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What a strange and unexpected topic. Walking. One hundred boys walking. That's it. How do you make a story out of that? Well Stephen King does it, and - even after having read it - I can't begin to fathom how he not only managed it, but made it amazing. This was a great story with incredible characters, stories, settings, and emotion. I read an hour or two of it on the treadmill which made it all the better.
best best best, short story. i loved it. soooo intense.
This was one of the most terrifying books I've read in a while.
This was one of the most terrifying books I've read in a while.
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Richard Bachman is a pseudonym used by Stephen King for his early works.
Dystopian novels are very popular these days. When people talk about the Hunger Games, they say it's like Battle Royale. If they know a bit more about the Dystopian genre, it's only a matter of time before the talk comes to The Long Walk, which was written and published long before even Battle Royale.
100 boys start The Long Walk. It's not really clear why they start, there doesn't seem to be real pressure but the winner is promised whatever he wants. They have to run 4 miles/hour until there's only one boy standing. They get three warnings, after which they will be shot.
It was enjoyable story, but I could sense that this was Stephen King's earlier works, as I was missing some explanation as to why they take this run and everything. But that's just a minor point. I would recommend this to people who enjoyed said novels, or like Dystopian novels in general.
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Director Nathani is quite confident about the film: "If a Bhojpuri movie can recover its cost and run successfully in non-Bhojpuri speaking centers, why can't a Sindhi movie?" Harwani had earlier made "Pyar Ka Tarana" with Dev Anand.
A preview of the film at Film Division, New Delhi, was recently attended by dignitaries such as L.K. Advani and Ram Jhetmalani. Press meets to promote the film, shot in just 18 days, are scheduled at Amravati , Gandhidham, Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Jaipur.
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Last Sunday, I wrote "Grieving at Pentecost." Now I would like to share with you a part of the homily I gave at Lúcás' funeral. It's the first section where I consider his foundational contributions to Biblical ethics. Later I spoke about ways he was a bridge-builder among friends.
In the beginning of each of his two books, Lúcás (Yiu Sing Luke) Chan, S.J. refers to building bridges. He begins his first book, The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes: Biblical Studies and Ethics for Real Life, with "A schema for bridging biblical studies and Christian ethics" and he introduces his second book, Biblical Ethics in the Twenty-first Century: Developments, Emerging Consensus, and Future Directions, with the overarching notion of "building bridges."
Lúcás wrote about building bridges because he was a bridge builder. The man whose spiritual and intellectual formation, began in Hong Kong and ended in Milwaukee, had built bridges as he moved to England, Singapore, Cambodia, Macau, the Philippines, the U.S., Ireland, as well as Italy and Germany.
As a moral theologian Lúcás built the bridge between biblical theology and Christian Ethics. Lúcás' argument was clear and critical: if someone wants to do biblical ethics they need to have the competency of a biblical theologian who can tell us what the scriptural text means and the competency of a moral theologian who knows how to think through the contemporary ethical application of the meaning of the text. As Dan Harrington noted in Lúcás' first book on the ten commandments and the beatitudes, Lúcás makes the argument, but what is more remarkable, he "performs it." He takes each of the ten commandments and the eight beatitudes, tells us what each means and how each can be applied by a virtue. For instance, on the second beatitude, "Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted," Lúcás shows us that the grief Jesus is addressing is not over what one person has lost, but rather whether one empathizes for another's loss. The second beatitude follows from and is deeply connected to the first beatitude: the blessed are those mourning for those who are poor in spirit, that is, for those in the community who are struggling. Lúcás writes, "Such is the lot of the disciples of Christ- when our brothers and sisters suffer, we cannot help but mourn." (171) Then, after describing the meaning of the text, Lúcás proffers solidarity as the contemporary virtuous application of the second beatitude. For this reason, Harrington called Lúcás' book, "a manifesto for the double competencies of a biblically based ethics." In America magazine, Harrington called Lúcás's work, "a milestone."Read more
Why not? Update
As the congratulatory telegrams continue for Ireland's referendum last Sunday approving gay marriage and as we await the Supreme Court's decision on the issue of a constitutional right for gay marriage, we might consider some of the points Ross Douthat makes in today's column in the New York Times. It is headlined: "The Prospect for Polygamy."
Douthat grants that the issue of polygamy in the U.S. is an "outlier" among social issues, and it does seem far-fetched. Yet, it is worth thinking about his ultimate point: not today and not next year, but maybe 2040. And why not? What would keep the Supreme Court and public opinion from deciding there are no constitutional or moral bars to multi-person marriages?
Trinitarian Communion
For all the commentary that Charles Taylor's monumental A Secular Age has generated, I think insufficient attention has been paid his culminating chapter, "Conversions." Here he tries to chart a path beyond secularity's dominant "immanent frame." Not surprisingly he turns to the poets as lantern bearers. Péguy enjoys a certain pride of place, but Hopkins figures prominently as well. Taylor writes:
Rejecting any doctrinal compromise with the spirit of his age, Hopkins returns decisively to the central Christian focus on communion as the goal of God's action in creation. God didn't just make us so that we could live according to the laws of his creation, but to participate in his love. What is striking is the way Hopkins brings to the fore once again the deep connection between this telos of communion and a recognition of the particular in all its specificity.
On this Trinity Sunday we might ponder that if communion is God's goal, it is because God's very life is Trinitarian communion. The fulfilled created image of God will be the realization of the communion of holy ones – as Dante saw so clearly. Communion, not fusion. Communion in which the names of each will continue to resound, now in blessed, beatifying harmony.
The Eucharist I will celebrate this morning will remember two wonderful parishioners who died far too young. Yet whose presence remains palpable. And here is how the homily concludes:
We pray that Michael and Robert may attain the fullness of their personhood in the loving communion of their Triune God. And as fellow members of the communion of saints, we dare hope that our prayers may support their entry into God's embrace.
