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The 16th Annotation
In his by now notorious Christmas "spanking" of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis proposed for a salutary examination of conscience fifteen "diseases or temptations" to which members of the Curia are prey.
Perhaps not sufficiently noticed was the Pope's use of words like "our" and "us," as when he says:
They are the more common diseases in our life in the Curia. They are diseases and temptations which weaken our service to the Lord. I think a "listing" of these diseases – along the lines of the Desert Fathers who used to draw up such lists – will help us to prepare for the sacrament of Reconciliation, which will be a good step for all of us to take in preparing for Christmas.
And, of course, as he states, the immediate goal of the spiritual exercise was preparation for the celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation -- a sacrament particularly dear to Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
Soon after the Pope's trip to the woodshed, a wag commented that Francis had omitted a sixteenth temptation: that of thinking the first fifteen only appllied to someone else.
But the Pope had himself supplied this 16th annotation when he said:
Brothers, these diseases and these temptations are naturally a danger for each Christian and for every curia, community, congregation, parish and ecclesial movement; and they can strike at the individual and the community levels.
Recently I've been re-reading the Pope's weekly audiences/catecheses. I'm struck by how often they contain, albeit in a kinder and gentler rhetorical mode, an examination of conscience. Here is a representative sample:
In the time of Paul, the community of Corinth found great difficulty in this sense, living, as we, too, often do, the experience of division, of envy, of misunderstanding and of exclusion. All of these things are not good because, instead of building up the Church and causing her to grow as the Body of Christ, they shatter it into many pieces, they dismember it. And this happens in our time as well. Let us consider, in Christian communities, in some parishes, let us think of how much division, how much envy, how they criticize, how much misunderstanding and exclusion there is in our neighbourhoods. And what does this lead to? It dismembers us among ourselves. It is the beginning of war. War does not begin on the battlefield: war, wars begin in the heart, with misunderstanding, division, envy, with this struggle with others.
Advent is long past, but Lent approaches. And the Desert Fathers and Mothers are always in season.
Eamon Duffy on Francis
In the new issue of the New York Review of Books, church historian and sometime Commonweal contributor Eamon Duffy has an excellent review-essay on three books about Pope Francis. I don't think anything Duffy writes will come as news to most Commonweal readers, but he does cover a lot of territory with his usual nuanced approach to Catholic issues, in his customary elegant prose.
Duffy is perhaps best known for Saints and Sinners, a comprehensive but accessible history of the papacy. He made his academic reputation with The Stripping of the Altars, a study of pre-Reformation Catholicism in England, a book that changed our understanding of the often misunderstood upheavals of that period by documenting the popularity and vitality of traditional Catholic practice and belief. A favorite Duffy book of mine is Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition, a collection of essays that strikes the right balance between the inevitability of change in the church and the even greater need to rely on the resources of the tradition to guide those developments. "Faithfulness to that tradition is not a matter of uncritical obedience to authority; it is a shared labor of learning, in which we work together to draw new and surprising growth from the old soil," he wrote. Tradition is "the trace of a complex shared life, rather than a clear-cut compendium of answers."
In his NYRB piece, Duffy emphasizes the fact that Francis is the first pope to have been ordained after the Second Vatican Council. He does not pine for some allegedly lost, golden age when the church claimed to be a perfect society. Francis's "commitment to conciliar values is instinctive, strong, and different in kind from that of either of his immediate predecessors," Duffy writes.
I think that gets at what is perhaps the most obvious nature of the change in tone and focus coming from the Vatican, and that instinctive commitment to the council goes hand in hand with Francis's determination to encourage debate among the bishops and his sure-to-be-contested push to return real decision-making authority to the local church. Duffy also notes how different Francis's idea of priesthood is from "the exalted doctrine of priesthood that has been in favor during the last two pontificates." He cautions that, although those in the pews are cheering on these developments, many of those ordained during the past thirty-five years are likely to have a difficult time adjusting to Francis's often blunt critique of clericalism. Divisions within the church are deep and not easily bridged.Read more
Pope to world's bishops: Get behind my sexual-abuse commission.
Today the Holy See released Pope Francis's February 2 letter to the world's bishops conferences and religious communities asking for their "complete cooperation" with the sexual-abuse commission he established last March. The commission's job, the pope explains, "to improve the norms and procedures for protecting children and vulnerable adults," which--everyone knows--haven't been working out so well.
In his letter Pope Francis related his own experience meeting with abuse victims. "I was deeply moved by their witness to the depth of their sufferings and the strength of their faith," he wrote. "This experience reaffirmed my conviction that everything possible must be done to rid the Church of the scourge of the sexual abuse of minors and to open pathways of reconciliation and healing for those who were abused." Pastors and those in charge of religious communities, the pope wrote, "should be available" to meet with victims and their loved ones. "Such meetings are valuable opportunities for listening to those have greatly suffered and for asking their forgiveness."
Because families must feel confident that the church is doing all its can to protect the vulnerable from predator priests, Francis continued, "priority must not be given to any other kind of concern, whatever its nature, such as the desire to avoid scandal." To that end, the pope urges local bishops conferences to "fully implement" the sensible 2011 letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recommending a series of abuse-response procedures. Francis also recommends that dioceses periodically review their policies--and make sure they are being followed.
That a pope has established a commission to determine the best ways to respond to allegations of clerical sexual abuse is all to the good. Francis recognizes what the Roman Curia and previous popes took far too long to grasp: the sexual-abuse scandal is a global phenomenon that requires decisive action at the highest levels of the church. Local bishops conferences will certainly benefit from the commission's policy recommendations. But it's 2015. Figuring out how dioceses should respond to abuse accusations requires careful attention, but it isn't rocket science.
The more difficult problem is what to do with bishops who--through acts of commission or omission--endanger the vulnerable under their care. Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, who is in charge of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, says this is one of the problems the abuse commission is "urgently" exploring. We'll see just how urgently soon enough. According to Pope Francis, they meet in just a few days.
Koched up.
In the fall of 2013, the Catholic University of America announced a $1 million pledge from the Koch Foundation, one of the many not-for-profit outfits with strong ties to the billionaire libertarians David and Charles Koch. The money, according to the university, would go to the business school, allowing it to hire professors and offer a course on "principled entrepreneurship." You may remember the Kochs from their charitable efforts to undermine public-employee unions, to support a campaign against renewable-energy standards, to suppress the vote, or to discredit the minumum wage (which the U.S. bishops want to raise).
