maciel and his money and sex grubbing henchmen and their sordid, fetid “(bowel)Movement”.</p>
<p>Cut the crap.  Man up.  Quit trying to legitimize evil. Deal with obvious objective reality, because sweetie, sooner rather than later, obvious, objective reality is going to <strong><em>deal with you.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Die Kirche feiert heute das Fest des Hl. Apostels Andreas, den die Griechisch-Orthodoxe Kirche als ihren Gründer und ersten in der Reihe der Bischöfe und Patriarchen von Konstantinopel betrachtet,<br />Papa emeritus Benedikt XVI hat ihn bei einer seiner Generalaudienzen "vorgestellt" , wie man hier lesen kann- <b><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/de/audiences/2006/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20060614.html">klicken</a></b><br /><br /> <img alt="Mosaik: Andreas als Fischer, vor 526, in der Kirche San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna" src="http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/Fotos/Andreas4.jpg" /><br /><br />Hier einige Sätze aus der Katechese vom 14.6.2006:<br /><br /><span><i>"...Nach den Katechesen über Petrus richtet sich unsere Betrachtung heute auf seinen Bruder, den Apostel Andreas. Im Evangelium haben wir gehört, daß Johannes der Täufer Andreas und einen weiteren Jünger auf Jesus aufmerksam macht. Andreas erkennt in Jesus schon bei dieser ersten Begegnung den Messias. Daraufhin wird er selbst zum Apostel und führt auch seinen Bruder Simon Petrus zum Meister. Kurze Zeit später treten Andreas und sein Bruder Petrus am See von Galiläa vollständig in die Nachfolge Christi. Namentlich wird Andreas auch bei der Brotvermehrung und bei der Rede über den Untergang Jerusalems erwähnt. Wenige Tage vor dem Leiden Jesu wirkt dieser Apostel, der einen griechischen Namen trägt, gemeinsam mit Philippus als Vermittler für eine Gruppe von gottesfürchtigen Griechen, die Jesus sehen wollen. Dieser antwortet mit einem gleichnishaften Hinweis auf seinen Erlösertod und die Vielzahl der Menschen, die dadurch Leben und Heil erlangen werden. Der Apostel Andreas bezeugt diese Frohe Botschaft später mit seinem Wort und seinem Märtyrertod im griechischen Kulturkreis. Unter den Christen dort, die ihn mit dem Ehrentitel des „Erstberufenen“ anrufen, genießt er besondere Verehrung....(....)</i></span><br /><i><span>Und sicher ist, daß sich auch wegen der brüderlichen Beziehung zwischen Petrus und Andreas die Kirche von Rom und die Kirche von Konstantinopel in besonderer Weise untereinander als Schwesterkirchen fühlen. Um diese Beziehung hervorzuheben, hat mein Vorgänger Papst Paul VI. im Jahre 1964 die berühmte Reliquie des hl. Andreas, die bis dahin in der Vatikanischen Basilika aufbewahrt worden war, dem orthodoxen Metropoliten der Stadt Patras in Griechenland zurückgegeben, wo der Überlieferung nach der Apostel gekreuzigt wurde."</span></i><br /><span><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20px;">Diese Kreuzigung soll auf Befehl des römischen Statthalters Neros Aegeas am 30. November im Jahre 60 nach Christus erfolgt sein.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span> </span><span><b>HEILIGER ANDREAS BITTE FÜR UNS!</b></span><br /><i><span><br /></span></i><i><span><br /></span></i>
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<p>Given that white supremacy is <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/white-supremacy-as-suicidal-liberalism/" target="_blank">already our actual situation</a>, and that the political philosophy of the white race is liberalism, it becomes easier to see where things like Nazism and Stalinism come from.</p>
<p>What nonwhites, tribal Jews, aristocrats, unwanted pregnancies, and <a href="https://culbreath.wordpress.com/2015/11/17/the-drownings-at-nantes/" target="_blank">Christians who take their faith seriously</a> tend to do – when they are not being used as cultural, economic, or literal cannon fodder by white liberals – is <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/and-dance-with-jak-o-the-shadows/" target="_blank">screw up liberalism</a>.</p>
<p>This calls for a Solution.  And if these troublemakers cannot become <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/it-is-written-all-over-your-face/" target="_blank">surgically transubstantiated</a> into free and equal supermen <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/how-the-desire-for-hard-currency-is-driven-by-liberalism/" target="_blank">along with all of the other unique and special liberals</a>, that Solution must be Final.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4693/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4693/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=zippycatholic.wordpress.com&blog=38463386&post=4693&subd=zippycatholic&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/st-andrew/">St. Andrew</a></span>
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<p>St. Andrew<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=amywelborn.wordpress.com&blog=1204303&post=12829&subd=amywelborn&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://branemrys.blogspot.com/2015/11/fall-still-fighting.html">Fall Still Fighting</a></span>
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<blockquote><b>See It Through<br />by Edgar Albert Guest</b><br /><br />When you're up against a trouble,<br />Meet it squarely, face to face;<br />Lift your chin and set your shoulders,<br />Plant your feet and take a brace.<br />When it's vain to try to dodge it,<br />Do the best that you can do;<br />You may fail, but you may conquer,<br />See it through!<br /><br />Black may be the clouds about you<br />And your future may seem grim,<br />But don't let your nerve desert you;<br />Keep yourself in fighting trim.<br />If the worst is bound to happen,<br />Spite of all that you can do,<br />Running from it will not save you,<br />See it through!<br /><br />Even hope may seem but futile,<br />When with troubles you're beset,<br />But remember you are facing<br />Just what other men have met.<br />You may fail, but fall still fighting;<br />Don't give up, whate'er you do;<br />Eyes front, head high to the finish.<br />See it through! </blockquote>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~3/GkLBJOkAH7Q/recent-typeface-design-and-calligraphy.html">Recent Typeface Design and Calligraphy from Daniel Mitsui</a></span>
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<div class="dropcap">We have much work to do in the rebuilding of Catholic culture, and in this “slow evangelization” (as Stratford Caldecott called it), liturgy can be compared to the right hand, the fine arts to the left hand. I found myself thinking about this when looking at some magnificent calligraphic work by well-known Catholic artist Daniel Mitsui, and reading his superb lecture at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, “Invention and Exaltation.” (The text may be read <i><b><a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/invention-and-exaltation-a-lecture-by-artist-daniel-mitsui/">here</a></b></i>; a video of the lecture is available <i><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wze2gCKmfZc">here</a></b></i>. Highly recommended.) Daniel visited the university to open an exhibit of his artwork in the Gentile Gallery on September 14th.<br /><br />Following up on <a href="http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2015/09/the-art-of-typesetting-and-layout.html">my earlier post</a> about the layouts and typography of Dom Benedict Andersen, I wanted to share with NLM readers some of Daniel Mitsui’s recent experiments with designing his own typefaces, a painstaking art form he is pursuing in order to work towards the publication of new illustrated fine press editions of late medieval books. Two of the pieces now on display in Steubenville are typographic broadsides, one of them prepared in anticipation of the Synod on the Family:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LYmFUbMjw1Q/ViVfmceVo6I/AAAAAAAACYU/S3c1GC0E9Zc/s1600/millefleur_and_rising_for_i_received_color.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LYmFUbMjw1Q/ViVfmceVo6I/AAAAAAAACYU/S3c1GC0E9Zc/s400/millefleur_and_rising_for_i_received_color.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aKLiTWpNmWE/ViVftDLjc0I/AAAAAAAACYk/8crEw6wkY7g/s1600/PaterNoster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aKLiTWpNmWE/ViVftDLjc0I/AAAAAAAACYk/8crEw6wkY7g/s400/PaterNoster.jpg" width="267" /></a></div>(To see these at the artist's website, go <a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/00_pictures/millefleur_and_rising_for_i_received_color.jpg">here</a> and <a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/00_pages/steubenville.html">here</a>.)<br /><br />In toto, Daniel has designed four typefaces: Benedict, Victor, Adam, and Michaëla. The marriage and family texts above are written in Benedict; the Lord's Prayer in Victor. Here are samples of Adam and Michaëla:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_w_G5T28LAk/ViVg6EVwU8I/AAAAAAAACYw/WUNNuiDLS7Q/s1600/adam_sample.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_w_G5T28LAk/ViVg6EVwU8I/AAAAAAAACYw/WUNNuiDLS7Q/s320/adam_sample.jpg" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dBL0ZhnsuhQ/ViVhGQIjK3I/AAAAAAAACY4/2zEXK4cNO_8/s1600/michaela_characters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="80" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dBL0ZhnsuhQ/ViVhGQIjK3I/AAAAAAAACY4/2zEXK4cNO_8/s320/michaela_characters.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Some time ago Daniel did this "Ecce quam bonum," which is a masterly example of the art of illuminating a text (we see again the Benedict font):<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DfNc1-WvqN0/ViVhtxu9rfI/AAAAAAAACZA/L9f5HT-mJEI/s1600/millefleur_ecce_quam_bonum_color.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DfNc1-WvqN0/ViVhtxu9rfI/AAAAAAAACZA/L9f5HT-mJEI/s400/millefleur_ecce_quam_bonum_color.jpg" width="281" /></a></div>These are truly exquisite pieces of work, and we are all looking forward to many more from this extraordinary artist. Check out <a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/">his website</a> for a complete portfolio and items for sale.<br /><div class="dropcap"><br /></div><div class="dropcap"><br /></div><div class="dropcap"></div></div><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~4/GkLBJOkAH7Q" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/white-supremacy-as-suicidal-liberalism/">White supremacy as suicidal liberalism</a></span>
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<p>The liberal narrative is that the white race is the traditional reactionary authoritarian anti-liberal <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/and-dance-with-jak-o-the-shadows/" target="_blank">oppressor-untermensch</a>, standing in the way of the emergence of the free and equal new man, a new man emancipated from the <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/why-insisting-on-more-freedom-brings-about-more-tyranny/" target="_blank">tyrannical political chains</a> of unfair history and arbitrary nature.</p>
<p>This is almost exactly the opposite of the truth.  The actual reality is that <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/why-do-white-people-see-themselves-as-ethnically-illegitimate/" target="_blank">white flesh encloses vastly more militantly tolerant political liberalism than all other races of flesh combined</a>.  Other races make great cultural, economic, and actual cannon fodder for white liberals.  But the white race just is, congenitally as a matter of physical descent as well as cultural allegiance, the homogenized European melting pot descendants of liberals from disparate European ethnicities.</p>
<p>As the saying goes, guns don’t kill people: people kill people. Immigration (or pick your own favorite area of suicidal liberal policy insanity) doesn’t kill white liberal societies of generically European descent.  <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/we-are-cthulu/" target="_blank">White liberal societies of generically European descent kill white liberal societies of generically European descent</a>.</p>
<p>That is part of what makes “white supremacy” so ironic: the white race <i>already </i>rules supreme; and its ruling philosophy is <i><a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/definition-of-liberalism/" target="_blank">liberalism</a></i>.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4662/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4662/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=zippycatholic.wordpress.com&blog=38463386&post=4662&subd=zippycatholic&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/pope-patriarchs-commitment-to-care-of-creation-is-exemplary-witness.cfm">Pope: Patriarch's commitment to care of creation is 'exemplary witness'</a></span>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.com/2015/11/perverted-montreal-deacon-and-cccb.html">Perverted Montreal Deacon and CCCB spokesman quietly sentenced - Bishop Crosby, why do you allow his name to still appear as Director of Communications?</a></span>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.cbc.ca/1.1688678.1380861083!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_1180/hi-william-kokesch.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://i.cbc.ca/1.1688678.1380861083!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_1180/hi-william-kokesch.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">P</span>reviously, we reported on <a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2013/01/la-cage-aux-cccb.html">pervert Deacon William Kokesch of Montreal</a>. Kokesch was arrested in 2012 on child pornography charges and <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/william-kokesch-former-montreal-deacon-sentenced-to-2-years-less-a-day-1.3006807">convicted in March of 2015</a> to serve "two years less a day" meaning in a provincial, not federal, institution. Though posting on it back when he was charged, I had neglected following up on it. <a href="http://www.theinquiry.ca/wordpress/accused/charged/kokesh-deacon-william-kokesch/">Sylvia's Site contains all the documentation</a> of this violator of children and disgracer of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Canada. </span><span>Whilst doing some </span><a href="http://www.fatima.org/news/newsviews/thirdsecret07.asp" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">research this morning</a><span> on an unrelated matter, I found that Kokesch's name </span><a href="http://www.cccb.ca/site/eng/media-room/archives/media-releases/2004/1491-msgr-alan-mccormack-named-new-judicial-vicar-of-the-canadian-appeal-tribunal" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">still appears on old press releases and web pages at the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops</a><span>.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span>It took significant lobbying by <a href="http://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.ca/2012/02/cccb-takes-firm-action-to-defend.html">Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness to then President and Edmonton Archbishop Smith</a> to get the name of child pornograhic pervert and former Bishop of Antigonish Raymond Lahey's name off the site. </span><br /><span><br /></span><span>Why does Bishop Crosby of Hamilton, now CCCB President permit Kokesch's name to still remains there? </span><br /><span><br /></span><span>Has this Deacon been laicised? </span><br /><span><br /></span><span>What is it about the Church in Canada and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops that manages to hide and protect such perverts such as Lahey, Kokesch and other bishops and monsignors who have suddenly disappeared from their dioceses under confusing and ill-defined circumstances?</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.catholic.org/files/images/saints/780.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.catholic.org/files/images/saints/780.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Peter Damian</td></tr></tbody></table><span></span><br /><span></span><span>Three more come to mind, former <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?q=bishop+knight&oq=bishop+knight&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3566j0j9&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=0&ie=UTF-8#q=Bishop+John+Knight+Toronto">Auxiliary Bishop John Knight of Toronto</a> and former Rector of Toronto's St. Augustine Seminary and <a href="https://www.google.ca/search?q=bishop+knight&oq=bishop+knight&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3566j0j9&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=0&ie=UTF-8#q=Bishop+James+Wingle">Bishop of St. Catharines, James Wingle</a>. Then of course, there is <a href="http://www.allinclusiveministries.org/gay-insight-finding-our-way-in-a-straight-world/">Gordon Davies</a> a former <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-dean-of-studies-at-toronto-seminary-building-retirement-home-for-gay">Dean of Studies at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto</a>, famous there for his body-building equipment in his room at the Seminary. </span><br /><span><br /></span><span>Lest you be too worried about St. Augustine's Seminary, that was a long time ago, the 70's and 80's are long gone. There were many Toronto priests ordained during that period who survived from those perilous days and are solid in their Catholicity, morality, liturgy and preaching, in spite of the days of the "Butterflies and Machos." The current crop of Seminarians are a bunch of rosary praying, scapular wearing, men on fire for Our Lord Jesus Christ. The previous Rector and Deans of Studies (two of whom I know) and the current Rector and Faculty are solidly Catholic and well formed. We have much to be thankful for under Thomas Cardinal Collins. </span><br /><span></span><br /><span></span> <span>Some people believe that talking about these things creates scandal. In fact, it is not talking about them and covering them up that is the real scandal. That era in Toronto under Pocock, Carter in particular were dark days before the Internet and before the awakening of Catholics to the scandal around them.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span></span><span>Fox and I have begun reading <a href="http://iteadthomam.com/bookofgomorrah/">St. Peter Damian's classic work, The Book of Gomorrah</a>. We've been struck by how little has really changed after a thousand years. What is also revealing was his clarity and aggressiveness in calling out the corrupt popes and clerics to their faces. Given what we've seen coming out Rome for the last while, I think he would have done the same.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span></span><span>If St. Peter Damian were alive today, he would have a blog.</span><br /><br /><span><br /></span><span></span><br /><span></span> <br /><h2 class="contentheading" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16.2px; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 8px;">Msgr. 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He has served in many capacities in the Archdiocese from 1975 to 1993, including judge of the Metropolitan Tribunal, episcopal vicar for canonical affairs and Vice-Chancellor.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">He also served at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in Rome from 1997 to 2003 and continues as a member of the CDF’s Matrimonial Commission.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">Msgr. McCormack holds a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and has studied at the Catholic University of America, Saint Paul University in Ottawa and the University of Toronto.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;">The Canadian Appeal Tribunal was established by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1984, with the approval of the Apostolic See. It is a national tribunal – the only “second instance” tribunal in Canada. After thorough study and, if necessary, additional evidence, the Appeal Tribunal confirms or reverses the “first instance” decision. The work of the Tribunal is both judicial and pastoral.</div><hr style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; height: 1px;" /><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">For More information Contact: </span></strong>Deacon William Kokesch<br />Director, Communications Service</div></div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/at-bangui-mosque-and-mass-pope-prays-for-peace.cfm">At Bangui mosque and Mass, pope prays for 'salam,' peace</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://image.catholicnews.com/imagehandler/photos/2015/11/30/20151130T0815-658-CNS-POPE-BANGUI-PEACE_310.jpg" /><p>IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring</p><p></p><p>By Cindy Wooden</p><p>BANGUI,
Central African Republic (CNS) -- Pope Francis ended his visit to the
violence-torn Central African Republic with cries for peace and pleas for a
mercy that seeks and grants forgiveness.</p>
<p>In
a country where political and ethnic rivalries also have split the population along religious lines,
Pope Francis began Nov. 30 with a visit to the Koudoukou mosque in Bangui.</p>
<p>After
two years of civil war, much of the recurrent violence in the country involves
the murder of a Christian or a Muslim, then retaliations from members of the
other community. Most areas of Bangui are divided into Christian or Muslim
neighborhoods with "buffer zones" between them patrolled by U.N.
