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<h2>Wednesday, 02 December</h2>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/russian-pilot-killed-over-syria-wearing-a-scapular/">Russian pilot killed over Syria wearing a scapular</a></span>
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<p>I haven’t posted much on the deliberate provocation by Turkey in shooting down a Russian Su-24M ground attack plane (very similar in most respects to the American F-111, though much less sophisticated and shorter-ranged) last month.  This act – which almost certainly occurred over Syrian airspace after the jet had briefly transited a small extension of Turkey – was the culmination of a series of provocations on both sides of the conflict.  Russian and Syrian jets have been locking their fire control radars onto Turkish fighter jets. The Turks for their part have been very aggressive in their air defense patrols and seemed to be spoiling for a fight.  They have also violated Syrian airspace on a number of occasions, which resulted in the shoot down of a Phantom in 2012.</p>
<p>More broadly speaking, Turkey has been deeply involved in the Syrian revolt/civil war from its inception.  They continue to arm and aid various guerrilla factions, the “secular” insurgency has always had a strong base in the north which receives Turkish supplies, and it has been revealed that Turkey is heavily involved in –  and greatly profiting from – the illicit sale of ISIS oil extracted from Iraqi and Syrian wells.  They have all but declared themselves active combatants.  It will be interesting – and possibly quite alarming – to see how this<em> tete a tete</em> develops.</p>
<p>There’s been a lot of coverage regarding this downing, in which at least one pilot was killed while parachuting to the ground, or shortly thereafter.  I found this post by <a href="http://pblosser.blogspot.com/2015/11/wow.html" target="_blank">Pertinacious Papist</a> interesting, showing <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3331558/Turkey-shoots-fighter-jet-Syrian-border-Local-media-footage-flaming-plane-crashing-trees.html" target="_blank">some of the effects collected</a> from one of the dead Russians (others died in a combat search and rescue attempt):</p>
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<p>I know that even today, in spite of increasing bias and even outright persecution of their beliefs (and concomitant indoctrination in all manner of progressive shibboleths), there remains a large number of solid Christian souls in the military.  But I also know it has been specific DoD policy at times, especially among aircrew, to keep personal identifying characteristics to an absolute minimum on combat missions. For instance, name tags, national insignia and unit patches are not worn by combat crews on many missions – you can find numerous pics to attest to this fact. The policy is not universal, you can find pics of those in Afghanistan specifically that do wear patches and name badges.</p>
<p>I wonder whether this prohibition applies to religious items, as well, like wearing a crucifix or scapular when flying missions in the Mideast?   USAF in particular has been hyper-anal about not “giving offense” to muslim host countries by banning numerous things permitted in the US – for one thing, alcohol on base, outward display of non-muslim religious symbols, etc.  Women are expected to wear the hijab when off base in many countries.</p>
<p>All this causes me to tentatively conclude that it is more probable in this age that a Russian fighter pilot would be wearing a scapular over Syria or the Mideast than an American one.  Sheesh.</p>
<p>At some point, the West is going to figure out they’re involved in a religious war.  The only question is whether we figure that out before it’s too late.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24215/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24215/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=veneremurcernui.wordpress.com&blog=10897848&post=24215&subd=veneremurcernui&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://jimmyakin.com/2015/12/the-weekly-francis-2-december-2015.html">The Weekly Francis – 2 December 2015</a></span>
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<p></p><p><a href="http://jimmyakin.com/wp-content/uploads/popefrancis.jpg"><img alt="popefrancis" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-17720" height="200" src="http://jimmyakin.com/wp-content/uploads/popefrancis-300x200.jpg" width="300" /></a>This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 6 August 2015 to 30 November 2015.</p>
<p>Angelus</p>
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<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/angelus/2015/documents/papa-francesco_angelus_20151122.html">22 November 2015</a></li>
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<p>Daily Homilies (fervorinos)</p>
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<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/cotidie/2015/documents/papa-francesco-cotidie_20151119_the-way-of-peace.html">19 November 2015 – The way of peace</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/cotidie/2015/documents/papa-francesco-cotidie_20151120_a-daily-struggle.html">20 November 2015 – A daily struggle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/cotidie/2015/documents/papa-francesco-cotidie_20151123_the-one-treasure.html">23 November 2015 – The one treasure</a></li>
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<p>Homilies</p>
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<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151126_kenya-omelia-nairobi.html">26 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Kenya: Holy Mass at Nairobi University Campus</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151128_uganda-omelia-martiri.html">28 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Uganda: Holy Mass for the Martyrs of Uganda (Area of the Catholic Shrine of the Martyrs of Namugongo, 28 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151129_repcentrafricana-omelia-cattedrale-bangui.html">29 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Central African Republic: Mass with Priests, Consecrated Persons and Lay Leaders (Cathedral of Bangui, 29 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151130_repcentrafricana-omelia-stadio-bangui.html">30 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Central African Republic: Holy Mass celebrated at Barthélémy Boganda Stadium (Bangui, 30 November 2015)</a></li>
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<p>Letters</p>
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<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151012_60-anniversario-celam.html">12 October 2015 – Letter of the Holy Father on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151014_lettera-parolin.html">14 October 2015 – Letter of the Holy Father to the Cardinal Secretary of State on the reform process of certain structures of the Roman Curia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151028_chirografo-gravissimum-educationis.html">28 October 2015 – Chirograph of the Holy Father for the establishment of the “Gravissimum educationis” Foundation</a></li>
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<p>Messages</p>
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<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151022_messaggio-apostolicam-actuositatem.html">22 October 2015 – Message of the Holy Father to the President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Decree “Apostolicam actuositatem”</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151123_videomessaggio-repubblica-centrafricana.html">23 November 2015 – Video Message of the Holy Father at the vigil of the Apostolic Journey to the Central African Republic [25–30 November 2015]</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20151130_messaggio-bartolomeo-s-andrea.html">30 November 2015 – Message of the Holy Father to His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch, for the Feast of Saint Andrew</a></li>
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<p>Speeches</p>
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<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151112_opera-don-guanella.html">12 November 2015 – To a pilgrimage of the Guanellian Family</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151112_ad-limina-slovacchia.html">12 November 2015 – To the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Slovakia on their “ad Limina” visit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151113_romano-guardini-stiftung.html">13 November 2015 – To participants in the Conference sponsored by the “Romano Guardini Stiftung”</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151125_kenya-autorita.html">25 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Kenya: Meeting with Authorities and the Diplomatic Corps</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151125_kenya-libro-d-oro-nairobi.html">25 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Kenya: Signing of the Golden Book at the State House of Nairobi</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151126_kenya-unon.html">26 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Kenya: Visit to the U.N.O.N. (United Nations Office at Nairobi)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151126_kenya-religiosi.html">26 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Kenya: Meeting with Clergy, Men and Women Religious and Seminarians in the sports field of St Mary’s School (Nairobi, 26 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151126_kenya-incontro-interreligioso.html">26 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Kenya: Ecumenical and Interreligious meeting in the Hall of the Apostolic Nunciature (Nairobi, 26 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151127_uganda-catechisti.html">27 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Uganda: Visit to Munyonyo and greeting to Catechists and Teachers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151127_uganda-autorita.html">27 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Uganda: Meeting with Authorities and the Diplomatic Corps gathered in the Conference Hall of the State House (Entebbe, 27 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151127_kenya-giovani.html">27 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Kenya: Meeting with the young people at Kasarani Stadium (Nairobi, 27 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151127_kenya-kangemi.html">27 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Kenya: Visit to Kangemi slum (Nairobi, 27 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151128_uganda-religiosi.html">28 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Uganda: Meeting with Priests, Men and Women Religious and Seminarians at St Mary’s Cathedral (Kampala, 28 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151128_uganda-casa-carita.html">28 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Uganda: Visit to the House of Charity of Nalukolongo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151128_uganda-giovani.html">28 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Uganda: Meeting with the young people at Kololo Air Strip in Kampala</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151129_repubblica-centrafricana-veglia-preghiera.html">29 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Central African Republic: Administration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation to some young people and Prayer Vigil at Cathedral Square (Bangui, 29 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151129_repubblica-centrafricana-comunita-evangeliche.html">29 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Central African Republic: Meeting with Evangelical Communities gathered in the Faculty of Evangelical Theology [FATEB], Bangui,</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151129_repubblica-centrafricana-autorita.html">29 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Central African Republic: Meeting with Authorities and the Diplomatic Corps (Bangui, 29 November 2015)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/november/documents/papa-francesco_20151130_repubblica-centrafricana-musulmani.html">30 November 2015 – Apostolic Journey – Central African Republic: Meeting with the Muslim Community in the central Mosque of Koudoukou (Bangui, 30 November 2015)</a></li>
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<p>Papal Tweets</p>
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<li>“Mungu abariki Kenya! God bless Kenya!” <a href="https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/669490308258902016">@Pontifex 25 November 2015</a></li>
<li>“May my visit to Africa be a sign of the Church’s esteem for all religions, and strengthen our bonds of friendship.” <a href="https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/669802827179425792">@Pontifex 26 November 2015</a></li>
<li>“The world is witnessing an unprecedented migration of peoples. I want to thank Uganda for its generosity in welcoming refugees.” <a href="https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/670286012115881986">@Pontifex 27 November 2015</a></li>
<li>“Uganda has experienced the witness of Christian martyrs. May they help us spread the joy of the Gospel without fear.” <a href="https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/670557775617912832">@Pontifex 28 November 2015</a></li>
<li>“I have great hope for Africa, and for the harvest of grace that the Lord is preparing in your midst.” <a href="https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/670663486280589312">@Pontifex 28 November 2015</a></li>
<li>“I come to the Central African Republic as a pilgrim of peace and as an apostle of hope.” <a href="https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/670889976129675264">@Pontifex 29 November 2015</a></li>
<li>“Where there is violence and hatred, Christians are called to witness to the God who is Love.” <a href="https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/670995672070381570">@Pontifex 29 November 2015</a></li>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.adelantelafe.com/el-saco-de-roma-un-castigo-misericordioso/">El Saco de Roma: un castigo misericordioso</a></span>
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<p><img alt="sacoderoma" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" height="264" src="http://www.adelantelafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/sacoderoma-1024x438.jpg" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="618" /><span class="wpsdc-drop-cap">L</span>a Iglesia vive una época de desorientación doctrinal y moral. El cisma se ha desatado en Alemania, pero por lo visto el  Papa no se da cuenta de la magnitud del drama. Un grupo de cardinales y obispos promueve la necesidad de un acuerdo con los herejes. Como suele pasar en los momentos más graves de la historia, los acontecimientos se suceden con extrema rapidez. El domingo 5 de mayo de 1527, un ejército desciende de Lombardía y llega al monte Janícolo. <span id="more-21878"></span></p>
<p>El emperador Carlos V, airado por la alianza política del papa Clemente VII con su adversario el rey de Francia Francisco I, llevó un ejército contra la capital de la Cristiandad. Aquella tarde el sol se puso por última vez sobre la deslumbrante belleza de la Roma renacentista. Unos 20.000 hombres entre italianos, españoles y lansquenetes alemanes de fe luterana, se disponían a atacar la Ciudad Eterna. Su comandante les había autorizado a realizar actos de saqueo.</p>
<p>Durante toda la noche, la campana del Capitolio tocó a rebato para convocar a los romanos a las armas, pero ya era tarde para improvisar una defensa eficaz. Al amanecer del 6 de mayo, amparados por una espesa niebla, los lansquenetes asaltaron los muros entre la iglesia de San Onofre y la puerta de Santo Spirito. La Guardia Suiza se situó en torno al Obelisco del Vaticano, y decidió mantener su juramento de fidelidad hasta la muerte. Los últimos cayeron junto al altar mayor de la Basílica de San Pedro. Su resistencia permitió que el Papa pudiese huir junto con varios cardenales.</p>
<p>A través del Passetto del Borgo, que sobre una muralla comunica el Vaticano con el Castillo Sant’Angelo, Clemente VII pudo refugiarse en la fortaleza, único baluarte que quedó libre de las fuerzas enemigas. Desde la azotea del castillo, el pontífice presenció la tremenda masacre que dio comienzo con la multitud que se había apiñado a las puertas del castillo en busca de refugio, mientras los enfermos del hospital de Santo Spirito de Sassia caían bajo los golpes de las lanzas y las espadas.</p>
<p>La licencia ilimitada para robar y matar duró ocho días, y la urbe estuvo ocupada durante nueve meses. «El infierno no es nada comparado con el aspecto que presenta Roma», puede leerse en un informe veneciano del 10 de mayo de 1527 mencionado por Ludwig von Pastor en su <i>Historia de los papas</i>.</p>
<p>Las principales víctimas de la furia de los lansquenetes fueron los religiosos. Los palacios arzobispales fueron desvalijados, las iglesias profanadas, sacerdotes y monjes fueron asesinados y esclavizados y las monjas violadas y vendidas en los mercados. Se vieron obscenas parodias de ceremonias religiosas, cálices utilizados para emborracharse entre blasfemias, hostias consagradas fritas en sartenes y dadas de comer a animales y tumbas de santos y cráneos de apóstoles profanados, como el de San Andrés, con el que se jugó a la pelota en las calles. A un asno le pusieron vestiduras eclesiásticas y lo condujeron al altar de una iglesia. El sacerdote se negó a darle la comunión, y lo descuartizaron por ello (véase <em>El saco de Roma</em>, de André Chastel, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid 1986; Umberto Roberto, <em>Roma capta.</em> <em>Il Sacco della città dai Galli ai Lanzichenecchi, </em>Laterza, Bari 2012).</p>
<p>Clemente VII, de la familia Médicis, no había renovado la convocación de su predecesor Adriano VI a una reforma radical de la Iglesia. Hacía diez años que Lutero divulgaba sus herejías, pero la Roma de los papas seguía inmersa en el relativismo y el hedonismo. Sin embargo, no todos los romanos eran corruptos y afeminados, como parece creer el historiador Gregorovius. No lo eran los nobles que, como Giulio Vallati, Giambattista Savelli y Pierpaolo Tebaldi enarbolaban un estandarte con la divisa «Pro Fide et Patria» y opusieron una heroica resistencia en el Puente Sixto. Tampoco lo eran los alumnos del Colegio Capranica, que acudieron prestos en defensa del Pontífice y murieron en Santo Spirito.</p>
<p>A aquella hecatombe debe el mencionado seminario romano el título de «Almo» (vivificador, que da vida). Clemente VII se salvó y gobernó la Iglesia hasta 1534, afrontando después del cisma luterano el anglicano. Pero para él, presenciar el saqueo de la urbe sin poder hacer nada, fue más doloroso que la propia muerte. El 17 de octubre de 1528 las tropas imperiales abandonaban una ciudad en ruinas.</p>
<p>Un testigo ocular español nos presenta un cuadro aterrador de la ciudad un mes después del Saco: «En Roma, capital de la Cristiandad, no suenan las campanas, no se abren las iglesias, no se dice Misa, no hay domingos ni festivos. Las opulentas tiendas de los mercaderes sirven de establos, los más espléndidos palacios son devastados, numerosas casas incendiadas. Otras las destruyen y se llevan puertas y ventanas, las calles están convertidas en estercoleros. El hedor de los cadáveres es espantoso: hombres y bestias comparten una misma sepultura. En las calles he visto cadáveres roídos por los perros. No sabría con qué comparar esta situación, salvo con la destrucción de Jerusalén. Ahora reconozco la justicia de Dios, que aunque se demore no olvida. En Roma se cometían abiertamente toda suerte de pecados: sodomía, simonía, idolatría, hipocresía, engaños. Por esa razón, no podemos creer que esta calamidad haya sido casual, sino por justicia divina» (L. von Pastor, op. cit.).</p>
<p>Clemente VII encargó a Miguel Ángel el Juicio Universal de la Capilla Sixtina como para inmortalizar el drama sufrido en aquellos años por la Iglesia de Roma. Todos comprendieron que se trataba de un castigo del Cielo. No faltaron avisos premonitorios, como un rayo que cayó en el Vaticano y la aparición de un ermitaño, Brandano da Petroio, venerado por las multitudes como «el loco de Cristo», que el jueves santo de 1527, mientras Clemente VII bendecía a al gentío en San Pedro, gritó: «Bastardo sodomita, por tus pecados Roma será destruida. Confiesa y conviértete, porque dentro de 14 días la ira de Dios se abatirá sobre ti y sobre tu ciudad».</p>
<p>A fines de agosto del año anterior, los ejércitos cristianos habían sido derrotados por los otomanos en Mohacs. El rey Luis II Jagelón de Hungría murió en la batalla, y el ejército de Soleimán el Magnífico ocupó la capital,  Buda. La avalancha islámica sobre Europa parecía incontenible. Y aun así, como siempre, la hora del castigo fue también la de la misericordia. Los hombres de Iglesia comprendieron la insensatez que era dejarse llevar por las tentaciones de placer y poder. Tras el terrible saqueo, la vida cambió radicalmente.</p>
<p>La Roma alegre del Renacimiento de transformó en la Roma austera y penitente de la Contrarreforma. Entre los que habían padecido el Saco se encontraba Gian Matteo Giberti, obispo de Verona, que a la sazón residía en Roma. Prisionero de los asaltantes, juró que jamás abandonaría su residencia episcopal si lo liberaban. Cumplió su palabra: regresó a Verona y dedicó todas sus energías a la reforma de su diócesis hasta que falleció en 1543.</p>
<p>San Carlos Borromeo, que después sería el modelo de la Reforma católica para los obispos, se inspiró en su ejemplo. También estaban en Roma Carlo Carafa y San Cayetano de di Thiene, que en 1524 habían fundado la orden de los teatinos, instituto religioso que fue objeto de burlas por su intransigente postura doctrinal y por el abandono a la  Divina Providencia, por el que llegaban al extremo de contar con que recibirían limosnas sin pedirlas siquiera. Ambos cofundadores fueron hechos prisioneros y torturados por los lansquenetes, y se libraron milagrosamente de la muerte.</p>
<p>Cuando Caraffa fue creado cardenal y comisario general del primer tribunal del Santo Oficio, llamó a su lado a otro santo, el dominico Michele Ghislieri. Tanto Carafa como Ghislieri, con los nombres respectivos de Paulo IV y Pío V, serían más tarde los papas por excelencia de la Contrarreforma del siglo XVI. El Concilio de Trento (1545-1563) y la victoria de  Lepanto contra los turcos (1571) demostraron que, también en los momentos más oscuros de la historia, es posible renacer con la ayuda de Dios: pero el origen de ese renacer estuvo en el castigo purificador del Saco de Roma.</p>
<p><strong>Roberto de Mattei</strong></p>
[Traducido por J.E.F]
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<p><img alt="purgatorio" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" height="264" src="http://www.adelantelafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/purgatorio-1024x438.jpg" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;" width="618" /><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Para el jueves primero de Adviento</strong></p>
<span class="wpsdc-drop-cap">P</span><strong>UNTO PRIMERO</strong>. Considera que como enseña la Fe, las almas que salen de esta vida en gracia de Dios, no habiendo Satisfecho enteramente las deudas de sus pecados, son condenadas en el tribunal de Dios a satisfacerlas en el purgatorio, más o menos conforme á lo que pecaron y a la penitencia que hicieron, y el primer paso en esta meditación sea mirar con los ojos de la consideración un lugar dilatado de luz en el cóncavo de la tierra, lleno de las almas de los justos, padeciendo varias y rigurosas penas: unas abrasándose en vivo fuego con indecible tormento; otras en ríos helados; otras en unas navajas de acero, despedazándolas los ministros de la justicia divina; otras con hambre y sed ardentísima en suma necesidad; otras embestidas de víboras y serpientes que las están atormentando y royendo las entrañas; y otras en otros gravísimos y atroces tormentos, todas llorando y suspirando por salir de aquella oscura cárcel y penosísimo destierro: todo lo cual debe causar en tu corazón igual compasión de los que allí padecen, y temor de venir a aquel lugar, como ahora diremos.</p>
<p><strong>PUNTO II.</strong> Considera lo que pasa dentro de sus corazones, porque aunque las perlas dichas son muy de temer, la mayor de todas es la privación de Dios y de su gloria, que allí padecen; porque por una parte le aman con perfecta caridad por el conocimiento que tienen de su bondad, y por otra le desean ver y gozar al paso que le conocen y aman; y aumenta este deseo la noticia que tienen así del valor de su gloria, como del derecho que tienen a ella, y la suspensión de gozarle, y la duda de cuando se acabará su destierro, no sabiendo si será largo o corto; y la esperanza de tan grande bien les causará tales ansias de gozarle, y tales congojas y dolor de no poseerle, que no hay cosa en esta vida con que se pueda explicar. Mira lo que sienten los nobles un corto destierro de su patria, pudiendo llevar consigo a sus parientes, y aliviar su pena con delicias y festines y entretenimientos; ¿pues qué sentimiento tendrán aquellas almas en su destierro, careciendo de estos alivios, y padeciendo juntamente las penas referidas? Si, dice el Sabio, que la esperanza que se dilata aflige el alma. ¿Qué aflicciones y congojas padecerán con la dilación de su esperanza aquellas benditas almas? Piensa esto despacio.; y entra, dentro de ti mismo, y considérate en aquel lugar, y mira qué dieras por tu rescate, y por salir de aquellos tormentos y conseguir la gloria;  y saca desde luego resolución firmísima de satisfacer por  tus culpas, y no dejarlo para el purgatorio, a donde será más grave una hora sola de pena, que aquí cien años de penitencia amarga.</p>
<p><strong>PUNTO III</strong>. Considera las penas del purgatorio, y la gravedad de ellas, y contempla por qué castiga Dios a las almas de los justos, a quien ama tiernamente, con tan rigurosos tormentos, que sola la detención en aquel destierro fuera más grave que todos cuantos se pueden dar en el mundo, y hallarás que padecen por unas culpas veniales, de que en este siglo no se hace monta; por una palabrilla leve, por una seña o  una risa demasiada, por un pensamientillo de poca monta, por una irreverencia liviana cometida en la oración, un volver de cabeza ligeramente, y cosas semejantes que entre los hombres son de ninguna monta. Pues a quién no admira que un tan grande Dios, que tanto ama a los suyos, y de suyo es tan inclinado a piedad, castigue culpas tan leves con penas tan acerbas. Cava, en esta consideración, y saca de aquí cuán recto es Dios en sus juicios, pues no disimula con sus amigos faltas tan pequeñas, y tiembla de las muchas que has cometido en esta vida, conoce que no hay cosa que merezca nombre de pequeña en siendo ofensa de Dios, si bien llamamos así a las culpas que no privan de su gracia; pero merecen nombre de grandes respecto del Señor a quien ofenden,  y de las grandes penas con que Dios justísimamente las castiga, y resuélvete a morir antes que cometer el mas mínimo pecado venial</p>
<p><strong>PUNTO IV</strong>. Vuelve los ojos sobre todo lo dicho, y considera por una parte la infinidad de culpas que has cometido en el discurso de tu vida, y lo que debes a Dios por ellas, y cómo es forzoso satisfacerle aquí o allá, y pues aquí puedes tan fácilmente, resuélvete a hacer condigna penitencia de tus pecados, y a valerte de todos los medios que Dios te ha dado para satisfacer por tus culpas, como son los Sacramentos, limosnas, indulgencias y jubileos, obras de misericordia con los prójimos, y las demás que tiene la Iglesia; y para fervorizarte más, considera que en el purgatorio, aunque las penas son tan graves como se ha dicho, no adelantan su caudal ni su merecimiento cosa alguna las almas con lo que padecen, solo satisfacen por las deudas que deben; pero acá con las penitencias y obras pías hechas en gracia se satisface y se merece, pagando por una parte las deudas de los pecados, y mereciendo por otra muchos grados de gloria en el cielo. ¡Oh que dolor tendrás en el purgatorio, por no haber tomado este consejo! Válete de él ahora que tienes tiempo, y juntamente saca de esta meditación grande piedad para con las almas que allí penan, diligenciando su libertad, porque Dios depare quien diligencie la tuya, y también afectos de agradecimiento al Señor por el tesoro que nos dejó en la Iglesia de la Sangre de Cristo Señor nuestro, y de  los merecimientos de los santos para satisfacción de nuestras deudas.</p>
<p><strong>Padre Alonso de Andrade, S.J</strong></p>
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<div class="dropcap">I am certain that many of our readers are aware of and use the site <a href="http://divinumofficium.com/">Divinum Officium</a>, one of the most useful liturgical resources on the web. It provides the full text of each day’s <a href="http://divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl">Mass</a> and <a href="http://divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium.pl">Office</a> in the Extraordinary Form, with the full Latin text on one side of the page, and a vernacular translation on the other. The Masses appear in full with <i>everything</i> in order, so you don’t have to click links back and forth between the invariable, semivariable and variable parts. The Office is likewise arranged hour by hour, and the reader can choose which set of rubrics to follow (the original 1570 Breviary of St Pius V, the same breviary as it was in 1910, the Breviary of St Pius X, etc.)<br /><br />Hitherto, the site has provided the side-by-side translations in English, Italian, Hungarian and Polish; I have just received word that, as of the First Sunday of Advent, German has been added to that list; <a href="http://divinumofficium.com/www/horas/Help/credits.html">information about the source of the German texts is available here.</a> These translations will be a tremendous help to German-speaking priests and laity who may want to pray the EF Office, but who need some help with the Latin. The creators and administrators of the site have clearly put a tremendous amount of time and effort into the site, which must involve some rather complicated programming to account for all the different possible options, especially in the Office. They are very much to be commended for making such a valuable site available to all for free! <b>(Addendum:</b> The German language site administrator, Mr Peter Diekertz, asked me to add a note that if anyone finds any mistakes in the text, they can report them at the following github link: <a href="https://github.com/DivinumOfficium/divinum-officium">https://github.com/DivinumOfficium/divinum-officium</a>.<b>)</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1b4kaA6W7xs/Vl8a0E0JlII/AAAAAAAAE7A/8hok6gQ7AKU/s1600/German%2BVespers.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1b4kaA6W7xs/Vl8a0E0JlII/AAAAAAAAE7A/8hok6gQ7AKU/s400/German%2BVespers.png" width="400" /></a></div>(This is a slightly cropped screen capture from Divinum Office, showing the beginning of Vespers for today, December 2nd, in Latin and German, according to the Roman Breviary as it was in 1910. First Vespers of St Francis Xavier; click to enlarge)</div><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~4/RV_b5WcI0EE" width="1" />
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rpkYSfrAw0I/Uga0myr-kDI/AAAAAAAAAlk/xCJ0UzHS3oE/s1600/purgatory_carracci.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LDbakW9SuTo/U4TEPY1W1mI/AAAAAAAAAB0/7cc84Flames/s1600/giovannibattistatiepolo_the_madonna_of_carmel_and_the_souls_of_the_purgatory_detail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="353" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LDbakW9SuTo/U4TEPY1W1mI/AAAAAAAAAB0/7cc84Flames/s1600/giovannibattistatiepolo_the_madonna_of_carmel_and_the_souls_of_the_purgatory_detail.jpg" width="640" /></a><span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span>This is our monthly reminder to please enroll Souls of the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society. And, please remember our new policy change, that the names of Souls you enroll <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/01/purgatorial-society-policy-change.html">will no longer be made public</a>. <i>We added four new priests to the Society -- including yet another Jesuit! -- last month </i>and now stand at <strong>68 priests</strong> saying weekly or monthly traditional Latin Masses for the souls.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><a name="more"></a><b style="background-color: white;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white;">Priests:</b><span style="background-color: white;"> The Souls still need more of you saying Mass for them! Please email me to offer your services. There's nothing special involved -- all you need to do is offer a weekly or monthly TLM with the intention: "For the Souls enrolled in the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society."</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span></span><br /><span>The overwhelming majority of our priests are diocesan with all the time crunches that parish life brings. <u>So we are making a special plea today for you traditional order priests</u> -- join the Society! Our traditional Mass only priests must lead by example. This is a great way to do just that. We are only asking for one TLM a week or a month. Nothing more. </span><br /><br /><b>How to enroll souls</b><b>:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span>please email me at athanasiuscatholic@yahoo.com and submit as follows:</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span>"Name, State, Country."</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span>If you want to enroll entire families, simply write in the email: "The Jones family, Ohio, USA". Individual names are preferred. Be greedy -- send in as many as you wish and forward this posting to friends as well. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span> <span>Please consider forwarding this Society to your family and friends, announcing from the pulpit during Holy Mass or listing in your church bulletin. We need to spread the word and relieve more suffering souls.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><b>Please pray for the enrolled Souls and the <u>68 holy priests</u> saying Traditional Masses for the Society:</b></div></div></div></div><b></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>"For all the souls enrolled in the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society: Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the Faithful departed rest in peace. Amen."</b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Then ...</b></div></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Almighty and ever living God,</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>we ask Thy blessing upon the priests</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>who offer Masses for the Purgatorial Society.</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Give them a greater awareness of the grace</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>that Thou dost pour out through the Sacraments,</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>and by their devout celebration of the Sacred Mysteries,</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>increase in them a love for Thee.</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Give strength to Thy priests, O Shepherd of the flock;</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>when they are in doubt, give them the assurance of faith,</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>and in Thy goodness confirm them as heralds of Thy Truth</b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>to all who seek to follow in Thy path.</b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal Priest,</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Who lives and reigns with Thee in the unity with the Holy Ghost,</b></div></div><div face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>God, for ever and ever. 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</div><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><br /><span style="font-size: 28px; font-family: Arial;">P.E.T.A. Names Francis Person of the Year</span><br /></strong></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">P.E.T.A. is a U.S.-based non-profit group that treats brute animals as if they were people. Its acronym stands for <em>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals</em>, although one might suspect it is an abbreviation for <em>“Popes” Enabling Theological Anarchy</em>. “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way”, is the slogan of the 3-million-member strong organization. Although of course much animal cruelty is in no wise necessary and repulsive to every decent human being, P.E.T.A. takes an extremist, hardcore line that defies sound philosophy. The liberal group has often caused controversy by its shock activism involving nudity and immodesty.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Now the archliberal group has made a choice for its Person of the Year 2015. And it fell — you guessed it — on none other than Jorge Bergoglio, the pretend-Pope from Argentina. The reason for this choice, so PETA, is his <a href="http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/laudato-sii-francis.htm">environmentalist manifesto <em>Laudato Si’</em></a>. </span></p>
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<p>Another very good post <a href="http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2015/11/bishop-barron-and-evolution-of-christs.html" target="_blank">from Unam Sanctam Catholicam</a>.  I saw he was appointed an auxiliary in Los Angeles some time back and meant to do a post, but got distracted and forgot about it.  My friend SB reminded me at lunch today, and mentioned Boniface’s post.  Good <a href="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/joseph-brennan-jose-gomez-robert-barron-david-oconnell-p.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-24213"><img alt="Joseph-Brennan-Jose-Gomez-Robert-Barron-David-OConnell-P" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-24213" height="75" src="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/joseph-brennan-jose-gomez-robert-barron-david-oconnell-p.jpg?w=150&h=75" width="150" /></a>stuff.  The fundamental problem with Barron is his Baltasarian outlook, which I have long believed is far more egregious than many recognize.   One is rarely a heretic – or gravely problematic – in just one area.  Usually, errors in one area flow from, and into, many others, poisoning whole swaths of belief.  Boniface explores von Baltasar’s highly erroneous Christology, and how Barron clearly shares it (my <em><strong>emphasis</strong></em> and <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>comments</strong></span>):</p>
<p><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span class="UFICommentBody">There are many things Bishop Robert Barron can be criticized for. I have <a href="http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2013/11/fr-barron-and-mark-shea-and-balthasar.html" target="_blank">raised concerns before</a> about his promotion of Hans Urs Von Balthasar’s theory that hell might be empty. But I honestly had no idea until recently what a thorough-going Balthasarian Bishop Barron actually is. He not only promotes the empty hell thesis, but has also adopted Von Balthasar’s extremely unorthodox Christology.</span></span></em></p>
<p><em>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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">The Heresies of Balthasar</a>” on this blog, which reveals Balthasar’s absurd position that sin has its own ontological reality.</em></p>
<p><strong><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">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.</span></em></strong><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> </span><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[So he’s a Nestorian, at least, if not an Arian.  If Christ did not have infused knowledge of His mission and sharing knowledge that He was God throughout His life, then Christ could not be of the same substance with God and could not share His Will.  It is impossible to share substance and will while cut off from knowledge and ability to actualize the Divine Being.]</strong></span></span></p>
<p><em><strong><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">The</span><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> Catholic Tradition is that Christ had infused knowledge of His own identity and mission. The 1913 Catholic <a href="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/kk201509221754-630x330.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-24212"><img alt="kk201509221754-630x330" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-24212" height="79" src="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/kk201509221754-630x330.jpg?w=150&h=79" width="150" /></a>Encyclopedia sums up this teaching </span>when it states that “the knowledge in Christ’s Divine nature is co-extensive with God’s Omniscience” and that “since the time of the Nestorian controversies, Catholic tradition has been practically unanimous as to the doctrine concerning the knowledge of Christ”</strong> (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08675a.htm" target="_blank">source</a>)</em> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[follows an explanatory quote from the Catholic Encyclopedia I omit for brevity]</strong></span><em> …….</em></p>
<p>……<em>This is the view of traditional Christology.<strong> 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/" target="_blank">Lenten Meditations</a>, then-Father Barron offers this commentary on the Baptism of the Lord:</strong></em></p>
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<p><em>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? </em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[This is very disturbing.  And yet this man is so influential, and held up as a conservative paragon!]</strong></span></p>
<p><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><strong>It gets worse. If anybody doubts what a devoted Balthasarian Bishop Barron is, you really need to read his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Priority-Christ-Toward-Postliberal-Catholicism/dp/158743198X/unamsanccath-20" target="_blank">The Priority of Christ</a> (with an introduction by Cardinal George). You will be astounded by the outpouring of novelty and just plain weirdness that comes out of Barron.</strong> In this passage, Barron is speaking about the Blessed Virgin:</span></em></p>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><p><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">“She is this the symbolic embodiment of faithful and patient Israel, longing for deliverance. In John’s Gospel, she is, above all, mother – the physical mother of Jesus and, through him, the mother of all who would come to new life in him. As mother of the Lord, she is, once again, Israel, the entire series of events and system of ideas form which Jesus emerged and in terms of which he alone becomes intelligible. Hans Urs von Balthasar comments in the same vein that <b>Mary effectively awakened the messianic consciousness of Jesus through her recounting of the story of Israel to her son</b>.</span></em> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">[sic]</span></strong></span><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> So in the Cana narrative, Mary will speak the pain and the hope of the chosen people, scattered and longing for union” (Robert Barrion, The Priority of Christ, p. 73).</span></em></p>
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<p><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><strong>Notice, he links up his own idea that through Mary Christ “becomes intelligible” with the Balthasarian heresy of Christ not knowing who He was until sometime later. Christ learns who He is by listening to stories about Israel! Barron does not dispute Balthasar – rather, he uses him to bolster his point. </strong></span></em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><strong> </strong></span><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><strong>[I’ve long held von Baltasar to be problematic tending towards seriously erroneous.  Now I feel little compunction identifying his beliefs as heretical.]</strong></span></span><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><strong> </strong></span></em></p>
<p><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">Here is another gem that is key to understanding Barron’s position. Barron disagrees with the likes of the modernists Kung and Schillebeeckx on many things, yet he says this</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">[all emphasis in original]</span></span></strong></span><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> :</span></span></em></p>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq"><p><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">“Like the ‘Jesus as symbol” approach, the ‘historical Jesus’ Christology is rooted in elements and intuitions of the classical tradition. <b>Kung and Schillebeeckx are quite right</b> in the insisting that Christianity must never devolve into a generic philosophy of life or symbolic system, that it must, on the contrary, maintain its clear and unambiguous connection to the very particular first-century Jew, Jesus of Nazareth, The Gospels, the Epistles of Paul, the first kerygmatic proclamations, the sermons of the earliest missionaries, the creeds and dogmatic statements of the patristic church all depend upon and circle around this Jesus. <b>Therefore, in brushing away certain encrustations and obfuscations in the Christological tradition </b>and focusing our attention on the irreplaceable character of Jesus<b>, Kung and Schillebeeckx and their historical-critical colleagues have done the church a great service. </b>Furthermore, in insisting that the high dogmatic claims of Christology should be consistently informed by a biblical sensibility, the historical critics have compelled Christology to abandon mere flights of speculation and to remain, thereby, truer to its proper origins and ground. <b>The ‘Jesus of history’ can indeed function as a sort of check on unwarranted theological exploration</b>” (p. 42).</span></span></em></p>
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<p><strong><em><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">“Kung and Schillebeeckx and their historical-critical colleagues have done the church a great service.” This phrase should send up red flags (Kung was stripped of his license to teach Catholic theology because of his heterodoxy and has also been<a href="http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2007/07/hans-kung-honoredby-freemasons.html" target="_blank"> praised by Freemasons for “lifetime service to the Craft</a>“); also alarming is Barron’s promotion of “the ‘Jesus of history’ as a “sort of check” on certain aspects of Christology. But, what are these “encrustations and <a href="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/dib_almabarron_1442983433.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-24211"><img alt="DIB_Alma&Barron_1442983433" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-24211" height="150" src="https://veneremurcernui.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/dib_almabarron_1442983433.jpg?w=94&h=150" width="94" /></a>obfuscations” in the Christological tradition? Where is there a problem with “high Christological claims” today or in the 20th century? What exactly are these claims? He does not say, but if he is following the school of Balthasar, then he is probably referring to the Christological teachings of the 5th century during the Nestorian and Monophysite heresies, developments in theology which Balthasar (and by implication, Barron) implicitly reject. </span></em><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">[And which would make both, at least, adherents to condemned heresies.]</span></span></strong></p>
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<p>There is a great deal more <a href="http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/2015/11/bishop-barron-and-evolution-of-christs.html" target="_blank">at the link</a>, which I strongly recommend you read.  This includes a discussion of Barron’s apparent acceptance of destructively heterodox historical-critical method errors.</p>
<p>I’m very gratified Boniface has addressed this subject, because it touches on a much broader problem.  Virtually every priest formed outside the specifically traditional milieu has been exposed to dangerous modernist/progressive beliefs to one degree or another.  Even those men who were conservative before seminary and did their best to adhere to the Faith as they understood it have almost invariably picked up at least some erroneous beliefs along the way.  These range from out and out heresies to liturgical abuse to incorrect emphasis to simply absorbing the reigning liberal zeitgeist.</p>
<p>What this means is that virtually every non-traditional priest holds error to varying degree, sometimes innocently and unwittingly, oftentimes deliberately and maliciously (from the standpoint of the good of souls).  If these priests, through some process, come to study the pre-conciliar Faith and especially offer the TLM regularly, they can often overcome most of these errors, especially the most pernicious ones. But we know relatively few priests are inclined to do so.  And so the vast majority of priests, and thus bishops, can be expected to hold erroneous, even heretical beliefs.  Such is the cataclysmic state of the seminary system today – and deliberately so.</p>
<p>This is not to excuse Barron his error. I know there have been attempts at intervention/correction in all manner of fora, publicly and privately.  He simply isn’t interested in changing his beliefs at this point.  Which is also the disposition of the vast majority of other bishops.</p>
<p>That’s the nub of the crisis in the Church in a nutshell.  Outside priests drawn to tradition, almost all in the hierarchy have been formed to believe, and continue in that belief to this day, that Vatican II ushered in a new church radically different from the “old” one.  They have no problem at all holding beliefs that are directly counter to established orthodoxy, because, it’s a “new church.”  How many times have you been told by a priest “we don’t believe that anymore?”  If you’re like me, much more than once.  It’s one of the defining characteristics of the crisis and one that will have both the longest term consequences, and is the most difficult for lay people to overcome.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/catholicnewsagency/dailynews/~3/7IoUA3WdHv8/">San Bernardino bishop offers prayers in wake of mass shooting</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Employees_evacuated_by_bus_from_site_of_mass_shootings_at_Inland_Regional_Center_in_San_Bernardino_CA_on_Dec_2_2015_Credit_David_McNew_Getty_Images_CNA_12_2_15.jpg" /><p>San Bernardino, Calif., Dec 2, 2015 / 03:38 pm (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- Bishop Gerald R. Barnes of the Diocese of San Bernardino, Calif. requested prayers and offered his own after at least one gunman left more than a dozen dead at a social services facility in the city.<br />
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“Please join me in praying for all of the victims of this horrific incident and their families,” he said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.<br />
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“For those who lost their lives, we pray for their eternal rest and God’s strength to their loved ones left behind; for those who are wounded, we pray for their health and healing.”<br />
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Late Wednesday morning, at least one gunman opened fire on an event at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, a facility that serves people with developmental disabilities.<br />
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The San Bernardino police have confirmed that at least 14 people were killed and at least 14 were wounded in the attack.<br />
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Several reports say there may have been up to three gunmen involved in the attack. As of 2:30 p.m. PST, the shooter or shooters remained at large and no arrests have been made.<br />
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Police are searching for a black Yukon SUV that drove away from the shooting. FBI and ATF teams are on the scene.<br />
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In his statement, Bishop Barnes also offered prayers for the service men and women on the scene. “Let us also ask God to protect the brave men and women in law enforcement who are pursuing the suspects in this case.”<br /><br />
"Our community of San Bernardino has faced great challenges through the years. Let us come together now in unity to bring light to the darkness of this day," he concluded. <br /><br /></p><div class="feedflare">
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/2015/12/todays-shootings-update-san-bernardino.html">Today's Shootings Update: San Bernardino, California</a></span>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/catholicnewsagency/dailynews/~3/we8BgJcRsb0/">Make the mercy jubilee a 'revolution of tenderness', Pope urges</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Pope_Francis_waves_at_the_general_audience_in_St_Peters_Square_on_Oct_7_2015_Credit_Daniel_Ibanez_CNA_10_7_15.jpg" /><p>Vatican City, Dec 2, 2015 / 02:09 pm (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- Pope Francis has granted an interview to the official website for the Jubilee of Mercy, in which he expresses his intention that the year be an occasion to encounter God's tenderness in a world rife with cruelty and atrocities.<br />
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“The revolution of tenderness is that which, today, we must cultivate as a fruit of this year of mercy: the tenderness of God toward each one of us,” the Pope told the official Jubilee publication ‘Credere’ in an interview released Dec. 2.<br />
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The Roman Pontiff gave the example of an employer who manages the contracts of their employees in such a way as to deprive them of benefits and pensions. Such an employer does not show tenderness, but rather treats his workers as objects, he said.<br />
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In today's world, where we have grown accustomed to hearing about cruelty and atrocities, it is clear that there is need for mercy, he added.<br />
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Pope Francis listed some of the atrocities taking place in the world: arms trafficking and production, the brutal murder of the innocent, the exploitation of minors and children. These atrocities constitute “a sacrilege against humanity, since man is sacred. He is the image of the living God,” he said.<br />
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“I believe that this is the moment of mercy,” he said. “We are all sinners. All of us carry weight within.”<br />
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“It is the year of forgiveness, the year of reconciliation.”<br />
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Pope Francis stressed the need to recognize God the Father as merciful, and to focus on healing rather than condemnation.<br />
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“The world needs to discover that God is Father, that there is mercy, that cruelty is not the way, that condemnation is not the way, because the Church itself at times follows a strict line, (yields) to the temptation to follow a strict line, the temptation to only stress moral norms, yet how many people are left out.”<br />
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He reiterated the image of the Church as a field hospital, a theme he has touched on in the past. “The wounded are cared for, helped to heal, not subjected to tests to analyze their cholesterol.”<br />
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Pope Francis said it was his intention to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors in stressing the theme of mercy in the life of the Church. He cited in particular St. John Paul II, with his 1980 encyclical on divine mercy, Dives in misericordia; the canonization of St. Faustina; and the establishment of the feast of Divine Mercy on the octave day of Easter.<br />
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“I realized it that it was necessary to do something and continue this tradition.”<br />
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The Pope said mercy has been a theme of his pontificate since the very beginning, centering his first Angelus address in St. Peter's Square and his first homily in the Vatican parish Sant'Anna on mercy.<br />
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“It is not a strategy, but came from within: the Holy Spirit wants something.”<br />
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Pope Francis was asked about the significance of Divine Mercy for priests and bishops, and the working of mercy in his own life.<br />
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“I am a sinner. I feel sinful. I am sure of it,” he said, while adding: “I am a forgiven man. God has looked on me with mercy and forgiven me.”<br />
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Pope Francis said he still sins, and goes to confession every 15 or 20 days, “because I need to feel that God's mercy is still upon me.”<br />