A group of about fifty Catholic theologians certainly remembered. They sent a disapproving letter to Catholic University, voicing their concern that by accepting the grant, the university was sending "a confusing message to Catholic students and other faithful Catholics that the Koch brothers' anti-government, Tea Party ideology has the blessing of a university sanctioned by Catholic bishops." But university president John Garvey and business-school dean Andrew Abela remained unmoved. They replied by pointing out that several of the professors cash paychecks from universities that accept Koch money, and accused them of trying to "score political points."
If any of those theologians were clinging to the hope that, given enough time, Garvey and Abela might come around to the idea that there's something odd about a Catholic business school accepting money from people who are so deeply committed shrinking the social safety net, cutting taxes, weakening environental regulations, ending the minimum wage, and busting unions, they can let go now. Because Catholic University's business school recently accepted another $1.75 million pledge from the Charles Koch Foundation (in addittion to $1.25 million from other donors).Read more
An interview with Archbishop Blase Cupich.
A few days before Christmas, I interviewed Blase Cupich, who was recently installed as Chicago's ninth archbishop. We spoke about the Synod on the Family, immigration, the sexual-abuse scandal, the bishops conference, and more. Here are some excerpts from our conversation:
GG: As you mentioned, the pope speaks often about the need to foster a culture of encounter and accompaniment. This seems key to his idea of church—a church that goes out of itself and should not fear the discomfort that entails. How is that approach changing the temperament of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops?
BC: Institutions are constitutionally prone to protecting themselves, and being conservative in that sense. There are any number of forces in our society today that erode institutional life. We can't be naïve about that. There are those who would like to truncate the freedom of religion—especially of the Catholic Church, given its footprint in society. At the same time, we can't let that drive our agenda. That's what the business of "Be not afraid," which John Paul II said, is about. We have to be mission-oriented.
In the readings for the Feast of the Assumption, Mary goes off to the hill country to visit Elizabeth, and the image that one comes away with is that this dragon—mentioned in the first reading from Revelation—is chasing Mary. But Mary is not directed by the dragon's pursuit. In the Gospel we hear that she is directed by her desire to help Elizabeth. The church has to use that image of itself. The trajectory of our pilgrimage is not going to be determined by an escape from forces that are out to harm us. It has to be a trajectory that is determined by helping people. That's why the pope said we can't be a self-referential church.
GG: The ethic of accompaniment seems to have guided the pope's design of the recent Extraordinary Synod on the Family. Some bishops expressed some confusion about that meeting—whether it was over the media's coverage of the synod, or what actually took place.
BC: The media is not to blame at all. I think the media reported what actually took place. What really took place at the synod was that a majority of the bishops voted for all the proposals that were there in the final summary document. And I think Cardinal Timothy Dolan said that at the November bishops meeting. It's true that three of the paragraphs [about divorce and gay people] did not get two-thirds majority support, but they got more than a majority. That's what's new. That's the story. Those hot-button topics had been highlighted, and the majority of synod bishops voted for proposals that said we need to consider aspects of these issues.
The pope has a firm belief that the spirit of the risen Lord is working in our midst and is alive in the hearts of people—and we cannot squelch that voice. We have to look for ways to listen to how the Lord is working in the lives of people. That's why the pope said to the synod fathers, "Don't come to the synod and say 'You can't say that'"—because it may be the spirit of Christ who is calling us to say these things. And we have to listen to that.
Read the rest right here.
Science or conscience on climate change?
The announcement Friday that 2014 was Earth's warmest year on record prompted responses from some who accept the scientific evidence of climate change that this should finally convince those who don't. You'd think that with nine such records set and subsequently broken since 2000 alone, not much more convincing would be required, but there you have it. The complexity of climate science has become the fig leaf for those reluctant to acknowledge the role of greenhouse gases to hide behind, and thus to rationalize inaction and obstruction. So if the scientific case is too hard, then what about the moral case?
[This article is part of a reading list on Catholicism and the environment.]
That's how Pope Francis's upcoming encyclical on climate change will couch it, perhaps in terms of the parable of the Good Samaritan. In New Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography climatologist Veerabhadran Ramanathan says "science has taken this issue as far as it can" and now it's time for policy-makers to effect changes in behavior. The thinking is that the encyclical, which may be released as early as March, could with its call to moral action "shock" the nonbelievers into if not accepting the scientific facts, then at least supporting remedies for addressing the "global injustice" of subjecting many of the world's poorest population to disproportionate harm. These would include the 73 percent of white Evangelical Americans who doubt human-generated climate change. Or the 60 percent of white American Catholics who remain very or somewhat unconcerned about climate change. Such an appeal to conscience, the hopeful thinking also goes, might spur Catholic representatives, who account for thirty-three percent of Congress, to maybe, finally, take some meaningful, measurable steps as well.
With a pope who can candidly answer a question about climate change by saying, "It is man who continuously slaps down nature," maybe the optimistic anticipation is understandable: This could finally do it, is the hope of backers on action on climate change. But can a moral case, as compelling as it is, be any more effective than what seems like incontrovertible scientific proof, and a growing body of economic evidence, about the harm of warming? Can it persuade those who seem more invested in not being persuaded?
Papal presser in the sky.
On the flight to Manila today, Pope Francis gave another one of his signature free-wheeling press conferences in which he says a series of interesting things. He spoke about the Charlie Hebdo massacre, religious liberty, freedom of speech, ecumenism, his long-awaited encyclical on the environment, the next saint he'll make, and what he'd do to someone who spoke ill of his mom. Here are a few notable bits, as reported by the National Catholic Reporter and the Boston Globe/Crux:Read more
A Prayer for the New Year
Pope Francis's Christmas address to the Roman Curia on December 22 contained a lengthy examination of conscience, which was reported on in the press as a pretty stern dressing-down. In his usual vivid style, Francis enumerated 15 "diseases" or pathologies that must be addressed to improve the health of that body as a whole, and offered some prescriptions to help. So, for example, to help get over the disease of thinking one is indispensible he suggests a visit to the cemetery, and so on. Much of the Pope's advice can be helpful for anyone.
I particularly liked a prayer of Thomas More that Francis mentioned in that talk. It came up in problem #12, "the disease of a lugubrious face." To counter the pathology of severity, pessimism, and treating others "especially those we consider our inferiors -- with rigor, brusqueness, and arrogance" he recommended humor. "We would do well to recite often the prayer of St. Thomas More," Pope Francis said, "I say it every day, and it helps." The prayer was not part of the talk, but was printed in full in the footnotes. I had never seen it before, but I know I shall have recourse to it now!
Here's the prayer:
Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest. Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humour to maintain it. Grant me a simple soul that knows how to treasure all that is good and that doesn't frighten easily at the sight of evil, but rather finds the means to put things back in their place. Give me a soul that knows not boredom, grumbling, sighs and laments, nor excess of stress, because of that obstructing thing called 'I'. Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humour. Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke and to discover in life a bit of joy, and to be able to share it with others.
