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The only real solution to the crisis of publicly funded Catholic schooling in Canada
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 15, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The nearly 900 Catholic high school students gathered for the National March for Life Youth Conference on Friday were urged to take an active role in transforming Ontario's publicly-funded Catholic school system, which has fallen prey to doctrinal errors and general dissent from the Church's teaching authority in recent decades.
In his homily at the conference's morning Mass, Ottawa's Fr. Anthony Hannan said most arguments about saving Ontario's Catholic schools have to do with constitutional rights. "But if we want to save the system, if we want to save the Catholic schools, we must make them Catholic," he urged.
While there are faithful Catholic teachers in the system, many teachers do not even attend Sunday Mass, he noted.
Observing that there has been a general reluctance to reform the system, he called on the students to take up the task. "It's up to you," he said. "It's up to you to transform the system from the inside."
He urged the students to get a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church or access it online on their iphones and present the truths of the faith in the classroom with the authentic teaching. "Bring [the Catechism] with you to every class," he said. "Bring into the class discussion the authentic teachings of the Church."
Doing this will not only be a way to support the faithful teachers, but will hopefully also inspire other teachers to get their own copy, he explained.
"My prayer is that if you bring the authentic teaching of the Magisterium into the classroom, then they just might be prompted to go get their own copy of the universal Catechism," he said. "And they will grow in faith, and please God, in the decades ahead we will have Catholic schools and they will be strong Catholic schools."
Fr. Hannan said it is "ridiculous" that some students feel "ostracized" in the Catholic schools for taking the faith seriously, and urged them to view this as a real injustice.
"As young people I know that you have a strong sensibility to injustice. That's why you're here in some way. At the March for Life," he said.
"The real injustice that I want you to see is that you're going to a Catholic school – depending on the school and what teachers you get – you are not getting a complete and authentic Catholic education," he continued.
"Be upset about that. And call your teachers, in the most respectful way, to account for that."
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Please, enough with the cult of pop stars. Our kids need real heroes.
April 29, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Two things happen each time a significant pop culture figure dies: Christians attempt to dredge up some moderately conservative or traditional thing that figure said at some point during his long career, and mainstream media attempts to convince a society thoroughly bored with such things that the person in question was a ground-breaking radical. The two most recent examples are the androgynous David Bowie—a cringe-worthy and possibly blasphemous video of him dropping to his knees during a rock performance and uttering the Lord's Prayer circulated just following his death--and the pop star Prince.
I've had to suppress my gag reflexes many times as I saw my Facebook newsfeed fill up with memes sporting quotes from Prince about his faith and articles announcing that the musician who "embraced gender fluidity before his time," according to Slate and "will always be a gay icon" according to The Atlantic, was against gay marriage. Sure, maybe he was. But only a Christian community so shell-shocked by the rapid spread of the rainbow blitzkrieg and the catastrophic erosion of religious liberty would find this remarkable. After all, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton said the same thing barely one election cycle ago. As one obituary celebrating Prince's paradigm-smashing sexual performances written by Dodai Stewart put it:
Dig, if you will, a picture: The year is 1980. Many states still have sodomy laws. The radio is playing feel-good ear candy like Captain and Tennille and KC and the Sunshine Band. TV hits include the sunny, toothy blond shows Three's Company and Happy Days. There's no real word for "gender non-conforming." But here's what you see: A man. Clearly a man. Hairy, mostly naked body…a satiny bikini bottom. But those eyes. Rimmed in black, like a fantasy belly dancer. The full, pouty lips of a pin-up girl. Long hair. A tiny, svelte thing. Ethnically ambiguous, radiating lust. What is this? A man. Clearly a man. No. Not just a man. A Prince.
Right. So let's not get too carried away, shall we? I know Christians are desperate to justify their addictions to the pop culture trash that did so much to sweep away Christian values in the first place and I know that latching on to the occasional stray conservative belief that may manifest itself in pop culture figures makes many feel as if perhaps we are not so weird and countercultural, but this bad habit we have of claiming these figures upon their passing is downright damaging.