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The Roman Pontiff recounted a particular moment in his life where he felt God's mercy. It was Sept. 21, 1953, during Argentina's Springtime celebrations. At the age of 17, he was “just a practicing Catholic”: He went to Mass on Sundays and took part in Catholic Action, but nothing beyond this. Passing by a church, he felt the need to go to confession.<br />
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“And I don't know what happened. I walked out different, changed. I returned home with the certainty that I must consecrate myself to the Lord.”<br />
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The priest who heard his confession accompanied him for a year, before succumbing to leukemia. Pope Francis said his death caused him to think that God had abandoned him.<br />
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“This was the moment in which I came upon God's mercy,” he said, recalling that Sept. 21 – the day he was called into the Church as a teenager – is the feast of St. Matthew. He therefore drew his episcopal motto from an account by St. Bede of Christ's call of St. Matthew: “miserando atque eligendo,” or, “By having mercy, by choosing him.”<br />
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<p>A new book from Remnant Press called <a href="http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/books/the-mosque-of-notre-dame-detail" target="_blank">The Mosque of Notre Dame</a> explores a future in which the West, or at least Europe, has been totally overrun by islam and exists under strict sharia conditions.  This book was actually written in Russian by a traditional Catholic nearly 10 years ago, but it has only recently been published in English.  Some description from <a href="http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/2186-is-isis-waking-christendom" target="_blank">the Remnant website</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Mosque of Notre Dame reads not like fiction, but like something lifted from current news headlines. Set in 2048, it’s all about how Muslims from Arabia and middle Europe have taken over the governments of Western Europe and locked down those countries under Sharia Law.</p>
<p>How did this nightmare become the reality in the motherland of civilization? A lack of faith and lack of fight left the old lands of Christendom defenceless against massive, calculated immigration into a timid West that has grown too selfish to stand up for itself.</p>
<p>Sound familiar?</p>
<p>This is a resistance-movement thriller set in a Christophobic Sharia dystopia. It is at the same time an inspiring tale of physical and spiritual survival. The world turned its back on God, and so He allowed us to carry on without Him. The God-less have created their own chastisement, in other words, the chastisement that is life without God.</p>
<p>We’re very proud to work with author, Elena Chudinova—a Russian, Traditional Catholic from Moscow. Her book has enjoyed great success in the “front-line” nations where Islam and the West are colliding. Originally published in Russian in 2006, we’re so proud to announce the kick-off of the first American edition (published by Remnant Press).</p></blockquote>
<p>I guess it’s islam day on the blog.  Sounds like a good book.  Shortly after 9/11, when the deliberate flooding of Europe with muslims by governmental policy was becoming quite apparent, a friend of mine from England lamented that she felt Mohammad would be preached from the pulpit of Oxford in her lifetime.  She’s probably not far from wrong.  And now we have the US government engaged in the same policy under Obama (and Bush), permitting/encouraging a very large influx of muslims into this country while quotas make it almost impossible for even highly trained, highly educated Canadians, Germans, Brits, French, etc., to immigrate here.  The USCCB is clamoring for the placement of more “Syrian refugees,” even though the vast majority are not Syrian and are not refugees from anything.  85-90% of this unprecedented immigration influx -an invasion to many minds – consists of unaccompanied males 18-35.</p>
<p>I’m all for letting in hundreds of thousands of Syrian and Iraqi CHRISTIAN refugees.  Lord knows we owe them something, having destroyed their culture and ancient communities through foolish, half-hearted invasions and idiotic dreams of democracy in populations probably the least disposed worldwide towards that form of government.</p>
<p>As for Europe, I think it’s already too late.  With the immigrants currently ensconced and the relative birth rates, many countries in Europe will be nearly half muslim by mid-century.  And this in countries that have almost totally and unilaterally disarmed over the past 30 years.  They have little army to speak of and their populations are almost totally disarmed (save for the radical muslim community, of course).  The stage is set for a horrific bloodbath.</p>
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<p>Learning more about him, as I consider purchasing some of his books.<br /><br /><a href="http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=267038">A Catholic Answers forum thread</a><br />His <a href="http://www.grocefuneralhome.com/obituary/Rev.-George-Anthony-Maloney/Candler-NC/237870">obituary</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.albahouse.org/discovering.htm"><i>Discovering the Hidden Reality: A Journey into Christian Mystical Prayer</i></a> <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odg-J3ypm0Q">part 2</a><br /><br />Related:<br /><a href="http://themasterbeadsman.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-roman-catholics-journey-to-eastern_25.html">A Roman Catholic's Journey to Eastern Catholicism: Part 2 God's Voice Thunders!</a> <br />
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<p>This video has been out for some time.  My wife found it early last week.  A solitary elderly Christian man faces down a very hostile crowd of muslim youths – all equipped with the latest Western technology their own culture could never produce, even while many/most hate and despise the West – at Hyde Park in London.  This is Europe in microcosm, elderly, few of faith, and a burgeoning horde of hostile, mocking muslim men:</p>
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<p>“Allah is a dead god, not a living God.”  Good point, but I’d say, false god, a made-up god of Arian heresy and sicko Jewish zealotry.</p>
<p>The muslims chant allahu ackbar, the lone Christian the Holy Name.</p>
<p>The muslims intimidate and act boorishly, the Christian replies with utmost clarity but also charity.</p>
<p>The muslims mock and laugh, the Christian maintains his composure.</p>
<p>Language may be an issue, but there is not one single substantive attempt to rebut the Christian’s proclamation of the Truth.  There are only mindless chants, accusations of calling him a liar, and vain dismissal of him as “old generation English.”  Well, to my mind, the England of 1950 was a darned sight better than that of 2015.</p>
<p>I am very proud that the man had the wherewithal, the honesty, and yes the LOVE to tell a hostile crowd they were in grave danger of hellfire if they did not accept Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>And this is London?!?  I can say I saw a lot of muslims in London 9 years ago but it appears their numbers have exploded since.  And that was deliberate government policy, just as it is here.  It’s hardly even England anymore.</p>
<p>And why is that? It’s because there aren’t nearly enough men (and women) like the gentleman in the video who are willing to go out and risk mockery, hatred, and even physical injury to support and defend their faith and culture.  The same applies to the United States, as well, though not to quite the same degree, yet.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24204/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24204/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=veneremurcernui.wordpress.com&blog=10897848&post=24204&subd=veneremurcernui&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<p><strong>If you are a typical observant Catholic</strong> who has struggled with this papacy, dealt with distress caused by his words and actions, and generally struggled with dislike for the pontifex, it’s OK. Well, all right, it’s not: honestly, it is both strange and painful for a Catholic to be at odds with the Successor of Peter.</p>
<p>It is, however, completely <em>understandable</em>.</p>
<p>Why? Because, in this case, he gives every indication of not liking <em>you</em> first.</p>
<p>In fact, I think it’s safe to say that we are dealing with the fascinating–and unique–spectacle. Namely, a Bishop of Rome who truly dislikes the Church.</p>
<p>Except as cautionary tales, he has no apparent use for Catholics <a href="http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/3640/Someone_is_getting_lost_in_all_this_talk_about_Francis_and_rabbits.aspx" target="_blank">who risk all to be faithful to unpopular teachings</a>, who find value in allegedly <a href="http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2015/10/24/0817/01826.html#en" target="_blank">outdated forms and supposedly archaic and incomprehensible language</a>, <a href="http://www.donotlink.com/he14" target="_blank">who propose solutions grounded in past experience or the fundamentals of the Church</a>, <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/06/pope-to-latin-american-religious-full.html" target="_blank">who practice traditional devotions</a>, <a href="http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2015/10/24/0817/01826.html#en" target="_blank">who defend the words (as opposed to the “spirit”) of Catholic doctrine</a>…the list could be multiplied. <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html#III.%E2%80%82The_new_evangelization_for_the_transmission_of_the_faith" target="_blank">Consider the first major writing of the pontificate which was purely his, with its exhortation to boldly rethink the goals of evangelization</a>, amongst other modest suggestions. Though that same document does wisely point us to the need of focusing more on the Word of God and not the Pope (see paragraph 38).</p>
<p>Word doesn’t seem to have gotten out on <em>that</em> one yet.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_9216" style="width: 460px;"><img alt="Translation: "Francis, Light of the World"" class="wp-image-9216" height="300" src="http://www.onepeterfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1.jpg" width="450" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Translation: “Francis, Light of the World”</p></div>
<p>Then again, when <a href="http://www.romereports.com/2014/02/21/pope-francis-expresses-support-for-cardinal-kasper-s-serene-theology-on-the-family" target="_blank">he associates himself with and supports people asking him to overrule the Word of God</a>, perhaps we have something of a mixed message here.</p>
<p>Really, he’s not into gatekeeping with respect to the sacraments. You want the Eucharist because you’re married to a Catholic? <a href="http://www.dprice.blogspot.com/2015/11/in-those-days-there-was-no-king-in.html" target="_blank">Eh. Talk to the Lord and approach the altar–it’s not for him to say</a>.</p>
<p>Moving on.</p>
<p>Lest we forget, <a href="http://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-pope-francis-little-book-of-insults.html" target="_blank">there’s also his notorious penchant for scoldery</a>, directed at anyone with the temerity to not fully embrace the joy mandated by the New Paradigm.</p>
<p>If there is one word that sums up his leadership mindset, it is quite simply the word “change.” Take a look at the links above to the speech before the Italian bishops and his apostolic exhortation.</p>
<p>The thread that appears over and over is the need to change the methods and structure of the Church, constant change, unrelenting change, <em>semper reformanda</em>, because the times require it and the Church must discern the signs of the times and adjust accordingly. However, asking whether the times themselves might be desperately out of whack is not part of this process of discernment. Newness is the watchword.</p>
<p>From climate to sacristy, change, change, change—<a href="http://www.donotlink.com/hgqu" target="_blank">forward, always forward!</a> If you seek certitudes and stability, you are the picture of the bad disciple, a Pelagian, a neurotic or possibly even a coprophagic bat. Someone so focused on change and moving forward has no use for the Church as She is.</p>
<p>I mean, if I professed my love for my wife and then proceeded to offer a seemingly endless list of criticisms and things she needed to change, she’d have reasonable cause to doubt that love. Not to mention cause to heave blunt and heavy household objects at me.</p>
<p>With that in mind, let’s focus on four recent statements.</p>
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<li><strong> <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/11/pope-francis-orders-no-conversions-in.html" target="_blank">The Pope has just warned against any efforts to evangelize i</a></strong><a href="https://www.blogger.com/It%27s%20gotten%20to%20the%20point%20that%20the%20Pope%20has%20warned%20against%20any%20efforts%20to%20evangelize%20in%20Catholic%20schools.%20%20%20%20%20%20Ponder%20that%20for%20a%20moment:%20the%20head%20of%20the%20Catholic%20Church%20doesn%27t%20want%20to%20see%20any%20conversions%20in%20Catholic%20schools.%281%29"><strong>n Catholic schools</strong></a><strong>. </strong></li>
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<p>Perhaps in keeping with his own injunction to boldly rethink evangelical goals, the pontiff has sternly warned against evangelism in Catholic schools.</p>
<p>Ponder that for a moment: <em>the head of the Catholic Church doesn’t want to see any conversions in Catholic schools</em>.<a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/feed/#f1"> [1]</a></p>
<p>As this recent barely-satire posting from Eye of the Tiber points out, <a href="http://www.eyeofthetiber.com/2015/11/19/local-parents-paying-10000-a-year-in-catholic-tuition-to-have-son-learn-the-fundamentals-of-other-religions/" target="_blank">there’s usually no danger whatsoever of <em>that</em> occurring–at least, not in terms of converting <strong><em>to</em> </strong>Catholicism.</a></p>
<p>And how many times have you heard ex-Catholics talk about their (laughable) Catholic schooling as some kind of certification of expertise?</p>
<p>I rest my case.</p>
<p>But still, to explicitly rule it out? <em>Well, then</em>.</p>
<p>Why? Who knows? If there’s one thing we’ve learned since March 2013, it’s that our hip-shooting shepherd has two rules for his eye-openers:</p>
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<p>From what I can tell, conversions would bogart the culture of encounter or the joys of dialogue, or something similar. Don’t stomp the buzz of otherness.</p>
<p>Alas, such an edict happens to be entirely congruent with his past words and practices. For example, consider the fact that he successfully counseled <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/08/07/pope-protestant-friend-dies-but-push-for-unity-lives/v7y0x8NglzPe6oNWoXIKdJ/story.html" target="_blank">his close friend, the late </a><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/08/07/pope-protestant-friend-dies-but-push-for-unity-lives/v7y0x8NglzPe6oNWoXIKdJ/story.html">Anglican cleric Tony Palmer, against </a><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/08/07/pope-protestant-friend-dies-but-push-for-unity-lives/v7y0x8NglzPe6oNWoXIKdJ/story.html">converting to Catholicism despite the latter’s interest in doing so</a>. Then there are the reports from other Christians where the Pope takes great pains to say that <a href="http://dispatchesfrombrian.com/2014/07/09/lunch-with-the-pope/" target="_blank">he has no interest in converting anyon</a><a href="http://dispatchesfrombrian.com/2014/07/09/lunch-with-the-pope/">e to Catholicism</a>.</p>
<p><em>Converts: Making Dialogue Difficult Since 33 A.D.</em></p>
<p>The pattern is there for anyone who doesn’t belt out “Everything Is Awesome” a half-dozen times a day. However, you are free to ignore the evidence.</p>
<p>It is, after all, a catchy tune:</p>
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<p>Permit me to hearken back to this otherwise weird moment:</p>
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<p>As it turns out, the above video offers some helpful context for another recent bit of flamethrowing, a faux-humorous warning against “<a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/article/pope.francis.says.hes.scared.of.rigid.fundamentalist.priests.because.they.bite/71217.htm" target="_blank">rigid fundamentalist priests who bite.</a>”</p>
<blockquote><p>“I will tell you sincerely, I’m scared of rigid priests,” the 78-year-old pope jokingly said. “I keep away from them. They bite!”</p>
<p>Pope Francis used humour [sic] to convey his message concerning a serious matter. A lot of unstable individuals seek out a clerical career, he explained, and unless they are weeded out properly by the church, the faithful will suffer.</p>
<p>This is why the pope strongly suggests that seminaries should always assess not just the spiritual state of candidates but also their physical and psychological condition. “There are often young men who are psychologically unstable without knowing it and who look for strong structures to support them. For some it is the police or the army but for others it is the clergy,” the pope said.</p>
<p>He warned that these disorders only manifest at a later date, so it will not be easy to spot it from the get-go.</p>
<p>However, the pope said he personally finds it worrisome when a priest takes pride in being extremely devout.</p>
<p>“When a youngster is too rigid, too fundamentalist, I don’t feel confident (about him). Behind it there is something he himself does not understand. Keep your eyes open!”</p>
<p>“If you are sick, if you are neurotic, go and see a doctor, spiritual or physical,” Pope Francis then suggested to those who might be unfit to join the church. “The doctor will give you pills. But, please, don’t let the faithful pay for neurotic priests.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Apparently, in the video above, the Pope was just trying to screen out a little disturbed structure-seeking piety before it was too late. Whew–dodged the bullet with that helpful intervention! <a href="http://www.torchofthefaith.com/news.php?extend.1152.1" target="_blank">As another observer has pointed out, the Pope’s terminology and focus are <em>precisely </em>those used–verbatim–by the vocation-destroying programs described in <em>Goodbye, Good Men</em>.</a> Welcome to <em>your </em>new springtime, tradition-hating gatekeepers–now you have papal writ to back you up!</p>
<p>(Oh, and hi, Catholic soldiers and police officers–always nice to hear the old canard that your honorable institutions are teeming with the unbalanced, eh? Especially from the Pope! But rest assured, he truly respects your sacrifices: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/9928855/Pope-Francis-branded-Britain-usurpers-over-Falklands-conflict.html" target="_blank"><em>if</em> you are an Argentine soldier engaged in aggressive war against a defenseless neighbor</a>.)</p>
<p>Of course, the warning is a touch ironic coming from a man <a href="http://www.donotlink.com/hgcz" target="_blank">who admitted to a stretch as an a</a><a href="http://www.donotlink.com/hgcz">uthoritarian with a spiritual crisis himself</a>… Perhaps he points to that? But no, there’s no cautionary lesson from personal experience. It’s simply another of his crude caricatures of a spirituality he has no use for. A veritable Pollock with the broadbrush, our Pope.</p>
<p>Note also that that’s the <em>only</em> thing he’s warning seminaries against–strongly-expressed piety and focus on the fundamentals of the Faith. And from young men, too: apparently, <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/453569/rebel-pope-urges-youth-to-make-a-mess-in-dioceses" target="_blank">that hagan lio recommendation to the young people</a> has its limits. He’ll have none of <em>that</em> mess. Right, FFIs?</p>
<p>I recently read a piece (since deleted) castigating the “disloyal sons of Francis.” However, it’s hard to embrace as a father one who fails to model a healthy, positive fatherhood. I dunno about you, but if I talked down my family all the time, should I be surprised if my children react accordingly? I certainly would not have any cause to play the victim over it.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/pope-francis-calls-christmas-a-charade-the-whole-world-is-at-war-20151122" target="_blank"><strong>The kicker that no doubt left church ladies everywhere nodding in admiration: the Pontiff declared Christmas celebrations to be a “charade” because wars are being fought</strong></a><strong>.</strong></li>
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<blockquote><p>Speaking during Mass at the Casa Santa Maria, he said: “We are close to Christmas. There will be lights, there will be parties, bright trees, even Nativity scenes – all decked out – while the world continues to wage war.</p>
<p>“It’s all a charade. The world has not understood the way of peace. The whole world is at war.</p>
<p>“A war can be justified, so to speak, with many, many reasons, but when all the world as it is today, at war, piecemeal though that war may be – a little here, a little there – there is no justification.”</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Sweet fancy Moses</em>.</p>
<p>If you’re picturing your crabby aunt telling you to clean your plate because there are people starving somewhere overseas, you have the gist of it. No nativity scene for you! Never mind that the people who are celebrating Christmas probably aren’t the arms dealers he natters on about, or just might be in those war zones and hoping for a sign of Christ’s peace and joy.</p>
<p>Nope—those who celebrate the Feast of the Nativity <em>are part of the problem</em>. No doubt, some spiritual self-flagellants took this to heart and are nodding at the perceived depth of the observations. If you are one of them, remember: you’re just fooling yourself. We have it on good authority that that kind of piety is neurotic.</p>
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<p>Just in time for Advent,<a href="http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/full-text-of-pope-francis-in-flight-interview-from-africa-to-rome/" target="_blank"> another tarmac interview</a>. The subjects? The scourge of Catholic fundamentalism—which is flat-out idolatrous now:</p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are <em>so many</em> Catholic fundamentalists, people who believe they have the absolute truth, idolatrous calumniators who defame and hurt others. And they are just like the idolatrous fundamentalists in all religions.</p>
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<p>The problem is not where to begin, but where to <strong><em>end</em></strong>.</p>
<p>I am going to sound like a nitnoid fundamentalist, but Jesus Christ has a prior claim to ownership of His Church.</p>
<p>Let’s move to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence" target="_blank">fallacy of false equivalence</a>—here, all fundamentalists are morally equivalent.</p>
<p>I might be wrong, but I think it’s at least possible a <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-uncovered/yazidi-women-tell-rape-enslavement-hands-isis-n462091" target="_blank">Yazidi sex slave</a> would be a touch happier around a defamatory Chaldean than her ISIS captor.</p>
<p>But leaving aside a logical error one can drive a freighter through, it offers a sobering insight into the Pontiff’s thinking. Namely, he thinks there’s a problem with believing in absolute truth, in that it makes people hurtful, and he also thinks there are “so many” such godless idolaters in the Church. Or perhaps he just means those who believe in absolute truth and act with calumny despite it?</p>
<p>Well, here’s the thing: he doesn’t say. And he’s not going to say. He’s just going to leave it hanging, because <em>hagan lio</em>. Never explain, never apologize.</p>
<p>Will it naturally bear the meaning I assign? Yep. Does it fit as part of a pattern, perhaps relating back to the hurtful fundamentalists who defend Christ’s words on marriage that he’s criticized so strongly? It most certainly fits.</p>
<p>(There’s also a bit further down in the most recent presser where he may—or may not—be suggesting that we <a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/pope-francis-on-catholic-fundamentalism-condom-use/" target="_blank">don’t worry about condoms</a> so long as people are hungry or trafficking in arms, but it’s so hard to puzzle out that I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt on that one.)</p>
<p>So, to sum up:</p>
<p>First, no conversions. A Catholic school is no place to encounter the saving love of Christ in His Church. Well, at least not enough to welcome those interested in leaping on over.</p>
<p>However, if you are non-Catholic attending Mass, you can talk to God and decide on your own whether to go up to the Catholic altar without having to believe the rest of that papist rigamarole like going to confession or even believing in transubstantiation. He won’t judge.</p>
<p>In addition, no outward shows of piety. You have no idea what is lurking inside of you, creep.</p>
<p>No defense of anything more than the “spirit” of doctrine. Only those who try to find ways around doctrine truly love it.</p>
<p>Dedicating yourself to the letter of doctrine, scripture, etc., is for fundamentalists and other bad-faith pseudo-Christians who likely are getting their nativity scenes from the attic as you read this.</p>
<p>Do NOT express appreciation for structure. (This is train-wreck fascinating, coming from a Jesuit who <a href="https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=jesuit+formation&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-002" target="_blank">undergoes a long, carefully-structured process leading to ordination</a>, but no matter.) So much for poverty, chastity, obedience–in fact, so much for pretty much the entire monastic world. Hope none of you ostentatious Benedictine or Dominican oddballs ever want to preach in a parish.</p>
<p>Plus, we have to change, change, change! There are no solutions to be found in so-called conservatism or the fundamentals. Good-bye, archaic forms and language—hello, novelty! OK, recycled novelty, circa AD 1968, but we’ll pretend otherwise.</p>
<p>For the Love of Lennon, <a href="https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8p8Vv1RWn0oA4zIunIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTIydmwxaGMyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZAM5ZmI2OTJiN2NiMzAyYzdmODM0YjJlNWM1YjY4N2QzNARncG9zAzEEaXQDYmluZw--?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3D%2522pope%2Bbenedict%2522%2B%2522Christmas%2Btree%2522%26n%3D60%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dyhs-mozilla-002%26fr2%3Dsb-top-images.search.yahoo.com%26hsimp%3Dyhs-002%26hspart%3Dmozilla%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D1&w=650&h=365&imgurl=www.geeky-gadgets.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2FPope-Benedict.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geeky-gadgets.com%2Fpope-benedict-xvi-goes-android-to-light-giant-christmas-tree-11-12-2011%2F&size=31.6KB&name=%3Cb%3EPope+Benedict%3C%2Fb%3E+XVI+Goes+Android+To+Light+Giant+%3Cb%3EChristmas+Tree%3C%2Fb%3E&p=%22pope+benedict%22+%22Christmas+tree%22&oid=9fb692b7cb302c7f834b2e5c5b687d34&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&fr=yhs-mozilla-002&tt=%3Cb%3EPope+Benedict%3C%2Fb%3E+XVI+Goes+Android+To+Light+Giant+%3Cb%3EChristmas+Tree%3C%2Fb%3E&b=0&ni=264&no=1&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=135uqkood&sigb=167p6ftn7&sigi=1227ovp0q&sigt=12ai6apn7&sign=12ai6apn7&.crumb=muJGFV0YnOm&fr=yhs-mozilla-002&fr2=sb-top-images.search.yahoo.com&hsimp=yhs-002&hspart=mozilla" target="_blank"><em>what kind of monster lights up a Christmas tree when there’s a war going on?</em></a></p>
<p>And, finally: the Church is aswarm with idolatrous fundamentalists, and thus the Church has a problem like that of Islamic fundamentalism.</p>
<p>If you’re not left with the distinct impression of a person whose idiosyncracies leave him fundamentally disliking wide swaths of Catholic spirituality and practice, I’ll simply redirect you back to the first video included in this essay. Note that it runs for an hour, so–enjoy! And go back to sit at the kiddie table. The adults are talking here.</p>
<p>The pattern is self-evident, alas: Catholic identity is pitted against his modern interpretation of the Gospel, and the former loses every. single. time.  In increasingly vituperative language, to boot.</p>
<p>Note also that the tilt is always in favor of lowering the standards imposed by Catholicism, not raising them. He thinks re-reading the Gospel according to the all-determinative signs of the times requires it. The trajectory is toward dispensing with any serious demands upon the faithful apart from a sort of hovering non-judgmentalism and striving to address material–and only material–problems. Perhaps his close advisor Walter Cardinal Kasper put it best when he said that <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/v/news/getstory.asp?number=129673">“hero</a><a href="http://www.ewtn.com/v/news/getstory.asp?number=129673" target="_blank">ism is not for the average Christian.</a><a href="http://www.ewtn.com/v/news/getstory.asp?number=129673">“</a> Indeed, that seems to be the heart of it: an effort to reduce Catholic praxis and discipleship to the absolute daily minimum required by the demands of modernity. Solidarity with the poor is paramount–the rest of it can be finessed. And will be.</p>
<p>No doubt the combox will soon sprout huffing defenders appalled by the argument that the Pope dislikes Catholicism. When he starts professing love for Mother Church and the faithful he routinely condemns, we can talk. Until then, the facts speak for themselves.</p>
<p><strong>FOOTNOTE:</strong></p>
<p><a name="f1"></a>1. I know the text says “proselytizing.” And? Consider that he has used that term interchangeably with the term “conversion” in his chat-ups with go-to journalist Eugenio Scalfari. One can, of course, choose to ignore this evidence. I readily concede that such might be comforting.</p>
<p>More to the point, I choose not to exhaust myself trying to spin a man who speaks in sweeping generalities, routinely erects and torches strawmen, traffics in false dichotomies, sweeping condemnations and the like. The fact is, he can be <em>honestly </em>interpreted in the way I suggest in this essay, and he knows that his speaking style opens him up to criticism. Nevertheless, he continues to do so. Thus, I will continue to interpret him in ways congruent with his overall words and actions, and not the demands of indignant papalist spin doctors.</p>
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<blockquote><b>A Toast to the Men<br />by Edgar Albert Guest</b><br /><br />Here's to the men! Since Adam's time<br />They've always been the same;<br />Whenever anything goes wrong,<br />The woman is to blame.<br />From early morn to late at night,<br />The men fault-finders are;<br />They blame us if they oversleep,<br />Or if they miss a car.<br />They blame us if, beneath the bed,<br />Their collar buttons roll;<br />They blame us if the fire is out<br />Or if there is no coal.<br />They blame us if they cut themselves<br />While shaving, and they swear<br />That we're to blame if they decide<br />To go upon a tear.<br /><br />Here's to the men, the perfect men!<br />Who never are at fault;<br />They blame us if they chance to get<br />The pepper for the salt.<br />They blame us if their business fails,<br />Or back a losing horse;<br />And when it rains on holidays<br />The fault is ours, of course.<br />They blame us when they fall in love,<br />And when they married get;<br />Likewise they blame us when they're sick,<br />And when they fall in debt.<br />For everything that crisscross goes<br />They say we are to blame;<br />But, after all, here's to the men,<br />We love them just the same! </blockquote>
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<p>In an earlier post, we unpacked Paul VI’s statement in <em>Octogesima adveniens</em>, which apparently permitted Christians to engage in what the Pope called “socialist currents.” He was suspicious of them, to be sure, but he acknowledged that Christians could, provided, of course, that they retained a clear-eyed understanding of both the ideological aspects of socialism and the fundamental inseparability of those ideological aspects from the political expressions of socialism and its larger goals, discern the extent to which they could commit themselves along socialist lines. In other words, Paul VI seemed to acknowledge that it was possible for Christians to reach a <em>via media</em> with socialism.</p>
<p>After some reflection on this statement, it seems to us that Paul’s statement in <em>Octogesima adveniens</em> may represent a significant departure from the prior social teaching of the Church. In fact, the great Pius XI in <em>Quadragesimo anno</em> explicitly <em>excluded</em> cooperation between Christians and socialists. (We’ll explore what, precisely, he said <em>infra</em>.) And <em>Papa</em> Ratti’s bright-line exclusion of cooperation was taken up in the manualist tradition. So, Paul’s statement, at the very least, does not explicitly reiterate that bright-line exclusion. And, as is so often the case with teaching after Pius XII, it will be seen <em>infra</em> that Paul’s statement admits of two interpretations. On one hand, his statement is a narrow opening for cooperation, which represents a departure from Pius’s teaching. On the other hand, his statement is merely an oblique reference to that teaching. However, as we have observed, failure to explicitly reaffirm doctrine is functionally equivalent to changing doctrine. It is, as Benedict XVI might say, a question of which hermeneutic one prefers: <em>continuity or rupture</em>.</p>
<p>(We will add some section headings for convenience, perhaps a professional weakness.)</p>
<p><strong><em>1. Paul VI Apparently Opened the Door to Cooperation in Socialism in </em>Octogesima adveniens<em>. </em></strong></p>
<p>But let’s look at the question in detail. Recall first what Paul VI said in <em>Octogesima adveniens</em>:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Some Christians are today attracted by socialist currents and their various developments. They try to recognize therein a certain number of aspirations which they carry within themselves in the name of their faith. They feel that they are part of that historical current and wish to play a part within it. Now this historical current takes on, under the same name, different forms according to different continents and cultures, even if it drew its inspiration, and still does in many cases, from ideologies incompatible with faith. Careful judgment is called for. Too often Christians attracted by socialism tend to idealize it in terms which, apart from anything else, are very general: a will for justice, solidarity and equality. They refuse to recognize the limitations of the historical socialist movements, which remain conditioned by the ideologies from which they originated. Distinctions must be made to guide concrete choices between the various levels of expression of socialism: a generous aspiration and a seeking for a more just society, historical movements with a political organization and aim, and an ideology which claims to give a complete and self-sufficient picture of man. Nevertheless, these distinctions must not lead one to consider such levels as completely separate and independent. The concrete link which, according to circumstances, exists between them must be clearly marked out. This insight will enable Christians to see the degree of commitment possible along these lines, while safeguarding the values, especially those of liberty, responsibility and openness to the spiritual, which guarantee the integral development of man.</p>
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<p>We have previously discussed this passage, and we will not belabor the point unnecessarily. Paul says that Christians—conscious both of socialism’s ideological tenets and of the inseparability of those ideological tenets from political expression and broader goals—can discern “the degree of commitment” along socialist lines.</p>
<p>It bears noting, and is most relevant for our discussion here, that nothing in Paul’s teaching in <em>Octogesima adveniens</em> explicitly excludes cooperation between Christians and socialism. Paul advises caution, but, one gets the real sense (we do, at any rate) that if all the conditions are met, then there is a possibility for cooperation.</p>
<p><strong><em>2. Henri Grenier’s </em>Thomistic Philosophy<em> Is a Good Example of the Church’s Prior Teaching, Which Was Based on Pius XI’s </em>Quadragesimo anno<em>. </em></strong></p>
<p>Perhaps the easiest way into Pius’s teaching is to look, first, at Canadian Thomist Henri Grenier’s <em>Cursus Philosophiae</em>—translated into English as <em>Thomistic Philosophy. </em>Grenier’s manual was a hugely significant treatise in seminaries and colleges in its day. However, time just gets away from us, as Charles Portis says, and it is unlikely that Grenier is much read in the seminaries these days, except perhaps by a few devoted Thomists. Grenier was a major opponent of personalism, which took off in earnest after 1945 for obvious reasons, and also an important influence on Charles De Koninck and the so-called Laval School of Thomism. (A topic best left to the experts.) At any rate, the third volume of his <em>Philosophy</em> addresses various social questions in detail, including possible cooperation between Catholics and socialists. Grenier also demolishes the possibility of economic liberalism a few pages later, to give you an idea of what you’re dealing with there.</p>
<p>Now, let us consider what Grenier said,</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Some Catholics have unwarrantably wondered about the possibility of a «middle course» between mitigated Socialism and the principles of Christian truth, so that Socialism could be met, as it were, upon common ground.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">For, <em>first</em>, they have felt, class warfare, on condition that it refrains from enmities and mutual hatred, can gradually become an honest discussion of differences, which is a principle of social restoration and peace.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Secondly</em>, the war declared upon the ownership of private property, if attenuated, can be directed not towards the abolition of the possession of productive goods, i.e., the means of production, but towards the restoration of order in society, namely, when, according to the principles of sound philosophy, certain forms of property are reserved to the State, the private ownership of which would be at variance with the common good.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Pope Pius XI settled very definitely any doubts in this matter by solemnly declaring that Socialism, even in its more moderate form, is irreconcilable with the teachings of Christianity.</p>
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<p>(3 <em>Thomistic Philosophy</em> § 1150, 3º, trans. O’Hanley) (footnote omitted.) In other words, some Catholics have explored the possibility that, if socialism abandons class warfare in favor of “honest discussion of differences,” and if socialism permits private property except where the common good requires property to be under public control, then there may be room for cooperation between socialism and Christ’s Church. The <em>via media</em>! No such luck, Grenier says. Socialism, even moderate socialism, is “irreconcilable” with Christianity. We see that, at least as Grenier understands the situation, there is no possibility for the sort of <em>via media</em> that Paul marks out.</p>
<p><strong><em>3. Pius XI in </em>Quadragesimo anno<em> Held that Socialism Is Incompatible With Christianity, Even if Socialism Moderates Its Policies of Class Struggle and War on Private Property. </em></strong></p>
<p>In support of this proposition, Grenier cites Pius XI’s <em>Quadragesimo anno.</em> Indeed, <em>Quadragesimo anno</em> is, it seems, itself sufficient  to answer the Catholics who have “unwarrantably wondered” about a possible <em>via media</em> between socialism and the Church’s social teaching. We come, therefore, to the heart of the matter. The brief portion of <em>Quadragesimo anno</em> that Grenier quotes in a footnote comes near the end of a considerably longer passage, which ought to be considered in full, because Pius does something very clever in it. Pius begins,</p>
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<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">One might say that, terrified by its own principles and by the conclusions drawn therefrom by Communism, Socialism inclines toward and in a certain measure approaches the truths which Christian tradition has always held sacred; for it cannot be denied that its demands at times come very near those that Christian reformers of society justly insist upon.</p>
<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">For if the class struggle abstains from enmities and mutual hatred, it gradually changes into an honest discussion of differences founded on a desire for justice, and if this is not that blessed social peace which we all seek, it can and ought to be the point of departure from which to move forward to the mutual cooperation of the Industries and Professions. So also the war declared on private ownership, more and more abated, is being so restricted that now, finally, not the possession itself of the means of production is attacked but rather a kind of sovereignty over society which ownership has, contrary to all right, seized and usurped. For such sovereignty belongs in reality not to owners but to the public authority. If the foregoing happens, it can come even to the point that imperceptibly these ideas of the more moderate socialism will no longer differ from the desires and demands of those who are striving to remold human society on the basis of Christian principles. For certain kinds of property, it is rightly contended, ought to be reserved to the State since they carry with them a dominating power so great that cannot without danger to the general welfare be entrusted to private individuals.</p>
<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">Such just demands and desire have nothing in them now which is inconsistent with Christian truth, and much less are they special to Socialism. Those who work solely toward such ends have, therefore, no reason to become socialists.</p>
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<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">That’s a neat trick, there at the end, isn’t it? If socialism, Pius says, has moderated class struggle into mere dialogue between classes and renounced public ownership of the means of production in favor of the recognition that the public authority has the right to govern capital, then <em>there’s no reason to become a socialist</em>, since those doctrines aren’t uniquely socialist. And this is, of course, a point that is difficult to answer: if socialism is about, say, mere economic justice and solidarity within and among classes, then there is very little to distinguish socialism from other political tendencies. Almost no mainstream political tendency wants economic injustice and conflict among classes for its own sake.</p>
<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">Paul seems to contradict this point pretty squarely in <em>Octogesima adveniens</em>, doesn’t he? Paul says,</p>
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<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">Distinctions must be made to guide concrete choices between the various levels of expression of socialism: a generous aspiration and a seeking for a more just society, historical movements with a political organization and aim, and an ideology which claims to give a complete and self-sufficient picture of man. Nevertheless, these distinctions must not lead one to consider such levels as completely separate and independent. The concrete link which, according to circumstances, exists between them must be clearly marked out.</p>
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<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">Under Pius’s teaching, if socialism is only “a generous aspiration and a seeking for a more just society,” then there is no reason to cooperate with socialism, because neither of those things are uniquely socialist. And he is probably right, as we said. Paul, on the other hand, seems to leave the door open.</p>
<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">But it probably doesn’t matter much, since Pius doubts that socialism really has moderated class struggle or renounced public ownership of the means of production:</p>
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<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">Since socialism is likely to retain some of its uniquely socialist character, can’t the Church moderate its doctrines a little to find that <em>via media</em>? Of course not! Pius offers a variation on his neat trick from before. Here, he says that the way for Christians to interact with socialists is to show them—<em>without departing from the doctrine of Christ’s Church</em>—that there is no <em>just</em> socialist claim that is not supported and advanced <em>better </em>by the Church. In other words, it is the Christian’s duty to show the socialist that his just aims are really the Church’s aims and that the Church is better able to actually achieve those aims. The Christian is the perfect socialist, or, to put it in a less polemic manner, the Christian has perfectly what the socialist has imperfectly. Cooperation with socialism is therefore nothing more or less than bringing the Gospel to socialists.</p>
<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">Pius then circles back to the idea that socialism can moderate its distinctive aspects—class struggle and the public ownership of the means of production—sufficiently to permit cooperation between the Christian and the socialist.</p>
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<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">But what if Socialism has really been so tempered and modified as to the class struggle and private ownership that there is in it no longer anything to be censured on these points? Has it thereby renounced its contradictory nature to the Christian religion? This is the question that holds many minds in suspense. And numerous are the Catholics who, although they clearly understand that Christian principles can never be abandoned or diminished seem to turn their eyes to the Holy See and earnestly beseech Us to decide whether this form of Socialism has so far recovered from false doctrines that it can be accepted without the sacrifice of any Christian principle and in a certain sense be baptized. <strong>That We, in keeping with Our fatherly solicitude, may answer their petitions, We make this pronouncement: Whether considered as a doctrine, or an historical fact, or a movement, Socialism, if it remains truly Socialism, even after it has yielded to truth and justice on the points which we have mentioned, cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church because its concept of society itself is utterly foreign to Christian truth.</strong></p>
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<p align="left">(Emphasis supplied.) Even if socialism moderates itself to the point of class dialogue and public authority over certain private property, socialism is still diseased. This seems to be contradicted even more strongly by Paul, doesn’t it? Paul seems to hold that</p>
<p align="left">But why does Pius say this?</p>
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<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">[A]ccording to Christian teaching, man, endowed with a social nature, is placed on this earth so that by leading a life in society and under an authority ordained of God he may fully cultivate and develop all his faculties unto the praise and glory of his Creator; and that by faithfully fulfilling the duties of his craft or other calling he may obtain for himself temporal and at the same time eternal happiness. <strong>Socialism, on the other hand, wholly ignoring and indifferent to this sublime end of both man and society, affirms that human association has been instituted for the sake of material advantage alone. </strong></p>
<p align="left" style="text-align: left;">Because of the fact that goods are produced more efficiently by a suitable division of labor than by the scattered efforts of individuals, socialists infer that economic activity, only the material ends of which enter into their thinking, ought of necessity to be carried on socially. <strong>Because of this necessity, they hold that men are obliged, with respect to the producing of goods, to surrender and subject themselves entirely to society.</strong> Indeed, possession of the greatest possible supply of things that serve the advantages of this life is considered of such great importance that the higher goods of man, liberty not excepted, must take a secondary place and even be sacrificed to the demands of the most efficient production of goods. This damage to human dignity, undergone in the “socialized” process of production, will be easily offset, they say, by the abundance of socially produced goods which will pour out in profusion to individuals to be used freely at their pleasure for comforts and cultural development. <strong>Society, therefore, as Socialism conceives it, can on the one hand neither exist nor be thought of without an obviously excessive use of force; on the other hand, it fosters a liberty no less false, since there is no place in it for true social authority, which rests not on temporal and material advantages but descends from God alone, the Creator and last end of all things.</strong></p>
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<p align="left">(Footnotes omitted and emphasis supplied.) In other words, the fault with socialism is its concept of society as ordered toward the efficient production of goods, and, in Pius’s view, that fault is inseparable from socialism. This fault has two consequences: it requires excessive force and creates false liberty.</p>
<p align="left"><strong><em>4. Henri Grenier Summarizes and Clarifies Pius’s Argument Against Socialism’s Concept of Society.</em></strong></p>
<p align="left">Now, this ought to be carefully considered. Socialism has one body of doctrine, Pius seems to tell us, and two key aspects of that doctrine are class struggle and the public ownership of the means of production. But there is more to socialism than those two points—including the idea that society is ordered toward production—and even if socialism moderates the two big points, the remaining doctrine is poisoned by socialism’s concept of society. There is, then, no way in Pius’s mind for the Christian to cooperate with the socialist, even if the socialist moderates the leading aspects of socialism.</p>
<p align="left">The importance for Pius of the socialist concept of society cannot be understated. And it may help to clarify the argument a little to see what Pius is getting at. Grenier does just that. The thesis is that socialism is untenable. (We know Grenier’ll prove it, but don’t let that spoil the suspense.) Grenier unpacks the major and minor premises of Pius’s argument:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">1° Man must live in society, in order to attain temporal and eternal happiness. But, according to Socialism, man’s only purpose in living in society is the acquisition of an abundance of temporal goods. Therefore.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Major.</em>— The end of civil society is the temporal happiness of this life as directed to eternal happiness.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Minor.</em>— For Socialism, in declaring even an attenuated kind of war on private ownership, is concerned only with the acquisition of an abundance of material goods, and thus shows no solicitude either for man’s higher goods, or for his liberty. For it teaches that man must be completely subject to civil society, in order that he acquire an abundance of material goods.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">2° Society, as conceived by the Socialist, is, on the one hand, impossible and inconceivable without the use of compulsion of the most excessive kind; and, on the other hand, it fosters a false liberty. Therefore Socialism is untenable.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Antecedent</em> — <em>a) Society is impossible and inconceivable without the use of compulsion of the most excessive kind</em>.— According to Socialism, the possession of the greatest possible amount of temporal goods is esteemed so highly that man’s higher goods, not excepting liberty, must be subordinated and even sacrificed to the exigencies of efficient production.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>b) Society fosters a false liberty.</em>— Society, according to the Socialistic conception of it, is based solely on temporal and material advantages. From this it follows that neither society nor its members are subject to God, the wellspring of all authority. In other words, Socialism, in which no place is found for true social authority, destroys all authority.</p>
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<p>(3 Thomistic Philosophy § 1151, 2º.) We note briefly here that there is an interesting point raised by this argument: does Pius mean that the mere subordination of man’s higher goods to the possession of temporal goods <em>itself</em> constitutes the “obviously excessive use of force”? That is, if man’s higher good is subordinated to the possession of temporal goods <em>without physical coercion</em>, is that still the “obviously excessive use of force”? If so, this is a remarkably interesting and potentially fruitful line of argument. But that’s not exactly what we’re here for today.</p>
<p>To summarize, in Pius’s view, socialism is contradictory to Christian doctrine because of its views on class struggle and private property, but <em>even if socialism moderates those views</em>, it is still contrary to Christian doctrine because socialism rejects the proper end of civil society in favor of a purely materialistic concept of civil society. Worse than that, socialism, in order to implement its materialistic concept of society, both uses excessive force and fosters a false concept of liberty. In other words, the poison in socialism is fundamental. Therefore, Christians cannot cooperate with socialism.</p>
<p><strong><em>5. Returning to </em>Octogesima adveniens<em>: a Hermeneutic of Continuity or a Hermeneutic of Rupture?</em></strong></p>
<p>As noted above, this bright-line approach is not to be found in <em>Octogesima adveniens</em>. Or is it? Remember, again, what Paul said:</p>
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<p>(Emphasis supplied.) It seems to us that one could argue that Paul kept <em>Quadragesimo anno</em> in mind when he wrote <em>Octogesima adveniens</em>, and when he talks about “an ideology which claims to give a complete and self-sufficient picture of man,” he could well be talking about socialism’s broader notions of society—notions which Pius held to be incompatible with Christianity. Furthermore, one could well argue that Paul pointed out that there is a link between, say, “a generous aspiration and a seeking for a more just society,” and those same broader, incompatible notions of society. Furthermore, one could argue that Paul’s injunction to safeguard integral values—including liberty—points toward Pius’s teaching that socialism simultaneously does violence to and promotes a false vision of liberty. (To say nothing of socialism’s materialistic outlook, which contradicts necessarily “openness to the spiritual.”) In other words, Paul’s admonitions to Christians fit into Pius’s teachings and result in Christians being unable to commit themselves along socialist lines. Paul reaffirms Pius.</p>
<p>But if that were the case, one wonders why Paul did not come out and reaffirm Pius’s bright-line noncooperation rule. One can just as easily read Paul as permitting some commitment or cooperation. Certainly such a reading finds support in the text and does not require lengthy analyses of Paul’s secret allusions to <em>Quadragesimo anno</em>. And one could <em>quite reasonably</em> say that Paul meant what he said, and what he said was that Christians could, keeping certain things in mind, come to a decision about the extent to which they could commit themselves along socialist lines. If he had meant that they could not so commit themselves, then he would have said so. And this reading is hard to answer, too. <em>No means no, and maybe means maybe</em>.</p>
<p>The question, then, is whether one prefers a hermeneutic of continuity or a hermeneutic of rupture. And that question seems to be answered largely by one’s broader political preferences. Obviously, Christians who seek a <em>via media</em>—or something more—will adopt the hermeneutic of rupture, arguing that Paul VI, perhaps considering certain changes in the state of socialism by 1971, softened the Church’s stance on cooperation or commitment. And Christians who reject socialism completely on political grounds will adopt a hermeneutic of continuity with Pius XI’s strict anti-socialist teaching.</p>
