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Barker, a maker of second-rate movies pretending to be highfalutin (Best Laid Plans, indeed), and writer Howard Himelstein, who apparently has read all of Wilde and pulled his favorite bits for this one outing, have made something perfectly respectable, but something also perfectly...blah. It lies there on the screen, splendid to look at and pleasant to listen to, with its smart-ass chitchat ("Marital bliss is a great burden to place on two people"), but never does it grab you by the collar and blow in your ear and kiss you on the mouth and slap you on the cheek and ask forgiveness before doing it all over again. It's just as happy to shake your hand and go off on its merry way; it's so polite, it's almost rude. Maybe that's why, for some of us, Wilde doesn't hold up as well as, say, Evelyn Waugh, whose Vile Bodies provided the template for Stephen Fry's wowee-zowee Bright Young Things in 2003, which was (like Barker and Himelstein's updating) set around 1930 and had a good time acting naughty. This Good Woman could use a little of that bad.
The story, now updated to the 20th century and moved to Italy and rife with Americans, burbles with classic soapsuds: In Manhattan, a woman named Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) has slept with so many married men that she's apparently run out of warm bodies and warm wallets. Chased out of the city by winks and whispers, she spies in an issue of Town & Country the photo of a young married couple named Meg and Robert Windermere (Scarlett Johansson and Mark Umbers), who are living for the moment in the splendor of Amalfi; surely, she figures, the Wall Street banker has plenty of money to spend on such a rare thing as she.
Sure enough, within but a few minutes of screen time, Mrs. Erlynne is having hush-hush encounters with Robert, which are a secret to no one. The entire population of Amalfi (mostly displaced Brits with as much time on their hands as they have money in their pockets) witnesses their comings and goings--save, of course, for Meg. Mrs. Erlynne, naturally, is up to more than taking cash from Robert's admirable stash. Theirs is a complicated relationship--precisely how complicated, the screenplay makes clear to those paying the slightest bit of attention. Which is to say, not necessarily anyone.
The real fault with this movie lies less with the clunky screenplay from Himelstein than with the acting, of which there is very little of note, despite the estimable talents of Tom Wilkinson as the thrice-married Tuppy, who would make a good woman of Mrs. Erlynne, and Bright Young Thing Stephen Campbell Moore as the never-married Lord Darlington, who would seek to make a veddy bad woman of Johansson's dull thud. (It is painfully ironic that a movie bearing this particular title would have its best performances delivered by men.)
Hunt, who has been little-seen in recent years on screens big or small, doesn't much make us miss her. She's never exactly been a dynamic performer, but as a seductress, she's positively miscast here. As Mrs. Erlynne, she offers the hot-to-trot temptations of a dowdy schoolmarm unleashed on the rec room of an old folks' home. And Johansson, as the young American cavorting with Brits amid Italian splendor in the 1930s, floats adrift in the company of better actors. As in Woody Allen's inexplicably adored Match Point, Johansson seems to be reading her lines off smudged cue cards, her enormous eyes filled with the terror of someone about to be discovered she's in way over her pretty head. Here, perhaps, that's a result of having to fill her mouth with Wilde's spicy dialogue; she all but looks ready to break into a sweat. Which makes one of us.
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I was bored.
Finally found an impressive list of traditional foods from my country. I realize not all of them are very specific to our country, but they're very often cooked. I think I have tasted a bit from all of them.
When I was young I used to love cabbage rolls, mostly because I was a lazy ass.
Has somebody jumped in the Banished bandwagon?
It's totally addictive. And infuriating when famine suddenly strikes out of nowhere.
[EDIT] Also, bought 1kg of sauerkraut. The second fermented food I'm addicted to( the first one being pickled herring). Damn this shit is so good.
Multiplexers, demultiplexers, counters, flip-flops, registers... all these sounded really fun before.
Why does college make me hate things I used to be enthusiastic at the thought of studying them?
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In the quest of finding good nootropics, I've stumbled across Rhodiola Rosea.
It seems like it's one of the best supplements for any kind of effort. It works on improving memory and concentration too if that's the case - it's an adaptogen(idk how that's spelled).
In the past I've taken Lecithin supplements, but they don't seem to have any effect. I've also taken Gingko Biloba, but didn't really felt anything with this either(well it's actually written in the prospect that you have to it continuously for at least 6 months to see any effect).
But 2 weeks ago I finished a batch of 500mg Spirulin capsules. I don't know what kind of improvements they had on my concentration and memory as I didn't study very hard at the time, but I obviously felt more energetic and could get away with less sleep while feeling rested.
I want to take 1000mg capsules of Spirulin and couple them with Rhodiola Rosea. While Spirulin is more affordable, Rhodiola seems a bit... expensive.