After all, parents should be teaching their children about real heroes, titans of the faith who changed the world. Heroes of the early church who stood down tyrants, halted gladiatorial combat, and crusaded against injustice in a world where death was all the rage. These men and women were real rebels who stood for real values. If we want to point our children to people they should emulate, we should be handing them books like Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness by the brilliant writer Eric Metaxas rather than the pop albums Purple Rain or Lovesexy by Prince. If parents spend their time glorifying the predecessors of Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus instead of highlighting heroes like William Wilberforce, they can hardly be surprised when their children choose to emulate the former rather than the latter.
The mainstream media's adulation of these pop stars is equally irritating. The unspoken truth of these obituaries is that the flamboyant antics of Prince and the rest of the so-called rebellious drag queens populating the rock n' roll scene have been mainstream for a long time already. Want to see dozens of bizarre body piercings? Weird hairdos? Purple mohawks? Dudes with nail polish? Strange tattoos? Easy. Just go onto any university campus, or any public high school without a dress code. With headphones wedged firmly in their ear canals, they can pump the cleverly commercialized "counterculture" straight into their skulls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
More than that, some of these courageous rebels have actually sued their employers to ensure that they can let their establishment-smashing freak flag fly at work, too. An Edmonton woman with 22 visible body piercings complained that her employer was unfair because apparently she was being discriminated against "based on body modifications." Yeah! The Man must be told, after all. And if he doesn't agree, we will lawyer up. I wonder what the shrieking rebels of the early days would think about the snivelling children of the current grievance culture.
So these days, the media's eulogizing about aging culture warriors who went mainstream a long time ago rings a bit hollow. After all, most rock n' roll stars these days look tame compared to what shows up in the children's section at Pride Week. Freaky is normal now. Normal is radical. Welcome to 2016.
When Christians are posting nostalgic tributes to the rebels who helped inoculate their children against the radical views of Christianity in the first place, you know that the victories of the counterculture are complete and Stockholm syndrome has set in.
NewsFreedom, Gender Fri Apr 29, 2016 - 1:25 pm EST
Target boycott climbs to over 1 million
April 29, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Over 1 million people have signed a pledge to boycott Target over its new policy allowing men to access women's bathrooms.
The American Family Association's Boycott Target petition gained traction immediately, reaching the one million mark in only nine days.
"Corporate America must stop bullying people who disagree with the radical left agenda to remake society into their progressive image," said AFA President Tim Wildmon. "#BoycottTarget has resonated with Americans. Target's harmful policy poses a danger to women and children; nearly everyone has a mother, wife, daughter or friend who is put in jeopardy by this policy. Predators and voyeurs would take advantage of the policy to prey on those who are vulnerable. And it's clear now that over one million customers agree."
Target defended its policy in a statement saying that it believes everyone "deserves to be protected from discrimination, and treated equally" and earlier this week, a Target spokeswoman defended the policy as "inclusive."
The AFA said that unisex bathrooms are a common-sense alternative to allowing men unfettered access to women's bathrooms.
"Target should keep separate facilities for men and women, but for the trans community and for those who simply like using the bathroom alone, a single occupancy unisex option should be provided," the petition says.
The AFA warned that Target's new policy benefits sexual predators and poses a danger to women and children.
"With Target publicly boasting that men can enter women's bathrooms, where do you think predators are going to go?" the petition asked.
There have been numerous instances of predatory men accessing women's bathrooms and intimate facilities in the wake of "transgender" bathroom policies allowing them to do so.
"We want to make it very clear that AFA does not believe the transgender community poses this danger to the wider public," said Wildmon. "Rather, this misguided and reckless policy provides a possible gateway for predators who are out there."
NewsBioethics, Culture of Life Fri Apr 29, 2016 - 11:57 am EST
Amazing new video captures the flash of light the moment life begins
CHICAGO, April 29, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Life begins with a spark – literally.