Happy new year, one and all.
The Curious Case of Carlos Urrutigoity (VIII)
This is the conclusion of a series of posts on the Urrutigoity case. Read the first part here, the second here, the third here, the fourth here, the fifth here, the sixth here, and the seventh here.
"I want to assure everyone," Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano wrote in 2008, "that I have never hidden or protected anyone convicted of any crime." The bishop was attempting to quell the outcry of Catholics in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, over his decision to invite an accused priest and his followers—the Society of St. John—to establish themselves in his diocese. "My track record in these cases is very clear," Livieres continued. "Just as I have not hesitated to convict the guilty, neither will I punish an innocent victim of slander." The victim, according to Livieres, was Fr. Carlos Urrutigoity, an Argentine native who has been followed by allegations of sexual misconduct across three countries over three decades.
That troubling history, readily available to anyone with an internet connection, made it difficult for many Ciudad del Este Catholics to take their bishop at his word. So in 2009 they mounted a campaign against him, enlisting the support of other Paraguayan bishops and priests, who took the case to Pope Benedict XVI. But, unbeknownst to them, Livieres claimed to have the support of Benedict—in part because of their shared fondness for the Latin Mass. Livieres's critics would not receive a satisfying response to their complaints until Benedict retired—and Pope Francis was elected.
Livieres was installed as bishop of Ciudad del Este in 2004. Before he even arrived, Livieres—a member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei—caused consternation among the bishops, priests, and laypeople of Paraguay. The bishops were surprised by John Paul II's decision to appoint Livieres because his name was not on the terna—the list of three names recommended by the local bishops conference. Soon after Livieres took over in Ciudad del Este, more than one hundred fifty clerics wrote to Pope Benedict XVI to protest the bishop's "renewal of church discipline" and "new pastoral guidelines," as Livieres would later put it. But Benedict did not respond, according to an account Livieres wrote in 2014. Instead, Benedict told him to "form a new clergy," according to the bishop. He took that advice, and established his own seminary. That failed to go over with other bishops, who wanted to know what was wrong with the main seminary in Asunción.
Livieres also clashed with his fellow bishops over the candidacy of former bishop Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, who ran for president of Paraguay in 2008—and won. Lugo had ties to the liberation-theology movement, which Livieres long opposed. But Livieres also criticized Lugo for fathering children before he left the episcopate—and his brother bishops for remaining "silent" about it. During a radio interview, the archbishop of Asunción, Pastor Cuquejo Verga, publicly called for the Vatican to investigate Livieres. In a follow-up interview, Livieres rebuffed Cuquejo's suggestion, and called him a homosexual.Read more
The Curious Case of Carlos Urrutigoity (VII)
This is the seventh in a series of posts on the Urrutigoity case. Read the first part here, the second here, the third here, the fourth here, the fifth here, and the sixth here.
In November 2003, Joseph Martino attended his first meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after succeeding James Timlin as bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania. During the weeks following his October 1 installation Mass, Martino had been briefed on the scandal Timlin brought to the diocese in 1997 when he allowed the Society of St. John, a band of traditionalist clerics looking for a home, to set up shop in Scranton. As Martino walked down the aisle of the USCCB convention hall, flanked by nearly all the nation's bishops, he turned to his auxiliary bishop, John Dougherty, and said, "I think we need to suppress that group."
But Dougherty wasn't convinced. Canonically suppressing the Society of St. John, he worried, might put Martino "in the position of attempting to undo an administrative act of his predecessor," he wrote to a canon lawyer in early 2003. The "administrative act" Dougherty had in mind was Bishop Timlin's decision to approve the Society of St. John as a "public association of the faithful," which afforded the group certain rights under canon law—including the right to appeal to the Vatican.
Timlin's "Decree of the Erection of the Society of St. John" was issued just a year after he met the group, then led by Fr. Carlos Urrutigoity—a native of Argentina. In the spring of 1997, Urrutigoity and his followers were ousted from the Society of St. Pius X—a schismatic organization that rejects the reforms of Vatican II—after it was discovered that they planned to establish a more spiritually rigorous group within the SSPX. Urrutigoity convinced Bishop Timlin that SSJ priests and deacons wanted to return to the Catholic Church in order to promote the old Latin Mass. Timlin was known as a friend to those who preferred the pre-Vatican II liturgy. Urrutigoity claimed that his fondest hope was to establish a seminary, a liberal-arts college, and a Catholic village. None of that would come to pass, as the Society's efforts became mired in allegations of financial and sexual misfeasance.
Without running background checks on SSJ members, Bishop Timlin secured their reconciliation with Rome and made them priests of the Diocese of Scranton. But a year later, in 1999, Timlin learned that Urrutigoity had been accused of fondling a seminarian before arriving in Scranton. Urrutigoity denied the allegation. Even though three diocesan investigators told the bishop they found the accusation "credible," Timlin did not sanction Urrutigoity. Later, when Society members were accused of sharing their beds with, and providing alcohol to, high-school boys, Urrutigoity promised that nothing immoral had transpired. Timlin just told SSJ members to stop such practices. The bishop did not discipline any SSJs until 2002, when a federal lawsuit alleged that Fr. Eric Ensey, a member of the Society of St. John, had sexually assaulted the plaintiff—and that Urrutigoity had fondled the young man while he slept. Timlin suspended the priests. Both of them denied the accusations under oath, and the lawsuit settled in 2005 for nearly half a million dollars. (Ensey, Urrutigoity, and Timlin could not be reached for comment.)
The canonical cover Timlin helped to provide for the Society of St. John would make it difficult for his successor to discipline the group. Adding to that difficulty was a letter of support for the SSJ that Timlin wrote in 2007, which found its way to the Vatican. Timlin's efforts on behalf of the SSJs may have helped pave the way for their reappearance after Martino finally suppressed them in 2004. Ten years after Martino issued that decree, Urrutigoity would be named second in command of the Diocese of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay. Last September, amid public outcry over the promotion of Urrutigoity, Pope Francis removed Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano, the man who reestablished the SSJ in South America, where several members still reside.Read more
Mexico's missing students and murdered priests
Francisco Goldman (the New Yorker) and Alma Guillermoprieto (the New York Review of Books) are among the journalists who in ongoing reports not only continue to monitor the latest developments in the case of forty-three missing (and all but confirmed dead) students from the Mexican state of Guerrero, but also work to frame the events within a particular political and economic context, which is characterized mainly by government corruption, poverty, and the rampant and indiscriminate violence of drug gangs.