peacekeepers.</p>
<p>"God
is peace, 'salam,'" the pope said in his speech at the mosque, where armed
U.N. peacekeepers monitored the crowd outside from each of the three minarets.</p>
<p>"Christians
and Muslims are brothers and sisters," created by the same God, he said,
and they must act like it.</p>
<p>"Together,
we must say no to hatred, to revenge and to violence, particularly that
violence which is perpetrated in the name of a religion or of God
himself," Pope Francis insisted.</p>
<p>"The
recent events and acts of violence which have shaken your country were not
grounded in properly religious motives," he said, but some have used God's
name as an excuse for their actions, which "disfigures the face of
God."</p>
<p>Pope
Francis prayed that the elections scheduled for Dec. 27 would be a symbol and victory of national
unity rather than being seen as the victory of one particular faction.</p>
<p>"Make
your country a welcoming home for all its children, regardless of their ethnic
origin, political affiliation or religious confession," the pope urged the
people.</p>
<p>Tidiani Moussa Naibi, the
imam of the mosque, assured the pope that Central African Christians and
Muslims know that they are brothers and sisters. "Trouble mongers could
delay the completion of a particular project of common interest or compromise
for a time a particular activity, but never, 'inshallah,' (God willing) can they destroy
the bonds of brotherhood that unite our communities so solidly."</p>
<p>After
the speeches, Pope Francis asked the imam to show him the mihrab, which
indicates the direction of Mecca, the direction Muslims face when
praying. The pope and imam stood in front of it for several moments of silence.</p>
<p>The
Catholic archbishop of Bangui, the president of the country's evangelical
Christian alliance and another imam have been leading a very public campaign of
education and cooperation to end the violence. The three were present at the
mosque for the pope's visit.</p>
<p>Afterward,
the pope visited the camp for displaced people that has sprouted around the
mosque, just as other camps have mushroomed around the city's Catholic
parishes.</p>
<p>To
show just how special the visit was, Pope Francis personally opened the Holy
Door at Bangui's cathedral Nov. 29, nine days before the official opening of
the Year of Mercy.</p>
<p>The
last event on the pope's schedule was a Mass in a sports stadium, where he
urged the Catholic community to participate in the Year of Mercy by moving
forward courageously toward peace and reconciliation.</p>
<p>The
country's bishops chose "Cross to the Other Side" as the theme for
the pope's visit, and he told people in the stadium that even though the
elections are only four weeks away, they are still only in midstream in their
journey to the side of peace.</p>
<p>All
Christians, he said, need to break the habits of sin and division, which are
"ever ready to rise up again at the prompting of the devil. How often this
happens in our world and in these times of conflict, hate and war! How easy it
is to be led into selfishness, distrust, violence, destructiveness, vengeance,
indifference to and exploitation of those who are most vulnerable."</p>
<p>Pope
Francis urged the country's Catholics to hold fast to their faith, sharing it
with all they meet through words and, especially, gestures of care, peace and
reconciliation.</p><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff33;"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff33;"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00;"><p>At the end of Mass, the pope gave a
special greeting "of joy and fraternity" to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
of Constantinople, wishing him -- "from the heart of Africa" -- a
happy feast of St. Andrew.</p><p>"I ask the Lord to bless our sister churches," he said.</p></font></font></font><p>The
evening before, after celebrating Mass with priests, religious and catechists,
the pope joined the young people who had watched the liturgy from outside the
cathedral. They were holding a prayer vigil into the night, with special
permission to stay outside the cathedral beyond the 8 p.m. curfew in the
violence-torn city.</p>
<p>The
centerpiece of the event, though, was the sacrament of confession, which Pope
Francis personally administered to five youths.</p>
<p>He
urged the young people to pray often, to forgive those who hurt them and to be
courageous enough to stay in their country and work for peace.</p><p>- - -</p><p>Copyright © 2015 Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. www.catholicnews.com. All rights reserved. Republishing or redistributing of CNS content, including by framing or similar means without prior permission, is prohibited. You may link to stories on our public site. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To request permission for republishing or redistributing of CNS content, please contact permissions at cns@catholicnews.com.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://edinburghhousewife.blogspot.com/2015/11/happy-holidays.html">Happy Holidays!</a></span>
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<p>I am, of course, referring to Saint Andrew's Day (today), Saint Nicholas' Day (usually December 6) and Saint Lucy's Day (usually December 13). Poor old Nick and Lucy have been bumped by the Second and Third Sundays of Advent, so B.A. and I are celebrating them on the Saturday evening before.<br /><br />I spent some time yesterday scraping candle wax from the toes of Saint Joseph in the Great Parish Clean-up, and it gave me opportunity time to ponder the righteous anger of the Catholic blogs I read or write for. I was rather shaken by the depths to which Roman Catholics could go when duking it out online. In fact, I was so disgusted by the occasion for sin that is Twitter that soon after I got home, I deactivated my account.<br /><br />At Boston College I wrote a lot about righteous anger as a response to blasphemy because I was fascinated by the Mohammad Cartoon Crisis. As a university student, I was pretty tired of all the blasphemous images of Our Lord and Our Lady that appeared in undergrad newspapers (although not at BC), wink, elbow, snigger, and it blew my mind when such newspapers, with all other such non-family newspapers, categorically refused to republish the Mohammad Cartoons. The <i>Boston Phoenix</i> was at least honest about it. To paraphrase a lot of swearing, it said the staff was too scared of potential violence.<br /><br />"Can we learn from the Muslims on this?" I read out from my paper in a Thomistic ethics seminar, and my classmates shifted uneasily. And no wonder. Not only was I acknowledging that a large enough number of Muslims get their way by screaming, committing arson and killing people, I seemed to be suggesting we do that too. Mutual mediation, bruv.<br /><br />There was palpable relief when I concluded, despite St. Thomas Aquinas' heartening ruling that blasphemers should be executed, that as Christians we may not scream, commit arson or kill anybody as a response to blasphemy. We first should contact the person who has so badly offended us and give them the opportunity to apologize and pledge that he will strive not to do it again. I think my ultimate punishment was sanctions. "Stop doing X or we won't buy your product." Yeah, that sounds pretty weak when people are now so scared of Muslims that they tweet "I love my Muslim neighbours" before Islamist terrorists have even stopped firing.*<br /><br />It's sad to think that the sure fire way to stop blasphemy against our Lord would be such brutal and sustained violence that world leaders united in their assurances that "This has nothing to do with belief in Christ" while arresting the blasphemers. But, guess what, I discovered that the only thing that got George IV to sign the Catholic Emancipation Act was the solemn assurance that if he didn't, all Catholic Ireland would rise up and slaughter all the Protestants. This was a big fat lie, but that's how Catholicism became mainstream in the UK again.<br /><br />So yelling-and-screaming is pretty tempting stuff. Traditional blogs metaphorically yelled and screamed all through the Synod (and I helped) and cries to the Cardinals to WALK OUT OF THE SYNOD actually seemed to shake them up. Naturally if our grandparents and great-grandparents had literally yelled and screamed at their parish priests before said priests started smashing up altars with sledgehammers, traditionalists would not be metaphorically screaming so much now.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I believe that there is a time for yelling and screaming. For example, <a href="http://marymagdalen.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/communion-on-tongue-sign-of-intimacy.html">this Indian bishop</a> sexually coerced a young married woman in front of her English parish, and the very English response was to send her and her fuming husband home. If I had been there, I would have given that bishop a lecture he would take to his grave.<br /><br />Father Blake's post is actually about worthy reception of the Eucharist, and all the comments except mine reflect that. But one thing that occurs to me is the Impassibility of God. God doesn't literally suffer. Jesus suffered on the cross, but does not literally suffer any more. Our Lady doesn't literally suffer. The Saints don't suffer. We will not suffer either when we attain (God willing) the Beatific Vision. Blasphemers can do terrible things to Eucharistic hosts, but "they can't hurt Jesus", in the words of a priest I know. Those who are hurt by blasphemy are the same people who are hurt when a bishop insists we lick the cake off his fingers: we ourselves. We can't literally hurt God, but we can certainly hurt each other in all kinds of ways: blasphemy, detraction, libel, quarrelsomeness, chambering...<br /><br />Yes, there is a time to shout, but that time is not ALL the time. And that is why I am starting my own small campaign to keep Christ in Christmas by merely saying "Thank you" when anyone wishes me a "Happy Holidays." I am going to keep my righteous anger to a minimum, particularly as the madness on Edinburgh's major shopping streets have almost nothing to do with Christian Christmas and everything to do with Secular Christmas. Secular Christmas is the post-Christians' big holiday, so they can keep it, I hope they are successful in their pursuit of fun, and I will go to their parties, if invited. Christian Christmas begins--for Latin Catholics--on the evening of 24 December. A number of important holy days fall between the First Sunday of Advent and New Year's Day, so anyone who wishes anyone else "Happy Holidays" is not merely being friendly, they are also accurate.<br /><br />*To be honest, though, I am more inclined to think that "I love you, complete strangers!" and "I'll ride with you" is more about white people comforting ourselves that we are still in charge, still keeping outsiders oppressed/contained, and it's up to Us Nice Ones to protect "minorities" from the Bad Ones among our White Demi-God, Climate-Changing Selves. In short, "I'll ride with you" is paternalist, patronizing and probably racist. It is most definitely about expressing power---in a very weird, counter-intuitive way.<br /><br /><br />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/vatileaks-trial-rescheduled-for-dec-7.cfm">'VatiLeaks' trial rescheduled for Dec. 7</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://image.catholicnews.com/imagehandler/photos/2015/11/24/20151124T1130-535-CNS-VATILEAKS-TRIAL_310.jpg" /><p>IMAGE: EPA</p><p></p><p>By Junno Arocho Esteves</p><p>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Vatican trial against two Italian
journalists, a Spanish monsignor and two others was postponed for one week
after the court allowed one of the defendants to change lawyers.</p>
<p>On what was to be the criminal trial's first day of
testimonies by the defendants Nov. 30, the Vatican court granted a request by
one of the accused to have a new lawyer and receive more time to prepare for
the case. </p>
<p>The proceedings began with the presiding judge, Giuseppe
Dalla Torre, stating the request by Francesca Chaouqui, a member of the former
Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Organization of the
Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See. </p>
<p>Dalla Torre, along with three other Vatican judges,
deliberated for 10 minutes before granting her request and announcing the trial
would resume Dec. 7.</p>
<p>Along with Chaouqui, the defendants present were: Spanish
Msgr. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda, secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic
Affairs of the Holy See; Nicola Maio, who served as personal assistant to Msgr.
Vallejo Balda when he worked on the commission; and the journalists, Gianluigi
Nuzzi, author of "Merchants in the Temple," and Emiliano Fittipaldi,
author of "Avarice." </p>
<p>All five defendants had been given Vatican court-appointed attorneys
in the run-up to the trial. Msgr. Vallejo Balda and Nuzzi had requested the
Vatican's appellate court to allow them to be represented by their own lawyers.
However, Nuzzi tweeted Nov. 24 that the appellate court denied his request.</p>
<p>Msgr. Vallejo Balda, Chaouqui and Maio are accused of forming
an "organized criminal association" with the aim of "committing
several illegal acts of divulging news and documents concerning fundamental
interests of the Holy See and (Vatican City) State."</p>
<p>Under the Vatican criminal code, it is a crime to take,
distribute and publish confidential documents.</p><p>Fittipaldi and Nuzzi are accused of "soliciting and exercising
pressure, especially on (Msgr.) Vallejo Balda, in order to obtain confidential
documents and news," which they then used for their books. The books went
on sale in early November.</p><p>- - -</p><p>Copyright © 2015 Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. www.catholicnews.com. All rights reserved. Republishing or redistributing of CNS content, including by framing or similar means without prior permission, is prohibited. You may link to stories on our public site. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To request permission for republishing or redistributing of CNS content, please contact permissions at cns@catholicnews.com.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2015/11/newchurchier-days.html">Newchurchier days</a></span>
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<p>I have just read, on the blog of His Excellency Bishop Richard Williamson, Bishop of Broadstairs in partibus infidelium, the following revelation about the Novus Ordo Mass: "by a devout priest its ambiguities can all be turned in the old direction". He also demonstrates that "clearly not all consecrations of Novus Ordo bishops and ordinations of Novus Ordo priests are invalid either".
Woe and
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://beiboot-petri.blogspot.com/2015/11/das-hat-aber-mit-dem-klima-nix-zu-tun.html">Das hat aber mit dem Klima nix zu tun!</a></span>
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<p>Da war bei der FAZ ein echter Scherzkeks am Werk!<br /><br /><h3>Deshalb: Unser tweet zum Tage:</h3><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="de"><div dir="ltr" lang="de">Heute beginnt der <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Klimagipfel?src=hash">#Klimagipfel</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Paris?src=hash">#Paris</a>. Die Gedanken unserer Karikaturisten dazu: <a href="https://t.co/g4LHVp82uM">https://t.co/g4LHVp82uM</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COP21?src=hash">#COP21</a> <a href="https://t.co/umgLvr5KB0">pic.twitter.com/umgLvr5KB0</a></div>— FAZ.NET (@faznet) <a href="https://twitter.com/faznet/status/671267699192815618">30. November 2015</a></blockquote>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4521/Catholic-Colleges-in-Trojan-Condom-Report-Challenged-to-Defend-Church-Teaching.aspx">Catholic Colleges in Trojan Condom Report Challenged to Defend Church Teaching</a></span>
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<p>Catholic colleges have a moral obligation to defend the dignity of all human life and should ensure that their sexual health resources do not contradict Church teaching, Brother Ignatius Perkins, O.P., director of health services for the Dominican Friars, Province of St. Joseph, and former dean of the School of Nursing at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tenn., told The Cardinal Newman Society.<br />
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In early November, the annual Sexual Health Report Card released by condom-maker Trojan ranked 140 major campuses — nine of which were Catholic colleges — on their access to sexual health information and resources including contraception and condoms. The inclusion of the nine Catholic colleges has again raised the issue of how and why contraception and condoms are available on many Catholic campuses despite its direct contradiction of Church teaching.<p><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4521/Catholic-Colleges-in-Trojan-Condom-Report-Challenged-to-Defend-Church-Teaching.aspx">More...</a></p>
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<p>Bruno Snell (1896-1986), <i>The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought</i> (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1960), pp. 24-25 (tr. T.G. Rosenmeyer): <br /><blockquote>Our notion of faith or belief always allows for the possibility of disbelief; this is true in the world of ghosts, but is especially valid on a higher religious plane. 'Faith', the <i>credo</i>, requires as its opposite a false belief, a heresy; it is tied to a dogma which people must either attack or defend with their very lives. All this was foreign to the Greeks; they looked upon their gods as so natural and self-evident that they could not even conceive of other nations acknowledging a different faith or other gods. <br /><br />To the Christians who landed in America the gods of the the Indians were of course idols and devils; to the Jews the gods of their neighbours were enemies of Yahweh. But when Herodotus visited Egypt and encountered the native deities, it never occurred to him that he might not find Apollo, Dionysus and Artemis there too. Bupastis translated into Greek is none other than Artemis (2.137), Horus is called Apollo, and Osiris is Dionysus (2.144). Just as the Egyptian name of the king sounds different in Greek, as his insignia deviate from those of a Greek or a Persian king, as a ship or a street does not have one and the same name or appearance in Egypt and in Greece, so also the Egyptian gods are not identical with those of the Greeks, but they are easily 'translated' into the Greek tongue and into Greek ideology. Not every nation calls all the gods its own; Herodotus found some barbarian gods for whom he was unable to cite a Greek name; those gods were to be regarded as barbarian <i>par excellence</i>. The Greeks, then, did not think along the same lines as the Jews or the Christians or the Mohammedans who know but one true god, their own, a god who demands conversion of those who would not recognize him. The Greek attitude springs in part from the circumstance that, dispersed as they were over various lands, they worshipped their gods in many shapes and under many names. The Artemis of Ephesus, the goddess with a hundred breasts, scarcely resembles her namesake, the huntress of Sparta. What wonder that in Egypt she exists in yet another guise, and under another name? The gods of the Greeks are a necessary part of the world, and that is reason enough why they should not be linked exclusively with national boundaries or privileged groups. How could there be any gods but those whose existence is self-evident, inherent in nature itself? Who, for instance, would gainsay that Aphrodite exists? Everybody knows that she is as active among all other peoples as she is among the Greeks; even the animals are subject to her rule. It would be downright absurd to maintain that one does not 'believe' in Aphrodite, the goddess of love. It is possible to neglect her, to pay no respect to her, as was done by the huntsman Hippolytus, but Aphrodite is present, and active, none the less. The same is true of Athena and Ares. And could anyone deny that, when all is said and done, Zeus upholds the sacred order of the world? The existence and the power of the gods are no less certain than the reality of laughter and tears, the living pulse of nature around us, the plain fact of our doings whether they be sublime and solemn, or bold and hard, or bright and serene. Every human act betrays the vitality of the ultimate cause behind it.</blockquote>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The Superior-General of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), Bp. Bernard Fellay, granted an interview with many important answers (and signs...), which was released this Monday. The interview is an official one, that is, made by the Society's own news agency DICI, and was released as part of the latest "Letter to Friends and Benefactors".</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><br /><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><em>On September 1</em></strong><strong><em><sup>st</sup></em></strong><strong><em>, Pope Francis, on his own initiative, decided to allow all the faithful to make confessions to priests of the Society of St. Pius X during the Holy Year. How do you interpret this gesture? What does it mean for the Society?</em></strong></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We were in fact surprised by this action of the Holy Father on the occasion of the Holy Year because we, like everyone else, learned about it through the press. How do we understand this gesture? Allow me to make use of an image. When a fire is raging, everyone understands that those who have the means to do so must endeavor to put it out, especially if there is a shortage of firefighters. So it is that through all fifty years of this terrible crisis that has shaken the Church, particularly the tragic lack of confessors, our priests have devoted themselves to the souls of penitents, invoking the case of emergency foreseen by the Code of Canon Law.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a result of the Pope’s act, during the Holy Year, we will have ordinary jurisdiction. </span><br /><a name="more"></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the image I mentioned, this has the effect of giving us the official insignia of firefighters, whereas such a status was denied us for decades. In itself, it adds nothing new for the Society, its members, or its faithful. Yet this ordinary jurisdiction will perhaps reassure people who are uneasy or others who until now did not dare to approach us. For, as we said in the communiqué thanking the Pope, the priests of the Society wish for one thing only: “To perform with renewed generosity their ministry in the confessional, following the example of untiring devotion that the saintly Cur<em>é </em>of Ars gave to all priests.”</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the occasion of the Synod on the Family, you sent a petition to the Holy Father, then a declaration. Why?</span></em></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The purpose of our petition was to point out as clearly as possible to the Supreme Pontiff the seriousness of the present hour and the decisive impact of his ruling in moral matters of such importance. Pope Francis learned of our sentiments on September 18th, before his departure for Cuba and the United States, and he informed us that he would change nothing of the Catholic doctrine concerning marriage, particularly its indissolubility. But we feared that, in practice, the indissoluble character of the matrimonial bond would be disregarded. And this is in fact what happened, on the one hand with the <em>motu proprio </em>reforming the procedure for declaring the nullity of marriages, and on the other hand with the final document of this Synod. Hence my declaration intending to recall to mind the constant teaching of the Church on a multitude of points that were discussed and sometimes called into question during the month of October. I will not conceal from you the fact that to me the sorry spectacle that the Synod presented seems particularly shameful and scandalous on more than one count.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shameful and scandalous how?</span></em></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, for example this dichotomy between doctrine and morality, between teaching the truth and tolerating sin and the most immoral situations. We understand that one should be patient and merciful with sinners, but how will they convert if their sinful situation is not denounced, if they no longer hear anyone talking about the state of grace and its opposite: the state of mortal sin, which inflicts death on souls and consigns them to the torments of hell? If someone were to measure the infinite offense caused by the slightest mortal sin against God’s honor and sanctity, he would die of astonishment. The Church must firmly condemn all the sins, vices, and errors that corrupt the truth of the Gospel. She must not compromise with scandalous behaviors or acknowledge a culpable acceptance of them or the public sinners who attack the sanctity of marriage. Why does the Church no longer have the courage to speak this way?</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet there were some positive initiatives on the occasion of this Synod, such as the book by eleven cardinals (following one by five cardinals last year); and also the volume by the African prelates; one by Catholic lawyers; the handbook by three bishops, etc.</span></em></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These fortunate initiatives that appeared recently promoting the defense of marriage and the Christian family give us a glimmer of hope. This represents a salutary reaction, even if certain responses leave something to be desired. Let us hope that this may be the beginning of an awakening throughout the Church that will lead to a rectification and real conversion.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last spring, in a sermon given at the church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in Paris, Bishop de Galarreta said that the Church seemed to be in the process of producing “antibodies” to fight the aberrant proposals being made by progressives on the subject of marriage, who align themselves with current customs instead of seeking to amend them according to Gospel teaching. This reaction on the moral level is beneficial. And since morality is closely connected to doctrine, this could be the start of a return of the Church to her Tradition. We pray for this every day!</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the name of mercy, some prelates, like Cardinal Kasper, are trying, if not to change the doctrine of the Church about the indissolubility of marriage, at least to relax the discipline on communion for divorced-and-remarried persons, or to modify its judgment on unnatural unions. What should we think about all these so-called pastoral exceptions?</span></em></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Church can legislate, that is, establish its own laws, which are simply clarifications of the divine law. But in the area of marriage being debated today, Our Lord has already settled the question quite clearly: “What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder” (Matt. 19:6), and immediately afterward: “Whosoever shall put away his wife…committeth adultery” (Matt. 19:9). Therefore the Church has only one thing to do: tell the faithful of the divine law and enshrine it in ecclesiastical laws. In no case can the Church diverge in any way from it; that would be to fail in its mission, which is to hand on the revealed deposit of faith. In plain language, in the matter under consideration, the Church can only declare that there was no marriage to begin with, but in no case can it annul or dissolve a marriage that is valid in itself.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course ecclesiastical laws can add conditions necessary for the validity of a marriage, but always in keeping with the divine law. The Church thus can declare a marriage invalid due to lack of canonical form, but it will never be above the divine law to which it is subject. What is more, it is necessary to state that unlike human and ecclesiastical law, divine law allows for no exceptions, because it is not made by human beings who cannot foresee all possible cases and are obliged to allow room for exceptions. The infinitely wise God has foreseen all possible situations, as I wrote in the petition to the Pope: “the law of God, expression of his eternal love for mankind, is in itself the supreme mercy for all periods of history, all persons, and all situations.”</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><em>Is not the September 8 </em></strong><strong>motu proprio <em>that simplifies the procedure for declarations of nullity of marriage a way of recalling the principle of the indissolubility of marriage, while offering easy canonical terms for evading it?</em></strong></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The new <em>motu proprio </em>regulating canonical arrangements dealing with annulment processes claims, of course, to be an answer to a serious contemporary problem: that of numerous broken families. If you want to examine these cases in order to propose a swifter solution, insofar as it corresponds to the divine law on marriage, very good! But in the present context, that of modern secularized and hedonistic society, and of ecclesiastical tribunals already doing what is forbidden, this <em>motu proprio </em>runs the risk of becoming a legal ratification of the disorder. The result could be much worse than the recommended remedy. I very much fear that one of the key points of the Synod may have been resolved by creating a “back door” that opens the way to a supposed “Catholic divorce,” because concretely the Church is exposing itself to many abuses, especially in countries where the bishops, won over to progressivism and subjectivism, exercise precious little supervision…</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><em>In the Holy Year to begin on December 8</em></strong><strong><em><sup>th</sup></em></strong><strong><em>, is not a mercy without repentance or conversion being touted?</em></strong></span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is true that, in the current climate, an appeal to mercy too easily neglects the indispensable act of conversion, which requires contrition for one’s sins and a horror of sin as an offense against God. Thus I deplored in the last <em>Letter to Friends and Benefactors </em>(#84) the Honduran Cardinal Maradiaga’s complacent support of a new spirituality whose notion of mercy does not require repentance.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nevertheless, if you read carefully the various documents published on the subject of the Holy Year, particularly the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee, you see that the fundamental idea of conversion and contrition for sins in order to obtain forgiveness is present. Despite the reference to an ambiguous mercy that is said to consist of restoring to a human being his “incomparable dignity” rather than the state of grace, the Pope means to promote the return of those who have left the Church, and he multiplies the concrete initiatives to facilitate recourse to the sacrament of penance. Unfortunately, he does not ask himself why so many people have left the Church and stopped practicing their faith, and whether there might be some connection to a certain Council, its “cult of man”, and its catastrophic reforms: unbridled ecumenism; a desacralized and protestantized liturgy; a relaxation of morals, etc.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then can the faithful devoted to Tradition participate without risk of confusion in the Extraordinary Jubilee Year decreed by the Pope? Especially since this Year of Mercy intends to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II, which is supposed to have knocked down the “walls” in which the Church was enclosed…</span></em></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Quite obviously there arises the question of our participation in this Holy Year. In order to resolve it, a distinction is necessary between: the circumstances that bring about a Holy Year or Jubilee and its very essence.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The circumstances are historical, connected with the major anniversaries of the life of Jesus, in particular of his redemptive death. Every fifty years, or even every twenty-five years, the Church institutes a Holy Year. This time around, the point of reference for the opening of the Jubilee Year is not just the Redemption — December 8th is necessarily connected to the redemptive work begun with the Immaculate Mother of God — but also the Second Vatican Council. This is most unsettling, and we reject it forcefully, because we cannot rejoice in, but rather must weep over, the ruins caused by this Council: the precipitous drop in vocations, the dramatic decline of religious practice, and above all the loss of faith described by John Paul II himself as a “silent apostasy”.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nevertheless the essential components of a Holy Year remain: it is a special year in which the Church, upon the decision of the Supreme Pontiff, who holds the power of the keys, opens wide her treasures of graces so as to bring the faithful closer to God, especially by the forgiveness of sins and the remittance of the punishments due to sin. This the Church does in the sacrament of penance and by indulgences. Such graces do not change; they are always the same, and only the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, has power over them. We might also note that the conditions for obtaining the indulgences of the Holy Year are still the same: confession, communion, prayer for the intentions of the Pope — which are objective and traditional, not personal. Nowhere in the reminder of these habitual conditions is there any question of adhering to the conciliar novelties.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Archbishop Lefebvre, with the whole seminary of Écône, went to Rome during the Holy Year of 1975, it was not to celebrate Council’s tenth anniversary, although Paul VI had mentioned that anniversary in the Bull of Indiction. Rather it was an opportunity to profess our <em>Romanitas</em>, our attachment to the Holy See, to the Pope who, as the successor of Peter, has the power of the keys. Following in the footsteps of our venerable founder, during this Holy Year we will concentrate on the essential components of it: repentance so as to obtain divine mercy through the intermediary of His one Church, despite the circumstances that some have thought necessary to invoke as requirements for celebrating this year, as was the case already in 1975 and again in 2000.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We could compare these two elements, the essential and the circumstances, to the contents and the packaging that surrounds them. It would be detrimental to reject the graces belonging to a Holy Year just because it is being presented in defective packaging, without considering the fact that this packaging does not alter the contents, unless the circumstances were to absorb the essentials, and unless, in the present case, the Church no longer had at her disposal the graces proper to the Holy Year because of the damage done by Vatican II. But the Church was not born fifty years ago! And, through the grace of Christ who is “the same yesterday, today and for ever,” (Heb. 13:8) it remains and will remain the same, despite a Council open to a world of perpetual change…</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">In several recent statements you seem to want to anticipate the one hundredth anniversary of Fatima by inviting the faithful to start preparing now. Why?</span></em></strong></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From the perspective mentioned in this letter and in order to insist on the urgency of conversion, we thought of connecting these corporal and spiritual works of mercy that we are invited to perform this year with the centenary of the apparitions in Fatima, in which Our Lady insisted so much on the necessity of conversion, of oneself and of the world, on the necessity for works of penance and on prayer, especially the Rosary. Imploring divine mercy is closely connected with the Fatima apparitions: the Blessed Virgin invited us to pray and do penance, and this is how we will obtain mercy, not otherwise. It seems to me quite beneficial to tie these two future anniversaries together this way by making them two years of efforts to draw closer both to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary and to Our Lord, both to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to the merciful Sacred Heart.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Society of St. Pius X will organize an international pilgrimage to Fatima from August 21<sup>st</sup> to 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2017. But already we can and even must prepare ourselves, especially when Catholic morality is seriously being challenged.</span></div>
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<p>Andrew is like most of the apostles. While tradition may have favored him more than others, Scripture doesn’t shine the spotlight on him like the three that have all the fun. Peter, James, and John are invited into houses when the Lord heals the sick or raises the dead; they get to go up to […]
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<p>The University of Notre Dame announced last month that it would begin a pilot program to manufacture University-licensed products in two Chinese factories, a move criticized as a violation of Catholic social teaching by a Notre Dame theology professor.