And could we venture even further? Does their attainment of the fullness of personhood depend, in some measure, upon the living, loving relationships that they continue to inspire in us? Do we, by the lives we live, by our gratitude and generosity, truly contribute to their eternal joy?
All this we ponder, as Christians ever do, in the Presence of our Three-personed God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The divine GPS
The semi-official Vatican journal "La Civiltà Cattolica" has published an interview with Fr. Jean-Miguel Garrigues, professor of patristics and dogmatics at the Institut Supérieur Thomas d'Aquin, at the Dominican House of Studies in Toulouse, and at the Seminaire International St Cure'd Ars. He worked with Cristoph Schönborn in preparing the Catechism of the Catholic Church. With regard to issues likely to be the subject of passionate debate at the Synod of Bishops in October, Garrigues proposed a pastoral approach that takes into account the personal journeys of individuals. He offered a comtemporary analogy:
When we take the wrong street or are distracted, the apparatus recalculates the route, taking note of our mistake and adapting the route so that we can reach the destination still desired. "Analogously, every time that we go off track by sinning, God does not require us to return to our point of departure because biblical conversion of heart, metanoia, is not a Platonic return to the starting point. God re-orients us towards himself, tracing a new route toward himself. Just as the destinations do not change in the GPS, so the moral goals do not change in God's governance. What changes–and how great they are!–is the route that each person takes in his free journey towards moral maturity before God and towards God. Think of the number of alternative journeys that the divine GPS must have pointed out to the Good Thief before that final and supremely dramatic short-cut on the Cross!"
Andrea Tornielli's summary of the interview can be found here, but strangely the English translation omits the paragraph I have translated above which can be found in the Italian version here.
The Enduring George Weigel Problem
George Weigel seems quite immune to irony. In a recent column, be opines on what he sees as "The Catholic Church's German Problem". Yet in the run-up to the pope's encyclical on the environment, perhaps a more appropriate headline would be "The Catholic Church's North American Problem". As we all know, the sound and fury surrounding a document that has not yet been published is simply unprecedented. And it is equally clear that this sound and fury is coming overwhelming from the United States—from its noisy cabal of libertarians, free market fundamentalists, oil and gas industry vested interests, and climate science denialists.
Full disclosure: I was involved in last month's symposium at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences entitled "Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity: The Moral Dimensions of Climate Change and Sustainable Development". As I noted before, this symposium brought together some of the world's top climate scientists, development practitioners, and religious leaders, and it was opened by Ban Ki-Moon. It also had the dubious distinction of being gate-crashed by the worst emblem of this "American problem"—the Heartland Institute, which uses quack science to mock the idea of climate change while upholding the virtues of the unlimited extraction of fossil fuels. More than one person noted in private that this is indeed an American issue, and it is being driven by American financial interests.
And who provides cheap intellectual cover for these radicals and dangerous extremists? None other than George Weigel. In the aftermath of our symposium, he noted that it "assiduously excluded those skeptical of the U.N.'s global-warming orthodoxies" – as if the subject of anthropogenic global warming was actually subject to debate outside the hermetically-sealed chamber occupied by this cabal.
Circling back to his attack on the German Church, the lesson Weigel draws is that of "a cautionary tale about the effects of surrendering to the spirit of the age." Yet I would contend that few American Catholics in the modern era have surrendered more to the spirit of the age—the age of Reagan and the resurgence of free-market liberalism and aggressive militarism—than George Weigel.Read more
Those Who Want Housing, and Those Who Need It
In London it's become the fashion of wealthy homebuyers to supplement already sizable residences with cavernous subterranean lairs. In Manhattan it's to move into a sky-high aerie, priced in the tens of millions, from which it's possible to look down on the Empire State Building. In the Bay Area it's to snap up anything inside the city limits of San Francisco, the near entirety of which has become a bedroom community for Silicon Valley's most monied.
Wealth has always shaped cities, but its current role in the transformation of urban centers around the world seems unprecedented, probably because there's so much more of it, concentrated in ever-fewer hands, moving ever more fluidly and mysteriously through lightly regulated and technologically enhanced channels. Oligarch, plutocrat, or ordinary multimillionaire, the highest-net-worth property-seekers want to be in cities, or if nothing else be able to park their money in one (real estate being a good place to hide it). It may be a cliche to talk about the divide between rich and poor in places like London, New York, and San Francisco, but some cliches bear restating, especially when the divide seems increasingly inconceivable in its breadth -- the very function of a system engineered to practically ensure its further expansion. "Darwinian upscale urbanism," as Martin Filler termed it in the New York Review of Books in April, referring specifically to former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's vision for the city he ran -- a place where the wealth of wealthy property owners was to trickle down to residents but instead, a researcher found, had "deleterious effects... on small business, the middle class, and taxpayers."
It may not be easy to dig an enormous basement or live in a condo eighteen-hundred feet above street-level, but it would be even harder if there were not banks, developers, lawyers, real-estate firms, contractors, and politicians dedicated to making it possible.Read more
Anticipation and Climate Change
In his beautiful new book Finding and Seeking, Christian ethicist Oliver O'Donovan offers an extended critique of what he calls "anticipation" as a basis for moral deliberation. Anticipation is of a "middle-distance future" stemming from our actions, differing from the immediate "nearer future" of the specific purpose of our actions and the "further future" which, for Christianity, rests on the virtue of hope. O'Donovan suggests that good decision-making involves some anticipation, but it "must be kept in its place," because our ability to control the middle-distance future is "fragile." We all know this from experience: if we are contemplating a job change, we may see specific benefits and costs that will immediately result from it, and we may (as Christians) hope that we are contributing to God's purposes for the world. But we can't really know very clearly, five years down the road, how life will "look different" if we take the job or refuse it. What other opportunities might come along? What happens if there is a change in the business model of the company? The questions are virtually endless. Thus, if we get stuck on a "demand for definiteness" by relying on fragile anticipation, we may never decide, and we certainly won't decide well.