The basic details: In late September, the students were abducted from one of the nation's poorest vocational schools, reportedly at the behest of a local mayor and his wife who were concerned that planned protests by the students would interfere with or overshadow their own scheduled event. According to the government, the abductees were then turned over to a gang related to the mayoral couple, who killed the students, burned their bodies, and dumped their ashes in a river. The national outcry has been such that Goldman wonders whether the case is "spark[ing] a revolution," while Guillermoprieto notes "the marches, vandalism, protests, petitions, and shame too, as the government sinks in disgrace, its inability to guarantee the safety of its citizens or prosecute its criminals more evident by the hour."
Still, three months have passed since the kidnappings, and forensic confirmation that remains discovered are in fact those of the students has been slow in coming. Parents and families of the missing have appealed for Pope Francis's intervention in urging Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's government to properly search for the missing students, and at a December 21 Mass in the town where the college is located, Papal Nuncio Christophe Pierre assured the gathered that "Pope Francis knows what's happening here." (Francis told a general audience at the Vatican in November, "I am with the Mexicans, those present and those at home, in this painful moment of what is legally speaking disappearance, but we know, the murder of the students.")
It was also on our about December 21 when a priest from a seminary on the outskirts of nearby Ciudad Altamirano, Gregorio Lopez Gorostieta, was abducted. He was missing for four days before his body was discovered, on Christmas, with gunshot wounds to the head. The motive and killers are unknown. Lopez Gorostieta is the third priest to be murdered in the southern part of Guerrero this year, one of whom was killed for reportedly refusing to baptize a gang leader's child. Other priests have received death threats for refusing to perform "quickie" marriages or bless such items as automobiles, have been shaken down for protection payments, or have been targets of highway robbery attempts. One was briefly kidnapped after his preaching on "la familia" was misinterpreted by gunmen as an endorsement of a rival cartel by that name.
The Catholic Multimedia Center says Mexico is the most dangerous country in Latin America to be a priest; thirty-six have now been killed there since 1990, counting Lopez Gorostieta. Goldman notes that since 2000, one hundred and two journalists also have been murdered. These are among the quantifiable facts about violence in Mexico, but the numbers tell only so much and seem to have grown wearying besides. "The government offers to investigate, but nothing is ever known," a local priest named Jesus Mendoza Zaragoza recently told the New York Times. Or as Guillermoprieto puts it, in writing specifically about the missing forty-three: "Everyone knows what happens; no one understands why. ... What is this story we are trying to tell and cannot understand?"
The Curious Case of Carlos Urrutigoity (V)
This is the fifth in a series of posts on the Urrutigoity case. Read the first part here, the second here, the third here, and the fourth here.
John Doe had had enough. Enough see-sawing between career paths. Enough retail work. Enough physical labor. Enough aches from such work. Enough pain pills. Enough drinking. Enough wanting to die. Enough denial. He had had enough. So he went through detox, received therapy following his suicide attempts. And now that his head was clear, he was ready to talk.
The first person John told he had been sexually assaulted by priests was his girlfriend, according to his sworn testimony. The second person he told was a friend. Following his suicide attempts, John disclosed the allegations to his counselors. And in late 2001, a few months after he left recovery—before he talked to his parents—John told another person he'd been molested by clerics: Jeffrey Bond. He may have been shocked by John's claims, but it's unlikely that he was surprised.
In April 2000, Bond had been hired by Fr. Carlos Urrutigoity to establish the College of St. Justin Martyr. Three years earlier, Urrutigoity—originally from Argentina—approached Bishop James Timlin of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to see about setting up a community of clerics devoted to restoring liturgical traditionalism to the Catholic Church. In addition to the college, Urrutigoity told Timlin, now retired, that he hoped to build a seminary and an entire town for traditionalist Catholics. Urrutigoity and his associates, who would call themselves the Society of St. John, had come calling because they had just been ousted from the schismatic Society of St. Pius X—which rejects the reforms of Vatican II. Leaders of the SSPX were not happy about Urrutigoity's plan to organize a new, more spiritually rigorous group within SSPX. Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the SSPX, was also concerned about Urrutigoity's "strange, abnormal" influence over seminarians and other priests, according to a letter he later sent Timlin.
Misconduct allegations would follow Urrutigoity from Argentina to the United States, and eventually to Paraguay, where as early as 2012 he would be promoted to vicar general by the bishop of Ciudad del Este, Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano. Pope Francis removed Livieres last September.
In Bishop Timlin, long fond of the Latin Mass, Urrutigoity found a sympathetic ear. He told the bishop that his group wanted to return to the Roman Catholic fold. Timlin forwarded their request to the Vatican. After it was promptly approved, the SSJs were allowed to reside at St. Gregory's Academy, a Catholic boarding school for boys run by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a traditionalist group that exclusively celebrates the Latin Mass but remains in full communion with Rome. Urrutigoity would later testify that the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter had invited his group to St. Gregory's. It would be a temporary arrangement, until the SSJs moved to property they would purchase in Shohola, Pennsylvania, in late 1999. But in the meantime, St. Gregory's got new chaplains and religion teachers; the SSJs got a home base from which to plan their Catholic college, seminary, and village; and Bishop Timlin got another group of priests who were devoted to the Latin Mass. Timlin didn't realize it at the time, but by allowing the SSJs to establish themselves in Scranton he had invited the greatest scandal his diocese had ever known.Read more
Vatican brokers U.S.-Cuba deal
This is a developing story, and both heads of state are about to speak live to give more details. But in the meantime, let's note the amazing fact that Pope Francis directly brokered a diplomatic deal between the United States and Cuba.
From Evan McMorris-Santoro:
WASHINGTON — Pope Francis was instrumental in facilitating the normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba, a senior White House official said Wednesday.
President Obama is expected to announce a deal with the Caribbean nation Wednesday afternoon that will pave the way for the first U.S. embassy on Cuban soil since the Kennedy administration and a relaxing of many of the American economic and travel restrictions on Cuba that have defined the relationship between the two nations for decades.
Francis played a big role in bringing the longtime rivals to the negotiating table, the official said. Francis sent what was characterized as an extraordinary personal letter to Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro over the summer, urging both parties to end their frosty relationship. Following the letter, and the negotiations, Obama and Castro had a phone conversation that helped lead to Wednesday's announcement.
The letter "gave us greater impetus and momentum for us to move forward," the administration official said. The Vatican was the only government that participated in the negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba. Vatican officials were "in those meetings," the official said.
It remains to be seen what the parameters of the deal are. But what we know now is that the only other government involved was the Vatican, and that the Pope's personal letters catalyzed the process.
It resulted in the release of an American prisoner, Alan Gross, something intimated months ago by Tim Padgett, a journalist specializing in Latin America. But the release on the first day of Hanukkah is almost too good to be true.