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<p>Yesterday, I finished revising my dissertation on <a href="http://johnofstthomas.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/brungardt-dissertation-proposal-draft-12-approved3.pdf" target="_blank">the natural philosophy of Charles De Koninck</a>. Only the faculty reader-requested comments remain. <em>Deo gratias!</em></p>
<p>In related events, <a href="http://johngbrungardt.com/2015/11/23/notice-of-de-koninck-volume-from-presses-de-luniversite-laval/" target="_blank">the newest edition</a> of De Koninck’s <i>Oeuvres</i> published by Laval Press arrived today. In the book, it was striking to discover a photo of the man that I had never seen before (reproduced above). This <em>newness</em> called to mind some things (some rather obvious): I will never meet him this side of the grave; I’ve spent a significant portion of my life studying his work in philosophy and the work of those minds that <em>he</em> in turn, studied; what I do know of this man I know only <em>indirectly</em>, through the ideas he attempted to put down on paper.</p>
<p>De Koninck tells us:</p>
<blockquote><p>The object as object acquires no perfection from the simple fact that it is held secret. Even though one reveals it to another, it would not be for all that illuminating. Not all speech (locutio) is enlightening (illuminatio). “The revealing of things which depend on the will of the knower cannot be called illumination but only talk; for example, when one person tells another, ‘I want to learn this, I want to do that, etc.’ The reason for this is that the created will is not light, nor the measure of truth, but it participates in the light; that is why to communicate things which depend on the created will does not, as such, illumine. In fact, it does not pertain to the perfection of my intelligence to know what you want or what you understand, but only what is the truth of the thing.” Because the divine will alone is the measure of truth, it is only divine talk that is always enlightening. (<em>The Primacy of the Common Good</em>, <em>Writings: Vol. 2</em>, 96)</p></blockquote>
<p>De Koninck quotes <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1107.htm#article2" target="_blank">St. Thomas, <em>ST</em>, Ia, q. 107, a. 2, c</a>. Here, St. Thomas is considering how one angel speaks to another (a higher to a lower, or a lower to a higher). The Angelic Doctor distinguishes between <em>enlightenment</em> (<i>illuminatio</i>) and <i>speech</i> (<em>locutio</em>). Perhaps we can compare this, in our human discourse, to a meaningful conversation over and against “mere talk.” Speech is “mere talk” when it only reveals our desires or aims apart from the common rule of truth—precisely insofar as it proceeds <em>from me</em> it does not bear the mark of the Primal Truth and is not enlightening (the <em>private</em> good of my own spoken words is <em>enlightening</em> truth only when it shares in the common good measured by God): “For to know what you may will, or what you may understand does not belong to the perfection of my intellect; but only to know the truth in reality.” (St. Thomas, ibid.) As speakers, we are perfected only when we speak in unison with and imitation of the Primal Word. Thus we must avoid <em>vain talk</em> or <em>godless chatter </em>(see <em>Eph </em>4:29–32, 5:4; <em>2 Tim</em> 2:16).</p>
<p>In a similar vein, St. Thomas teaches us (<em>Super Ioannem</em>, VII, Lectio VII, n. 1040) that all who speak <em>from themselves</em> are liars. (As De Koninck points out in <em>Principle of the New Order</em>, ibid., 117, if sheer will <em>entirely</em> precedes thought, we only eliminate ourselves from the order of truth: “The liberty of speech is discovered, speech freed from intelligence. The ‘external utterance’ is emancipated. Thought is made subject to language. In the beginning, the word of man. ‘I say unto you, on the day of judgment, men will give an account of every vain word that they have spoken. For you will be justified by your words and you will be condemned by your words.'” [<i>Mt </i>12:36–37])</p>
<p>St. Thomas then tells us (<em>ST</em>, loc. cit. supra):</p>
<blockquote><p>Now it is clear that the angels are called superior or inferior by comparison with this principle, God; and therefore enlightenment, which depends on the principle which is God, is conveyed only by the superior angels to the inferior. But as regards the will as the principle, he who wills is first and supreme; and therefore the manifestation of what belongs to the will, is conveyed to others by the one who wills. In that manner both the superior angels speak to the inferior, and the inferior speak to the superior.</p></blockquote>
<p>Thus <em>illumination</em> (based upon the angelic intellect’s grasp of the truth) in the proper sense can only pass from higher to lower, while <em>speech</em> (based upon one angel revealing its will to another) can proceed from either higher to lower or lower to higher.</p>
<p>Because human beings are all on a par—we all possess the same nature—we only imitate the angels in a distant way in this respect. Their universe of pure intellects is <em>strictly</em> hierarchical; our cosmos, with its materiality and the organic structures upon which our minds and hearts depend as conditions, <em>levels</em> into a sometimes uneasy dynamism the spiritual stasis-in-activity of the angelic order. One human mind, over time, may never achieve the ability to illuminate another human mind. A younger mind may illuminate an older mind. Some old minds are only full of “mere talk,” and it is rare for a young mind to illuminate even his peers.</p>
<p>Yet, <em>in statu viae</em>, we do <em>imitate</em> the angelic hierarchy of illumination in the relationship of teacher to student, master to disciple. One mind strives to pass on to another—in the mode of <i>illuminatio</i>—what it has grasped by being measured by truth. The angels, existing apart from time, need not study history to learn what their brighter brothers know connaturally. Men, by nature historical animals (and historical because animal—organic and material), must comb the past and its records for help from the past luminaries. Yet the human mind may take searching this “dustbin of history” for the science itself; the bibliographical <em>quisquillia</em> and indigestible knowledge stones that Nietzsche condemns are perhaps better thought of as “mere talk” from the past that we must carefully discern. Indeed, if Nietzsche proves anything in his discourse on the advantage and disadvantage of the study of history, it is to show us that the force of a living (present) mind alters where it alteration finds and bends to remove and reshape the past into its own artistic product <em>of</em> <em>the now</em>. (His error comes by taking this to be the whole account of truth in all its possibility.)</p>
<p>This indicates that the historical word (written or spoken) necessarily pales in comparison to the present word (spoken in dialogue with another); the act of philosophy cannot be a long-distance relationship with now-disembodied minds. The human mind, a shade-intelligence, turning outward to find the truth, finds the going hard. The immanent, interior activity of contemplating the truth, then, since it cannot be perfected precisely as an act by someone from history or by another human in the present, necessarily must turn to a source above history and a hope for a vision of the Truth that encompasses all times. —Or, we must turn to that Truth coming down to us; the people who walk in darkness have seen a great light; the Primal Truth has broken into our history by taking our own nature.</p>
<p>Thus, <em>now</em> in this universe of minds, in the beauty we see when finding the truth from another human mind, as in my case with Charles De Koninck, we can say that we see the face of Christ in another’s words. This spiritual work of mercy from mind to mind, teaching and illumination in human words and human flesh, takes its nobility and perfection when formed by the Truth of the Word made Flesh.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/johnofstthomas.wordpress.com/1797/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/johnofstthomas.wordpress.com/1797/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=johngbrungardt.com&blog=14017465&post=1797&subd=johnofstthomas&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<p>Can I blame Walt Disney and Tinker Bell? Can I try and find a pattern as to why so many men and women in their 70s on down do not understand the theology of the sacraments?</p>
<p>Magical thinking seems to be the most common problem I constantly meet with Catholics regarding Baptism, Confirmation and the Last Rites.</p>
<p>Serious problems exist because many Catholics do not understand that the sacraments bring responsibility and must be met with responsibility.</p>
<p>Magical thinking is indicated by people who think that baptism of infants whose parents are either atheists, (a priest told me today that many priest baptize infants of practicing atheists and a priest in Walsingham a few years ago baptized anyone’s children without preparation of any kind), or non-practicing Catholics. This is against the Canons, but indicates a lack of understanding on the part of the priests and the parents. Why would atheists, who have no intention of raising their children Catholic, desire baptism? Why would fallen away Catholics seek baptism for their children, when there is no demand that they come back into the Church or take classes?</p>
<p>Why do priests baptize infants and children of pagans, who will not raise their children in the Faith? I now know several priests in different dioceses who know the Canons and ignore these. Why?</p>
<p>Is this taught in the seminaries? Are bishops aware that this goes on in their dioceses?</p>
<p>Baptism takes away Original Sin and gives sanctifying grace. It makes a child an adopted child of God, and a member of the Catholic Church.</p>
<p>Magical thinking states that baptism saves a person once and for all-the fundamental option.</p>
<p>Magical thinking supposes the person stays in sanctifying grace without the sacraments or training to be a Catholic.</p>
<p>Why are priests baptizing babies of couples they will never see in Church again, thus putting that couple into the position breaking promises to raise the child Catholic? Why are priests not asking parents to raise the child Catholic?</p>
<p>Magical thinking is protestant. My attempting to talk with a few priests on this subject caused me not to be hired as a catechist in their parishes. The same magical thinking applies to Confirmation, when priests confirm young people who are not going to Mass on Sunday and are contracepting.</p>
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<p>Magical thinking also effects many people who read the mystics and think that the writings are infallible. I have written on this. Not all the writings of those who have received personal, even approved, visions, are infallible and to believe such is magical thinking.</p>
<p>For example, only the Church can grant indulgences, not mystics. The Church may take blessings promised from God and make these promises into a set of indulgences-such as the Divine Mercy novena and Divine Mercy Sunday guidelines for the indulgence. But, not all things in St. Faustina’s writings have been given indulgences.</p>
<p>Magical thinking wishes that people are saved without their free will being involved.</p>
<p>Magical thinking denies free will. We choose God and good. We have a lifetime to do this. We must respond to grace and work for our salvation in fear and trembling, states St. Paul.</p>
<p><b>Sanctifying grace is not a permanent state, nor is it once and for all, as many protestants believe. It can be lost and in the case of mortal sin. We are deprived of sanctifying grace by the sin of Adam and Eve, and we must, therefore, be baptized. But we can lose that state of grace and those who no longer go to Sunday Mass, or abort, or contracept, or are in irregular marriages, have not only removed themselves from sanctifying grace, but from the community of God, the Church.</b><br />
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<p>Anything less is magical thinking. Here is the <i>CCC again.</i></p>
<div><b><i>The Baptism of infants</i></b></div>
<div><b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140">1250</a> Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called.<sup>50</sup> The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is particularly manifest in infant Baptism. The Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth.<sup>51</sup></i></b></div>
<div><b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1251"></a>1251 Christian parents will recognize that this practice also accords with their role as nurturers of the life that God has entrusted to them.<sup>52</sup></i></b></div>
<div><b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1252"></a>1252 <span class="text1">The practice of infant Baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church. There is explicit testimony to this practice from the second century on, and it is quite possible that, from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, when whole “households” received baptism, infants may also have been baptized.<sup>53</sup></span></i></b></div>
<div><b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1253"></a>Faith and Baptism</i></b></div>
<div><b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140">1253</a> Baptism is the sacrament of faith.<sup>54</sup> But faith needs the community of believers. It is only within the faith of the Church that each of the faithful can believe. The faith required for Baptism is not a perfect and mature faith, but a beginning that is called to develop. The catechumen or the godparent is asked: “What do you ask of God’s Church?” The response is: “Faith!”</i></b></div>
<div><b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1254"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140">1254</a> For all the baptized, children or adults, faith must grow after Baptism. For this reason the Church celebrates each year at the Easter Vigil the renewal of baptismal promises. Preparation for Baptism leads only to the threshold of new life. Baptism is the source of that new life in Christ from which the entire Christian life springs forth.</i></b></div>
<div><b><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1255"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140">1255</a> For the grace of Baptism to unfold, the parents’ help is important. So too is the role of the godfather and godmother, who must be firm believers, able and ready to help the newly baptized – child or adult on the road of Christian life.<sup>55</sup> Their task is a truly ecclesial function (officium).<sup>56</sup> The whole ecclesial community bears some responsibility for the development and safeguarding of the grace given at Baptism.</i></b></div>
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<div><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="VI"><i>VI. THE NECESSITY OF BAPTISM</i></a></b></div>
<div><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1257"></a><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140">1257</a></b> The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation.<sup>60</sup> He also commands his disciples to proclaim the Gospel to all nations and to baptize them.<sup>61</sup>Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament.<sup>62</sup> The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be baptized are “reborn of water and the Spirit.” God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments.</i></div>
<div><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1258"></a><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140">1258</a></b> The Church has always held the firm conviction that those who suffer death for the sake of the faith without having received Baptism are baptized by their death for and with Christ. This Baptism of blood, like the desire for Baptism, brings about the fruits of Baptism without being a sacrament.</i></div>
<div><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1259"></a><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140">1259</a></b> For catechumens who die before their Baptism, their explicit desire to receive it, together with repentance for their sins, and charity, assures them the salvation that they were not able to receive through the sacrament.</i></div>
<div><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1260"></a><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140">1260</a></b> “Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery.”<sup>63</sup> Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have desired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity.</i></div>
<div><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140" name="1261"></a><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7980548574766042140">1261</a></b> As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus’ tenderness toward children which caused him to say: “Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,”<sup>64</sup> allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church’s call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism</i><br />
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<p>Prayers which are not given approval by the Church cannot provide a living person with a magical assurance that someone is in heaven.</p>
<p>We are called to evangelize and no amount of magical thinking can substitute for spreading the Gospel.</p></div>
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<p>Too many Catholics seemed still to be confused about baptism. Baptism makes a difference. Either we accept this as Catholics, or we do not.</p>
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<p>A good Jesuit priest gave an excellent sermon today for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Today, one of the three Epiphanies of Christ, the other two being the Feast of the Three Kings, and the other the Wedding Feast at Cana, ends the Christmas Season. So, you could have been feasting all last week as well, folks.</p>
<p>The main idea of the sermon was that our baptism marks us with the indelible mark as an heir of heaven and son or daughter of God.</p>
<p>Many Catholics, sadly, no longer believe in the necessity for baptism, which, sadly, makes them heretics.</p>
<p>To deny the need and efficacy of the sacrament of baptism denies the reason for the Incarnation. Christ came to free us from the results of Original Sin, which include damnation, give us life in Him, which we call sanctifying grace.</p>
<p>We ONLY get sanctifying grace in the sacraments.</p>
<p>To deny baptism is to deny Original Sin and its effects: concupiscence,  illness and death, clouding of the intellect, loss on innocence, separation from God. In the Creed, we say we believe that Christ descended to the dead-which is the Harrowing of Hell. Either one is  a Christian and believes in the Creed, or one is not.</p>
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<p>The people redeemed from hell included SS. Adam and Eve.</p>
<p>The Council of Trent clarified, after the confusion of Luther, that baptism, indeed, took away Original Sin.</p>
<p>To not believe in Original Sin is one of the most common heresies today, along with Universal Salvation, which is the belief that all people go to heaven.</p>
<p>The priest today reminded all of us that it is our baptismal duty to evangelize. I have written on this many, many times.</p>
<p>The ideas of evolution have confused people, as they think their original parents were less than human, and not the perfect Adam and Eve.</p>
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<p>See what false teaching can lead to—the denial of the very reason for Christianity: Christ’s Redemptive Act on the Cross.</p>
<p>In my Monastic Diurnal, the Three Epiphanies are highlighted in the prayers from January 6th to today.</p>
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<p>Excellent Sermon on the Feast of the Second Epiphany of Christ</p></div>
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<p>Speaking with a “low-church Protestant”, who belongs to a congregation which does not believe in infant baptism, I could not convince him of the efficacy of grace nor the fact that we do not need to understand the complexities of sacramental theology in order to receive grace.</p>
<p>The parents in his denomination “dedicate” their children to God when these children are babies, but they do not baptize them.</p>
<p>So, the children have no infused virtues, no sanctifying grace, are thralls of sin and slaves of Satan, living in darkness, and not members of the Church, which all people are who are baptized.</p>
<p>Baptism is, also, obligatory, according to the words of Christ Himself, not an option put off until adolescence or adulthood, for membership of the Church.</p>
<p>If these good Protestants actually studied the Early Church Fathers, the Doctors of the Church, they would see a long line of references to infant baptism. In fact, it is a heresy to deny baptism to babies, as noted in the Council of Mileum I and one is excommunicated if one holds this belief. One may find more references <a href="http://www.catholic.com/tracts/early-teachings-on-infant-baptism">here.</a></p>
<p>Sadly, too many Catholics are delaying baptism and are in great error.</p>
<div class="section"><i>“…says that infants fresh from their mothers’ wombs ought not to be baptized, or say that they are indeed baptized unto the remission of sins, but that they draw nothing of the original sin of Adam, which is expiated in the bath of regeneration . . . let him be anathema. Since what the Apostle says, ‘Through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so passed to all men, in whom all have sinned’ [Rom. 5:12], must not be understood otherwise than the Catholic Church spread everywhere has always understood it. For on account of this rule of faith even infants, who in themselves thus far have not been able to commit any sin, are therefore truly baptized unto the remission of sins, so that that which they have contracted from generation may be cleansed in them by regeneration” (Canon 3 written in 416). </i></div>
<p>All sin is remitted, all punishment due to sin is remitted, one becomes an adopted son or daughter of God the Father, and one is given great graces, as well as the virtues.</p>
<p>Such luminaries as Irenaeus, Augustine, Gregory Nazaranzus, Cyril of Alexandria, and John Chrystostom refer to infant baptism, among others. Here is only one quotation from St. Irenaeus from the Second Century of the Church.</p>
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<div><i>“He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, sanctifying infants; a child for children, sanctifying those who are of that age . . . [so that] he might be the perfect teacher in all things, perfect not only in respect to the setting forth of truth, perfect also in respect to relative age” (Against Heresies 2:22:4 written in 189). </i></div>
<div>Children are not born innocent of sin, as they all have inherited Original Sin. To try and explain this to some Protestants seems very difficult.</p>
<p>They do not understand that baptism “marks” the soul, giving a character which those who are not baptized do not have. One is joined with Christ in baptism, and one will, if one stays in grace and does not commit mortal sin, (without confession), go to heaven “seeing”, being with the Beatific Vision.</p></div>
<div>One of the greatest problems now in Western culture are the number of unbaptized people, adults as well as children, who are not living in grace, who have not received the virtues, and who are prey to Satan, as they have no spiritual protection.</div>
<div>A priest mentioned this in a talk I heard recently. Parents who are baptized and do not have their children baptized have not taken their children into light, and those children, still in darkness, have no recourse against all the great evils of the world.</div>
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<p>Do you remember when I wrote that I could spend the rest of my life teaching on the sacrament of baptism?</p>
<p>Well, today I met a very holy and erudite priest who is head of the theology department at the university here. At the end of a wonderful conversation, I ask him if he could tell me what he thought the pressing need for scholarship and teaching in the Church was at this time.</p>
<p>Without hesitation, the priest answered, “baptism”.</p>
<p>That Catholics simply do not understand how baptism changes us and makes us different than everyone else is clear.</p>
<p>That Catholics think it is a formality rather than a change in who the baptized person is, seems to be the commonly held opinion.</p>
<p>We are different than those who are not baptized.</p></div>
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<p>OK, back to the necessity of Baptism. Today, a person in my parish noted that it was not necessary to get babies baptized who were seriously ill in the hospital, (are you ready for this?) because one could not have a baptismal party for the family. I cannot stress too much that Pelagianism is a heresy gaining popularity  here in England.</p>
<p>Pelagius supposedly said, and his ideas were condemned soundly at the Council of Carthage in 418, that humans could merit heaven and gain salvation without baptism. His emphasis was on human will power choosing good over evil and thus meriting heaven. My little friend in Ireland a few months ago insisted that she would go to heaven, “just by being good.” It is not that simple. I hope she is baptized, as she wants to go to heaven. I hope she is a practicing Catholic.</p>
<p>Obviously, these ideas are contrary to the teachings of Christ and His Church. <i>Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Douay Rheims. John 3:5. </i>This is not the doctrine of Supertradmum but of Jesus Christ, True God and True Man.</p>
<p>Basically Pelagianism denies that the human soul is flawed and lost through Original Sin.  Pelagianism denies the efficacy of baptism, sanctifying grace, and the life of the infuse virtues.  Pelagianism denies the need for Christ to die for our sins on the Cross, the need for atonement. Here is a snippet from the online Catholic Encyclopedia.  Much of this will sound familiar to you, as it does me, as I here these ideas almost daily.</p>
<p><i>During his sojourn in <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13164a.htm">Rome</a> he composed several works: “De fide Trinitatis libri III”, now lost, but extolled by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06417a.htm">Gennadius</a> as “indispensable reading matter for students”; “Eclogarum ex divinis Scripturisliber unus”, in the main collection of Bible passages based on <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04583b.htm">Cyprian’s</a> “Testimoniorum libri III”, of which St. Augustine has preserved a number of fragments; “Commentarii in epistolas S. Pauli”, elaborated no <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05141a.htm">doubt</a> before the destruction of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13164a.htm">Rome</a> by Alaric (410) and known to St. Augustine in 412. Zimmer (loc. cit.) deserves credit for having rediscovered in this commentary on <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm">St. Paul</a> the original work of Pelagius, which had, in the course of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14726a.htm">time</a>, been attributed to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08341a.htm">St. Jerome</a> (P.L., XXX, 645-902). A closer examination of this work, so suddenly become famous, brought to light the fact that it contained the fundamental <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07630a.htm">ideas</a> which the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03744a.htm">Church</a> afterwards condemned as “Pelagian <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07256b.htm">heresy</a>“. In it Pelagius denied the primitive state in <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14519a.htm">paradise</a> and <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm">original sin</a> (cf. P.L., XXX, 678, “Insaniunt, qui de Adam per traducem asserunt ad nos venire peccatum”), insisted on the naturalness of<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04208a.htm">concupiscence</a> and the death of the body, and ascribed the actual existence and universality of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> to the bad example which Adam set by his first <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>. As all his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07630a.htm">ideas</a> were chiefly rooted in the old, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11388a.htm">pagan</a>philosophy, especially in the popular system of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14299a.htm">Stoics</a>, rather than in <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03712a.htm">Christianity</a>, he regarded themoral strength of man’s will (liberum arbitrium), when steeled by asceticism, as sufficient in itself to desire and to attain the loftiest ideal of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a>. The value of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12677d.htm">Christ’s redemption</a> was, in his opinion, limited mainly to instruction (doctrina) and example (exemplum), which the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Saviour</a> threw into the balance as a counterweight against Adam’s wicked example, so that nature retains the ability to conquer <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> and to gain eternal life even without the aid of grace. By justification we are indeed cleansed of our personal <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> through <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm">faith</a> alone (loc. cit., 663, “per solam fidem justificat Deus impium convertendum”), but this pardon (gratia remissionis) implies no interior renovation of sanctification of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14153a.htm">soul</a>. </i><br />
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<p>I have come to the conclusion that the bad catechesis of forty years and the influence of the Anglican Church, which is heavily Pelagian, has affected Catholics. This must be stopped, as the stupidity of passing up a baptism for a baby who is critically ill and waiting until he is released from the hospital cannot be acceptable to any real Catholic. All this is connected to a need for an understanding of baptism….sound familiar? Read my post a few days ago and this past winter on the same subject.</p>
<p>We cannot deny Original Sin and the state of the soul without grace. Another heretic, Caelestius, believed that if one only followed the Ten Commandments, that was sufficient for salvation. Sorry, folks. Here are the eight ideas clarified n the condemnation of Pelagianism,  listed in the Catholic Encyclopedia.</p>
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<li><i>Death did not come to Adam from a physical necessity, but through <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>.</i></li>
<li><i>New-born children must be <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258b.htm">baptized</a> on account of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm">original sin</a>.</i></li>
<li><i>Justifying grace not only avails for the forgiveness of past <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a>, but also gives assistance for the avoidance of future <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a>.</i></li>
<li><i>The grace of Christ not only discloses the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">knowledge</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04153a.htm">God’s commandments</a>, but also imparts strength to will and execute them.</i></li>
<li><i>Without <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm">God’s grace</a> it is not merely more difficult, but absolutely impossible to perform <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01115a.htm">works</a>.</i></li>
<li><i>Not out of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07543b.htm">humility</a>, but in <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15073a.htm">truth</a> must we confess ourselves to be sinners.</i></li>
<li><i>The <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04171a.htm">saints</a> refer the petition of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09356a.htm">Our Father</a>, “Forgive us our trespasses”, not only to others, but also to themselves.</i></li>
<li><i>The <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04171a.htm">saints</a> pronounce the same supplication not from mere <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07543b.htm">humility</a>, but from truthfulness.</i></li>
<li><i>Some <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04080b.htm">codices</a> containing a ninth canon (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04736b.htm">Denzinger</a>, loc. cit., note 3): Children dying without <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258b.htm">baptism</a> do not go to a “middle place” (medius locus), since the non reception of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02258b.htm">baptism</a> excludes both from the “kingdom of heaven” and from “eternal life”.</i></li>
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<div>The first eight are articles of our faith and we must believe these, in order to be in keeping with the Teaching Magisterium. According to this text, two pupils of Pelagius brought the heresy to England-Agricola and Fastidius. We are fighting this heresy still here.</div>
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<div>People, it is only through Baptism, in the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, that we are saved. We must be baptized <i>In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. </i></div>
<div>If we withhold baptism from our children, it is child abuse of the worst kind-denying the children eternal life.</p>
<p>And, may I add a nice summary of St. Augustine’s arguments against this heresy from R. Scott Clark at <a href="http://clark.wscal.edu/pelagianism.php">http://clark.wscal.edu/pelagianism.php</a></p>
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<li><i>Human nature was created blameless, without vitium. All sin and weakness is ex originali peccato. (13)</i></li>
<li><i>The threat of punishment upon the first disobedience entailed bodily & spiritual death. (14)</i></li>
<li><i>Adam’s sin is transmitted from him to all humans through natural descent. (15)</i></li>
<li><i>The reason infants are baptized, is to wash away original sin. (16.</i></li>
<li><i>Just as sin is propagated (traducere) by natural descent, grace is infused .(17)</i></li>
<li><i>Romans 5.12 teaches that in quo all sinned. (A misreading of the Greek here as as a locative rather than a causal phrase?) In this he may have followed “Ambrosiaster.” (18)</i></li>
<li><i>Original sin is to be distinguished from actual sin. Original sin is not just the first actual sin. It is corporate in nature. Therefore we are born to condemnation. We sin in actu because we are sinners, in Adam. (19)</i></li>
<li><i>After baptism, the guilt of original sin is removed, but concupiscentia (spark of sin, yearning of lower appetites) remains. (20)</i></li>
<li><i>The result of Adam’s sin is that humanity is now massa damnitionis or massa peccatorum et impiorum corporately and individually. (21.</i></li>
<li><i>The result of original sin is spiritual and physical death. (22)</i></li>
<li><i>Therefore grace is, in the nature of the case, “free” and unmerited.</i></li>
<li><i>God justly condemns those who have not heard the gospel because all have sinned in Adam.</i></li>
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<p><br /><b>rorate caeli</b>- gibt den facebook-Beitrag von <b>A. Socci </b>über das Nicht-knien von Papst Franziskus wieder.<br />Hier geht´s zum Original: <b><a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/12/bergoglio-man-who-never-kneels-before.html#more">klicken</a></b><br /><br /> <b> "BERGOGLIO: DER MANN DER NIEMALS (VOR GOTT) KNIET</b>"<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Es beginnt sehr deprimierend und sogar beunruhigend zu werden-....</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bergoglio kniet während der Hl. Messe niemals vor der Eucharistie. Während der Eucharistischen Anbetung kniet er nicht oder bleibt nicht auf den Knien. Das Bild, das ihn am Ende der Corpus-Domini-Prozession ( an der er nicht teilnahm) vor dem Hl. Sakrament stehen zeigt, ist unvergessen.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jetzt ist sogar die Öffnungszeremonie der Heiligen Tür zu Beginn des Jubiläumsjahres peinlich. Sehen Sie selbst. Bei Minute 6:20 im Video öffnet er die Heilige Pforte -und bleibt stehen (während die Gläubigen auf die Knie fallen). Eine Szene, die erschaudern läßt. </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zusätzlich erinnere ich mich dass der Hl. Johannes Paul II , im Jahr 2000 als er schon sehr krank war und körperlich litt, die Hl. Pforte öffnete, niederkniete und eine Weile lang kniend verharrte.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Gibt es jemanden, der uns das Geheimnis des Mannes, der niemals ( vor Gott) kniet, erklären kann.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><b> <span>Perfekte Kontinuität? </span></b><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody><tr><td><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gau0VHt6y2E/Vl3dqy2qYcI/AAAAAAAAAqM/iZxvxOgfUfc/s1600/12313633_878293232291555_7178668261091803658_n.jpg"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gau0VHt6y2E/Vl3dqy2qYcI/AAAAAAAAAqM/iZxvxOgfUfc/s400/12313633_878293232291555_7178668261091803658_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Papst Johannes Paul II & Papst Franziskus</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Im Gegensatz dazu kniete Papst Franziskus vor dem Schrein der anglikanischen Märtyrer Ugandas</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /> <br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Quelle: Rorate Caeli, A. Socci /Il Foglio</span><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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All you have to do is ask for forgiveness, confess Christ, welcome him into your heart, and you'll be saved. We are all saved, right? Catholics don't think like that - or do they? Some seem to be heading in that direction - kinda sorta.<br /><br />I read a post on the Pope's visit to the mosque in CAR. Within that post, a blogger I can sometimes appreciate, commented, or more or less questioned the 'need' for a Holy Year of 'mercy':<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Mercy! What that adds or expresses about the mercy always available from the Church is unexplained. It is like if I told my wife, "Starting December 8, for a whole year, I'm going to love you!" She would be justified in wondering what that implies about the "normal" time outside of the Year of Love. One suspects more PR: focus the people's attention on the mercy of the Church. The Bear supposes this is not such a bad thing, but it does make it sound "new and improved!" Still, the Bear is inclined to withhold judgment until we see it in action. - <a href="http://corbiniansbear.blogspot.com/">Source</a></blockquote>I think he's an attorney as well. Attorneys are smart. I know some attorneys - they are really smart.<br /><br />So anyway.<br /><br />So here's the deal. I wonder if some of the Catholics who see no need for a Holy Year of Mercy maybe just do not realize the significance of a Holy Year in Judeo-Christian tradition? Then, I wonder if they are unfamiliar with the Devotion to Divine Mercy, as revealed to St. Faustina and promulgated by St. John Paul II?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08531c.htm">The Jubilee Year</a> is an entire year wherein the faithful may receive 'the Great Pardon' or plenary indulgence - the full remission of the penalties of sin through confession and firm purpose of amendment. As the Holy Father points out in Misericordiae Vultus:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">A Jubilee also entails the granting of indulgences. This practice will acquire an even more important meaning in the Holy Year of Mercy. God’s forgiveness knows no bounds. In the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God makes even more evident his love and its power to destroy all human sin. Reconciliation with God is made possible through the paschal mystery and the mediation of the Church. Thus God is always ready to forgive, and he never tires of forgiving in ways that are continually new and surprising. Nevertheless, all of us know well the experience of sin. We know that we are called to perfection (cf. Mt 5:48), yet we feel the heavy burden of sin. Though we feel the transforming power of grace, we also feel the effects of sin typical of our fallen state. Despite being forgiven, the conflicting consequences of our sins remain. In the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God forgives our sins, which he truly blots out; and yet sin leaves a negative effect on the way we think and act. But the mercy of God is stronger even than this. It becomes indulgence on the part of the Father who, through the Bride of Christ, his Church, reaches the pardoned sinner and frees him from every residue left by the consequences of sin, enabling him to act with charity, to grow in love rather than to fall back into sin. - <a href="https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco_bolla_20150411_misericordiae-vultus.html">Holy See</a></blockquote>[One really ought to read the entire document, Misericordiae Vultus - the Holy Year is much more than the indulgences attached. For a more complete catechesis on the Jubilee Year go here: <i><a href="http://wwwmigrate.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/new-evangelization/jubilee-of-mercy/">USCCB</a></i>.]<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/mercy/feast.htm">The Second Sunday of Easter is the Feast of Divine Mercy</a> and is privileged day to gain a plenary indulgence on, as is the Franciscan feast of the Portziuncola and the Carmelite Toties Quoties of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. All Catholics know there are designated days and seasons for liturgical rites, as well as opportunities to gain special indulgences - even Traditional Catholics know of these - I say it that way because some seem to reject the Devotion to the Divine Mercy and its liturgical Solemnity.<br /><br />Devotion to the Divine Mercy seems to be well known to most Catholics, although I suspect the Holy Year will be a time to promulgate the devotion and <i>practice</i> even wider - throughout the world. I find these quotes from the Diary of St. Faustina helpful in understanding the need we have for a Jubilee Year of Mercy - and Extraordinary Holy Year.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">You will prepare the world for My final coming. (Diary429) </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Speak to the world about My mercy ... It is a sign for the end times. After it will come the Day of Justice. While there is still time, let them have recourse to the fountain of My mercy. (Diary 848) </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Tell souls about this great mercy of Mine, because the awful day, the day of My justice, is near. (Diary 965).</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">I am prolonging the time of mercy for the sake of sinners. But woe to them if they do not recognize this time of My visitation. (Diary 1160)</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br />Before the Day of Justice, I am sending the Day of Mercy. (Diary 1588)<br />He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass through the door of My justice. (Diary 1146).</blockquote><br />For more information on Devotion to the Divine Mercy go <i><a href="https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/mercy/">here</a></i>.<br /><br /></div>
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<p>Reader Camper sent me<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/01/armed-protesters-plan-another-demonstration-at-texas-mosque/" target="_blank"> a link to the Breitbart article below</a> that discusses a recently formed group that is staging armed open carry protests outside DFW area mosques.   Open carry by itself has long been extremely controversial, even among gun rights activists, but staging armed protests outside hostile religious institutions is really amping things up.  While I recognize the obvious provocative nature of these protests, and also prudential reasons to oppose them, given the way things seem to be coming apart in our nation, I am finding myself fairly sympathetic to this group and its aims.  What do you make of this?</p>
<blockquote><p>The group that organized the armed protest at a mosque in Irving, Texas, in November looks to hold another protest. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[Previous protest was on Nov. 21.  Wish I had known about it.  It would have been interesting to cover.]</strong></span></p>
<p>This protest is scheduled for December 12 at a mosque in Richardson, Texas. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[I know exactly where this is.  It’s very close to where I used to play hockey.  It’s a very large mosque.]</strong></span> The organization received criticism last week for reveling the names and addresses of Muslims and others who opposed the city of Irving’s support of a Texas legislature bill to ban Sharia law from Texas courts. <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[He also released the names of those who spoke in favor of the measure, and all names, for or against, were already on the City of Irving website, anyway.]</strong></span></p>
<p>The Bureau of American-Islamic Relations (BAIR) announced the December 12 protest early Tuesday morning on its Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BAIR-909810615766870/?hc_location=ufi" target="_blank">page</a>. David Wright III founded the group and also posts about the Irving mosque on his Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bill.connservativegorilla?fref=ts" target="_blank">page</a>.</p>
<p>BAIR hosted a group of armed protesters who stood outside of the Irving mosque on November 21. Dozens of people openly carried rifles……. A few days after the meeting, Wright <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/11/25/armed-texas-mosque-protesters-published-muslims-names-addresses/">published</a> the names and addresses of Muslims and supporters who spoke at a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/03/20/american-laws-for-american-courts-resolution-passed-in-north-texas-city/">March 19 city council meeting</a> in Irving.</p>
<p>In calling for the second protest in Richardson, BAIR posted, “We do not pick mosques at random.”<strong> The group claims the Richardson mosque has a “documented history” of taking in Syrian refugees and working with “terrorist front groups like CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations).” <span style="color: #ff0000;">[<a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-11-25/news/0811240489_1_mohammad-el-mezain-holy-land-foundation-largest-terrorism-financing-case" target="_blank">Members of this mosque were convicted</a> of having directed millions of dollars in local donations to Hamas.  Some of these same leaders of the now defunct Holy Land Foundation were also involved in CAIR.]</span></strong></p>
<p>“They are Sunni Muslims that have taken over the entire neighborhood and even renamed streets after the Islamic culture,” Wright posted on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/881172131979569/" target="_blank">event page</a>. “Do I need to say anymore?” <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>[Not sure about the streets]</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>……..The Dallas region that includes Irving, Richardson, and Garland has become the epicenter of conflict between Muslims and other Americans. One incident has followed another in the region beginning with Breitbart Texas’ revelation of an “Islamic Tribunal” in Irving.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>All true.  Irving is 15% muslim.  There are neighborhoods that are entirely, deliberately muslim. Some of these were sort of planned communities.</p>
<p>I think what is happening in the DFW area is this: you have a large muslim population in an area that still retains – more than most other parts of the country – a strong traditionally American and Christian identity.  You have people seeing their country irrevocably changed and becoming increasingly frustrated at that.  Folks are getting to the point of being willing to take stronger stands, even ones that may seem shocking to the soft coastal elites, like standing outside a mosque carrying loaded assault rifles.  I think it shows the increasing desperation many Americans feel as they see their country slipping away.</p>
<p>I am wondering if similar protests against other elements in our culture – left wing agitation, for instance – might not be an effective way of tamping down on the seeming runaway activism that is taking over more and more institutions and dominating the national discourse to a disturbing degree.  What if 50 armed men stood outside a hall where a raging feminist was to rant, or across the street from universities that have caved into extreme leftist agitation?</p>
<p>I know many people will never be comfortable with these kinds of displays.  They see a gun and immediately think there’s a madman on the loose, or they simply think there is too much risk involved in a group of armed men being involved in emotionally charged protest-type situations.  I can understand both points of view.  But I am afraid so long as our governing class continues to ignore the concerns of tens of millions of Americans regarding unconstrained immigration and other threats to this nation as it has always been constituted, I think the tendency toward extreme reaction is only going to grow.  You can’t marginalize natives of this country in favor of immigrants of highly dubious character forever without engendering some kind of very strong backlash, and I fear this may only be the beginning stages of it.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24202/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/24202/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=veneremurcernui.wordpress.com&blog=10897848&post=24202&subd=veneremurcernui&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://opuspublicum.com/2015/12/02/the-socialist-seduction-again/">The Socialist Seduction Again</a></span>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Keith Michael Estrada, <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/propernomenclature/a-very-short-intro-on-recent-papal-teaching-concerning-socialism/">writing over at <i>Patheos</i></a>, has more than a few words to say in defense of socialism from a Catholic perspective. Although Estrda is right to criticize those who would use the Church’s social magisterium to baptize capitalism, his attempted presentation of what Catholicism “actually teaches” regarding socialism leaves something to be desired. The most elemental error Estrada makes is failing to offer concrete examples of “socialisms” which have not been condemned by the Catholic Church. Instead, Estrada repeatedly suggests that not “all socialism” contradicts the magisterium. But what kind of “socialism” is that? Clearly the principles of private property and subsidiarity do not support a state-centered system where heavy expropriation, command-planned redistribution, and centralization are the norm. And while there are other models of socialism available which are more localized and communal, Estrada fails to discuss them . . . at all. Call that the “meta” problem with Estrada’s article. There are a couple of others worth noting as well.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">First, Estrada’s horizon is too narrow. While he spends a great deal of time with excerpts from the writings of recent popes, he has almost nothing at all to say about the social-magisterial statements of Blessed Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, and Pius XI. Any type of “socialism” which is ostensibly congruent with Catholic teaching needs to take account of the entire magisterium; selectivity simply will not do. Given that the earlier popes were attempting to meet socialism straight on during the 19th and early 20th centuries, it would have behooved Estrada to look further back than the last 50 years. Of course, as noted, Estrada doesn’t seem all that concerned with clarifying what he even means by “socialism,” so perhaps that why he didn’t bother to engage the magisterium in toto.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Second, while Estrada is certainly right to stress that free-market capitalism finds no rooted support in Catholic social teaching, he falls prey to making several sloppy claims which undermine the integrity of his case. For instance, Estrada tries to lump “national socialism” (Nazism) in as a type of socialism which the Church condemns without mentioning that almost all economic historians reject the idea that Nazi Germany was authentically socialist at all. Estrada then goes on to claim that national socialism/Nazism is simply “capitalist pursuits to the extreme”—whatever the heck that means. Again, no credible economic historian would hold that the Nazi economy was capitalist, and certainly not a hyper-charged version of capitalism. It seems that instead of thinking through the matter, Estrada falls prey to the <i>reductio ad Hitlerum</i>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In closing, let me stress that I agree with Estrada that the Church’s social magisterium is not “pro-capitalist” and that the free-market policies championed by the American Enterprise Institute and the Acton Institute are contrary to Catholic social principles. However, Estrada’s sloppy approach to the issue is incredibly unhelpful. All it does is feed into the predominant liberal narrative that Catholic critics of capitalism lack credibility, are selective in their approach to the Church’s social magisterium, and do not have a firm grasp of economics or economic history. While I believe all three of those charges are ultimately false, you wouldn’t know it from reading or Estrada or the careless rhetoric of other Catholics who have fallen pretty to what I have referred to as the “<a href="http://opuspublicum.com/2015/11/24/a-remark-on-christian-democracy-and-the-socialist-seduction/">socialist seduction</a>.”</p><br />Filed under: <a href="http://opuspublicum.com/category/catholic-social-thought/">Catholic Social Thought</a>, <a href="http://opuspublicum.com/category/economics/">Economics</a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/opuspublicum.wordpress.com/1572/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=opuspublicum.com&blog=70036207&post=1572&subd=opuspublicum&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/action-plan-offers-catholics-down-to-earth-ideas-to-implement-encyclical.cfm">Action plan offers Catholics down-to-earth ideas to implement encyclical</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://image.catholicnews.com/imagehandler/photos/2015/12/02/20151202T1411-740-CNS-ATLANTA-LAUDATO-ACTION_310.jpg" /><p>IMAGE: Georgia Bulletin Photo By Michael Alexander</p><p></p><p>By Andrew Nelson</p><p>CONYERS, Ga. (CNS) -- Mimi
Soileau goes nearly weekly to see what vegetables are ripe to be plucked from
garden beds beside her parish church, St. Pius X.</p>
<p>Time spent with her hands
in the dirt is nothing new for this 85-year-old master gardener. She's
currently harvesting hearty kale, eggplant and broccoli from the raised beds, a
new initiative of the parish garden ministry.</p>
<p>These vegetables go to
the parish's Society of St. Vincent de Paul conference, which has given the fresh
produce to families in need since the growing season began.</p>
<p>The recent strong
environmental message from Pope Francis boosts her spirits.</p>
<p>"It's an obligation
for us to preserve our earth, to keep it healthy. (Pope Francis) is my kind of
man," Soileau told The Georgia Bulletin, Atlanta's archdiocesan newspaper.</p>
<p>Ray Supple, who modeled
the project after a garden he saw at St. Brendan the Navigator Parish in
Cumming, Georgia, said church members embraced it.</p>
<p>"We went to
different organizations and everybody thought it was a great idea," he said. "(St. Vincent de
Paul) is thrilled to be able to give fresh vegetables."</p>
<p>This resourcefulness is
what a new guidebook hopes to inspire in individual Catholics and parishes in
the Atlanta Archdiocese. It's encouraging the faith community to better care
for the earth, from forming a parish "green team" and using rain
barrels to conserve water to saying grace before meals and sharing rides to
Sunday Mass.</p>
<p>Spurred by Pope Francis'
environmental encyclical, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home,"
this 38-page action plan offers a menu of initiatives for parishes and families.</p>
<p>"It's not theology,
it's down-to-earth," said Rob McDowell, a geologist and co-author of the
report. "We didn't really invent anything."</p>
<p>Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory
of Atlanta commissioned the action plan a year ago upon learning that Pope Francis planned to issue an encyclical
on the environment. It was developed by a team of scientists from University of
Georgia and other scientists after the release of the encyclical in June.</p>
<p>McDowell said his
Catholic faith has been formed by the church's rich heritage of special care for
the planet, going back more than 1,000 years to St. Augustine and creation
spirituality. The three most recent pontiffs built on each other's teachings: St.