O'Donovan's larger concern here is how our public life increasingly is determined by this "demand for definiteness." Candidates and official offer plans, and they are evaluated based on "what will happen." This inevitably results in two problems. One, there arises "a preference for the short-term focus," where predictability is most assured. Two, any attempts at a longer-term focus means "we must pretend to have a scientific statistical prediction, precisely in order to suit our generalized conception of what responsible decision-making ought to be." But such "predictions" are of course exceedingly fragile, resulting in "a constant confusion of speculative anticipation with hard science." The answer to "what will happen" if, say, the minimum wage is raised is uncertain – not entirely, of course, and economists can offer some reasonable claims about the trade-offs. If labor is more expensive, a business will have to think about various options – but even here, the options are quite different in different circumstances, with different business plans, in different places and industries. While all of this has value for prudence, it must be "put in its place" – one cannot say that minimum wage increases simply produce either "good" or "bad" results. The question must be subordinated to the question of how society as a whole maintains just wages over time.
But O'Donovan's essay really made me think about the upcoming environmental encyclical and the place of climate change within it. "Anticipating" the effects of climate change is many orders of magnitude more difficult (but also more weighty!) than the effects of a job change or a minimum wage increase. Extreme weather events, like the unprecedented rainfall totals in Texas and Oklahoma or the ongoing drought in California, inevitably bring up the question of how temperature changes in the atmosphere affect weather patterns. THAT weather patterns are affected is not questionable; HOW they are affected is much more fragile. Certainly the possibility of extremely bad effects should weigh heavily on our minds, especially given our shockingly blasé attitude toward, say, the year 2100, a year we would expect children born today to live to see. But the contemplation of such effects can even have paradoxical effects, leading us to despair, especially when we recognize that any individual changes we make may be lost in humanity's massive collective activity. I was in a conversation earlier this year where someone from the Boston area stated that she had long driven small cars, but that this winter, she had finally had enough and bought an SUV. What is one to do in this situation? What the person definitely knows is that the SUV will help her endure such winters, and the "anticipation" of the world in 2100 may not be a very strong counter.
All this points to something key about the environment encyclical: our news coverage and public policy is fixated on the "demand for definiteness," and the question of what the pope has said about climate change will get a lot of attention. This is unfortunate. The moral weight of this encyclical – and any encyclical – does not rest on "anticipation." Instead, it will likely rest on very traditional, core beliefs about two things. One, God has ordered creation. The Psalm response for today's daily mass was "By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made." That's not a prediction; that is a wisdom teaching about the good order of the world, which we arrogantly mess with at our peril. It's also not a prediction that we are messing with it; that's just clear. We are essentially using the atmosphere as an infinite waste dump – one might not wrongly say, "by the exhaust of our cars, the heavens were remade."
And why are we doing that? For some good purpose? The likely emphasis on "integral ecology" will suggest that our disordering of creation is intertwined with a failure to love our neighbor in the fashion Christ tells us to. Put another way, the problem with big cars isn't (simply) the "anticipated" effects of all this fossil fuel use; rather, cars are bad for loving your neighbor. Now, I'm not saying that somehow cars are per se bad. I'm saying cars – or at least an absolute reliance on them – is bad for human ecology, not just for natural ecology. Cars may in fact be the most important social strategy in America for people to avoid the problems of the poor. But even at a simpler level, what preacher has not used the example of our "response" to other drivers as an occasion where we express blatant anger at our neighbors?
We shouldn't make environmental issues all about one thing, like cars. It's not. But one of the major structures of sin that make reasonable efforts to deal with climate change so hard is we've built a society where we're very attached to our cars. And my point here is that the Church's concern for natural ecology is based on a belief, already stated clearly by Popes John Paul II (Centesimus Annus, nos. 37-38) and Benedict XVI (Caritas in Veritate, no. 51), that environmental bads are rooted not only in a lack of care for creation, but in a lack of real love for our neighbors. Excessive energy use is rooted deeply in our individualism, our preference for going our own way, whatever it is, rather than cooperation and interdependence. Francis won't need to rely on the fragile foundation of "anticipation" in order to tell us that.
Same-Sex Marriage 'Reality Check'
Many who are responding to the 62.4% majority vote to nationally legalize same-sex marriage in Ireland are making much of Dublin archbishop Diarmuid Martin's frank but vague remarks in the New York Times:
The church needs to take a reality check.... It's very clear there's a growing gap between Irish young people and the church, and there's a growing gap between the culture of Ireland that's developing and the church.... [I]nside the church becomes almost alien territory to them in today's society…
That there is a growing gap between young people and the church on this issue is not new news, nor is it exclusive to Ireland. Martin is right to point out that anyone who doesn't recognize this is in "severe denial." That's why I think this referendum is such good news. It's a reality check, yes, but it's also an opportunity to let go of the fight against same-sex marriage. If bemoaning the referendum becomes the church's basis for strengthening "its commitment to evangelization," as the Vatican's secretary of state suggests, the gap between young people and the church will only widen.
I don't have the polling data to prove this, but I can't imagine that many young Catholics enjoy being recruited to fight a culture war, especially if the opposition includes family, friends, and peers. They find it alienating when a priest homilizes about the essential differences between men and women; they would rather hear that "all are welcome" at Mass and rather the homily stick to the gospel. When Catholic identity becomes less about spirituality and more about political battles, something essential is lost…along with thousands of believers.
Is there a way for Catholics to simply disagree with same-sex marriage supporters instead of having to "defend traditional marriage"? Is there a widespread movement to force the church to change its teaching on marriage? Why can't traditional marriage exist inside the church, with same-sex marriage outside the church? Agreeing to disagree relieves the opposing parties of the burden of needing to win. Ireland has decided, by majority vote, to legalize same-sex marriage. At least one front in this protracted culture war has gone quiet. What a relief.
Over at NCR Michael Sean Winters wonders if it's possible that "those Irish young people did not vote for same sex marriage despite their Catholic education, but, in part, because of it?" That's a very good question. I suspect they did. Catholics have imagination. Tradition isn't a force that eternally battles advancing armies. It's the way the substance (not the accidents) of church teaching is passed down through generations of believers who contribute to this process by reexamining and reexamining again what their faith means.