Researchers at Northwestern University have documented the striking event in a new video that accompanies a study published this week.
At the moment of conception, the egg releases massive amounts of zinc, which creates a spark that can be seen with the aid of a microscope.
"It was remarkable," said Teresa Woodruff, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University's medical school. "To see the zinc radiate out in a burst from each human egg was breathtaking."
The research team had noted the zinc sparks before in mice eggs but had never observed the process in human beings.
"All of biology starts at the time of fertilization," Woodruff said, "yet we know next to nothing about the events that occur in the human."
One of the researchers, Northwestern chemistry professor Thomas O'Halloran, explained the science behind the process in 2014.
"The egg first has to stockpile zinc and then must release some of the zinc to successfully navigate maturation, fertilization and the start of embryogenesis," he said. "On cue, at the time of fertilization, we see the egg release thousands of packages, each dumping a million zinc atoms, and then it's quiet."
"Each egg has four or five of these periodic sparks," O'Halloran said. "It is beautiful to see, orchestrated much like a symphony."
Since the amount of zinc in an egg correlates with successful implantation and birth, the Northwestern researchers are highlighting that their research may be used to assist in vitro fertilization.
But that raises concerns given the grave moral issues with IVF, which involves creating numerous embryos that are either killed or frozen. Moral theologians also emphasize that IVF is an injustice even for the children who are born as a result, as they are created in a lab rather than in the union of man and woman.
The study may have far-reaching consequences the research team did not intend, such as strengthening public belief in the longstanding scientific consensus that life begins at the moment of conception/fertilization.
Many of those who saw the Northwestern video said it testifies to the beauty of life and the shallow lies that buttress the argument of abortion-on-demand.
"I saw this, and I was blown away by it," said Rush Limbaugh on his nationally syndicated radio program Thursday afternoon. "For anybody in the mainstream media to openly admit that life begins at conception" defies arguments that an unborn child is only "tissue mass."
Researchers released a separate video of the zinc spark taking place in a mammalian egg more than a year ago:
The paper, which is entitled "The Zinc Spark is an Inorganic Signature of Human Egg Activation," was published by Scientific Reports on April 26.


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KERSHAW – The town of Kershaw is adjusting the work schedule of employees in its street and utilities departments to give them a half day off in the middle of the week.
Starting May 1, those seven employees will work from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with an hour for lunch on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays for a total of 34 hours. They will work from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (six hours) on Wednesdays with no lunch break.
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KERSHAW – The old Kershaw High School gymnasium on Matson Street likely will be demolished to make way for a dental office under an ordinance approved by town council last week.
The council rezoned the 1.14-acre tract at 501 N. Matson St. by a 6-1 vote, with councilwoman Sonya Poole voting no.
"I was appalled when I found out it was going to be razed," Poole said. "I could not and will not vote for that."
A 19-year-old Lancaster woman has been charged with attempted murder after her 14-year-old sister was stabbed in the neck during an argument.
Tykendria Caldwell was arrested at her home, 1084 Palidin Road, shortly after the incident Saturday evening. She was also charged with resisting arrest.
A Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report said deputies responded to the home about 6:34 p.m. after the girls' 16-year-old brother called 911.
A safe haven in the middle of a rough neighborhood. An escape where kids can learn and thrive in a safe, uplifting environment.
That's what Carol Lee and Kathy Harden envisioned four years ago when they began Grace Place, an after-school program on Brooklyn Avenue that provides the youth of Lancaster with free tutoring and healthy after-school snacks.
Roof leaks that sprang up this past winter in the city of Lancaster's 15th Street Center have buckled flooring on the top level, but have not damaged any equipment yet.
Now the city is trying to get the leaks repaired before any more damage is done.
"Water always follows the path of least resistance," said City Administrator Flip Hutfles. "What's happened is that a couple of days after a rain, it comes through the insulation and then shows up in places."
A driver whose SUV overturned and caught fire was gravely injured and three people in another vehicle were hurt in a multi-car crash Wednesday at the intersection of S.C. 5 and Old Hickory Road.