With such promising developments in diplomacy, it no longer seems implausible that the Vatican will play a key role in facilitating the closing of Guantanamo. Secretary of State Kerry addressed just this issue in talks with the Vatican earlier this week.
We wait in joyful hope.
The Vatican's Thank-You Note to U.S. Sisters
To read the "Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America," which was released this morning by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (or CICLSAL), you would think the aim of the whole project was to produce the world's wordiest (and most expensive) thank-you note.
CICLSAL is "sincerely grateful for the presence of women religious in the United States," and for the work that they have done "courageously" and "selflessly" for so many generations. That's on page 1 (click here and scroll down for links to the PDF of the report, and of the remarks at this morning's press conference). "The Dicastery expresses its gratitude to women religious" -- page 5. On p. 7, "this Congregation expresses its gratitude to the sisters who minister within their own communities for the precious service rendered to their institute and to the Church." And "once again," on p. 8, CICLSAL "wishes to express the profound gratitude of the Apostolic See and the Church in the United States for the dedicated and selfless service of women religious in all the essential areas of the life of the church and society."
Way back in 2008, when the visitation was first announced, it did not seem likely to end in a lengthy note of grateful recognition. That was partly because the news came alongside that of the CDF's doctrinal investigation of the LCWR, and partly because of the visitation's opaque origins and stated aims: "to look into the quality of life of religious women in the United States," in light of then-CICLSAL head Cardinal Franc Rodé's concerns about "a certain secularist mentality that has spread among these religious families, perhaps even a certain 'feminist' spirit."
It didn't take a cynical mind to feel pessimistic about a project aimed at exposing feminism among women's religious congregations. The whole point of that "Thank You, Sisters" campaign you may recall -- an outpouring of affection and support, in various media, from Catholic laypeople and priests -- was to counteract what looked like an uncalled-for attack on the lives of faithful U.S. sisters.
But that was years ago. CICLSAL has new leadership. We have a new pope, one who has troubled himself to say unambiguously positive things about women's contributions to the church (and the inadequacy of current provisions for same). The Year of Consecrated Life, the Vatican's tribute to vowed religious, has just begun. And the visitation itself -- which took three years and God knows how much money to complete -- was generally left to sisters themselves to conduct. The result, as Jim Martin has pointed out at America, is "a positive, sometimes adulatory" document that says nothing at all about feminism or any other supposed heresies, and communicates the challenges facing women's apostolic congregations in terms that the sisters themselves would recognize and affirm. That's a relief. It will go a long way toward repairing the strained relationship between the church's male hierarchy and its women religious -- though the ongoing LCWR investigation is obviously still a problem. As Sister X put it in Commonweal in 2009, "Any pastoral invitation to dialogue in the current visitation has largely been compromised by Cardinal Levada's simultaneous investigation of the LCWR's doctrinal orthodoxy."
But if the report is a relief and an affirmation, it also represents a huge waste of time, and of money.Read more
Pope Francis and the Spanish Episcopate: One Knot at a Time
When Benedict was first elected pope, there was a lot of interest around the question of whether he might be able to turn the tide of rising secularization in Europe. Countries that were once bastions of Catholicism had long been experiencing low Mass attendance and growing indifference to church teaching. Bishops faced a steady stream of rejection on public policy issues as well as empty pews in church and low enrollment in seminaries. Benedict cared deeply about Europe, and tried to win back the indifferent with his thoughtful writings and appeals to tradition. Eight years later however, by the time of his resignation, it was clear that Benedict had not reversed these trends.
When Francis was elected pope, the spotlight shifted to Latin America and the developing world. No one particularly expected him to have a significant impact on Europe. Yet Francis is changing the situation in Europe, step by step — not in a dramatic way, but by implementing a pastoral strategy to address some knotty problems, one knot at a time.
A good illustration of this can be seen in recent episcopal appointments in Spain. In September it was announced that Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra of Valencia (photo right) would replace Cardinal Antonio Ruoco Varela as Archbishop of Madrid (photo left). Osoro, in turn, would be replaced by Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, who was then serving as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship. U.S. press coverage of these changes was sparse, mostly noting the appointment of a "Francis moderate" in Madrid. These are deft choices, however, and – combined with new elected leadership in the bishops' conference – they have opened up new possibilities.Read more
About that celestial menagerie ...
Leave it to David Gibson to ferret out the facts on Pope Francis's alleged comments about pets going to heaven. He maps out the origins, paths, and mutations along the way of the story many might have wanted to believe in spite of their doubts, and not just the doubt sparked by its appearance on the front page of the New York Times last week (and repeated in brief by Serge Schmemann in the paper's Sunday Review section). In short: an increasingly common combination of misinterpretation, credulous recounting, embroidery, and misleading headlines—wed with generally held beliefs about Francis's uncommon appeal—lent the story plausibility, not to mention legs. Why wouldn't this pope, in particular, make it okay for our pets to meet us in paradise?
As Gibson points out, Francis did not say all dogs go to heaven, and that further he has previously expressed concern over the attention and money society lavishes on pets at the expense of people in need of more of both. Even those who don't hold with the concept of dominion might wonder more these days where humane treatment and sensible protection slips over into something more than accepted notions of stewardship would warrant. (And what does it say that cat content accounts for fifteen percent of all internet traffic?) Plus there's the question of where to draw that other line, of just which animals might or might not have consciousness. "Where do mosquitoes go, for God's sake?" was the widely reported reaction of religion professor Laura Hobgood-Oster.
New Jersey, I'd answer, the very thing that might make the most densely populated state in the nation hellish for us making it paradise for mosquitoes, of which I recall multitudes. I also recall the neighbor's German Shepherd, which bit my brother on the day of his first Communion and sent him to the hospital for a dozen stitches to his chest; mightn't it deserve just a little bit of otherworldly torment? But the majority of the pets I grew up with, even if I could remember them all, I'd be fine not having to encounter again in any realm (the belligerent pair of gerbils that fought each other to the death one night while I slept, for example). All except maybe the beloved family mutt, with the unlikely name of Mulligan, who if he didn't have a soul definitely had soul. Living in the rural part of the state, we lost a number of pets to "misadventure"—hunters, cars, wild animals—but Mulligan made it to old age, leaving, as well, a number of local descendants. His eventual decline was accompanied by distemper and overwhelming fear of thunder; it was hard then not to treat him like a loved one, and there was no reason not to. I'll admit it now: Among a handful of occasionally recurring dreams I have is one where he's hanging around and talking, sometimes sagely from a barstool. In terms of getting to see him again, it seems just about right, and so just about enough.
Through dry bones.
