“When a priest, a bishop goes after money, the people do not love him – and that's a sign…. St. Paul did not have a bank account, he worked, and when a bishop, a priest goes on the road to vanity, he enters into the spirit of careerism – and this hurts the church very much – ends up being ridiculous: he boasts, he is pleased to be seen, all powerful – and the people do not like that!” …
“Busby Berkeley on hallucinogens,” says John Mulderig, of Catholic News Service.
Additionally, [Baz ] Luhrmann’s script, penned in collaboration with Craig Pearce, tends to glamorize the sinful relationship at the heart of the story, suggesting that an unpleasant spouse and the inherent superiority of the illicit lovers are reason enough to ignore the Sixth Commandment.
As Gatsby himself might put it: Not so, old sport.
In sum:
The film contains scenes of both lethal and nonlethal violence with minimal gore, an uncritical view of adultery, brief semi-graphic adulterous activity as well as some other sexual content, a glimpse of partial nudity, a few uses of profanity, a couple of crude terms and a religious slur.
Ah, Hollywood. You rarely disappoint.
Catharsis it was, yes, when the Bulls’ Nazr Mohammed pushed goofball,cocky, full of himself Heat man LeBron James last night, sending him to the floor. Or so it looked. Bulls coach Thibodeaux called it flopping. So did veteran writer Sam Smith.
Nice flop from James. Hasn’t been down on push since the college guys did when he was in kindergarten.
How it looked is what I refer to. The still-a-punk but crafty as always MVP James was pulling his usual stuff for which he is often not called. Veteran straight-up no-nonsense Mohammed put him down with a shove, or so it looked to me and the crowd at the time.
Nazr was gone from the game, leaving to standing O. from hometown crowd. But important point had been made with the hotshot, and the game went on, the Bulls eventually losing steam and accuracy but making a game of it
Lady at Y, about to enter pool as I get out of it: “How’s the water?”
Oh boy. As if there’s a pollution problem.
Friend Mack answers that question, when he’s asked, “Not as wet as yesterday.” You have to be a very nice guy to get away with that. He is.
Showing how a truly liberal institution can do things.
Reference is to onetime forbidding of such a mass, for fear of its popularity undermining liturgical “reform.”
New spokeswoman for U.S. bishops put in a few months with Sarah Palin, ’09 to ’10 as an advisor. Hackles rose on the Left. She was defended by Austen Ivereigh, who has worked with her on her Catholic Voices site:
“Knowing of her involvement with Sarah Palin’s campaign,” said Ivereigh, “I expected to find someone with Republican views. But what I met was a Catholic first, whose faith gives her a much higher horizon than U.S. party politics offers. She’s deeply pro-life and passionate about religious liberty, but she’ll go out to bat for migrants and underpaid workers and against the death penalty — in other words, she embodies the Church’s social teaching in all its breadth and depth.”
via A Fresh Catholic Voice at the U.S. Bishops’ Conference | Daily News | NCRegister.com.
Very good. How is she on fiscal responsibility and pro-growth government policies, without which the whole shootin’ match goes down the drain, even for well-intentioned people?
“Trouble . . . is you don’t know what’s in it until it’s too late.”
– Mrs. W. in Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (Cape)
Reviewed in Times Literary Supplement 12/9/2011
“When we prefer to gossip, gossip about others, criticize others- these are everyday things that happen to everyone, including me – these are the temptations of the evil one who does not want the Spirit to come to us and bring about peace and meekness in the Christian community”.
“These struggles always exist” in the parish, in the family, in the neighborhood, among friends”. Instead through the Spirit we are born into a new life, he makes us “meek, charitable.”
. . . in midst of email-x-change back and forth about rapid transit train riding of old, this:
As a Southsider, our stop was the end of the line at 63rd and Stony where we then caught the number 5 Jeffery bus. A friend’s mother once told him never marry beneath your station. His first thought was why his mother would ever think he wanted to marry under the 63rd street station.
Case of first thoughts being great ones.
. . . and ending with announcement of new cloud drives. Great sell copy.
This year’s ersatz World Backup Day holiday coincides with a real one, Easter, and, while you could make analogies about resurrecting your data, the holiday the event’s organizers want to focus on is the one that comes a day later: April Fool’s Day: If you’re not backed up, there’s a chance you could end up looking like a fool.
Inspired.
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