John Paul II critiqued consumerism; Pope Benedict XVI had solar panels
installed at the Vatican and was dubbed the "green pope"; and Pope
Francis has written the first encyclical dedicated to environmental concerns.</p>
<p>McDowell called the papal
document a high mark in the church's teaching. </p><p>A professor at Georgia
Perimeter College and a member of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Parish in Atlanta, he said no area of Georgia is immune from the changing
environment.</p>
<p>Georgia's seacoast cities, such as Tybee Island and
St. Marys, are now planning to deal with
rising sea levels. Farmers face disrupted planting seasons with hotter
temperatures and fewer cool days. The Atlanta area faces more severe flooding
as heavy rain is forecast to replace moderate rainfall.</p>
<p>Georgia is "blessed
with abundant natural resources," the report says, including "rich
biodiversity" in the north Georgia mountains and one-third of all of the
remaining salt marshes on the U.S. East Coast.</p>
<p>The report lists
categories of concern including: energy efficiency and conservation; recycling;
transportation; water use; buying and sharing food; sustainable landscapes;
helping those in the congregation most impacted by extreme weather changes;
practical ways to inform and engage young people in the message of the
encyclical; and political action.</p>
<p>Within each category are
a series of suggested actions, ranked from the easiest, such as shopping with
reusable bags, to moderate and advanced changes, such as installing an electric
car charging station on parish or school grounds.</p>
<p>The plan proposes that
churches or schools ask for an energy audit by the nonprofit Georgia Interfaith
Power & Light to help them find energy savings. It recommends faith
communities serve their vulnerable members by helping those likely to be most
hurt by severe weather. It also advises helping enlist them in appropriate
services, such as the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program or cooling
stations in the summer.</p>
<p>Staff from the Atlanta archdiocesan
Justice & Peace Ministries have visited parishes to educate Catholics about
the encyclical, from its purpose to the details. Director Kat Doyle said many
people come with biased notions about it, so she tells people "what it
says and what it doesn't say."</p>
<p>Its key point calls for "integral
ecology" where human activity and the natural environment are balanced,
she said. The pope looks at the world through a faith-based lens, not politics
or science, she said, although he praises both. The goal is to create dialogue
on the issue and encourage people to take action on behalf of the environment,
she said.</p>
<p>Steve Valk,
communications director for Citizens' Climate Lobby, who belongs to the Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception Parish, said the pope's message is changing minds.</p>
<p>As a Catholic, he said, "I
try to follow the teachings of Christ. The biggest thing he imparted to us was
to take care of each other. The people who will be hurt the most will be the
poor. From a faith perspective, it's two things: us taking care of each other
and also us being good stewards of the world."</p>
<p>Archbishop Gregory said
the environment requires personal stewardship by Catholics.</p>
<p>"What will it take
to protect our world and its societies for future generations? Living a life
dedicated to simplicity in the spirit of St. Francis while always looking out
for our most vulnerable brothers and sisters," he wrote in the report.</p>
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<p>Nelson is a staff writer
at The Georgia Bulletin, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.</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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<p>Pope at General Audience: I Brought a Message of Hope to Africa
Speaking Off-the-Cuff, Encourages Young People to Consider Being Missionaries
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size500/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" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size500/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" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> want to address once again the <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/full-text-of-popes-in-flight-interview-from-africa-to-rome-48855/">disgraceful words of</a> the Pope whilst on his way back from Africa, for they are so deeply upsetting. Never have we heard a Pope speak so ill of the Catholic faithful. Sadly, it is not the first time that his words have been cruel and vicious.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span>Forced to defend himself and the good name of LifeSiteNews being accused of using a "faulty translation" or not putting the Pope's words "in context" John-Henry Westen is one step ahead, as usual. Visiting this link will take you to the Pope's words with the Vatican's official translation and words translated by LifeSiteNews not put in the "official" translation but clearly said by the Pope. He seems agitated in the video.</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To <i><u>you in the Vatican</u></i> whomever you all are, because I know you come here and some days multiple times. Do you hate the Pope that you do not bring to him these concerns so that he will continue to disgrace himself and the Church? Do you not want him to know how he hurts people and secretly hope he will not change? Is it totally out of control that there is nothing you can do? Are you as disturbed by the words of this man as us? </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span><b>Will no bishop or cardinal there have the courage to tell him to his face what he is doing? At what point do we, the faithful, demand to the bishops and cardinals that they intervene directly and decisively? I suspect it will come soon, with his apostolic exhortation on the recent Synod. Expect the worst, he has already hinted at it. Bishops and Cardinal be forewarned. if you fail to act, you will be judged by God and man and held accountable in history and eternity.</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span>Let us look again at what he said:</span></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span>"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. They do evil. I say this because it is my church."</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span>Does he mean that some who believe in "absolute truth" are sinners and sometimes calumniate? I'll give him that, we're all sinners and notwithstanding the fact we believe, we sin.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span>Is he questioning whether or not there is "absolute truth?"</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span>If a Muslim is a fundamentalist he cuts off peoples heads and blows up marketplaces. If a Catholic is a fundamentalist, she prays the rosary and wears a scapular, goes to Mass at least once a week and Confession frequently. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span>What is Pope Francis trying to say?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span>We can only shake our heads and pray for him; but I tell you, I thought it was bad enough to invite a follower of the pervert, thief, warlord and liar Mahomet in to the Vatican gardens to pray to his false god, but to bow down and pray to the Kabaa is beyond an abomination. I would not want to be him after praying to the Kabaa by facing Mecca; nor would I want to be anywhere near him. God will not be mocked.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span><span>There is "absolute truth" and his name is Jesus Christ, for He said:</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span></span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father, except by Me."</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sounds pretty absolute to me.</span><br /><br />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://mathias-von-gersdorff.blogspot.com/2015/12/islamismus-im-visier-des.html">Islamismus im Visier des Jugendmedienschutzes</a></span>
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<p>Foto: BPJM
Das neue Mitteilungsblatt der „Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien“, BPJM Aktuell (4/2015), widmet dem Islamismus und seinem Einfluss in Jugendmilieus großen Raum. Das Thema ist dem Jugendschutz nicht ganz neu, doch anscheinend will man ihm nun eine größere Bedeutung zumessen. In den Beiträgen wird der Frage nachgegangen, was Jugendliche veranlasst, sich
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://dprice.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-glories-of-detroit.html">The Glories of Detroit.</a></span>
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<p>The "Bishop's Mansion" of Detroit. (Photograph owned by the Detroit News).
For those who, more or less forgivably, associate Detroit with "ruin pR0n," the discovery of a gem like the former diocesan mansion in Palmer Woods is a salutary tonic.
If you're in the area, you can tour it this weekend:
Built in the mid-1920s, this 35,000-square-foot Tudor Revival was built by the Fisher
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/potential-terrorists-threated-pope-say-police-in-italy-kosovo.cfm">Potential terrorists threatened pope, say police in Italy, Kosovo</a></span>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zenit/english/~3/E0qWuiPzkP4/i-believe-this-is-the-time-for-mercy-pope-tells-italian-magazine">'I Believe This is the Time for Mercy,' Pope Tells Italian Magazine</a></span>
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<p>Less than a week from the start of Jubilee Year in the Vatican, Pope Francis has said he believes this is the time for mercy and the Church needs to remember its role as field hospital to those who are 'wounded' and excluded.
 
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2015/12/travel.html">Travel</a></span>
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<p>Gottfried Benn (1886-1956), "Travel" (tr. Robert M. Browning): <br /><blockquote>Zurich you think for example<br />Must be a place more profound<br />Where wonders and wisdom are always<br />A part of the daily round?<br /><br />You think that out of Havana,<br />White and hibiscus red,<br />Must break forth eternal manna<br />For you in your desert of lead?<br /><br />Bahnhofstrassen and rues,<br />Boulevards, Lidos, and Quais,<br />On even the Fifth Avenues<br />Emptiness comes and holds sway.<br /><br />Travel's a vain undertaking!<br />In the end you meet only yourself:<br />Stay put and hold in safekeeping<br />The I that delimits itself.</blockquote>The same (tr. J.M. Ritchie): <br /><blockquote>Do you think Zürich for instance<br />Would be a town with more style?<br />Miracles galore and incense<br />To make your life more worth while?<br /><br />Or do you think Havana,<br />White and hibiscus red,<br />Would offer eternal manna<br />In your waste land for bread?<br /><br />Zürich main streets, London mews,<br />Boulevards, lidos in plenty,<br />Even on Fifth Avenues,<br />Suddenly you feel empty.<br /><br />What use does travel serve?<br />Not till too late do you see:<br />Stay put and quietly preserve<br />The self-sufficient me.</blockquote>The German (title "Reisen"): <br /><blockquote>Meinen Sie Zürich zum Beispiel<br />sei eine tiefere Stadt,<br />wo man Wunder und Weihen<br />immer als Inhalt hat?<br /><br />Meinen Sie, aus Habana,<br />weiß und hibiskusrot,<br />bräche ein ewiges Manna<br />für Ihre Wüstennot?<br /><br />Bahnhofstraßen und Rueen,<br />Boulevards, Lidos, Laan —<br />selbst auf den Fifth Avenueen<br />fällt Sie die Leere an —<br /><br />ach, vergeblich das Fahren!<br />Spät erst efahren Sie sich:<br />bleiben und stille bewahren<br />das sich umgrenzende Ich.</blockquote>Related posts:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-escape-from-oneself.html">No Escape from Oneself</a></li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2009/05/escape-from-oneself.html">Escape from Oneself</a></li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2008/05/somewhere-else.html">Somewhere Else</a></li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/11/crossing-seas.html">Crossing the Seas</a></li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/08/here.html">Here</a></li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2007/08/from-dan-to-beersheba.html">From Dan to Beersheba</a></li><li><a href="http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2004/06/travel.html">Travel</a></li></ul>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://denzinger-katholik.blogspot.com/2015/12/das-geheime-turchen.html">Das geheime Adventstürchen</a></span>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcocaSc6KHg/Vl8JnHmKP6I/AAAAAAAABfU/uQYItMBws7o/s1600/praeparatio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dcocaSc6KHg/Vl8JnHmKP6I/AAAAAAAABfU/uQYItMBws7o/s400/praeparatio.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Einen eigenen Adventskalender gibt es bei mir ja nicht. Muss aber auch gar nicht, denn die Kollegen machen das schon ganz ausgezeichnet. Trotzdem kann ich aber auf ein kleines Adventsleckerli aufmerksam machen, dass bei so ziemlich der gesamten Leserschaft irgendwo im Bücherregal schlummern dürfte. Deswegen ist es eigentlich auch gar nicht so geheim, aber manchmal sieht man eben gerade die Dinge nicht, die man ständig vor der Nase hat ... oder haben könnte.<br /><br />Es handelt sich um eines der Gebete, die löblicherweise vom Priester vor der hl. Messe verrichtet werden können. Das Gesamtgefüge besteht aus einer Antiphon, Psalm 83-85, 115, 129, Responsorien und sieben Gebeten, gefolgt von einem ambrosianischen Gebet für jeden Wochentag. Vormals fand man diese <i>Preces ante (et post) Missam</i> häufig auf Tafeln in den Sakristeien, auf jeden Fall aber in jedem Brevier und Missale. In einer Kurzversion mit nur einem Psalm und abzüglich der Gebete des hl. Ambrosius stehen sie aber auch im Schott, direkt vor dem Meßordo, der sie aus gutem Grund auch den Gläubigen anempfiehlt.<br /><br />Was hat das nun mit dem Advent zu tun? Ganz einfach, beim siebten und letzten Gebet, das etwas aus der Reihe herausfällt, handelt es sich ursprünglich um eine Adventsoration. Das ist sie im ambrosianischen Ritus auch heute noch, in dem sie zum VI. Advent Verwendung findet. Damit aber nun niemand lange suchen muss, gibt es das Gebet auch hier nochmal samt Schott'scher Übersetzung. Vielleicht kann es uns ... zumindest aber sein Leitgedanke, durch den Advent und in unseren Messbesuchen begleiten:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>Conscientias nostras, quaesumus Domine, visitando purifica: ut veniens Dominus noster Jesus Christus Filius tuus, paratam sibi in nobis inveniat mansionem. Qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum.</i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Wir bitten Dich, o Herr: suche heim und reinige unser Inneres, damit unser Herr Jesus Christus, Dein Sohn, bei Seinem Kommen eine Wohnstätte in uns für Sich bereitet finde: der mit Dir lebt und herrscht in der Einheit des Hl. Geistes, Gott von Ewigkeit zu Ewigkeit. </blockquote>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/whitey-knows-best/">Whitey knows best</a></span>
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<p>The civilization we actually live in is one of <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/white-supremacy-as-suicidal-liberalism/" target="_blank">white supremacy</a>, that is, one built by and governed by white men. That isn’t to say that it was built <em>solely</em> by white men, obviously.  It is just to say that Western civilization is <em>essentially</em> the civilization of white men: it would not have been built without them and cannot carry on without them.  If all non-white men suddenly disappeared, Western civilization would be severely hurt but would carry on.  If all women disappeared, civilization would end in a generation. But if all white men disappeared civilization would end at the next oil change.</p>
<p>These are extremely <em>politically</em> incorrect observations, of course; but are, I assert, <em>factually</em> correct, which is what matters to me.</p>
<p>The political philosophy of white men is liberalism.  Liberalism is constantly making war on history, nature, and tradition on a long <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/we-are-cthulu/" target="_blank">march through the generations</a>, protected by a <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/on-liberalism-and-two-headed-coins/" target="_blank">rear guard of conservatives</a> who insure that the march itself is never questioned.</p>
<p>So when blacks and people of other races muster to the sound of white liberal grievance-mongering trumpets, they are just being the <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/nazism-because-nonwhites-are-screwing-up-liberal-tolerance/" target="_blank">good Uncle Toms they are being told to be</a>.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4765/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4765/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=zippycatholic.wordpress.com&blog=38463386&post=4765&subd=zippycatholic&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/zenit/english/~3/1BUt8E7aQ_4/general-audience-on-apostolic-visit-to-africa">GENERAL AUDIENCE: On Apostolic Visit to Africa</a></span>
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<p>Here is a ZENIT translation of the Holy Father's address during his Wednesday General Audience today in St. Peter's Square.
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THE HOLY FATHER’S CATECHESIS:
Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning!
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://voiceofthefamily.com/confusion-about-condoms-leads-to-violation-of-5th-and-6th-commandments/">Confusion about condoms leads to violation of 5th and 6th commandments</a></span>
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<p><a class="a2a_button_facebook a2a_counter" href="http://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvoiceofthefamily.com%2Fconfusion-about-condoms-leads-to-violation-of-5th-and-6th-commandments%2F&linkname=Confusion%20about%20condoms%20leads%20to%20violation%20of%205th%20and%206th%20commandments" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Facebook"><img alt="Facebook" src="http://voiceofthefamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/facebook.png" /></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter a2a_counter" href="http://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvoiceofthefamily.com%2Fconfusion-about-condoms-leads-to-violation-of-5th-and-6th-commandments%2F&linkname=Confusion%20about%20condoms%20leads%20to%20violation%20of%205th%20and%206th%20commandments" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Twitter"><img alt="Twitter" src="http://voiceofthefamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/twitter.png" /></a><a class="a2a_dd a2a_target addtoany_no_icon addtoany_share_save" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share_save#url=http%3A%2F%2Fvoiceofthefamily.com%2Fconfusion-about-condoms-leads-to-violation-of-5th-and-6th-commandments%2F&title=Confusion%20about%20condoms%20leads%20to%20violation%20of%205th%20and%206th%20commandments" id="wpa2a_4">Share</a></p><p><a href="http://voiceofthefamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Pope-Francis.jpg"><img alt="Pope Francis" class="size-medium wp-image-1879 alignleft" height="225" src="http://voiceofthefamily.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Pope-Francis-300x225.jpg" width="300" /></a>On 30th November, during a press conference on his return flight from his visit to Africa, Pope Francis was asked about the Church’s position on the use of condoms as a means  of combating HIV.  A German journalist <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/full-text-of-popes-in-flight-interview-from-africa-to-rome-48855/">asked</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">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?</p>
<p>In his response Pope Francis stated:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">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?</p>
<p>He continued:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">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.</p>
<p>These remarks have caused confusion and controversy inside and outside the Church. Much of the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/30/pope-francis-condoms-aids-hiv-africa">media </a>has drawn the conclusion, perfectly reasonable given the nature of the remarks, that Pope Francis thinks that “there are more important issues confronting the world, like malnutrition, environmental exploitation and the lack of safe drinking water” than giving clear teaching on the question of whether condom use can ever be morally acceptable.</p>
<p>In order to assist in dispelling the confusion about Church teaching caused by the Holy Father’s remarks we would like to offer the following article by Mgr Michel Schooyans. Mgr Schooyans is a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and an acclaimed academic and writer. The text was originally published in 2005 as part of the book<em> </em><span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle"><em>Le terrorisme à visage</em> <em>humain </em></span>but we expect that readers will immediately see its relevance to the current controversy.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>An extract from the book <em>Le terrorisme à visage</em> <em>humain </em>by <span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle">Michel Schooyans and Anne-Marie Libert</span></strong></h3>
<p>We shall examine statements put out in the last few years by various high-profile personalities in the academic and/or ecclesiastical world, most often by moralists and pastors. We shall call them dignitaries, and shall refrain from quoting them by name to avoid personalising the debate and in order to concentrate our attention on the moral argument.</p>
<p><strong>Disarray and Confusion</strong></p>
<p>Since they refer to recourse to condoms in case of AIDS, these statements have often caused profound confusion in public opinion and in the Church. They are often accompanied by surprising remarks about the person and function of the Pope, as well as the authority of the Church. In the slipstream one also finds the usual list of grievances about sexual morality, celibacy, homosexuality, the ordination of women, Communion given to remarried divorcees and to abortionists, etc. An opportunity like any other to globalize these problems.</p>
<p>These dignitaries have expressed themselves somewhat complacently in the mass media. They have pleaded in favour of condoms in cases of risk of infecting a healthy partner with AIDS. According to them the Church should change its position on this subject.</p>
<p>These statements cause great confusion in the minds of the public; they confuse the faithful, divide priests, upset the episcopate, discredit the body of Cardinals, undermine the Magisterium of the Church and aim head-on at the Holy Father. Other dignitaries, now retired or deceased, had already led the revolt in these areas. Meanwhile today, these remarks have often caused consternation, for people expect more prudence; and moral, theological and disciplinary rigour on the part of these dignitaries who – influenced by ideas fashionable in certain milieu – do their utmost to “justify” the use of condoms by cobbling together a “sales pitch” with all-purpose tricks like “least harm” or “double effect”.</p>
<p>One of these dignitaries has gone so far as to make recourse to condoms a moral duty if one wishes to avoid infringing the 5th Commandment. Indeed, he argues that if people infected with AIDS refuse to practise abstinence, they must protect their partners and the only way to do so, in this case, is to resort to condoms.</p>
<p>Such remarks are enough to leave people perplexed, and they reveal partial and biased knowledge of the most natural morality and in particular of Christian morality. Their way of presenting things is at the very least astonishing.</p>
<p><strong>A PROBLEM OF NATURAL MORALITY</strong></p>
<p><strong>Some reassuring but untrue remarks</strong></p>
<p>The arguments of these dignitaries about condoms is of an unexpected superficiality, and one would willingly recommend to interested parties that they acquaint themselves with authoritative scientific and clinical studies rather than keep coming out with and giving credence to gossip long ago refuted by test purchases by any consumer magazine.</p>
<p>How can one pass over in silence that the effect of restraint which condoms seem to exercise is broadly illusory? It is so, in so far as the said condom is mechanically fragile, as it encourages increases in the number of partners and in variety of sexual experience, and as for all these reasons it increases the risks rather than diminishes them.</p>
<p>As for the only effective prevention, this is to be sought in the renunciation of risky behaviour and in fidelity.</p>
<p>From this point of view, moral qualification of condom use is a problem of scientific honesty and natural morality. The Church has not only the right but also the duty to pronounce on this subject.</p>
<p><strong>“Failure, that is death in any event”</strong></p>
<p>Now these interventions by dignitaries fail to mention recent studies of undeniable scientific value, such as that of Doctor Jacques Suaudeau. In the absence of being aware of the recent studies, the authors could at least bear in mind previous admonitions, emanating from the highest scientific authorities. For instance in 1996 one read in a report by Professor Henri Lestradet, of the National Academy of Medicine (Paris)  : “It is appropriate […] to point out that the condom was initially advocated as a means of contraception. Well […] the “failure” rate is generally thought to vary between 5% and 12% per couple per year of use. A priori […] with the HI Virus which is 500 times smaller than a sperm it is hard to see how there would be a lower failure rate. In any case there is an enormous difference between these two situations. When the condom is not completely effective as a means of contraception the consequence of failure is development of new life, while with HIV failure is death in any event.”</p>
<p>Then, considering the case of the HIV-positive, the same report notes that “The only responsible attitude of an HIV-positive man is actually to abstain from all sexual relations, whether protected or not. […] If a couple envisages a stable relationship, there should be the following recommendations: each [person] to have a screening test, repeat it after three months and in the meantime abstain from all sexual relations (with or without condoms).Then put mutual fidelity first.</p>
<p>The dignitaries, who are authors of the remarks we are analysing, would do well to pay attention to one dramatic conclusion of the medical study which we are quoting: “The assertion proclaimed hundreds of times (by health officials, the <em>Conseil supérieur</em> for AIDS, and associations for the battle against AIDS) ? of the complete security afforded in all circumstances by condoms is without any doubt at the root of many infections of which at the moment one refuses to find the origin.”</p>
<p>Some international campaigns are being carried on in “exposed” societies in order to flood them with condoms. Religious authorities are invited to give them their distinguished patronage. Well, in spite of these campaigns, and probably because of these campaigns, the advance of the pandemic is observed regularly.</p>
<p>In July 2004, one of the most eminent authorities on AIDS in the world, the Belgian doctor Jean-Louis Lamboray, resigned from UNAIDS (the United Nations programme against AIDS). He stated as his reason for resigning “the failure of policies to curb the spread of this disease”. These policies have failed because “UNAIDS has forgotten that real preventive measures are decided in people’s houses and not in the offices of experts.”</p>
<p>Before issuing peremptory declarations, the dignitaries should remember what a doctor, given a lot of media coverage and hardly suspected of sympathy for the Church’s positions, has stated. Here is what the late Professor Leon Schwartzenberg wrote in 1989: “It is of course mainly young people who will spread AIDS; they are completely unaware of the tragedy of AIDS, which for them is an old people’s disease. This conviction is strengthened by the attitude of the political class, much older than they are and which is responsible for [such] feeble propaganda: the official publicity for condoms gives the impression of having been created by people who never use them for people who do not wish to use them.”</p>
<p>Listeners, readers and television viewers therefore cannot take at face value the imprudent remarks addressed to them by these dignitaries, without risking ?  like them ?  seeing themselves accused sooner or later of being “at the root of many infections.”</p>
<p><strong>A problem of Christian morality</strong></p>
<p>Furthermore it is specious to assert that the Church has no official teaching on AIDS and condoms. Even if the Pope systematically avoids using the latter word, the moral problems posed by the use of condoms are tackled in all the great teachings concerned with conjugal relations and the purposes of marriage. When one is dealing with AIDS and condoms in the light of Christian morality, one must bear in mind that to recall this involves some essential points: the carnal act ought to take place within the framework of monogamous marriage of a man and a woman; conjugal fidelity is the best rampart against sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS; the conjugal union should be open to life, to which must be added respect for the life of others.</p>
<p><strong>Spouses or partners?</strong></p>
<p>It follows that it is not for the Church to preach a “morality” of sexual partnership. It should and does teach conjugal and familial morality. It addresses spouses, couples united sacramentally in marriage which is monogamous and heterosexual. Remarks on the subject of condoms aired by the dignitaries are concerned with partners, whether they maintain relationships which are pre- or extra-marital, intermittent or persistent, heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian, sodomitic, etc. One does not see why the Church, and less than anybody the dignitaries invested with Magisterial authority, should at the risk of causing scandal, come to the rescue of sexual vagrancy and be responsible for the sins of those who, in most cases, could not care in the slightest, in practice and often in theory, about Christian morality.  “Sin, my brothers, but in safety!”  After “Safe Sex”, we now have “Safe Sin” !</p>
<p>The Church and her dignitaries, then, have no role in explaining what to do in order to sin in comfort. They would be abusing their authority were they to embark on lavishing advice about how to conclude a divorce, since the Church considers divorce is always an evil. It would even be hardening the sinner to show him how he ought to go about avoiding the undesirable consequences of his sin.</p>
<p>Whence the question: is it admissible that dignitaries, who are normally the guardians of doctrine, obscure the demands of natural morality and of evangelical morality, and not rather launch an appeal for a change of behaviour?</p>
<p>It is inadmissible and irresponsible for dignitaries to give their backing to the idea of safe sex, utilised to reassure condom users, when one knows that this expression is a lie and leads to the abyss. These distinguished dignitaries ought therefore to ask themselves whether they are not only inciting people to scorn God’s 6th Commandment, but also to flout the 5th Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.” The false security offered by the condom, far from reducing the risks of contamination, increases them. The reproach of not honouring the 5th commandment backfires on those who address it to “partners” who do not make use of condoms.</p>
<p>The argument invoked to attempt to “justify” the “prophylactic” use of condoms thus is reduced to nothing, as much in the views of natural morality as of Christian morality.</p>
<p>Perhaps it would be simpler to say that, if spouses really love each other and if one of them catches cholera, bubonic plague, or pulmonary tuberculosis, this one should abstain from contacts to avoid contagion.</p>
<p><strong>THE OBJECTIVE: THE GREAT UPHEAVAL</strong></p>
<p><strong>An error of method</strong></p>
<p>At the beginning of this analysis, we were indicating that dignitaries who advocate condoms were frequently linking to their defence plea, causes other than that of far-sighted and organised sexual “partners”. In fact, one is making too much of this case in order to challenge all the Church’s teaching about human sexuality, then about marriage, then the family, then society, then the Church itself. It is this that explains in part these dignitaries’ almost total lack of interest in the scientific conclusions and the fundamental ideas of natural morality. It is nevertheless these conclusions and fundamental ideas that the dignitaries ought to take into account first of all in their consideration of Christian morality. Because of this error of method – whether voluntary or not – , the dignitaries wish to open the way to an upheaval of Christian morality. They even wish to turn Christian dogma upside down since they reserve the right to a call on it in their opinions to summon the whole institution of the Church into a reform capable of endorsing their morality and their dogma. They intend thus to participate, at their level, in this new cultural revolution.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, as these dignitaries have committed, right from the start, an error of method by neglecting the essential fundamental ideas of the problem with which they claim to be dealing, they are setting out inevitably on a slippery road. Starting from false premises one can only end up with false conclusions. It is easy to see where erratic thoughts are leading the dignitaries concerned. One can summarise them in three sophisms which can be demolished by any schoolboy.</p>
<p><strong>Three Sophisms</strong></p>
<p><strong>First sophism</strong></p>
<p>Major : Not using a condom encourages AIDS.<br />
Minor : Now, to encourage  AIDS, is to encourage death.<br />
Conclusion : Therefore not using a condom is to encourage death.</p>
<p>This distorted reasoning is based on the idea that to protect oneself, is to use condoms. Partners can be numerous. Fidelity is not even envisaged. Sex drives supposedly being irresistible and conjugal fidelity impossible, the only way not to contract AIDS is to make use of condoms.</p>
<p><strong>Second sophism</strong></p>
<p>Major : Condoms are the only protection against AIDS.<br />
Minor : Now, the Church is against condoms.<br />
Conclusion : Therefore the Church is encouraging AIDS.</p>
<p>This pseudo-syllogism is based on an incorrect assertion stated in the major point, namely that condoms are the only protection against AIDS. We are in the presence of a begging of the question, a <em>petitio principii</em>. It is a matter of fallacious reasoning, where the first premise having been presented as indisputable, it goes without saying that the rest is as well. One asserts as true what would need to be proved, namely that condoms are the only protection against AIDS.</p>
<p><strong>A case of polysyllogism</strong></p>
<p>Here finally is an example of pseudo-syllogism, a sophisticated syllogism, which the dignitaries could look into:</p>
<p>Major : The Church is against condoms;<br />
Minor : Now, condoms prevent unwanted pregnancies;<br />
Conclusion/Major : Therefore the Church encourages unwanted pregnancies;<br />
Minor : Now unwanted pregnancies are avoided by abortion;<br />
Conclusion : Therefore the Church encourages abortion.</p>
<p>To sum up, the revival of morality and of Christian ecclesiology has nothing to expect from the perfidious exploitation of the ill and of their death.</p>
<p><em>Voice of the Family thanks Mgr Schooyans for his permission to republish this article. It was originally published in 2005  as part of </em><span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle">Le terrorisme à visage humain</span><span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle"> </span><em><span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle">by Michel Schooyans and Anne-Marie Libert. It was republished in 2010 at <a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1345989?eng=y">Chiesa news</a>.</span></em></p>
<p>The post <a href="http://voiceofthefamily.com/confusion-about-condoms-leads-to-violation-of-5th-and-6th-commandments/" rel="nofollow">Confusion about condoms leads to violation of 5th and 6th commandments</a> appeared first on <a href="http://voiceofthefamily.com" rel="nofollow">Voice of the Family</a>.</p>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7uxeBRp8es4/Vl4vfLLXauI/AAAAAAAACjY/shenJzj1tu0/s1600/Elevation-e1384248959229.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7uxeBRp8es4/Vl4vfLLXauI/AAAAAAAACjY/shenJzj1tu0/s400/Elevation-e1384248959229.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="dropcap">NLM readers undoubtedly know by now of the atrocious acts of sacrilege committed against the Most Blessed Sacrament in Pamplona, Spain. This nauseating act of contempt for the most sacred of all sacred things speaks of the decline of the Church in Europe and, broadly speaking, of civilized life more poignantly than anything else could do. There are, thanks be to God, thousands who have been making reparation, as our Lord, never to be defeated and never to be surpassed, draws forth spiritual good from the worst of the devil's attacks. The devil will never win -- but until the end of time, he will never stop trying to mar the good work of God, until he is bound hand and foot and shut up forever.<br /><br />In connection with this incident, I was struck by an article posted by Dom Mark Kirby, O.S.B., of Silverstream Priory, where he ponders the connection between novel liturgical customs and the kinds of irreverence they make possible today on a scale that beggars the imagination. I shall quote here most of the article, but encourage the readers to go to Vultus Christi for the whole piece (and for other posts -- it is always a most enlightening and edifying blog).<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">A priest friend said to me this morning that bishops the world over need to consider <b>a moratorium on Holy Communion in the hand. </b>Perhaps for the Year of Mercy? Are we to show no mercy to the One who is present among us under the appearances of a thing so fragile as the Host? Do we not recognize in the Sacred Host God become, for love of us, vulnerable, poor, silent, and defenseless? Do we not see that the Sacred Host is the ultimate expression of what Saint Paul (see Philippians 2:7) calls the kenosis of the Son of God, that is His utter self-emptying?<br /> The Instruction <i>Redemptionis Sacramentum </i>promulgated eleven years ago by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments 25 March 2004, seems, in most places, to have had little or no effect. One wonders if the clergy were at all given the opportunity to come together to study the document and, with one mind, plan its implementation. Among other things, in article 92, the Instruction says clearly: <b>“If there is a risk of profanation, then Holy Communion should not be given in the hand to the faithful”. </b>Many times I have had Sacred Hosts, sometimes bearing the imprint of shoes after having been trampled, brought to me by aggrieved layfolk who picked them up from the floor of churches. I think it only reasonable to conclude that there is, in fact, widespread risk of profanation. Consequently, <b>article 92 of <i>Redemptionis Sacramentum </i>needs to be invoked and implemented. Not to do so would be, I think, more than a mere oversight.</b><br /> What has so inured the clergy and laity to the extreme abasement of Jesus Christ in the Sacred Host that sacrileges and profanations meet with no more than a passing measured expression of regret? Have we no mercy for the defenceless Christ? No tears for God? No voice to cry aloud when the Body of God is defiled? One forgets, I think, that <b>the culture of death denounced by Saint John Paul II is, in fact, an attack on the human body. Every attack on the human body and every profanation of the human body is, in the final analysis, an attack on the Body of Christ. Conversely, every attack on the Eucharistic Body of Christ and every profanation of that Sacred Body attacks and profanes the human body.</b> “Amen, I say to you, as long as you did it to the body of one of these my least brethren, you did it to my Body; and as long as you did it to my Body, you did it to the body of one of these my least brethren” (cf. Matthew 25:39). [...]<br /> <b>A society that admits the practice of abortion — dismembering the body of a child — will, ineluctably, feel indifferent towards sins against the Eucharistic Body of Christ, </b>the <i>hóstia pura, hóstia sancta, hóstia immaculáta </i>– the pure Victim, the holy Victim, the spotless Victim. By the same token, <b>irreverence towards the Eucharistic Body of Christ opens the door to every manner of sin against the human body: abortion, pornography, sexual perversion, and every manner of violence and abuse. Everything that affects the body has repercussions upon The Body; and everything that affects The Body has repercussions upon the body.</b><br /> “The stench of putrefaction”, says the old Italian proverb, “begins from the head of the fish”. I would argue that <b>every loss of reverence at the altar leads to a loss of reverence in the sanctuary; that every loss of reverence in the sanctuary leads to a loss of reverence in the body of the church; that every loss of reverence in the body of the church leads to a loss of reverence in the marketplace, schools, hospitals, and theatres; that every loss of reverence in the marketplace, schools, hospitals, and theatres leads to a loss of reverence in the home; and that every loss of reverence in the home leads to a loss of reverence in the marriage bed.</b></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: center;">(Read the whole article <i><b><a href="http://vultuschristi.org/index.php/2015/11/ave-verum-corpus-2/" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></i>)<br /><br /></div></div><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheNewLiturgicalMovement/~4/Tv6ydPFG7F4" width="1" />
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<p>“Pro-lifers are not responsible for terrorism — people are responsible for violence and terrorism,” said President Obama about the recent shooting at Planned Parenthood. "I think we do ourselves a disservice in this fight if we are not taking into account the fact that the overwhelming majority of pro-lifers reject this ideology."<br /><br />Of course, Obama didn't say those things about pro-lifers. He said that about Muslims.<br /><br />President Obama did, however, link pro-lifers with the recent violence by a crazy man by scolding pro-lifers not to "demonize" Planned Parenthood.<br /><br />I have a question: Why is it that when a radical Muslim terrorist commits an atrocity their motive is unclear to all and their affiliation with Islam is denied everywhere. But a nutjob who shoots up a Planned Parenthood with no connection at all to the pro-life movement is the responsibility of all pro-lifers?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/matthew-archbold/the-affiliation-of-this-killer-is-clear/#ixzz3tAwKZNPb">Please continue reading at The National Catholic Register>>></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="height: 0px; width: 0px;">*subhead*Double standards.*subhead*</div>
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<p><img src="http://image.catholicnews.com/imagehandler/photos/2015/12/02/20151202T1152-731-CNS-VATICAN-POPE-MOVIE_310.jpg" /><p>IMAGE: CNS photo/TaodueFilm, distributed by Medusa</p><p></p><p>By Junno Arocho Esteves</p><p>VATICAN
CITY (CNS) -- The usual fanfare that comes with the world premiere of a movie
is pretty standard: the lights and cameras, the celebrities walking down the
red carpet and screaming fans trying to catch a glimpse of their favorite
actors. </p>
<p>At
the Vatican, however, a movie premiere is not your typical star-studded event.</p>
<p>The
world premiere of "Call
Me Francesco," the first movie based on the life of Pope Francis,
took place in the Vatican audience hall Dec. 1 and those considered celebrities
in the eyes of the pope were in attendance.</p>
<p>"To
this exceptional premiere, the Holy Father wished to invite the poor, the
homeless, refugees and the people most in need, together with the volunteers,
religious and lay people, who work daily in charity," a statement from the
papal almoner's office said. </p>
<p>Parishes
and charitable associations in Rome were given 7,000 tickets for the poor to
attend the premiere at the Vatican. The night also included a concert featuring
the Pontifical Swiss Guard's musical band. The papal almoner's office said that
many of the Swiss Guards offered to play during their free time as a gift to
the homeless.</p>
<p>The
poor were also offered a brown-bag dinner "donated especially for the
occasion by several benefactors."</p>
<p>Directed
by Italian filmmaker Daniele
Luchetti, "Call Me Francesco" details the life of Jorge Mario
Bergoglio, from his humble beginnings in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to his election to the
papacy in 2013. </p>
<p>At
the premiere, Luchetti expressed his hope that the movie would be "an
emotional moment" in following "the footsteps of a man we
admire." While all the details of the pope's life are not known, the Italian
director said he was optimistic that the film would explain "how he came
to be and for what reasons."</p>
<p>For Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna,
portraying the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the silver screen was a dream
come true. "It's crazy, I never imagined in my life to be here at the
Vatican, much less portraying Jorge Mario Bergoglio. It's a dream!" de la
Serna told Catholic News Service. Seeing how well the movie was received by the
7,000 guests, he said, was "something that I will never forget."</p>
<p>David, one of the thousands of homeless
people attending the premiere said that it was "truly emotional" to
the see the path followed by Pope Francis. "His way of being close to the
poor, close to people in need and the endless struggle against evil" was
particularly moving, he told CNS. </p>
<p>Of the many groups at the premiere, one
stood out in the crowd, holding a large colorful banner with the words,
"Thank you, Pope Francis!" The banner belonged to a group of refugees
from Eritrea who were invited to attend. </p>
<p>A young refugee who wished to remain
anonymous told CNS that he was happy to see the film and that the pope's life
showed that prayer can be a powerful solution, even in the most difficult
circumstances. </p>
<p>"Some of us will continue to other
countries, others will stay here in Italy. We are refugees," he said. Pope
Francis' story, he continued, gave him hope that "everything will be
all right for us."</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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<p>Pope Francis has named Fr. Vincent Kirabo as bishop of Hoima, Uganda.