S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Gary Miller said the driver of the SUV, 38-year-old Joshua Lloyd of Lancaster, was in critical condition at Carolinas Medical Center.
Lloyd, who was entrapped and freed by bystanders, was immediately flown to CMC.
Give Local Lancaster has been extended for another 24 hours after heavy online giving nationwide shut down the website that was coordinating the day of crowdfunding for thousands of nonprofits across the country.
The Lancaster-area drive had raised more than $23,000 – almost halfway to its $50,000 goal – about 1 p.m. when the volume of traffic began crashing servers at Give Local America, the national website through which donations were passing. The site froze just before 4 p.m.
COLUMBIA – The first case of travel-associated Zika virus infection has been confirmed in an S.C. resident, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control reported Friday.
The case involves a person who recently traveled to a country with active transmission of the Zika virus.
Parking for tonight's Relay for Life event at Lancaster County Memorial Stadium will be affected by a softball game going on at the same time.
To make sure parking is available for everyone, a shuttle bus will run every 15 to 20 minutes from the upper Lancaster High School lot next to LearnTV to the stadium from 5 p.m. until midnight.
Parking is available at the home and visitors' sides of the stadium and at the K-mart side of North Elementary. The soccer field parking will be reserved for those attending the Lancaster High softball game.
The Rev. W.C. Wallace enjoys sitting in a back porch chair in his bedroom slippers.
But on any given Sunday, he'll swap them for dress shoes and step behind a pulpit to talk about Jesus.
For more than four decades, he has served congregations in the Lancaster area, as a full-time, interim or substitute preacher, a calling that he will continue to answer.
"I guess I've been to three-quarters of the churches in the Moriah Baptist Association," he said, laughing.
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There's no airy-fairy talk or extending of little fingers in this art gallery.
"We're a little bit alternative over here. Or we like to think we are," says Soul Gallery's owner Lisa Voight. She's laid-back, understated, and has a very Kiwi approach to art.
"I really care about it . . . I know that sounds a bit dumb, but I love it."
On Friday night, Voigt and her two staff officially opened the extension to the Barton St gallery, effectively doubling its size and providing a space for exhibitions.
The opening was celebrated in style, with an event for customers and friends of the gallery.
"It's really just a big 'thank you' for all of them, because without all of them we wouldn't be able to do this," says Voigt.
The new room is connected to the original gallery, with the wall between the two stores removed.
"We found out the tenants were leaving about a month ago and we moved very quickly and took over the space."
Voigt says she has been looking at ways to expand the gallery for a while.
The extension is a sign of good financial times, and an opportunity to try something a little different.
The room will be used for single-artist shows. Voigt says although Soul's shows are often successful, sometimes not much sells. She likes to hold on to the art, because people often come back and ask about an artist after the show is done.
"We have a huge amount of stock available at all times."
When Voigt took over three years ago, Soul was a combined shoe store and art gallery. Now it has all kinds of New Zealand art and jewellery, with price tags from $10 to $11,000.
Voigt had been a jeweller for 10 years and a contributor to the gallery. When it came on the market, she saw the potential.
"The opportunity was there and I thought: 'Damn it, I'm doing it'," says Voigt. "I bought it because nobody was bringing contemporary Kiwi art to Hamilton."
As well as an appreciation of art, Voigt had business experience. She is a former corporate account manager for Telecom.
"I kind of left my big corporate job in my 30s and went to art school," she says.
The art-business combo seems to be working.
"As a business it's very successful," says Voigt. "Ninety per cent of my time is outsourcing new work. However, now we've reached a point where artists are coming to us."
She says Hamilton is more cultured than its reputation might suggest, and art is in demand.
"You've got a lot of new people moving into Hamilton at the moment. Rototuna is booming.
"There's a lot of new houses with no art on the walls."
The gallery also gets a lot of business from corporate clients looking to decorate buildings and offices. The business model targets private local and international customers as well, because the main source of revenue is constantly changing.