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UN Conference in Sendai Adopts Action Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction incorporating Disability-inclusive PerspectivesThe third U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was held from March 14 to 18, 2015, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, focusing one of its working sessions on "disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction" for the first time. The Post-Hyogo Framework for Action adopted at the Sendai conference incorporated the need for disaster management measures inclusive of persons with disabilities and expected to be reflected in future disaster management measures of member states and an important milestone for disability inclusion in international development frameworks such as the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be adopted next fall.From http://globalaccessibilitynews.com/2015/03/20/un-conference-in-sendai-adopts-action-framework-on-disaster-risk-reduction-incorporating-disability-inclusive-perspectives/, March 24, 2015
Most Zambians to Afford ICTGovernment is developing the National Information and Communication Technology - ICT strategic and implementation plan to enable Zambians
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Towards Digital BangladeshOn January 12, 2014, the present government has elapsed one more year towards the destination of Digital Bangladesh. Though one year is not enough for a great leap in progress, I believe, within a year we could initiate a lot of things which would help us to materialize the Digital Bangladesh. I would like to depict a brief picture of the achievements of the ICT sector in 2014 and our initiation and attempts for achieving Digital Bangladesh in the last year. From http://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/24th-anniversary-the-daily-star-part-1/towards-digital-bangladesh-72925, March 22, 2015
UK: Our Cities Must Undergo a Revolution for Older PeopleCities are designed for a mythical average person – super-mobile, without dependants or disabilities but with a cast-iron bladder. This person is more likely to be young than old. And yet by 2030, two-thirds of the world's population will be living in cities and, in high-income societies, a quarter of them will be over the age of 60. There's a paradox at the heart of cities and old people, and it's this: all the research on health and wellbeing – and there's reams of it – suggests that old people are more content and more likely to flourish if they go out, participate in local life and have a decent amount of social interaction.From http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/15/age-friendly-cities-design-future, March 20, 2015
Design for User EmpowermentAs an accessibility researcher, I have noticed that some of the best work comes when there are people with disabilities on the design and development team, contributing to all aspects of the design and implementation, not just as participants in user studies. I call this strong engagement by users design for user empowerment, meaning, in its strongest sense, that the users of the technology are empowered to solve their own accessibility problems. Here, I will try to explain, mostly using examples, why this approach is so powerful.From http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/march-april-2015/design-for-user-empowerment, March 20, 2015
Zimbabwe: National ICT Policy Needs Re-LookThe Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services has been directed to have a relook at the National ICT Policy before presenting it to Cabinet. Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services Minister Supa Mandiwanzira said this while opening the third e-Tech Africa exhibition recently.From http://allafrica.com/stories/201503190395.html, March 20, 2015
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Microsoft Announces IT Pro, Developer Preview of Office 2016 for WindowsI'm pleased to announce the IT Pro and Developer Preview of Office 2016 for the Windows desktop. We've been in private preview with Office 2016 for several months. Now we're ready to expand the program to our commercial Office 365 customers, an important milestone that gives IT pros and developers an opportunity to start testing the upcoming release. To be clear, this early build doesn't yet contain all the features we're planning to ship in the final product. However, through the course of the preview, customers should expect to see new features delivered through monthly updates.From http://bit.ly/1Eq4nFv, March 18, 2015


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Las Hermanas Conference, March 19-21
A good friend of mine is organizing a conference in San Antonio, TX to "honor the history, development, and legacy of Las Hermanas, a grassroots Latina movement formed 40 years ago to challenge and change the church and its role in society." It will be held March 19-21, and it looks like they have a great program of spearkers including:
- Lara Medina, Ph.D., author of Las Hermanas: Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism in the U.S. Catholic Church (Temple University Press, 2004).
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- Theresa L. Torres, Ph.D., author of The Paradox of Latina Religious Leadership in the Catholic Church (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).
So, If you find yourself in San Antonio later this month, check it out. You can register here: http://uiw.edu/lashermanas/.
What's Changed Since Selma?
Saturday marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. On hand for the jubilee celebration will be Barack Obama. Last November, on the night it was learned that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the shooting death of Michael Brown, the president spoke briefly on the rule of law and the need for peaceful protest. He went on to say: "What is also true is that there are still problems, and communities of color aren't just making these problems up. Separating that from this particular decision, there are issues in which the law too often feels as if it is being applied in discriminatory fashion. I don't think that's the norm. I don't think that's true for the majority of communities or the vast majority of law enforcement officials. But these are real issues. And we have to lift them up and not deny them or try to tamp them down."
What would seem a blow against entrenched denialism was struck earlier this week when the Justice Department released its report detailing civil rights abuses by Ferguson's police force and municipal officials -- practices that Conor Friedersdorf likened to the kind of criminality favored by the Mafia. The repugnance of the behaviors documented (including taser attacks, canine attacks, physical and verbal intimidation, unlawful detainment, and implementation of an extortionate system of compounding fines for minor traffic violations, all targeting people of color) support the analogy. Not all municipalities resemble Ferguson; the problem is that any do. "What happened in Ferguson is not a complete aberration," the president reiterated Friday. "It's not just a one-time thing. It's something that happens." Meanwhile, criticism of the Justice Department's report from certain quarters as politically motivated isn't just off-base, or offensive; it also simultaneously reflects and reinforces what's illustrated by the findings.
Last year, which in addition to the police-related death of Michael Brown also saw those of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Akai Gurley, marked as well the twenty-fifth anniversary of Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing. The 1989 release was preceded by a stream of ugly commentary masquerading as criticism from nominally reputable pundits and reviewers who took issue with the movie's climactic depiction of a riot. David Denby: "If some audiences go wild, he's partly responsible." Joe Klein: "David Dinkins [then running for mayor of New York] will also have to pay the price for Spike Lee's reckless new movie about a summer race riot in Brooklyn, which opens June 30 (in not too many theaters near you, one hopes)."Read more
The Continuing Martyrology
Ah, most valiant and blessed martyrs! Truly are you called and chosen for the glory of Christ Jesus our Lord! And any man who exalts, honors, and worships his glory should read for the consolation of the Church these new deeds of heroism which are no less significant than the tales of old. For these new manifestations of virtue will bear witness to one and the same Spirit who still operates, and to God the Father almighty, to his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom is splendor and immeasurable power for all the ages. Amen.
