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Rome and Romans have an odd rude elegance. It is an amazing fact that, back in the day, the people in the street and the Roman nobility spoke the same dialect. In the photos we have the weird (certainly thoughtless) juxtaposition of a place with an old sign about the sale of religious articles and a t-shirt with a vulgar idiom that means something like “I don’t give a ****!” and “Holy ‘cow’!” depending on the circumstances. In the second, we have a form of pasta which are literally called “priest stranglers”. I have been know to carry this to an extreme when making “Suppers for the Promotion of Clericalism” with my brother priests (not excluding a couple bishops) when I have made strozza preti alla putanesca.
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Meanwhile, in chessy news… in Bucharest, Fabiano Caruana is in the lead. Unfortunately, Alireza “Puer” Firouzja bested my guy Wesley So in the day’s only clear victory. The action continues today, even I as write they are at it. Today Fabi is up against Gukesh, who will challenge Ding Liren for the champ title in Singapore. Wesley faces dangerous Nodirbek.
On a personal note, yesterday at OTB I played very well, winning all my games. I took advantage of a few misplays and also had really good end games, which I seem to be good at. Now if I can only clean up my middle game.
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Meanwhile, white to move and mate in 4.
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Priest stranglers!
Now that made me laugh.
Sometimes a silent gesture like serving strozza preti is all that needs to be said!
I’m in the midst of a history of the Avignon papacy. The Romans seem to be constantly communicating to the popes during this period:
“Come back so we can kill you violently.” The natural response being “no,” there follows a lament about how cruel they are and how the papacy is corrupted by the French. Then, the popes try to come back and the Romans riot and conive with local lords to stop them. I guess the popes spent very little times in Rome during the century before Clement V, for just such reasons.
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Your comment about an Ordinariate made me think of the Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans. Cardinal Fernandez was at Westminster Cathedral recently to ordain a new bishop-ordinary for the Ordinariate in England and Wales, the Most Rev. David Waller. He preached (and the Vatican published on its website) the homily I linked to above, which I thought was pretty straightforward and quite good.
Why couldn’t its terms be applied to Catholics attached to the older rite? Why couldn’t the same respect for Anglican liturgical tradition be showed to the Tridentine tradition, or why couldn’t the space afforded for those attached to the Anglican patrimony be extended to those attached to the Tridentine patrimony? Especially when one considers how similar the Ordinariates’ Mass is to the Tridentine Mass!
Wow, Pinocchio’s Catholic. He’s got to be Novus Ordo with those knees.