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“The new policy violates Catholic social teaching,” wrote Associate Professor of Theology Todd Whitmore, who opposed the new program in a <a href="http://ndsmcobserver.com/2015/11/china-policy-violates-catholic-social-teaching/" style="line-height: 1.5em;">letter</a> to the editor published in the November 5 issue of <em style="line-height: 1.5em;">The</em> <em style="line-height: 1.5em;">Observer</em>, Notre Dame’s official campus newspaper.
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Whitmore, who has taught Catholic social teaching at Notre Dame every semester for the last 25 years, argued the policy specifically breaches “’the principle of cooperation with evil.’ In this case, the evil of denying workers their rights.”<p><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4520/Professor-Notre-Dame-Manufacturing-in-China-Violates-Catholic-Social-Teaching.aspx">More...</a></p>
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<p>Callimachus, fragment 714 (tr. C.A. Trypanis): <br /><blockquote>Worries then weigh less on a man, and of thirty parts one is removed, when he blurts out his troubles to a friend, or a fellow-traveller, or even finally to the deaf gusts of wind.<br /><br /><span>κουφοτέρως τότε φῶτα διαθλίβουσιν ἀνῖαι,<br /> ἐκ δὲ τριηκόντων μοῖραν ἀφεῖλε μίαν,<br />ἢ φίλον ἢ ὅτ᾿ ἐς ἄνδρα συνέμπορον ἢ ὅτε κωφαῖς<br /> ἄλγεα μαψαύραις ἔσχατον ἐξερύγῃ.</span></blockquote>In general, however, the Greeks considered complaining like this unmanly. See, e.g., K.J. Dover, <i>Greek Popular Morality</i> (1974; rpt. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1994), p. 101 (on differences between men and women). <br /><br />Related posts: <br /><ul><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2011/09/it-is-unmanly-to-complain.html">It is Unmanly to Complain</a></li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-keeping-stiff-upper-lip.html">On Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip</a></li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2009/09/grosse-seelen-dulden-still.html">Grosse Seelen Dulden Still</a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2008/09/hiding-troubles.html">Hiding Troubles</a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2008/05/nietzsche-on-emotional-incontinence.html">Nietzsche on Emotional Incontinence</a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2008/05/buckled-lips.html">Buckled Lips</a></li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/02/emotional-incontinence.html">Emotional Incontinence</a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/08/euripidea.html">Euripidea</a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2006/08/hostile-laughter.html">Hostile Laughter</a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2006/09/hostile-laughter-in-euripides-medea.html">Hostile Laughter in Euripides' <i>Medea</i></a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/08/icy-laughter.html">Icy Laughter</a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/02/notes-to-myself.html">Notes to Myself</a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/06/on-concealing-ones-misfortunes.html">On Concealing One's Misfortunes</a> </li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/09/quotations-about-complaints.html">Quotations about Complaints</a></li></ul>
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<p>A new documentary debunking man-made global warming will premier just in time for the Paris summit gathering all the Chicken Littles to scream, "Climate change is going to kill us all!" <a href="http://www.climatehustle.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/FactSheetCH.pdf"><i>Climate Hustle </i></a>presents a growing number of scientists challenging the assumption that CO2 is damaging the planet. Check out the website <a href="http://climatehustle.com/">here</a>. And then<a href="http://drrichswier.com/2015/11/20/prominent-scientists-declare-climate-claims-ahead-of-un-summit-irrational-based-on-nonsense/"> read what prominent scientists</a> have to say about the nonsense.<br /><br />John Coleman has a great video on how the global warming scam is based on lies and how it got started. The engine driving global warming is money and politics. Check it out. He's not very hopeful about his and other skeptics' efforts changing things. What will change things is the same thing that destroyed Paul Ehrlich's population scare. Time and exposure. False prophets ultimately do themselves in. The population bomb was a dud and the man-made global warming/climate change hysteria will undo itself as well. How many frigid winters will people have to experience before they realize they've been scammed? And why? It's the money, stupid! There's no money in normal. There's big money in scaremongering.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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<p>Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931), <i>Der Glaube der Hellenen</i>, I (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1931), p. 10 (tr. W.K.C. Guthrie): <br /><blockquote>I don't understand the languages from which are borrowed the words so beloved by the present day, <i>tabu</i> and <i>totem</i>, <i>mana</i> and <i>orenda</i>, but I consider it a safe procedure to stick to the Greeks, and in what concerns Greece to think in Greek.<br /><br />Ich verstehe die Sprachen nicht, aus denen die zurzeit beliebten Wörter, Tabu und Totem, Mana und Orenda, entlehnt sind, halte es aber auch für einen zulässigen Weg, mich an die Griechen zu halten und über Griechisches griechisch zu denken.</blockquote>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Pope_Francis_at_the_Wednesday_general_audience_in_St_Peters_Square_on_June_17_2015_Credit_Bohumil_Petrik_CNA.jpg" /><p>Bangui, Central African Republic, Nov 30, 2015 / 03:28 am (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- Christians and Muslims must unite against acts which “disfigure the Face of God” by promoting peace, Pope Francis told Islamic representatives on the final day of his visit the war-torn Central African Republic (CAR).<br />
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“Those who claim to believe in God must also be men and women of peace,” the Pope said at the Nov. 30 encounter at the Mosque of Koudoukou in the CAR capital Bangui, recalling the long history of peaceful coexistence among people of different religions.<br />
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“Christians, Muslims and members of the traditional religions have lived together in peace for many years,” the pontiff said, adding: “We are well aware that the recent events and acts of violence which have shaken your country were not grounded in properly religious motives.”<br />
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Pope Francis arrived Sunday in the CAR, the final stop of his tri-nation visit to Africa. It also marks the pontiff’s first time in an active war zone.<br />
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“Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters. We must therefore consider ourselves and conduct ourselves as such,” he said.<br />
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“They ought, therefore, to remain united in working for an end to every act which, from whatever side, disfigures the Face of God and whose ultimate aim is to defend particular interests by any and all means, to the detriment of the common good.”<br />
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“Together, we must say no to hatred, to revenge and to violence, particularly that violence which is perpetrated in the name of a religion or of God himself. God is peace, salam.”<br />
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The CAR became embroiled in violence in December 2012 when several bands of mainly Muslim rebel groups formed an alliance, taking the name Seleka. They left their strongholds in the north of the country and made their way south, seizing power from then-president Francois Bozize. Since then, some 6,000 people have died in the conflict, with several thousands more displaced.<br />
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The country will hold both presidential and parliamentary elections Dec. 27, after they were postponed in October due to violence and instability. Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza, who has so far struggled to keep peace, will not be a candidate.<br />
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Pope Francis went forward with the scheduled visit to the Koudoukou mosque despite security concerns. These fears were exacerbated by reports Saturday of three young people being killed in a nearby neighborhood, although it was later announced that no one died, and that the youths had been found.<br />
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In his address at the mosque, the Pope expressed his gratitude for the work done by Christian and Muslim leaders to re-establish “harmony and fraternity among all.”<br />
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The pontiff went on to acknowledge the acts of solidarity shown by Christians and Muslims towards persons of other religions by “welcoming them and defending them during this latest crisis in your country, as well as in other parts of the world.”<br />
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“We cannot fail to express hope that the forthcoming national consultations will provide the country with leaders capable of bringing Central Africans together, thus becoming symbols of national unity rather than merely representatives of one or another faction.”<br />
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The Pope called for the CAR, which is “situated in the heart of Africa,” to be a place of welcome for everyone – regardless of ethnicity, political affiliation, or religion – which in turn will encourage the rest of the continent to follow in its footsteps.<br />
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“It will prove a positive influence and help extinguish the smouldering tensions which prevent Africans from benefitting from that development which they deserve and to which they have a right.”<br />
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Pope Francis concluded his address by inviting those present to “pray and work for reconciliation, fraternity and solidarity among all people, without forgetting those who have suffered the most as a result of recent events.”<br />
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The Pope’s visit to the CAR is the last stop of his Nov. 25-30 African journey which included visits to Kenya and Uganda.<br />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://korrektivpress.com/2015/11/race-relations-in-seattle-part-i/">Race Relations in Seattle</a></span>
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<p>So I’m waiting for my ride at 5th and Jackson, when my bus driver friend Gary (older black gentleman, very nice, but very formal) drives up in the #14. A lady with tattoos on her face staggers towards the bus as I’m talking to him, so I step back to let her on, rolling my eyes to let Gary know he’s got a real winner coming on board. She’s just trashed, and being Caucasian, I guess that makes her White Trash (in this part of town, it’s probably 50/50 odds the inebriated person is black or white. The Asians are rarely wasted, or they never show it, and I won’t even mention the Native Americans). </p>
<p>Anyway, after the drunk Caucasian lady stumbles past Gary, he looks at me and says, “That’s one of your people, Finnegan.” Then he closes the door and drives on up Jackson. </p>
<p>Maybe you’d need to know Gary, but it was funny as hell.</p>
<p>Now, if our roles were reversed, could I say the same thing, and would it be funny? Obviously no, and I think it could be justifiably considered a racist comment. Doesn’t that mean that Gary’s comment is racist as well? What’s fair (or unfair) for someone on the basis of race must be fair or unfair for someone of a different race, right?</p>
<p>Only if you’re an idiot. The manner in which people of different races, especially blacks and whites, view one another has a long history in this country, and ignoring it, or trying to ignore it, turns us into fools. People are different. We treat different people differently, and that’s just the way it is.</p>
<p>No, it doesn’t mean racism is a laughing matter. Neither, in most or at least many circumstances, are drunkenness and tattooed faces. And I’m not sure how well this story would play in front of a crowd, told by a comedian. In fact, this seems like a pretty good illustration of the difference between what’s funny for professional comedians, and what it means to have a sense of humor in the midst of whatever life happens to throw at you. The former can be enjoyable, but the latter is necessary so that life doesn’t become unbearable.</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/30_Nov_CNA.png" /><p>Bangui, Central African Republic, Nov 30, 2015 / 03:19 am (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- During the final Mass of his first visit to Africa, Pope Francis called the Christians of the Central African Republic (CAR) to be missionaries in their nation, bringing renewal amid suffering, and hope for eternal life.<br />
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“Christians of Central Africa, each of you are called to be, through perseverance in faith and missionary commitment, artisans of the human and spiritual renewal of your country,” the Pope said Nov. 30 at Barthélémy Boganda Stadium, on his last full day in the CAR.<br />
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“Dear Central Africans, may you look to the future and, strengthened by the distance you have already come, resolutely determine to begin a new chapter in the Christian history of your country, to set out towards new horizons, to put out into the deep.”<br />
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Pope Francis arrived Sunday in the CAR, the final stop of his tri-nation visit to Africa. It also marks the pontiff’s first time in an active war zone, with new deaths reported daily.<br />
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The last pontiff to visit the CAR was St. John Paul II in 1985, as part of a larger trip to Togo, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Zaire and Kenya.<br />
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Pope Francis centered his homily on the day’s first reading, which demonstrates St. Paul’s “enthusiasm and missionary drive” with the words: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” (Rom 10:15).<br />
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These words inspire gratitude for the faith received, the Pope said, while also inspiring “us to reflect with amazement on the great missionary effort which – not long ago – first brought the joy of the Gospel to this beloved land of Central Africa.”<br />
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“It is good, especially in times of difficulty, trials and suffering, when the future is uncertain and we feel weary and apprehensive, to come together before the Lord. To come together, as we do today, to rejoice in his presence and in the new life and the salvation which he offers us.”<br />
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Pope Francis reflected how the Lord invites us to “another shore,” which refers to eternal life.<br />
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“Looking towards the world to come has always been a source of strength for Christians, of the poor, of the least, on their earthly pilgrimage,” the pontiff said.<br />
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“Eternal life is not an illusion; it is not a flight from the world. It is a powerful reality which calls out to us and challenges us to persevere in faith and love.”<br />
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However, in working towards eternal life, we are called to transform our lives, and the lives of those around us, the Pope said.<br />
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“Those who believe receive the very life of Christ, which enables them to love God and their brothers and sisters in a new way and to bring to birth a world renewed by love.”<br />
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Pope Francis called us to give thanks to God for giving us strength and inspiring in us solidarity, generosity, and joy, even amid physical and spiritual suffering, violence, and fears for the future.<br />
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“Let us thank him for his gift of courage, which inspires us to forge bonds of friendship, to dialogue with those who are different than ourselves, to forgive those who have wronged us, and to work to build a more just and fraternal society in which no one is abandoned,” he said.<br />
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“In all these things, the Risen Christ takes us by the hand and guides us,” the Pope continued.<br />
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“I join you in thanking the Lord in his mercy for all the beautiful, generous and courageous things he has enabled you to accomplish in your families and communities during these eventful years in the life of your country.”<br />
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Nonetheless, Pope Francis stressed that we have not yet arrived at our ultimate destination, and are in need of a “renewed missionary zeal.”<br />
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“All the baptized need to continually break with the remnants of the old Adam, the man of sin, ever ready to rise up again at the prompting of the devil,” he said.<br />
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“How often this happens in our world and in these times of conflict, hate and war! How easy it is to be led into selfishness, distrust, violence, destructiveness, vengeance, indifference to and exploitation of those who are most vulnerable.”<br />
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Pope Francis said the Year of Mercy is an occasion for Christian communities, which are “called to holiness,” to ask forgiveness for their their “all too frequent reluctance and hesitation in bearing witness to the Gospel.”<br />
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“Each of us, in his or her heart, can ask the crucial question of where we stand with Jesus, asking what we have already accepted – or refused to accept – in responding to his call to follow him more closely.”<br />
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Those who bring the “Good News” of the Gospel resounds especially in difficult times, and does so in the CAR, the Pope said.<br />
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“It resounds in our hearts, our families, our parishes, wherever we live. It invites us to persevere in enthusiasm for mission, for that mission which needs new ‘bearers of good news,’ ever more numerous, generous, joyful and holy.”<br />
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“We are all called to be, each of us, these messengers whom our brothers and sisters of every ethnic group, religion and culture, await, often without knowing it. For how can our brothers and sisters believe in Christ – Saint Paul asks – if the Word is neither proclaimed nor heard?”<br />
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Pope Francis said for us to follow the example of the Apostles in hoping for the future, knowing that Jesus is accompanying us to the “other shore,” which is “at hand.”<br />
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“He is risen from the dead; henceforth the trials and sufferings which we experience are always opportunities opening up to a new future, provided we are willing to follow him.”<br />
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The Pope concluded by asking for the intercession of Mary “who by sharing in the Passion of her Son, now shares in his perfect joy, protect you and encourage you on this path of hope.”<br />
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On Sunday, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of Bangui’s cathedral on Sunday--the first time a Pope has opened a Holy Door outside Rome.<br />
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The Jubilee of Mercy does not begin until Dec. 8, but pontiff decided to open the Holy Door in the cathedral of Bangui as a sign of prayer and solidarity with the country.<br />
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The Central African Republic is an active warzone following the December 2012 uprising which led to the overthrow of the president. About 6,000 people have died in the conflict, with several thousands more displaced.<br />
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Pope Francis’ Nov. 25-30 African journey also included visits to Kenya, Uganda, and finally the CAR, marking first trip to the continent.<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34952803">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34952803</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34956969">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34956969</a></p>