Milad Saber Mounir Adly Saad, single from Menbal village;Sameh Salah Farouq, married, one child, from Manqarius village;Ezzat Boshra Nassif, married, with one son of 4 years, from Dafash village;Mina Shehata Awad, from Al-Farouqeyya village;Louqa Nagati Anis Abdou, 27 years, married, with a baby of 10 months;Essam Baddar Samir Ishaq, single; both from al-Gabaly village.All the following are from Al-Our village:Hany Abdal-Massih Salib, married, three daughters and one son;Guergues Milad Sanyut, single;Tawadraus Youssef Tawadraus, married, three children from 7 to 13 years old;Kyrillos Boschra Fawzy, singleMagued Soliman Shehata, married, two daughters and a son;Mina Fayez Aziz, single;Samouïl Alham Wilson, married, three children, 6, 4 and 2 years old;Bishoï Stephanos Kamel, single;Samouïl Stephanos Kamel, singleMalak Abram Sanyut, married, three children;Milad Makin Zaky, married, one daughter;Abanub Ayyad Ateyya Shehata, singleGuergues Samir Megally Zakher, single;Youssef Shukry Younan, single;Malak Farag Ibrahim, married, a baby daughter.
The 8th Sacrament
Among Catholic high school alumni of a certain age with vivid, if not entirely reliable, memories of their athletic exploits, one sport is regarded with almost sacramental reverence: basketball.
Count me among those whose identities as Catholics and proud members of their urban parishes were formed by the grace of the city game. A recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer (and available here) by columnist Frank Fitzpatrick reminded me of how deep the connection runs.
A life-long Philadelphian, Fitzpatrick is a product of the city's parochial school system and is still actively involved in all things Catholic (and athletic) in the area. He admits to pulling out his high school yearbook "at least three times a week" and is immodestly proud of his ability to "still recite the 1967 all-Catholic basketball team."
In another place and time, his musings could be chalked up to nostalgia. Not in Philadelphia, however, where, he notes, "Philadelphia's parochial-school graduates are as parochial as they come." A good number of his contemporaries, many of them successful college and pro basketball coaches, still live and work in the area. And they share a common bond:
Life's journey, for many of us aging Philadelphia Catholics, will always be more comprehensible and pleasant because of the basketball-flavored network of parishes, gyms, and Catholic League high schools we have in common.
Understanding this phenomenon begins with our childhood parish, the Rosetta Stone to our identities. When we ask, "Where you from?," it's the parish, and not a neighborhood or town, we want to know.
The parish tells us which nuns, priests, and coaches shaped you. It pinpoints the corners and playgrounds where you likely hung out, the athletic talent you played with or against, your friends, your rivals, your taste in sandwich shops.
The same can be said, I imagine, for most Catholic city kids who played varsity ball in high school or who were members of their parish CYO teams.
For those of us who moved away from our home towns and parishes ages ago, the past might not intrude on our daily lives the way it does for Fitzpatrick and his cronies. But the game's influence on our lives and Catholic identities is somehow ever present. Some of us, like Dan Barry, continue to play in cramped church gyms, "breathing in the stale, familiar air of the Catholic Youth Organization past." (His wonderfully evocative account of his "Sunday Obligation" can be found here.) Others, like former pro basketball player Earl Cureton, return each year to the schools that launched them.
And for the rest of, no matter the distances we've traveled—or the current state of our games—basketball remains a signal experience in our lives.
More on Relativism and Politics
As a moral theologian, I often think that claims about "relativism" infecting our society are overblown. Most people, most of the time, do not act as consistent relativists—at most, they view particular issues as relative, and even in these cases, their actual practice suggests implicit moral convictions. However, a recent New York Times piece about teaching a supposed "fact/opinion" distinction to second graders worried me. Domimic Preziosi also noted this piece, connecting it to the problems of artificial intelligence. But my worries are a bit more immediate and political.
The article makes some disputable particular points, but overall, the author rightly shows that a strong distinction between fact and opinion is not coherent. A supposed "fact/value" distinction was in ascendancy in some philosophical circles a century ago, but has been cogently criticized for at least fifty years. Innumerable examples can be adduced to suggest fluidity in both directions: one can have a difference of opinion about who is the best baseball player, but such opinion is itself constrained by facts—there may not be one right answer, but there are very many clearly mistaken answers. From the other direction, how one construes what "the facts" are (or at least what their significance is) is affected by what we value, the moral commitments we have. Again, from this side, we can't completely "make up" facts, but even contemporary neuroscience affirms that what we actually "see" is affected by our commitments.