CHICAGO -- The sea of black rose last night as the procession music began: a spiritual, complete with drums and tamborine and energetic choir, a Spanish hymn, followed by another spiritual. The mostly clerical congregation turned toward the rear of the church as the third selection came to a close. "Plenty good room," the chorus sang, "just choose your seat and sit down." The assembled stood in silence, waiting for the new archbishop to seek admittance to Holy Name Cathedral. He knocked three times. The sound echoed through the church, the bronze doors were opened by Msgr. Dan Mayall, pastor of the parish, and Blase Cupich entered what was about to become his cathedral. He was met with uproarious applause.
"All Are Welcome," accompanied the procession, as ecumenical and interrelegious guests moved up the aisle, impressing the assembly with their traditional dress--the colors popping bright against the surrounding black suits. Cupich ascended the sanctuary steps, and turn to face the church. His face took on a look not too dissimilar from the expression on Pope Francis's face when he first appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's. But if the congregation sensed trepidation in his countenance, it was dispelled as soon as he saw Cardinal Francis George approach. Cupich smiled broadly, extended his arms toward the cardinal, and applauded emphatically. The whole church joined him.Read more
Archbishop Cupich to Chicago Catholics: I am your servant-leader.
CHICAGO -- In his first homily as archbishop of Chicago, Blase Cupich finally answered the question he's been asked over and over since it was announced that he would succeed Cardinal Francis George: What is your agenda? "If I have learned anything over these past four decades as a pastor, I know it is a disaster for me to have my own agenda." That's not because he doesn't have his own hopes and dreams, Cupich explained. Rather, it's that his agenda is "always too small." His agenda, he continued, is "prone to be self-serving, and ultimately unworthy of the people I am called to serve." Rather, "the agenda has to be God's, which is beyond our imagining and our abilities."
Preaching on Ezekiel (37: 1-14), Cupich highlighted the prophet's concern "to inspire new life in the people living in exile, by offering a vision of the new city to be built by God.... They are like dry bones strewn carelessly to rot in an abandoned field under the scorching sun of oppression."
The archbishop named the dryness we find in our own lives today:
It is the dryness elderly and sick persons can experience when their strength gives way and their bones become unsteady, to the point that they begin to question their worth, their sense of purpose and even the faith that has heretofore directed their lives. We see that dryness caked in on the faces of the homeless street people, in the fatigue of the underemployed worker cobbling together three or four low paying jobs to make ends meet, but also in the hectic pace of the successful business owner whose long hours in the office leave little time for family meals and sharing, for rest and recreation.
Those in public service, Cupich admitted, experience their own dryness "in the tedium of attending to administrative details, which most often go unnoticed or unappreciated, in the frustration we feel as we are called upon to face enormous challenges with limited energies and shrinking resources, and whenever opportunities for real improvement are squandered by petty squabbles and divisive discourse."Read more
Cardinal George to Chicago Catholics: 'You are my legacy.'
CHICAGO -- The congregation gathered early at Holy Name Cathedral this morning. A half-hour before Cardinal Francis George would begin his final Mass as archbishop before Blase Cupich succeeds him this week, the narthex was nearly full. The people waited for 9:30 Mass-goers to vacate. Msgr. Dan Mayall, pastor of the cathedral (an associate pastor of my childhood parish twenty-odd years ago), greeted arriving parishioners as they came in from the snow, and departing ones as they returned to it.
A bank of cameras on the north side of the transept turned in toward the pews to watch them fill with a very Chicago crowd: Catholics of every ethnicity, some dressed up, others down, some draped in furs and others in NFL jerseys (the Bears were playing at home), suits and jeans, some with toddlers in tow, others carrying babies, or pushing grandparents, some single, others not, some fingered rosary beads, others scanned the expansive wooden ceiling with their smartphones for the perfect Instagram shot. Cameramen moved toward the center aisle, just before the break in the pews. One leaned down to let a couple know that he wouldn't be obstructing their view for the whole liturgy. "Why are all these video cameras here?" the husband asked. The cameraman explained: the cardinal's last Mass. From within his coat pocket the husband produced a camera of his own.
An usher approached as the procession was about to start. "No one in the aisle," he warned the journalists. Besides, "the cardinal doesn't always do the procession." This time he did.Read more
False Mercies
Pope Francis today spoke to the Association of Italian Catholic Doctors. In his short, but powerful address he said:
The dominant thinking sometimes suggests a "false compassion", that which believes that it is: helpful to women to promote abortion; an act of dignity to obtain euthanasia; a scientific breakthrough to "produce" a child and to consider it to be a right rather than a gift to welcome; or to use human lives as guinea pigs presumably to save others.
He went on to speak of "the Gospel of Life" in that personal tone so distinctive to him:
Fidelity to the Gospel of life and respect for life as a gift from God sometimes require choices that are courageous and go against the current, which in particular circumstances, may become points of conscientious objection. And this fidelity entails many social consequences. We are living in a time of experimentation with life. But a bad experiment. Making children rather than accepting them as a gift, as I said. Playing with life. Be careful, because this is a sin against the Creator: against God the Creator, who created things this way. When so many times in my life as a priest I have heard objections: "But tell me, why the Church is opposed to abortion, for example? Is it a religious problem?" No, no. It is not a religious problem. "Is it a philosophical problem?" No, it is not a philosophical problem. It's a scientific problem, because there is a human life there, and it is not lawful to take out a human life to solve a problem. "But no, modern thought…" But, listen, in ancient thought and modern thought, the word "kill" means the same thing. The same evaluation applies to euthanasia: we all know that with so many old people, in this culture of waste, there is this hidden euthanasia. But there is also the other. And this is to say to God, "No, I will accomplish the end of life, as I will." A sin against God the Creator! Think hard about this.
