I’m heading off to meet friends for a few days of, hopefully, fun and to catch up with some folks I haven’t seen for awhile in a great city.
We the hardened-travelers get the perk of a little bottle of water.
Wowie!
How they lavish attention on us.
UPDATE
Next leg. Arrival and next gate next to each other, saves a dash across the airport.
Last leg.
UPDATE
Ground delay. Grrrr.
Watched a classic tonight, On The Waterfront (1954).
Have you young’uns never seen it?
This is from when movies were movies and you didn’t have constant edits and shots of less than a second.
And if the music sounds like West Side Story, it’s because the same guy wrote both of them.
Just one more scene… one more famous scene….
One moral of the story… avoid the company of bad friends.
NASA has released photos of Pluto and its moon, the aptly named Charon.
The craft New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto today, 14 July 2015.
Here is a false color composite:
New Horizons’ almost 10-year, three-billion-mile journey to closest approach at Pluto took about one minute less than predicted when the craft was launched in January 2006. The spacecraft threaded the needle through a 36-by-57 mile (60 by 90 kilometers) window in space — the equivalent of a commercial airliner arriving no more off target than the width of a tennis ball.
Because New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft ever launched – hurtling through the Pluto system at more than 30,000 mph, a collision with a particle as small as a grain of rice could incapacitate the spacecraft. Once it reestablishes contact Tuesday night, it will take 16 months for New Horizons to send its cache of data – 10 years’ worth — back to Earth.
More HERE.
Over at the Fishwrap (aka National Sodomitic Reporter – organ of record for the promotion of heresy and same-sex impurity for liberal catholics) MS Winters has had still another case of the vapors.
From his view athwart the NSR fainting couch, Winters penned a long, mostly dull, yet nasty screed against, among others, his favorite bête noire, Acton Institute. HERE
Notice what Winters does. First, he indulges in a simply nasty ad hominem attack (which I don’t cite here) on Fr. Robert Sirico, head of Acton Institute. Later, he suggests that Pope Francis – yes, the Pope – should censor Acton… why?
Pope Francis said on the plane back from Latin America that before he comes to the U.S. in September he will read some of the criticisms of his words. Here are two candidates for his reading. Gregg and his colleagues at Acton are ideologues, pure and simple, and the pope need not address their arguments, only their influence. Well funded, they try to spread their laissez faire Gospel throughout the ecclesial world, flying in bishops from developing nations to their seminars and lectures. Anything the pope could do to clip their wings would be welcome.
Get that?
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
Winters wants his enemy to be repressed by papal authority.
It is marvelously ironic that anyone at the Fishwrap wants an intervention of papal authority. When has the Fishwrap respected ecclesial authority?
Moreover, the claim that Acton pushes “laissez faire” capitalism is a lie, but the Wile. E. Coyote of contemporary liberal catholicism is willing to tell it boldly and repeatedly. HERE
What else might lie behind MsW’s fascist approach to Acton?
Think about what is at stake for Fishwrap and its writers.
Who will hold the line on the Church’s moral teaching at the Synod of Bishops? Bishops from “developing countries” (read: Africa).
Bishops in developing countries are willing to listen to Acton because what Acton promotes (not laissez-faire capitalism) helps to lift real people from poverty.
Finally, what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
To the Catholic Bishops of these United States:
Please require that the Fishwrap remove the word “Catholic” from their title.
Require them – finally – to stop pretending. Require them to follow the ruling of the bishop of the place where they have their offices, Kansas City.
“Hey… does that look like a snake to you?”
“Yah… it does kinda!”
“No, it’s a viper.”
“Yah, a viper. You know.. it’s a kind of snake. Poisonous. With venom.”
“But… it’s still a snake… right?”
“You know the old Persian proverb….”
…
“Okay, I’ll bite. What Per….”
“He has eaten so many snakes that he has become a viper.”
…
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“I thought we were talking about the Fishwrap.”
“We ARE talking about…”
“Shut up and watch the movie!”
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UPDATE 14 July:
I will, along with you readers, take partial credit for this:
From what I can tell from my Amazon stats, you have purchased, so far, 276 copies.