Oftentimes, it is good practice to ignore comment boxes (except at dotCommonweal, of course), but my concern was amplified by the comments that followed. The Times curates the comments, and so its "picks" rise to the top—and, astonishingly, most of the picks represent quite sane and rational responders who strongly reject the author's claim, and who want very strongly to adhere to this distinction. As one commenter put it:
After reading many of the comments, it seems as though the great majority of the adults reading this blog don't believe in moral facts. And yet, many of them express this by vehemently claiming that McBrayer is WRONG to impose his view on others (implying that it is a moral fact that one shouldn't do this). Believing in moral facts allow us to call certain practices wrong. I believe slavery was and is wrong and that those who ever thought it was permissible had false beliefs—not just that we happened to change our feelings about it. One can believe in moral facts without being the moralistic monster many are claiming Professor McBrayer is (a judgment that seems to be based on the fact that someone apparently noticed he teaches philosophy of religion—an ad hominem if I've ever seen one). The extreme reactions here astound me.
Count me astonished, too. It is well-known that, with a depressing frequency, those on the far Right abandon reasoned discourse about what we should do; it is a supposed virtue that the political Left is more careful about these matters—say, on the economy or the environment. Yet here we have apparently well-educated Times readers displaying very fundamental irrationality. The great achievements of the Progressive Left in the last century—the New Deal, unionism, and civil rights—all sprang from quite firm moral convictions. And indeed, I still think many of these commentators in practice retain these convictions. What is alarming is that they reject a public discourse that could appeal to these moral commitments…at least as anything other than majoritarian preference.
What is going on? Another comment on the McBrayer piece might illustrate the problem:Read more
In a piece titled "The Robots Are Coming," John Lanchester explains why technology may one day force us to choose between capitalism and democracy. The word "socialist" does not appear until the last sentence of the piece, but the drift of Lanchester's argument is clear. And compelling.
A great deal of modern economic discourse takes it as axiomatic that economic forces are the only ones that matter. This idea has bled into politics too, at least in the Western world: economic forces have been awarded the status of inexorable truths. The idea that a wave of economic change is so disruptive to the social order that a society might rebel against it – that has, it seems, disappeared from the realms of the possible. [...]
The scenario we're given—the one being made to feel inevitable—is of a hyper-capitalist dystopia. There's capital, doing better than ever; the robots, doing all the work; and the great mass of humanity, doing not much, but having fun playing with its gadgets. (Though if there's no work, there are going to be questions about who can afford to buy the gadgets.) There is a possible alternative, however, in which ownership and control of robots is disconnected from capital in its current form. The robots liberate most of humanity from work, and everybody benefits from the proceeds: we don't have to work in factories or go down mines or clean toilets or drive long-distance lorries, but we can choreograph and weave and garden and tell stories and invent things and set about creating a new universe of wants. This would be the world of unlimited wants described by economics, but with a distinction between the wants satisfied by humans and the work done by our machines. It seems to me that the only way that world would work is with alternative forms of ownership. The reason, the only reason, for thinking this better world is possible is that the dystopian future of capitalism-plus-robots may prove just too grim to be politically viable. This alternative future would be the kind of world dreamed of by William Morris, full of humans engaged in meaningful and sanely remunerated labour. Except with added robots. It says a lot about the current moment that as we stand facing a future which might resemble either a hyper-capitalist dystopia or a socialist paradise, the second option doesn't get a mention.
A letter from Athens by the American poet A. E. Stallings:
So far, the fledgling government has been struggling to do what it was elected to do—to issue a "great No" to austerity. Now we are in Lent, a season of repentance and second thoughts. But the rhetoric on the banners of Athens would suggest that, even faced with sombre repercussions, the sea of people still thinks it is the right No.
Brenda Wineapple on the extraordinary life of Sybille Bedford:
To this day, I [...] remember her bright blue eyes, her mumbly voice, the bottles of dark wine lined up on the small wooden table in her very small but amply book-lined apartment. I remember that our first talk lasted far into the night. I remember that she was then and continued to be forthright, funny, and scrupulously frank. I remember thinking and then later writing, and considering even now, how remarkable it was that one of the finest stylists of the twentieth century, bar none, with a prose of incomparable precision and grace, would candidly acknowledge her daily battle against discouragement, distraction, and doubt. But that was typical.
I also remember that on September 11, 2001, she was the only friend from afar who telephoned to check on my husband and me. Then again, her life and her work were all about accountability. "Our capacities for suffering are not usually so extensible as are the means of inflicting it," she once observed. "We bear, and may derive strength from having borne, comfort from being still there, comfort from any mercy: the faith of friends, the match struck by a stranger, discovery of reserves."
That is survival.
Indian bishop: remarried Catholics shouldn't be 'rudely refused' Communion.
"I have heard of so many Catholics being rudely refused Eucharistic Communion because they are divorced persons and have remarried," said Bishop Thomas Dabre of Poona, India, during a February 25 conference of priests. "We need to be kind and compassionate in communicating the Church doctrine and dogma," he continued. "We should have polite dialogue with the faithful instead of rudely turning them away."
The seventy-five priests had gathered in central India for a meeting on "effective ministry to families in the light of the Synod." Bishop Dabre also criticized the "contraceptive mentality," especially the widespread availability of condoms. "Sexual morality has sharply and widely declined and has been trivialized. So many betrayals and crimes take place because of the easy accessibility of contraceptives," he said. Dabre serves as a member of the Indian bishops conference Office for Doctrine.
Read the rest at Vatican Radio.
Common Ground
From the editorial boards of America magazine, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter, and Our Sunday Visitor:
Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Glossip v. Gross, a case out of Oklahoma that challenges the most widely used lethal injection protocol as being cruel and unusual punishment.
The court took up the case in January after a year of three high-profile, problematic executions in three states. The court will likely issue a ruling by June. Our hope is that it will hasten the end of the death penalty in the United States.