Vincent Kirabo was born in Kyanaisoke, Uganda, in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1979.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/on-liberalism-and-two-headed-coins/">On liberalism and two-headed coins</a></span>
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<p>Political freedom/autonomy and equality are <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/freedom-implies-equal-rights/" target="_blank">two modes of the same idea</a>. You can’t have one without the other, and <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/feel-free-to-scrape-the-question-begging-faux-neutrality-off-your-shoes/" target="_blank">embracing one necessarily implies embracing the other</a>, just as picking up a coin entails picking up both sides of the coin even if you happen to be looking at Heads.</p>
<p><a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-this-world/" target="_blank">There is no essential difference between liberalism and leftism</a>: they are different baskets of unprincipled exceptions overlaid on top of the same basic commitment to the political philosophy I call <i>liberalism</i>.</p>
<p>Failure to recognize this keeps ‘conservatives’ locked in the mind trap. They naturally, as conservatives, feel loyalty to their ancestors and the thoughts of their ancestors — who happen to be classical liberals. And because conservatism entails a certain acceptance of how things are without thinking them all the way through, conservatives never accept that their revered classical liberal ancestors and the hated leftists/progressives <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/where-social-justice-warriors-come-from/" target="_blank">just are the same sort of thing</a>.</p>
<p>As a result, the function of conservatism in society is to preserve and protect liberalism from its own excesses. Conservatives are the abused enablers of progressives and always will be, mopping up the vomit and excrement after the drunken binges to make sure that they can continue.</p>
<p>The only way to put an end to the self abuse is to fully realize and accept the truth: that liberalism and leftism just are the same thing. The conservative disposition, with its built-in tendency to accept things as they are and not think them through to the point of critical insanity, screams against this.</p>
<p>But there are times when it is necessary to peel back some more layers and figure out what is really happening: to understand when certain things are built on a lie and not just accept them as given.  There are times when the only option is a sociopathic option.</p>
<p>And if there has ever been such a time, that time is now.  When society has gone insane, the place to find sanity is <a href="https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/life-outside-the-padded-walls/" target="_blank">outside the padded walls</a>.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4745/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/zippycatholic.wordpress.com/4745/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=zippycatholic.wordpress.com&blog=38463386&post=4745&subd=zippycatholic&ref=&feed=1" width="1" />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><b>Roberto de Mattei</b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Corrispondenza Romana</i></div><div style="text-align: right;">December 3, 2015</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qqEj2A6NC04/Vl7-YFhGdYI/AAAAAAAAAqg/D-mmQIXkUbc/s1600/El_Saco_de_Roma.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="444" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qqEj2A6NC04/Vl7-YFhGdYI/AAAAAAAAAqg/D-mmQIXkUbc/s640/El_Saco_de_Roma.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Church is experiencing an era of doctrinal and moral disorientation. The schism has exploded in Germany, although the Pope seems to be unaware of the significance of the drama. A group of cardinals and bishops advocate the need for an agreement with the heretics. As always occurs in the darkest hours of history, events follow one after the other with extreme rapidity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Sunday May 9, 1527, an army descending from Lombardy reached the Janiculum. The Emperor, Charles V, enraged at Pope Clement VII’s political alliance with his adversary, the King of France, Francis I, had moved an army against the capital of Christendom. That evening the sun set for the last time on the dazzling beauties of Renaissance Rome. About 20,000 men, Italians, Spaniards and Germans, among whom were the Landsknecht mercenaries, of the Lutheran faith, were preparing to launch an attack on the Eternal City. Their commander had given them license to sack the city. All night long the warning bell of Campidoglio rang out calling the Romans to arms, but it was already too late to improvise an effective defense. At dawn on the 6th of May, favoured by a thick fog, the Landsknechts launched an assault on the walls, between St. Onofrio and Santo Spirito. </div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Swiss Guards lined up around the Vatican Obelisk, resolute in their vow to remain faithful unto death. The last of them sacrificed their lives at the high altar in St. Peter’s Basilica. Their resistance allowed the Pope along with some cardinals the chance of escape. Across the Passetto di Borgo, the connecting road between the Vatican and Castel Sant’Angelo, Clement VII reached the fortress, the only bastion left against the enemy. From the height of the terraces, the Pope witnessed the terrible slaughter which initiated with the massacre of those who were crowding around the gates of the Castle looking for refuge, while the sick of Santo Spirito Hospital in Sassia were massacred, pierced by spears and swords.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This unlimited license to steal and kill lasted eight days and the occupation of the city nine months. We read in a Veneto account of May 10, 1527, reported by Ludwig von Pastor “Hell is nothing in comparison with the appearance Rome currently presents” (The History of Popes, Desclée, Rome 1942m, vol. IV, 2, p.261). The religious were the main victims of the Landsknechts’ fury. Cardinals’ palaces were plundered, churches profaned, priests and monks killed or made slaves, nuns raped and sold at markets. Obscene parodies of religious ceremonies were seen, chalices for Mass were used to get drunk amidst blasphemies, Sacred Hosts were roasted in a pan and fed to animals, the tombs of saints were violated, heads of the Apostles, such as St. Andrew, were used for playing football on the streets. A donkey was dressed up in ecclesiastical robes and led to the altar of a church. The priest who refused to give it Communion was hacked to pieces. The City was outraged in its religious symbols and in its most sacred memories”. (see also André Chastel, The Sack of Rome, Einaudi, Turin, 1983; Umberto Roberto, Roma capta. The Sack of the City from the Gauls to the Landsknechts, Laterza, Bari 2012).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Clement VII, of the Medici family, had paid no attention to his predecessor, Hadrian VI’s appeal for a radical reform of the Church. Martin Luther had been spreading his heresies for ten years, but the Roman Papal States continued to be immersed in relativism and hedonism. Not all Romans though were corrupt and effeminate, as the historian Gregorovius seems to believe. Not corrupt, were the nobles Giulio Vallati, Giambattista Savelli and Pierpaolo Tebaldi who hoisted a flag with the insignia “Pro Fide et Patria” and held the last heroic stance at Ponte Sisto. and neither were the students at Capranica College, who hastened to Santo Spirito and died defending the Pope in danger.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is to that mass slaughter, the Roman ecclesiastical Institute owes its name “Almo”. Clement VII survived and governed the Church until 1534, confronting the Anglican schism following the Lutheran one, but witnessing the sack of the City and being powerless to do anything, was for him, much harder than death itself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On October 17, 1528, the imperial troops abandoned a city in ruins. A Spanish eyewitness gives us a terrifying picture of the City a month after the Sack: “In Rome, the capital of Christendom, not one bell is ringing, the churches are not open, Mass is not being said and there are no Sundays nor feast days. The rich merchant shops are used as horse stables, the most splendid palaces are devastated, many houses burnt, in others the doors and windows broken up and taken away, the streets transformed into dung-heaps. The stench of cadavers is horrible: men and beasts have the same burials; in churches I saw bodies gnawed at by dogs. I don’t know how else to compare this, other than to the destruction of Jerusalem. Now I recognize the justice of God, who doesn’t forget even if He arrives late. In Rome all sins were committed quite openly: sodomy, simony, idolatry, hypocrisy and deceit; thus we cannot believe that this all happened by chance; but for Divine justice”. (L. von Pastor, History of Popes, cit. p. 278).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, conceivably to immortalize the dramas the Church had undergone during those years. Everyone understood that it was a chastisement from Heaven. There were no lack of premonitory warnings: lightening striking the Vatican and the appearance of a hermit, Brandano da Petroio, venerated by the crowds as “Christ’s Madman”, who, on Holy Thursday 1527, while Clement VII was blessing the crowds in St. Peter’s shouted: “sodomite bastard, for your sins Rome will be destroyed. Confess and convert, for in 14 days the wrath of God will fall upon you and the City.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The year before, at the end of August, the Christian army had been defeated by the Ottomans on the field of Mohacs. The Hungarian King, Louis II Jagiellon died in battle and Suleiman the Magnificent’s army occupied Buda. The Islamic wave in Europe seemed unstoppable.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, the hour of chastisement was, as always, the hour of mercy. The men of the Church understood how foolishly they had followed the allurements of pleasures and power. After the terrible Sack, life changed profoundly. The pleasure-seeking Rome of the Renaissance turned into the austere and penitent Rome of the Counter-Reformation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Among those who suffered during the Sack of Rome, was Gian Matteo Giberti, the Bishop of Verona, but at that time he resided in Rome. Imprisoned by the besiegers he swore that if he were freed, he would never leave his Episcopal residence. He kept his word, and returned to Verona where he dedicated himself fully to the reform of his diocese until his death in 1543. St. Charles Borromeo, who was afterwards the model for the Bishops of the Catholic Counter-Reformation, would be inspired by his example.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Carlo Carafa and St. Cajetan of Thiene were also in Rome. In 1524, they had founded the Theatine Order, a religious institute ridiculed for its intransigent doctrinal position and its abandonment to Divine Providence, even to the point of waiting for alms without ever asking for them. The two co-founders of the Order were imprisoned and tortured by the Landsknechts and miraculously escaped death. When Cafara became a cardinal and President of the first Tribunal of the Sacra Rota and Universal Inquisition, he wanted another saint alongside him, Father Michele Ghislieri, a Dominican. The two men, Carafa and Ghislieri, with the names Paul IV and Pius V, were to be the two Popes par excellence of the Catholic Counter-Reformation in the XVI century. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Council of Trent (1545-1563) and the Victory of Lepanto against the Turks (1571) demonstrated that, even in the darkest hours of history, with the help of God, rebirth is possible: but at the origins of this rebirth was the purifying chastisement of the Sack of Rome. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Translation: Contributor Francesca Romana</div>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/catholicnewsagency/dailynews/~3/CuMWTYd81KM/">Pope Francis to youth: Have you thought about being a missionary?</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/Pope_Francis_greets_pilgrims_in_St_Peters_Square_before_his_Wednesday_general_audience_Dec_2_2015_Credit_Daniel_Ibaez_CNA.jpg" /><p>Vatican City, Dec 2, 2015 / 07:16 am (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- Pope Francis’ recent trip to Africa was the focal point of his general audience today, during which he emphasized the key role that missionaries play on the continent, and asked youth to consider it as an option for their future.<br />
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“To the youth: think about what you want to do with your life. It's the moment to think and to ask the Lord to make his will known to you,” the Pope said Dec. 2.<br />
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Recalling the many missionaries he met while in Africa last week, Francis pleaded with the youth that whatever they decide to do, “please, don't exclude this possibility of becoming missionaries, to bring love, humanity and faith to other countries.”<br />
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The Pope spoke to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his first general audience after returning from Africa. He traveled to the continent for a Nov. 25-30 visit that took him to Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic.<br />
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He spoke about his experience in each country, calling Kenya a land “blessed with great human and natural resources.”<br />
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The Pope addressed the U.N. headquarters while in Nairobi, Kenya’s capitol, advocating for environmental protection and the need to create sustainable, equitable and inclusive models of development. He also had strong words for the youth in creating peace and fraternity.<br />
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On his visit to Uganda, “the land of the Martyrs,” Francis said he was able to encourage the Christian community there to continue in their witness of faith and charity, “and thus to be a leaven of hope for society as a whole.”<br />
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The final phase of his trip, and the riskiest he has made yet, was to the Central African Republic, where he jump-started the Jubilee of Mercy by opening the first Holy Door in the cathedral of Bangui, the country’s capitol.<br />
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Francis said he did this “as a sign of hope and strength” for the suffering country, as well as for all of Central Africa “and for all our brothers and sisters” on the continent.<br />
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He then pointed to the special role that missionaries play on the continent, many of whom left their homeland at a young age to serve others, “leading a life of much, much work, at times sleeping on the floor.”<br />
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One elderly Italian sister he met in Bangui particularly stood out to the Pope. He recalled how during their brief conversation, the sister, 81, revealed that she had been living in CAR since she was 23 and had brought a child to Bangui on a canoe from the Congo.<br />
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Pope Francis noted how this sister had practically spent her whole life there, and explained that there are many more like her.<br />
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“This is how missionaries are: courageous,” he said, recalling how the same sister was a nurse before she came, and after studying there to become a midwife, has delivered some 3,280 babies.<br />
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“An entire life for life, for the lives of others. And like this sister, there are many, many (others): many sisters, many priests, many religious who burn their lives to announce Jesus Christ. It's beautiful to see this.”<br />
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Francis then turned to the youth, asking them to think about what they are doing in their life and what they want to do.<br />
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He asked them to think about this sister and the many others like her who have given their lives in service, often passing away in their missionary assignments.<br />
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To be a missionary, he said, “isn't proselytism,” and noted how the sister he met told him that Muslim women in Bangui go to them, “because they know the sisters are good nurses who heal well, and they don't do catechesis to convert them!”<br />
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“They give witness; then to whoever wants, they give catechesis,” he said, explaining that this is what it means to announce Jesus with one’s life.<br />
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Pope Francis closed his reflections by encouraging the youth to consider the possibility of becoming missionaries, “but not to proselytize.” Faith, he said, “is first preached with witness and then with the word. Slowly.”<br /><br /></p><div class="feedflare">
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/missionary-spirit-means-giving-witness-not-proselytizing-pope-says.cfm">Missionary spirit means giving witness, not proselytizing, pope says</a></span>
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<p><img src="http://image.catholicnews.com/imagehandler/photos/2015/12/02/20151202T0843-723-CNS-POPE-AUDIENCE-AFRICA_310.jpg" /><p>IMAGE: CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters</p><p></p><p>By Junno Arocho Esteves</p><p>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Missionary spirit is manifested by
preaching love, humanity and faith through one's witness and not through
proselytism, Pope Francis said. </p>
<p>Faith in Jesus Christ is shared first through "witness
then with words," the pope said Dec. 2 at his weekly general
audience.</p>
<p>The pope dedicated his audience to reflecting on his trip to
Africa Nov. 25-30 when he visited Kenya, Uganda and the Central African
Republic. </p>
<p>He said that his first stop, Kenya, was a country "that
represented the global challenge of our time" in presenting a "model
of development" that cares for creation in a "balanced, inclusive and
sustainable" way. However, he said, there also is a noticeable situation of
"wealth and misery" existing side by side.</p>
<p>"This is a scandal, not only in Africa but also here,
everywhere," the pope said. "Coexistence between wealth and misery is
a scandal, a shame for humanity."</p>
<p>Stressing the need for giving witness to the "natural
and spiritual wealth" of the country, the pope remembered the victims of
the terrorist attack at Garissa University April 2 where Al-Shabaab militants
targeted and executed 148 Christian students.</p>
<p>"Their blood is the seed of peace and brotherhood for
Kenya, for Africa and for the whole world," the pope said. </p>
<p>An example of the fruits of such a witness was reflected in
the history of Uganda, the second leg of his trip, where the memory of the 19th-century
Catholic and Anglican martyrs is still strong. Pope Francis thanked the
catechists, charitable organizations and the youth of the country who
"protect the gift of hope and seek to live according to the Gospel and not
according to the world; going against the current."</p>
<p>The pope said that the final stop of his trip, the Central
African Republic, took him to "the heart of Africa" and it was the
primary reason for his visit given that it "is a country that suffers so
much."</p>
<p>The early opening of the Holy Door at the cathedral of
Bangui, he said, was done as "a sign of faith and hope for that people,
and symbolically for the whole African population who are most in need of
rescue and comfort."</p>
<p>Pope Francis said that the final Mass at the Bangui stadium
was "wonderful" and marveled at the sight of so many young people. </p>
<p>He also expressed his admiration for the work of missionaries
in Africa, men and women "who have left everything" for the Gospel.
Speaking off-the-cuff, the pope recalled meeting an 81-year-old Italian nun
along with a 3-year-old girl who called her "nonna"
("grandma"). Both made a harrowing trip to Bangui for the papal visit
via canoe.</p>
<p>The nun, he said, told him that she works as a nurse in the
Congo and went on to become an obstetrician, helping to deliver over 3,000
babies. </p>
<p>"That is how missionaries are, they are
courageous," the pope said. "Like this nun there are many, so many
nuns, so many priests, and so many religious who 'burn up' their lives to
announce Jesus Christ. It is beautiful to see this! It is beautiful!"</p>
<p>The pope appealed to all young people, calling on them to
reflect on their vocation and "to not exclude the possibility of becoming
a missionary" and to preach with their lives, not by proselytizing. </p>
<p>"Those who are looking for something else are the ones
that (proselytize)," he said. "Faith is preached first through
witness then with words -- but slowly."</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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<p>As usual, Pope Francis has responded to a variety of questions during the in-flight press conference on his way back to Rome.
Returning from his first Apostolic visit to Africa, where he stopped in the capitals of Kenya, Uganda, and Central African Republic, journalists on the papal flight asked the Holy Father ...<div class="feedflare">
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://branemrys.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-do-you-know-what-your-intuitions-are.html">How Do You Know What Your Intuitions Are?</a></span>
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<p>As I've noted before, certain strains of analytic philosophy are in the habit of trying to explain the better known by the lesser known -- things get explained in terms of propositions, justification, etc., that themselves have highly controvertible accounts. One of the terms that often comes up is 'intuitions'. It's actually quite recent; the popularity is usually ascribed to the influence of Chomsky's talk of 'linguistic intuitions'. But Chomsky had something very specific in mind, with an account of how linguistic intuitions worked and why we should take them seriously; in the spread of the term to other fields, it hasn't always been the case that people have been as careful as Chomsky. And the inevitable result is that there are a lot of different ideas of what intuitions are, and with rather different accounts that would seem to suggest that they have to work very differently. It's not my interest here to look at this disagreement more closely, but to raise a very different issue that seems to apply across the board.<br /><br />On one family of accounts, intuitions are suspicions, opinions, judgments, or beliefs. On another, they are predispositions, tendencies making claims attractive to us, or the like. On another, they are appearances or perhaps rather the cognitive state of a subject when something appears to him or her -- in short, kinds of consciousness or perceptions. Take any or all of these. The question I think should be raised is: "How do we know what the content of our intuition is?"<br /><br />This is not, in itself, a skeptical question. But recognizing that <i>something is what one is actually intuiting</i> is distinct from simply intuiting it, in the same sense that recognizing that you are seeing such-and-such is different from seeing it, or that recognizing that you are hearing Chopin is different from hearing it. While what one intuits need not be oneself, recognizing that you are intuiting something (and thus that it is what you are intuiting) is a matter of self-knowledge. There are even more accounts of what self-knowledge is than there are of what intuition is, although not all of them need be mutually exclusive, since there are a number of reasons to think that self-knowledge is a rather large genus rather than an infima species. (I have in fact elsewhere suggested that this seems to be the case for what analytic philosophers call 'intuitions', as well -- that is, that there are actually lots of very different things that work very differently that get placed into the one box.) But we don't have to get into any of that; we simply wish to raise a few questions in light of it. Three immediately come to mind.<br /><br />(1) <i>Is it possible to intuit something and not recognize that you are intuiting it?</i> There seems some reason for thinking so. For instance, one might think that we are constantly intuiting things but that we often don't recognize that we are doing so unless we stop to reflect or introspect on what we are doing. After all, we don't spend our lives going around identifying this as an intuition, that as an intuition; we just go about our lives, and occasionally think about intuitions as such.<br /><br />(2) <i>Is it possible to think you are intuiting something and not actually be intuiting anything?</i> Can the appearance of intuitiveness be mimicked by something else? Is it sometimes the case that what we think we intuit we are actually imposing on ourselves (perhaps under social pressure, or distraction, or hastiness, or some such) rather than really intuiting? For instance, at least some of the intuition pumps in Dennett's "Quining Qualia" could be adapted to suggest this possibility for intuitions.<br /><br />(3) <i>Is it possible to think you are intuiting something and be wrong about what you are actually intuiting?</i> Here is one possible reason to think so: philosophers appealing to intuitions sometimes seem to suggest that what they are doing is making obscure intuitions more clear. But if intuitions can be obscure, or need to be made more clear, it seems that there is a possibility of jumping to conclusions about what they are before you've actually done the work of making them more clear. And that seems to suggest that you can think you are intuiting something and not be right about what it is.<br /><br />In each case, the interesting thing is less whether one answers Yes or No than what one's reasons are and what those reasons imply about how one should proceed in appealing to intuitions. Whatever intuition might be, <i>appealing to intuitions</i> is a complex process: it requires intuiting, recognizing that you are intuiting and what you are intuiting, and making use of that recognition. Your account of intuitions does not automatically answer how you recognize the fact that <i>X is what you are intuiting</i>. Is our recognition here simply transparent and certain? Do we need to take steps to make sure that we are doing it correctly, and if so, what would they be? If we take a dispositional account of intuitions, recognizing your own dispositions is not always a simple or easy process. If we take intuitions to be more like beliefs, people do at least claim that such-and-such, although they thought they believed it at the time, was not what they really believed; what is more, people do seem at times to make false inferences about their own beliefs, by not thinking through those inferences properly. If intuitions are more like a kind of consciousness or perception, illusions are quite common for other kinds of consciousness or perception. Regardless of one's account of intuitions, there seems to be a gap here of some significance that needs an explicit bridge.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/the-nine-overcoming-isis/">The Nine: Overcoming ISIS</a></span>
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<p><strong>Earlier this year</strong>, I shared a video with you by a young Christian filmmaker named <a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/there-is-so-much-god-wants-to-say-to-this-generation-an-interview-with-michael-chang/" target="_blank">Michael Chang</a>. The video, entitled, “Who Would Dare to Love ISIS?”, was an incredibly moving glimpse into the mind of authentic Christian love as directed to the men are perpetrating unspeakable atrocities in the Islamic State. The kind of love that desires conversion, and promises the forgiveness of Christ’s passion and death, even for such horrific sins. If you haven’t seen it, here it is:</p>
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<p>Chang, through his production company, <a href="http://mighty.la/" target="_blank">Mighty.la</a>, has just released a new video. This time, he brings us moving interviews with nine refugees from the city of Mosul, who recount their experiences in the days before and after their city fell. Together, they recount how ISIS soldiers took from them everything they have – in some cases forcing them to choose between conversion to Islam or death.</p>
<p>Amidst their heartbreaking stories, they have a surprising message for the members of ISIS. This is a powerful video you won’t want to miss:</p>
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<p>Here at 1P5, we’ve taken a strong stance that love alone is not the answer to militant Islam, and that nonviolent resistance to Islamic expansion will lead to dhimmitude. But even in cases where the taking up of arms is justified, love is nonetheless a necessary component of our response – the love first of Christ, and of His cross, but also of our enemies as He commanded. The kind of love that desires the salvation of all souls, even those who hurt us the most. And in situations where fighting back isn’t an option, this kind of love may be the only witness we have. As Tertullian famous observed, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”</p>
<p>This is a hard example to follow, but Christ showed us the way.</p>
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<p><img src="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/size340/More_than_10000_people_assembled_at_Dil_ireann_Dec_4_2012_to_tell_Fine_Gael_and_Enda_Kenny_to_keep_their_pro_life_promise_Credit_Youth_Defence_CNA_12_1_15.jpg" /><p>Belfast, UK, Dec 2, 2015 / 06:02 am (<a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com" target="_self">CNA/EWTN News</a>).- Irish pro-life advocates have said Monday's Northern Ireland court decision against abortion restrictions wrongly ignored the lives of the unborn in the name of fighting human rights violations.<br />
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“I’m deeply disappointed by the decision of the High Court,” Michael Kelly, editor of the Dublin-based newspaper The Irish Catholic, told CNA Dec. 1. “I believe the High Court to be profoundly wrong in side-stepping the inescapable fact that abortion ends the life of an innocent child.”<br />
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Kelly rejected claims that change in the law would be limited to certain circumstances.<br />
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“International experience shows that there is no such thing as limited abortion: once the principle is conceded that it can ever be justified to target the innocent unborn child in the womb for death, wider access to abortion is inevitable.”<br />
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Justice Mark Horne of Northern Ireland’s High Court on Nov. 30 ruled that the lack of exceptions in Northern Ireland abortion law violates women’s rights under Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights. He said exceptions should be made in cases of fatal fetal abnormality at any time during pregnancy, and also in cases of pregnancy as the result of sexual crime up until the time when the unborn baby can live independently of his or her mother.<br />
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He said a woman “has to face all the dangers and problems, emotional or otherwise, of carrying a fetus for which she bears no moral responsibility and is merely a receptacle to carry the child of a rapist and/or a person who has committed incest, or both” and that enforcement of the anti-abortion law “completely ignores the personal circumstances of the victim.”<br />
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Horne said that when the unborn baby suffers from abnormalities that will be fatal, “there is no life to protect.”<br />
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“There is nothing to weigh in the balance,” the justice added. “When the fetus leaves the womb, it cannot survive independently. It is doomed.”<br />
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Niamh Uí Bhriain of the pro-life Life Institute said the ruling was “deeply flawed and discriminatory.” She particularly objected to its treatment of unborn babies with disabilities.<br />
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“It is extraordinary to see a High Court judge use such cruel and thoughtless language which will have been enormously hurtful to the majority of parents who carry their sick babies to term and who cherish every moment with their babies, most of whom do live beyond birth,” she said Nov. 30.<br />
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Uí Bhriain said she hoped the ruling would be appealed as soon as possible.<br />
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Northern Ireland’s Catholic bishops, headed by Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, said it was “profoundly disquieting” that the court weighed one life against another. They said that unborn children are persons and the decision does not change “our duty to respect and protect their right to life.”<br />
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“Our day to day pastoral experience teaches us that even in the hardest of hard cases society cannot forget that human life is sacred and always deserving of our utmost protection, compassion and care. The Catholic Church teaches that the duty to care for and protect human life extends equally to a mother and her unborn child in all circumstances,” said the bishops’ Nov. 30 statement.<br />
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The bishops cited Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato si', in which he stressed the need to protect human life at its earliest stages. The Pope warned that the loss of sensitivity towards accepting a new life means “other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away.”<br />
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Kelly said the court’s ruling for a right to abortion in the case where the child has been conceived in a crime “takes no account of the fact that abortion means that an innocent child, who played no part in the crime that led to his or her conception, will be killed.” He said such an act would be “further compounding the injustice of the terrible crime of rape.”<br />
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He reflected on the overall political climate of the decision.<br />
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“Northern Ireland is one of the last places in the western world to resist the push for widespread availability of abortion. It’s no surprise that the region comes under immense pressure from a coalition of so-called human rights groups and pro-choice advocacy organizations (generally funded from overseas).”<br />
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“They will have a fight on their hands: amidst decades of sectarian strife, one of the few things that united the vast majority people of Northern Ireland was a revulsion for abortion. Similarly, many politicians are unshakable in their pro-life credentials,” he said.<br />
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The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission had brought the case to the court.<br />
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Les Allamby, the body’s chief commissioner, said the result is “historic” and “will be welcomed by many of the vulnerable women and girls who have been faced with these situations.”<br />
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The Northern Ireland Assembly has been consistent in opposition to laws that permit abortion, according to Kelly. He said the Human Rights Commission bypassed these institutions.<br />
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“This seems like an extreme act of legal activism,” he said of the High Court ruling. “I find it extraordinary that the case to liberalize the law on abortion in Northern Ireland was brought by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, a body set up by the peace treaty of 1998 which brought an end 30 years of sectarian conflict and violence.”<br />
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“It seems perverse that a body set up to defend and vindicate human rights actually took a case to the High Court asking that the inalienable right to life of the most vulnerable, children in the womb, be removed from the safety of legal protection.”<br />
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I gasped when after the elevation of the Body and then again at the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, he bowed and did not genuflect. Okay, maybe he has a physical problem. Yet, he did it again and again. Then we saw him, that first regrettable Holy Thursday, grovel on the floor to wash the feet of laity, Catholic and heathen, male and female.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gau0VHt6y2E/Vl3dqy2qYcI/AAAAAAAAAqM/iZxvxOgfUfc/s1600/12313633_878293232291555_7178668261091803658_n.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span></span></a><span>Yet, he bows before Jewish leaders. He bows before Schismatic Patriarchs, he now has bowed to the Kabah in Mecca.</span><br /><span><br /></span><a href="" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span><img alt="Image result for pope francis washes feet" border="0" height="142" 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style="cursor: move;" width="200" /></span></a><a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfuk144QM23L9SFRXtICw1NgrPjCWy6K8WVfyMrVPverhrZpo9" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><img alt="Image result for pope francis bows to jew" border="0" height="133" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfuk144QM23L9SFRXtICw1NgrPjCWy6K8WVfyMrVPverhrZpo9" width="200" /></span></a><span><a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/12/bergoglio-man-who-never-kneels-before.html">Antonio Socci now reveals, as published at Rorate</a>, that he did not kneel in prayer as customary upon the opening of the Holy Door whilst in Africa. We note that in his frailty and pain a few years before his death, John Paul II did kneel and did genuflect. He humbly submitted himself to be assisted in this process by those around him. </span><br /><span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">What can we draw from this?</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">Why does the Bishop of Rome acknowledge the Real Presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ, "'tis God, the very God" in the same way as he acknowledges men or the false god of Mahomet or bows before sodomitical and homosexualist advocating priests or to in a questionable "charismatic" charade that borders on protestantism?</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSwKxDQvsTmgE7Se0GHEsk6uhAY_iRq42VnfYioR5FBbFRta1vv" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for pope bows at mass" border="0" height="133" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSwKxDQvsTmgE7Se0GHEsk6uhAY_iRq42VnfYioR5FBbFRta1vv" width="200" /></a><span>This is not a matter of "hating the Pope" or "hating Francis." I don't hate the Pope, I don't hate Jorge Bergoglio. I hate what he is doing. I hate that he does not speak with clarity but confusion. I hate that he gives credence to heresiarchs and condemns faithful Catholics as "fundamentalist" as if that is a bad thing which it must be because he says they are "evil." I hate his insults and what appears to be an embarrassment of all things Catholic. I detest his actions in every one of those pictures, the bowing before men in some false humility. I despise his failure to genuflect after the elevation giving adoration and acknowledgement to the Lord's Presence. As with the dispensing of rubrics on Holy Thursday, what kind of example does that set? </span><br /><span><br /></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MZycxeupWs8/U6eSKjB-KfI/AAAAAAAAO_k/MttaTabi1Ao/s1600/Papst-Franziskus-bei-der-Charismatischen-Erneuerung-300x210.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="140" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MZycxeupWs8/U6eSKjB-KfI/AAAAAAAAO_k/MttaTabi1Ao/s200/Papst-Franziskus-bei-der-Charismatischen-Erneuerung-300x210.jpg" width="200" /></a><span>Clearly, there is no problem with his ability to kneel and bow as can be seen with these pictures.</span><br /><span><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">He may call me a "calumniator" but as the then, not Saint, Peter Damian called out the corruption of his day, even in letters to the Pope himself, we must do the same. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">To say that as laymen and laywoman we have no right to speak up and express our concerns is a clericalist lie.</span>
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<p>Mimnermus, fragment 1 (tr. Douglas E. Gerber): <br /><blockquote>What life is there, what pleasure without golden Aphrodite? May I die when I no longer care about secret intrigues, persuasive gifts, and the bed, those blossoms of youth that men and women find alluring. But when painful old age comes on, which makes even a handsome man ugly, grievous cares wear away his heart and he derives no joy from looking upon the sunlight; he is hateful to boys and women hold him in no honour. So harsh has the god made old age.</blockquote>The same (tr. M.L. West): <br /><blockquote>What's life, what's joy, without love's heavenly gold?<br /> I hope I die when I no longer care<br />for secret closeness, tender favours, bed,<br /> which are the rapturous flowers that grace youth's prime<br />for men and women. But when painful age<br /> comes on, that makes a man loathsome and vile,<br />malignant troubles ever vex his heart;<br /> seeing the sunlight gives him joy no more.<br />He is abhorred by boys, by women scorned;<br /> so hard a thing God made old age to be.</blockquote>The Greek:<br /><blockquote><span>τίς δὲ βίος, τί δὲ τερπνὸν ἄτερ χρυσέης Ἀφροδίτης;<br /> τεθναίην, ὅτε μοι μηκέτι ταῦτα μέλοι,<br />κρυπταδίη φιλότης καὶ μείλιχα δῶρα καὶ εὐνή,<br /> οἷ᾿ ἥβης ἄνθεα γίνεται ἁρπαλέα<br />ἀνδράσιν ἠδὲ γυναιξίν· ἐπεὶ δ᾿ ὀδυνηρὸν ἐπέλθῃ 5<br /> γῆρας, ὅ τ᾿ αἰσχρὸν ὅμως καὶ καλὸν ἄνδρα τιθεῖ,<br />αἰεί μιν φρένας ἀμφὶ κακαὶ τείρουσι μέριμναι,<br /> οὐδ᾿ αὐγὰς προσορέων τέρπεται ἠελίου,<br />ἀλλ᾿ ἐχθρὸς μὲν παισίν, ἀτίμαστος δὲ γυναιξίν·<br /> οὕτως ἀργαλέον γῆρας ἔθηκε θεός. 10</span><br /><br />4 <span>οἷ᾿</span> Ahrens: <span>οἱ</span> vel <span>εἰ</span> codd.<br />6 <span>καλὸν</span> codd.: <span>κακὸν</span> Hermann<br />7 <span>αἰεί μιν</span> Bergk: <span>ἀεὶ μὲν</span> codd.</blockquote>West adopts and translates Hermann's conjecture <span>κακὸν</span> for <span>καλὸν</span> in line 6; Gerber sticks with the reading of the manuscripts. David A. Campbell ad loc.: <br /><blockquote>[T]ranslations such as 'which puts the ugly and the handsome man in the same condition' and 'which makes even a handsome man ugly like the plain man' do violence to the meaning of the common expression <span>ὅμως καί</span>.</blockquote>I don't have access to Archibald Allen's commentary.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://katholon.de/2015/12/02/keine-toleranz-den-intoleranten-rezension/">Keine Toleranz den Intoleranten – Rezension</a></span>
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<p>Es gehört schon eine Portion Schneid dazu, den lebensfrohen Gourmand Chesterton und den hageren Dystopen Houellebecq in einen literarischen Diskurs zu bringen. Der Eintritt in das Buch ist gleich ein Kabinettstückchen. Man muß es selber lesen, um es genießen zu können. Es ist allerdings nur der schmackhafte Einstieg in eine nüchterne zuweilen trockene Analyse. Die Trockenheit bewahrt angesichts der emotional aufgeladenen Stimmung vor populistischen Schnellschüssen. Diese will der Autor ganz offensichtlich nicht und es gelingt ihm, sie zu vermeiden.</p>
<p>Schnell wird klar, daß der Autor anderes im Sinne hat, als die beiden oben genannten und alle weiteren als Zeugen gerufenen Geistesgrößen in einen literarischen Elfenbeinturm zu sperren. Es wird hart. Es geht um die Anschläge in Paris am 7. Januar 2015. Wann je könnte ein Buch, daß die Hintergründe dieser Anschläge durchleuchtet, aktueller sein, als wenige Wochen nach den erneuten Anschlägen vom 13. November 2015 in Paris. Denn letztendlich sind diese dem selben Biotop entwachsen. Alexander Kissler durchleuchtet die Genese der Attentate auf Charlie Hebdo und den jüdischen Supermarkt. Dabei scheut er sich nicht rechtfertigende Schnellschüsse schonungslos zu entlarven.</p>
<p>Auf diese Folie setzt er den zweiten Teil des Buches. Eine Bestimmung für den Begriff Toleranz. Diese stellt den abgesetzt von jeglicher Aktualität zeitüberdauernden Kern des Buches dar. Aktuelle Anlässe sind austauschbar, die geistesgeschichtlichen Hintergründe gelten universal.</p>
<p>Toleranz ist derzeit in aller Munde, aber wer weiß schon wirklich was dieses große Wort wirklich sagt. Voltaire, Locke und Cicero kommen zu Wort. Für den Toleranzbegriff findet sich kaum ein bessere Satz als dieser: Toleranz ist, …“wenn wir uns wechselseitig unsere Dummheiten verzeihen“(S.55).</p>
<p>Toleranz, das kann die Quintessenz des Lesers sein, ist eben nicht eine billige Duldung. Toleranz verlangt zwingend die klare Abgrenzung von nicht tolerierbarem.<br />
Ein dritter Teil des Buches geht in die praktische der Bedeutung von Toleranz für eine freiheitliche Gesellschaft. Dazu bringt der Autor gedanklich den Westen und den Islam in einen Diskurs. Der Islam und der Westen stehen einander fremd gegenüber. So banal wie der Satz klingt, so fundamental ist dessen Bedeutung. Kissler untersucht die Unterschiede.</p>
<p>Wie ein roter Faden zieht sich der Naturrechtsbegriff durch das Buch. Der Westen, so die These ist aus dem Naturrecht geboren. Wo kein Naturrecht mehr ist, ist auch kein Westen mehr. Es lohnt sich diesen Gedanken des Autors nachzugehen und auf unsere gegenwärtige Situation anzuwenden. Eine Abgrenzung zwischen Naturrecht und einem islamischen Verständnis von Naturrecht macht viele gegenwärtige Konflikte verständlich.</p>
<p>„Keine Toleranz den Intoleranten“ ist ein nachdenkliches Buch, das sich an sehr hart Fakten orientiert und Verurteilungen vermeidet, dabei das nüchterne Urteil dabei dennoch nicht scheut. Es ist ein Plädoyer für unsere Kultur und dafür, sie auch im Wettstreit zu erhalten. Die theoretischen Hintergründe werden im Laufe des Textes immer wieder mit ganz konkreten Beispielen untermauert. Das Buch ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zu einem besseren Verständnis der Grundlagen des islamistischen Terrors. Es ist eine Seh- und Argumentationshilfe für alle, die nicht glauben wollen, man könne das Problem aussitzen oder gar mit Plattitüden abtun. Die Konfrontation zwischen dem Denken in westlicher, d.h. abendländischer Tradition und dem Denken der islamischen Welt ist unausweichlich. Die Gefahr wird nicht kleiner, wenn man ihr mit Ignoranz oder Gleichgültigkeit begegnet. Es ist eine Warnung vor der Gefahr, mit einer falsch verstandenen Toleranz am Ende die Freiheit zu verlieren. Das ist eine virulente Gefahr. Allen Warnungen und Mahnungen, die das Buch enthält, zum Trotz: Alexander Kissler malt nicht schwarz. Der letzte Satz des Buches lautet: „Ich heiße mich hoffen.“</p>
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<p><strong>Alexander Kissler</strong><br />
<strong> Keine Toleranz den Intoleranten:</strong><br />
<strong> Warum der Westen seine Werte verteidigen muss</strong><br />
Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2015<br />
ISBN-10: 3579070983<br />
ISBN-13: 978-3579070988</p>
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<p>Moments after landing in Rome's Ciampino Airport Monday evening, Pope Francis traveled to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore to offer thanks for the success of his trip to Africa, which ended the same day. This visit marked the Holy Father's 28th visit to the Marian Basilica since his election.
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2015/12/trinity-betrays-women-ah-trinity-to-be.html">#Trinity-Betrays-Women: Ah Trinity, to be named for the Holy Trinity and to be such a Judas!</a></span>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E3AbNllIVPA/Vl5vVPOJpSI/AAAAAAAALg8/_WJ5MGFhN10/s1600/trinity.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E3AbNllIVPA/Vl5vVPOJpSI/AAAAAAAALg8/_WJ5MGFhN10/s200/trinity.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>I graduated from Trinity College (now Trinity University) in 1968. Nancy Pelosi was about six years ahead of me. Even then Trinity was losing her Catholic identity. But today I received <a href="http://www.tfpstudentaction.org/planned-parenthood-trinity-washington.html">a petition from TFP Student Action </a>saying Trinity promotes Planned Parenthood on the university website as a "resource." I always check things out so I went and looked.<a href="http://www.trinitydc.edu/health/links-resources/"> Here's the page</a>. Don't you know, killing babies and selling plugs and drugs to fornicating students (all in violation of Catholic Church teaching) contributes to women's health? Tell that to all the post aborted women who are <a href="http://silentnomoreawareness.org/">"silent no more."</a><br /><a name="more"></a><br />This was certainly no surprise to me. I've been pointing out Trinity scandals for years in the Les Femmes newsletter and on my blog. (See <a href="http://www.lesfemmes-thetruth.org/v15_1_trinity_mcguire.htm">here</a> and <a href="http://www.lesfemmes-thetruth.org/v15_2postoffice.htm">here</a> and <a href="http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2010/08/trinity-and-richard-rohr-union-of.html">here</a> and <a href="http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.com/2009/04/sibelius-confirmed-65-31-trinity-grad.html">here.)</a><br /><br />I take no pleasure in Trinity's betrayal. In fact, it grieves my heart. My mom graduated from Trinity in 1939. How she loved the school! It was her greatest hope to have a daughter follow in her footsteps and study under the red-roof. When I told her several years after graduation the scandal I experienced at Trinity she was shocked.<br /><br />I left Trinity and left the Church. After all, in moral theology I learned how irrelevant the Church was. Joseph Fletcher and Harvey Cox had the answers not Jesus Christ. Yes, I'm ashamed to say, I swallowed the Kool-Aid for a time; I was young, gullible, and thought everyone in a position of authority was telling you the truth. But the betrayal I experienced at Trinity just made me more zealous when I returned to the faith. And when our own kids were scandalized in Catholic high schools, I was on-the-spot fighting with their teachers and the principal.<br /><br />I hope you'll sign the petition and pass this on with the hashtag #Trinity-Betrays-Women. They need to be exposed. Catholic parents considering Trinity for their daughters especially need to know that the school is no more Catholic than the local Planned Parenthood they support.
