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White to move and mate in two.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
Meanwhile, there isn’t much chessy news. However, I read at Complicit Clergy that there is a Wiki War going on. Someone established a page recording the church entities (conferences) and personages who have opposed Fallacia superans. However, others are actively trying to reedit and sabotage the page. LOL I know how that one goes. Also, I’m happier not to be included.
In other news, I’m sensing a pattern. You might remember that Archbp Scicluna of Malta and now Card. Grech of Gozo issued a pastoral letter after Amoris that remarried Catholics could receive Communion and their letter was published in L’Osservatore. Scicluna warned seminarians that if they weren’t willing to do that, he wouldn’t ordain them. Scicluna is now “adjunct secretary” to the Dicastery for Doctrine. He gave an interview in the previously troubled Diocese of Orsono in Chile. Quoted by Reuters: “This is probably the first time I’m saying it publicly and it will sound heretical to some people”. See what I mean? I’m sensing a pattern. “If it were up to me, I would revise the requirement that priests have to be celibate,” he said. To his credit, he was talking about priests marrying women. Whatever a woman is these days, who knows. Probably marrying men, too. Or maybe both at the same time?
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1. Q-a6+
If . . . . . . . K×a6
2. B-c8#
If . . . . . . . K-a8 or K-b8
2. Q-c8#
White needs to apply check at once, to prevent Black’s Queen from interfering:
1. Qa6+ Kb8 (or a8)
2. Qc8 mate
Father, today for some unknown reason, I wanted you to be in Rome so I could read a new post about your day and enjoy your photography. Looking forward to your trip at Easter.
“If it were up to me, I would revise the requirement that priests have to be celibate,”
Heretical, no. Impractical, yes. And I like the assumption that men who can’t or won’t handle a life of celibacy will somehow attract a suitable spouse. To get married, someone has to willingly agree to marry you. Its not just some ‘default setting’ that you opt out of.
And, having done so, they will also persevere in such an arduous endeavour as marriage. Self sacrifice and severe discomfort ahead: you’ll sleep in the hospital on a half broken chair; you’ll stay up all night with your child, who happens to be throwing up every hour on the hour; etc, etc. This isn’t a complaint: I love being married and having a family. However, it is an arduous undertaking that requires virtue.
I have often wondered just how much ArchBp Scicluna’s outlook on such things is colored by having worked in CDF on the worst of the absolute worst clergy abuse cases from around the world for years. The fact that he (or frankly any of those folks who do that gut-churning work year in, year out, may God bless them) was able to emerge with his vocation intact is somewhat miraculous.