NPR Music: Lykke Li On World Cafe
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Thursday, July 07, 2011
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Zenit: Benedict XVI's Address to FAO
"The Rural Family Is a Model"
Food and Agricultural Organization
"The Rural Family Is a Model"
My thought goes to the situation of millions of children who, as the first victims of this tragedy, are condemned to an early death, or to delay in their physical and psychic development or who are obliged to forms of exploitation to be able to receive a minimum of food. Attention to young generations can be a way of resisting the abandonment of rural areas and agricultural work, to allow whole communities, whose survival is threatened by hunger, to see their future with greater confidence. We must say, in fact, that despite the commitments assumed and the consequent obligations, assistance and concrete aid is often limited to emergencies, forgetting that a coherent concept of development must be able to design a future for every person, family and community, favoring long-term objectives.
Food and Agricultural Organization
KCRW Presents: Anna Calvi by Jason Bentley, KCRW Music Director
A clip? Go to the link for the full session?
her website and youtube channel; MySpace
A clip? Go to the link for the full session?
her website and youtube channel; MySpace
Items of Interest, 6 July 2011
Harmonia Early Music: Who Is Shakespeare’s Dark Lady? (mp3)
William Oddie, The Ordinariate's Liturgy is Beginning to Emerge(via Ordinariate Portal)
NPR: Service Just One Reason To Join The Military (An interview with Dr. Bruce Fleming, who wrote "The Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity.")
30 Under 30: Futurist Foodies
Arrival of the post-petroleum human (Michael Ruppert interview)
Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moment Television (EB)
Toward a Post-Growth Society by James Gustave Speth
It’s business as usual that’s the utopian fantasy, while creating something very new and different is the pragmatic way forward.
What would happen if control over capital were redistributed, and the ability to purchase capital were curtailed. What would the wealthy do with their money? Would they spend it on consumer goods? If they didn't, would the currency that they hold lose its value in effect?
William Oddie, The Ordinariate's Liturgy is Beginning to Emerge(via Ordinariate Portal)
NPR: Service Just One Reason To Join The Military (An interview with Dr. Bruce Fleming, who wrote "The Academies’ March Toward Mediocrity.")
This interview was way too short.
30 Under 30: Futurist Foodies
Arrival of the post-petroleum human (Michael Ruppert interview)
Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moment Television (EB)
Toward a Post-Growth Society by James Gustave Speth
It’s business as usual that’s the utopian fantasy, while creating something very new and different is the pragmatic way forward.
What would happen if control over capital were redistributed, and the ability to purchase capital were curtailed. What would the wealthy do with their money? Would they spend it on consumer goods? If they didn't, would the currency that they hold lose its value in effect?
Joseph Pearce coming to Our Lady of Peace in Santa Clara
Sat. July 16, 7:30. The topic of his talk, "Soul in Exile: One Man's Triumph over Communist Tyranny," will be his new book on Solzhenitsyn. Tickets are $10 ($12 at the door?) and can be purchased at the Our Lady of Peace gift shop.
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
How much of a dialogic character is necessary for the Liturgy of the Eucharist?
I touched upon this question most recently in this post. There is a marked contrast between the old Roman rite and the Byzantine rite in this regard. Turning to the section of Joseph Ratzinger's Feast of Faith dealing with orientation during the liturgy, I read this:
Elsewhere Ratzinger praises Romano Guardini for his work on the liturgy; does he also praise him for the introduction of a version of the dialogue Mass? It is understandable then that he would appreciate this aspect of the missal of Paul VI. If he envisions a revision of the old Missal, would it be in this direction? Did the prayers of the Roman rite lose a dialogic character during the medieval period, as Ratzinger seems to imply, or has it always been like that? (Would Jungmann have an answer to that question?)
I don't think Lambert Beauduin explains the dialogic character of the liturgy with respect to the roles of the priest (or the ordained ministers) and the faithful, though I do believe that the leaders of the liturgical movement urged a return to solemnity and a sung liturgy. But is that enough, when it is the schola doing most of the singing?