Gay-friendly Catholics
Following up on Ireland's referendum in favor of same-sex marriage, Frank Bruni's column in today's New York Times (May 27, 2015) provides some interesting information but stops short of the difficult question. Bruni points out that most of the countries around the world that have accommodated same-sex marriage or civil unions have large Catholic populations, and that American Catholics are the most "gay-friendly" of all Christian denominations, when it comes to questions about marriage or civil unions. But the real issue is why Catholics find themselves in this somewhat surprising position, surprising not least because church leaders, even those who ask "who am I to judge?" teach the opposite of what a significant majority of the Catholic people seem to believe. If we leave aside the tempting thought that Catholics say this because their bishops teach the opposite, what can they possibly be thinking?
One possible response to the U.S. context that would be high on the list of First Things would be to point out that the "Catholics" polled in the Pew research are always self-identified Catholics, that this includes many who are rarely if ever in church, and that the more often an individual goes to church, the more likely s/he is to be in the minority of the nay-sayers. It is also true that if you look at generational cohorts, it is in the youngest groups that the highest percentage of those favoring same-sex marriage can be found. And everyone knows, don't they, that this is also the cohort least likely to be found in church on any given Sunday. The counter is pretty obvious: there is no litmus test for a Catholic (remember James Joyce's "Here comes everybody!"), and perhaps the younger Catholics have experience that older Catholics don't. In my long years as a teacher of mostly Catholic undergraduates I have found the growing support for gays and lesbians to have nothing much to do with moral relativism and everything to do with encountering and befriending gay and lesbian kids in high school.
So what other answers might there be to the question of why American Catholics are so supportive? I have three suggestions and I hope that readers will add more. First, perhaps the fact that Catholics have a celibate clergy that includes a large number of gay men means that the fear bred from ignorance is less likely to be operative than in other traditions. Second, could it be that a natural law approach to ethical questions, that is, that reason should guide our thinking and our conclusions, is bred into the Catholic bone? Third, might Catholics be so imbued with the sacramental principle that they recognize any expression of genuine love to be evidence of God's presence in the world, and hence to be cherished rather than condemned? In Ireland or here or elsewhere, the actual principal difference between leaders and people, on same-sex issues or birth control or religious freedom or perhaps many other issues, is that the leadership thinks deductively while the rank and file think inductively. Experience trumps ideology, which—strangely enough—is Pope Francis's consistent message!
Now on the homepage
We've just posted three new stories to the homepage.
1. In his latest Letter from Rome, Robert Mickens suggests the possible reasons behind the Vatican Secretary of State's "apocolyptic assesment of the the Irish referendum" is culture, "particularly Italian culture," because Italy is "the most conservative country in all of Europe when it comes to social conventions and customs," especially concerning the family.
Mickens also reveals who exactly has been holding "secretive meetings and initiatives" in the run-up to October's Synod on the Family that deal with "some of the more thorny issues" the bishops will be debating, including the Kasper proposal.
Read the full Letter from Rome here, and if you need to catch up, here's all of them.
2. The Editors present reasons, if the Amtrak derailment isn't enough of one, for why the U.S. government's failure to invest in infrastructure must change:
The United States now spends less than 2 percent of its GDP on infrastructure, less than half of what Europe spends—and less than half of what we were spending in the 1960s....The American Society of Civil Engineers gave [the nation's infrastructure] a grade of D+... [and] noted that the average age of the country's 84,000 dams is fifty-two, and that one in nine of its bridges is considered structurally deficient. Every few years one of these bridges collapses, occasioning a brief outburst of bipartisan concern on Capitol Hill. Then nothing changes.
Read all of 'Signal Failure.'
3. George Dennis O'Brien, pondering the future direction of Catholic education, looks backward:
The dominant style of higher education in the ancient world was not academic but humanistic, directed at educating future political leaders who needed to learn the art of persuasion.... [T]he humanistic "classical curriculum" dominated American colleges from colonial times until the end of the nineteenth century.
Are Catholic institutions replacing the humanistic style with the "academic style of close argument and verifiable truths"?
Read all of 'Incarnation U,' and if you want more of the higher education debate, read Jackson Lears's excellent review of William Deresiewicz's Excellent Sheep.
Remembering Vatican II at Georgetown
When school ends professors go on the road. The conference season kicks into gear, and for teachers of theology it has all begun this year at Georgetown University with the 9th Ecclesiological Investigations Network International Conference, also including half a day at Marymount University across the Potomac in Arlington. Today we are wrapping up four days of talks and conversations on "Vatican II—Remembering the Future: Ecumenical, Interfaith and Secular Perspectives on the Council's Impact and Promise." Organized by the tireless Gerard Mannion of Georgetown University's Theology faculty, about 250 of us from many Christian traditions have talked and listened a lot, including to three, count 'em, three Cardinals. We began with Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, whom you may remember as the slight figure who announced the election of Pope Francis from the balcony of the Vatican. Cardinal Walter Kasper was also much in evidence, delivering a major address at Washington's National Cathedral, but it was actually the third of the trio, Cardinal Luis Tagle, who aroused most interest. If we are focused on remembering the future, the 57 year old papabile Archbishop of Manila was obviously the best fit with the conference theme. He comes across very much as an Asian version of Pope Francis. He is very unassuming and equally charming, not at all the shy and retiring figure that the media saw him as when they were handicapping the potential replacements for Pope Benedict. But while Francis's context is the still overwhelmingly Catholic poor of Latin America, Tagle is very conscious that Asian Catholics exist as a small minority in the midst of countless millions of adherents of the ancient religious traditions of Asia. So, he has very little time for those European Catholics who bemoan the exhaustion of their continent's Catholicism. "When they tell me they are tired," he said, "I ask them what they are tired of." Here in Asia, he added, "we have no time to lament and we never had anything to lose anyway."