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Madison — Menard Inc. has agreed to change some practices after the National Labor Relations Board found it was violating federal labor law.
The board found in April that the Eau Claire-based retailer has been improperly requiring employees to sign mandatory-arbitration agreements that bar them from engaging in class-action lawsuits. The board also found that Menards has withheld merit pay raises for workers engaged in protected union activities.
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WASHINGTON -- American envoy Anthony Zinni faces long odds in his peacemaking trip to the Middle East. The Bush administration is calculating that prolonged bloodletting and a peace proposal by Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia might produce a cease-fire and more.
Also working in Zinni's favor is a significant shift in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's position. Sharon had insisted that attacks on Israel be suspended for a week before he would consider renewed peacemaking.
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Zinni's hope is that the fighting will subside even before he goes to the region next week.
The rising death toll among Israeli and Palestinian civilians and Abdullah's offer of recognition and peace for Israel in exchange for land could also work in Zinni's favor.
Administration officials said there was no secret new U.S. peace plan to entice the two sides to lay down their arms and negotiate. Both Israel and the Palestinians, however, sent word through diplomatic channels that they approved Zinni's trying again.
More significant, perhaps, was the insistence by Arab and European leaders that the United States assume a more active diplomatic role, which offered the Palestinians an incentive to stop attacking Israelis.
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"The crown prince is pushing. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is pushing. And the State Department has been pushing for some time," Walker said.
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Wisconsin farmers are expected to plant about four million acres of corn for all purposes in 2016, which is about the same amount of land as they seeded last year. But the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service said in its Prospective Plantings report this week that growers intend to plant 1.95 million acres of soybeans in the Badger State--an increase of 70,000 acres more than in 2015. If realized, this will be Wisconsin's highest soybean planted acreage ever.
Winter wheat planted acreage is estimated at 290,000 acres, a 60,000 acres boost compared to last year. Oat producers are looking to seed 220,000 acres, down 60,000 acres below 2015.
About 1.50 million acres of dry hay is expected to come off the fields this year, down 10,000 acres from the previous season.
The annual Prospective Plantings is based on the voluntary responses from approximately 1,400 Wisconsin producers. Actual plantings will depend upon weather, economic conditions and the availability of production inputs at the time producers must make their final planting decisions.
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Since he began adapting the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, director Peter Jackson has faced numerous complaints from longtime fans of Middle-earth - some spurious, some more substantial. (He has also, of course, earned plenty of praise from that same group.) Tolkien devotees have pointed to various infidelities, deviations from the books that make Jackson's movies crucially different from the world that the English author imagined.
OPINION: And yet no one I'm aware of has pointed out one of the more glaring (literally) problems with Jackson's Tolkien films, a problem that has become more evident to me with each instalment. It's the choice of his own native land, New Zealand, as the backdrop for these British stories. The island nation of swooping hills and glistening peaks isn't merely an unfortunate choice - it's one of the worst options I can imagine.
One of Tolkien's great accomplishments was making Middle-earth seem vividly old. Wherever the reader looks, ruins and crumbling statues poke through the lichen. "Here and there upon heights and ridges they caught glimpses of ancient walls of stone and the ruins of towers," writes Tolkien in an early chapter of The Lord of the Rings, describing his heroes' eastward flight from the ghastly Ringwraiths. The towers, he adds, "had an ominous look."
"Ominous" is a favorite Tolkien adjective, along with "gloomy" and "ancient." Dreams, water, the sun-all are at least occasionally ominous in Tolkien's universe. In The Lord of the Rings, especially, Tolkien's prose veritably creaks with historical resonances; it's no accident that the pivotal chapter in the first volume of LOTR is called "The Shadow of the Past," a title that could have served for the entire novel. Here is a rheumy-eyed realm, slouching toward a drearier tomorrow. As Tolkien reminds us over and over, the mystical race of elves is forsaking Middle-earth, taking their magic and their wonder, and leaving glum, brutish mankind in charge.
If Middle-earth can be described as a character in the books, then Jackson has written it out of the story.