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<p>Wir haben unsere Schuhe nicht ausgezogen, betrachten dafür aber das Urteil von Prof. Crescenti zur apokalyptisch ver-zeichneten Klimaerwärmung als lesenswert. Der Anlass, das zu tun findet sich leicht.<br />Heute hat in Le Bourget, Frankreich, die Weltklimakonferenz (COP21) begonnen, deren Ziel es ist, einen Konsens zu finden, der das Kyoto-Protokoll ersetzt. Um verständlich zu machen, was auf dem Spiel steht, hat <b>La Nuova Bussola</b> <b>Quotidiana </b>das Vorwort von <b>Prof. Uberto Crescenti</b> (em. Geologie-Professor) für das in diesen Tagen im Verlag " 21mo Secolo" erschienene neue Buch <b> "Der Klimatismus: eine neue Ideologie" </b>von <b>Mario Giaccio </b>veröffentlicht.<br />Hier geht´s zum Original: <b><a href="http://www.lanuovabq.it/it/articoli-conferenza-sul-climaprova-di-governo-mondiale-14542.htm">klicken</a></b><br /><br /><b> "KLIMAKONFERENZ, VERSUCH EINER WELTREGIERUNG"</b><br />von U.Crescenti<br /><br /><b>"An erster Stelle wird nach einem ehrgeizigen und bindenden Übereinkommen</b> mit dem Ziel einer Klimaveränderung gesucht, die für alle Länder verbindlich gelten soll.<br />Es wird für erwiesen gehalten, daß ein Klimawandel stattfindet, der überwiegend auf die menschlichen Aktivitäten zurückzuführen ist und daß -um gefährliche Einflüsse des menschlichen Handelns auf das Klima zu vermeiden,- der zu tolerierende Temperaturanstieg die Höchstgrenze von 2°C gegenüber der präindustriellen Zeit nicht überschreiten darf.<br />Je früher man einschreite, desto niedriger seien die Kosten. 2015 ist der letzte Termin um eine -legal bindende -Übereinkunft zu erzielen, die das Kyoto-Protokoll 2020 ablösen könnte.<br /><br /><b>Ein fundamentaler Bestandteil wird auch die Finanzierung</b> des Kampfes gegen den Klimawandel sein.<br />Ein erste Etappe wurde durch die Kapitalisierung des Grünen Fonds mit 9,3 Milliarden $ , von denen praktisch 1 Milliarde aus Frankreich kommt, erreicht.<br /><b>Im Konferenz-Programm findet man die traditionellen Hinweise</b>: das auf den Punktbringen einer internationalen Übereinkunft bis 2015, mit bindender juristischer Kraft ausgestattet, die die Ziele und Aufgaben der Beteiligten bis 2020 enthält und die mit der Begrenzung der nationalen Souveränität einhergeht, um den Weg zu einer Weltregierung zu ebnen. Und es findet sich auch die Dringlichkeit der Übereinkunft und der zu ergreifenden Maßnahmen wieder.<br /><br /><b>Man sagt, daß ein akzeptabler mittlerer Temperaturanstieg </b>des Planeten das Limit von 2-3° C gemessen gegenüber der präindustriellen Ära -nicht überschreiten sollte. Im Vergleich zur warmen Periode des Mittelalters, in der die Temperaturen ungefähr 2-3 Grad höher lagen als die aktuellen, schlägt man praktisch vor, daß die anzustrebende Temperaturgrenze unterhalb der des Mittelalters (und vieler vorhergehender Perioden) liegen solle, zu einer Zeit also, als alle die Katastrophen, die man uns jetzt vorhersagt, nicht passiert sind.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><b>Historisch gesehen kann man sagen, daß seit 1980</b> die IPCC ,<span> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>(</span><span>I</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">ntergovernmental Panel On Climate </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Change) </span></span>die von einer kleinen Globale-Temperaturerhöhung-Unterstützergruppe gebildet wurde -indem sie einige Beweise fälschten, die Menschheit glauben läßt, daß sie einer Katastrophe entgegengeht, die auf einer menschengemachten Temperaturerhöhung durch Kohlendioxyd-Emissionen beruht.<br />Das alles verspricht der teuerste wissenschaftliche Irrtum der Geschichte zu werden.<br /><br /><b>Es wird auch der Mythos propagiert</b>, daß die Theorie einer globalen Erwärmung von einem einmütigen Konsens der Klimatologen gestützt wird. Aber die Klimaschwankungen- zusammen mit der Kenntnis der Klimageschichte-, zeigen, daß die physikalischen Faktoren, die das Klima beeinflussen, vielfältig und komplex sind. Diejenige natürlichen Ursprungs sind bekannt und an astronomische Gründe gekoppelt, wie z.B. die Sonnenaktivität, die Variationen der Sonnenflecken, die Unregelmäßigkeit des irdischen Orbits, die im Verlauf der Jahrtausende, Jahrzehntausende oder Hunderttausende sich zyklisch-wiederholende Effekte produzieren - abgesehen davon, daß die Erde sich auch um sich selbst dreht, Meere, eine Atmosphäre und eine Wolkendecke hat, und das Klima sich deshalb notgedrungen ändern muß. Alle Aspekte sind qualitativ bekannt- aber quantitativ schwer zu korrelieren.<br /><br /><b>Die Gründe menschlichen Ursprungs</b> werden quasi ausschließlich auf die Emission von Kohlendioxyd reduziert- das bei der Nutzung fossiler Brennstoffe entsteht, obwohl das nur 5% des in der Atmosphäre vorhandenen Kohlendioxyds ausmachen (und eine irrelevante Fraktion in Bezug auf das in den Ozeanen freie und als Karbonat und Bikarbonat in Sedimenten gebundene Kohlendioxyd bildet).<br /><br /><b>Die enorme Menge von Faktoren macht jede Projektion in die Zukunft schwierig. </b>Angesichts dieser Fakten und nicht immer vertrauenswürdiger und homogener Beobachtungen und Messungen werden Szenarien und Projektionen vorgeschlagen, die keine Vorhersagen auf der Basis von Modellen und Computersimulationen sind. Aber es ist zu bedenken, daß jedes Modell Charakteristika aufweist, die von den für dieses Modell verwendeten Parametern abhängen und ein eigenes Gewicht besitzen.<br /><b><br /></b><b>Wenn z.B. ein Modell in einer wissenschaftlichen Diskussion</b> vorgestellt wird -in Gegenposition zu einem anderen-in einer Art Kühnheitswettbewerb- ist das eine gute Sache. Aber sie wollen mit einem deterministischen Modell Weltpolitik machen, massiv das Leben der Menschheit beeinflussen, um dann in politischen Prozessen oder Entscheidungen unterzutauchen, die nicht unter einem wissenschaftlichen Vorwand durchgeführt werden sollten.<br /><br /><b>Weitergehend als die Heuchelei des Wissenschaftsmäntelchens</b>, hat die aus dem Kyoto-Protokoll herausgesprudelte Politik äußerst beachtenswerte ökonomische Reflexe ausgelöst. die sich sehr stark auf die industrielle Produktion auswirken und haben Finanzinstrumente ins Leben gerufen, sie den in der Welt bereits vorhandenen Myriaden von Finanzinstrumenten hinzugefügt und ihnen so Zugang zu Spekulation und Betrügereien ermöglicht. Es hat beachtenswerte wirtschaftliche Vorteile für alle Projekte gegeben, die -direkt oder indirekt- an den Märkten rund um die Kohlendioxyd-Emissionen teilhaben: Banken, CO2-Handel, Produktion sogenannter nachhaltiger erneuerbarer Energien etc.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Richard Lindzen , der zur Zeit als der größte Atmosphärenphysiker gilt, </b></span>und "Klimawissenschaftler des Jahres 2007" war, hat erklärt: "Die kommenden Generationen werden sich fragen, wie es möglich war, daß die entwickelte Welt zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts in eine hysterische Panik verfallen konnte, wegen eines mittleren globalen Temperaturanstiegs von einigen Zehntelgraden. Sie werden sich fragen, wie- in Beachtung der vielfältigen Einflussfaktoren- die Möglichkeit in Erwägung gezogen werden konnte, in die präindustrielle Zeit zurückkehren zu können...."<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Alle Möglichkeiten in einen einzigen Parameter einzuschließen (</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Kohlendioxyd aus menschlichen Aktivitäten)- alle Möglichkeiten der Verdammung oder Rettung der Menschheit-, scheint ein übertriebener Anthropozentrimsus zu sein, es scheint, daß die ganze Welt ein statischer Organismus sei und nur der Mensch diesen idyllischen Zustand des Planeten ändern könne. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Schaut man objektiv auf das Kyoto-Protokoll, hat man den Eindruck, daß dahinter nicht wirklich die Reduzierung des Kohlendioxydausstoßes steht, sondern daß es sich um eine Fassade handelt, hinter der sich etwas anderes verbirgt, ein anderes Ziel.</span></span><br /><div class="box-articolo" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; width: 645px;"><div class="box-articolo-dx" style="line-height: 18px; margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px;"><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Unter dem Vorwand der Nachhaltigkeit k</b>ann jeder Aspekt unseres Lebens von finanziellen und technokratischen Exponenten kontrolliert und reguliert werden. Das Kyoto-Protokoll schlägt die Schaffung nationaler und supranationaler bürokratischer Monster vor, die die Emissionen rationieren sollen und als Folge davon- weltweit die ökonomischen Aktivitäten, mit obligatorischen Restriktionen und Sanktionen regulieren, sodaß das Schicksal der Länder, der Industrie und der Landwirtschaft- und zuletzt der Menschen der gesamten Welt- von ihnen abhängt. Wahrscheinlich ist der Klimatismus ein Instrument zur Generalprobe für eine offensichtlich monokratische und nicht subsidiäre Weltherrschaft."</span><br /><div style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><strong><em><span style="font-family: inherit;">* Professore Emerito di Geologia Applicata, Università G</span><span>. d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara</span></em></strong></div><div style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div>
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<p>A very happy and holy Name Day to all those splendid people - you know whom I mean! - whose Patron Saint is S Andrew!
You don't need to be a Scotsman to have a devotion to S Andrew. His cultus is embedded also in the history of English Christianity in a way which goes back to the Roman origins of our Liturgy even before S Augustine had arrived off the shores of Kent. And it is most happily bound
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<p>Late notice, but this coming Thursday (3rd December) Mark Moncrieff of <a href="http://uponhopeblog.blogspot.com.au/">Upon Hope</a> and I will be hosting a meeting of the Melbourne Traditionalists. If you're interested in attending please send either one of us an email (mine: swerting(at)bigpond.com)
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<p>This is old news now in America but wasn't widely reported on here in Australia. Two events, one at Yale and the other at the University of Missouri, show a disturbing trend amongst radical activists. <br /><br />Let's start with the prestigious Yale University. The event there began when an email was sent to students asking them to show sensitivity when selecting Halloween costumes. The wife of a college master sent an email of her own lamenting the fact that students were no longer being encouraged to be transgressive but instead were scared to offend. Her husband supported her on more libertarian, free speech grounds, that rather than college authorities ban anything, students themselves should show disapproval of what they found offensive. <br /><br />Jancey Paz, a student at the college, wrote a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151107010454/http://yaleherald.com/op-eds/hurt-at-home/">letter</a> of complaint about the master: <br /><blockquote>...in his ten weeks as a leader of the college, Master Christakis has not fostered this sense of community. He seems to lack the ability, quite frankly, to put aside his opinions long enough to listen to the very real hurt that the community feels. He doesn’t get it. And I don’t want to debate. I want to talk about my pain. <br /><br />My dad is a really stubborn man. We debate all the time, and I understand the value of hearing differing opinions. But there have been times when I have come to my father crying, when I was emotionally upset, and he heard me regardless of whether or not he agreed with me. He taught me that there is a time for debate, and there is a time for just hearing and acknowledging someone’s pain. <br /><br />I have had to watch my friends defend their right to this institution. This email and the subsequent reaction to it have interrupted their lives. I have friends who are not going to class, who are not doing their homework, who are losing sleep, who are skipping meals, and who are having breakdowns. I feel drained. And through it all, Christakis has shown that he does not consider us a priority.</blockquote><br />Remember, this is Yale. It is supposed to be a place where the intellectual elite gather. Instead, Jancey Paz portrays it as a place where emotionally fragile young people commune to have their feelings soothed. <br /><br />Or perhaps we are witnessing a new strategy by student radicals. One in which the matter at hand never even gets to the point of political debate because this would be too upsetting - the only acceptable role for those listening to the student left is one of unqualified support and sympathy. <br /><br />And if this support isn't fulsome enough? Then the supposedly "fragile" communities will punish you fiercely, as Tim Wolfe, who was until recently President of the University of Missouri, found out. <br /><br />The student left at Missouri felt that he hadn't created spaces of healing after a police shooting in Ferguson: <br /><blockquote>“In the following months, our students were left stranded, forced to face an increase in tension and inequality with no systemic support...The academic careers of our students are suffering. The mental health of our campus is under constant attack. Our students are being ignored. We have asked the University to create spaces of healing and it failed to do so.” </blockquote><br />He apologised but the left still made two demands. First, that he issue another public apology at a press conference acknowledging his "white male privilege". The second that he be fired. He was fired. <br /><br />For the moment, the strategy has worked.
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20151130015112.htm" target="_blank">H/T AINA</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Are the leftwing liberal media finally reporting on atrocities committed against Christians in the Middle East?</div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/11/29/dead_temples_vs_living_churches_isis_is_obliterating_christian_communities_why_arent_we_paying_attention/" target="_blank">SALON</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">(Yep, that Salon!)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">SUNDAY, NOV 29, 2015 06:00 AM PST</div><i>Dead temples vs. living churches: ISIS is obliterating Christian communities — why aren’t we paying attention?</i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">We mourn destruction of artifacts, but the living churches being destroyed are the heart and soul.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jenkins" target="_blank">Philip Jenkins</a> [<a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/11/29/dead_temples_vs_living_churches_isis_is_obliterating_christian_communities_why_arent_we_paying_attention/" target="_blank">source/link</a>]</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;">Every few days, ISIS militants in the Middle East carry out some new atrocity calculated to inflict shock and awe on Western opinion. They carry out barbarous executions, they destroy priceless items of cultural heritage, all duly filmed, and those acts have their effect worldwide. It's a sad commentary on global opinion, though, that some of the most savage blows inflicted on the world's cultural and religious heritage have gained nothing like as much attention. Assyrian sculptures and Greco-Roman temples are irreplaceable monuments of human civilization, but so too are the living churches now being uprooted. Christian communities have almost been obliterated in most of Iraq, and a similar process is underway in large areas of Syria. That humanitarian crisis is familiar enough, but far less understood is the significance of these churches now facing terminal crisis. In their time, they represented not just a distant fringe of Christianity, but its heart and core. Ironically, they decisively shaped the history of Islam, as well as Christianity.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><a name="more"></a>ISIS supporters identify Christian homes with the Arabic letter Nun for Nasrani, Nazarene. That usage takes us back to an era when followers of Jesus were as likely to bear that name as the newer alternative, "Christian." For centuries, Christians in those regions used the Semitic Syriac language, which is so near to Hebrew and Aramaic. For a millennium, Syriac was one of the great languages of Christian literature, scholarship and devotion, at least equal in significance to Greek and Latin. What we see being before our eyes are the last vestiges of that critical third component of early and medieval Christianity.</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Jenkins' article also includes the following risky but mostly accurate assertions.</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Wherever they went, eastern Christians took with them their writings and their scriptures, and exchanged ideas with other faiths they encountered, including Buddhists and Manicheans. Through the Middle Ages, Syriac churches scattered across Central and Eastern Asia used as their symbol a lotus cross, which merged the symbols of Christianity and Buddhism. Those churches served as conduits for the importation to the West of Indian and other Asian ideas, including the numbering system that we today call Arabic.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Those Christian encounters with Asian faiths were sporadic, but from earliest times, the Eastern churches were intimately involved with Islam. Christian monasteries abounded in those areas where Islam arose, and when the Quran depicts familiar biblical stories or individuals, it is always in a form mediated through later Christian writings and alternative gospels that were read in Syriac. <b>The lengthy Quranic accounts of Jesus and the Virgin Mary draw heavily on apocryphal </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">(i.e., heretical)</span><b> scriptures that met the demand of ordinary believers for every romantic detail of the early lives of the Savior and his family.</b></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Beyond shaping the scriptures of Islam, Christians supplied most of the basic religious practices of early Muslims. The stern Christian Lent became the Muslim Ramadan, and the monastic habit of prostration during worship established the pattern that all Muslims observe today. In its layout, a typical modern mosque is a good facsimile of the typical churches that early Muslims would have found in Syria and Palestine.</span></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Bear in mind, several heresies were in vogue for centuries in parts of the Christian east. Muhammad had, for example, contact with heretical Nestorian christians and their communities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jenkins has written for <i><a href="http://www.firstthings.com/" target="_blank">First Things</a></i> magazine.</div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://blog.etheldredasplace.net/virtue/who-is-like-god-two/">Who Is Like God? Two</a></span>
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<p>Two people asked me an interesting question which I had trouble answering.</p>
<p>One woman asked me why God helped me so much in my life, when she felt that He had not helped her. She noted that I seemed to have an easier life, which those of you who know my story, cannot imagine anyone saying.</p>
<p>I did not know what to say, as she is healthy, has had a long and good marriage, she is comfortable financially, she has lovely children, a lovely house and all the modern conveniences, the family is all talented and nice looking, and so on.</p>
<p>She has had many friends as well.</p>
<p>Another person asked me the same question, as I was speaking of some difficulties which a friend helped me out of some time ago.</p>
<p>“Why should you get help from your friends, and I do not?” Again, this person had no pressing needs, lived a nice, safe and solid middle class lifestyle,yet she felt she had never been noticed in her personal needs, which may have been very true. But, to the world, she looks comfortable.</p>
<p>One must ask God for help in all things.</p>
<p>Garrigou-Lagrange gave me the answer, which I could not think of myself, as I do not consider myself special in any way, only one of God’s fools.</p>
<p>The great Dominican notes that Divine Providence works in and with mercy and justice. He states that “providence and justice will make up for the inequality in natural conditions by their distribution of supernatural gifts.”</p>
<p>If I had known this and understood this in my own life, I could have answered the two queries. Justice is that which is due to God alone, such as true worship and the acceptance of His Lordship. The poor have more opportunities of giving up their lives and things to God, as they do not have much to begin with for detaching themselves.</p>
<p>Garrigou-Lagrange writes that “one who is bereft of this world’s enjoyments wil in some cases feel more powerfully drawn to the joys of the interior life. That is what our Lord would have us understand when He says, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit…Blessed are the meek;; that suffer persecution for justice’s sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.’”</p>
<p>All I own fits into one small bedroom. All I wear for two months fits into one suitcase, which also includes books and papers. All I do is to give everything I have and do to God daily. I have many trials just because life can be difficult. But, what these two ladies saw was not my stuff, or their stuff, but my total reliance on God. They thought it was reliance on other people, but it is not. If those who listen to God come to my aid, so be it. But, one is never presumptuous, but waits.</p>
<p>What else are we called to do but totally abandon ourselves to God?</p>
<p>A prayer which Garrigou-Lagrange states is anonymous but inspired by St. Augustine, also reminds one of the prayer of St. Ignatius.</p>
<p><i>O my God, I leave myself entirely in Thy hands. Turn and turn again this mass of clay, as a vessel that is fashioned in the potter’s hand. Give it a shape; then break it if Thou wilt: it is Thine, it has nothing to say. Enough for me that it serves all Thy designs and that nothing resists Thy good pleasure for which I was made. Ask, command. What wouldst Thous have me to do? Lifted up, cast down, in persecution in consolation, in suffering, intent upon Thy work, good for nothing, I can do no more than repeat with Thy Holy Mother: “Be it done unto me according to Thy word.”</i></p>
<p><i>Give me that love which is beyond all loves, the love of the cross—not those heroic crosses with a glory that might foster self-love, but those ordinary crosses which we bear with so much distaste—those daily crosses with which our life is strewn and which at every moment we encounter on our way through life; contradictions, neglect, failures, oppositions, false judgments, the coldness or impulsiveness of some, the rebuffs or contempt of others, bodily infirmities, spiritual darkness,silence and interior dryness. Only then wilt Thou know I love Thee, even through I neither know nor fell it myself; and that is enough for me.</i></p>
<p>Yes, Lord, I love you and I must, as I have no or very few natural resources, depend on you totally.</p>
<p>Some of us have been given this type of life. When the trials of Christians get worse, and the Holy Scriptures, in the <i>Book of Daniel </i>indicate that the persecution under the Anti-Christ will be three and a half years, we shall all have to rely on God totally. We shall have to rely on trustworthy relationships.</p>
<p>I highly suggest, if you have not done so, reading <i>Lord of the World. </i>As I pointed out in another posting on the Anti-Christ, that time is coming soon when nations will be in a frenzy to have a world war, and one person will appear out of nowhere to calm all the battles. However, this power will not be from God, but from satan, in order to make those who want peace and not religion, or peace not based on Christ, which is the only true peace, accept such a false, deceitful peace.</p>