Before he became a leading ecclesiologist, the great Yves Congar wanted to spend his life in ecumenical work. He wrote the first serious 20th century book on ecumenism back in the 1930s but was forbidden to attend ecumenical conferences. This kind of suspicion is now thankfully long gone, though Protestants do reasonably still wonder why the Roman Church chooses not to become a full member of the World Council of Churches. As the Ecclesiological Investigations conferences show, there's not much difference between ecumenism and ecclesiology, at least since Vatican II. You just cannot talk about the church any more and mean only the Roman Catholic Church. But it is quite wonderful to have three cardinals putting their collective approval on what, without them, would probably just be dismissed as what professors do with their long summers to keep themselves occupied.
Grieving at Pentecost
On Tuesday morning my best friend Lúcás Chan, S.J., died at the age of 46 of a heart attack. He was the epitome of healthy living and his death is, well, overwhelming for all his friends and family.
I can't get over that our grieving over Lúcás is going on on the eve of Pentecost. It has made me understand Pentecost in a whole different way these days because I'm preaching on Sunday evening and I'm wondering, how can I preach tomorrow without mentioning that my best friend died?
What I am learning these days is that grief is best when it's with others. That grief alone is a painful grief. Jesus' followers knew that too, and when the 12 are gathered in the upper room with Mary, they're gathered there because they're consoling one another.
They're not going there because they're waiting for the Holy Spirit. They're going there because they are really sharing their grief. But their grief is not that they're consoling one another by saying: Are you OK? Mary, how are you doing? Peter, are you OK? I don't think that was their grief.
I think they just talked about all the love that they experienced from Jesus and also they wanted to hear from one another how Jesus was loved. And so they wanted to hear how Peter loved Jesus, how Mary loved Jesus, how Andrew and John and the others loved Jesus. And it's in the hearing of these narratives that I think that they were consoled. And it was in that space that the Spirit found its place to enter into the upper room.
The Pentecost is not simply a sign of the Spirit's descent or the birth of the Church as we've always said. It was a moment of people grieving, people consoling one another about the fact that they loved Jesus, who loved them and died for them. In that expression of how they loved, they recognized their salvation and found a way to move forward by the Spirit.
I think that's why I gathered with his friends on Thursday at a memorial for Lúcás. We gathered because each of us, in very different ways, knew and loved him. For me, I am consoled when his friends, students, colleagues, brother Jesuits, parishioners from the Cantonese parishes, and others tell me stories about how much they love Lúcás and how much and how particularly, he loved them.
When we gather in this type of love we know that our main concern in consoling one another is not asking how we're doing, but what did he mean to us? In that expression, what did he mean to us, we encounter the consolation of the resurrection and then can be led by the Spirit.
Reading the Same-Sex Marriage Polls in Ireland
Ireland is holding a referendum on legalization of same-sex marriage on Friday, historic not just because of the matter at hand but also that it would be decided directly by national popular vote – not (as in the case of seventeen nations that have legalized it) by courts or legislators.
Polling suggests the Yes vote (that is, in favor of legalization) will win handily, but not everyone is so sure. One reason for the uncertainty is the inaccuracy of the polling preceding recent elections in Britain, which predicted a close finish that turned out anything but. Another is the possible role of the well-known social desirability bias – the tendency of a survey respondent not to state true preferences out of fear it might open them to criticism of their motivations. In the United States it's become mostly associated (if not synonymous) with the Bradley effect, named for 1982 gubernatorial candidate Tom Bradley, an African American who was leading comfortably in pre-election and even exit polling but lost to his (white) opponent George Deukmejian. White voters who told pollsters they'd vote for Bradley did the opposite. Some reports say "a 'shy' No vote" is seen as a real possibility in Irish political circles, given
the social pressure to at least appear to be sympathetic to the Yes vote … being felt across the country following endorsements not just from all major political parties but state bodies too. Even Ireland's police association, the Garda Representative Association, has come out for Yes, the first time it has taken a partisan position on a referendum.
Some recent polling says more than 75 percent of Irish voters favor altering the constitution to allow same-sex marriage, with most business and unions and even some Catholic priests publicly voicing support (the nation's bishops are encouraging a No vote). The No side is saying that the social desirability bias is definitely at play. Dublin and other urban centers seem a definite Yes, but rural, western Ireland is trending No. Younger voters are in favor of legalization; middle-aged and older ones, less so.
An NPR report this week used the construction "conservative, Catholic Ireland" and also identified the country "one of the most socially conservative in Western Europe." Other reports use similar language, noting the more or less familiar details that it wasn't until 1985 that Ireland legalized the sale of contraceptives, or until 1993 that it decriminalized homosexuality, or that abortion remains illegal. Would a Yes victory amount to "a heavyweight punch to the body of the church" in a country that is more than 80 percent Catholic? Or, as Jesuit priest Oliver Rafferty, a visiting professor at Boston College, suggests in this New York Times piece, might a Yes victory actually offer a new opportunity for the church in Ireland?
If it can no longer epitomize the broader culture in Ireland, Irish Catholicism can perhaps emerge as a more caring less overtly dogmatic and oppressive feature of the Irish landscape. Its focus might be more concentrated on ministering to peoples' actual needs than on wielding power in Irish society.
Student debt comes home
The latest numbers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York show student loan debt has reached $1.2 trillion, four times the amount it was in 2004. For the Millennial generation who stepped into the job market mid-recession, these sobering numbers probably aren't surprising.
Last year, a branch of Occupy Wall Street called Strike Debt, bought and forgave almost four million in student loans held by students from Corinthian Colleges, one of the biggest for-profit college chains, which recently closed its doors without warning and filed for bankruptcy. The company was under scrutiny for over-charging students for poor-quality classes and misrepresenting its job placement rate, and by shutting down, it left many students without degrees but deeper in dept. Now that Corinthian's unethical practices have been laid bare, Tuesday's petition asking the Department of Education to cancel debt owed to colleges violating state law is one good step, but the legal case is complicated.
