Words I never thought I would write. I agree with Fr. James Martin, SJ, on this one.
"Mr. Ratzinger"? Apparently The New York Times Style Manual was written by someone who was high, unconscious or both. http://t.co/b5HbCb9XeU
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) October 5, 2013
The article in question is in Hell’s Bible HERE. Here’s a screen shot with the highlighted text:
Each language has it’s conventions of address and each major publication has a style sheet. This is seriously wrong.
Since I originally posted this I have also been able to add
MORSE CODE
and
KLINGON
I also updated the audio player so that it actually works. Some of the prayers have a sound recording. I am hoping for many more (especially the Klingon).
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A long time ago now, I wrote a prayer for people to use before they got online and used the internet. Originally in Latin, it has been translated into many languages (sometimes more than once).
I often forget to pray before using the internet. I often fail in charity when using it. This tool of social communication and research and entertainment has amazing upsides and spiritually deadly perils. We all should be very careful in how we use it – and through – use each other, “use” in the finer sense of “treat”.
A little while ago I got a version in Tamil. Today I found a new one in my email box.
WARNING: It may not show up correctly if you don’t have the right fonts. Someone posted a comment on this, below.
So, here is the newest version in ….
ARAMAIC!
ܨܠܽܘܬܳܐ ܩܕܳܡ ܡܰܥܰܠܬܳܐ ܠܶܐܢܬܶܪܢܶܬܳܐ
ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ ܡܨܶܐ ܐܰܚܺܝܕ ܟܽ݀ܠ ܘܰܡܬܽܘܡܳܝܳܐ:
ܕܰܒܪ݂ܳܐ ܠܰܢ ܒܨܰܠܡܳܟ ܘܰܦܩ݂ܰܕ ܠܰܢ
ܠܡ݂ܶܒܥܳܐ ܒܳܬܰܪ ܟܽ݀ܠ ܡܶܕܶܡ ܕܺܝܬ ܛܳܒܳܐ.
ܘܫܰܪܺܝܪܳܐ. ܘܫܰܦܺܝܪܳܐ. ܝܰܬܺܝܪܳܐܝܺܬ
ܒܦܰܪܨܽܘܦܳܐ ܐܰܠܳܗܳܝܳܐ ܕܰܒܪܳܟ
ܐܺܝܚܺܝܕܳܝܳܐ ܡܳܪܰܢ ܝܶܫܽܘܥ ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ.
ܗ݂ܰܒ ܒܳܥܶܝ̇ܢܰܢ ܡ݂ܶܢܳܟ ܕܰܒܬܰܟܫܶܦܬܳܐ
ܕܡܳܪܝ̱ ܐܺܝܣܺܕܳܪܽܘܣ ܚܰܣܝܳܐ ܘܡܰܠܦܳܢܳܐ
ܕܰܢ݂ܕܰܒܰܪ ܠܺܐܝ̈ܕܰܝܢ ܘܰܠܥܰܝ̈ܢܰܝܢ
ܒܰܠܚܽܘܕ ܥܰܠ ܡܶܕܶܡ ܕܫ̇ܳܦܰܪ ܠܳܟ
ܒܡܰܪ̈ܕܝܳܬܳܐ ܕܺܝܠܰܢ ܥܰܠ ܐܶܢܬܶܪܢܶܬܳܐ.
ܘܢܶܣ݂ܥܽܘܪ ܠܟܽ݀ܠܗܶܝܢ ܢܰܦ̈ܫܳܢ ܕܢܶܚ݂ܙܶܐ
ܒܚܽܘܒܳܐ ܘܒܰܡܣܰܝܒܪܳܢܽܘܬܳܐ. ܒܝܰܕ
ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ ܡܳܪܰܢ .ܐܰܡܺܝܢ܀
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On the Feast of St. Francis, Patron of Italy, Pope Francis went to Assisi.
During one talk he clarified that the “peace” with which St. Francis is often associated is “not something saccharine“.
To the dismay of LCWR keynote speakers everywhere, neither is peace “a kind of pantheistic harmony with forces of the cosmos”.