<p>Sadly, too many people listen to smooth, nice voices and thnk that “nice” people are in sanctifying grace. One cannot trust someone who is not putting on the Mind of Christ.</p>
<p>If one has not practiced complete dependence on God, one will be tempted to look towards a superman type person for what only God can give—true holiness and the resultant peace. But, this person will lead those who listen to him away from Christ, giving a peace without God, without the true God.</p>
<p>The stage is being set of the coming of the one who will pit the entire world against Catholics. In many areas, this has happened already. But, the stage is just be set-up, the pieces of stage settings being dragged into place, the lights being worked on and the actors practicing.</p>
<p>Soon, too soon for many, the curtain will rise.</p>
<p>Those who are just and righteous will see Who really has the Kingdom of God on earth-the Crucified One.</p>
<p>The spirit of detachment will protect us from lies and the false peace. All dis-ordinate, unjust, and falsely secure attachments will get in the way of one’s ability to hear the Voice of God and the voice of one’s Guardian Angel. Only detachment clears the mind, heart, soul.</p>
<p>So, I am facing another crisis in my life, as God wants me to learn and practice again and again reliance on Him Alone. These crises make one aware of one’s own moral condition, a necessity in growth in the spiritual life. Also, one has to become like a little child reliant on God the Father Alone. This is very hard for Americans and the British, especially.</p>
<p>I am so glad I am an “outsider”, one who stands always on the fringes of society, and even on the doorstep of the Church. As an outsider, my loyalties belong to God Alone, and to those only to whom He brings into my life and shows me clearly I must serve them. Outsiders see things without agendas. One must be free of all agendas, even career agendas or family agendas.</p>
<p>The past three weeks, I was evangelizing an unbaptized adult. She still has not decided to be baptized, but seeds were planted. Now, I am dealing with being surrounded, not only by unbelievers, as unbelievers may be baptized or not, but by many unbaptized people. What a huge difference the graces of that sacrament is….we can see the violence which springs from the hearts and minds of those who do not experience sanctifying grace, who are not heirs, yet, of heaven, and who are not, yet, children of God. Baptism makes a difference, and merely being a human without God’s life within one does not lead us to God, unless one desires baptism and, for some reason, cannot get it.</p>
<p>Those who are baptized have the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit. They live in grace, unless they decide to turn against grace and God. Those who are not baptized do not have the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit. They do not live in grace.</p>
<p>If they try to be moral and try to find God, He will bless those.</p>
<p>Jesus shows us the Father. Jesus is the Only One Who shows us the Father, and as I sit here, alone, without the nest I see in the palm tree across from my door, I ponder these words, because the war, which is coming soon, is all about land, property, resources, kingships of this world.</p>
<p><em>“The foxes have holes, the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no where to lay His head.”</em></p>
<p>Christ said this for many reasons, but the one we must all think of is that on this earth, we shall be disinherited by those who do not serve God. And, yet, the meek will inherit the earth.</p>
<p>The paradox is that those with nothing have everything, because they have the Love of God first, first, first in their lives.</p>
<p>That would be my answer today to those two women today. Make God first in your lives and all else will follow.</p>
<p>And, that will be my answer someday to those who want this earth without Christ’s Kingship.</p>
<p>“Thy kingdom come” is followed by “Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”</p>
<p>So, do you want the kingdom of Christ? Do His will, now, on this earth. Know that Jesus is Lord. Know that there is a Trinity, and that the Father loves us.</p>
<p>I want to say this to all the unbaptized ones I see and meet daily. May God give me the chance to do so in peace and for His Glory.</p>
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<p><img alt="607" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-11982" height="638" src="http://vultuschristi.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/607-400x638.jpg" width="400" />I remember when, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, it was fashionable in some ecclesiastical and academic circles to sniff dismissively at the Lessons (or <em>legends</em>) given in the breviary for the Second Nocturn for the feasts of the saints. These hagiographical compositions, mostly of medieval monastic origin, were — and not without real profit — replaced in the reformed <em>Liturgia Horarum</em> by patristic texts or by excerpts from the writings of the saint being celebrated. Nonetheless, certain of the hagiographical compositions contained kernels of great antiquity drawn, more often than not, from the Acts of the Martyrs or from received local traditions. This morning at Matins, there was this beautiful passage, rich in Eucharistic theology, from the lesson (or <em>legend</em>) of the Second Nocturn:</p>
<blockquote><p>Andrew continued to preach Christ fearlessly, that he gave himself up to be crucified for the salvation of mankind: Aegeus interrupted him with blasphemous words, and finally ordered him to look to himself and sacrifice to the gods. Andrew answered, I do offer sacrifice every day to Almighty God, who is the one true God; I offer on the altar, not the flesh of bulls, nor the blood of goats, but the spotless Lamb; and when all the faithful have partaken of his flesh, the Lamb that was sacrificed remains whole and living.</p></blockquote>
<p>The notion of sacrifice is central. Aegeus, the pagan pro–consul, would have Andrew offer sacrifice to the gods and so obtain his freedom. Andrew answers that he does already offer sacrifice to Almighty God, and this daily, offering the spotless Lamb upon the altar. Andrew here, making reference to the altar, speaks as a priest. His sacrificial victim is “the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world” (Apocalypse 13:8). The inseparable triad of sacrifice emerges from the text: priest, altar, and victim. The text further alludes to the daily offering of the sacrifice, the communion of the faithful, and the abiding real presence of the Lamb: an altogether brilliant Eucharistic discourse placed in the mouth of the First–Called of the Apostles.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">God loves everyone. I don’t. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recent months have seen a flurry of humanitarian crises throughout the world. These crises almost invariably unfold the same way: A horrendous event occurs. A great outpouring of sympathy and support follows. Then comes a backlash from people saying that helping such persons is not our responsibility. Finally a swift reaction from those who urge us to love and care for the afflicted no matter where they are from.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This script has played out most notably in the Syrian refugee crisis. The tragic plight of these displaced persons called for immediate action. Many, including persons with considerable political authority, denied that they had any such responsibility. The response was swift and powerful. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">How could anyone </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> love these people</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, it was often asked. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">How could anyone </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> want to take all of these people into their home?</span></i> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don’t you see that rejecting these refugees is just like turning Mary and Joseph away from the inn???</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This public debate unsettles me, and frankly, I feel distant from these tragedies. On principle I do not like when terrible things happen around the world, and am opposed to them.  But I can’t say that I love those people, or that my heart is really breaking for them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don’t get me wrong: I </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">want</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to love people I see on the news.  I truly do.  When I think of how much I love my mother and father, my dearest friends, it makes me sad that I can’t muster a similar love for the countless victims of terrorist attacks.  It comes down to this, if I am honest:</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> love can be hard work, even with those we love dearly. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">How much harder is it to maintain that love for those half a world away? Can that love be anything more than a passing emotional response?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">God loves everyone. Why can’t I? Based on what I read on Facebook and Twitter feeds, everyone else around me seems to love refugees. Why can’t I bring myself to this? There have even been a few times in recent weeks when, if I am being honest with myself, I struggled to muster compassion and outrage at their treatment, while everyone else seemed to be riding an emotional wave of solidarité. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img alt="La Tour Eiffel" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-15147" height="188" src="https://thejesuitpost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/22897079610_b98f9cfd49_z-300x188.jpg" width="300" />And I think the key word is <em>emotion</em>. As I scan this social media landscape, I worry that we are unconsciously drawn into a kind of political theater, of “</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism"><span style="font-weight: 400;">slacktivist</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> outrage.”  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We express our discontent by bandwagoning on the latest cause, by linking to such-and-such an article, or by shading our profile picture in solidarity. At its best, it demonstrates how passionate – how emotional – we are about an issue, and we want to show our care. We huff with conspicuous anger for a few days…we add a <em>Tricolore</em> fade to our profile pic… then the cause dies down, and…we go on living our lives as before. I submit that for all these good intentions, shaking our fist at the internet does little to change injustices.  If anything, our bandwidth of compassion gets narrower as we are flooded with more unsettling news. Love demands more of us than a catchy hashtag. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was not sure what to make of all these mixed feelings until I read David Brooks’s </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/opinion/finding-peace-within-the-holy-texts.html?_r=0"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recent piece on religion and violence</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. One particular line caught my eye: “Alongside the ethic of love there is a command to embrace an ethic of justice. Love is particular, but justice is universal. Love is passionate, justice is dispassionate.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes, I thought. Love is <em>terribly</em> particular. To love entails a relationship between particular people.  I love Mom, Dad, Ann, Matthew, Mama, Patricia, Cody, Michael, Kathryn… These are the particular people in my life to whom I can attach names, memories and even hopes for the future. I can only understand love in the particular; when human ‘love’ is writ universal, it loses its immediate demand on me, and thus its meaning.  With a refugee I see on TV, I have no relationship, no history, no shared experiences. I do not know her name, she does not know mine, and we do not know each other’s stories. Yes, I recognize that I ought to care about her, and I want to care about her more than I do. But that is not the same thing as what I share with my family and friends, and I would be kidding myself were I to say that it is.<img alt="No Room at the Inn" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-15149" height="225" src="https://thejesuitpost.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2296986491_c5389cbe08_z-300x225.jpg" width="300" /> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So here is my Advent confession: I fear that I <i>would</i> turn Joseph and Mary away from the inn. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But I’m not a cynic, and my limited love is not the end of the story. Even if I do not </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">love</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> refugees as I do my kin, my conscience reminds me that</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I owe them something</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — and that strange stirring is important. I think that feeling is the stirring of justice.</span></p>
<p><b>Justice, unlike universal love, is something I can muster.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> However I <em>feel</em> about other people, I owe them something. I know I owe them a “respect of the other,” as Brooks says, that will require “struggle and sometimes conquering… selfish instincts.” Justice will not be easy for me, either; but at least it is something tangible and realistic. Justice asks far more mundane, “dispassionate” questions: regardless of my affinities, what is each person due? and, Who ought to help him or her secure it?</span></p>
<p><b>Justice is a commitment to stop and think — and sometimes justice is boring.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Indeed, the whole point of “social justice” is that meaningful social and political change requires observation and reflection, awareness and analysis. Compared to love, justice is boring. Yet it is important spade work, and it is a long-term investment. I don’t just want to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">do</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> something just: I want to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">be</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> just, and that means renewing my affirmation of the value of respect for the other each day. It means accepting that my efforts won’t see immediate results. </span></p>
<p><b>Justice transcends tribalism and nationalism in favor of the good of all.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">  Justice seeks out injustices, but it does not fight fire with fire.  Love can stir passionate responses to injustices — for those parties we love. But justice demands a dispassionate response, with an eye towards the future.  If I pursue justice, I cannot simply </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">react</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to this or that crisis. I must step back and ask how society as a whole can be </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">proactive</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to improve the lot of all parties, especially those most in need.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This entails looking into history to see patterns of injustice, and how they have been overcome in the past.  After World War II, for example, there was a thirst for vengeance against Nazi war criminals.  But American Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson instead worked with Allies to establish the world’s first international war tribunal. He gave each defendant a fair trial in Nuremberg.  As chief prosecutor, Jackson wrote, </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law, is one of the most significant tributes that Power ever has paid to Reason.”  </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The same principles of justice guide international war tribunals to this day — yes, even for unlovable despots and murderers.  </span></p>
<p><b>Justice, like true love, is not an emotion: it’s a habit!</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">  My point is not that I should not at least </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">try</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to love as God loves. Far from it! My point rather is that to love as God loves is hard work. It does me no good to pretend that I have mastered it. And I hope that, by striving to be just, I can see that I still bear some kind of responsibility for the wellbeing of people that I don’t love. I hope, actually, that justice </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">cuts through the passionate particularity of my love and challenges me to a concern for another whom I don’t love</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. As Pope Benedict wrote in his letter </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deus Caritas Est</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (“God Is Love”)</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “faith liberates reason from its blind spots and therefore helps it to be ever more fully itself.”</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">  In a similar way, justice liberates love from its blind spots, so that it can be more fully loving. Then love — the real love to which we are called as Christians — can become a habit too, not just a passing emotional response.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We all struggle to love as God loves. Without a basis in justice, love can be impulsive, rash in action, dismissive of prudence, and impatient for results. It can be too easily impressed by superficial understandings of situations, and settles on simplistic solutions. It can easily latch onto a “cause,” one perhaps that helps salve our unconscious guilt that we don’t do enough for others. We’re right to feel stirred to respond to wrongs in the world: it’s a good sign that our conscience is working. But how should we respond to it?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least for me, that stirring is rooted in the call to love as God loves. That call is a challenge, and I want to face it head-on as just such a challenge. I’m not there yet, and so I don’t want to pretend to be. In the meantime, I’ll strive for justice. I’m not ready to say that I ‘love’ Syrian refugees, that I am willing to drop everything and do whatever I can for them. But I do want to research what is going on. I do want to learn what they need, how I can help in the short-term, and in what ways we all need to help in the long-term. Most importantly, I don’t want to be a fair-weather friend to the Syrian refugees just for a social media cycle.  Nor do I want to be a friend only to the Syrian refugees just because the media have singled them out. I want to re-orient my life, slowly but surely, to acting in justice toward others. And that includes to people I don’t know — and thus do not love.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because when Joseph and Mary approach me this Christmas Eve, love may not prompt me to let them through the door. But hopefully justice will stir a response. And that’s a start.</span></p>
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<p><em>Title image (“Prague Prays for Paris”) by Bianca Dagheti is available on Flickr <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jordan_wooley/2296986491/in/photolist-dA4JxV-4SHtW4-474aVM-7knyqV-4uYE4n-BvBTxG-9qoUzV-i7YU5n-5oXcaj-5HCWqT-94JSyR-b8WV8x-aFSTSH-8MqAQu-4V64Xe-4VaiNQ-5StYd3-7FTuCE-cxf7hY-vmuRF-d5kSZQ-4caWwK-to9NGB-pmW7kV-5Jb7bT-dGyndy-7vU2np-7k2UsB-Dwo6t-8sRrt-5uzknx-79UYk-8dHhmH-7degs8-kpYxg-4mwVqf-7vrikG-kPLFgB-izm2gh-c7CjiG-3sCtY-93Z2bT-Zcbz-uzEo2-4Czk2L-4XW5Aa-7iHoYf-5QxixN-4FNV7n-72WPkX">here</a>.</em><br />
<em> Photo of the Eiffel Tower, by Yann Caradec, is available on Flickr <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/la_bretagne_a_paris/22897079610/in/photolist-ATkw3E-AnWkZh-BktzLz-5uXoAi-nzVedx-65YwM6-Ao4ANa-AnWhn7-4Adyyy-4AdyWS-4A9kgB-4AdBah-4AdB35-4A9hJe-4AdAWW-4A9hW4-4AdB6G-4AdzSA-4A9hiH-4AdxU5-4AdCi3-4A9jKF-4A9i98-4AdzQN-4wKbJZ-9Sn1FP-2yqHNQ-2eTurt-4wPkeQ-4wKbBt-4wKbCH-4wPk2o-4x7jfE-4wKaMg-4x39HR-4wPj9A-4wKaSt-4x7jMY-4wKbHt-4x7jpd-4x7jco-4x39nH-4wKbDD-4wPjXA-4x7jeC-4x7jf1-4x3a9H-rw7yY-9k2Ehr-9CVdt4">here</a>.</em><br />
<em> “Sorry” by JRWooley6 is available on Flickr <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jordan_wooley/2296986491/in/photolist-dA4JxV-4SHtW4-474aVM-7knyqV-4uYE4n-BvBTxG-9qoUzV-i7YU5n-5oXcaj-5HCWqT-94JSyR-b8WV8x-aFSTSH-8MqAQu-4V64Xe-4VaiNQ-5StYd3-7FTuCE-cxf7hY-vmuRF-d5kSZQ-4caWwK-to9NGB-pmW7kV-5Jb7bT-dGyndy-7vU2np-7k2UsB-Dwo6t-8sRrt-5uzknx-79UYk-8dHhmH-7degs8-kpYxg-4mwVqf-7vrikG-kPLFgB-izm2gh-c7CjiG-3sCtY-93Z2bT-Zcbz-uzEo2-4Czk2L-4XW5Aa-7iHoYf-5QxixN-4FNV7n-72WPkX">here</a>.</em></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;">Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break</div><div style="text-align: center;"> And peace of pardon win!</div><div style="text-align: center;">How else may man make straight his plan</div><div style="text-align: center;"> And cleanse his soul from Sin?</div><div style="text-align: center;">How else but through a broken heart</div><div style="text-align: center;"> May Lord Christ enter in?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Glücklich das Herz, das brechen kann</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> Und zum Frieden der Gnade gedeih'n!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Wie glättet sich sonst der Pfad, wie wird</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> Die Seele von Sünde sonst rein?</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Wie anders als durch ein gebrochenes Herz</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> Ziehet der Heiland ein?</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">Oscar Wilde</span> († 30. November 1900)</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">aus der <i>Ballade vom Zuchthaus zu Reading</i></span></div>
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<p><a href="http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/news/?p=45010">Belarusian Orthodox Christian Journalists to Present a New Pro-Life Movie</a> (via <a href="http://byztex.blogspot.com/2015/11/athos-pro-life-legacy-of-saint-paisios.html">Byz, Tx</a>)<br /><br /><br /><br />to be made available online on youtube...