Proposals for addressing the crisis of student debt range from the relatively modest (easing the requirements for debt forgiveness in cases of fraud found in Obama's proposed Student Aid Bill of Rights), to the sweeping, as Bernie Sanders's proposal to address the root cause of student debt by making college tuition-free. Regardless, some kind of action is needed.
The more burdensome a college graduate's debt obligation, the more difficult it is to establish a path toward economic security – building savings, for example, or buying a house – and to enter stabilizing relationships or start a family. Student debt also affects the well-being of the previous generation, as parents rally to help their children, sometimes by tapping into their home's equity or retirement savings. And, when the time comes, who are they supposed to sell their homes to when an entire generation of graduates is too constrained by debt to buy? There are also new numbers on how rising tuition and student debt disproportionately hurts minorities. Hollis Phelps in Commonweal last year addressed this very topic: "In a cruel twist, the very means undertaken by my students to get themselves out of poverty threaten to continue that poverty through the debt that they now owe." What might have once seemed like a young-person's problem (and perhaps a privileged young-person's problem) is now more widely felt.
We should understand the student debt crisis alongside the seriously weakened prospects for job growth that early Millennials faced upon graduation. As the first Millennial wave graduated, job definitions were changing as industries shifted and automation spread, and thanks to the recession, even the jobs that were supposed to be there as entrees to the middle-class were gone, or greatly diminished. Companies relied increasingly on contract labor to defray costs, including adjunct positions at universities (which didn't help the students who went to graduate school hoping to ride out the economic downturn). All this meant that the "foot in the door" college was expected to provide meant something very different than it used to. If you could get an entry-level position, advancement in the same workplace over a long period of time was no longer a solid prospect. And as many discovered, an unpaid internship began to increasingly qualify you for… a different internship—a point that has even made its way into Hillary Clinton's speeches (though apparently her foundation's policies don't necessarily reflect that concern).
Despite the occasional accusation of generational flightiness, which ignores these economic factors, Millennials say they want to make the same things happen as their parents did: a home, a stable partnership, and enough stability to raise kids. Policy changes will have to span the sprawling and slow-moving institutions of federal government, banks, and universities. But changes are slowly coming. In some states, companies that relied on unpaid internships to fill staff roles face greater restrictions. The complaints from Occupy Wall Street's corridors about debt once sounded less urgent and pressing to the mainstream. Millennials faced a lack of institutional support to build a solid foundation, and now the problem is coming home.
The End of 'Mad Men'
In the lingering aftermath (or afterglow, depending on your degree of fandom) of the Mad Men finale, it's worth recalling The Paris Review interview of show-runner Matthew Weiner a couple of years ago. In it he explains his method of plotting and the influence of certain films (Apocalypse Now, North by Northwest, Days of Heaven) that resisted or flouted narrative convention.
People [like] to talk about "act breaks" and "rising action" leading to a climax, but what about Apocalypse Now? Someone's on a journey, and sure, we're heading toward a climax, but there are so many digressions. To me, those digressions are the story. People would say to me, What's holding this together? Or, How is this moment related to the opening scene, or the problem you set up on page 15? I don't know. That's where the character went. That's the story. So many movies in the seventies are told this way, episodically, and they feel more like real life because you don't see the story clicking.
Celia Wren, writing in our current issue, raises valid points about the occasionally frustrating aspects of Mad Men's seven-season unspooling. While the creator of a work should not be let off the hook for its shortcomings, I think some should be seen in the context of the general challenges of television production – actors leave, schedules are delayed, budgets and salaries change, as do perceived business needs – and to the particular production of Mad Men: ninety-two period-piece episodes engaging to lesser or greater degree the cultural, political, and historical issues of a decade, filmed over eight years about a half-century after the time depicted.
A time that many can remember first-hand, and that many more have relived or experienced second-hand, and vividly, through innumerable and infinitely replayed documentaries and TV programs. The audience thus viewed it through their own filtered stores of memory and recall – as well as with the expectations cultivated by deeply internalized notions of television convention. Unhappiness with the show was inevitable, and there were suggestions of it in how energetically the final-season prediction mill churned. Would Don Draper commit suicide? (Based on what – an opening-credit sequence that showed a suited man falling? Then what about his safe landing on an office couch in iconic draped-arm pose, cigarette dangling from fingertips?). Would he prove to be seventies myth-folk figure D.B. Cooper? (Why? This would be completely outside the dramatic universe Weiner so carefully constructed). Would Peggy find love, would Joan and Roger get together, would Sally become a Patty Hearst-like figure? There was an observable method to Weiner's Mad Men, and it was not to go out with a shocker, address a nostalgic yearning, or tidy up storylines. Though some of that was delivered after all, which proved too much for fans like The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum: "There was nothing wrong with those other, often very pleasurable stories, in aggregate, although for a person like myself, who tends to like her finales like her men, without too much closure or wish fulfillment, the fan-service element made me twitch a few times." You can't please everyone, not even those who like you.Read more
Abusing immigrants, something for everyone
We had a go around last week about nail salons (and I have been chided for treating it as another NYTimes hand-wringer). Okay. Sorry to scandalize the sensitive!
I pointed out in a comment on that post that our Immigration Law Imbroglio has a lot to do with the nail scandal as well as many other ongoing industrial/commercial abuses, such as restaurants, gas stations, street repairs, etc. Thanks to Republicans our laws have not been updated; thanks to Obama the laws, such as we have, are not being enforced; thanks to the economy of low-wage jobs, ever more immigrants will come by hook or crook and be abused, many of them by their own countrymen/women and by our failure to enforce the laws that should protect them as well as our very own low-wage workers.
Jim Dwyer (no hand-wringer) has a short piece not only about workers beings abused everywhere in NYC, but about the general failure of city and state to enforce the laws that should be protecting these workers, legal or not.