The rest is here.
Moral Relativism & Super-Intelligence
Can the bedroom of an eleven-year-old girl be objectively a "mess"? To a pair of exhausted, exasperated working parents the answer is obvious. But when the girl in question notes that "mess" is a value claim and thus is not a matter of fact but an opinion, the point must be grudgingly conceded -- though allowance may still be withheld.
Pride in the growing ability of your child to articulate the difference between fact and opinion is tempered by the realization that it's being turned against you, and that it will soon be deployed in disagreements inevitably more fraught than whether the dirty socks and Taylor Swift t-shirt need to be picked up right now. That my daughter has learned this skill in school on one level validates our decision to enroll her where we did, though on another it suggests continued vigilance is warranted: The Common Core curriculum, under fire from numerous quarters for a number of reasons, is now also getting the attention of moral philosophers who say it "embeds a misleading distinction between fact and opinion." From Justin P. McBrayer at The Stone blog of The New York Times:
[O]ur public schools teach students that all claims are either facts or opinions and that all value and moral claims fall into the latter camp. The punchline: there are no moral facts. And if there are no moral facts, then there are no moral truths.
The inconsistency in this curriculum is obvious. For example, at the outset of the school year, my [second-grade] son brought home a list of student rights and responsibilities. Had he already read the lesson on fact vs. opinion, he might have noted that the supposed rights of other students were based on no more than opinions. According to the school's curriculum, it certainly wasn't true that his classmates deserved to be treated a particular way — that would make it a fact. Similarly, it wasn't really true that he had any responsibilities — that would be to make a value claim a truth.
McBrayer says he'd realized many of his college students already don't believe in moral facts, and that conversations with other philosophy professors suggest "the overwhelming majority of college freshmen … view moral claims as mere opinions that are not true or are true only relative to a culture." The implications are obvious and relevant to the recent discussion here concerning curricula at Catholic universities. Concerns about moral relativism in academia are established, though, and it's too soon to know how anything specifically inculcated by Common Core will have an effect. College students were cheating, for example, long before Common Core; so were corporate executives; so were spouses. But it bears watching, of course, given that millions of students in more than forty states are being educated according to the standards -- which themselves might have arisen out of the academic environment McBrayer describes.
Plus, given the pace of technological development, it might one day be not just human beings that need moral compassing.Read more
Bankruptcy lawyer to Wisconsin legislators: Pass right to work
"For the benefit of personal bankruptcy attorneys all across Wisconsin, I urge you to pass this bill." -- James Murray
African bishop on polygamy, homosexuality & divorce (oh my).
In a wide-ranging, at points jaw-dropping interview with Aleteia, Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, Ghana, signaled his openness to finding a way for remarried Catholics to be readmitted to Communion--and suggested the church might reinterpret Scripture to allow the "unbinding" of marriages. Palmer-Buckle, who is sixty-four years old, was selected by his brother bishops to represent Ghana at this October's Synod on the Family. Early in the interview, the archbishop makes it clear that he takes seriously Pope Francis's call for open discussion of the challenges facing Catholic families today.
There are people in polygamous relationships, who were involved in it before becoming Christians. Their family had to make a choice: to let go of one women or two women with all their children without hurting the children, without hurting the wives. So it is an issue.
How do I baptize children of polygamous marriages? What do I teach them? If I'm going to tell them, "Your daddy must let go of your mommy," will that not hurt the child emotionally, even spiritually for the rest of his or her life, to the point that he or she may even decide the Church is bad because it broke up my family?
I can tell you for sure that there are polygamous marriages where you will be amazed at the harmony between the husband and his different wives, among the different wives, and among their children. It's amazing. There are many, many other instances where there is so much hurt going on among the different women, among the different children, and these must be brought to the fore. How do we help all of those involved to look at Christ, and to what Christ invites them to?
On the question of gay people, despite the fact that "Africa has always frowned upon that," Palmer-Buckle refuses to "close my eyes to the fact that there are instances in Africa of homosexuals, people with homosexual tendencies, people with lesbian tendencies." Of course the church teaches that all men and women are created in the image and likeness of God, Palmer-Buckle says; that dignity must be protected. "And that is why we must help that individual listen to what God says about his or her state," he continues. "And I think that is the beauty of what the church teaches us."
This vexes the interviewer, Diane Montagna, who asks Palmer-Buckle whether last October's synod could have been clearer about what the church really teaches about homosexuality. Wasn't he worried that some had "hijacked" interim report--which suggested there might be "positive values" in "irregular" relationships--to claim the church was poised to approve of gay relationships. But the archbishop doesn't share her concern.Read more
Ted Hesburgh, S.J. UPDATED...
The headline in a piece in NCR Today: "University presidents reflect on the life of Jesuit Fr. Ted Hesburgh".
Irony? Freudian slip?
But now I see that he's been de-Jesuitized in the headline, and an apology issued.
What's new on the website
We've posted a few new items to the homepage.
- Robert Mickens's latest Letter from Rome, in which he writes on Cardinal George Pell's role as "not quite the czar" of Vatican finance, and on the CDF's reluctance to cooperate with Italian authorities on the status of a priest dismissed by Benedict in 2012 "for abusing dozens of children over a ten-year period" but re-instated by Pope Francis last summer; read the whole thing here.