This sense of a world slowly decoupling from a more glorious past is pervasive. As Tolkien's ragtag band of hobbits, elves, wizards, and warriors approaches the Misty Mountains in the opening volume of The Lord of the Rings, the reader is struck not by the glorious spectacle of the peaks soaring heavenward, but by the signs of decline that lie all around. "The Moon, now at the full, rose over the mountains, and cast a pale light in which the shadows of stones were black. Many of them looked to have been worked by hands, though now they lay tumbled and ruinous in a bleak, barren land."
To do justice to Tolkien - to capture the essence of Middle-earth - a filmmaker needs to convey that sensibility. And the problem with New Zealand is that it is decidedly young - both geologically and as a place inhabited by people. It simply does not transmit the requisite aura of decay. The point is well-illustrated in the previous entry in Jackson's series, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. As the protagonists - a band of dwarves, with titular hero Bilbo Baggins in tow - travel toward the Lonely Mountain, the kingdom from which the dwarves were usurped a generation previously, they are set upon by orcs and giant wolves (called wargs). In The Hobbit, Tolkien's description of this region of Middle-earth is very specific: It is dark, dreary, and pockmarked with half-collapsed structures.
"[T]hey had gone on far into the Lone-lands where there were no people left, no inns and the roads grew steadily worse. Not far ahead were dreary hills rising higher had higher, dark with trees. On some of them were old castles with an evil look, as if they had been built by wicked people. Everything seemed gloomy."
Jackson, however, shoots his segment in the sun-glazed grasslands around Twizel on New Zealand's South Island. The smackdown with orcs and wargs is a departure from the book, presumably intended to add pep to what, on the page, can feel like a grim travelogue. Just as jarring as the insertion of the fight scene, though, is the shift in the landscape and the way it's depicted. The bright and blue-skied backdrop is utterly at odds with the cheerlessness deliciously conjured by Tolkien. You are at all times aware that you are watching dwarves and giant wolves fight in postcard-gorgeous New Zealand. If Middle-earth can be described as a character in the books, and I would argue that it can, then Jackson has written it out of the story.
Perhaps Jackson could have found a good New Zealand equivalent for the sweeping steppes of Rohan, described in the second volume of The Lord of the Rings as gleaming and verdant - a dreamlike contrast to the mildewed darkness of the Misty Mountains. Tolkien says that "the grass of Rohan ... swelled like a green sea." But Jackson's Rohan, filmed around Otago in the far south of New Zealand and in the hill country near Canterbury, is yellowed and scraggy, knotted with hills and outcrops. In certain aerial shots, it resembles an arid wasteland.
Something chimes wrongly, too, in the key battle toward the end of The Lord of the Rings, outside the city of Gondor. In The Return of the King, Tolkien paints a scene of murk and shadow: "[O]f the fields of Pelennor," he writes, "there came no gleam, they were brown and drear." In the movie, though, once again shot around Twizel, it looks as if the fighting is unfolding in a CGI-saturated desert. The sun gleams through the smoke of battle; so much dust and sand is kicked up that, by the end, viewers could be forgiven for instinctively reaching to rub the grit from their eyes. This isn't Tolkien, it's Lawrence of Arabia with orcs.
So where should Jackson have shot his movies? It is instructive to turn to another major fantasy franchise of the hour, HBO's Game of Thrones series. Lustily adapted from the books by George R.R. Martin, Thrones is gritty without feeling dreary, serious-minded yet never plodding. Tellingly, it is filmed in a flip book of Old World sites: Northern Ireland, Iceland, Malta, Croatia. Speaking to journalists on set near Belfast in 2011, dastardly Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance) underlined this. "We're working in quite a dramatic environment - and it does help," he said. "There's something mystical about Celtic environments."