New issue is live
We've just posted our June 1 issue to the website. Among the highlights:
Amanda Erickson describes the struggle of a Catholic parish community in Freddie Gray's Baltimore neighborhood to respond adequately, in the wake of the riots, to the root causes of hopelessness there:
The life expectancy of those born in Sandtown-Winchester is thirteen years shorter than the national average. Those are problems that can't be fixed by one man, or in one morning. So instead, Rev. Bomberger grabbed a broom and headed across the street.
Andrew Bacevich reviews Andrew Cockburn's "imperfect but exceedingly useful book," Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, about the motives behind and justifications for targeted assassinations and drone warfare—now common practices in U.S. foreign policy.
Cockburn quotes one U.S. Air Force general bragging, "We can now hit any target anywhere in the world, any time, any weather, day or night." Yet why bother with bombing bridges, power plants, or communications facilities, when taking out Mr. Big himself provides the definitive shortcut to victory? Here was the ultimate critical node: Decapitate the regime. As an approach to waging war, what could be more humane, not to mention efficient?
Plus: New poetry from Marie Ponsot, Celia Wren explains why the once-promising plotlines of Mad Men hit a dead end, Paul Johnston reviews the latest from Reading Lolita in Tehran author Azar Nafisi, Molly Farneth reviews the latest, uncomprehensive but newly non-Eurocentric Norton Anthology of World Religions, and Charles Morris reveals the dirty little secret of major-league banking bankers don't want to believe.
See the full table of contents here.
Monday Morning Links: May 18
During this weekend's mass, Pope Francis canonized four women religious, two of whom were from the historical territory of Palestine.
Not long after the Vatican's announcement that it would sign a treaty recognizing the state of Palestine, some outlets are reporting the Pope's words to Mahmoud Abbas were "You are a man of peace," though the Vatican Insider quotes him as saying "May you be a man of peace."
What's happened to cosmology? Aeon has an essay on how the field may be stalled (those readers may want to quibble with the author's treatment of Christian history).
Today, President Obama will announce a ban and tighter restrictions on federal funding of military-style police equipment like armored Humvees and explosives.
Back in 2011, The Atlantic looked at the history of how the police began to be armed this way after 9/11.
Whether or not you're interested in the sport of boxing, Kelefa Sanneh's story on Floyd Mayweather is fascinating. "What should we do with athletes like Mayweather, who commit particularly disturbing crimes?"
Video: Peter Steinfels with a Proposal for the Next Synod
Now on the homepage we're featuring "Contraception & Honesty: A Proposal for the Next Synod," by Peter Steinfels. In this video interview, Peter explains what prompted him to write "Contraception & Honesty" and talks more about the issues he raises in it. There was a "glaring gap" in the work of last year's synod, Peter says: "[T]he lack of attention to the question of contraception. Why did the synod appear to treat so perfunctorily the issue that was, and is, the starting point for the unraveling of Catholic confidence in the church's sexual ethics and even its credibility about marriage?" From his story:
A synod that grabs headlines about remarried or cohabiting or same-sex Catholic couples but says nothing fresh about the spectacularly obvious rift between official teaching and actual behavior in Catholic married life is an invitation to cynicism. It could prove to be a crucial test of Pope Francis's papacy.
But even if the real issue is acknowledged, "what can the upcoming synod do about it? How can the synod fathers, in a two-week session, realistically address a problem that has been festering since 1968?" First, talk candidly about "the pain and division that have wracked the church for decades now over contraception." Then, "urge a renewed study renewed study of church teaching on marriage and sexuality" with 2018 as a target date. That would be the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae vitae.
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Pakistan needs to revive its cultural roots, reach out to others.
Pluralist societies fear military invasion from ideological/religious societies. Ideological/religious societies fear cultural invasion from pluralist societies.
The great Pakistani leader of the masses and educationist, Hafiz Saeed, recently complained from the Madrasa Qadisiya on old Lake Road in Lahore that "Pakistani culture was being changed" in the name of education. He was probably angered by a local English-medium school's attempt to teach comparative religion to its senior classes. The "scandal" was, of course, unveiled by a TV anchor.
After the TV discussion, the state took action, confiscating all the textbooks informing high school children about Islam along with other great religions of the world, including Hinduism. The school backed off, fearing terrorist attacks, and the dust has settled over yet another effort to inform Pakistani culture with other global belief systems.
On August 4, a website called Pakistan News Pakistan Views had one Sajjad Shaukat voicing, once again, the fear of India's "cultural penetration" of Pakistan. He went through the tiresome catalogue of smears that this paranoia justifies: India is moulding "the behaviour pattern of a country's people on the basis of a handful of elements in Pakistan". The target was Indian films and plays used for this "penetration". The default status quo assumed by this plaint is the condition of war.
Of course, "psychological warfare" was mentioned. It is on this ground that the state already disallows Indian news channels and at times pulls channels like BBC, CNN and National Geographic off the air. The question is: why is the Pakistani citizen attracted to Indian entertainment? The next question is, why do people want entertainment? Why can't they always be busy doing serious ideological things? Why do people living under an ideology want more entertainment than the ideological state can afford to give them? Why do such culture-related elements as Pakistani singers, actors, cricketers and cricket commentators survive by going to India?
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I'm a 57 yr old woman and am a big fan of Jennifers. I recently saw her Aveeno Ad and have what might seem like a strange request. I would love to know the brand, style and color of the tortoise colored eyeglasses she's wearing in the ad. Would love to get a pair. Of course I couldn't come close to being as a adorable as Jennifer, but love her style!
Thanks, Doni
Me too Doni…I would like to know also..Colleen
Doni, I would like to know too… Colleen
I came here looking for that same answer – I love those glasses! Please someone have the answer!!!!