- The editors on the importance of The Daily Show's Jon Stewart in how news is now being covered: "Stewart has for more than a decade functioned as a valuable corrective to much of what's wrong with mainstream news, especially political coverage that can't seem to identify the radical intransigence of the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party for what it is. By intent or default, he established himself as a relentless fact-checker and watchdog, using research, video clips, and comedy to call out politicians and other public figures on their evasions, over-simplifications—and lies." Read the whole thing here.
- And, writing from Nigeria, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator discusses the continued strength of Boko Haram, whose "thin veneer of religious ideology" masks "a savage and opportunistic agenda of criminality and bigotry" that has brought death and destruction mainly to Muslims and Muslim areas; read the whole thing here.
- Also, don't forget: Joseph A. Komonchak continues his series of daily Lenten reflections on the writing of Augustine; see our special Lenten Reflections 2015 page here.
He is running for office--in Israel
PM Netanyahu has delivered his speech to the Joint Session of Congress at the invitation of Speaker Boehner. Netanyahu's grand entrance to the floor of the house a la the President's for the SOU should not confuse us. Netanyahu wants to remain Prime Minister of Israel, but if he can manage U.S. foreign policy, he would consider that a plus.
Here is his address to the Congress, via CSPAN (at about 15 minutes).
Commentary: William Galston at Brookings on recent polling. Robert Hunter at Lobelog on outcomes of successful negotiations. Bernard Avishai at the New Yorker on what Netanyahu really wants--war. George Friedman at Stratfo on the U.S. dilemma in shaping a ME balance of power with or without Israel (HT: Jim Pauwels). Here's a British take on the speech. Reporters from the Guardian have annotated the speech. And here's Jon Stewart!! (R-rated metaphors!)Read more
American climate exceptionalism
In most parts of the world, the idea of anthropogenic global warming is settled science. And why wouldn't it be? One study shows that 97 percent of climate researchers actively publishing in the field support the idea. Another finds that 97 percent of peer-reviewed literature in the field supports the consensus view.
This seems pretty overwhelming. And in most places, it is. Most people accept the evidence as incontrovertible. But not so in the US, where the media portrays a stark scientific divide and huge numbers of people disdainfully reject the notion of anthropogenic global warming. This is also true of Catholics, including the wealthy types whose money has the ability to open church doors.
But why?Read more
America's First Slavery Museum
With all due respect to the venerable American art museum in Manhattan, its reopening in May will only be the second most significant Whitney museum opening in the United States in recent months.
First place honors go to the Whitney Plantation, the first US museum "dedicated to telling the story of slavery", and powerfully profiled in this terrific New York Times Magazine article by novelist and journalist David Amsden.
Read the article for more on how New Orleans native John Cummings came to buy the 262-year old plantation, the quirk of industrial history that led to Cummings knowing "more about my plantation than anyone else around here — maybe more than any plantation in America outside of Monticello", the planned memorial to the 1811 German Coast Uprising (America's largest slave revolt), the critical role played by Senegalese historian Ibrahima Seck in creating the museum, and what happened when black and white branches of the Haydel family reunited at their old family homestead. I want to slip off to the side with some thoughts about what this means for white folks today.Read more
Monday Morning Links: March 2
Obamacare's opponents will argue their case on March 4 in the Supreme Court, appealing to a subclause of the tax code. Over at the New York Review of Books they ask, Can They Crush Obamacare? (David Cole has his doubts.)
This evening, Kelly Renee Gissendaner, an inmate on Georgia's death row, is scheduled to die by lethal injection. Her story has garnered some attention because of Gissendaner's theological studies in prison, and her correspondence with theologian Jürgen Moltmann. For more on religious life in prison, see Derek Jeffreys' book reviews from our last issue.
Joseph Bottom argues for the modern novel's Protestant character in Books and Culture. "To write a Protestant novel is, instead, to do something a little unnecessary, a little verging on the redundant." he writes. Catholic novels, he thinks, are a little more tricky.
In The New Yorker, Eric Schlosser writes on "how a handful of pacifists and nuns exposed the vulnerability of America's nuclear-weapons sites." In reflecting on what what happened at Y-12, he discusses Dorothy Day, the Berrigan brothers, and manages to speak to some Plowshares activists in prison.
Half the battle against ISIS is media, according to The Atlantic. How does the U.S. tell a more compelling story to those who might be swayed ISIS's apocalyptic message?
Unlike their counterparts at the hard military end of the battle against ISIS, the American foot soldiers in the war of narratives are at a considerable disadvantage relative to their jihadist adversary.
Father William "Bix" Bichsel, R.I.P.
Last night Jesuit priest and peace activist Father William "Bix" Bichsel died in Tacoma, WA. I was introduced to Bix two weeks ago after mass at St. Leo's parish, where I have been attending services since moving to Tacoma in September, but I had already heard much about him. A Tacoma native, he was one of the founders of Guadalupe House, the Catholic Worker community located just down the street from St. Leo's, and among other things, he participated in a number of acts of civil resistance in the Pacific Northwest and around the world to protest nuclear weapons. In 2011, he served a three-month jail sentence for an action at the Kitsap-Bangor Naval Base near Seattle.