True peace, in fact, begins with the Cross: “It is the peace of Christ, which is born of the greatest love of all, the love of the cross. It is the peace which the Risen Jesus gave to his disciples when he stood in their midst and said: “Peace be with you!”, and in saying this, he showed them his wounded hands and his pierced side (cf. Jn 20:19-20).”
All sorts of strange things are said about Francis (both of them, but I have here in mind the Saint). For example, some think that it is more authentically Franciscan to celebrated Holy Mass wearing a burlap bag and holding a wooden cup. What Did il Poverello Really Say? From the Opuscula Omnia Sancti Francisci Assisiensis
Epistola ad custodes
To all the custodians of the Friars Minor to whom this letter shall come, Brother Francis, your servant and little one in the Lord God, greetings with new signs of heaven and earth which are great and most excellent before God and are considered least of all by many religious and by other men.
I beg you more than if it were a question of myself that, when it is becoming and you will deem it convenient, you humbly beseech the clerics to venerate above all the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Name and written words which sanctify the body. They ought to hold the chalices, corporals, ornaments of the altar, and all that pertain to the Sacrifice as precious. And if the most holy Body of the Lord is left very poorly in any place, let It be moved by them to a precious place, according to the command of the Church and let It be carried with great veneration and administered to others with discretion. The Names also and written words of the Lord, In whatever unclean place they may be found, let them be collected, and then they must be put in a proper place. And in every time you preach,admonish the people about penance and that no one can be saved except he that receives the most holy Body and Blood of the Lord. And whenever It is being sacrificed by the priest on the altar and It is being carried to any place, let all the people give praise, honor, and glory to the Lord God Living and True on their bended knees. And let His praise be announced and preached to all peoples so that at every hour and when the bells are rung praise and thanks shall always be given to the Almighty God by all the people through the whole earth.
And whoever of my brothers custodians shall receive this writing, let them copy it and keep it with them and cause it to be copied for the brothers who have the office of preaching and the care of brothers, and let them preach all those things that are contained in this writing to the end: let them know they have the blessing of the Lord God and mine. And let these be for them true and holy obedience.
And I think we all remember St. Francis’ approach to ecumenical dialogue.
During the Obama Shutdown, Catholic military chaplains who say Mass, marry, bury or baptize face arrest.
From Catholic Vote:
MILITARY PRIESTS FACE ARREST FOR CELEBRATING MASS IN DEFIANCE OF SHUTDOWN
Our government is out of control.
First, it was the World War II veterans who had to break down barriers to see the open air, un-attended memorial erected in their honor. A memorial which is on public land but is supported – including the National Park Service fee – with private funds. This week there was more security surrounding this memorial — just to keep elderly veterans out — than there was at our embassy in Benghazi the night it was attacked.
And for what? To inflict as much pain as possible through this government shutdown. It’s called Washington Monument Syndrome, and it’s pure political theater.
But now there’s a story just coming to light that takes things even further. According the Archdiocese for Military Services, GS and contract priests (who are paid by the federal government as independent contractors in places where there aren’t enough active-duty priests to meet the needs of Catholics in military service) are being forbidden from celebrating Mass, even on a volunteer basis.
If they violate this restriction, they face possible arrest. FOR CELEBRATING MASS.
From John Schlageter, General Counsel for the Archdiocese:
There is a chronic shortage of active duty Catholic chaplains. While roughly 25% of the military is Catholic, Catholic priests make up only about 8% of the chaplain corps. That means approximately 275,000 men and women in uniform, and their families, are served by only 234 active-duty priests. The temporary solution to this shortage is to provide GS and contract priests. These men are employed by the government to ensure that a priest is available when an active duty Catholic Chaplain is not present. With the government shutdown, GS and contract priests who minister to Catholics on military bases worldwide are not permitted to work – not even to volunteer. During the shutdown, it is illegal for them to minister on base and they risk being arrested if they attempt to do so.
As an example, if a Catholic family has a Baptism scheduled at the base chapel at Langley AFB this weekend, unless they can locate a priest who is not a GS or contract priest, they should consider it cancelled. Likewise, a Marine who attends Sunday Mass at the Quantico Chapel will have to go elsewhere this weekend. If you are a Catholic stationed in Japan or Korea and are served by a Contract or GS priest, unless you speak Korean or Japanese and can find a church nearby, then you have no choice but to go without Mass this weekend. Until the Federal Government resumes normal operations, or an exemption is granted to contract or GS priests, Catholic services are indefinitely suspended at those worldwide installations served by contract and GS priests.