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Articles on this issue "World Youth Day"
In the Shrine of Our Lady of the Conception of Aparecida, Pope Francis invited the youth gathered in Brasil from all parts of the world to be open, and readyto be "surprised by God". The …read more
The next World Youth Day (WYD) will be held in Blessed John Paul II's city, announced Pope Francis before praying the Angelus at the closing Mass of the 2013 Rio WYD. This will be the second …read more
While over 3.5 million youth gathered for the Closing Mass of the World Youth Day in Copacabana Beach, youth in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo in Syria gathered to celebrate with their peers …read more
The Web site for World Youth Day 2016 is already online and in English. Pope Francis last Sunday announced from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that the next World Youth Day would be in Blessed John …read more
Bishop Anthony Fisher of Parramatta, Australia, led a group of 250 pilgrims from his diocese to World Youth Day in Rio in a journey that included a week of outreach in the shantytowns of Lima …read more
Here is the July 28 blog entry from Bishop Anthony Fisher of Parramatta, Australia. It is the last of a series of blog entries about his World Youth Day experience. * * * 28 July (Sunday) …read more
Here is a ZENIT translation of the second part of the transcription provided by the Vatican of Francis' press conference on the flight home from Brazil. The first part was published Thursday. …read more
The archbishop of Rio de Janeiro is giving a positive evaluation of last week's visit from Pope Francis, saying "we managed to make a beautiful World Youth Day." Archbishop Orani João …read more
Here is a ZENIT translation of the transcription provided by the Vatican of Francis' press conference on the flight home from Brazil. * * * Father Lombardi: Now, dear friends, we have the joy …read more
Now that World Youth Day in Brazil has come and gone, some of those who were there are looking back and reflecting on their favorite moments. For an entire week, Rio de Janeiro was filled …read more
On Monday, a Vocational Meeting organized by the Neocatechumenal Way was held in Rio de Janeiro which was attended by an estimated 50,000 youth from all over the world. The ecclesial reality …read more
Asked for his thoughts and reflections about World Youth Day 2013 Archbishop Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham, said: "As I prepare to leave Rio de Janeiro at the conclusion of World …read more
On the afternoon of Saturday, July 27, Pope Francis visited the studios of "Radio Catedral," the radio broadcasting station of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro, and gave a brief interview. …read more
Before leaving Brazil, Pope Francis meet with an estimated 15,000 volunteers at the Congress Center Pavilion in Rio de Janeiro. The group was only a sliver of the 60,000 volunteers who worked …read more
On Sunday evening Pope Francis ended his apostolic journey to Brazil and the World Youth Day. Nostalgia gives way to hope for a better future with the seed sown on good soil: the life of …read more


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Title: Artists Biographies on Film: Top Mo vies about Visual Artists Word Count: 591 Summary: Here is a guide to the best movies that describes the life of visual a rtists. Keywords: visual artists biographies, Vincent Van Gogh biography,art,arts,entert ainment Article Body: Visual artists biographies is a pop ular theme in the movie world. Movi emakers have always been fascinated by visual artists biographies, esp ecially if it includes struggle wit h insanity, drug addiction or socia l conventions. In addition, it give s them an opportunity to depict ori ginal or resurrected artworks on th e big screen. Here you can read about some of the most interesting movies about visu al artists biographies. Lust for Life directed by Vincente M innelli in 1952 Vincent Van Gogh biography had gain ed several cinematic adaptations. L ust for Life with Kirk Douglas as t he struggling artist is one of the most notable. The movie is based on a best selling book by Irving Ston e, who also authored The Agony and the Ecstasy about Michelangelo, whi ch also had appeared on the silver screen. If you are a fan of Van Gogh artwor k, you would enjoy watching Last fo r Life, which features almost 200 o f Van Goghs original paintings. How ever, if you are familiar with Kirk Douglas previous filmographic, see ing him as a tortured Dutch painter might take a little adjustment. An other recommended film about Van Go gh is Robert Altmans Vincent and Th eo from 1990. Surviving Picasso directed by James Ivory in 1996 Like Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso image made him an iconic figure outside t he artistic circles. While Van Gogh symbolizes the self destructive, m anic depressive artist who achieves success only after his death, Pica sso represents the misanthropic and womanizer artist. Picasso infamous relationship with women is the foc us of this Merchant and Ivory film. The story is told from the eyes of Picasso mistress Francoise Gilot a nd features only reproductions of P icasso works. With Anthony Hopkins talent and his physical resemblance to Picasso, Surviving Picasso mana ges to create an unflattering portr ait of an artist as a cruel, self c entered genius. Girl with Pearl Earring directed by Peter Webber in 2003 Comparing to Van Gogh and Picasso, Vermeers biography is less known an d less controversial. Therefore Gir l with Pearl Earring is much more r estrained and delicate. The movie f ocuses on a short period in Vermeer s life in which he was painting the portrait of his young low class ma id. Although Girl with Pearl Earrin g does not avoid filmic conventions by over dramatizing Vermeers paint ing process, the movie is worth wat ching if only for its artistic desi gn, which success in evoking Vermee rs perception of light and color. Basquiat directed by Julian Schnabel in 1996 The most common critique against mo vies that deals with visual arts is the way they depict the creation p rocess. Therefore, there were big e xpectations from Basquiat, which wa s directed by the celebrated painte r Julian Schnabel. Schnabel did wel l in depicting Jean Michelle Basqui at rise and fall story in less the predictable manner we have seen mil lions time before. However, the onl y reason to watch Basquiat is David Bowie plays the role of Andy Warhol. Frida directed by Julie Taymor in 20 02 Like most of the visual artists who had their life story appear on the silver screen, Frida Kahlo carried an unusual biography, which includ es bus accident, problematic marria ge, and an affair with Leon Trotsky . Like Van Gogh, Picasso and Jackso n Pollock, who was the subject of a biopic from 2000, Frida Kahlo was an icon long before Frida was relea sed, but the 123 minutes film did h elp to strength her position as a f eminist idol and probably the most famous woman painter of the 20 cent ury. Frida tries its best to integr ate Frida Kahlo life story with her painting and the result is very co lorful and pleasant, but still does not stay far enough from the conve ntions of depicting artists on film.
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Seeing them wrestle is different than reading their bout sheets.
Seeing them wrestle is different than reading their bout sheets.
I wasn't really trying to be condescending, but I find that often from wrestling posters: we base how good someone is on what we read or reading who they beat, all the while we may never even see the people wrestle in person. Seeing Jordan and Clark side by side proves that point perfectly.
So I'm starting to see the point a little better I think, and I say this as someone who has seen both Jordan and Clark wrestle so I'm not just going off of results and seeing who they beat.
Is it that both guys are really good, but people are only talking about Clark where they should be talking about both? Or is it that Jordan is underrated and Clark is overrated?
[QUOTE=JensenS;502969]Is it that both guys are really good, but people are only talking about Clark where they should be talking about both? QUOTE]
That, exactly. However, and as I said, that's also understandable, as Jordan really kind of made his mark for the first time nationally this weekend.
More talk should, and will, be devoted to Jordan after this weekend, I would guess.
So Ban are you predicting that Jordan will have a more accomplished career than Clark? I have not seen either wrestle in person, but have been more impressed with Clark. I was hoping Meeks would look that good this year which clearly isn't the case...
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Like I said earlier those are three nice wins. In the bit that I've seen of him on video I like his style, nice to see it pay off for him with the big wins that he got this weekend.
Nice to see something good happening for that Wisconsin program again with him and Thielke looking tough this weekend.
Bottom line? Side by side, BOTH are great true freshman, and their individual talents are best witnessed IN PERSON. I'll stand behind any of the above comments. ;)
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Leona Maguire 'very proud' of Masters showing
Cavan's Leona Maguire said she was "very proud" of her display at the Ladies European Masters, which saw her finish in second place.