It just so happens that this event is mentioned in an article in the most recent issue of The New Yorker, which is mainly focused on how the actions of Plowshares peace activists, like Bix, have drawn attention to the troubling lack of security at United States nuclear weapons facilities. The article is worth its own blog post, but I'll just quote the bit that mentions Bix:
Although Sister Megan had been arrested between forty and fifty times, this was her first Plowshares action. And it was her idea. It had occurred to her a year and a half earlier, while she was sitting in a Tacoma courtroom, watching the trial of five activists who had broken into Kitsap Naval Base, the home port for more than half of America's Trident ballistic-missile submarines. During perhaps the worst nuclear-security lapse in the history of the U.S. Navy, Father William (Bix) Bichsel, Father Stephen Kelly, Sister Anne Montgomery, and two others had managed to sneak into the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific—a storage area containing hundreds of nuclear warheads for Trident missiles. Those warheads don't have locking mechanisms. If a terrorist group detonated one at Kitsap, it not only would destroy the base and the Trident submarines but could also deposit lethal radioactive fallout on Seattle, about thirty miles to the east. If the group set off conventional explosives close to the warheads, a toxic cloud of plutonium might blanket the city. The Plowshares activists easily cut through Kitsap's perimeter fence, hiked around the huge base for four hours, ignored all the warning signs, cut through two more fences, and got to within about forty feet of the bunkers where the nuclear warheads are stored. Father Bix was eighty-one at the time. Sister Anne was eighty-three. Having survived two open-heart surgeries, Father Bix brought along his nitroglycerine tablets and paused to take some during the long hike. About twenty marines with automatic weapons stopped the activists, put hoods on them to prevent them from seeing any more of the top-secret facility, and made them lie on the ground for three and a half hours, while the base was searched for other intruders. When someone later said to Bichsel, Please, Father, don't get into any more trouble, he laughed and replied, "We're all in trouble."
Hesburgh's Challenge
Father Hesburgh wrote a piece in America Magazine that seems even more relevant today than in 1962. In dialogue once again with Cardinal Newman, he wrote:
Someone asked me recently: "What is the great problem for the Catholic university in our modem pluralistic society?" I was obliged to answer that the modern Catholic university faces a dual problem. First, because everything in a pluralistic society tends to become homogenized, the Catholic university has the temptation to become like all other universities, with theology and philosophy attached to the academic body like a kind of vermiform appendix, a vestigial remnant, neither useful nor decorative, a relic of the past. If this happens, the Catholic university may indeed become a great university, but it will not be a Catholic university.
The second problem involves understanding that while our society is called religiously pluralistic, it is in fact, and more realistically, secularistic—with theology and philosophy relegated to a position of neglect or, worse, irrelevance. Against this strong tide, the Catholic university must demonstrate that all the human problems which it studies are at base philosophical and theological, since they relate ultimately to the nature and destiny of man. The Catholic university must strive mightily to understand the philosophical and theological dimensions of the modern problems that face man today, and once these dimensions are understood, it must show the relevance of the philosophical and theological approach if adequate solutions are to be found for these problems.
Booker Prize Guarantee?
Ambiguity in response to a novel rests with judgments that test values - literary, stylistic and ethical. I read Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize winning Narrow Road to the Deep North ready to turn away from the page at the shock of his recreation of a WWII Japanese work camp in Burma; but I could not deny the power of the writing. The novel might cover the same territory as the Bridge on the River Kwai, but Flanagan's account makes tactile the foul degradation and suffering. His characterization takes us into the minds of the Australian prisoners and their Japanese captors, in particular that of the officer Doctor Dorrigo Evans, the Aussie chief, and his counterpart, Captain Nakamura. On the one hand, the novel offers us the mentality of the Captain who can justify working men to death even as he demands they be beaten to insure their compliance; and on the other hand, the mentality of his opponent who encounters such treatment and yet does not collapse, rather finds the strength to accept cruelty, resist with caution, and remain generous. Such focus has little by way of sentimentality. The extremity of the situation is evoked in measured, unadorned prose. Flanagan gives us two men who reveal themselves in acts of self-justification. Each asks: am I a good man? Their answers lay out a moral spread that stretches from assurance to distrust. If a claim can be made for the novel's stature, it is in its willingness to entertain such moral contrasts. This is fiction that takes us into dark places.Read more


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DON'T try telling these Indian fans that last night's World Cup semi-final was just a game. One kid sliced his own tongue - and that's not the worst of it.
THERE was hope for India for as long as MS Dhoni was still at the crease, but in the semi-final of the World Cup the Indian skipper simply gave up.
Dave Warner's battles continued, while Steve Smith was perfect. See who starred and who struggled in the semi-final against India.
AUSTRALIA'S Aaron Baddeley is the talk of the US PGA Tour after a scarcely believable birdie made him clubhouse leader in the Texas Open.
CHAZ Mostert topped the opening V8 Supercars practice session at a soaking wet Symmons Plains circuit for the Tyrepower Tasmania SuperSprint.
May 19, 2014
A funeral service to celebrate the life of Tommy Hafey will be held in the Members Dining Room at the MCG on Monday May 19 at 2.00pm.
Hafey's family, friends and associates are encouraged to enter on foot via Gate 2 in the MCC Members Reserve.
The general public is welcome to attend the service, with seating available on Level 1 of the northern stand (entry via Gate 1, Ponsford Stand).
The service will be displayed on the MCG's big screens.
Free parking is available in Yarra Park from 1.00pm, via Gate 3, off Wellington Parade South.