That’s a good start!
UPDATE Published on: Jun 22, 2015 @ 11:23
I’m reposting this so more of you can have this opportunity.
So far I see that 211 volumes have been ordered through my link. Happy people!
Now available for order in the UK – £23.75! HERE
___ Original Jun 11, 2015 @ 17:52 CDT ___
I was blessed to have many years of study of Latin with the former Latin scribe for 4 Popes, Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD.
Foster had intense courses for all comers during the academic year and super intense courses during the summers. The homework sheets took most people several hours to complete. There were amazing field trips. You learned to write and to speak. Latin became a working, active language, not a dormant passive tool.
After some health problems and changes, after 40 years of teaching and writing Latin, Foster returned to these USA. Being a force of nature, he still has summer classes in his native Milwaukee.
Last week I spoke by phone with Fr. Foster, “Reggie”, who told me that his collected years and year and years of homework sheets and other materials, decades of work and experience, had been edited for publication in several volumes by Catholic University Press.
The first one will be released on 8 September: Ossa Latinitatis Sola – 800 pages!
This is Reggie’s compilation of the whole Latin language – 2300 years – in 105 encounters. This can be used by individuals or in a classroom.
To Pre-Order click USA HERE – UK HERE
There will later be volumes of his famous – infamous – homework sheets or Ludi Domestici and also his field trip materials. I still have lots of them squirreled away. Having them bound in volumes will be invaluable.
As July zooms by, and August swiftly comes, we all recall I’m sure that quote of Emerson, “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
Thus, my mind turns to the upcoming annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, LCWR.
Once again, they are gathering and, once again, I must apply for press credentials and, once again, I expect to be rejected.
Rejected. Always rejected by the nuns.
This year the nuns will meditate on “the Great Deep”. From their site:
Springs of the Great Deep Burst Forth: Meeting the Thirsts of the World
Over the years, women religious have been drawn to live more deeply out of a contemplative stance. This stance leads us to explore the world with a vision that penetrates below the surface and draws wisdom and insight from those great depths. The assembly theme, “Springs of the Great Deep Burst Forth: Meeting the Thirsts of the World,” comes in part from the account of the creation of the world in Genesis 7:11. As the Israelites named the enormous reservoir of water that they believed was beneath the surface of the earth “The Great Deep,” so we use the same name for the reservoir of wisdom that we believe can be accessed through living a life of contemplation.
This assembly will explore what is being accessed these days from the Great Deep by women religious, as well as what may be drawn from it to meet the many urgent thirsts experienced throughout the world.
Shall I be granted press credentials?
To quote the Pope.. Alexander Pope:
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed:
The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Apologies for the patriarch language.
Today is the anniversary of the Apostolic Constitution Quo primum of St. Pius V, by which – following on the workd of the Council of Trent – the saintly Pope promulgated the Missale Romanum in 1570.
Quo primum set the West on a new course.
I have some posts about Quo primum. For example:
Thanks to Pope Benedict XVI we once again have the unquestioned freedom to use the Missale Romanum, which remained mostly unchanged from the time it was promulgated in 1570.
Here is the oldie podcast, for your convenience.
There will be some maintenance work done to the servers on two dates of August.
5-Aug-2015: Window 20:00 – 23:59 UTC / 13:00 – 17:00 PDT
13-Aug-2015: Window 20:00 – 23:59 UTC / 13:00 – 17:00 PDT
FYI.
Also, I am contemplating other possible changes.
What is your good news?
Do you have some good thing you can share with the readers?
It is encouraging to hear about good things happening to people who participate here.
Can you believe how ridiculous this is getting?
At a guitar shop, teenagers complained that a guitar with the Confederate flag was on display! HERE
Ummm… no, kids. Fail.
Thank you, American educators! Well done.
And then there was the story in the American Mirror about the guy who called 911 because someone was selling Confederate memorabilia at a flea market. The emergency? He was offended!
It gets worse. The police dispatched a car!
This is getting ridiculous.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
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