It always impresses me that our Protestant brethren, in transforming the medieval liturgical forms, have achieved a real balance between, on the one hand, the relationship of the community to its leader and, on the other, their common relationship to the cross. Their whole basic approach laid great weight on the community character of worship and the interplay of leader and congregation, whereas in the Catholic liturgy of former times this only consisted in the priest's turning round for a brief "Dominus vobiscum" or to invite the people to pray. But when it is a question of praying together, Protestants, people and leader, together turn to the image of the Crucified. I think we should seriously try to learn from this. (144)
Elsewhere Ratzinger praises Romano Guardini for his work on the liturgy; does he also praise him for the introduction of a version of the dialogue Mass? It is understandable then that he would appreciate this aspect of the missal of Paul VI. If he envisions a revision of the old Missal, would it be in this direction? Did the prayers of the Roman rite lose a dialogic character during the medieval period, as Ratzinger seems to imply, or has it always been like that? (Would Jungmann have an answer to that question?)
I don't think Lambert Beauduin explains the dialogic character of the liturgy with respect to the roles of the priest (or the ordained ministers) and the faithful, though I do believe that the leaders of the liturgical movement urged a return to solemnity and a sung liturgy. But is that enough, when it is the schola doing most of the singing?
Why the War Machine Keeps on Running by Franklin C. Spinney
The Bush-Obama perpetual war on terror is now the longest and second most expensive war in US history, exceeded only in cost by WWII, even if one removes the effects of inflation from the comparison. And this war comes on top of the incessant warmongering during the 1990s, including the bombing of air defense sites in Iraq, the drive by shootings with cruise missiles in the Sudan and Afghanistan, and the bombing in Bosnia and Kosovo during the Wars of the Yugoslavian Succession. Anyone who opposes the meddling and warmongering is labeled an isolationist by the defenders of the status quo, like Senators McCain, Graham, and Lieberman. But this is absurd name calling, as Sheldon Richmand cogently explains in this essay. This absurdity of the isolationist label has a long lineage dating back to the misrepresentations by so-called 'internationalists -- ironically, liberal mostly democrats -- of the foreign policy views of Senator Robert A. Taft in the
1940s and 1950s.
Today, the United States is locked in a throes of perpetual war, and our politics are dominated by its political handmaiden, perpetual fear. If you doubt this, just think about the recent expansion of drone assaults to Libya and Somalia or your next invasive pat down in an airport or the continuation of the onerous Patriot Act. Some critics believe perpetual war is driven primarily by the lust for empire. No doubt, empire lusting is a factor, but for the reasons I explained in The Domestic Roots of Perpetual War, I believe perpetual war is primarily the issue of a deadly mutation of domestic politics, particularly the imperative to prop up a sclerotic Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC) -- a political-economic faction that lost its raison d'être when the Cold War ended, and now needs the perpetual threat of war, to pump money through it, if it is to survive and flourish on its own terms, at the expense of others.
The New Scot once asked me (both in jest but also as a serious question) why so many nail salons were owned by Vietnamese. CNN has the answer--
What future for Los Angeles?
Begun on July 5 at 11:20 A.M.
A post I needed, for reasons that will become apparent in a future post on the same topic, based on something more recent. (An address of Archbishop Gomez at the Napa Institute Conference became available.)
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, What is most important for America (EWTN article).
Archbishop Gomez states that America is diverse, and yet he holds on to a rather monolithic conception of it as a political entity, or nation-state. Well, it's not a surprise -- the nationalist (as opposed to federalist*) conception has prevailed in education and the media.
Although it was founded by Christians, America has become home to an amazing diversity of cultures, religions and ways of life.
This diversity flourishes precisely because our nation’s founders had a Christian vision of the human person, freedom, and truth. It is a basic American belief that men and women are created equal — with God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Once again, proposition nation, the American creed. No mention of Anglo-American cultures and identities. So it shouldn't be a problem for Anglo-Americans to adopt Spanish missionaries and history as being important to our history, because they have no culture or identity of their own?
I believe American Catholics need to begin to see how these memorials belong together. America’s story starts with those Spanish missionaries. Our national character and identity are deeply marked by the Gospel values they brought to this land.