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NUhsI9ysFxI/Vl7X3DDH_7I/AAAAAAAACFM/wxru_CO7ZVk/s1600/swingshoe.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NUhsI9ysFxI/Vl7X3DDH_7I/AAAAAAAACFM/wxru_CO7ZVk/s320/swingshoe.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Today is Artistic Wednesday, and I must praise the committee of the Edinburgh swing-dance society I fled earlier this autumn. Depressed by the snobbishness of the society, particularly the evil LEADS, I decided not to spend another penny of household income in lessons and workshops. As regular readers will recall, I was late in dropping out of the last workshop, so I got a nasty phone call from a male stranger.<br /><br />Now, this next part is genius. This is how you win friends and influence people.<br /><br />Feeling irate, I emailed the committee to tell them that I had had an angry phone call from a member of their team and please take me off their list.<br /><br />The committee emailed back to say they were really sorry and the individual responsible would no longer be on the team. They hoped I would come back as I was a valued member of the society. I recognized two of the three names signed to the bottom of this email, and I remembered that they are friendly women, one particularly cheerful and kind.<br /><br />I was a bit taken aback that the chap was leaving the team (surely not because of my email?), and I giggled at the idea that I was a valued member of the society. Although if I have learned anything from the Leads, it is that I am <i>not </i>a valued member of the society, I felt flattered all the same.<br /><br />So I wrote back to thank the committee for their email and to explain why I was not coming back. I had met many great women, and a few nice men, but the power imbalance between the Leads and the Followers, exacerbated by the local habit of women asking men to dance, was just too much. Also nothing marginalizes Beginners more than group dances like the Shim Sham, which are never taught, for we have to stand back looking on wistfully while the Advanced folk take to the floor.<br /><br />(I learned all the power imbalance and marginalization lingo at theology school, and it is <i>very</i> useful for talking to university students.)<br /><br />I expected nothing but a cold silence, for who was I to tell them how to run their society, eh? But to my amazement, I received ANOTHER email from the society telling me that I was right about the power imbalance, and how they had come up with a Code of Etiquette in which to train up new Leads, and as there would be a workshop on the group dances this coming week, they were inviting me to attend for free.<br /><br />At this point I thought, <i>Holy guacamole. Maybe I </i><b>am</b><i> a valued member of the society! </i><br /><br />So I wrote back to tell them that I would take them up on their invitation and, what's more, throw in the £3 for the social dance. There are, after all, two or three chaps there that I enjoy dancing with, and sometimes a fellow Canadian turns up who is happy to talk to anyone.<br /><br />Of course, I am not convinced that I want to go back to spending my Wednesday nights smiling away and saying "Oh, good job" to a pack of male dance snobs. However, I must admit that the committee really care about winning and keeping new members in their society. And that you really do catch more disgruntled flies with honey than with vinegar.
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<p>A continuing education course in Christian legal ethics co-sponsored by St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio will be denied future accreditation for being too religious if the decision of a State Bar of Texas committee is allowed to stand, shutting off the University from offering continuing education for attorneys and denying Catholic lawyers their First Amendment rights, St. Mary’s law professor Bill Piatt told The Cardinal Newman Society.
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An appeal of the committee’s actions that Piatt shared with the Newman Society states that the decision “unlawfully serves to create a chilling effect upon the First Amendment rights to speak, associate, and freely exercise religion in that it deters anyone who might even think about attending, presenting or organizing any future CLE dealing with topics of morality and religion.”<p><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/4525/Texas-State-Bar-Demands-Secularization-of-Legal-Ethics-Training-Held-at-Catholic-Law-School.aspx">More...</a></p>
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<p>'We praise the Lord together for this pilgrimage in Africa, and let us be guided by its key words: 'Be strong in faith, do not be afraid'; 'You will be my witnesses'; 'Let us cross to the other side.'"
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.dominicanajournal.org/merciful-truth/">Merciful Truth</a></span>
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<p>The truth about ourselves can be difficult to handle. We are reluctant to spend time alone in silence with ourselves and often go to great lengths to avoid it. We become busy—sometimes wasting time, other times with worthwhile activities—and we avoid allowing ourselves to come to rest. Unfortunately, we are not alone in this great […]
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<p> Die online-Zeitung <b>"La Fede Quotidiana</b>" hat mit <b>Vittorio Messori </b>ein Gespräch über die aktuelle Lage der Kirche geführt. Wir haben es bei "<b>Benoît XVI-et-moi"</b> gefunden, merci!<br />Hier geht´s zum Original: <b><a href="http://www.lafedequotidiana.it/per-vittorio-messori-certe-parole-del-papa-possono-essere-fraintese-da-persone-non-vicine-alla-chiesa/"> klicken</a></b><br /><br /><br />"Seit einiger Zeit hat sich der berühmte katholische Schriftsteller und Journalist Vittorio Messori Schweigen zu Fragen über Kirche und Papst auferlegt. " Eine Entscheidung aus Verantwortung" sagt er. Dennoch wollte er mit uns über den Sinn der Apologetik, den Proselytismus und sogar über die Raben im Vatican sprechen, einige Spitzen die er von Zeit zu Zeit formuliert, zeigen, daß Messori ein gewisses Unbehagen verspürt.<br /><br /><b>"BESTIMMTE WORTE DES PAPSTES" KÖNNEN VON MENSCHEN, DIE DER KIRCHE NICHT NAHE STEHEN, FALSCH VERSTANDEN WERDEN"</b><br /><div><br /></div><b>Frage</b>: "Herr Messori, brauchen wir heute eine Apologetik?"<br /><b>Messori:</b> Sicher, wir haben das Bedürfnis danach nie so dringend gespürt wie heute. Erinnern Sie sich daran, daß der erste große Apologet der Geschichte unser Herr war. Nicht gerade wirklich irgendjemand.<br />Ich denke da an die Episode mit den Jüngern von Emmaus, wie sie müde und enttäuscht, entmutigt und vielleicht sogar verzweifelt zurück kamen. Jesus erscheint ihnen und erklärt ihnen den Sinn der Schrift, das tut er leidenschaftlich, aber auch mit einer gewissen Sanftheit. Ist das keine Apologetik? Als Konsequenz daraus - daß der Herr der erste Apologet war - denke ich, daß dieser.... sehr sehr wichtig ist und gestärkt und nicht geschwächt werden sollte."<br /><br /><b>"Warum scheint dann die Apologetik heute außer Gebrauch zu sein?</b><br /><br /><b>Messori:</b> "Sie stellen mir eine interessante Frage. Hier eine erste Antwort. Eine falsche Idee von einem "erwachsenen Katholizismus" läßt die Apologetik als etwas Geringes erscheinen, eine alte, überholte Sache. Das ist ein schwerer Fehler der Perspektive. Man muß sich auch daran erinnern, daß die Apologetik besonders vor dem II. Vaticanischen Konzil - einige Repräsentanten mit zu lauten oder kreuzzüglerischen Tönen und einer gewissen kulturellen Ausrichtung hatte.<br />Der wahre Apologet muß in sich Kompetenz und wissenschaftliche Stärke vereinen, gleichzeitig Heiterkeit, ohne sich in Religionskriege zu verstricken. Er muß immer Glauben und Vernunft vereinen, die keine entgegengesetzten Entitäten sind. Die Wahrheit kann und muß mit einem Lächeln ausgesprochen werden."<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><b>"Papst Franziskus bekräftigt, daß der Christ keine Proselyten machen soll. Sind Sie einverstanden?"</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>Messori:</b> "Ich verstehe, was der Papst sagen will und bin einverstanden wenn man unter Proselytismus diese Vertreter versteht, die mit ihrem Waren-Köfferchen kommen, aufdringlich und voller Eifer. Man kommt nicht voran, wenn man eine Idee gewaltsam aufzwingen will, absolut nicht. Man muß sich immer der Tatsache bewußt sein, daß der Christ - weil das Evangelium es ihm sagt - die Pflicht zum Apostolat hat, und daß sich deshalb niemand, der sich Christ nennt, davon losmachen kann.<br />Es besteht das Risiko einer schlechten Interpretation der Worte des Papstes. In einer Zeit, wo sogar die Anwesenheit bei der Sonntagsmesse in der Krise ist, könnte die Tatsache, den Papst sagen zu hören "Schluß mit dem Proselytismus", oder der manchmal sogar einen Vorwurf aus dem Besuch der Sonntagsmesse - wie er es in Santa Marta sagte - zu machen scheint, einige falsche Eindrücke bei den Leuten erweckt, die schlecht informiert sind oder der Kirche nicht nahe stehen." <br /><br /><b>"Glauben Sie, daß das Konzept der "Sozialen Kirche" falsch interpretiert wird?" </b><br /><b><br /></b><b>Messori: </b>"Ich bemerke tatsächlich - bei Straßenpriestern einen Exzess der sogenannten sozialen Kirche, die dem Populismus und Pauperismus zugeneigt und manchmal selbst Demagogie ist. Das ist eine Folge einer gewissen marxistischen Verschmutzung der gegenwärtigen Kirche, das führt dann dazu, <b>daß man nicht über Gott sondern viele andere Werte - die der Wirtschaft - spricht, </b>und so eine diabolische Vision des Lebens gibt. Wir stehen unter dem Einfluss der Befreiungstheologie und wir kennen Zahl und Natur der negativen Dinge, die sie lebt und gelebt hat. Um zu verstehen, wie man da wieder herauskommen kann, lese man die alten sozialen Heiligen."<br /><br /><b>"Warum?"</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>Messori:</b> "Nehmen wir z.B. - ich bin Piemonteser - das Leben des Hl. Giovanni Bosco. Unbestreitbar gehörte zu seinen Prioritäten Arbeit, Berufsbildung und Soziales. Den wahren Primat aber hatte das Gebet.<br />Heute erleben wir den gegenteiligen Standpunkt: keine Erholung, weniger Gebet, und die Abnahme des Gefühls für das Heilige. Die erste und wirkliche Dringlichkeit ist die des Gebets und die, Gott wieder ins Zentrum des Lebens zu stellen."<br /><b><br /></b><b>"Die Raben-Affäre im Vatican: diese beiden Bücher, mußte man die - wie ein bekannter Jorunalist sagt - schreiben?"</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>Messori: "</b>Ich denke, dass diese beiden Publikationen das Resultat einer einfachen und reinen Dosis von Zynismus sind und auch wirtschaftlicher verlegerischer Interessen. Es ist in keiner Weise wahr- wie man uns glauben machen möchte - daß sie ein moralisches Ziel haben. <b>Ein Journalist muß nicht immer alles veröffentlichen, was er hat. Es gibt ein Verantwortungsbewußtsein bei der Berechnung der Wirkung und bei der Wertung sowohl der Nachricht als auch der Art wie sie erlangt wurde. </b><br />Ich habe also viele Bedenken - sowohl zum Inhalt als auch zur Methode. Das vorausgesetzt, sage ich - und wiederhole das - wenn die wiedergegebenen Fakten wahr sind, muß die Institution Kirche ernsthaft nachdenken und sich einer vertieften Gewissensprüfung unterziehen."<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Quelle: "La Fede Quotidiana, V. Messori, Benoît XVI-et-moi</span>
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<p>Below are the reflections of Fr Daniel Fitzpatrick, Rector of the Pontifical Scots College in Rome on ' Celebrating St. Andrew, Scotland in Rome.'
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<p>Sadly, I could not attend Mass, as I still have a foot injury, but the Maltese, especially in Valletta and San Gwann today celebrate Our Lady of Joy, or Our Lady of Liesse.</p>
<p>Sometimes, Our Lady is called Cause of our Joy. Three Knights of Malta saved the statue in Egypt from the Muslims and brought it to France. But, the Maltese celebrate it here as in parts of France, especially in Soissons, where the statue is now. St. John Baptiste de la Salle had a great love of Mary under this title and had his original members of his order renew there vows in her church in Soissons.</p>
<p>Here is the prayer today from the Knights of Malta prayer book.</p>
<p><em>O God, who brought joy to the world by the Incarnation of Christ your Son, grant to us, who honour his Mother as Cause of our Joy, the grace to follow your commandments and to set our hearts on the true joys of heaven. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.</em></p>
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<p>There are some things we see most clearly through tears or after we have wept, and often the mercy shown us enables us to recognize what formerly was dim or distant. Mary Magdalene sees the Risen Christ through her tears, (…)</p><p><a href="http://www.ibenedictines.org/2015/12/02/mercy-and-tears/">Read the rest of this entry »</a></p><img alt="" height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Ibenedictines/~4/2_rDIrknUzU" width="1" />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y87so9HzGyY/Vl6k_zcE9MI/AAAAAAAANws/miXzQz5XMAQ/s1600/gatling-gun-H.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y87so9HzGyY/Vl6k_zcE9MI/AAAAAAAANws/miXzQz5XMAQ/s320/gatling-gun-H.jpeg" /></a></div>One of my favourite Flanders and Swann songs is The First and Second Law. Have no fear. If, like me, you would rather be listening to Flanders and Swann than reading this, I will provide the thing embedded at the end of the post. The song is a witty rendering of the first and second law of thermodynamics, all set to a jazzy beat. It's the way I like my physics anyway.<br /><br />But this law sets me in mind of another 'law' that current events seem to illustrate with increasingly alarming frequency, and it is this: <br /><br /><i>the more frequent the incidences of folly, the less reaction time there is before another incidence occurs. </i><br /><br />You just notice one act of folly, and before you can think through all the consequences, here comes another one (two, three?). I'm sure Paul Virilio would tell us that such are the laws of speed in a dromological world - a world whose principal characteristic has become acceleration. That helps us but not very much. It only tells us what to expect next: yet more incidences of folly with ever-decreasing increments of time between them. <br /><br />*************<br /><br />I am not going to spoil the start of Advent with reflecting at length on the latest <a href="http://www.romereports.com/2015/11/30/full-text-of-the-pope-s-press-conference-aboard-the-papal-plane#.Vly80Gzi4HI.twitter">foot-in-mouth remarks of the Sovereign Pontiff.</a> Fundamentalists like me are full of meanness anyway, so it would not count. <br /><br />But, you know who I feel sorry for? I have to suppose for a moment that there are on the ground in Africa priests, brothers and sisters who have been fighting off pressure to get with the condom distribution schemes. Of course there might not be. For all I know all such people might have caved in years ago. But just supposing such people are out there, daily struggling with the mess, under pressure to abandon the Church's line, fully aware of the moral turpitude which has accompanied the devastating spread of the disease on the continent, conscious of the leverage that such a change would give to the Church's enemies or its false friends, what do you think those people felt when they learned they had been effectively "refusing to heal" on a Saturday? Let us hope they have not the time to read the news. UPDATE Is this a hard reading of what the pope said? I took his remarks on the topic to be a clear concession to the pro-condom agenda, not least because he says that the problems to be fixed are firstly the physical ones. But what does the pope really mean in the end? As ever with Pope Francis, he is as clear as mud.<br /><br />************<br /><br />I have actually spent most of the last few weeks - when not engaged in my usual duties of shovelling Olympic quantities of excreta and pretending to be Superman - trying to get my head around the attacks in Paris. The place where I work announced a minute's silence for the victims of the shootings on the Monday following the attacks. The boss was then inundated with emails asking why similar minutes of silence had not been organised to honour the memory of those who died in Beiruit on the Thursday before or in Kenya on the Saturday. <br /><br />*Sigh*. As I say, the incidences of folly just seem to multiply exponentially by the week. And our ability to fend them off, to take stock and reflect, is accordingly diminished. <br /><br />The machine gun changed warfare for good. An advancing battalion could now be cut down in a matter of seconds, rather than after hours of bloody fighting. Curiously, Richard Gatling who invented one of the first efficient models of this kind of weapon, believed that it would reduce the size of armies because not so many soldiers would be needed to fight. That's what I call offensive thinking. The defensive reality is that it reduced the size of armies by sending soldiers to meet their Maker sooner than expected. The savings in wages surely paid for the guns and the arms broker's bonus at the same time!<br /><br /><i>Whatever happens, we have got<br />The Gatling gun, and they have not</i><br /><br />as I believe Belloc wrote. But my point here is that today we face a kind of information weapon than rains down its bullets of stupidity on us. It's not like being taken down by a sniper, robbed of our senses by a dum dum bullet to the brain. The information machine gun just rips through our guts. Remember you used to have a heart there? Yes, what happened to that? And the spleen, the spleen! <br /><br />News story after news story after news story. We cannot process it all. We should not try to. Maybe the first tactic for reducing the effectiveness of the information machine gun is to refuse to break cover and give it what it wants: our attention. <br /><br />I'm amused by the number of pieces I read these days of people going on a digital detox: staying away from the internet for a month at a time just to recover some mental balance. Well, of course that is a slightly different problem. But the effect is the same. Mental imbalance and moral folly sometimes follow hard on each other, as Lady Macbeth could attest. <br /><br />**************<br /><br />A last word here - since this is becoming a digest of recent unrecorded reflections - about Islam and Jihad. I might write about Islam at some point, but I'm struggling at the moment with how much there is to know and how little I currently know. This is a two-pronged task. It involves not only studying what Islam was meant to be originally, but also what Islam has become in the concrete. There is the Islam of essences and the Islam of history, and they are by no means identical. Not all its contradictions can be resolved as an inflection of Islamic belief. Mix any religion with a cocktail of accelerating events, multiple political agendas and lone wolf loonies, and you have a recipe for confusion. There is some metaphysical link between multiplicity and deceit, or at least multiplicity and error. Yet another reason not to blog too often, eh? There is the old saying: <br /><br /><i>Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.</i> <br /><br />which Sir Humphrey Appleby, an old friend of this blog, translates brilliantly as:<br /><br /><i>If you'd have kept your mouth shut, we might have thought you were clever.</i><br /><br />One for all of us to reflect on, from lowly bloggers to Sovereign Pontiffs. <br /><br /><br />***********<br /><br />Meanwhile, I promised you a bit of Flanders and Swann to finish, so here it is. <br /><br />
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<p>For years, I have wondered at my desert experiences, as one cannot learn everything at once from being in strange and isolated areas, without continuity or community.</p>
<p>Having experienced intense communal life four times in my life, I have desired this type of lifestyle, but this has been denied me.</p>
<p>One of the great gifts of communal living, as in Benedictine monasteries, is the Rule of discipline. But, another great gift is that of flexibility. What most Catholics do not recognize, not ever having been “in”, is the real joy of sharing space with others who are not family, but who are working for the same goal-union with Christ.</p>
<p>Within the Rule of St. Benedictine are both the hours, kept religiously, but also the call to be flexible. One’s superior may ask one to do something. Nothing is owned, and therefore, one does not “have” one’s own stuff or even space. To be flexible means dying to self, not having one’s own coffee mug, or one’s own type of bed, or one’s own taste in food or surroundings.</p>
<p>Flexibility is missing among so many Catholics that I understand why God has given me the lifestyle which He has done. I do not have to have “my things” in a certain place, or “my” space a certain way.</p>
<p>The lack of flexibility is a huge block to community living. Perhaps because I lived in community so young, joining at the age of 23, I grew into adulthood sharing with many people from many different backgrounds, but with the same goal.</p>
<p>One could not insist or take over a space, a place, even a chore. No one could claim even work as one’s own.</p>
<p>I find that a detriment to character building in so many people has been this lack of sharing space and things. Either a person has a tendency to “take-over” and be bossy, or one gives up, and joins in the community.</p>
<p>Families use to teach community living, but no longer do so, as there are so few large families, and, too many children grow up never having to share space or things. I did not have my own room until I was fifteen. That was normal in my sub-culture of large Catholic families.</p>
<p>One did not have one’s own phone, so one had to share, or one’s own car, or one’s own bathroom. Sharing was the common way of life, just as it is in a community of monks or nuns.</p>
<p>The cult of individualism has created a society of people who do not know how to share. Too much emphasis is on “privacy” which is not really solitude, as those in private may have their own phones, computers, and t.v.s</p>
<p>So, what has to do with being in the desert? The Desert Fathers, and even St. John the Baptist, learned to do with whatever they found in difficult situations. Building a hut might mean using mud, or rocks, or branches from whatever local flora could be found. One could not have one’s own idea of what one’s domicile was to be like. The same with bedding and the lack of, or food and the lack of.</p>
<p>Going without, not having set ideas of what one should or should not have truly creates spiritual detachment. If one can be detached from things, or space, one learns to rely totally on God and to give up one’s own ideas of comfort, or even of discomfort.</p>
<p>Living in a desert mode mans eating what is before one—not having choices; wearing what is given or what one just can get—not having choices; living in places which one may not prefer—not having choices.</p>
<p>The great danger of the rich and middle class is that those people never have to endure not having choices.</p>
<p>In the desert, there are few or no choices, as in the monastery or convent. One cannot choose the room with the view or the softest bed, and so on….</p>
<p>Desert choices are made by God. As the God of the Desert (see old blog on our God being the God of the Desert), Christ asks those whom He loves to follow Him alone, without baggage, without the little red wagon of stuff.</p>
<p>Detachment from self allows one to become detached from sin, and even the tendencies towards sin.</p>
<p>The more a person is in situations of non-choice, the more dies to self—the ego starves to death without choices. Do I what a living room with this or that color of paint? Forget it—in the desert one either does not have a living room, or the color of whatever is has to be accepted.</p>
<p>This example may sound silly, but too many Catholics have never died to self and have always been able to choose their diets, their decorations, their destinies.</p>
<p>God allows people to go their own way, choosing things which may not be His Choice.</p>
<p>A desert lifestyle means that one follows the God of the Desert into the solitude and loneliness of self-forgetfulness. To really live for God Alone, to really choose His Will, all other choices must be set aside.</p>
<p>That choice is the biggest one of all-will I follow God totally, depending on Him for everything, and that means every thing……?</p>
<p>And why? To kill that self which insists on his or her way daily means that one must give up choices.</p>
<p>When one gets married, one gives up all the other boyfriends or girlfriends one had. When one chooses Christ as the Bridegroom, one gives up all other loves and follows Him wherever He leads.</p>
<p>Whenever I am here in Malta, I am so grateful for my desert experiences. When I am faced with my nothingness and the necessary simplicity of life, I am most happy, truly peaceful.</p>
<p>And, surprise, surprise, when one gives it all up, God gives back even more, as God will not be outdone in generosity.</p>
<p>In a months, I shall be led somewhere else. I have no preconceived ideas of what God wants me to do, but pray and share the Gospel, and not preconceived ideas of where He shall lead me in this new desert experience. All I know, is that God has gone before me and is waiting for me wherever I go.</p>
<p>Yes, I love community. Long ago, a woman in my parish in England told me I was a community builder. I knew that. She also told me that I was one of those persons who could get settled somewhere quickly.</p>
<p>But, I knew the reasons why I could do both things, not only from natural gifts, but because I was, even in 1993, detached enough to be ready to hit the floor running in order to build God’s Kingdom on earth, and to be willing to leave it all if necessary.</p>
<p>Detachment and objectivity come from desert experiences.</p>
<p>“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God.” Detachment clears the brain, the soul, the body.</p>
<p>Someone recently asked me what I ate daily. I said “whatever” not always by choice, but by necessity.</p>
<p>Locusts and honey, the daily diet of St. John the Baptist, may seem boring to most people—the same thing everyday. But, when food is eaten for nourishment in order to do other things, when one can set aside one’s need for novelty and change, the interior life grows. As the outer person fades in desires of the flesh, the inner person grows stronger.</p>
<p>I write this on the edge of Europe. I write this on what I think is the edge of the end of the free world as we have known it for centuries. I write this on the edge of a possible world war, unthinkable, but now, almost inevitable.</p>
<p>Those who understand and have benefited from desert experiences will not only be able to cope with the coming turmoil, but will be able to help others do so.</p>
<p>To endure in order to pass on the Faith and help others keep the Faith will be the call of those who have had the desert experiences. Those who are attached to their ways, their space, their food, their things, their choices, will become dead souls, unable to be flexible in grace.</p>
<p>Garrrigou-Lagrange notes, and all these references to him are from <i>Providence, </i>that the gross cult of individualism has strangled charity. I had noted this on the old blog when referring to the fact that charity is not the duty of governments, firstly, but of individuals called to love their neighbor and the society for the <i>common good</i>. That there are at least two generations which have no concept of the common good, such an idea coming out of both communal conscientiousness or even national pride, means that the virtue of justice is not being practiced by individuals.</p>
<p>I was told by a man here that there are no homeless people in Malta. I have never seen any. The tramp I saw the other day has a place to live, even though he is poor. The community on the island of business The men make sure the homeless, mostly men, are housed, clothed and fed. These men even go out an get furniture for this people. This is all individuals helping individuals, not government offices. These men have taken on the responsibility of helping persons who have names and stories.</p>
<p>One of the great evils which satan orchestrated in our times, and Garrigou-Lagrange also points to this problem, has been the attack on the leader of the family, the husband, to the point where families fall apart, the community falls apart, and the common good is lost amidst chaos. Chaos is always from the evil one, always, and without leadership in the home and in the community, there will be chaos.</p>
<p>Chaos results because the goal of the common good, the goal of justice has been lost, and that is God. Garrigou-Lagrange notes that it is natural for man to want to love his Creator, his God. It is, according to Aquinas and explained by Garrigou-Lagrange, a basic, primordial need—worshiping and serving God. The second primordial movement of a persons’ soul is preservation of the species, of one’s self, of one’s family, of one’s people, of one’s country. This movement of the soul has also been lost through gross individualism and fear.</p>
<p>Fear has captured the hearts of several generations of men, who refuse to take responsibility for being protectors. Here is the problem.</p>
<p>Aquinas and Garrigou-Lagrange tell us that intelligence informs the soul, that intelligence, bringing about reflection, informs men to love God first, and love themselves and their neighbor next.</p>
<p>The middle and upper class idea of pushing charity onto governments is contrary to this type of intelligence informing the soul. What has happened is that men have not stopped and thought, slowed down and reflected, prayed and learned to discern.</p>
<p>Satan has purposefully complicated life by lying to us all about false happiness in the accumulation of things, or the seeking of status. Justice is a lower virtue than charity, but justice, too, has been ignored in the last several centuries of greed and that lack of personalism.</p>
<p>To love God is a desire and faculty of the will, a spiritual faculty informed by grace. Again, grace is necessary for the implementation of both justice and charity. Today, when we witness daily violence contrary to charity, a state of affairs about as far away from the spiritual faculty of the will to love God and neighbor. As Garrigou-Lagrange notes, there is not two kinds of charity moving out from the intelligence of reflection, but one, love of God and love of neighbor.</p>
<p>Sadly, we are now seeing many, many years of gross selfishness, which will destroy our way of life. The enemies on the outside have been added by the enemies on the inside-our own cult of greed and lust.</p>
<p>God has always answered times of evil with fierce correction and that is one reason for the coming persecution. Few are completely innocent of the evils of society, the sins of nations, which have ignored the inner need to worship and love God, and love neighbor.</p>
<p>The lack of flexibility results from this self-centered core of being which refuses to give in the natural call in each person to love God and the other, as well as the supernatural aid of grace.</p>
<p>Without sanctifying grace (although, of course, God is not limited by the sacraments), and without the sacramental life of the Church, without nations focusing on loving God first, we cannot expect even a type of secular humanism, as handed down by the Protestants since the Enlightenment. That just does not work and dissolves into the type of chaos we are witnessing daily.</p>
<p>Those in denial may be lost souls. I pray for those lost souls, who think that life will go on just the same as before, not seeing the signs of the times, not allowing God to create a flexible spirit, a soul responsive to grace.</p>
<p>One of the great crises of our times, of the Baby Boomers and following generations, has been the lack of love in families. Two of my friends have told me how their own siblings manipulated a dying parent to change a hefty will and give all to the manipulating person. Both of my friends were left with nothing out of estates worth millions, because of siblings lying, cheating, denying the love of family to the other. Can one imagine a clearer parable for our times? Siblings no longer love one another in God, may no longer love each other, are estranged, and follow the siren call of gross individualism so common in the West.</p>
<p>That both of my friends now live in poverty and their siblings in great wealth symbolizes to me the chaos satan has constructed to undermine family life. Too many men have become predators, even denying justice to their own sisters, rather than caring for them. That I have heard this story twice from two ladies who are now struggling to live in the direst poverty simply because one or two of their own siblings are greedy does not surprise me.</p>
<p>The family which use to protect the weak and vulnerable no longer does so in many cases.</p>
<p>No flexible grace, no ability to love neighbor, even sibling, and a squashing of the primordial desire to love result in a nightmare culture of death. Even the baby in the womb has been put on the altar of Mammon, sacrificed by comfort, money, greed.</p>
<p>Remember is one is not baptized, one is not an heir of heaven or a child of God, This is taught in our Faith. One cannot pretend that all men and women are in grace. More and more unbaptized people populate the earth. It is our duty to evangelize them, not only for their own salvation, but for the protection of our Catholic identity and the continuation of Western Civilization, founded on Christian principles.</p>
<p>Sadly, we have to admit, it is too late, and all we can do is arm ourselves with heroic virtue. This will be, as Maritain notes above, the norm of survival.</p>
<p>St. John the Baptist, the patron of this land, (with Mary of Malta, our Mother), went into the desert to fast and pray, to prepare for the coming of the Kingdom, to add to the perfection of his sinless state, being the only person is history cleansed from Original Sin while in the womb.</p>
<p>His perfection, honed to a such a high degree that Christ called him the greatest man who ever lived, the truly perfect saint and a great symbol for our times, was brought to a great state of unity with God in the desert.</p>
<p>Ask yourselves today whether you are in a desert. If not, ask God to take you into one, but be prepared for the answer to this prayer. Be prepared, like the Desert Fathers, to face one’s own sins, predominant fault, and to be purged of all that is not from God.</p>
<p>But, in these days, these are the kinds of people we need-Catholics who are willing to be desert people—denying themselves, or allowing God to deny them even basic needs. This will happen anyway.</p>
<p>Remember the words of St. Thomas More, when he saw the proto-martyrs of the Henrecian persecution, the great Charterhouse Carthusians, (see my old blog for bios), seeing them tied to the wooden platforms, singing like bridegrooms going to their wedding. More’s comment included his own criticism of himself, that he should have been fasting and praying like them, in order to withstand the coming evils against the Church members, as he noted that instead of being so involved in the things of the Court, he should have thought more of God.</p>
<p>This is our call, now. To stop pretending that things will always be the same, that we can play in the courts of men, and still become holy enough to face even death, the death of martyrdom.</p>
<p>Flexibility to respond to whatever God brings into one’s life is determined by grace. I would not trade my desert life for anything else in the world. Pray for me to be strong and steady in the coming days, as I pray for you, by blog readers, to be the same.</p>
<p><i>But look to yourselves. For they shall deliver you up to councils, and in he synagogues you shall be beaten, and you shall stand before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them And unto all nations the gospel must be preached. And when they shall lead you up, be not thoughtful beforehand what you shall speak: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not you that speak, but the Holy Ghost. And the brother shall betray his brother unto death, and the father his son; and children shall rise up against the parents, and shall work their death. And you shall be hated by all men for my name’s sake. But the that shall endure unto the end, he shall be saved.</i></p>
<p>Christ describes here our times. Those is denial need to take time to go into the desert and see what is really happening through discernment.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This past weekend I was staying with one of my sisters and got to watch my ten year old niece show off her baking skills.  It was great to see someone I held when she was a week old now taking pride in baking brownies and cookies.  As some of </span><a href="https://thejesuitpost.org/2015/10/national-cookie-month/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">you might remember</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, I’m a bit of a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://thejesuitpost.org/2014/12/tis-the-season-for-cookies/">baking aficionado</a> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">myself.  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday night, “</span><a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/the-great-holiday-baking-show"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Great Holiday Baking Show</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” premiered on ABC for a four week run.  It is based on the BBC’s hit show “</span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013pqnm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Great British Bake Off</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">”.  Thankfully, the famous British baker, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Berry"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mary Berry</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> made the jump across the pond to continue to serve as one of the judges on the show.  She is the author of </span><a href="http://www.maryberry.co.uk/books-tv"><span style="font-weight: 400;">80 cookbooks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; we get it Mary, you know how to cook and bake!  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I thought we’d try something new here at TJP, recap a show after each episode — luckily this is only four episodes long and combines two of </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IagRZBvLtw"><span style="font-weight: 400;">my favorite things</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: TV and Baking.  </span></p>
<p><b>The Basics</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Six Amatuer Baker Contestants, Three Cooking Concotions, Two Professional Judges, and A Pair of Married Co-Hosts.  After watching these six in the first episode, I realized I have a long way to go before I can be considered an amateur baker!  I really need to work on my </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=piping+techniques"><span style="font-weight: 400;">piping skills</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, thanks Youtube! The two judges — the above mentioned Mary Berry along with </span><a href="http://www.johnnyiuzzini.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Johnny Iuzzini</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — don’t berate the contestants, a nice change of pace over some judges on cooking shows, cough Gordon Ramsey cough.  Co-hosts </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0889522/?ref_=nv_sr_1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nia “My big fat greek wedding” Vardalos</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and her husband Ian Gomez, a nice duo but the forced comedy had me wincing at time.  It’s like I always say, let the bakers bake!.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are three different parts of the competition each week:  First they bake a recipe they are most comfortable with, a standard.  In the second part, they all have to bake the same thing, and it is a surprise.  To really mess with the bakers they keep the recipe basic so they have to figure out things like “baking times” on their own.  I’d be undercooking everything.  The third part is the creative section where they get to design something.  </span></p>
<p><b>Week One: </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week the competition revolved around cookies, or biscuits as Mary calls them, classic Mary.  Since I’ve already written two articles about cookies, I’ll spare you my in depth explanation on why I love them.  I’ll just point out a couple of observations.</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There is nothing wrong with going simple, if it is perfect”- Mary Berry’s advice to a baker who said her cookies would be basic.  I’m still trying to find a simple recipe that I can make really well.  Often I try making crazy cookies and avoid the “simple ones.” I think I can make more excuses if I mess up with a complex cookie and people will give me credit for trying, but a simple recipe can provide just as much taste and flavor when it is done really well.  </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve never made gingersnaps or gingerbread before, but </span><a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/the-great-holiday-baking-show/news/recipes/episode-1-eddies-hot-chocolate-gingersnaps-and-iced-brown-butter-spice-cookies-20151130"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eddie’s Hot Chocolate Gingersnaps</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> really intrigued me.  So many spices: nutmeg, glove, cinnamon, cayenne pepper and just for an extra kick Fireball whiskey! When I make these cookies I’ll be singing Pitbull’s “Fireball”. And don’t worry, I’ll have 911 on speed dial!  </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Great Holiday Baking Show is a fun baking competition.  I am really impressed with all of the bakers, even the one that was eliminated at the end of the episode.  We’ll miss you Grace from Brooklyn and your prophetic words:“It’s just cookies.”  </span></p>
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<p><em>Cover Image </em>Gingerbread Cookies<em> by Flickr User </em>Deborah Lee Soltesz, <em>via </em><em>Flickr Creative Commons, <a href="https://flic.kr/p/5KvqCW" target="_blank">available here</a>.</em></p>
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<p><b>Sandro Magister</b> kommentiert bei <b>Settimo Cielo, L´Espresso </b>die während der gerade zuende gegangenen Afrikareise gehaltenen päpstlichen Reden- bzw. pars pro toto die vom 27. November in Kangemi. Hier geht´s zum Original: <b><a href="http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/?topic=03/04/09/3080386">klicken</a></b><br /><br /><b><br /></b><b>"DIE HYMNISCH GEPRIESENE WEISHEIT DER ARMEN, DRITTE QUELLE DER OFFENBARUNG"</b><br /><br />"Während der 6 Tage der Reise von Papst Franziskus nach Kenia, Uganda und Zentralafrika stach vor allem eine Rede heraus, die vom 27. November in Nairobi, im peripheren Stadtteil Kangemi.<br />Die Armen sind unzweifelhaft der Polarstern dieses Pontifikates. Aber dieses mal hat Franziskus mit klareren Worten als je zuvor den Grund für seine Vorliebe erklärt.<br /><br />Er hat das zu Beginn seiner Rede gesagt, über die ausführlich zu berichten, sich lohnt:<br /><br /><div class="post-entry" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Papa con i giovani del Kenya2" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10955" height="254" src="http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/files/2015/12/Papa-con-i-giovani-del-Kenya2.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 5px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="512" /></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div>"<i>Vor allem anderen möchte ich mich zu einem Aspekt äußern, den die Reden über die Exklusion nicht anerkennen oder nicht zu kennen scheinen. Ich möchte auf die Weisheit der Volksquartiere Bezug nehmen. Eine Weisheit, die aus einem störrischen Widerstand des Authentischen entspringt, aus den evangelischen Werten, die die Wohlstandsgesellschaft -verdorben durch den entfesselten Konsum-vergessen zu haben scheint.<br />Ihr seid in der Lage, Bänder der Zugehörigkeit und des Zusammenlebens zu sein, die die Überfüllung in ein Gemeinschaftserlebnis verwandeln können, in dem sich die Wände des Ichs auflösen und die Barrieren des Egoismus überwunden werden.</i></div><div class="post-entry" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Die Kultur der Volksquartiere ist von dieser speziellen Weisheit durchdrungen, die sehr positive Charakteristika hat, die ein Beitrag zu der Zeit, in der wir leben, sind- und sich in Werten wie Solidarität , das eigene Leben für den anderen hingeben, die Geburt dem Tod vorziehen, ausdrücken. Den Kranken einen Platz im eigenen Haus anbieten, das Brot mit dem Hungernden teilen ( wo 10 essen, können auch 12 essen), die Geduld und die Seelenstärke angesichts der großen Widrigkeiten. Werte, die sich auf die Tatsache gründen, daß jedes menschliche Wesen wichtiger ist als Geld. </i><br /><i>Danke, daß Ihr uns daran erinnert habt, daß eine andere Art von Kultur möglich ist. </i></div><div class="post-entry" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Ich möchte zuerst diese Werte, die Ihr praktiziert, geltend machen, Werte, die nicht börsennotiert sind, mit denen man nicht spekuliert und die keinen Marktpreis haben. Ich gratuliere mir durch Euch, ich begleite euch und will, daß ihr wißt, daß der Herr euch niemals vergessen wird. Der Weg Jesu hat in der Peripherie begonnen, er führt von den Armen und mit den Armen zu allen.</i></div><div class="post-entry" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><a name="more"></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><i>Diese Manifestation eines guten Lebens zu erkennen, das jeden Tag unter euch gedeiht, bedeutet nicht, die furchtbare Ungerechtigkeit der städtischen Verdrängung zu ignorieren.<br />Das sind die Wunden, die euch von den Minderheiten zugefügt werden, die die Macht haben, den Reichtum und die sich egoistisch ausbreiten, während die wachsende Mehrheit sich in die verlassenen, verschmutzten und ausgesonderten Randgebiete zurückziehen muß." -</i><br /><div><br /><b>Und immer so weiter mit der Anklage</b> wegen so vieler Ungerechtigkeiten. Während der gesamten Rede wird Jesus nur ein einziges mal genannt, um zu sagen, daß "sein Weg in der Peripherie begann und mit den Armen von den Armen zu allen führt", Gott sporadisch, die Kirche nie.<br />Weil der Text zuerst politisch ist, eine globale politische Vision auf dem Boden der beiden anderen großen politischen Manifestationen dieses Pontifikates: den Reden von Rom und Santa Cruz, Bolivien, vor den Globalisierungsgegnern und Volksbewegungen Lateinamerikas und der restlichen Welt.<br /><br />Die Wurzel dieser Vision ist genau die in der Einleitung der Rede von Kangemi wiedergebene.<br />Es ist die "natürliche Weisheit der Volksquartiere", die gepriesene Güte eines fast virtuosen Volkes, der einzigen und genuinen Alternative zu den Lastern der Klasse der Reichen und Ausbeuter.<br />Das ist der Populismus von Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Der ist Teil seines argentinischen Charakters und er lebt ihn auch innerhalb der Kirche aus, jedesmal wenn er das christliche Volk auffordert die Bischöfe und Kardinäle, die Kirche der Apparate zu geißeln.</div><div><br /><b><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351119?eng=y">"Als Bergoglio Peronist war. Und er ist es noch"</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Der amerikanische Vaticanist John Allen ist so weit gegangen, nach dieser Rede zu schreiben, daß die Armen für Bergoglio eine Quelle der Göttlichen Offenbarung sind, nicht weniger wichtig als die Schrift und die Tradition<br />Es ist schwierig, die politische Vision von Franziskus auf der Rechts-Links-Skala einzuordnen. Seine Denunzierung der "Wirtschaft, die tötet" findet leicht ihr Echo auf der globalisierungsfeindlichen Linken,<br />Gleichzeitig sagt er Dinge, die mehr in liberale Strömungen passen, z.B. wenn er sich- wie in Kangemi-gegen neue Formen des Kolonialismus, die den armen Ländern drohen, wendet, damit sie politische ....akzeptieren- wie die Reduzierung der Geburtenzahlen.<br />Dieses mal hat der Papst nicht mehr gesagt- im Gegensatz zu anderen Gelegenheiten, bei denen er mehr ins Detail ging.<br /><div><br />Aber Franziskus-man weiß das- ist sehr vorsichtig und nimmt niemals zu Fragen Stellung, die ihn persönlich in die Schlacht verwickeln würden.<br />Und das Afrika von heute ist einer dieser Fälle, wie die Synode des vergangenen Oktobers in ihrem Schlußdokument deutlich bewiesen hat.</div><div>Das korrespondiert auch mit der Logik des Schweigens, die Franziskus bei den ugandischen Märtyrern angewandt hat, die ermordet wurden, weil sie den homosexuellen Mißbrauchsabsichten ihres Königs widerstanden hatten. Der Papst hat bewegt und intensiv an sie erinnert, aber ohne die Gründe für ihr Martyrium zu nennen.<br />Uganda ist in der Tat eines der Länder, die in der öffentlichen Weltmeinung als "obskurantistisch und zurückgeblieben" an den Pranger gestellt werden, weil sie sich weigern, Gesetze einzuführen, die die Homosexualität fördern."<br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Quelle: Settimo Cielo, L´Espresso, Sandro Magister</span><br /><div class="post-entry" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="post-entry" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="post-entry" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>
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<p>“<i>In that fine book of his, Le Docteur Angelique, J. Maritain has set down this profound reflection: “How to reconcile two apparently contradictory facts: the fact that modern history appears to be, as Berdyaev says, on the threshold of a new Middle Age in which the unity and universality of Christian culture will be recovered and extended this time to the whole universe, and the fact that the general trend of civilization seems to be toward the universalism of Antichrist and his iron rod rather than toward the universalism of Christ and His emancipatory law, and in any event to forbid the hope of a unification of the world in one universal Christian empire.</i></p>
<p><i>As far as I am concerned, my answer is as follows: I think that two immanent tendencies intersect at every point in the history of the world…one tendency draws upward everything in the world which participates in the divine life of the Church, which is in the world but not of the world, and follows the attraction of Christ the head of the human race.</i></p>
<p><i>The other tendency draws downward everything in the world which belongs to the prince of the world…History suffers these two internal strains as it moves forward in time, and human affairs are so subjected to a distension of increasing force until the fabric in the end gives way. So the cockle grows up along with the wheat; the capital of sin increases throughout the whole course of history and the capital of grace increases also and superabounds. Christian heroism will one day become the sole solution for the problem of life…Then we shall doubtless see coincident with the worst condition in human history a flowering of sanctity.’”</i></p>
<p>Garrigou-Lagrange quotes this in a footnote.</p>
<p>This is one of the finest descriptions of the time of the Antichrist, which is coming soon. Those who choose the universalism, that is a worldwide peace and supposed harmony, (based on a man and not a peace based on Christ), which will be actively against the universalism of the Church, and the type of unity the human race should be going toward, will be lost. Some think that Freemasonry fills the definition of a false brotherhood, a false universalism, while others just see this as a type of secularism.</p>
<p>Secularism is not strong enough to bring about a universal government. There are too many factions, despite these factions being joined under the heresy of Modernism. The only universalism which can rival, supposedly, the authority of the Church, would be a demonic universalism, which one could label a false religion, an idolatry of supposed good.</p>
<p>Ironically, the Church will look as if She has failed, perhaps only a very small minority of people holding forth the Faith. Those who remain faithful to Christ and His Church will be persecuted because they will refuse the “perks” of the Antichrist. And, the Antichrist will demand perfect obedience and even adulation.</p>
<p>The desires to want peace at any price, to want to keep what one has, to want security outside of God, will lead many Catholics astray. They will choose material comfort for their souls, not understanding what they are doing, because they have squelched their discernment.</p>
<p>Discernment comes with purgation of one’s sins and one’s predominant fault. Illumination comes when one allows God to be God completely in one’s life.</p>
<p>Sadly, even now, people are wanting peace at any price. Even Catholics….</p>
<p>To have confidence in God despite horrible trials means that one has to be spiritually prepared for such.</p>
<p>Garrigou-Lagrange in another footnote, quotes some words of Mother Elizabeth of the Cross, from her books of seven retreats to her nuns at the Carmelite Convent of Fountainbleau. This one sentence reveals how we can withstand the lies of the Antichrist.</p>
<p>“You I have invited to share in the folly of the cross, to refuse to be bound to earth by a single thread….to follow Me through pain, insults, and ignominy…to be My spouse crucified until death.”</p>
<p>In other words, we have to be free from all desires and stuff, wanting only Christ and His Kingdom.</p>
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<p>Yes, there are still exhilarating moments in teaching.</p>
<p>This week I gave students my personal end of the semester questionaire.  It includes the query, “Courses like this are supposed to stretch you, so what would you say is the biggest way that you’ve been stretched?”</p>
<p>As you might imagine, some of the replies were encouraging, others weren’t.</p>
<p>But one student answered, “Arguing about the arguments of others is more challenging than arguing about your own arguments.”  When I read that discovery, I wanted to spike the ball.</p>
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<p>From <a href="http://www.cruxnow.com/life/2015/11/20/nuns-who-rescue-sex-slaves-expand-efforts-to-140-countries/" target="_blank"><i>Crux</i></a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">An army of Catholic religious sisters who rescue victims of human trafficking by posing as prostitutes to infiltrate brothels and buying children being sold into slavery, is expanding to 140 countries, its chairman said Wednesday.<br /><br />John Studzinski, an investment banker and philanthropist who chairs <a href="http://www.talithakum.info/index.php?lang=1" target="_blank">Talitha Kum</a>, said the network of 1,100 sisters currently operates in about 80 countries but the demand for efforts to combat trafficking and slavery was rising globally.<br /><br /> The group, set up in 2004, estimates that one percent of the world’s population is trafficked in some form, which translates into some 73 million people. Of those, 70 percent are women and half are 16 or younger.<br /><br /> “I’m not trying to be sensational, but I’m trying to underscore the fact this is a world that has lost innocence … where dark forces are active,” said Studzinski, a vice chairman of US investment bank The Blackstone Group.<br /><br /> “These are problems caused by poverty and equality, but it goes well beyond that,” he told the Trust Women Conference on women’s rights and trafficking hosted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Detailing some cases involving trafficking and slavery, Studzinski said the treatment of some victims was horrific. (<a href="http://www.cruxnow.com/life/2015/11/20/nuns-who-rescue-sex-slaves-expand-efforts-to-140-countries/" target="_blank">Read more.</a>)</blockquote>
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<p><i>It's Advent now, and one thing that people tend to do during Advent is watch Christmas-themed movies. So today I'm going to present a roundup of some classics, with short reviews.</i><br /><i><br /></i><div style="text-align: center;">___________</div><br /><br /><i><b>The Santa Clause</b></i> — Tim Allen, famous for the family sitcom <i>Home Improvement </i>and his prominent role in the <i>Toy Story </i>movies, plays a self-centered, divorced lawyer who is failing dramatically to care for his son on Christmas Eve, when he accidentally kills Santa Claus. (I believe he shoves him off a roof or something.) Santa's mangled corpse vaporizes upon closer inspection, leaving an empty suit with a business card in it. One thing leads to another, and soon Mr. Allen and Son are filling Santa's shoes, and rocketing to the North Pole. There they are informed that, due to some sort of bogus contract, Allen, by putting on the suit, is now the new Santa. The remainder of the movie is spent dealing with the implications of Mr. Allen's new job.<br /><br /><i><b>Home Alone</b></i> — Macaulay Culkin (what a name!) plays the youngest son of a large, wealthy family living in Winnetka, IL. (The film was written by John Hughes.) Culkin's extended family is visiting for Christmas, in preparation for a group trip to Paris for the holidays. Unfortunately, amidst the confusion of their departure for the airport, Culkin is overlooked, and left sleeping alone in bed. No one realizes this until they're halfway across the Atlantic. Meanwhile the young child has the house to himself, goes off buying groceries, wrecks his older brother's room, and does battle with a pair of burglars (the "wet bandits") who try to rob the house. It's a highly enjoyable film.<br /><br /><i><b>It's a Wonderful Life</b></i> — Jimmy Stewart plays a depressed merchant whose business is about to be taken away from him because of his refusal to cooperate with the money laundering operations of the local bank. Confronted by the destruction of his dreams and livelihood, Stewart decides to jump off a bridge and drown himself, but he is prevented from doing so at the last second by Bugsby, a half-giraffe, half-zebra who has been sent by the Alien Overlords to harvest his vital organs for further study. Bugsby drugs Stewart, and most of the rest of the film is spent wandering through hallucinations related to Stewart's past and what life would have been like had he never been born. The whole thing is basically a horrific twist on <i>A Christmas Carol</i>, made still worse by Jimmy Stewart's unbearably obnoxious voice.<br /><br /><i><b>Elf</b></i> — Will Farrell never understood why he wasn't like all the other elves at the North Pole. He's much taller than them, etc. It turns out that Farrell is actually a human, not an elf, and when he discovers this, he runs away to Manhattan, where he lives with a family of squirrel hunters and visits various department stores. But then, Farrell's adoptive elf father turns up, and tells him the truth about why he was raised among the elves. Santa's elves are actually evil aliens who have come to colonize the earth and steal the vital organs of millions of people using psychadelic drugs, and so on. And Will Farrell is the only one who can stop them! I won't give away the remainder of the film, but it's a wild ride.<br /><br /><i><b>A Christmas Story</b></i> — The cast of <i>The Brady Bunch</i> star in this seasonal slapstick comedy about a family that receives a mysterious crate in the mail just before Christmas. As they pry open the wooden lid, inside they find a severed, embalmed thigh that has been mounted to a steel pole! Much hysteria results. The film also has a dark subplot about the oldest son's obsession with firearms, portraying the psychology of a spree killer in his early years. I really can't recommend this movie. Too dark, and lacking in Christmas Spirit.<br /><br /><i><b>The Apartment</b></i> — Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine co-star in this film about a corporate functionary who seeks advancement by offering his apartment to company higher-ups for their use in clandestine affairs. The film is pretty depressing, and has nothing to do with Christmas, except that one of the main characters attempts suicide on Christmas Eve.<br /><br /><i><b>White Christmas</b></i> — In a refreshing departure from the typical alien-organ-harvesting plotline that dominates the Christmas movie genre, this movie is about two pairs of identical twins who end up at a small holiday resort in Vermont over Christmas, with an old friend. After a heavy blizzard ruins their plans for a large variety show, the four teach each other how to tap dance. Great fun.<br /><br /><i><b>Christmas Vacation</b></i> — Chevy Chase plays a man living in suburban southern Maryland who has an obsession with Christmas lights. Chase's wife buys him a pet hamster as a Christmas gift, but he hamster is accidentally electrocuted when he chews on one of the light strings. The electric shock awakens the hamster to its original calling: harvesting human organs for an alien collective that needs them for the production of psychotropics. At this point, the film changes tone dramatically, and becomes a sort of haunted house flick, featuring many missing toes and flickering lights. It's a little bit of a Christmas cliché, but it's not wholly unenjoyable. Or it wouldn't be, but for Chevy Chase's annoying face.<br /><br /><i><b>Die Hard</b> — </i>Bruce Lee is a New York police officer trying to pick his wife up from work on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles. After she fails to show up on time, Lee finds a seat at a nearby bar and has a long and thoughtful conversation with the bartender about the conflict between family and career, studded with flashbacks from earlier times in his life and marriage. Good movie.