At a time when the military is considering alternative sources of funding for sporting events at the service academies, no one seems to be looking for funding to ensure the Free Exercise rights of Catholics in uniform. Why not?
This shutdown impacts Catholics in the military worldwide. In the DC-metro area, it specifically impacts bases like Quantico. On the Facebook page for the Archdiocese, Catholic military members commenting on the story are not happy. Comments include:
“This is outrageous!!! Especially threatening them with arrest to voluntarily do their job.”
“Unbelievable! I was worried about this because our priest is contracted as well. It is bad enough to be furloughed but to not have a Mass to attend, is a real downer,”
“Just one example, a couple is getting married tomorrow at a large Air Force Base that is staffed by a Contract priest. That priest did all of their marriage prep, and has gotten to know the couple very well over the past few months. But with the shutdown, he cannot perform their wedding. Instead of the priest that the couple has come to know and love, an active duty priest has to be sent in to perform the wedding of two people who are strangers to him and he to them.”
” Is anyone up there going to start a protest?! A rosary ?!?!? A nice Catholic riot maybe?! PLEEEAAASSEEE?! SOMEONE?! ANYONE?! Any real Carholics out there?!!!!???!”
This is outrageous. It is a violation of the First Amendment. It is a prohibition of the free exercise of religion to order priests under penalty of arrest that they cannot volunteer their time to offer Mass to the faithful on base. This cannot be allowed to stand.
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Read the rest there… and get angry.
What do you want to bet that The First Gay President, the Granter of Waivers, the Selective Upholder, would take time of campaigning to grant a chaplain – even during his Shutdown – to marry two men.
Here is something curious.
The Holy Father meets with his new Gang of 8, the cardinalatial kitchen cabinet, for – what? – 3 days? Did I get that right?
Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ, the papal spokesman said that during the meetings of the Gang of 8 the issue of clerical sexual abuse did not come up.
Really?
I find this fascinating.
Think about this.
Had Benedict XVI had a Gang of X, and had the papal spokesman said that the topic of clerical sexual abuse was not discussed by them with Benedict, the MSM would have thrown a grand mal spittle-flecked nutty.
Pope Francis has – so far – successfully refocused the world’s attention elsewhere.
Also, be careful. Don’t conflate discussion of possible regional tribunals that took place during the recent consistory with the 3-day discussions of the Gang of 8. Moreover, there will – of course – be local news coverage of clerical sexual abuse when and if new cases arise. For example, I’ve been watching with consternation another break-out in my native place of St. Paul and Minneapolis. But, that’s not the point.
Francis and the Gang did not address this issue and there is no liberal outrage, not even from the usual suspects of the catholic Left.
I guess this is no longer a burning issue.
One of the stranger groups of women religious who belong to the LCWR crowd are the Sinsinawa Domincans, whose motherhouse is in southern Wisconsin, in the Diocese of Madison.
You might review my post NUNS GONE WILD for a glimpse of Sr. Donna Quinn, a Sinsinawa Domincan and pro-abortion advocate.
A blogger in the Madison, WI, area, Elizabeth Durack, who is also a commentatrix here, has put together an objective study of the Sinsinawa Domincans in order to find out who they are and what they are doing.
Here is the email I received:
“This email is the first announcement (except to the Sinsinawa Dominicans themselves) of an unprecedented and detailed report on doctrinal and disciplinary problems within one of the largest congregations of LCWR women religious. This is now available in full on a website, fathermazzuchellisociety.org , it is also available as a PDF, and I have made a print-on-demand book edition also, priced to avoid making any profit off it. The aim of this grassroots lay project is the good of souls, the good of the Church, the advancement of the New Evangelization. Under the name The Father Mazzuchelli Society, we are also promoting devotion to their holy Founder, whose own words about his intentions for the sisters are a stark contrast with what many of them have turned into. We want the Catholic mission of Venerable Father Samuel Mazzuchelli to be carried forward in our day, and in order that he may inspire the New Evangelization we are announcing also today that we have published a new and less expensive book edition of his excellent Memoirs.