Holding up Spanish and French missionaries in high regard is not a problem for me; they are Catholic Christians after all. In fact, as saints they are owed dulia. But I react badly to what the archbishop writes here because he seems to be no better than his predecessor with regard to protecting the natives and their culture. Is he just dealing with the demographic reality of Los Angeles and addressing the local church? Or is this intended for a wider audience? His words can be interpreted as pushing for the Hispanicisation of the Church. Is this an unwarranted? Am I jumping to conclusions because of my suspicions?
It is true that Anglo-Americans may not have any immediate Catholic predecessors to look to because of the Anglican schism and heresy. But staunch white Protestants will probably not accept the archbishop's historical claims concerning the founding or their history.
The feast of Junipero Serra is on July 1. He did not contribute to the American founding, but he has a place in the history of California. But who remembers what California was like before it became a republic? Who identifies with pre-Anglo California? Whose family has roots in that period of time, other than the Amerindians, whose history goes back further than that? The California Amerindians are not the same as the ones in Mexico, and so the claims of Mexicans is second to that of the aborigines. (Who is still around representing the natives? I haven't met any, as far as I know.)
Honoring the same saints is not enough to create a sense of shared history, or to gather two peoples into one. The Church is the people of God, but that is a super-added identity; it does not replace or destroy ethnic identities. Immigrants from Catholic countries may be more open to identifying with these saints, but because their own sense of identity and history is malleable. There can be a blending of cultures, but I don't see how this can occur except for certain aspects of one being grafted onto the other (and intermarriage taking place). I may study the Carthaginians and their history, but does that make me a Carthaginian? I bet the Turks don't consider themselves Greeks after taking Constantinople, and they don't perceive a need to study Byzantine history and culture.
Besides, who will there be left to convert if more and more whites decide to leave the area? Ibero-American immigrants do have a great need for pastoring, as it is. Why preach to the non-Hispanics? Do non-whites take California history seriously, as a part of their identity? Those who have been here several generations and are established, such as the nisei might, but their history is more of a local, lived sort, I would think, than one learned from a textbook. How many non-Hispanic Catholics will continue to live in [Southern] California if it becomes more and more Spanish-speaking?
Finally, do Mexicans themselves have an affinity for colonial times? Or do they lack deep roots as well, being motivated more by nationalism and the desire to recover territory? Is the Church too "European" for many of them, especially the militant Atzlan groups and the like? How many think of themselves as heirs of Rome and its culture? How many would be willing to accept the history given by the archbishop as their own story? Perhaps they'd rather forget European colonialism.
From the beginning, Los Angeles been a meeting place of indigenous and immigrant cultures. We sit at the crossroads of continents — uniting North and South America and opening the Americas to Asia and the Pacific Rim.A recognition that Los Angeles is "diverse." Inter-ethnic harmony is important, but is this the way to accomplish it? (Does Los Angeles have a future if it is not sustainable?) Are the (militant) Hispanics accepting of non-Hispanics? How welcoming will they be once they are the majority in California? Will the attitudes behind what happened last month, with the booing of Team USA at the Gold Cup game in LA, be taken even further? (Soccer - The Patriot's Game)
In our new evangelization we must be an icon of what God intends his Church to be — one family of God that joins peoples of many colors, races, nationalities and languages.
A thought:
Hmmm... Are whites more likely to trusting because they are sheeple and take certain behaviors and attitudes for granted? Whereas members of other minorities are more likely to be suspicious, because they are aware of the unfamiliarity, lack of closeness? Does Putnam cover differences in attitudes according to ethnicity?
*Instead of nationalist, would unitary be a better word? But the word nationalist captures other aspects of the narrative, that there is just one people, one nation, with the exact same culture, and so on.
Related:
The City of Angels goes to hell. by Joel Kotkin
"Lost Angeles"
Decline and Fall of the Anglo Empire by Charles A. Coulombe
Edit. Archbishop José Gomez from Los Angeles receives the pallium from Pope Benedict
Dr. James Hitchcock's Recovery of the Sacred is available online. Apparently it's no longer in print by Ignatius Press. Long time ago, I flipped through the book. He is an advocate of the reform of the reform, but he was also an extreme defender of the OF, rejecting the claims of traditionalists concerning the importance of the OF and how reform was implemented after Vatican II. I don't know if he has changed his tone (if not mind) since Summorum Pontificum.
