Let’s stick with one church for a bit.
MONDAY EVENING UPDATE: @HolySeePress has said #PopeFrancis “continues to be apyretic [no fever] & is continuing the prescribed treatment. His clinical condition is stable…He wishes especially to thank those who are currently hospitalized, for the affection & love they express.” https://t.co/WhsBOGux5Z
— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) February 17, 2025
From my dear friend His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Tim Finigan:
The writing of Sigrid Undset in this life of St Catherine of Siena is engaging and “tight”. Her judgement in matters of extraordinary events and miracles is balanced without being unnecessarily skeptical. I found this book a delight.https://t.co/XRFiu8FuSN pic.twitter.com/c0lTjSEb2v
— Fr Timothy Finigan (@FatherTF) February 17, 2025
Priests rarely speak to their superiors with manly honesty, and some bishops penalize honesty more than ecclesiastical misdemeanors and crimes. https://t.co/w7XHAow5eM
— Father V (@father_rmv) February 17, 2025
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White can mate in 3. Can you find it in under 60 seconds?
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
Yesterday Wei Yi won the Swiss play in and qualifies With 7 others (including Wei Yi, Alexander Grischuk, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Sam Sevian, and Anish Giri ) for playoffs for the 2025 Chessable Masters. Some invited players are are up today including Magnus Carlsen, my guy Wesley So, Arjun Erigaisi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Hikaru Nakamura, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Fabiano Caruana, and Alireza “Puer” Firouzja. Today Wesley will play and hopefully defeat Yu Yangyi. Learn about the tournament HERE. E-Sports. It’s a thing.
Magnus and Fabi joined a huge e-sports team called Team Liquid. Wesley So, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and Oleksandr Bortnyk have joined a Ukrainian team which has a LATIN name! Natus Vincere I think I know which team I might favor.
What is the church in the photo?
The icons are beautiful, the colour of the stone is pleasing. A very beautiful building,
Qxh7+, Kxh7
Pxg6+, Pxg6
Be4#
Well over 60 seconds.
Other moves looked promising, at first.
Process of elimination.
Black threatens Pc1(Q)+ unless kept in check.
Surprised to see the what look to me to be the arms of Innocent IX. didn’t think he had time to post them!
Pope Francis has double pneumonia:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c789l779p3xo
Qxh7+
Kxh7
Pxg6+
Kxg6
Be4++
And yeah, under 60 seconds :-)
I see now: Santa Maria della Pace.
I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the story, but supposedly when our corrupt and perverted former Bishop met with some of his Priests he said to one who was portly that perhaps he ought to think about losing some weight, and the Priest suggested in reply that the Bishop ought to mind his own business. Oddly enough, the Priest soon found himself transferred to a parish in the remote coalfield area of the diocese. The Bishop shortly after being installed issued a pastoral letter entitled “A Church that Heals” (which I liked to call “A Church of Heels”) telling we members of his new flock that we are all too fat and smoke too much. I am guessing that no one in the chancery was honest enough to tell him that his letter would not go over well.
1. Qxh7+ Kxh7
2. hxg6+ Kg6
3. Be4#
< 60s
when our corrupt and perverted former Bishop met with some of his Priests he said to one who was portly that perhaps he ought to think about losing some weight, and the Priest suggested in reply that the Bishop ought to mind his own business.
Sorry, but that is imprudent in the extreme from the priest. (Yes, from the bishop too, but the powerful have a greater chance of getting away with imprudence while this world lasts.)
He had better be silent, say nothing, and punch the wall really hard afterwards.
And besides, it really is not true that the priests’ healths are in the precise sense of the term “none of the bishops business”. They somewhat are; what is true is that that doesn’t make it a sensible thing for the bishop to make insulting comments that cannot possibly even help in the intended sense, and less so in front of others.
But even that is sort of “usual-superior-behavior”, isn’t it. How would a drill instructor react if being told by his recruit to mind his own business after a mutatis-mutandis similar derogatory comment? And the claim of the bishop (whether corrupt and perverted, or not) to obedience is not less.
What the priest perhaps could have said, if he could not bear it otherwise, was something like falling to his left knee in front of the others and say thank His Excellency for the grace of humiliation, and especially the great grace to be humbled in front of the others, or the like…