Cavan's Leona Maguire said she was "very proud" of her display at the Ladies European Masters, which saw her finish in second place.
Ireland's Leona Maguire has finished second behind Beth Allen at the ISPS Handa Ladies European Masters.
Graham Lee produced Lady Tiana with a perfectly-timed challenge to the bet365 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock.
Niamh McGrath came off the bench to edge Galway over the line but the league champions were given the fright of their lives by Offaly before snatching a 1-11 to 1-8 victory in the Liberty Insurance Camogie Championship at St Brendan's Park, Birr.
Justin Gatlin moved closer to a world sprint double and Allyson Felix broke through to win a stirring women's 400m at the US trials for the World Championships on Saturday.
Warren Place, the historic Newmarket training base of the late Henry Cecil, is to be sold and his widow Lady Cecil will retire from training at the end of the 2015 Flat season.
After claiming a long overdue Leinster football championship win earlier this month, Fiona Leavy says Westmeath are determined to make sure it does not turn out to be a false dawn.
Do Try Dolly came out best in a cracking duel for the spoils in the Carmel Fay Memorial Handicap Hurdle at Kilbeggan.
Puskas Award runner-up and Ireland international Stephanie Roche has signed for Sunderland AFC ladies.
Olivia Mehaffey was beaten at the semi-final stage of the Ladies British Open Amateur Championship at Portstewart.
Olivia Mehaffey has progressed to the quarter-finals of the Ladies British Open Amateur Championship at Portstewart.
Navan saves the best until last on Saturday and although the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Race has attracted just the three runners, each of the trio has genuine claims.
World amateur number one Leona Maguire continued her hot streak at the Ladies British Open Amateur Championship at Portstewart after winning her second game of the day against Camille Chevalier from France.
World amateur number one Leona Maguire has qualified in pole position for the match play round of the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championshipwith a score of 11 under par.
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David Wachman's well-regarded juvenile Most Beautiful stepped forward from her promising debut run to win the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden at Navan.
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Recently the use of in-phase crossover networks has been recommended to eliminate polar response asymmetries (lobing errors) in the crossover region of multiway loudspeaker systems with noncoincident drivers. In this paper a simple geometric arrangements of three drivers in a two-way loudspeaker is shown to eliminate lobing error independent of interdriver phase relationships, thereby removing this error from consideration in crossover selection. The suggested arrangements eliminates off-axis nulls and provides another polar response when the drivers are not driven in phase.
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Review of the Office of Personnel Management's Analysis of the United States Postal Service's Funding of Civil Service Retirement System Costs
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In our December 2001 report, "United States Postal Service: Information on Retirement Plans" (GAO-02-170), we raised the question of whether the United States Postal Service (USPS) was paying more or less than appropriate to cover benefit payments for the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) for which it is responsible. In May 2002, we asked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to calculate a hypothetical "Postal Fund" balance and projected funding status by estimating the present value (PV) of the future benefits USPS is required to fund for CSRS retirees and survivors under current law and extent to which prior and projected future contributions required by current law would fund these benefits. OPM released its analysis in November 2002, indicating that, based on current contributions, USPS's CSRS obligations would be significantly overfunded in the future. The Administration has proposed legislation that addresses this overfunding. In this correspondence we will (1) review OPM's analysis for reasonableness and (2) analyze the legislative proposal to identify any issues needing further consideration.
To perform its analysis, OPM determined the net assets (USPS agency and employee contributions plus earnings benefits and administrative expenses) available in the hypothetical "Postal Fund" as of September 30, 2002. OPM then calculated the PV of future benefits payable and future contributions to determine the extent to which "Postal Fund" net assets and required future contributions would fund the projected remaining benefits to be paid. In reviewing OPM's calculation, we also identified several adjustments that would improve its accuracy and collectively resulted in an increase of about $5 billion to the "Postal Fund" net assets. These include changing the basis of accounting for employee withholdings and USPS contributions from cash to accrual, reflecting certain employee voluntary and civilian service deposits and redeposits in the analysis that were not in OPM's initial analysis, using actual data on 30-year and 15-year payments by USPS rather than the estimated payments used in OPM's initial analysis, and making other miscellaneous adjustments. As a result of OPM's analysis, the Administration has proposed legislation that reduces the payments USPS would be required to make for CSRS benefits from approximately $4.7 billion annually to an estimated $1.8 billion in fiscal year 2003, a savings of $2.9 billion. Several issues, could affect the amount of annual payments: treatment of military service costs, treatment of payments made with appropriated funds, treatment of underfunded or overfunded amounts and future refinements, and choice of demographic assumptions.
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US: Constellation sells Washington winery
By just-drinks.com editorial team | 27 October 2006
Constellation Wines US is set to sell one of its wineries in the country.
The Constellation Brands subsidiary confirmed yesterday (26 October) that it has secured an agreement to sell Zillah winery in the Yakima Valley, Washington to Roza Hills Vineyards. Financial details surrounding the purchase, which is expected to close in February next year, were not disclosed.
The winery was acquired by Constellation as part of an acquisition of assets from Corus Brands in 2001. Since then, Constellation has leased the winery to Washington Wine & Beverage, an affiliate of Roza Hills, which operates it.
"The purchase of the Zillah winery is the natural next step for a business relationship that has been mutually beneficial to both Washington Wine & Beverage and Constellation Wines US," said Sal Leone, president and CEO of Washington Wine & Beverage Company.
"Our Roza Hills operations will benefit from this investment as we make further commitments to the continuing success of our Yakima Valley wines. The acquisition of this property now allows us to control the growth of our grapes and the production of Silver Lake wines together on one site."
Earlier this month, Constellation Brands posted an 18% fall in second-quarter net profit to US$68m due to restructuring charges from its acquisition of Vincor International earlier this year.
Operating profit was up 4% to US$181m as net sales rose 19% to US$1.4bn. The slide led Constellation to cut its full-year earnings guidance from US$1.72-1.80 to $1.72-1.76.
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Grated chocolate and orange on a rich butter base make deliciously different shortbread. Cream the butter until soft, then gradually beat in the sugar until the mixture is light and creamy. Mix together the flour, ground rice and orange rind, then work into the creamed mixture with the chocolate. Knead lightly until the mixture forms a stiff dough. Pat into a 29 by 19 cm (1 1 1/2 by 7 1/2 inch) Swiss roll tin. Bake in a preheated moderate oven (160°C/325°F, Gas Mark 3) for 35 to 40 minutes until crisp and lightly browned. Cut into 16 fingers and leave in the tin to cool. Makes 16
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