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New London - There's a lawsuit pending, the city attorney is investigating, and now a City Council committee is considering its own inquiry into allegations the police union has made against Chief Margaret Ackley.
"I think it's important we don't sweep this under the rug, said Councilor Marie Friess-McSparran, a member of the Administration Committee, which Monday night discussed the union's request but took no action.
"I know there's pending litigation, and an investigation with the law director ... but this committee could hold hearings and get to the bottom of this request from the union,'' she said.
Part of the issue is an email correspondence Ackley had with a private resident last fall. The union has alleged Ackley violated the police department's Duty Manual when she told the resident how to find personal information on a number of police officers.
Officer Todd Lynch, president of AFSME Local 724, has alleged that Ackley used her position as chief to advise a private citizen on how to obtain disciplinary files on himself, Master Patrol Officer Roger Baker, and Officers Charles Flynn, Cornelius Rodgers and Joshua Bergeson. All were targeted because they were active in union activities, Lynch said.
Lynch acknowledged that the information was available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act, but Ackley's intent was to "embarrass, humiliate and retaliate against the officers," he wrote to the council.
Lynch filed a lawsuit in March against the city and the chief, which includes allegations of "libelous" emails sent between Ackley and Kathleen Mitchell, a local political gadfly. Lynch also alleges he was disciplined at work for being outspoken critic of the chief.
"This has to get resolved,'' Council President Michael Passero said on Monday. But he said the council must proceed cautiously so as not violate anyone's right to due process.
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio said Monday he asked the city attorney to look into the allegations in May and has received a preliminary report. He expects to release a full report to the public in the near future and take disciplinary action, if any is warranted.
He said he asked the city law department to conduct the investigation, even through the union asked for an independent investigator, because it is a personnel matter.
"Nothing in the allegation suggests something criminal, or any kind of public corruption,'' Finizio said. "If there was, I would ask for outside probe. But I feel this is well within the purview of the law department."
John Maynard, chairman of the Administration Committee, said he would seek advice from the city attorney on how to proceed and report back to the committee.
"My thinking is as a city councilor I'm responsible to the citizens of New London as well as to our employees,'' he said. "This can't be taken lightly."
After the meeting he said he had heard a rumor the city attorney was investigating, but had not received any official word from the mayor's office.
Councilor Adam Sprecace, a third member of the committee, said the council has discussed in closed session the pending litigation and questioned whether the council should be getting involved.
"I'd like to hear arguments from the other side on why the council should not be going down this path,'' he said.
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In the note sent to Fides, the Bishop, without offering further details on the case, explained that he informed the governor Javier Duarte de Ochoa in a meeting held last week. "We have also suffered a kidnapping which fortunately did not end badly. The two seminarians were released thanks to the military intervention of the Navy."
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Good performance by Colin Firth. Was a bit slow and boring at times. Thought they would have spent more of the film showing the exercises, practices, and difficulties of overcoming the speech impediment. I feel like it was really just that one scene where Colin Firth was rolling on the floor, his wife was sitting on his stomach, and he was yelling out the window, etc.
Gentle English tale. Likeable.
I've always had a problem with Kings, Queens and the Monarchy as a whole. In my honest opinion, they have a laundry of secrets that no one knows about, but people continue pledging their allegiance to them. Why? Because historically it's been passed on? So have a lot of things that are frowned upon.
This man's brother was a terrible choice to be King making fun of him and his stuttering, and what he did was make fun of the older gentleman that was helping him out; extremely poor taste to be in line for the throne?
And the wife's gall to go to the older gentleman incognito but want to be addressed, as Your Royal Highness. Get off your high horse sweetheart and come back to reality. Your husband has a speech impediment that hasn't pardoned royalty.
I don't think it merits all the echelons it received and personally I didn't like it.
"The King's Speech" is an amazing story and it is all true. Colin Firth gives a great performance as the King George VI of Britain. The movie shows what can be done with determination. It is certainly an inspiring story and well worth taking home for your family.
This movie is somewhat overrated and includes some historical inaccuracies. Some scenes are a bit degrading to the memory of King George VI. But the cinematography is very good and the performances by Firth and Carter are excellent.
Really enjoyed this one! Very worth your while.
Perfect in every way. Considering the garbage that is produced from Hollywood, it's amazing a film of such excellence got through to the public. And thank goodness for that. Colin Firth is brilliant and touching as the king. Also loved seeing Derek Jacobi in a small role; loved him in Cadfael. A must-see for anyone who appreciates quality cinema.
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Outstanding movie. Quite a bit of coarse language in a couple of parts. But overall 5/5 stars. Helena Bonham-Carter, and Firth's acting were absolutely superior.
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Coarse Language: There is quite a bit of coarse language but it isn't used against anyone. It is simply stated...it makes sense in context nevertheless be prepared as it comes up every once in a while.
Coarse Language: lots of it in one part
Coarse Language: Lionel encourages Berty to swear, let the anger out and especially at one point there is ALOT of swearing. Sometimes Berty will be practicing reading and break out in the F word or the S word, it's kinda weird and semi-desterbing but it's still a good movie.
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Queen Elizabeth: I intend to be a very great queen...to a very great king.
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The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
i like the movies based on history. the king who struggles with his speech finally could be able to overcome the difficulty with the help of his therapist. the final speech is the highlight.
a true story of a king and his wife who take's a rite positon to take care of England
The story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall, Anthony Andrews.
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