A Report on the Sinsinawa Dominicans Today is by a 35 year old lay woman, Elizabeth Durack, acting on her own initiative after becoming sad and disturbed at witnessing the apparent state of things. The Report is based primarily on the Sinsinawa Dominicans’ publicly viewable email discussion list archive, and tells of the sisters’ discussions on “what is Eucharist to me,” their adversarial “relationship with the institutional Church,” and the most complete telling yet of the story of radical feminist and abortion-rights activist Sister Donna Quinn, as well as the story of a good and true sister who has been entirely obscure, the late Sister Francis Assisi Loughery. Read about the Dominican sisters’ feminist alternative to the Liturgy of the Hours, their angst filled discussions about removing male language for God from their vow formula, and their attachment to giving homilies at Mass. And throughout the project, learn of their belief in “women priests,” a key motivating concern behind this initiative, because this is something that breaks the Communion of the Church.
I have done my best to approach this project with charity and for the good of souls, and I ask media outlets including blogs to also have that at heart, while doing all that is possible to promote Catholic truth and warn people away from error.”
For the sake of full disclosure, I have a bone to pick with these sisters, but that is not why I am posting this.
Here is a sample from page 31 in the PDF version of the document:
Some Sisters felt affronted by what they felt were “unsubstantiated accusations” in the LCWR doctrinal assessment. In particular, not all the Sisters thought of themselves as “radical feminists.”
However, some very much did see themselves in the CDF’s assessment. Sister Clare Wagner wrote on the Sinsinawa email discussion list SinsinOP:
The phrase “unsubstantiated accusations” gave me pause and cause me to wince. That is because for myself, many religious and LCWR members the “accusations” are not “unsubstantiated.”
- We do support Network.
- We talk about and look toward the choice of ordination for women.
- We are at odds with some of the teachings on human sexuality.
- We are radical feminists who oppose patriarchal domination.
- We do at times challenge positions taken by bishops.
- We do not agree to “submission of intellect and will.”
- We differ with the magisterium on ecclesiology.
- We accept the Systems Thinking Handbook.
Sister Clare Wagner tells the truth when she says: “The accusations ARE substantiated.”
A long time ago now, I wrote a prayer for people to use before they got online and used the internet. Originally in Latin, it has been translated into many languages (sometimes more than once).
My page with all the translations is HERE. You can always find it by going to the list of Pages at the bottom of this blog.
I often forget to pray before using the internet. I often fail in charity when using it. This tool of social communication and research and entertainment has amazing upsides and spiritually deadly perils. We all should be very careful in how we use it – and through – use each other, “use” in the finer sense of “treat”.
A little while ago I got a version in Tamil. Today I found a new one in my email box.
So, here is the newest version in ….
ESPERANTO!
Preĝo Antaŭ Ensaluti la Interreto
Plenpotenca kaj Eterna Dio, kiu nin kreis laŭ Cia bildo, kaj petis nin serĉi ĉion bonan, veran, kaj belan, speciale en la Dipersono, Cia Solenaskita Filo, nia Sinjoro Jesuo Kristo, bondonu, ni petegas al vi, ke, per la propeto de Sanktulo Isidoro, Episkopo kaj Doktoro, dum niaj vojaĝoj je la Interreto, ni direktu niajn manojn kaj okulojn sole al tiu, kiu plaĉas al Ci, kaj traktu, kun karitato kaj pacienco, ĉiujn, kiujn ni renkontas. Pere de Kristo, nia Sinjoro. Amen.
My correspondent says that he wasn’t perfectly happy with every aspect but that it is comprehensible.
At Sensible Bond a commentator reminded me of a song I haven’t heard for a long time.
“Ring them bells St. Peter
Where the four winds blow
Ring them bells with an iron hand
So the people will know
Oh it’s rush hour now
On the wheel and the plow
And the sun is going down
Upon the sacred cowRing them bells Sweet Martha
For the poor man’s son
Ring them bells so the world will know
That God is one
Oh the shepherd is asleep
Where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled
With lost sheepRing them bells for the blind and the deaf
Ring them bells for all of us who are left
Ring them bells for the chosen few
Who will judge the many when the game is through
Ring them bells, for the time that flies
For the child that cries
When innocence diesRing them bells St. Catherine
From the top of the room
Ring them from the fortress
For the lilies that bloom
Oh the lines are long
And the fighting is strong
And they’re breaking down the distance
Between right and wrong”
Alas, I don’t have the Zuhlio cover for this. Zuhlio was unavailble for comment.