The specific inspirations for Middle-earth were manifold. Tolkien fought at the Somme, and the mechanised butchery he encountered in the trenches framing the steam-punk dystopia of Mordor - as did the industrial ruination, as Tolkien perceived it, of England's Black Country, near Birmingham. Hobbit homeland the Shire, most people agree, is a valentine to the leafier reaches of the UK's West Midlands, Tolkien's childhood home. In other aspects, Middle-earth is a hodgepodge. There is a whiff of the Yorkshire Moors about the lawless territories between the Shire and Rivendell, while Mirkwood channels Northern Europe's great forests. Lately it has been asserted that Tolkien was also guided by the gloomy strangeness of the Burren in western Ireland, a stony netherworld whose beauty and bleakness can seem one and the same.
If Jackson wished to evoke Tolkien's Middle-earth, its centuries of accumulated strife and melodrama bleeding into the present, he could have done worse than consult John Boorman's Excalibur (1981), a craggy, Arthurian romp that made the fantastical bloody and palpable. Shot in the east and south of Ireland, Excalibur has all a Middle-earth devotee could hope for: clouds hanging low, moody woodlands that radiate menace even on what passes for a bright summer day. Above all, there is a feeling that antiquity is not far away. After some shoots in Ireland, Jackson might have caught a flight to Iceland for the sombre splendor between Keflavik and Reykjavik, the Mordor moonscape stretching to the horizon.
The New Zealand that Jackson invites us to fall in a faint over radiates, in contrast, an unblemished freshness. Shooting in some of the remotest corners of the country, Jackson places before the viewer a land of virginal beauty, one that emanates a ruddy and fundamentally un-Tolkien-ish glow. Sitting through those tourist board scenes of hobbits and dwarves skipping stoically across hills and glades, Howard Shore's score swelling and roiling, the audience is in no doubt that it is watching a tastefully composed rendering of an actual paradise. Your first thought is "Wow, that's pretty," and your second may well be "I bet that's a wonderful place for bungee jumping."
Jackson ought to have gone to the Old World, to Ireland or Iceland and other places thereabout, where people seldom bungee-jump and the ancient and the modern often appear to live in uneasy alliance.
* Ed Power is a writer and critic who has written for the Irish Independent, the Daily Telegraph, and other publications.
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OPINION: One particular church's billboards.
St Matthew's in the City is at it again, getting people to talk about religion. The cheek of it.
At Christmas time too.
Other churches wouldn't be so bold, which, actually, is the point.
The more traditional churches are in decline. St Matthew's is attracting attention. All the time.
St Matthew's describes itself as a progressive Anglican church. It's in Auckland. Perhaps that's why it can afford to be progressive. There are always more people out there.
Last year's poster featured a shocked Mary looking at a pregnancy test. No, not everyone thought it was funny.
Its Facebook page had 21 million hits though, and its website 30,000 visits in a week.
Yes, a church with a Facebook page.
This year's poster shows a questioning baby Jesus in a crib surrounded by a rainbow halo. The words say: It's Christmas. Time for Jesus to come out.
This is obviously a reference to it being Christmas time, and that we should be thinking more about Jesus.
Or not.
Actually, it's not.
The church's Reverend Glynn Cardy says it's designed to lift the humanity of Jesus, for people to wonder if Jesus might have been gay, and then, actually, to question whether that would make any difference for those of faith.
Did I mention the church describes itself as progressive.
For instance, it supports gay marriage.
In August its poster was of two model brides kissing atop a wedding cake, with the text "We don't care who's on top".
What does the church think it's doing?
Being talked about, is what.
And if people are talking about it, some of them just might turn up for mass. Or be more inclined to. Especially young people.
There's no such thing as bad news.
And if I recall correctly, Jesus wasn't that popular with everyone all the time.
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Spotless Facility Services to pay $15,500 for bullying complaint failures
Fonterra's reduction of the Studholme plant is commonsense, Federated Farmers say
Timaru's Pita Pit tops franchise's shop turnover rankings in first week
Daily walks turn up nothing in missing man case
School ball season kicks off in South Canterbury
Lake campground already overused, track opponent says
Fonterra halves production potential at Studholme plant in response to opposition