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<div><b>Antonio Socci</b></div><div><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/197268327060719/photos/a.210315405756011.46173.197268327060719/877693472351531/?type=3&theater">Via Facebook</a></i></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">It ‘s now starting to get very depressing, even disquieting….</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">Bergoglio never kneels in front of the Eucharist during Mass. He doesn’t kneel or, at any rate, doesn’t remain on his knees during Eucharist Adoration; the image of him standing in front of the Blessed Sacrament at the end of the Corpus Domini procession (which he didn’t take part in) is unforgettable.</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">Now even the opening ceremony of the Holy Door, for the beginning of the Jubilee – is embarrassing! See for yourselves what happened today!</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;"></span><br /><a name="more"></a></div><div><div style="text-align: right;"></div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">At 6.20 in this video, he opens the Holy Door and remains standing (while the faithful fall to their knees…) A chilling scene! [<a href="https://youtu.be/v8I04-HmwtM">click here to watch</a>]<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gau0VHt6y2E/Vl3dqy2qYcI/AAAAAAAAAqM/iZxvxOgfUfc/s1600/12313633_878293232291555_7178668261091803658_n.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gau0VHt6y2E/Vl3dqy2qYcI/AAAAAAAAAqM/iZxvxOgfUfc/s320/12313633_878293232291555_7178668261091803658_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pope John Paul II & Pope Francis</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;"></span><br /><span style="line-height: 25.2px;"></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">I’d like to remind those who attribute this to problems with his legs, that Bergoglio has knelt many times (and there are many photos around to show this) in other circumstances but he doesn’t do so in front of the Blessed Sacrament!</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;"></span><br /><span style="line-height: 25.2px;"></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">In addition, I remember that St. John Paul II, in 2000, when he was then already very ill and physically suffering, opened the Holy Door, knelt down and stayed on his knees for some time in prayer! (see the photo on the right).</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">Is there anyone in the know, who might explain to us the mystery of the man who never kneels [before God]?</span><br /><span style="line-height: 25.2px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><i>Rorate</i> note:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In contrast, on November 28th, Pope Francis knelt in an Anglican shrine in tribute to the Ugandan Anglican martyrs. See the video, below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div></div><br />[Translation: Contributor Francesca Romana]
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<div class="p1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-klrhqlaWdmw/Vl5oXRSrfmI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/c9vgFnY-5wU/s1600/SeniorJohn1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-klrhqlaWdmw/Vl5oXRSrfmI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/c9vgFnY-5wU/s1600/SeniorJohn1.jpg" /></a></div><span class="s1">Curiously, Dr. John Senior is remembered today less for his work in the traditionalist movement than he is for a book list that appeared as an appendix in his great work, <i>The Death of Christian Culture</i>. This list of “The Thousand Good Books” is meant to be something of an antidote to the extreme demands of the many “Great Books” lists popularized by many academic programs—the “merely good” books that are useful for fertilizing and tilling the soil of children’s souls from the nursery to youth.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">Dr. Senior’s own youth is shrouded in a bit of mist. He was born in 1923 in Stamford, Connecticut, and grew up in Long Island, New York. In the 1930s he was enamored with Marxism. He married Priscilla Wood in 1945, and received his BA (1946), MA (1948), and PhD (1957) in Comparative Literature from Columbia University. The Seniors had three children, Penelope, Matthew, and Andrew.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">In 1959, Senior published <i>The Way Down and Out: The Occult in Symbolist Literature</i> through Cornell University Press, apparently while teaching at Cornell. In this volume he acknowledges a great debt to Raymond Weaver, a professor at Columbia University who was instrumental in first bringing the works of Herman Melville out of obscurity and into the world of academic appreciation. Weaver’s book <i>Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic</i> was the first major study of the American novelist, and it was encouraged by Carl Van Doren (himself the brother of Mark Van Doren, another mentor of Senior’s).</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1CKmINwtsss/Vl5o-46mhbI/AAAAAAAAAmY/CnDDlf3MaNY/s1600/41512XjyuhL._SX332_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1CKmINwtsss/Vl5o-46mhbI/AAAAAAAAAmY/CnDDlf3MaNY/s200/41512XjyuhL._SX332_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><span class="s1">In <i>The Way Down and Out</i>, the nearly forty year-old Senior shows an obsession with the subject of the occult. He spends half the book describing esoteric traditions in detail, with the rest attempting—and, I think, succeeding—in finding occult intent in the works of many poets and novelists: Blake, Hugo, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Huysmans, Yeats, and others. The symbolist poets, he says, were attempting to revive the ancient esoteric priesthood by becoming priests themselves through the composition and promulgation of poetry. Most if not all of them failed in the attempt, Senior argues, but such was their intent.</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">Later in life, Senior asked people not to read this book. It is not difficult to understand why. Orthodox Catholics could easily be scandalized by the writings of the pre-Catholic Senior, for <i>The Way Down and Out</i> is the work of a still half-pagan mind. To take but one example, he writes that Baudelaire’s <i>Les Fleurs du Mal</i> is “a book as pure as that by any monk, and the fact that it was suppressed as immoral is a bitter joke, like a lesser burning of St. Joan” (p. 96). This is a far cry from the condemnation of Baudelaire that would appear in <i>The Death of Christian Culture</i> (1978).</span></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span><br /></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">Senior described his own conversion in an essay written shortly before his death,</span></div><div class="p1"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="s1">My conversion started at thirteen, when, having visited the orchard of forbidden pears, I followed Marx and Freud, as most students of my generation did, until, through the good offices of an extraordinary teacher at college met my Socrates and truth, from whence I followed Plato to Platonism and, in the depths of intellectual if not moral despair, Oriental doctrine which brought me face to face with Nothing. Many of my friends and colleagues from this time, driven by the thirst for truth beyond Existence ended in insanity and death from overdoses of drugs and bogus Buddhist meditations. By what then seemed merely chance, my Angel interfered: Meditating on the famous proposition of Heraclitus that the “way up and the way down are the same”—which the Gnostics take to mean that, since opposites are one, the law of contradiction is void—I happened (oh happy chance!) to take up St. Thomas who says the way up and down are indeed the same, except as to direction.</span> </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span class="s1">To my astonishment, as I mounted up the gangplank to the Ark, I was all but trampled by a horde of crazy Catholics rushing to embrace in the name of “Renewal” the very horror I was leaving. (“The Last Epistle” from <i>The Remnants</i>, p. 128-9)</span></blockquote></div><div class="p2"><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p2">Senior was received into the Church soon after the publication of <i>The Way Down and Out</i>, in 1960. That year he also moved west to teach at the University of Wyoming. <i>Esquire Magazine</i> named him one of the country’s top fifty teachers in 1966. In 1967 he relocated again to take a position at the University of Kansas, where in 1970 he founded the Integrated Humanities Program with Dennis Quinn and Franklyn Nelick. It was a program doomed to fail dramatically and yet succeed in ways beyond Senior’s wildest hopes.<span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p2"><br /><span class="s1"></span></div><div class="p1"><span class="s1">(to be continued)</span></div>
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<p>Refugees.  This one little word has launched a verbal civil war within America and within the Catholic Church.  In my Catholic world, it seems to be mostly in the context of “You’re a good Catholic if you favor bringing refugees to America” or “You’re a bad Catholic if you oppose bringing refugees to America.” However, there are many faithful priests, bishops, and cardinals with differing opinions on this.  Catholics have really let liberals frame the choices here, and that always ends in disaster.  False dichotomy, people!  There are other alternatives, not just these two.  I really don’t have any concrete ideas to solve the crisis, but I think a whole lot of more questions and ideas need to be bounced around before we run headlong into a possible disaster for us and for the refugees.  I’m sure I’ll be labeled “less than Catholic” by some.  What I really am is a Catholic woman who wants to help these people in the best way possible for them AND for us.  I’m going to emphasize “woman” here, because we tend to see social dynamics that men don’t always see.  (Sorry to you gender-equal people who hate pointing out differences between men and women, but we are different and we have different qualities that complement each other, so deal with it.)</p>
<p>First of all, this whole discussion should have been framed as “helping refugees” or “not helping refugees.”  I think faithful Catholics are all in favor of helping refugees.  It’s the “bringing them here” where we start to differ.  The “third option” (there are actually more, but let’s assume this for a second) is to help the refugees in their own country or near their own country.  Why is it that we think we need to put them on a boat or plane to help them, especially to bring them to a land that’s having a bit of trouble taking care of their own right now?  The majority of these refugees are not going back if we bring them to America.  If we are taking Christian refugees, that would mean we just give up Christianity in the Middle East (although it looks like Christians are the only ones being denied refugee status).  And if we’re talking Muslim refugees well, that means we’re spreading that faith all over the place.</p>
<p>So, back to looking at the “best way” to help refugees… Is it really wise to uproot them and move them to another country?  Another culture? How does this differ for Christians and Muslims?  This all needs to be looked at quite seriously before our goodwill does more harm than good.</p>
<p>Then, of course, there’s the vetting.  Could we start off with just a little common sense?  We can still help refugees, care for them, and provide for their safety, without being suicidal.  How about, right off the bat, we set up a safe zone in Syria itself or one of the neighboring countries that has already set up refugee camps and take just a little more time to do our best to make sure they’re not people who want to kill infidels?  Yes, it’s hard, but as I’ve stated before, Chaldeans, for example, have tattoos of crosses on their wrists.  How about we start using this as one means of the vetting process, but without publicity?  Relying on the Obama administration to properly vet refugees is a little silly, don’t you think?  Which program of his has worked thus far?  Plus, there are a slew of government agencies already stating that we’re blowing it.  You know, the ones who are responsible for the vetting? And then there’s this: <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/24/sen-sessions-reveals-15-refugee-jihadis-hopes-shrink-obamas-2016-refugee-budget/" rel="nofollow">http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/24/sen-sessions-reveals-15-refugee-jihadis-hopes-shrink-obamas-2016-refugee-budget/</a></p>
<p>Next, let’s talk about assimilation.  That can be the word of the day.  Can you say “assimilation”, children?  Good, I knew you could.  This is, by far, the most important thing to look at.  Can we just agree that most Muslim countries have very different cultures than the West?  Muslims from Muslim countries have a very hard time assimilating into Western Culture.  Heck, I have a problem with this sometimes, and I was born and raised here, but I’m Catholic first, so that’s where my priorities lie.  The Tsarnaev brothers are a perfect example of what happens when Muslims cannot assimilate.  Then there’s Nidal Hasan.  He was even born here but raised Muslim by his Palestinian parents.  These Muslims never quite feel like they belong and end up getting drawn into radicalism while looking for people to whom they can relate.  To some extent, our crazy, hedonistic, bully culture is to blame, but that’s a whole other blog post.  As I have said before, sometimes I don’t fit in either, but my response is never to blow someone away.  Unfortunately, there’s often not a loving thing we can do to make a radical change their view.  Case in point: <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/barbara-boland/video-palestinian-mom-wanted-baby-become-martyr"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/barbara-boland/video-palestinian-mom-wanted-baby-become-martyr</span></a></p>
<p>Sadly, radical Muslims are really all in for their “cause.”  They do believe in something, even if it’s evil.  The youth, especially, are looking for something to believe in, and since America can be rather wishy-washy in many regards – patriotism, faith, etc. – they are drawn to the Islamic clear “truth” (again, not truth, but it’s vehemently put forth as such.)  You’ve seen how many Americans have decided to throw in with them.  Why?  Could it be that they want the rigid rules of a faith, even if it is an evil faith?  Could it be that they are looking for clear “gender roles?”  You betcha!  It’s too bad that all some can find is a confused version of these things, but again, our culture is partly to blame.  While we’re changing the signs on our bathroom doors to be “gender inclusive,” they are doing the polar opposite and it’s attracting many lost sheep.  That’s why it’s crucial the Church promotes true teachings and stop trying to make people feel good about every wrong thing they want to do.  It doesn’t work!  We want limits, whether we admit it or not.  Failure to set them makes for unruly children.  And why in the heck aren’t we listening to the warnings of this guy?  <a href="http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/08/theres-no-such-thing-as-moderate-islam.html"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/08/theres-no-such-thing-as-moderate-islam.html</span></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Wake up! The cancer is at your door. They will destroy you. We, the Christians of the Middle East are the only group that has seen the face of evil: Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, as far as the Christians in Syria go, their focus should be God first, right?  Would that help them to assimilate better?  I suspect yes, but that’s just a guess.  That said, would I even think it a good idea to bring them here?  Quite frankly, for what?  We’re having trouble enough with our own poor, thanks to big government folks who’ve ruined the economy.  Would I want their children to be put into a Catholic or public school?  To learn what?  Only some black lives matter?  Shoot, bringing them here might very well save them from imminent death, only to lose their souls in our liberal school system.  What if the Catholic organizations set up refugee camps in nearby areas, if not in Syria, and teach them there?  Never mind, probably would still be the same stupid education.  Remember, I don’t even put my kids in Catholic schools, but I digress. What could we give them here that we couldn’t give them closer to their home?  Come on, people (especially Christians!), give until it hurts! Regardless of where they end up, that needs to be done.  I’m definitely not advocating in any way that we don’t help the poor and war torn refugees.  That absolutely has to be done.  But how about we fund guys like this priest?  <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/10/23/iraqi-priest-saves-thousands-isis/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/10/23/iraqi-priest-saves-thousands-isis/</span></a>  or this one: <a href="http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/24/iraqi-priest-pleads-for-pope-francis-to-help-end-genocide-of-christians/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/24/iraqi-priest-pleads-for-pope-francis-to-help-end-genocide-of-christians/</span></a> or these guys:  <a href="https://www.youcaring.com/emergency-relief-in-syria-ats-pro-terra-sancta-437263"><span style="color: #0066cc;">https://www.youcaring.com/emergency-relief-in-syria-ats-pro-terra-sancta-437263</span></a>?  We also need to take stories like this into consideration:<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3263593/Syrian-wives-mothers-left-condemn-men-fled-country-ask-free-protect-wrong-leave-country.html#ixzz3sQ9UrWcG"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3263593/Syrian-wives-mothers-left-condemn-men-fled-country-ask-free-protect-wrong-leave-country.html#ixzz3sQ9UrWcG</span></a>.  This isn’t the first time this has happened with our sloppy immigration policies, either.</p>
<p>Now for some more questions…Why, oh why, haven’t we taken refugees from Mt. Sinjar or Nigeria?  How about Christians from Iraq?  It’s like they’ve all been forgotten.  My guess is there are a lot of Christians in that mix.  It would make perfect sense for Obama to not want to do anything for them, but what about the Church?  I mean, we did make a big stink about them, but why didn’t we push for everyone to take in these refugees?  It’s like we’ve forgotten 300 young girls.</p>
<p>At this point, I’m all for making a Catholic “special forces.” They may have called them Crusaders in the olden days.  And, yes, I’m one who doesn’t believe the revisionist history that the Catholic Crusades were a bad thing.  Quick debunking link: <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/a_note_on_equating_isis_with_the_crusades_dont.html " rel="nofollow">http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/a_note_on_equating_isis_with_the_crusades_dont.html </a> Seriously, being Catholic, we would and should be more discerning, more caring, etc., than any other elite force, right?  Might be time to get someone to go find those 300 missing girls or to rescue the remaining stuck on a Mt. Sinjar.  I mean, could it be that hard to have some sort of elite intelligence force find them?  For some reason, someone didn’t want to do a darn thing.  How Christian is that???</p>
<p>So, I’ve posed a lot of questions.  What about a solution after all the vetting that can be done?  How about this?  Why don’t we try to help the refugees save their own country, and protect, train, arm, and care for them while we do it???  Please, somebody, tell me where I’m going wrong here?  They could then go back to their homes, or rebuild their homes (with our help), as well as their jobs, their schools, etc., when peace returned.  They can feel at home in their culture and not out of place when everyone around them shares the same culture, not to mention a universal experience of a war torn refugee, whether they be Christian or Muslim.  Think it can’t be done? Somalis have actually started going home after being harbored in nearby Yemen, Ethiopia, and Kenya.  Millions of Syrians have even returned to their homes since Russia (and presumably now France) have set their sights on ISIS.  However, it’s a lot harder to return home when you are thousands of miles away from your homeland.</p>
<p>Of course, all of this matters little. Obama is going to do what Obama is going to do, but we, as Catholics, should at least ask these questions.</p>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2015/12/christianity-islam-and-dark-ages.html">Christianity, Islam, and the Dark Ages</a></span>
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<p>From <a href="http://blog-by-the-sea.typepad.com/blog_bythesea/2007/02/a_response_to_a_1.html" target="_blank"><i>Blog-by-the-Sea</i></a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">At the time when Western Europeans fled to the East, much of the East was Catholic, including Egypt, Palestine, Greece and Asia Minor. That began to change in the seventh century with the rise of the Persian and Arab Empires. Forty-four monks were martyred at the monastery of Sabas during the Persian invasion of Jerusalem in 614. Some monks had fled, forced to wander from place to place as the Persians, and later the Arab Muslims, advanced. Syria fell in <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/yarmuk.html">636</a>, Palestine fell in 638, and Egypt fell by 642. The Persian occupation of Damascus from 612 to 628 and its surrender to the Arab empire in 635, still allowed a Christian, such as St. John of Damascus, to have a prominent role. <br /> <br />In 651, Damascus became the capital of the first of the Umayyad caliphs who ruled the Arab Empire, including the eastern and southern provinces of what had been the Byzantine Empire in an earlier time. There, it had been possible to receive a classical education, becoming proficient in his knowledge of Greek prose and verse. St. John of Damascus was educated there. In early adulthood, he followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, serving in the fiscal administration of the Arab empire although he was a Christian. However, around 706, the Umayyad civil service switched its official language from Greek to Arabic. Within a decade or so afterward, John of Damascus left his post and became a Palestinian monk.<br /><br />By the late seventh century, Muslim Arabs had gained control of northern Africa, taking Carthage in 698. By 715, the Eastern and Western Empires had become irrevocably divided and Arab attacks plagued Constantinople. Constantinople was besieged by Arabs from 717 to 718. In the wake of frequent wars, people faced plagues and famines, adding to their hardships.<br /> <br />In the early eighth century, the Berbers, led by Arabs, invaded Spain, taking it from one of the strongest Visigothic states within weeks. The invaders destroyed the Spanish culture that had produced, earlier in the same century, the work of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08186a.htm">Isidore of Seville</a>, who had introduced Aristotle to seventh century Spain – the last of the classical Christian philosophers.<br /><br /> That era of decline in the east cannot be attributed to Christianity as a religion. The Byzantines eventually prevailed, successfully defending Constantinople, although portions of what had once been part of the Byzantine Empire remained under Arab control. Constantinople was still Christian when it emerged from its decline of the seventh and eighth centuries, and it was the wealthiest city in the world for centuries afterward. (<a href="http://blog-by-the-sea.typepad.com/blog_bythesea/2007/02/a_response_to_a_1.html" target="_blank">Read more.</a>)</blockquote>
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<span class="itemtitle"><a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/pope-francis-on-catholic-fundamentalism-condom-use/">Pope Francis on Catholic Fundamentalism & Condom Use</a></span>
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<p><img alt="f0da3168ba4c4f81bca7210c249d7ee3" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9192" height="450" src="http://www.onepeterfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/f0da3168ba4c4f81bca7210c249d7ee3.jpg" width="717" />In my <a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/1p5-podcast-episode-26-francis-fatigue-and-whats-next/">podcast earlier today</a>, I said I hadn’t read anything from the pope’s Africa visit. That didn’t last long. Tonight, after helping my lovely wife get the kids in bed, I came down to ye olde computer to get back to work and there, plastered on the screen, was a link to the Zenit translation of the Vatican-provided transcript of Pope Francis’s plane presser. The one people have been reeling over, and that just based on pull-quotes.</p>
<p>I’ve decided I’m not going to provide any analysis at this time. Read it for yourself. But I do want to offer the two most controversial sections for your convenience. You tell me what <em>you </em>think they mean.</p>
<p>On Catholic fundamentalism:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Philippine de Saint-Pierre,</strong><strong> </strong><em>KTO</em></p>
<p>Holy Father, good evening. You paid tribute to the platform created by the Archbishop, the Imam and the Pastor of Bangui and today, more than ever, we know that religious fundamentalism threatens the whole planet: we saw this also in Paris. So, in face of this danger, do you think that religious dignitaries should intervene more in the political field?</p>
<p><strong>Pope Francis</strong></p>
<p>To intervene in the political field: if you mean to “engage in politics,” <the answer is> no. He must be a priest, Imam, Rabbi: this is his vocation. However, politics is engaged in indirectly by preaching values, true values, and one of the greatest values is fraternity among ourselves. We are all children of God; we have the same Father. And, in this connection, there must be a politics of unity, of reconciliation,  … – and a word I don’t like, but which I must use – tolerance, but not only tolerance, but also coexistence and friendship! It’s this way. Fundamentalism is a sickness that is in all religions. We Catholics have some, not some,  many, who believe they have the absolute truth and go around soiling the others with calumnies, defamation, and they do harm, they do harm. And I say this because it is my Church, we too, all of us! And it must be combated. Religious fundamentalism isn’t religious. Why? Because God is lacking. It’s idolatrous, just as money is idolatrous. To engage in politics in the sense of convincing these people that have this tendency, is a politics that we, religious leaders, must engage in. However, fundamentalism that always ends in tragedy or in offenses is a bad thing, but there is a bit of it in all religions.</p></blockquote>
<p>On the liceity of condom usage in fighting AIDS:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Jurgen Baetz,</strong><strong> </strong><em>DPS</em><em> </em><strong>of South Africa</strong></p>
<p>Holiness, AIDS is devastating Africa. Care helps many today to live a bit longer. However, the epidemic continues. Last year, in Uganda alone, there were 135,000 new infections of AIDS. In Kenya the situation is in fact worse. AIDS is the first cause of death among African young people. Holiness, you met HIV-positive children and heard a moving testimony in Uganda. Yet, you said very little on this issue. We know that prevention is fundamental. We also know that condoms are not the only means to halt the epidemic. We know, however, that it’s an important part of the answer. Isn’t it time, perhaps, to change the position of the Church for this purpose? To agree to the use of condoms in order to prevent further infections?</p>
<p><strong>Pope Francis</strong></p>
<p>The question seems to me too narrow and it also seems a partial question. Yes, it is one of the methods; I think that the morality of the Church finds itself on this point before a perplexity: is it the fifth or the sixth Commandment? To defend life, or that the sexual relation be open to life? But this isn’t the problem. The problem is greater. This question makes me think of that which was posed to Jesus once: “Tell me, Teacher, is it licit to cure on the Sabbath?” It’s obligatory to cure! This question, if it’s licit to cure … But malnutrition, the exploitation of persons, slave labor, the lack of potable water: these are the problems. Let us not ask ourselves if this or that band-aid can be used for a small wound. The great wound is social injustice, environmental injustice, the injustice I’ve mentioned of exploitation, and malnutrition. This exists. I don’t like to descend to such casuistic reflections, when people are dying from lack of water and from hunger, from <lack of> a dwelling … When all are cured, or when there are no longer these tragic sicknesses caused by man, be it because of social injustice, be it to earn more money – think of the arms trade! – when these problems no longer exist, I believe the question can be asked: “Is it licit to cure on the Sabbath?” Why do arms continue to be produced and traded? The wars are the greatest cause of mortality … I would say forget about thinking if it’s licit or illicit to cure on the Sabbath. I would say to humanity: do justice, and when all are cured, when there is no longer injustice in this world, then we can speak of the Sabbath.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-s-press-conference-on-return-flight-from-africa" target="_blank">Read the full transcript here</a>.</p>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Against the rising specter of engrossing statism, conservatives have grown accustomed to invoking liberty, especially liberty grounded in individual rights and autonomy. We should recognize that liberalism has an equal, if not greater, claim to provide liberty.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">That claim has more purchase, especially for young people, because it is being backstopped by a government that is a more reliable provider for the experience of individual autonomy than the unpredictable and more unforgiving market. The indifference of the market seems more likely to lead young people to end up living as dependents in their parent’s basements than leading independent lives.</span>
<b>Liberated Julia</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Democrats have been very clear that it is liberal autonomy that they promise. Recall one of the most revealing Obama campaign ads of 2012, produced solely for the internet (from which it has now disappeared). It was entitled </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Life of Julia</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and in a series of slides it sought to show how government programs had supported a woman named Julia at every point in her life, from preschool funds  to college loans to assistance for a startup to healthcare and finally retirement.</span>
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Life of Julia</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> portrayed a woman who appeared to exist without any human ties or relationships, except—in one poignant slide—a child that had suddenly appeared but who was about to be taken away on a little yellow school bus, and as far as we are shown, is never seen again. No parents, no husband, a child who disappears.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">If “liberty” is the watchword of the conservative movement, then what is wrong with Julia? Julia is the perfect apotheosis of the free individual. If the objection is that she has achieved her liberty through the government, not the market, then our debates are over means, not ends.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">It turns out that the real problem is liberty itself—especially a vision of liberty unaccompanied by concrete duties and responsibilities to one another, whose ideal is abstract relationships increasingly and ever-more comprehensively mediated through the State. Because for Julia ( and the denizen of the modern liberal state) our truest liberty is achieved when it protects us from any particular obligations, responsibilities, and duties—a condition best guaranteed by the abstract relationships mediated through the modern nation state. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">This was the main point of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington Post</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> columnist E. J. Dionne’s latest book, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Our-Divided-Political-Heart-Discontent/dp/1608194388"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Divided Political Heart</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where he argued that “community” and the State were the same thing. The point was summed up in a line stated several times during the most recent Democratic National Convention, “The government is the only thing we all belong to.”</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Early conservative thinkers recognized this as the “end-game” of liberalism. It sought, to the greatest extent possible, the elimination of all constitutive ties to any mediating or civil institution, to be replaced by our direct relationship with the State. This would be accomplished not by enslaving the population, but by promising that this condition constituted the very essence of liberation. This was the basic insight of Tocqueville’s culminating chapters of </span><a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/toc_indx.html"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democracy in America</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: that the democratic despotism of a mild “tutelary” state would come about not by force and terror, but by the willing acquiescence of an isolated and individuated citizenry.</span>
<b>Despotism Realized</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We begin to see the realization of Tocqueville’s prediction with ever-growing clarity in our own times in the a new, kinder, and gentler total State. It promises its citizenry liberty at every turn, and that liberty involves ever-greater freedom from the partial institutions of civil society, with these  institutions remade in accordance with the aims of the State. The united states as sovereign political units have been almost wholly eviscerated, and are now largely administrative units for the federal government. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Satisfied with that victory, we now see extraordinary efforts to “break” two institutions that have always been most resistant to the total State: the churches and the family. We see an unprecedented effort by the federal government to abridge religious liberty by conscripting religious institutions like Little Sisters of the Poor (and Notre Dame) to be providers of abortifacients, sterilization, and contraception—in the name of individual liberty. We can expect determined and even ferocious efforts to bend churches to accept gay marriage as a norm, even to the point of forcing them entirely out of the civil realm and removing their tax exemptions because of their “discrimination.” </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We see increasing efforts of the government to “liberate” children from their families—represented perhaps most chillingly by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry </span><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/13/melissa-harris-perry-i-stand-by-kids-belong-to-whole-communities-msnbc-promo/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">explaining</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the greatest obstacle to State education has been the pervasive notion that kids “belong” to families rather than belonging “to whole communities.” After nodding to the authority of families, she declared: “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I believe our children are not our private property, they are not just extensions of ourselves. They are independent, individual beings. . . . we as a society, expressing our collective will through our public institutions, including our government, have a right to impinge on individual freedoms in order to advance a common good.”</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">This broader social, cultural, political, and economic pedagogy is having extraordinary success.  A recent Pew study on the behavior and beliefs of the </span><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/topics/millennials/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Millennial” generation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—those eighteen to thirty-two years old—suggests that this is the least connected, most individualistic, and therefore “freest” generation in American history. In comparison to previous generations at a similar point in life, they are least likely to belong to a political party, least likely to be members of a church, least likely to be married by age thirty-two. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">They are a generation that is increasingly formed by a notion of autonomy as the absence of any particular ties or limiting bonds—and while they highly mistrust most institutions and relationships, they nevertheless view the government as a benign source of support for their autonomy. And they tend to be overwhelming supporters of liberal policies and politicians—in the name of liberty.</span>
<b>The Little Platoons</b>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Conservatives of an earlier generation like Robert Nisbet recognized that the rise of individual autonomy and centralized power would grow together, that Leviathan would expand in the name of liberty. He understood that the most fundamental obstacle to the rise and expansion of the State was the “little platoons” praised by Edmund Burke: particular and real ties to familial, religious, and civil institutions. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">He called for a “new laissez faire,” a laissez-faire of groups. He understood that what would prevent the rise of the kind of the liberty promised by Leviathan would be something like a robust patchwork of more local institutions and relationships that affords true responsibility demanded of adults: debts and gratitude to each other, obligations and responsibilities that should and must be grounded in real human relationships, not in a dependency upon a distant and impersonal State. Such arrangements reject the cold indifference of a world composed of radically individuated selves connected only abstractly through the State.</span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Even as we are about to be buffeted by countless political slogans, we need to recognize that conservatives have not cornered the market in promoting “liberty,” and if that is their totem, the Progressives will win the debate, as on most fronts they already are. What distinguishes Conservatism historically is not that it believes in liberty understood as individual autonomy, but that it has always understood that liberty—understood as freedom from an over-imposing state—is the necessary but not sufficient condition for living a human life in families, communities, religious institutions, and a whole range of relationships that encourage us to practice the arts of responsible self-governance.</span>
<em>"The Problem With Liberty: A Warning to Conservatives" is a slightly revised version of an article that first ran in the </em><a href="http://irishrover.net/2015/10/the-problem-with-liberty/">Irish Rover</a>, <em>Notre Dame's</em><em> independent student newspaper.</em>
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<div>Patrick Deneen's <a href="https://ethikapolitika.org/2014/08/29/neo-conservative-imagination-interview-patrick-deneen-part-iii/" target="_blank">The Neo-Conservative Imagination</a> (part 3 includes links to the first two parts)</div>
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</div><p>The post <a href="https://ethikapolitika.org/2015/12/01/the-problem-with-liberty-a-warning-to-conservatives/" rel="nofollow">The Problem With Liberty: A Warning to Conservatives</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://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2015/12/in-defence-of-scholasticism.html">In Defence of Scholasticism</a></span>
<span class="itemfrom">[<a href="http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/">Edward Feser</a>]</span>
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<p> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7uBbd-lkBNI/Vl5ZVqCqRLI/AAAAAAAAB-I/UpR5la0ssqw/s1600/012.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7uBbd-lkBNI/Vl5ZVqCqRLI/AAAAAAAAB-I/UpR5la0ssqw/s1600/012.JPG" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My article “In Defence of Scholasticism” appears in the 2015 issue of <i><a href="http://vecrome.org/group.asp?page=53">The Venerabile</a></i>(the cover of which is at left), which is published by the <a href="http://vecrome.org/index.asp">Venerable English College</a> in Rome. Visit the magazine’s website and consider ordering a copy. Among the other articles in the issue are a piece on religious liberty by philosopher Thomas Pink and a homily by Cardinal George Pell. The text of my article, including the editor’s introduction, appears below:</span></span></div><a name="more"></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Editor's note: Two of the Second Vatican Council's documents dating from 1965 - </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Gravissimum Educationis<i>, the declaration on Christian education, and </i>Optatam Totius<i>, the decree on priestly training - recommend the doctrine and method of St Thomas Aquinas to the Church. While the former contains an explicit call for "questions... new and current [to be] raised and investigations carefully made according to the example of the doctors of the Church and especially of St Thomas Aquinas" (§10), the latter insists that those training for the priesthood investigate the mysteries of salvation "under the guidance of St Thomas" (§16). As the Church marks the fiftieth anniversary of these conciliar texts, Edward Feser presents a defence of the Scholastic tradition.</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Scholasticism is that tradition of thought whose most illustrious representative is St Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274) and whose other luminaries include St Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), Bl. John Duns Scotus (c.1266-1308), and Francisco Suárez (1548-1617), to name only some of the most famous. By no means only a medieval phenomenon, the Scholastic tradition was carried forward in the twentieth century by Neo-Scholastics like Désiré-Joseph Mercier (1851-1926) and Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964), and Neo-Thomists such as Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) and Etienne Gilson (1884-1978).</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">The theological roots of Scholasticism are Augustinian, and this inheritance brought with it a heavy Neo-Platonic philosophical component. However, the philosophical core of the mature Scholastic tradition, at least in its dominant forms, is Aristotelian, with the surviving Neo-Platonic elements being essentially Aristotelianised.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Scholastic approach<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a></span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Scholastic thinkers emphasise a healthy respect for tradition, in two respects. First, they are keen to uphold Catholic orthodoxy. Second, they tend to regard the history of Western thought from the Pre-Socratics through to the medievals as, more or less, progressive. On this picture, Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, the ancient atomists and the other Pre-Socratics introduced most of the key problems and offered erroneous but instructive solutions; Socrates, Plato, and (especially) Aristotle set out at least the outlines of the correct solutions; later thinkers from various traditions - pagans like Plotinus, Christians like Augustine, Jews like Maimonides, and Muslims like Avicenna - built on this foundation and contributed further key insights; and the great Scholastics, such as Aquinas, finally combined these elements in a grand synthesis, preserving what was best, weeding out error, and adding yet further new features of their own. The result was a well worked-out general account of fundamental metaphysical notions such as change, causation, substance, essence, and the like; of lines of argument concerning the existence and nature of God, the immateriality and immortality of the human soul, and the natural law basis of ethics and politics; and, where sacred theology is concerned, an application of these philosophical results to Christian apologetics and to the explication and defence of the doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the relationship between nature and grace, and so forth.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">The history of modern philosophy, on this view, has largely been a gradual unravelling of the fabric of this hard-won achievement, and a return to one or the other of the errors of the Pre-Socratics, whether Parmenides (in the case of Spinoza, say), or Heraclitus (Hume), or the atomists (modern reductionist materialism). The intellectual and moral pathologies of modernity reflect these errors, and their cure requires a recovery of the wisdom of the best classical and medieval thinkers. </span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">It would be a deep mistake, however, to conclude from this that the Scholastic approach is simply dogmatically to reiterate the views of certain favoured writers of the past. As the summary just given itself indicates, the Scholastic attitude is to look for and appropriate truth wherever it is to be found, including a wide variety of non-Christian sources. Nor does the Scholastic suppose that even the greatest thinkers of the past solved every problem, got everything right, or cannot still be improved upon even where they did get things right. The idea is not to keep the tradition frozen in the form it took at some particular point in the past (the thirteenth century, say). The idea is rather that you have to master the tradition before you can improve it, apply it to new and unforeseen problems, and then hand it down to future generations for yet further novel applications and improvements. The Scholastic regards the tradition he inherits as a plant to be cultivated and occasionally pruned, not a fossil to be stuck in a museum display case.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Then there is the heavy emphasis that the Scholastic tradition puts on rational argumentation. It is no good, for the Scholastic - contrary to a common caricature - simply to take a view because Aristotle, or Aquinas, or anyone else happened to hold it. (Aquinas himself famously regarded arguments from human authority as the weakest of all arguments.) One must provide a rational justification, or yield to rival views which do have such a justification. Thus, vigorous disputation has always been a key component of Scholastic method, with arguments from all sides of a particular issue carefully weighed before a position is staked out. And a good Scholastic knows that his own argumentation for that position ought to involve the gathering of evidence from all relevant domains of knowledge, the making of careful distinctions, precision in the use of words, the setting out of explicit lines of reasoning, and adherence to canons of logical inference.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">In terms of both its content and its method, then, the Scholastic tradition claims to provide genuine <i>knowledge</i> of a philosophical and theological sort - knowledge which might be systematised and presented in formal treatises, and was so presented in works from Aquinas’s <i>Summa Theologiae</i>down to the manuals of the Neo-Scholastics. The function of such works is not only to pass on the tradition to future generations of philosophers and theologians, but also to acquaint natural scientists, social scientists, and other academics with the philosophical and theological prolegomena essential for a proper understanding of every other field of inquiry, and to provide the seminarian with the philosophical and theological formation he will need as a priest. The Scholastic manualist thereby aims faithfully to respond to the commission set out in papal documents from Leo XIII’s <i>Aeterni Patris</i> to St. John Paul II’s <i>Fides et Ratio</i>.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Critics of Scholasticism</span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">In the years after Vatican II, however, the Scholastic tradition went into an eclipse from which it is only now starting to emerge. Indeed, that tradition has, among Catholic intellectuals of a certain generation, been routinely denounced - sometimes even by people who are otherwise theologically conservative - with epithets like “Baroque Neo-Scholasticism,” “sawdust Thomism,” and “manualism.” Usually the denunciation is treated as if it were self-evidently correct, with little explanation given of exactly what is wrong with the tradition being denounced. When reasons are given, they are uniformly weak.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Let’s examine them. Recently, Eastern Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart rehearsed some of these stock objections, alleging, on the one hand, that the Thomist tradition from the sixteenth century to the twentieth represents “an impoverished early modern distortion of the medieval synthesis.”<sup>1</sup> On the other, he assured his readers that:</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Thomas was a dynamically original </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">thinker</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">, who today would make as avid a use of Darwin and Bohr as he did of the Aristotelian science of his day; Thomism, by contrast, is a </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">school</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">, which too often clings to its categories with the pertinacity of a drowning man clutching a shard of flotsam.