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<h3>I try to reserve Mondays for student letters.  This student writes from Belgium.</h3>
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<p>I have two rather general and methodological questions:  First, even though I’m entering a Master’s level program, I actually haven't had much experience writing essays.  I’ve read some "How To" books on the subject, but I still feel a bit confused.  How do I prepare to write the essay?  How do I structure it?  What makes an essay a good one?</p>
<p>Second, even though I have a good grasp of history of philosophy, I feel like missing some essential tools for reading philosophical texts.  As if I was lacking the capacity to ask the deeper questions in order to understand the hidden nuances.  As if there was always a sort of underlying context or dynamics I don't see.  Would you have any suggestions in this regard?</p>
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<p>Have you read A.G. Sertillanges, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Life-Spirit-Conditions-Methods/dp/0813206464/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448415332&sr=1-1&keywords=sertillanges+intellectual+life"><em>The Intellectual Life</em></a>?  It is a wonderful book, and I’ll bet it’s a lot different than the “How To” books you’ve been reading.  If you haven’t read it already, I would recommend dropping everything and reading it right away.  But now let me turn to your questions.</p>
<p>As to your question about writing, I think the biggest mistake most students make is to think that their task is to “research” an interesting “subject.”  An unlimited number of things can be said about most subjects, so if you take this approach you will never be able to know when you are finished.  <a href="http://undergroundthomist.org/budziszewskis-ante-studium">Your task isn’t</a> to “discuss” a subject.  It’s to <em>do something about </em>the subject, something that adds to our knowledge.  Usually, that means framing and answering a question about it.  Sometimes it might mean framing and solving a puzzle about it.  It may also mean trying to demonstrate a claim about it which you have good reason to think may be true, or trying to refute a claim about it which you have good reason to think may be mistaken.</p>
<p>Framing the question provides your preparation; answering it provides your structure; and a good essay is one that answers it well and truly.</p>
<p>At least half of your work will usually lie in framing it.  Unless you discover in the middle of composing the essay that you’ve framed it badly, that half will take place before you even set pen to paper.  But suppose you do discover midway that you’ve framed it badly; it is confusing you and leading you down blind alleys.  Don’t despair.  Just go back and <em>re-</em>frame the question, and this time get it right.  After all, if you’ve misframed your question, isn’t it better to find that out than to fail to find it out?  Besides, discovering that some important question has been misleadingly framed is one of the main ways that philosophy advances.</p>
<p>Now for your question about reading.  The first thing to realize is that the thinkers whom you will be studying were doing the same thing that I’ve just been telling you to do.  In other words, they weren’t trying to “research” a “subject,” but to frame and answer important questions about it.  So before all else, try to discern what questions a writer is asking, how he frames them, and why he frames them just that way.</p>
<p>Then, before asking what you call the deeper questions, try to understand your own deeper assumptions.  Unfortunately, we often make assumptions we don’t realize we are making, then read as though the author is making them too (even if he isn’).  Ever since Descartes, for example, many philosophers have proceeded as though we must doubt everything, and test the instrument of knowing, the mind, before we put it to work to know anything about reality.  If you try to read someone like Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas as though they were trying to do the same thing, you will misunderstand what they are up to, because they would have considered this procedure backwards.  In their view, one has to know something about the world <em>even in order to test</em> the instrument of knowing!  The way to find out the mind’s weaknesses is to compare one’s thoughts to <em>what is</em>.</p>
<p>One of the biggest mistakes we can make in reading is to suppose that we already know all the answers.  For instance, suppose you take for granted that everything some thinker of an earlier time says about women is in need of “critique from a feminist perspective.”  This may prevent you from discovering that he actually provides a <em>critique </em>of the feminist perspective.  What a disaster to be so locked up in our little island of time and culture that we can’t think any thoughts except those we have thought before!  Of course I am not suggesting that you can’t disagree with a thinker of another place and time.  What I do say is that you should let him speak first.  Assume that he might know something!  Give him a chance to change your mind!</p>
<p>If you take that last point seriously, you will try to enter into conversation with the thinker, and I don’t mean just a social chat.  Remember what philosophical conversation is for!  As G.K. Chesterton said, “Merely having an open mind is nothing.  The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to shut it again on something solid.”  It doesn’t matter how many centuries ago the thinker you are studying was writing -- reach out with your intelligence.  And don’t just ask him questions and try to discern how he would answer -- “What do you mean by that?”  “Why do you think that it’s true?”  “How would you reply to such and such an objection?”  You should also submit humbly to the questions he would ask <em>you</em>, and try to discern what he would think of <em>your</em> answers.</p>
<p>As you acquire these habits, you may find that you are reading more and more slowly.  That’s perfectly all right, because this sort of reading cannot be hurried.  One may even have to creep along line by line, <a href="http://undergroundthomist.org/sites/default/files/related-documents/1-2Q91Art2.pdf">perhaps something like this</a>.</p>
<p>Finally, you might find it helpful to outline the <em>arguments</em> of the work you are reading -- not his beliefs, but his reasons for believing his beliefs.  Don’t outline while you are reading, though; first read, then outline.  In fact, you should probably read the work several times before attempting to outline its arguments.  I won’t say any more about analytical outlining here, though, because I discuss it <a href="http://undergroundthomist.org/how-to-read-and-outline-analytically">elsewhere</a>.</p>
<p>Since man as a rational creature is ordained to seek and know the truth of things, especially in relation to God, we should always be asking ourselves what is really worth knowing, and trying to find it out.  Do your work in that spirit.</p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pDwQoh3PRvU/VltGZrlYKOI/AAAAAAAAApU/GeduZg5y2-8/s1600/in_rorate_caeli_desuper.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pDwQoh3PRvU/VltGZrlYKOI/AAAAAAAAApU/GeduZg5y2-8/s320/in_rorate_caeli_desuper.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the fourth Sunday of Advent, this blog will celebrate its 10th anniversary since its beginning, by our prolific, gifted and pious founder, New Catholic. It has been an amazing 10 years with <i>Rorate Caeli</i> now the most-read international traditional Catholic blog in the world.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before becoming a contributor -- one of the greatest blessings, and spiritual burdens, of my life -- I was once a reader and admirer. I would email, along with news tips, my appreciation to NC. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Rorate </i>spiritually woke me up, in a good way. It was slavishly traditional, yet never knee-jerk. It was well researched and thought through: the kind of blog that lifted the veil from your eyes but didn't cause you to go to an untenable extreme. </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was, without any exaggeration, a great spiritual gift to me, dropped down from Heaven. </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Over the years many of you, whether laymen, priests, religious, bishops or even princes of the Church, have conveyed your appreciation to us. And we can say doubly back to you how much we not only appreciate, but need, your words of encouragement. </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">We make no money for running this blog yet, at times, it's almost like having a second full-time job. And even though we try our best, the criticisms come from all angles, <i>from all levels</i>, like a constant barrage. At times, when we've been at our lowest, that one email coming in telling us how much we've meant to a reader is enough to pick us back up, dust us off and get us back to work doing our small part to bring about the restoration of the traditional Latin Mass and Faith. </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your words of encouragement -- and the graces of God bestowed on us by Our Lady -- sustain us. </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">This Rorate Sunday, we will not have any hoopla, no big splash. But we will commemorate the day. </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Please send us your brief thoughts on what <i>Rorate Caeli </i>has meant to you.</u> This shouldn't be long and don't worry about getting it perfect. Just send us your thoughts and we will do our best to compile them all and publish them without names attached (unless you specifically ask us to). </div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>You may send your thoughts to athanasiuscatholic AT yahoo . com </b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">A very heartfelt thank you to all of our dear readers for 10 years of loyalty and encouragement. May God grant us all another 10 years to fight for tradition and work out our salvation.</div></div>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/16/magazine/16mag-paris-02/16mag-paris-02-articleLarge-v3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="255" src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/16/magazine/16mag-paris-02/16mag-paris-02-articleLarge-v3.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bataclan Theater a Century Ago</td></tr></tbody></table>From <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/magazine/the-uncommon-resilience-of-parisian-street-life.html?_r=0" target="_blank"><i>The New York Times</i></a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="story-body-text story-content">Although the top of its Chinese-style pagoda no longer remains — it was destroyed in a fire in the 1930s — the building still functions more or less as it once did. From vaudeville shows to films, punk-rock shows, tango dancing and comedy acts, the Bataclan has evolved again and again to adapt to contemporary Parisian tastes.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content"><br /></div><div class="story-body-text story-content">These images attest to the fact that there is something essential to the experience of living in Paris that involves spending time outside on its streets, whether to shop, observe, drink, eat, dance, talk or listen. Despite all of the technological innovations since the end of the nineteenth century that give Parisians incentives to stay at home — televisions, computers, refrigerators, washing machines and even toilets — people still go out because going out is something that Paris invites us to do. And when people go out, it is to the same places — quite literally inside the same walls — as generations of Parisians before them.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content"><br /></div>As I walked along the canal on the way to work this morning, three days after the attacks, the cafe terraces were busy as usual, despite the sadness permeating the air. Paris is lucky to have a built environment that is resilient against change, as it only makes the rhythms and practices of urban life harder to change. You are almost obliged, by going out into the city, to perform your daily rituals: grabbing a coffee at the bar, buying a newspaper. Its architecture invites people to continue to explore, to take wrong turns, to fall in love, to protest and simply to have a drink in the same places, streets and buildings that countless others have in the past. Life within them has survived ill-fated laws prohibiting public drinking, years of German occupation and terrorist attacks from anarchists, anti-colonialists and others. After all these years, people continue to roll up their sleeves, eat and drink on the same corners. In the long shadow of the horse-drawn carriage, it is unlikely that will change.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/magazine/the-uncommon-resilience-of-parisian-street-life.html?_r=0" target="_blank"> (Read more</a>.)</blockquote>
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<p>The feast of Saint Andrew the First–Called marks the threshold of the new liturgical year with the sign of the Cross. We are accustomed to thinking of the Cross in the context of Lent and Paschaltide. The advent of the Lord is, nonetheless, entirely illumined by the mystery of the Cross. An ancient responsory says, “This sign of the Cross shall be in heaven when the Lord comes to judge. Then shall the secrets of our hearts be made manifest” (Office of May 3rd, Invention of the Holy Cross). By showing us the Cross today, the liturgy points through Advent to Christ’s passion, resurrection, and second coming. The whole economy of salvation bears the luminous imprint of the Cross.</p>
<p><strong>Friend of God</strong></p>
<p>The liturgy calls Saint Andrew “the good teacher and the friend of God” (Responsory). Saint Andrew is a good teacher because he preached the wisdom of God in the word of the Cross (cf. 1 Cor 1:18, 24). Saint Andrew is the friend of God because the wood of his cross bound him to Christ our God in an everlasting friendship, even as Christ Himself was bound to the Father and made over to Him once and for all by the sacrifice of the Cross.</p>
<p><strong>O Wonderful Cross!</strong></p>
<p>The Apostle Andrew does not mislead us with the “artificial sweeteners” of so many religious teachers, nor does he fill our minds with a preaching “emptied of its power” (1 Cor 1:17). In the end, Saint Andrew preached the cross by embracing it, and by stretching His body over its four arms. The liturgy sings that “When Andrew saw the cross, he cried, saying, ‘How wonderful art thou, O cross! O cross, how lovable art thou! O cross, thy bright beams enlighten the darkness of the whole world! Welcome a follower of Jesus, that, as by thee He died to redeem me, so by thee also He may take me unto Himself” (Responsory).</p>
<p><strong>Through the Cross</strong></p>
<p>Saint Andrew’s cross was not that of his Master in its form. Tradition is that Saint Andrew was put to death on an X-shaped cross. Though outwardly different from the cross of Jesus, Saint Andrew’s cross became for him a sacrament of communion with Our Lord, a means of passing to the Father in the power of the Holy Ghost. Yesterday a single movement ran through the whole liturgy: out of self, and upward into the fullness of God. “<em>Ad te levavi animam meam</em>. . . . All my heart goes out to You, my God” (Ps 24:1). Today we see in Saint Andrew just how this movement is accomplished: <em>through the Cross</em>.</p>
<p><strong>A Means of Passing Over to God</strong></p>
<p>Outwardly our crosses do not have the form of the Cross of Jesus. Faith, however, sees in them a means of passing from ourselves to God. The cross of illness can be a means of passing over to God, provided that it is recognized and accepted as such. The crosses of weakness, of failure, of loneliness, depression, and loss can be for us sacraments of an encounter with God. The Cross allows us to experience God as the redeemer of all our failures, the companion of the lonely, the comforter of the depressed, the treasure of those who suffer loss. Apart from the Cross there is no way of knowing the healing mercy of God, no way tasting the sweetness of His love in bitterness, nor of passing out of darkness into His wonderful light.</p>
<p><strong>O Precious Cross!</strong></p>
<p>In the Antiphon that will be sung in today’s Office, Saint Andrew <em>sings to the Cross</em>, something that, apart from a special grace of God, we are incapable of doing.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>O bona crux!</em> O precious cross, of a long time have I desired thee and now that thou art made ready for me, my soul is drawn to thee, and I come to thee in peace and gladness.”</p></blockquote>
<p>“I come to thee in peace and gladness.” More often than not we come to our crosses in fear and heaviness of heart. Far from singing to them we approach them murmuring, or in the sullen silence of our unspoken resistances and inability to trust. Saint Andrew was able to sing a greeting to his cross; he was able to come to it in peace and gladness, because he recognized that by means of it he would pass over to God.</p>
<p><strong>The Embrace of God</strong></p>
<p>When the priest ascends the altar for the Holy Sacrifice, he represents the entire assembly of the faithful and, in a certain sense, carries them in himself to the Cross. When the host upon the paten and the wine mixed with water in the chalice are set forth upon the altar, we ourselves are set before God, ready to become His sacrifice, ready to pass by means of the Cross into the everlasting embrace of His mercy. What is done in mystery at the altar is carried out effectively in all of life. It is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass that makes it possible to say to the Cross in whatever form it is prepared for us, “I come to thee in peace and gladness. In embracing thee I will know the embrace of God.”</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Danke, lieber Papa!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Nicht nur gestern in der Hl. Messe:</span></b></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGu-nTjiZ20/Vlvori8oUmI/AAAAAAAAJdQ/j2lX0uNkCHs/s1600/blick%252Cgeruch...jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGu-nTjiZ20/Vlvori8oUmI/AAAAAAAAJdQ/j2lX0uNkCHs/s400/blick%252Cgeruch...jpg" width="361" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beispielbild</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dazugehören, das liegt uns im Blut.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Noch ist die Welt mit ihren vielen Reizen dem Baby ein Rätsel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Es horcht und schaut und greift - um zu begreifen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Und doch hat es schon Probleme:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hunger, Durst, Verdauung und Alleinbleiben.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vielleicht sogar Schmerzen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Seine einzige Waffe:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sich durch Schreien und andere Laute</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">bemerkbar machen.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Schnell merkt es, wer ihm dann hilft.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Und prägt sich ein:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Geruch, Gesicht, Stimme.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jedes Lächeln erwidert es gern mit einem Lächeln.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jedes Baby läd ein, es zu segnen!</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Nur Mut, Ihr Mamas und Papas!</span></b></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>
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On this day seventy decrees were approved for the restoration of sound doctrine, the strengthening of ecclesiastical discipline, and peace in the civil order. It is a fascinating exercise to return to the decrees of this <i>ecumenical council, </i>therefore a council of the highest order of authority, and see what it has to say to us today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Confession of Faith with which the acts of the Council begin is one of the most exquisite documents of the Church’s Magisterium:</div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>We firmly believe and simply confess that there is only one true God, eternal and immeasurable, almighty, unchangeable, incomprehensible and ineffable, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three persons but one absolutely simple essence, substance or nature. </b>The Father is from none, the Son from the Father alone, and the Holy Spirit from both equally, eternally without beginning or end; the Father generating, the Son being born, and the Holy Spirit proceeding; consubstantial and coequal, co-omnipotent and coeternal; one principle of all things, creator of all things invisible and visible, spiritual and corporeal; <b>who by his almighty power at the beginning of time created from nothing both spiritual and corporeal creatures, that is to say angelic and earthly, and then created human beings composed as it were of both spirit and body in common. </b>The devil and other demons were created by God naturally good, but they became evil by their own doing. Man, however, sinned at the prompting of the devil.</span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">This Holy Trinity, which is undivided according to its common essence but distinct according to the properties of its Persons, gave the teaching of salvation to the human race through Moses and the holy prophets and his other servants, according to the most appropriate disposition of the times. Finally the only-begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, who became incarnate by the action of the whole Trinity in common and was conceived from the ever-virgin Mary through the cooperation of the Holy Spirit, having become true man, composed of a rational soul and human flesh, one person in two natures, showed more clearly the way of life. Although he is immortal and unable to suffer according to his divinity, he was made capable of suffering and dying according to his humanity. Indeed, having suffered and died on the wood of the cross for the salvation of the human race, he descended to the underworld, rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. He descended in the soul, rose in the flesh, and ascended in both. He will come at the end of time to judge the living and the dead, to render to every person according to his works, both to the reprobate and to the elect. <b>All of them will rise with their own bodies, which they now wear, so as to receive according to their deserts, whether these be good or bad; for the latter perpetual punishment with the devil, for the former eternal glory with Christ.</b></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #990000;">There is indeed one universal church of the faithful, outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice. </b><span style="color: #990000;">His body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine, the bread and wine having been changed in substance, by God’s power, into his body and blood, so that in order to achieve this mystery of unity we receive from God what he received from us. Nobody can effect this sacrament except a priest who has been properly ordained according to the church’s keys, which Jesus Christ himself gave to the apostles and their successors. But the sacrament of baptism is consecrated in water at the invocation of the undivided Trinity—namely Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and brings salvation to both children and adults when it is correctly carried out by anyone in the form laid down by the church. If someone falls into sin after having received baptism, he or she can always be restored through true penitence. For not only virgins and the continent but also married persons find favour with God by right faith and good actions and deserve to attain to eternal blessedness.</span></div></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some excerpts from other decrees (<b><a href="https://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/LATERAN4.HTM" target="_blank">see here</a></b> for the full text of all the decrees).<br /><br />Decree 3, On Heretics:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy raising itself up against this holy, orthodox and catholic faith which we have expounded above. We condemn all heretics, whatever names they may go under. They have different faces indeed but their tails are tied together inasmuch as they are alike in their pride. Let those condemned be handed over to the secular authorities present, or to their bailiffs, for due punishment. </b>Clerics [guilty of heresy] are first to be degraded from their orders. The goods of the condemned are to be confiscated, if they are lay persons, and if clerics they are to be applied to the churches from which they received their stipends. …</span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Let secular authorities, whatever offices they may be discharging, be advised and urged and if necessary be compelled by ecclesiastical censure, if they wish to be reputed and held to be faithful, to take publicly an oath for the defence of the faith to the effect that they will seek, in so far as they can, to expel from the lands subject to their jurisdiction all heretics designated by the church in good faith. …</b></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">Catholics who take the cross and gird themselves up for the expulsion of heretics shall enjoy the same indulgence, and be strengthened by the same holy privilege, as is granted to those who go to the aid of the holy Land. <b>Moreover, we determine to subject to excommunication believers who receive, defend or support heretics. …</b></span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>If, however, he [the heretic] is a cleric, let him be deposed from every office and benefice, so that the greater the fault the greater be the punishment. </b>If any refuse to avoid such persons after they have been pointed out by the church, let them be punished with the sentence of excommunication until they make suitable satisfaction. <b>Clerics should not, of course, give the sacraments of the church to such pestilent people nor give them a Christian burial nor accept alms or offerings from them; if they do, let them be deprived of their office </b>and not restored to it without a special indult of the apostolic see. …</span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>We therefore will and command and, in virtue of obedience, strictly command that bishops see carefully to the effective execution of these things throughout their dioceses, if they wish to avoid canonical penalties. If any bishop is negligent or remiss in cleansing his diocese of the ferment of heresy, then when this shows itself by unmistakeable signs he shall be deposed from his office as bishop and there shall be put in his place a suitable person who both wishes and is able to overthrow the evil of heresy.</b><br /></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Decree 14, Clerical incontinence:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>In order that the morals and conduct of clerics may be reformed for the better, let all of them strive to live in a continent and chaste way, especially those in holy orders. Let them beware of every vice involving lust, especially that on account of which the wrath of God came down from heaven upon the sons of disobedience [viz., sodomy], so that they may be worthy to minister in the sight of almighty God with a pure heart and an unsullied body.</b> Lest the ease of receiving pardon prove an incentive to sin, we decree that those who are caught giving way to the vice of incontinence are to be punished according to canonical sanctions, in proportion to the seriousness of their sins. We order such sanctions to be effectively and strictly observed, in order that those whom the fear of God does not hold back from evil may at least be restrained from sin by temporal punishment. Therefore anyone who has been suspended for this reason and presumes to celebrate divine services, shall not only be deprived of his ecclesiastical benefices but shall also, on account of his twofold fault, be deposed in perpetuity. Prelates who dare to support such persons in their wickedness, especially if they do it for money or for some other temporal advantage, are to be subject to like punishment.<br /></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Decree 21, On yearly confession to one’s own priest, yearly communion, the confessional seal. (Note the assumption is not frequent communion <i>for everyone, </i>but communion for those who are prepared to receive reverently, in a state of grace.)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">All the faithful of either sex, after they have reached the age of discernment, should individually confess all their sins in a faithful manner to their own priest at least once a year, and let them take care to do what they can to perform the penance imposed on them. <b>Let them reverently receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least at Easter unless they think, for a good reason and on the advice of their own priest, that they should abstain from receiving it for a time. Otherwise they shall be barred from entering a church during their lifetime and they shall be denied a Christian burial at death. </b>Let this salutary decree be frequently published in churches, so that nobody may find the pretence of an excuse in the blindness of ignorance. … The priest [in the confessional] shall be discerning and prudent, so that like a skilled doctor he may pour wine and oil over the wounds of the injured one. Let him carefully inquire about the circumstances of both the sinner and the sin, so that he may prudently discern what sort of advice he ought to give and what remedy to apply, using various means to heal the sick person. …<br /></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Decree 26, Nominees for prelatures to be carefully screened:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>There is nothing more harmful to God’s church than for unworthy prelates to be entrusted with the government of souls. </b>Wishing therefore to provide the necessary remedy for this disease, we decree by this irrevocable constitution that when anyone has been entrusted with the government of souls, then he who holds the right to confirm him should diligently examine both the process of the election and the character of the person elected, so that when everything is in order he may confirm him. … <b>Bishops too, if they wish to avoid canonical punishment, should take care to promote to holy orders and to ecclesiastical dignities men who will be able to discharge worthily the office entrusted to them. …</b><br /></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Decree 27, Candidates for the priesthood to be carefully trained and scrutinized:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>To guide souls is a supreme art.</b> We therefore strictly order bishops carefully to prepare those who are to be promoted to the priesthood and to instruct them, either by themselves or through other suitable persons, in the divine services and the sacraments of the church, so that they may be able to celebrate them correctly. But if they presume henceforth to ordain the ignorant and unformed, which can indeed easily be detected, we decree that both the ordainers and those ordained are to be subject to severe punishment. <b>For it is preferable, especially in the ordination of priests, to have a few good ministers than many bad ones, for if a blind man leads another blind man, both will fall into the pit.