I came to this site recently and left the above comment about loving those glasses and hoping someone could advise what they are – little did I know that I would be the one to find the answer (at least I'm about 99.99% sure that I found them). If someone reads this and is interested, I'll leave it up to you to decide for yourself, but what I found is so close (if not an exact match) that it should work for those who love those eyeglasses. I'm almost positive that they are "Sheldrake" by Oliver Peoples in "Dark Tortoise Black". All you have to do is to search for "Sheldrake Eyeglasses by Oliver Peoples" and then click on the "Collections Oliver Peoples Designer Eyewear" site and the picture of those glasses will pop-up. Make sure that it shows the correct color (Dark Tortoise Black") – also at the bottom of the screen you can choose different views and when I saw the view from the front, that's when I knew that it was the right pair of glasses – I also had some screen shots of Jennifer Aniston wearing the glasses that I took from the Aveeno commercial that I was able to compare with and I would bet that it's the correct pair. I went today to an eyewear store that carries Oliver Peoples eyewear and was able to try them on plus other pairs of Oliver Peoples glasses, and actually found another pair that fit my face better (they are very similar and are tortoise-colored) and bought them and love them on me! On the Oliver Peoples website, there are several that are very similar to those worn by Jennifer Aniston, and I would recommend that you, like me, try on different pairs until you find a pair that works for your face – we can't all be blessed with Jennifer Aniston's beautiful face. However, I would very much recommend Oliver Peoples eyewear. I would love it if someone would post again if they read this and, like me, are able to find a pair of Oliver Peoples glasses that works for you. And no, I am not affiliated in any way with Oliver Peoples – I just happen to think they have beautiful frames.
I love the sunglasses Aniston is wearing coming out of yoga! does anyone know what brand and style those are? I'd really appreciate it!
How knows where the teal scarf Jennifer is wearing in the new commercial comes from????
I too would like to know where to get the teal
Scarf she wears in Aveno commercial.
I too would like to know where I could purchase the gorgeous scarf
I would like to know where to get the scarf. I tried asking Aveeno, but they won't tell.
I think its Nordstroms Cashmere and Silk scarf in Teal Sound. $98.00 Item #355334
Where can I get the teal scarf Jennifer is wearing in the aveeno commercial?
Where can i get the teal scarf Jennifer is waring in the Aveeno commercial?
The glasses are indeed Oliver Peoples Sheldrake. She also has a pair in the "Wacks" design that she has worn in television appearances.
I have been hunting the scarf, as well!
After looking this up, I am not sure this is the Nordstrom scarf that Jennifer is wearing in the commercial but website colors are not the best so I will have to go to Nordstrom to check. I do love that others are asking this question. The scarf and glasses are beautiful. I own another style of Oliver Peoples glasses and have found they are very well made. Now I need this style too!
Does anyone know where I can find the dress she tried on in the same Aveeno commercial as the teal scarf? It can be any color, but preferably black. Nordstrom doesn't seem to have it, but I'm unable to locate the designer online.


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The Atlanta Hawks, the best analogy for them, they're the chick on the side, never given the chance to be girlfriend number 1. The Hawks are consistently 4th or 5th seeds in the East but are never thought to be title contenders. A roster with their two best players being really good, no one is going to assume Josh Smith and Al Horford are the players to take you to the promise land. Adding Lou Williams and Kyle Korver will help with the scoring you lose from the loss of Joe Johnson; however they'll probably be nothing more than at 6th or 7th seed. Unless they can find a way to get a superstar, I don't see the fortunes of the Hawks changing anytime soon.
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Best IllumiNations Viewing Spots
This post highlights the best viewing spots for the IllumiNations fireworks at Epcot in Walt Disney World. Here we will provide some general tips about the best locations, and point out the best of these on a map of World Showcase. I've watched and photographed IllumiNations way too many times (actually, you can never see IllumiNations too many times–it's by far the best nighttime spectacular at Walt Disney World) and can say that not all viewing spots for Illuminations were created equally.
Unfortunately, unlike my Best Magic Kingdom Fireworks Viewing Spots post which contained an easy to follow map with color coded areas of good, bad, and okay spots from which to watch Wishes!, the same really isn't possible for Epcot. This is because within a span of 10 feet, you might have both an awesome and awful viewing spot, due to trees, food carts, or other obstructions.
Instead of a color-coded map that won't really be helpful, for this post I'm going to instead highlight my 5 favorite spots, along with some alternatives to those spots, and general discussions about choosing a spot for watching IllumiNations. Choosing a prime location for IllumiNations is actually easier said than done, as certain variables, such as the direction of the wind and where there might be IllumiNations dessert parties or private events that eliminate potential viewings areas as options for regular park guests change often.
Before choosing a spot for IllumiNations on a particular day, determine which way the wind is blowing. There are all sorts of scientific ways for doing this (and there's probably an app for it), but it should be as simple feeling the wind blow on you. If it's intense enough that you can feel the wind, you will want to avoid anywhere that will be down-wind of the center of the fireworks in the middle of World Showcase Lagoon. The show can produce a lot of smoke, and if you're down-wind of that, you may not see much of the second half of the show. Most nights it's not windy enough for this to be a problem, but it's still something to keep in mind.
The first thing you should do when arriving at any potential viewing spot is to survey the area above and around you to see if there are any torches, light poles, or trees blocking your view of the Lagoon. If so, and you still have the time to find a different spot, do so.
Along the same lines, but easier said than done, look towards the middle of World Showcase Lagoon to determine whether you can see to the middle, or if your view is blocked by a little island of trees. There are a couple of these that can impact views of the Earth Globe barge during the show.
The good news is that, obstructions and weather aside, since IllumiNations takes place in the center of World Showcase Lagoon, if you pick a spot that can see the center of the Lagoon, you will be able to see IllumiNations. It isn't like Wishes in this regard, as some spots that have good views of Cinderella Castle actually are poor views of the fireworks due to perspective distortion. There's no perspective distortion here. The bad news is that IllumiNations doesn't just take place high in the air…it also has low-level fireworks and a globe display, meaning you really will want a "front row" spot along the rails around World Showcase Lagoon.
That pretty much covers the basics, now let's take a look at my favorite specific spots… (more…)


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