</span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Notice first the incoherence of these charges. Hart claims that modern Scholastics have “distorted” or departed from the tradition, but also that they dogmatically “cling to” and “clutch” the tradition. So which is it? Such contradictory accusations are very commonly flung at Neo-Scholasticism. On the one hand, Neo-Scholastics are accused of having an inflexible “fortress mentality,” and of being insufficiently sensitive to the concerns of “modern man” or the findings of modern science. On the other hand, they are accused of selling out to modernity in various ways, such as by adopting a modern “Wolffian rationalist” theory of knowledge, or by adopting a “two-tier” conception of nature and grace that allegedly paved the way for modern philosophical naturalism and even atheism.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Neither sort of accusation is just. For one thing, far from sticking their heads in the sand in the face of modern science, the Neo-Scholastics and Thomists of the twentieth century were keen to show how its discoveries are fully compatible with the Aristotelian-Scholastic tradition (as evidenced by the unjustly neglected works of writers like Vincent Edward Smith, Henry Koren, Andrew van Melsen, James Weisheipl, and William A. Wallace). Nor have modern Scholastics been dogmatic reactionaries in the practical domain. Building on the work of Robert Bellarmine, Francisco Suárez, Francisco de Vitoria, and Bartoloméo de Las Casas, they have argued that Thomistic natural law theory is compatible with individual rights, democracy, and limited government.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">The peremptory and sweeping charge that modern Scholastics “distorted” Aquinas is also entirely tendentious and partisan. The usual bases of this charge concern several areas where the interpretation of Aquinas’s views has been a matter of controversy. For example, it is sometimes claimed that Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetan (1469-1539) misinterpreted Aquinas’s teaching on the analogous use of language, and passed this misunderstanding on to the later Thomist tradition. But whether this is so is by no means a settled matter - Cajetan has his defenders to this day - and in any case it hardly marks a dividing line between Neo-Scholastics on the one hand and faithful interpreters of Aquinas on the other. (The late philosopher Ralph McInerny was <i>both</i> a Neo-Scholastic admirer of the manualist tradition <i>and</i>a critic of Cajetan.)</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">The precise grounds for the accusation of “Wolffian rationalism” are seldom made very clear, but the idea seems to be that Neo-Scholastics have somehow departed from Aquinas’s view that knowledge comes through our sensory experience of the real world, and adopted the modern rationalist tendency to ground knowledge in an order of “essences” grasped <i>a priori</i>. But there is nothing in the work of Neo-Scholastics that entails this. It is true that they have made use of the rationalist’s Principle of Sufficient Reason, according to which all reality is intelligible. But far from being a distortion of Aquinas, this principle is itself implicit in Aquinas, insofar as it follows from Aquinas’s well-known thesis that being (objective reality as it is in itself) and truth (reality as it is known to the mind) are convertible with one another, the same thing looked at from different points of view.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">As to the allegation that the Neo-Scholastic understanding of nature and grace paved the way for modern atheism, it is simply aimed at a ludicrous caricature. The charge is that Neo-Scholastics sealed off the “two tiers” of nature and grace in a way that made the former entirely self-contained, so that man has no natural need of God. But this presupposes that the Neo-Scholastic understanding of “nature” is the same as that of the modern philosophical naturalist or materialist, which it most definitely is not. On the contrary, for the Neo-Scholastic, rational demonstration of the existence of God is something of which <i>natural</i> reason is capable, and the knowledge and worship of God is thus part of our <i>natural</i> end. Hence the Neo-Scholastic conception of nature, far from entailing atheism, positively excludes it. It is the conception of nature affirmed by thinkers like Aristotle and Plotinus - pagan theists who regarded the knowledge and service of God as the highest end of human life - and not the desiccated “nature” of a David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, or Richard Dawkins. What grace adds to nature properly understood is the promise of the <i>super</i>natural, “face to face” knowledge of God entailed by the beatific vision. And in emphasising the distinction between nature and grace, Neo-Scholastics were concerned, as Pope Pius XII was in <i>Humani Generis</i>, to counter theological doctrines which would “destroy the gratuity of the supernatural order” by collapsing grace into nature. A number of important recent works have begun at last to rehabilitate this unjustly maligned aspect of the Scholastic tradition.<sup>2</sup></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Where matters of ethics are concerned, the Scholastic tradition has been accused of “legalism.” The suggestion is that a law-oriented approach to morality of the sort one finds in Scholastic manuals is a holdover from the nominalism and voluntarism of William of Ockham. Yet law has always been at least a component of a biblically-grounded morality - Moses was hardly an Ockhamite! - and there is bound to be a “legal” aspect to any workable system of ethics. If there are objective moral principles, we need to know how to apply them to concrete circumstances, and working this out carefully and systematically entails that casuistry will be a part of any serious moral theory. There is also the fact that the priests for whom the ethics manuals were largely written needed guidance in the confessional, as did their penitents. That means, inevitably, a way of telling mortal sin from venial sin - grave matter from light matter, sufficient knowledge from insufficient, sufficient consent from insufficient, in all the areas of human life where we find ourselves tempted. This too inevitably gives rise to a system of casuistry. Hence, it is not Ockhamism or “legalism” that leads us to the approach of the manualists, but rather the very nature of the moral life, and also the Catholic sacrament of penance.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Then there are complaints to the effect that the Scholastic approach is “ahistorical” and “out of date.” Such assertions are ambiguous. Is it being claimed that truth is relative to historical epoch and that in the current era Scholastic claims no longer hold true? If so, then this merely begs the question against the Scholastic, who would deny that truth is or could be relative in this way. Is it merely being claimed instead that Scholastic ideas are no longer as widely accepted as they once were? If so, what does that matter? What counts is whether the ideas in question are <i>true</i>. If they are not true, then that would be enough reason to reject them, and their popularity or lack thereof would be irrelevant. But if they are true, then we ought to defend and promote them, and if contemporary intellectuals do not accept them, then it is their views which ought to change, not those of the Scholastic.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Moreover, the claim that Scholastic ideas are “out of date” in this latter sense is itself out of date. Recent decades have seen a revival of interest in Aristotelian and Thomistic ideas within mainstream academic philosophy. While Aristotelianism and Thomism are still definitely minority positions, they are getting a hearing in contemporary philosophy in a way they have not been since the 1950s.<sup>3</sup> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Finally, it is often remarked that Scholastic works are too “dry” and “ready-made” in their systematicity, lacking sufficient excitement and creativity. (This alleged dryness is the source of the “sawdust Thomism” epithet.) But the complaint is frivolous. Again, what ultimately matters is whether what such works have to say is <i>true</i>, and whether the ideas they convey really are related to one another in the logical and systematic way in which they are presented. No one objects to textbooks of chemistry or history on the grounds that their orderly and systematic presentation of the facts they discuss makes them too “dry” and “ready-made.” How can anyone who believes the Catholic Faith to be true object to there being manuals or textbooks which present the Church’s doctrine in a similarly systematic way?</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">The need for Scholasticism</span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">In fact, such manuals are crucially needed, now more than ever. As Catholic theologian R. R. Reno has written regarding the abandonment of Scholastic manuals in recent decades:</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">The Church is not a community of independent scholars, each pursuing individualised syntheses, however important or enriching these projects might be. The Church needs teachers and priests to build up the faithful. To do this work effectively, the Church needs theologians committed to developing and sustaining a standard theology, a common pattern of thought, a widely used framework for integrating and explaining doctrine…</span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">[T]he Church can no more function like a debating society that happens to meet on Sunday mornings, forever entertaining new hypotheses, than a physics professor can give over the classroom to eager students who want to make progress by way of freewheeling discussions… [B]elievers need a baseline, a communally recognised theology, in order to have an intellectually sophisticated grasp of the truth of the faith…</span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">The collapse of neoscholasticism has not led to [a] new and fuller vision... We need to recover the systematic clarity and comprehensiveness of the neoscholastic synthesis, rightly modified and altered by [later] insights… We need good textbooks… in order to develop an intellectually sophisticated faith</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">.<sup>4</sup> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">It is no secret that catechesis has collapsed in many parts of the Church, and that outside the Church its doctrines are often dismissed as a hodgepodge of irrational prejudices. The neglect of the Scholastic tradition is a large part of what got us into this mess. Its rediscovery will help to get us out of it.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">Endnotes</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">1 </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">David Bentley Hart, "Romans 8:19-22", <i>First Things</i>, June/July 2015.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">2 See e.g. Lawrence Feingold, <i>The Natural Desire to See God according to St. Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters</i> (Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press, 2010); Steven A. Long, <i>Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine of Grace</i> (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010); and Bernard Mulcahy, <i>Aquinas’s Notion of Pure Nature and the Christian Integralism of Henri de Lubac: Not Everything is Grace</i> (New York: Peter Lang, 2011).</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">3 See e.g. John J. Haldane, ed., <i>Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions</i> (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002); C. Paterson and M.S. Pugh, eds., <i>Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue</i> (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006); Tuomas E. Tahko, ed., <i>Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012); Ruth Groff and John Greco, eds., <i>Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism</i> (London: Routledge, 2013); Daniel D. Novotný and Lukáš Novák, eds., <i>Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics</i>(London: Routledge, 2014).</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">4 R. R. Reno, "Theology After the Revolution", <i>First Things</i>, May 2007.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<p>[From the <a href="http://drandmrsholmes.com/?page_id=1505#JesseTree">online Jesse Tree</a>.]</p>
<p>A reading from the book of Genesis (6:5-7):</p>
<blockquote><p>The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.</p></blockquote>
<p>When Adam and Eve sinned, something went terribly wrong. It was not just that the world was a sadder place for them. It was not just that now they would have to die someday. Something went terribly wrong inside of them, in their hearts, and all their children were born with darkness in their hearts. Remember that the whole world came from God and was supposed to return to God through Adam and Eve and their children. By the time of Noah, the children of Adam and Eve had become so bad that God decided to send a great flood to destroy the whole world.</p>
<p><a href="http://drandmrsholmes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Noahs-Ark.jpg"><img alt="Noahs Ark" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1533" height="300" src="http://drandmrsholmes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Noahs-Ark-211x300.jpg" width="211" /></a>God warned Noah to build an ark. He told Noah to bring two of every animal into the ark so that the animals would not all be destroyed in the flood. So when the rain poured down and the water rose up even over the mountains, Noah’s family and the animals on the ark were safe, and when the water finally went down and dry land appeared, it was a new day for the world. God promised that he would never again send a flood to destroy the whole world.</p>
<p>But something was still wrong inside the hearts of men. Darkness was still on the earth, and it would grow again.</p>
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<p><a href="http://blog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Blog12-1.png"><img alt="Blog12-1" class="alignright size-full wp-image-34392" height="367" src="http://blog.adw.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Blog12-1.png" width="360" /></a>The very first reading for Advent in the Office of Readings of the Breviary is a text from Isaiah Chapter 1. As such, it sounds a kind of keynote for the season, which is penitential in tone. In effect, the reading sets forth the need for a savior, as it vividly describes our sinful condition. We’ve got it bad and that ain’t good. But praise the Lord, there is a doctor on the way. His name is Emmanuel; His name is Jesus, which means “God saves.”</p>
<p>Let’s look at this keynote reading of Advent in five stages.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> I. Distant Sons</strong> </span>– <strong><em>Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord speaks: Sons have I raised and reared, but they have disowned me! An ox knows its owner, and an ass, its master’s manger; But Israel does not know, my people has not understood. Ah! sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil race, corrupt children! They have forsaken the Lord, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized</em></strong> (Is 1:2-4).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>At the heart of most of our troubles is that we have distanced ourselves from God</strong>. Sometimes this is through forgetfulness rooted in a dullness of mind. Culturally in the West we have moved God to the periphery by an increasingly strident secularism. We are distant children. Collectively speaking, we have disowned our Father: the God who made us and who enables us to do everything we have done.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>In so doing, we are cutting ourselves off from the very source of our power and achievement. This, of course, is the height of foolishness.</strong> Consider a fan that has just been unplugged. At first the blades continue to spin and the fan may “think” that all is well. But gradually the blades move more and more slowly. Eventually, they stop completely. It is this way with us as well.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Most of us believers are rightly concerned that our culture, having been unmoored, is becoming just as God described faithless ancient Israel: a sinful nation laden with wickedness, evil, and corruption</strong>. No age of this “paradise lost” has ever been sinless, but increasingly we cannot even get consensus on the most basic moral issues: that killing infants in the womb is wrong, that homosexual acts are disordered, and that promiscuity is unhealthy for the body and the culture. Even the most rudimentary understanding of biology shows that a life in the womb is a human baby and that homosexual acts are not meant to be (the parts don’t fit and the full purpose of sex is impossible). And clearly promiscuity brings disease. And this is just the biological evidence. Even a high school biology student can figure out that these practices are misguided.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>But so deep is our confusion, that even the most obvious aspects of things evade us</strong> as we get lost in our rationalizations and foolish attempts to justify what we know, deep down, is wrong. Yes, unplugged from God, we get a little slow in our thinking.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>The Lord goes on to compare His distant children to oxen and donkeys.</strong> Yes, even they are smarter than some of us, for they know their owner and who feeds them. Are you and I smarter than a donkey or an ox? There is a reason our nativity sets usually feature a donkey and a cow. <em>They</em> were there for the birth of Christ, but <em>we</em> had no room for him in the inn.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>So the first reason we need a savior is that we tend to stray from God.</strong> And having strayed, we get lost in more ways than one. God has to come find us, just as in the garden when the first couple sinned He went through the Garden calling, “Adam, where are you?” (Gen 3:9) So now He seeks us, His distant children.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> II. Disease-Struck</strong></span> – <strong><em>Why will you still be struck down?</em></strong><strong><em> Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot to the head there is no sound spot: Wound and welt and gaping gash, not drained, or bandaged, or eased with salve</em> </strong>(Isaiah 1:5-6).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>This is a bad situation. </strong>The Lord says simply, “There is no sound spot.” The damage caused by sin is enormous and the Lord describes it sickening terms: wounds; welts; and horrifying, pus-filled, gaping gashes.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>We tend to make light of sin, but God does not.</strong> St. Paul put things more bluntly and tersely: “You were dead in your sins” (Eph 2:1).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>But making light of our sins we stand there and continue to get struck; we continue to rebel. We ignore the body count</strong> of abortion, the toll that divorce and promiscuity take on children, the high price of greed, and the foolishness of casting aside God and His wisdom.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>As God describes it, our stance is unreasonable and just plain stupid.</strong> We rebel, glory in evil things, and assert a false notion of freedom. But God says to us that if we could only see ourselves as He does, we would be sickened: gaping wounds and foul discharge.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Jesus said to Sister Faustina</strong>, <em>You see what you are of yourself, but do not be frightened at this. If I were to reveal to you the whole misery that you are, you would die of terror. … But because you are such great misery I have revealed to you the whole ocean of my mercy</em> (Diary II. 718).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Here, then, is the second reason we need a savior</strong>: Our sins and stubbornness have made us wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked (Rev 3:17). We cannot save ourselves. Only with grace and mercy do we stand a chance. We need more than an angel; we need a savior.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>III. Desolate Scene </strong></span><strong>– <em>Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire. Your land before your eyes strangers devour, [a waste, like Sodom overthrown]—And daughter Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, Like a shed in a melon patch, like a city blockaded. Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a scanty remnant, We had become as Sodom, we should be like Gomorrah</em></strong> (Is 1:7-9).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Ruined cultures eventually produced ruined cities and plundered landscapes.</strong> You don’t think it can happen today? Throughout the age of the Church, empires have risen and fallen, countries have come and gone, and powerful coalitions have gathered and fallen apart. None of them thought that <em>they</em> would collapse either. But they are all gone. Where is Rome? Where is the Napoleonic Empire? Where is the USSR? It was once said, “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” Now it does. The Church alone, by Christ’s promise, is indefectible. And she, too, needs often-severe purifications.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>In the Bible the usual focus was on land, crops, and buildings. In our age, we speak of “economies.”</strong> But no matter what we call it, we cannot have strong economies or unless we are strong, true, consistent and disciplined. Our moral decline produces a decadence (from the Latin for “to be fallen down”) and a laziness.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>We are even too lazy to have children.</strong> And thus the text above speaks of “strangers devouring your land.” Once-Christian Europe is soon to become a Muslim caliphate. Hagia Sophia became a mosque; will the great cathedrals of Europe go the same way?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>In America the situation is more complex.</strong> Thankfully, most of our immigrants are Catholic Christians. But it does seem clear that our years of being an economic and political leader among the nations is fading; the thinning soil of our culture can little longer sustain the taller growths. Our economy has been stagnant for at least a decade now, and unemployment is shockingly high. There’s no telling where it will end up, but things don’t look very vigorous right now.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>And here is the third reason we need a savior:</strong> to save us from the mess we’ve made and reinvigorate us with the things that make for healthy families, healthy communities, a healthy culture, and a healthy Church. We need rebuilding, reinvigoration, restoration, refocusing, and reformation.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>IV. Disconnected Sacrifices </strong></span>– <strong><em>Hear the word of the Lord, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah! What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the Lord. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure. When you come in to visit me, who asks these things of you? Trample my courts no more! Bring no more worthless offerings; your incense is loathsome to me. New moon and sabbath, calling of assemblies, octaves with wickedness: these I cannot bear. Your new moons and festivals I detest; they weigh me down, I tire of the load. When you spread out your hands, I close my eyes to you; Though you pray the more, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood! Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow</em></strong> (Is 1:10-19).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Even our worship lacks integrity.</strong> That which is supposed to glorify God and bring forth in us a holy obedience has become lip service. God seeks hearts that are humble, docile, loving, and repentant. We cannot buy Him off by just singing hymns, saying a few prayers, or attending Mass. These things, good though they are, are meant to effect a conversion in us that makes us more loving of both God and neighbor, less violent, more just, more merciful, more generous to the poor, and more holy. Our worship should effect change in us such that we cease doing evil and learn to do good, we strive for justice, we address injustice, and we defend and help the poor.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>An additional problem with our worship today is that God has become almost an afterthought. Much of our liturgy is self-centered</strong>, self-congratulatory, and anthropocentric (rather than theocentric). We are “the aware, gathered community celebrating itself.” While the Mass should focus on God and summon us to humility and joy before Him, too often it seems more an exercise in pride and self-congratulation. We are very narcissistic, even in a communal setting.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>God cannot be pleased with all of this. Even if our worship is rightly ordered, we are not going to buy God off</strong>. God wants an obedient heart more than sacrifice. Sacrifice without obedience is a sham.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>This is the fourth reason we need a savior: We need God to restore our integrity and give us a new heart</strong>. We are “dis-integrated,” in the sense that pieces of our life that should be together (e.g., worship and obedience, liturgy and healing) are not. Too often our worship does just the opposite of what it should. Instead of drawing us more deeply into the love and obedience of God it becomes the very occasion of keeping God at a distance and seeking to placate him with superficial gestures. This makes our worship an insult and a lie. God doesn’t mince words in the passage above when He says how displeased He is with this.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>We need God to give us a new heart,</strong> one that loves Him as well as the people and things that He loves. Only then will our worship will truly reflect the heart that God seeks: a loving, humble, and generous heart.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> V. Desire to Save </strong></span>– <strong><em>Come now, let us set things right, says the Lord: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as snow; Though they be crimson red, they may become white as wool.</em> <em>If you are willing and obedient,</em> you shall eat the good of the land;<em> but if you refuse and rebel, </em>you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the <em>Lord</em> has spoken</strong> (Is 1:18-20).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>God says that we should get started.</strong> Let the healing begin! And all the people must say,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>“O Come, O Come Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here, until you, O Lord, the Son of God appear.”</em></p>
<p>The post <a href="http://blog.adw.org/2015/12/four-reasons-we-need-a-savior-an-advent-meditation-on-a-text-from-isaiah/" rel="nofollow">Four Reasons We Need a Savior – An Advent Meditation on a Text from Isaiah</a> appeared first on <a href="http://blog.adw.org" rel="nofollow">Community in Mission</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Todo a la vez: negros nubarrones por oriente, vientos racheados desde occidente, relámpagos meridionales, truenos septentrionales y, bajo los pies, espasmos geológicos. Nos hemos acostumbrado a vivir agobiados bajo la amenaza del separatismo interior, de los musulmanes, del nuevo orden mundial y del bolchevismo recientemente renacido. Cada día uno de ellos atrae nuestra preocupación y los otros pasan a segundo plano. Pero no por eso desaparece su amenaza.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">El comunismo, como ya denunció Pio XI, emplea el engaño como táctica (<em>Divini Redemptoris</em>, § 58). <em>Podemos</em> se ha aupado hasta alcanzar un puesto importante entre los partidos contendientes en las próximas elecciones. Lo ha hecho engañando a sus electores, entre los cuales no han faltado católicos. Con engaño ha formado unas listas de candidatos adecuados a sus fines. A pesar de su previsible descenso en votos, puede formar parte del gobierno por medio de alianzas, ahora o en otra consulta posterior. Y con engaño, su decidido designio revolucionario puede absorber de hecho la línea de actuación de otros partidos ideológicamente muy débiles.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">“<em>Procurad, venerables hermanos, con sumo cuidado que los fieles no se dejen engañar. El comunismo es intrínsecamente perverso, y no se puede admitir que colaboren con el comunismo, en terreno alguno</em>” (§ 60). La mejor manera que se me ocurre de seguir esta sabia recomendación de Pio XI es recurrir de nuevo a Kolnai y citar algunos de sus textos sobre las actitudes desencaminadas que los cristianos han adoptado ante el comunismo.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Busque usted en internet lo que se dice de Aurelio Kolnai. Hallará datos sobre sus investigaciones fenómenológicas y sobre sus críticas al nacionalsocialismo, pero nada o bien poco sobre el libro <em>Errores del anticomunismo</em>. Que las izquierdas lo callen va de suyo; que los demócratas liberales lo hagan se explica por aquella conspiración del silencio en todo lo que se refiere al comunismo, que ya denunciaba por Pío XI, (§18). Pero, los medios eclesiales ¿por qué lo silencian también? Kolnai hablaba para todos los que coincidían en ser anticomunistas. Veía en el marxismo una amenaza inmediata que merecía una atención primordial por parte de todos. Pero su punto de vista era el de aquellos tiempos felices en que las enseñanzas de la Iglesia se mantenían desde los tiempos apostólicos con una coherencia, incluso externa, que no dejaba lugar a las dudas que hoy<a href="http://carlismo.es/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/pio-xi.jpg"><img alt="pio-xi" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4682" height="150" src="http://carlismo.es/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/pio-xi-150x150.jpg" width="150" /></a> ponen a prueba la fe de todo católico. Tenía muy presente las repetidas condenas de las formas de adaptar el catolicismo a las corrientes filosóficas, políticas y sociales que los pontífices del XIX y primera parte del XX lanzaron para preservar de contaminaciones mundanas la doctrina eterna de la Iglesia. Su crítica de las tres primeras formas inadecuadas de enfrentarse al comunismo por parte de los cristianos afectaba por entonces a tres desviaciones del catolicismo fácilmente reconocibles. Hoy, por desgracia, se reconocen de manera igualmente fácil como tres “sensibilidades” gustosamente acogidas y mimadas por las autoridades eclesiásticas.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>El primero de esos errores</strong> es el de los “<em>cristianos demócratas, laicistas, apolíticos o <strong>progresistas</strong></em>” (121). Vienen a decir lo siguiente: “<em>los fines políticos, sociales y económicos del comunismo, como tales, son indiferentes o incluso laudables en parte. Sólo se le ha de combatir en cuanto se aferra al prejuicio antirreligioso y sobre todo anticatólico. Si los jefes comunistas renunciar a la persecución de la Iglesia y al ideal de un ateísmo obligatorio, podría lograrse fácilmente la inteligencia con ellos. ¿No ha dicho el Señor: “dad al César lo que es del César”? ¿no hay que obedecer tanto más este mandato cuanto que se trata de un “César” preocupado por aliviar la suerte de los pobres y por poner de relieve la dignidad del trabajador? … Dios y su Iglesia, lejos de estar ligados a un orden social caduco están llenos de simpatías hacia las justas aspiraciones de las clases trabajadoras … La desconfianza con que nos miran los protagonistas de estas aspiraciones reposa sobre malentendidos debidos a extravíos accidentales de los que ciertos individuos o medios eclesiásticos reaccionarios … se han mostrado culpables en el pasado. (118-119).</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A estos cristianos progresistas Kolnai les recuerda que “<em>el César marxista se define por su concepción monoteísta: es decir su función de ser adorado, en una entrega absoluta y sin reserva, como única divinidad, que se confunde por lo demás, con la humanidad y la sociedad organizada, ídolo único de una teocracia total y del todo terreno</em>” (121). Pero además asimila el error de esos cristianos al pietismo que, queriendo “<em>hacer vivir al hombre en las nubes, sacrificando las cosas terrenas a una tibia nivelación y reduciendo la moral y la política a un estado de indiferencia, es frecuentemente debido al error sectario que tiende a rebajar al catolicismo al nivel de una necesidad particular de los católicos; a una confesión más, o sea un grupo entregado un conjunto de prejuicios tradicionales que exigen ser respetados como cualquier otro interés de grupo. De aquí el doble error … de quienes pretenden que, desde el punto de vista de la religión, sólo la religión cuenta, o que los católicos no deben mezclarse sino en aquello que los católicos atañe”</em>(122-123).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>El segundo error</strong> recuerda la actitud del catolicismo social y anticipa en cierto modo la <strong>teología de la liberación</strong>. Sus partidarios arguyen que “ <em>el comunismo en sí, es profunda e incurablemente anticristiano; pero al compartirlo, guarde monos de despertar la impresión de que conbatiríamos forzosamente todo “comunismo” (en cuanto doctrina social y política), incluso un “ comunismo cristiano” si lo hubiera. Porque entonces combatiríamos al comunismo no en cristiano, sino en reaccionario, o en cualquier caso, como “políticos” o servidores de prejuicios económicos, más que como defensores de la fe religiosa</em>”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Según Kolnai quienes así argumentan se engaña sobre la naturaleza del comunismo, que no es como ellos creen “<em>una cosa buena o indiferente, a la que, de un modo secundario y por desgracia … se mezclase un perverso elemento de irreligión. Al contrario, es una cosa absolutamente mala en sí, sin que haga falta considerar su actitud explícita con relación a Dios y su culto, a la fe y a la Iglesia; y es una cosa tan sumamente mala en sí, porque su motivo central  es el ateísmo y el anticristianismo tomado en toda su amplitud. Todo el que procura rebajar la talla de este enemigo a una medida de irreligión y anticlericalismo técnico, por así decirlo, falsea la cuestión desde el principio y rodea al objeto en lugar de penetrar en él</em>” (127).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La tercera actitud errónea</strong> surge del enfoque <strong>individualista</strong>, o personalista, que sostuvo Maritain cuando se encandiló con la democracia americana y se convirtió en adalid del anticomunismo. Sus defensores argumentan lo siguiente: “<em>el comunismo es un materialismo llevado al límite. Reduce al hombre al estado de máquina … Pero el hombre nunca estará enteramente satisfecho con la sola prosperidad material … Intentemos ante todo, devolverle la conciencia de que tiene un alma, despertar en él sentido de la individualidad … Presentemos, ante los ojos del hombre prisionero del imperio comunista, la imagen del hombre occidental, libre mientras él es esclavo</em>” (130).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Kolnai no puede evitar chotearse de espiritualismo del capitalista que emite semejantes críticas: “<em>los burgueses, transpirando idealismo e insultando al comunismo, son un espectáculo demasiado regocijante para no provocar la sátira</em>”. Pero luego, precisa cuidadosamente su crítica de esta versión del anticomunismo: “<em>sin duda es justo y necesario atacar el materialismo y el maquinismo comunista, pero a condición de que no se crea con eso haberlo hecho todo</em>”, pues resulta “<em>peligroso combatir al comunismo principalmente en nombre del individualismo, o para emplear un término más solemne, más pretencioso y más de moda, del personalismo. … En el plano histórico, es el propio individualismo quien ha provocado, a través de la concepción de una voluntad del pueblo unitaria y masiva, el comunismo; quien ha abierto el camino de la omnipotencia estatal … El individualismo ha decretado que el hombre es la medida de todo”. </em>Ahora bien, “l<em>a entidad real que se precia de representar a la humanidad colectiva organizada, a la humanidad integrada en un sujeto propio dotado de una conciencia y de una voluntad única y claramente definida, no es otra cosa que el partido comunista</em>” (133-136).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A la vista de cierta simpatías que la más alta jerarquía eclesiástica ha manifestado recientemente hacia la teología de la liberación e incluso hacia líderes y gobernantes comunistas, sin excluir al propio Pablo iglesias, cabe esperar cualquier cosa de las jerarquías subordinadas de la moderna sociedad eclesial, si repiten la indiscreción de dar una recomendación de voto a los católicos. Todo es posible, salvo, desde luego, la solución que todas estas actitudes pseudo-católicas llaman reaccionaria.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Este desolador panorama empuja de la manera más natural a que los católicos abandonen el combate. Semejante abominación era desconocida y probablemente inimaginable para Kolnai. Sin embargo el ya detectó una <strong>última tentación pseudo-religiosa</strong> cuyo atractivo no deja indiferente incluso al tradicionalismo. Es la tentación de las “<em>élites de los espíritus cultivados</em>”, que “<em>se mueven en un plano infinitamente superior</em>” al de las otras posturas pretendidamente católicas. “<em>¿Vale la pena combatir al comunismo </em>-dicen sus defensores- <em>para salvar la civilización contemporánea? ¿Acaso no expresa el comunismo su esencia mejor que cualquier otro régimen? ¿No será el azote que necesita el mundo degradado, y religioso, insensible a los valores, esclavo del confort material, de las apariencias de la cantidad y de la máquina? ¿No es acaso la plaga que merece este mundo? El tipo de vida norteamericano, cuyo único rival poderoso es actualmente el comunismo, ¿acaso no es un enemigo tan importante como el comunismo, aunque más insidioso, más disimulado, más tentador para la mayoría de los hombres y, por lo mismo, más eficaz y peligroso a la larga?</em>”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Kolnai no podía prever el nuevo orden mundial que representa el grado superlativo de depravación, de esclavitud de corrupción a que puede llevar el espíritu americano tan lúcidamente descrito por Juan Manuel de Prada en <em>Dinero, demogresca y otros podemonios</em>. Sin embargo, siguen siendo válidas las objeciones de Kolnai a las élites apocalípticas. En primer lugar recuerda que no podemos despreciar el principio cristiano del mal menor (principio que, dicho sea de paso, sólo es aplicable cuando no hay otro remedio posible y que es, por ello mismo, inoperante en el sistema electoral fundado en encuestas que dan a conocer lo previsible, no lo posible). “<em>No somos Dios -señala Kolnai- ni siquiera bienaventurados, sino hombres </em>in statu viae<em>, que, aunque seamos libres para huir del pecado, siempre estamos sometidos al imperio del mal … En cuanto a los que insinúan que el régimen progresista industrialista de la democracia occidental, comparado con el régimen comunista, no representa siquiera ni el mal menor, estamos tentados a aconsejarles una documentación, ampliada después por la experiencia personal en un mundo en el que no se atrevería apenas a comunicar sus pensamientos íntimos a su mujer, por miedo a que el portero -o alguno de sus propios hijos- pudiese escuchar tras la puerta; en que no se atreverían asistir al culto -suponiendo que esto fuese físicamente posible- por temor a perder, con toda probabilidad, su pedazo de pan en este mundo, aprenderían muy pronto a apreciar el anticristianismo insidioso, el totalitarismo disfrazado, la libertad desvalorizar de este mundo occidental el que están descontentos, y con razón, a pesar de todo</em>”.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Pero además y sobre todo les recuerda que es un error “<em>querer abarcar con la mirada el conjunto de la historia futura, lo cual conduce fácilmente a la decisión de no hacer nada</em>” (162). “<em>El hombre es un agente que realmente actúa en la historia, pero no es su dueño; llamado a prestar su concurso a las operaciones de la providencia, no es su autor, ni siquiera, ordinariamente, el intérprete esclarecido. No le está concedido tampoco edificar, conscientemente y a propósito, para un mundo distinto del suyo: para un mundo del porvenir que rompiese la continuidad con su propia sociedad y que hubiera de construirse sobre sus ruinas. Cualesquiera que sean los vicios de que podemos acusar con justicia a nuestra civilización, no tenemos el derecho de desempeñar con ella el papel de ejecutores de la cólera de Dios, ni -lo que viene a ser lo mismo- anticipar con delectación su destrucción por considerarla la inevitable</em>” (162-163).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">“<em>Sin duda alguna, la subversión cósmica [que supone el comunismo] está llamada a un fracaso cierto. Pero la réplica victoriosa de Dios se hará por ‘causas segundas’: bien a través de reacciones humanas, mediando fuerzas humanas imprevisibles hoy día; bien por el contrario, utilizando las ahora conocidas, que operarán despreciando los consejos que acabamos de citar …  El imperio infernal, instituido sobre esta tierra no alcanzará sus últimos objetivos; pero es porque su misma invencibilidad será un día truncada por aquellos que no sólo negarán sus fines últimos sino que además experimentarán el placer de combatirlos</em>” (33-34).</p>
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<td><a href="http://foretasteofwisdom.blogspot.com/">A Foretaste of Wisdom</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.barnhardt.biz">Barnhardt</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://socrates58.blogspot.com/">Biblical Evidence for Catholicism</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.calledtocommunion.com">Called to Communion</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.catholic.com/">Catholic Answers</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.catholicfaithandreason.org/our-blog">Catholic Faith and Reason - Our Blog</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://blog.adw.org">Community in Mission</a></td>
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<td><a href="https://jmbtx123.wordpress.com">Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://cumlazaro.blogspot.com/">Cum Lazaro</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://davidscottwritings.com">David Scott Writings</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://denzinger-katholik.blogspot.com/">Denzinger-Katholik</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://initium-sapientiae.blogspot.com/">Diligite iustitiam</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://nunraw.blogspot.com/">Dom Donald's Blog</a></td>
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<td><a href="https://hughosb.wordpress.com">Dominus mihi adjutor</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://dprice.blogspot.com/">Dyspeptic Mutterings</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://easternchristianbooks.blogspot.com/">Eastern Christian Books</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://edinburghhousewife.blogspot.com/">Edinburgh Housewife</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/">Edward Feser</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://etnunc.blogspot.com/">et nunc</a></td>
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<td><a href="https://ethikapolitika.org">Ethika Politika</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://cistercium.blogspot.com/">EUCist News</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.faithfulanswers.com">Faithful Answers</a></td>
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<td><a href="https://sdcojai.wordpress.com">For the Queen</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/">Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/">Fr Ray Blake's Blog</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog">Fr. Z's Blog</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://galileowaswrong.com">Galileo Was Wrong</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://gratiasupernaturam.blogspot.com/">Gratia Super Naturam</a></td>
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<td><a href="https://historyofinterpretation.wordpress.com">History of Interpretation</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/simchafisher">I Have to Sit Down</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.ibenedictines.org">iBenedictines</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/">IDLE SPECULATIONS</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://ignatiushisconclave.org">ignatius his conclave</a></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>
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<td><a href="https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com">In the Light of the Law</a></td>
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<td><a href="https://incarnationandmodernity.wordpress.com">Incarnation and Modernity</a></td>
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<td><a href="http://infallible-catholic.blogspot.com/">Infallible Catholic</a></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>
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<td>13:00, 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>
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<td><a href="https://thomism.wordpress.com">Just Thomism</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://thomism.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
<td>14:00, 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>
<td>14:00, 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>
<td>14:00, 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>
<td>14:00, 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>
<td>14:00, 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>
<td>14:00, 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>
<td>14:00, 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>
<td>14:00, 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>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://ozconservative.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog">Paths of Love</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://psallamdomino.blogspot.com/">Psallam Domino</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://psallamdomino.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<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>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<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>
<td>14:00, 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>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://www.catholicteuchtar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<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>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://catholicheritage.blogspot.co.at/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://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>
<td>14:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://steepleandstate.com">Steeple and State</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://steepleandstate.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://priestofthechurch.wordpress.com">Symposium</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="https://priestofthechurch.wordpress.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://tesknotablog.com">Tęsknota</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://tesknotablog.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://taylormarshall.com">Taylor Marshall</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://taylormarshall.com/feed">XML</a></td>
<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/">Tea at Trianon</a></td>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default">XML</a></td>
<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>
<td><a class="xmlbutton" href="http://the-american-catholic.com/feed/">XML</a></td>
<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>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench">The Deacon's Bench</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://thedivinelamp.wordpress.com">The Divine Lamp</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/">The Eponymous Flower</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/">The hermeneutic of continuity</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="https://thejesuitpost.org">The Jesuit Post</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://thejosias.com">The Josias</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.lepantoinstitute.org">The Lepanto Institute</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://lowchurchmanguide.tumblr.com/">The Low Churchman's Guide to the Solemn High Mass</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://paraphasic.blogspot.com/">The Paraphasic</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://prosblogion.ektopos.com">The Prosblogion</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://theradtrad.blogspot.com/">The Rad Trad</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://remnantnewspaper.com">The Remnant Newspaper - The Remnant Newspaper - Remnant Articles</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.thesacredpage.com/">The Sacred Page</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://thesensiblebond.blogspot.com/">The Sensible Bond</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://tofspot.blogspot.com/">The TOF Spot</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://theologicalflint.com">Theological Flint</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://totaliter-aliter.blogspot.com/">totaliter aliter</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<td><a href="http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com">Traditional Catholic Priest</a></td>
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<td>13:00, Friday, 04 December</td>
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<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>
<tr class="cal-week">
<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>
<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 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">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"><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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