Last night on Bill O’Reilly’s show we were treated to a nutty display by a … and I can’t believe I am about to type this … full professor at Notre Shame. Prof. Candida Moss attacked O’Reilly for not mentioning in his new book, Killing Jesus, that … well, here’s Fox News Insider to tell you the tale!
Candida Moss, professor of New Testament at the University of Notre Dame, wrote a critical review of Bill O’Reilly’s best-selling book,
Killing Jesus. In a Daily Beast column, Moss slammed O’Reilly for not mentioning the free health care offered by Jesus. [?!?]
Tonight on The Factor, O’Reilly and Moss went head-to-head over the history of Jesus. She called it an “oversight” that O’Reilly failed to mention Jesus’ insistence that the wealthy give away their possessions. [Is that the point of O’Reilly’s book? I haven’t read it.]
O’Reilly reminded her that his book is not about the doctrine. He said it’s dramatically clear that Jesus stood up for the poor. Moss fired back, “No, it’s a historical fact that he told people that in order to go to heaven they had to give away their possessions.” [?!?]
O’Reilly told Moss, “You’re taking it literally when these are parables. If you’re going to sit there, professor, as a theology professor at Notre Dame and tell me that everybody on this earth has to sell all their stuff and can’t have anything, or they’re not going to heaven, I’m going to say you’re a loon.” [And we are going to repeat it: she’s a loon.]
Candida disagreed, saying, “A rich man is condemned to hell merely for not giving away his possessions.” [And for not voting for Pres. Obama!]
O’Reilly called her out for misreading the gospel. He clarified that people have an obligation to help the poor, and that if possessions rule over you, then you will not go to heaven. “But he didn’t say you gotta sell everything, because then you’re going to hell, I’m going to hell and everybody watching is going to hell.”
“Jesus is not a free market capitalist,” Moss responded. “I think in your book, […] you misrepresent and cherry pick the facts.”
So, who is this person?
The Cardinal Newman Society – see their feed on my side bar! – has been watching her antics for a while.
Back in February CNS wrote:
Yale-educated University of Notre Dame professor of New Testament and early Christianity, Candida Moss has released a video promoting her new book, “The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom.”
In the video, Moss discounts the accounts of early Christian martyrdom:
[Let’s pause and watch Candida plug her own crazy theory.]
[Wow… just wow… ROFL! If you made it through that, kudos. Let’s move on.]
Contrary to traditional Church teaching, and popular belief, Christians were not systematically tortured and killed by the Romans merely because they refused to deny Christ. [Right, they were periodically tortured and killed.]
Rather, these stories were exaggerated, revised, and forged, often centuries later, and the history of the Church was reshaped in order to combat heresy, to inspire and educate the faithful, and to fund Churches.
She describes the goals of her book as “getting the history right,” and to “expose the dangerous legacy that these misunderstandings about Christian martyrdom have had for us today.”
The rhetoric of martyrdom and persecution persists especially in the language of the religious and political right, [?!?] and just as early Christians employed the martyrdom myth, this myth is still used to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of cultural warriors. [THAT’s why we venerate martyrs!]
The idea that Christians are, by their very nature, persecuted, is grounded in an inaccurate history of the early Church. Christians were not relentlessly persecuted in the first few centuries, and they’re not systematically and continually persecuted today.
Moss is delivering a lecture on the topic on March 21 at the Washington National Cathedral. The description of that talk says that “there is the troubling use of this heritage to silence the voice of those who act outside the perceived orthodoxies of the day.”
Let’s now see the O’Reilly video. O’Reilly makes some mistakes along the way: Jesus actually said certain things or he didn’t and how we interpret them is a theological exercise. But let that pass for now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1IzvCv9AQ&feature=player_embedded
Okay, having watched the videos two questions come to mind.
QUAERUNTUR: What’s the real reason O’Reilly had her on? And do you think she figured it out?
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