</b><br /></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Decree 62, Regarding saint’s relics:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">The Christian religion is frequently disparaged because certain people put saints’ relics up for sale and display them indiscriminately. In order that it may not be disparaged in the future, we ordain by this present decree that henceforth ancient relics shall not be displayed outside a reliquary or be put up for sale. As for newly discovered relics, let no one presume to venerate them publicly unless they have previously been approved by the authority of the Roman pontiff. Prelates, moreover, should not in future allow those who come to their churches, in order to venerate, to be deceived by lying stories or false documents, as has commonly happened in many places on account of the desire for profit. We also forbid the recognition of alms-collectors, some of whom deceive other people by proposing various errors in their preaching, unless they show authentic letters from the apostolic see or from the diocesan bishop. Even then they shall not be permitted to put before the people anything beyond what is contained in the letters. …<br /></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Decree 67, Jews and excessive usury:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>The more the Christian religion is restrained from usurious practices, so much the more does the perfidy of the Jews grow in these matters, </b>so that within a short time they are exhausting the resources of Christians. Wishing therefore to see that Christians are not savagely oppressed by Jews in this matter, we ordain by this synodal decree that if Jews in future, on any pretext, extort oppressive and excessive interest from Christians, then they are to be removed from contact with Christians until they have made adequate satisfaction for the immoderate burden. Christians too, if need be, shall be compelled by ecclesiastical censure, without the possibility of an appeal, to abstain from commerce with them. We enjoin upon princes not to be hostile to Christians on this account, but rather to be zealous in restraining Jews from so great oppression. …<br /></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Decree 70, Jewish converts may not retain their old rite:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">Certain people who have come voluntarily to the waters of sacred baptism, as we learnt, do not wholly cast off the old man in order to put on the new more perfectly. <b>For, in keeping remnants of their former rite, they upset the decorum of the Christian religion by such a mixing. Since it is written, cursed is he who enters the land by two paths, and a garment that is woven from linen and wool together should not be put on, </b>we therefore decree that such people shall be wholly prevented by the prelates of churches from observing their old rite, so that those who freely offered themselves to the Christian religion may be kept to its observance by a salutary and necessary coercion. For it is a lesser evil not to know the Lord’s way than to go back on it after having known it.<br /></span></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Decree 71, Crusade to recover the Holy Land:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>It is our ardent desire to liberate the holy Land from infidel hands. </b>We therefore declare, with the approval of this sacred council and on the advice of prudent men who are fully aware of the circumstances of time and place, that crusaders are to make themselves ready so that all who have arranged to go by sea shall assemble in the kingdom of Sicily on 1 June after next—some as necessary and fitting at Brindisi and others at Messina and places neighbouring it on either side, where we too have arranged to be in person at that time, God willing, so that with our advice and help the Christian army may be in good order to set out with divine and apostolic blessing. Those who have decided to go by land should also take care to be ready by the same date. They shall notify us meanwhile so that we may grant them a suitable legate <i>a latere </i>for advice and help.</span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">Priests and other clerics who will be in the Christian army, both those under authority and prelates, shall diligently devote themselves to prayer and exhortation, teaching the crusaders by word and example to have the fear and love of God always before their eyes, so that they say or do nothing that might offend the divine majesty. If they ever fall into sin, let them quickly rise up again through true penitence. Let them be humble in heart and in body, keeping to moderation both in food and in dress, avoiding altogether dissensions and rivalries, and putting aside entirely any bitterness or envy, so that <b>thus armed with spiritual and material weapons they may the more fearlessly fight against the enemies of the faith, relying not on their own power but rather trusting in the strength of God. </b>We grant to these clerics that they may receive the fruits of their benefices in full for three years, as if they were resident in the churches, and if necessary they may leave them in pledge for the same time. …</span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">In order that nothing connected with this business of Jesus Christ be omitted, <b>we will and order patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, abbots and others who have the care of souls to preach the cross zealously to those entrusted to them. </b>Let them beseech kings, dukes, princes, margraves, counts, barons and other magnates, as well as the communities of cities, vills and towns—in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the one, only, true and eternal God—that those who do not go in person to the aid of the holy Land should contribute, according to their means, an appropriate number of fighting men together with their necessary expenses for three years, for the remission of their sins …</span></div></blockquote><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">We therefore, trusting in the mercy of almighty God and in the authority of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, do grant, by the power of binding and loosing that God has conferred upon us, albeit unworthy, unto all those who undertake this work in person and at their own expense, full pardon for their sins about which they are heartily contrite and have spoken in confession, and we promise them an increase of eternal life at the recompensing of the just; also to those who do not go there in person but send suitable men at their own expense, according to their means and status, and likewise to those who go in person but at others’ expense, we grant full pardon for their sins. We wish and grant to share in this remission, according to the quality of their help and the intensity of their devotion, all who shall contribute suitably from their goods to the aid of the said Land or who give useful advice and help. Finally, this general synod imparts the benefit of its blessings to all who piously set out on this common enterprise in order that it may contribute worthily to their salvation.</span></div></blockquote><br />(The beautiful bas relief of Pope Innocent III by sculptor Joseph Kiselewski is part of a series of 23 marble relief portraits, by various artists, of famous lawgivers placed over the gallery doors of the Chamber of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., installed in 1949-1950. It says something about the 1940s that Pope Innocent III could be chosen, by the American secular government, as one of the great figures in the history of law, under whose gaze the U.S. representatives are to undertake their work. <a href="http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/relief-portrait-plaques-lawgivers/innocent-iii" target="_blank">See here</a> for more information.)</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></div>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-reRFIvB-YrM/VlvkKqoso1I/AAAAAAAASIA/9MKUqDeDfvU/s1600/Uganda.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-reRFIvB-YrM/VlvkKqoso1I/AAAAAAAASIA/9MKUqDeDfvU/s1600/Uganda.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles Lwanga and Companions</td></tr></tbody></table><span class="">(Kampala) On Saturday, 28 November Pope Francis visited Namugongo in Uganda. </span>At 8:30, he visited the memorial of the Anglican martyrs and at 9 o'clock the memorial of the Catholic martyrs. There he will conclude with the celebration of the Mass. In Namugongo, Charles Lwanga and other pages at the court of the Kabaka, king of Buganda were burned alive because of their Christian faith on 3 June 1886. In 1887 a total of 32 Christians were executed at the royal court in fourteen months between late and early 1885. 22 of them were Catholics, as well as Charles Lwanga.<span id="more-53080"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">The martyrs of Uganda were beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1920. In 1964 they were canonized by Pope Paul VI. on and June 3, has since been the Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and his Companions.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">The visit to Namugongo occupies a central place for the visit to Uganda. There the Pope will celebrate his only public Mass in this East African country.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #6fb4fc; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">The Martyrdom of Charles Lwanga and Companions for Their Faith and Chastity</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">The visit is not without its explosiveness. Uganda has been widely criticized in the recent past because of the very different paths it took in matters of homosexuality, abortion, contraception and AIDS, than the West with its customary abortion and contraceptive mentality. The events in Namugongo have to do with homosexuality, and thus with AIDS and prevention, and are therefore of particular relevance. But hardly anyone knows that in Europe.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">To learn why Charles Lwanga and the other Christians found such a cruel death, you have to read the Roman martyrology. Charles Lwanga came, like his companions, from the Bagandian nobility. The young noble sons were part of the entourage of the king, whom they served. The <span class="">King of Buganda was then Mwanga II. While Charles Lwanga and other young nobles were baptized and followed Christ the King with great zeal his ear was lent in contrast to the Islamic emissaries trying push back the growing Christian influence by the persecution of Christians, of Catholics and Anglicans.</span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #6fb4fc; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">Polygamy, Homosexuality and Islam</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">The reasons were not only political (influence by British, German and Arab, Anglicans, Catholics and Muslims), but also moral. The Roman <em>martyrology</em> speaks of the "obscene demands" of the king. This refers to homosexual desires of the then 20th Kabaka (king). These desires were rejected by Christians at his court. Mwanga II. put them to death for it.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">The highlight of this persecution was on June 3, the burning of Charles Lwanga and twelve companions in Namugongo, where a church was built in their memory. The Muslim advisor at the king's court had fewer problems with the way of life of the king. This was officially mainly for polygamy, who paid homage to the Kabaka of Buganda. The Christian understanding of marital monogamy was a serious cultural break with political implications. Due to the numerous women of Kabaka the various tribes of Baganda had share in the kingship. Polygamy was the matriarchal element of the unwritten constitution that secured kingship of all the tribes on a rotating basis. Islam, which permits polygamy, came to meet these political needs. This was also unofficially more congenial for the tyrannical King's homosexual desires, who desired to demonstrate his power in the sense of the sexual domination of men and women.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">The Kabaka was overthrown later, was baptized Anglican, and returned with the British to power, but was soon overthrown again in a joint action by the British and tribal superiors and died in 1903 in British exile in the Seychelles.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #6fb4fc; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">At the 117th anniversary of the Martyrdom the CDF Took a Position in 2003 on Homsexuality</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">It was no accident that the CDF, with the signature of its then prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, precisely on June 3, 2003, published the document <a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030731_homosexual-unions_ge.html" style="color: #2683cf; text-decoration: none;">"Considerations Regarding Proposals of Legal Recognition for Unions Between Homosexual</a> Persons." It was a document on an issue that is one of the most controversial of our time. On this subject, the Catholic Church was exposed to massive external, but also internal pressure.</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #336699; font-family: verdana, garamond, serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 2px 10px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; padding: 2px 0px;">In the "Considerations" the CDF states initially on marriage:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; padding: 2px 0px;">"The Church teaches that Christian marriage is an effective sign of the covenant between Christ and the Church (cf. Eph. 5:32). This Christian meaning of marriage, far from diminishing the profoundly human value of the marital union of man and woman, confirms and strengthens it (cf. Mt from 19:3-12. Mk 10:6-9). "</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">And then about homosexual relationships:</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #336699; font-family: verdana, garamond, serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 2px 10px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; padding: 2px 0px;">"There are absolutely no grounds to establish analogies between homosexual unions and God's plan over marriage and the family, not even in a broader sense. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law. [...] They are not to be approved in any case.<br />Homosexual relationships are condemned in Scripture as a serious depravity ... (cf. Rom 1:24- 27;. 1 Cor 6,10; 1 Tim 1:10). This judgment of Scripture does not allow the conclusion that all those who suffer from this anomaly are personally responsible, but testifies that homosexual acts are not in themselves in order. This moral judgment is found in many Christian writers of the first centuries, and was unanimously accepted by Catholic Tradition. "</div></blockquote><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #6fb4fc; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">Homosexual acts "Cry Out to in Heaven for Vengeance"</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Homosexual relationships are among the four deadly sins or sins "outrageous", as the Catechism of Pope John Paul II. Is, or sins "crying out to heaven for vengeance", as it says in the Catechism of St. Pius X.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Today there are in the Catholic Church, at least that of the so-called West, a tendency to simply suppress this part of Catholic doctrine. The one part is no longer talks about it and thus escapes further criticism from without the church further and homosexuals. Another part adopts the position of the secular world and the homosexuals. Parallel to this is homosexuality, including its branches, of pedophilia and ephebophilia, which have become an internal problem of the Church.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #6fb4fc; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">Ambiguous Signals from Pope Francis on Homosexuality</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Pope Francis has so far sent out mixed signals in terms of homosexuality. On the one hand he severely criticized the gender theory several times. On April 15, 2015, he wondered at the general audience "whether the so-called gender theory is not an expression of frustration and resignation, which aims at the eradication of sexual difference, because they no longer understand, to confront it. We risk here, to take a step backwards. The displacement of the differences is the problem, not the solution." Earlier this year, said the Pope in Manila of "a new ideological colonization, the attempt to destroy the family." Specifically, he criticized the international institutions that bind financial loans for States for the introduction of "gay marriage".</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">On the other hand, he also made the famous-infamous phrase of his pontificate: "Who am I to judge?" It's a sentence that has been widely abused by homosexual and homophilic circles to justify homosexuality and the legalization of "gay rights". Although this use of the sentence has not escaped the Vatican, it has not been corrected by Pope Francis. At least not in a sufficiently understandable and clarifying extent because the abuse continues.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">Homosexual organizations introduce King Mwanga II. as an example that homosexuality also belongs "to Africa". The example of martyrdom for the purity of Charles Lwanga and his companions was an important factor in the successful fight against AIDS by the Ugandan government. To the western contraceptive mentality, the government opposed in collaboration with the Christian churches chastity and continence. In the late 1980s nearly 30 percent of the population were infected with HIV, while their number fell in 2004 to 6 percent. The successful method is liked neither by the UN population experts nor the abortion lobby or the Western media, which is why very little was known internationally about the "miracle on Lake Victoria" in the fight against AIDS.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #6fb4fc; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px;">No Place is More Appropriate than Namugongo to Speak a Word of Clarification on Homosexuality</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 5px 0px;">No site would be more appropriate than Namugongo with the grave of Saint Charles Lwanga and his companions, who suffered martyrdom because of the defense of their chastity, to speak a word of clarification on homosexuality and to raise his voice for the whole world to hear. It's a subject that should be made a "priority" of world politics in circles external to the Church. <span class="">Above all, it would be the appropriate place to correct that controversial sentence that weighs on this pontificate and on the whole Church since the return flight from Rio de Janeiro in late July 2013: "Who am I to judge?"</span></div><div id="quelle" style="background-color: white; color: #779d03; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding: 5px 0px;">Text: Giuseppe Nardi<br />Image: Settimo Cielo / Wikicommons</div><div id="quelle" style="background-color: white; color: #779d03; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding: 5px 0px;">Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com</div><div id="quelle" style="background-color: white; color: #779d03; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding: 5px 0px;"><a href="http://www.katholisches.info/2015/11/26/maertyrer-von-uganda-starben-weil-sie-homosexuelle-begierden-ihres-koenigs-zurueckwiesen/">Link to Katholisches...</a></div><div id="quelle" style="background-color: white; color: #779d03; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; padding: 5px 0px;">AMDG</div><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheEponymousFlower/~4/J4vR8xBinz4" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://theradtrad.blogspot.com/2015/11/salve-crux-quae-in-corpore-christi.html">Salve crux, quae in corpore Christi dedicata es</a></span>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://aedificatiodei.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/saint_andrew.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://aedificatiodei.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/saint_andrew.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">The Apostle Andrew was born at Bethsaida, a town of Galilee, and was the brother of Peter. He was a disciple of John the Baptist, and heard him say of Christ, Behold the Lamb of God, </span><span style="background-color: white;">whereupon he immediately followed Jesus, bringing his brother also with him. Some while after, they were both fishing in the Sea of Galilee, and the Lord Christ, going by, called them both, before any other of the Apostles, in the words, Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men. They made no delay, but left their nets, and followed Him. </span><span style="background-color: white;">After the death and Resurrection of Christ, Andrew was allotted Scythia as the province of his preaching, and, after labouring there, he went through Epirus and Thrace, where he turned vast multitudes to Christ by his teaching and miracles. Finally he went to Patras in Achaia, and there also he brought many to the knowledge of Gospel truth. Aegeas the Pro-consul resisted the preaching of the Gospel, and the Apostle freely rebuked him, bidding him know that while he held himself a judge of his fellow men, he was himself hindered by devils from knowing Christ our God, the Judge of all.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Then Egeas, being angry, answered him, Boast no more of this thy Christ. He spake words even such as thine, but they availed Him not, and He was crucified by the Jews. Whereto Andrew boldly answered that Christ had given Himself up to die for man's salvation; but the Pro-consul blasphemously interrupted him, and bade him look to himself, and sacrifice to the gods. Then said Andrew, We have an altar, whereon day by day I offer up to God, the Almighty, the One, and the True, not the flesh of bulls nor the blood of goats, but a Lamb without spot and when all they that believe have eaten of the Flesh Thereof, the Lamb That was slain abideth whole and liveth. Then Aegeas being filled with wrath, bound the Apostle in prison. Now, the people would have delivered him, but he himself calmed the multitude, and earnestly besought them not to take away from him the crown of martyrdom, for which he longed and which was now drawing near.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;">Come a short while after, he was brought before the judgment-seat, where he extolled the mystery of the cross, and rebuked Aegeas for his ungodliness. Then Aegeas could bear with him no longer, but commanded him to be crucified, in imitation of Christ. Andrew, then, was led to the place of martyrdom, and, as soon as he came in sight of the cross, he cried out, O precious cross, which the Members of my Lord have made so goodly, how long have I desired thee! how warmly have I loved thee! how constantly have I sought thee! And, now that thou art come to me, how is my soul drawn to thee! Welcome me from among men, and join me again to my Master, that as by thee He redeemed me, so by thee also He may take me unto Himself. So he was fastened to the cross, whereon he hung living for two days, during which time he ceased not to preach the faith of Christ, and, finally, passed into the Presence of Him the likeness of Whose death he had loved so well. All the above particulars of his last sufferings were written by the Priests and Deacons of Achaia, who bear witness to them of their own knowledge. Under the Emperor Constantine the bones of the Apostle were first taken to Constantinople, whence they were afterwards brought to Amalfi. In the Pontificate of Pope Pius II his head was carried to Rome, where it is kept in the Basilica of St Peter.</span>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://maryvictrix.com/2015/11/30/remember-november/">Remember November</a></span>
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<p>By Fra Didacus</p><br />Filed under: <a href="http://maryvictrix.com/category/airmaria/">AirMaria</a>, <a href="http://maryvictrix.com/category/video/">Video</a> Tagged: <a href="http://maryvictrix.com/tag/fra-didacus/">Fra Didacus</a>, <a href="http://maryvictrix.com/tag/november/">November</a>, <a href="http://maryvictrix.com/tag/poor-souls/">Poor Souls</a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/maryvictrix.wordpress.com/8273/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/maryvictrix.wordpress.com/8273/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=maryvictrix.com&blog=729995&post=8273&subd=maryvictrix&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://easternchristianbooks.blogspot.com/2015/11/wiley-patristics-companion.html">Wiley Patristics Companion</a></span>
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<p>I'm looking forward to teaching a course on patristics next year, and this recently published volume will be a strong contender for possible textbooks in my class, not least because of the ample attention it pays to Syriac, Arabic, and Greek traditions alongside the Latin: Ken Parry, ed., <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/111843871X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=111843871X&linkCode=as2&tag=eastern-20&linkId=3RGU3UARCEFWA5O3" rel="nofollow">Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics</a> </i>(2015), 552pp.<br /><div><br /></div></p><p>About this book the publisher tells us:<br /><br />This comprehensive volume brings together a team of distinguished scholars to create a wide-ranging introduction to patristic authors and their contributions to not only theology and spirituality, but to philosophy, ecclesiology, linguistics, hagiography, liturgics, homiletics, iconology, and other fields.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">It: <br /><br /><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Challenges accepted definitions of patristics and the patristic period - in particular questioning the Western framework in which the field has traditionally been constructed</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Includes the work of authors who wrote in languages other than Latin and Greek, including those within the Coptic, Armenian, Syriac, and Arabic Christian traditions</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Examines the reception history of prominent as well as lesser-known figures, debating the role of each, and exploring why many have undergone periods of revived interest</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Offers synthetic accounts of a number of topics central to patristic studies, including scripture, scholasticism, and the Reformation</li><li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrates the continuing role of these writings in enriching and inspiring our understanding of Christianity</li></blockquote>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-cost-of-phd.html">The Cost of a PhD</a></span>
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<p>From <a href="http://qz.com/547641/theres-an-awful-cost-to-getting-a-phd-that-no-one-talks-about/" target="_blank"><i>Quartz</i></a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s common knowledge that getting a PhD is hard. It’s meant to be. Some even say that if you’re not up all night working or skipping meals, you’re doing it wrong. But while PhD students are not so naive as to enter the program expecting an easy ride, there is a cost to the endeavor that no one talks about: a psychological one.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The days I spent pursuing my PhD in physics were some of my darkest. It wasn’t the intellectual challenges or the workload that brought me down; it was my deteriorating mental health. I felt unsupported, isolated and adrift in uncertainty. Anxiety attacks became a part of my daily life. I drank and cut myself. I sometimes thought I wanted to die.</span>(<a href="http://qz.com/547641/theres-an-awful-cost-to-getting-a-phd-that-no-one-talks-about/" target="_blank">Read more.</a>)</blockquote>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/9114-2/">Bishop Conley To Again Offer Mass Ad Orientem for Advent</a></span>
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<p><strong>For the second year in a row Bishop James D. Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska will offer all Masses during Advent ad orientem. </strong>In addition, he is encouraging the priests of his diocese to consider doing the same as well. In his <a href="http://www.lincolndiocese.org/op-ed/bishop-s-column/4076-conversi-ad-dominum" target="_blank"> column</a> for the Southern Nebraska Register this past week, Bishop Conley wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>We turn toward the Lord because he is coming, ever new, into our lives, calling us more deeply into the mystery of Christian discipleship. The Lord is coming to call each one of us to become saints.</p>
<p>The Church, in her sacred worship, helps us to turn ourselves more frequently to the Lord. <strong>This Advent, in the Cathedral of the Risen Christ in Lincoln, I will, once again, celebrate Holy Mass ad orientem—facing toward the liturgical east, facing toward Christ, on the cross, and, most especially, turning toward the Lord in the Holy Eucharist.</strong> In parishes of the Diocese of Lincoln, according to the discretion of the pastor, other priests will also celebrate Mass ad orientem this Advent, turning toward the liturgical east, anticipating the coming of the Lord at Christmas.</p>
<p>Ad orientem celebration of the Eucharist will not happen everywhere in the Diocese of Lincoln, or all the time. But in some places, it will. It serves as a reminder to each one of us, that our entire Church must “turn toward the Lord,” standing together, looking to Christ, who will transform our lives.</p></blockquote>
<p>As I have written about previously (<a href="http://liturgyguy.com/2014/09/04/offering-the-novus-ordo-ad-orientem/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://liturgyguy.com/2015/10/09/liturgical-game-changers/" target="_blank">here</a>), the offering of the Mass ad orientem is both a “game changer” and the liturgical third rail within the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. </p>
<p>It is with enthusiasm and gratitude that we greet the news of Bishop Conley’s decision. However, it is unfortunate that (in 2015) this is still newsworthy. The theological importance and liturgical history of the Church leads one to ask why we still see so few dioceses following the example given by Lincoln. For that matter, one might ask why those in Lincoln, having already offered all masses at the cathedral ad orientem last Advent, decided against continuing it the remainder of the year. </p>
<p>Discussing this subject twenty five years ago, the late Anne Roche Muggeridge observed:</p>
<blockquote><p>“If an angel allowed me one suggestion as to what more than anything else would most quickly restore the sense of the sacred to the Mass, it would be this to do away with Mass facing the people. I am convinced that the position of the priest at the altar is the single most important liturgical “external” symbol, the one that carries the most doctrinal baggage. To put the priest back on our side of the altar, facing with us towards God, would at one stroke restore the Mass from an exercise in interpersonal relationship to the universal prayer of the Church to God our Father. With the priest facing God once more as leader of the people, the importance of the microphone will diminish, and the priest can stop making faces at us. He and we can go back to thinking only about what is happening in the Mystery.” (The Desolate City: Revolution in the Catholic Church, pp. 176-177.)</p></blockquote>
<p>Since Anne Muggeridge penned those words in 1990, we have seen the topic addressed in liturgical studies by Gamber, Ratzinger, Lang, and Mosebach. We have also seen the papacy of Benedict XVI, the release of Summorum Pontificum, greater access to ad orientem worship in the Extraordinary Form Mass, and an increasing acceptance and understanding of sacred liturgy among both religious and laity alike. And yet, what we see happening at the Cathedral of the Risen Christ in Lincoln is still notable because of its rarity.</p>
<p>Earlier in his column Bishop Conley noted that:</p>
<blockquote><p>Advent is a time for conversion. A time to examine our hearts and minds. A time to confess our sinfulness. A time to cast off old habits, and take up new disciplines…</p>
<p>Advent is a time to turn toward the Lord.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let us dare to hope that we might finally see more priests and bishops restoring the traditional practice of offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ad orientem. After decades of anthropocentric liturgies, is it not time to once again turn toward the Lord?</p>
<p>Photo Credit: Southern Nebraska Register </p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://blog.adw.org/2015/11/of-sledgehammers-and-subtleties-images-of-hell/">Of Sledgehammers and Subtleties – Images of Hell</a></span>
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<p><a href="http://blog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/blog-11-29.png"><img alt="blog-11-29" class="alignright size-full wp-image-34377" height="270" src="http://blog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/blog-11-29.png" width="360" /></a>In the Office of Readings last week we read a letter from St. Paul of the Cross. In it he presents a brief image of Hell, comparing it to the prison life he is enduring. It is a description that helps us to understand that Hell and its sufferings may be about more than just a fire that is never extinguished, worms that die not, and wailing and grinding of teeth. More of his description in a moment.</p>
<p><b>To be sure, eternal fire, undying worms, and wailing and grinding of teeth </b>are descriptions of Hell from Christ Himself. Rather than lingering on extensive descriptions, Jesus goes to the deepest aspects of the sufferings of Hell. The fire In Hell is more than a merely physical one; it is a fire of rage and disgust that consumes as it causes pain, rather than purifying as does the refining fire of God’s love.</p>
<p><b>The worms, </b>real and allegorical, gnaw and devour what little energy the rage has not already burned away. Their gnawing brings weariness and weakness, lethargy and listlessness. Indeed, when Dante got to the pit of Hell he saw Satan, strangely bored and up to his waist in ice! In fact he was so bored that he barely noticed the presence of Dante and Virgil. Satan’s anger had sapped him and worms consumed what little remained of his energy. A sad, consumed and pathetic creature: <i>How you have fallen O Lucifer, O Daystar … Cast down to Sheol, into the pit!</i> (Isaiah 14:12, 15)</p>
<p><b>And as for the wailing and grinding of teeth</b>, the double image makes it clear that the wailing has nothing to do with repentance. Rather it is about anger at having been conquered, having been bested, having lost.</p>
<p><b>Yes, the Lord gives powerful images! But we do well to understand also the subtleties of Hell</b>. Perhaps Hell is to be missing the one thing necessary. Perhaps it is like owning a mansion without a key to get in, or having a fortune in a bank account without the PIN to access it. It would be better not to have them at all than to have them but lack the one thing necessary to access them!  Bishop Sheen told the following “joke” about Hell:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><i>There is not a golfer in America who has not heard the story, which is theologically sound, about the golfer who went to Hell and asked to play golf. The Devil showed him a 36-hole course with a beautiful clubhouse, long fairways, perfectly placed hazards, rolling hills, and velvety greens. Next, the Devil gave him a set of clubs so well balanced that the golfer felt he had been swinging them all his life. Out to the first tee they stepped, ready for a game. The golfer said, “What a course! Give me the ball.” The Devil answered: “Sorry, we have no golf balls in Hell. That’s the hell of it</i>!” (Three to Get Married, Kindle Edition, Loc. 851-57)</p>
<p><b>This is a more subtle, but piercing, description of Hell.</b> Perhaps Hell has its “pleasures” but there is no way to enjoy them!</p>
<p><b>This brings us back to the images of Hell that St. Paul of the Cross supplied.</b> He wrote to his brethren as follows:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><i>The prison here is a true image of everlasting hell: to cruel tortures of every kind—shackles, iron chains, manacles—are added hatred, vengeance, calumnies, obscene speech, quarrels, evil acts, swearing, curses, as well as anguish and grief … How am I to bear with the spectacle, as each day I see … their retinue blaspheming your holy name, O Lord, who are enthroned above the Cherubim and Seraphim? Behold, the pagans have trodden your cross underfoot! Where is your glory? As I see all this, I would, in the ardent love I have for you, prefer to be torn limb from limb and to die as a witness to your love</i><b> (</b>From a letter of Saint Paul Le-Bao-Tinh sent to students of the Seminary of Ke-Vinh in 1843 –<b> </b>[Paris Foreign Mission Society, Paris, 1925], pp. 80-83).</p>
<p><b>In this passage, Hell is described as a place of violence, hatred, vengeance, and calumny. It is a kind of death by a thousand cuts.</b> There is no need to imagine such terrible things; they are the daily fare of this world. But in Hell they will never end. From Hell there is no hope of escape through the emergency exits of forgiveness, mutual mercy, or reconciliation. That day is gone. Those in Hell have opted permanently for hate, revenge, envy, wrath, bitterness. They have chosen endlessly hideous practices that don’t even provide the passing “pleasure” they sometimes gave on earth. St. Augustine called envy “the diabolical sin,” since it seeks to destroy that which is good or excellent in others. Others have added that envy is perhaps the truest precursor of Hell, since it is the one sin that provides no perceivable pleasure at all.</p>
<p><b>Hell may well have its subtleties. The grim descriptions of Jesus remain dogma. The subtleties are perhaps a bit more speculative. But</b> do your best to stay out of Hell! Whatever brief promises of pleasure Satan and sin might give you now, the visions of Hell are awful indeed.</p>
<p><b>Only grace and mercy can rescue us from the lies of Satan and sin.</b> Run to Jesus, repenting of your sins. Ask for the grace to recognize the awful reality of Hell, with its sledgehammer force and its somber subtleties. Ask for the grace to see through the lies to the lasting truth of the glory of Heaven.</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://blog.adw.org/2015/11/of-sledgehammers-and-subtleties-images-of-hell/" rel="nofollow">Of Sledgehammers and Subtleties – Images of Hell</a> appeared first on <a href="http://blog.adw.org" rel="nofollow">Community in Mission</a>.</p>
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<p>The Four Last Things refer to death, judgment, heaven and hell.  The 10 Last Things as a phrase does not exist,  but all are found in Scripture and Tradition.  Remember, Advent (starting tonight) is the time to prepare not only for Christ’s first coming, but also His second coming. So, when is Jesus coming back to earth? The answer: …</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2015/11/29/ten-last-things-by-fr-nix/" rel="nofollow">Ten Last Things – By Fr. Nix</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com" rel="nofollow">Traditional Catholic Priest</a>.</p>
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<p>“The name “Andrew” (Gr., andreia, manhood, or valour), like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the second or third century B.C. St. Andrew, the Apostle, son of Jonah, or John (Matt., xvi, 17; John, i, 42), was born in Bethsaida of Galilee (John, i, 44). He was brother of Simon …</p>
<p>The post <a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2015/11/29/st-andrew-apostle-nov-30/" rel="nofollow">St. Andrew Apostle Nov. 30</a> appeared first on <a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com" rel="nofollow">Traditional Catholic Priest</a>.</p>
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<p>I just finished reading this book with our daughter. J.R.R. Tolkien's <i>Lord of the Rings</i>, it's not. But it has every bit the adventure of my mother's stories about her life as a missionary in China, to which she travelled alone by freighter to Hong Kong, making her way inland to Chendgu, Sichuan, where she served as a medical mission nurse until my father arrived, they were married, they tried to stay after the Maoist revolution and after I came crashing into their lives. Perhaps this disposed me empathetically to the story about Sr. Theophane in <i>Selfless</i>. <br /><br /><center><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sWebHUwQL._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" /></center><br />From the publisher:<blockquote><i>Selfless</i> is the story of Sister Theophane, a passionate, driven nun dedicated to serving the poor around the world. <br /><br />Discover the inspiring story of how a precocious young girl from upstate New York became a servant and apostle to the poor in the jungle missions of Papua New Guinea, and, eventually, a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II. <br /><br />Selfless: The Story of Sr. Theophane's Missionary Life in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea was written in 1946 by a fellow sister of the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters [Sr. Immolata Reida, SSpS], but it is just now being published for the first time. <br /><br />Long held in anonymity, Sr. Theophane's amazing life of service and apostolic zeal is now finally being revealed to the world. Her story is a breathtaking tale that will inspire a new generation of Catholics to heed the call of service to Christ and others.</blockquote>Our daughter was touched by Theophane's love of animals from when she was a child, through her horse-riding adventures in the mountain passes of Papua New Guinea. I was touched by her quiet heroism, her unflagging selfless zeal, and her untimely death as a casualty of the Pacific War (WWII). The ending is particularly moving, if you follow the threat of hear life throughout the whole narrative. <br /><br />Pray for a renewal of the missionary spirit among Catholic women religious. Lord knows we need it.
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<p> <u><span>IL208-Z.22.2</span></u> <br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span>Gott tritt in eine Seele ein nur in dem Maß, als sie sich vernichtet.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span>Gott erfüllt sie in dem Maße, in dem sie sich von allem entleert. Alles in<span> </span>ihr, was nicht Gott ist, hindert den Eintritt Gottes. Selbst die Geschenke,<span> </span>durch die Gott zu ihr kommt, dürfen nicht in ihr bleiben. Denn sie sind<span> </span>nicht Gott, sondern nur Mittel, durch die er eintritt. Und wenn sie in<span> </span>der Seele bleiben, nehmen sie den Platz Gottes ein. Nach dem schönen<span> </span>Vergleich des heiligen Franz von Sales (Franz von Sales, Abhandlung von der Liebe Gottes, 11. Buch, 16. Kap.) kann,<span> </span>solange die Nadel im<span> </span>Gewebe bleibt, der Faden nicht durchdringen. Die Nadel dringt nur<span> </span>durch das Gewebe, um den Faden durchzuführen. So dürfen die<span> </span>Geschenke Gottes nur durch die Seele gehen, um dort Gott eindringen zu<span> </span>lassen. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span>Jede Gabe muss folglich vernichtet werden, um einer höheren<span> </span>Gabe Platz zu machen, und solange ein niedrigeres Geschenk den Platz<span> </span>in der Seele einnimmt, ist es ein Hindernis für jedes höhere Geschenk.<span> </span>Wenn ich nicht fortgehe, kann der Tröster nicht zu euch kommen (Joh 10,7).</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US">(Dom François de Sales Polien, IL, 20151130)</span><br /></div> Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE <br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div>
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<td><a href="http://cistercium.blogspot.com/">EUCist News</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.faithfulanswers.com">Faithful Answers</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.faithfulanswers.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://sdcojai.wordpress.com">For the Queen</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://sdcojai.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/">Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/">Fr Ray Blake's Blog</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog">Fr. Z's Blog</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://galileowaswrong.com">Galileo Was Wrong</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://gratiasupernaturam.blogspot.com/">Gratia Super Naturam</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://historyofinterpretation.wordpress.com">History of Interpretation</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://historyofinterpretation.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td>https://creamcitycatholic.com/feed/</td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://creamcitycatholic.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/simchafisher">I Have to Sit Down</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/simchafisher/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.ibenedictines.org">iBenedictines</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ibenedictines">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/">IDLE SPECULATIONS</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/Uocyk">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://ignatiushisconclave.org">ignatius his conclave</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://ilblogdiraffaella.blogspot.com/">Il Blog di Raffaella. I Papi, il Vaticano e la Chiesa Cattolica</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/IlBlogDiRaffaellaLeNewsSulPapaIlVaticanoELaChiesaCattolica">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com">In the Light of the Law</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://incarnationandmodernity.wordpress.com">Incarnation and Modernity</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://incarnationandmodernity.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://infallible-catholic.blogspot.com/">Infallible Catholic</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://infallible-catholic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://angeluspress.org/blog">Instaurare Omnia in Christo - The Blog</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://jimmyakin.com">Jimmy Akin</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://jimmyakin.com/feed">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://johngbrungardt.com">John G. Brungardt, Ph.L.</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://johngbrungardt.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://johnvgerardi.wordpress.com">John V. Gerardi</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://johnvgerardi.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://thomism.wordpress.com">Just Thomism</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://katholon.de">katholon</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://katholon.de/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://korrektivpress.com">Korrektiv</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://korrektivpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://exlaodicea.wordpress.com">Laodicea</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://exlaodicea.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/">Laudator Temporis Acti</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://yvesdaoudal.hautetfort.com/">Le blog d'Yves Daoudal</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://benedict-iana.blogspot.com/">Lectio Divina Notes</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://benedict-iana.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/">LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://lexchristianorum.blogspot.com/">Lex Christianorum</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://lexchristianorum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.leynatural.es">Ley Natural</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.leynatural.es/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://littleflowerfarmcsa.blogspot.com/">Little Flower Farm</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://littleflowerfarmcsa.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/">LMS Chairman</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.lmschairman.org/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://lovedasif.com">Loved As If</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://lovedasif.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.marcpuck.com/">marcpuck</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.marcpuck.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://maryvictrix.com">Mary Victrix</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://maryvictrix.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://mathias-von-gersdorff.blogspot.com/">Mathias von Gersdorff</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://mathias-von-gersdorff.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://pblosser.blogspot.com/">Musings of a Pertinacious Papist</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://pblosser.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/">New Liturgical Movement</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheNewLiturgicalMovement">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://culbreath.wordpress.com">New Sherwood</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://culbreath.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://drandmrsholmes.com">New Song</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://drandmrsholmes.com/?feed=rss2">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://thomistica.net/news/">News - thomistica</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://catholicnick.blogspot.com/">NICK'S CATHOLIC BLOG</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://catholicnick.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/index.htm">Novus Ordo Wire | Blog, News Archive at NOVUS ORDO WATCH</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/index.xml">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://onemadmomblog.wordpress.com">One Mad Mom</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://onemadmomblog.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com">OnePeterFive</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://opuspublicum.com">Opus Publicum</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://opuspublicum.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://otritt.wordpress.com">Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://otritt.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://ozconservative.blogspot.com/">Oz Conservative</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog">Paths of Love</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://psallamdomino.blogspot.com/">Psallam Domino</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/">RORATE CÆLI</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://undergroundthomist.org/rss">RSS</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/undergroundthomist/yCSy">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com">Sancrucensis</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://scholastiker.blogspot.com/">Scholastiker</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://scholastiker.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://semiduplex.com">Semiduplex</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://semiduplex.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://branemrys.blogspot.com/">Siris</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://branemrys.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://catholicteuchtar.blogspot.com/">Spirit of Teuchtar II</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/">St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://stpeterslist.com">St. Peter's List</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://feedpress.me/stpeterslist">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://steepleandstate.com">Steeple and State</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://priestofthechurch.wordpress.com">Symposium</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://tesknotablog.com">Tęsknota</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://taylormarshall.com">Taylor Marshall</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/">Tea at Trianon</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.com/">That The Bones You Have Crushed May Thrill</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://the-american-catholic.com">The American Catholic</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/">The Badger Catholic</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.thecatholicdormitory.com">The Catholic Dormitory</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.thecatholicthing.org">The Catholic Thing</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://jesuitjoe.blogspot.com/">The City and the World</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.ncregister.com/">The Daily Register</a></td>
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<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-02.html">02</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-09.html">09</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-16.html">16</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-23.html">23</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-30.html">30</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-08-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">July 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day">12</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-19.html">19</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-26.html">26</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-07-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-14.html">14</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-21.html">21</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-28.html">28</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-06-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">May 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-03.html">03</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-17.html">17</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-24.html">24</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-05-31.html">31</a></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">April 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-05.html">05</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-12.html">12</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-19.html">19</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-26.html">26</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-04-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">23</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">24</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">25</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-01.html">01</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-15.html">15</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-22.html">22</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-29.html">29</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-03-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">February 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-15.html">15</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-02-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">January 2015</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-25.html">25</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2015-01-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-07.html">07</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-14.html">14</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-21.html">21</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-28.html">28</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-12-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-16.html">16</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-11-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">October 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-05.html">05</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-12.html">12</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-10-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">September 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-14.html">14</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-09-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">August 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-03.html">03</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-08-31.html">31</a></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">July 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-13.html">13</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-07-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-06-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-06-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">May 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-05-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">April 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-04-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-04-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-04-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">24</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">25</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-03-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day">30</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">February 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-09.html">09</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-16.html">16</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-02-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">January 2014</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-26.html">26</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-29.html">29</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2014-01-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">25</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-22.html">22</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-12-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-10.html">10</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-12.html">12</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-11-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">October 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-20.html">20</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-10-27.html">27</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">August 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-08-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">July 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-07-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-07-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-06-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">May 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-05-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-05-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-05-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">April 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-04-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">25</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-10.html">10</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-03-24.html">24</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">February 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-24.html">24</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-02-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">January 2013</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-01-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2013-01-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-09.html">09</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-13.html">13</a></td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-12-28.html">28</a></td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-06.html">06</a></td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-11.html">11</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-20.html">20</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-11-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">October 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-01.html">01</a></td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-05.html">05</a></td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-11.html">11</a></td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-15.html">15</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-10-30.html">30</a></td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">September 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-26.html">26</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-27.html">27</a></td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-09-30.html">30</a></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-06-17.html">17</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">May 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-05-31.html">31</a></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-03-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-03-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-03-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">February 2012</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2012-02-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-12-24.html">24</a></td><td class="cal-day">25</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-11-09.html">09</a></td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">July 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-07-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-07-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">April 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-04-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-04-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">March 2011</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2011-03-20.html">20</a></td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">November 2010</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-11-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">August 2010</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-08-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">June 2010</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-06-03.html">03</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-06-04.html">04</a></td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-06-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-06-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">January 2010</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-01-02.html">02</a></td><td class="cal-day">03</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-01-14.html">14</a></td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2010-01-16.html">16</a></td><td class="cal-day">17</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td><td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td></tr>
</table>
<table class="calendar">
<tr class="cal-head">
<td class="cal-prev"></td>
<td class="cal-month" colspan="5">December 2009</td>
<td class="cal-next"></td>
</tr>
<tr class="cal-days">
<th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th><th>Sun</th></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td><td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-07.html">07</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-08.html">08</a></td><td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-10.html">10</a></td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td><td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-17.html">17</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-18.html">18</a></td><td class="cal-day">19</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-20.html">20</a></td></tr>
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<td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-21.html">21</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-22.html">22</a></td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-23.html">23</a></td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-12-25.html">25</a></td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td></tr>
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<td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td><td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day">31</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td></tr>
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<td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">26</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">27</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">28</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">29</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">30</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">31</em></td><td class="cal-day">01</td></tr>
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<td class="cal-day">02</td><td class="cal-day">03</td><td class="cal-day">04</td><td class="cal-day">05</td><td class="cal-day">06</td><td class="cal-day">07</td><td class="cal-day">08</td></tr>
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<td class="cal-day">09</td><td class="cal-day">10</td><td class="cal-day">11</td><td class="cal-day">12</td><td class="cal-day">13</td><td class="cal-day">14</td><td class="cal-day">15</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">16</td><td class="cal-day">17</td><td class="cal-day">18</td><td class="cal-day"><a class="cal-link" href="index-2009-11-19.html">19</a></td><td class="cal-day">20</td><td class="cal-day">21</td><td class="cal-day">22</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">23</td><td class="cal-day">24</td><td class="cal-day">25</td><td class="cal-day">26</td><td class="cal-day">27</td><td class="cal-day">28</td><td class="cal-day">29</td></tr>
<tr class="cal-week">
<td class="cal-day">30</td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">01</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">02</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">03</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">04</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">05</em></td><td class="cal-day"><em class="cal-othermonth">06</em></td></tr>
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