Update regarding Fr. Corapi
EWTN
Patheos
Jimmy Akin
Let us pray for him. I can see a time when his name will no longer be mentioned in [Catholic] polite society.
We can't look up to many priests and religious because of their failings... but as lay people should we be looking to them as models for the lay vocation? (As opposed to general models of sanctity.) What are lay people to do? They could look to Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, or Catherine Doherty of Madonna House. Too ascetic? Too celibate? What can we do to embrace simplicity and build up our local communities?
"You gotta wait until they're dead..." An application of Aristotle's dictum about happiness applied to the supernatural and judging their personal holiness?
Who should be giving inspired preaching and leadership to the faithful? Our bishops and their collaborators the diocesan priests. They may not have the gift, as Fr. Corapi supposedly did, but they could ask for it. There is much they could do to improve their homilies, making them more immersed in doctrine, the Fathers, etc. Perhaps the homily itself needs to be revisited. At least it is arguable that the preaching codified by Trent was effective.
Links:
Dorothy Day Library on the Web
Peter Maurin, Saint and Scholar of the Catholic Worker by Mark and Louise Zwick
Peter Maurin’s Personalist Gift to the Catholic Worker
Edit.
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat: MY FINAL COMMENT (HOPEFULLY) ON THE CASE OF FATHER JOHN CORAPI
Patheos
Jimmy Akin
Let us pray for him. I can see a time when his name will no longer be mentioned in [Catholic] polite society.
We can't look up to many priests and religious because of their failings... but as lay people should we be looking to them as models for the lay vocation? (As opposed to general models of sanctity.) What are lay people to do? They could look to Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, or Catherine Doherty of Madonna House. Too ascetic? Too celibate? What can we do to embrace simplicity and build up our local communities?
"You gotta wait until they're dead..." An application of Aristotle's dictum about happiness applied to the supernatural and judging their personal holiness?
Who should be giving inspired preaching and leadership to the faithful? Our bishops and their collaborators the diocesan priests. They may not have the gift, as Fr. Corapi supposedly did, but they could ask for it. There is much they could do to improve their homilies, making them more immersed in doctrine, the Fathers, etc. Perhaps the homily itself needs to be revisited. At least it is arguable that the preaching codified by Trent was effective.
Links:
Dorothy Day Library on the Web
Peter Maurin, Saint and Scholar of the Catholic Worker by Mark and Louise Zwick
Peter Maurin’s Personalist Gift to the Catholic Worker
Edit.
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat: MY FINAL COMMENT (HOPEFULLY) ON THE CASE OF FATHER JOHN CORAPI
Monday, July 04, 2011
Oz Conservative: The Roman virtues: gravitas
Too reliant upon internet sources, perhaps, but an educational piece nonetheless.
Too reliant upon internet sources, perhaps, but an educational piece nonetheless.
Otto von Hapsburg passes
Requiescat in pace.
Reuters
Telegraph
Lew Rockwell
Part 2
The Uncrowned Emperor by Gordon Brook-Shepherd
Related:
Hapsburg Family Today
Inside the Vatican
Reuters
Telegraph
Lew Rockwell
Part 2
The Uncrowned Emperor by Gordon Brook-Shepherd
Related:
Hapsburg Family Today
Inside the Vatican
Belief in the Proposition Nation at TAC
Richard Ferrier, Declaration's principles good guides for living freely in the U.S.
Reading the text you might think it was written by someone affiliated with the Claremont Institute.
The propaganda from the Union Army is rather humorous, if you're in the proper state of mind to read it that way. Otherwise it might be infuriating. On Facebook, from US Central Command:
And from the National Guard:
Protecting liberty? What of the encroachments on liberty by the National Leviathan? Add to that imperial wars that are not necessary for the defense of the Union -- I think those early American separatists would have a thing or two to say about the way things have turned out.
Something a bit more positive (or more constructive)... Distributism and the Modern Economy by Donald P. Goodman III.
See "American Diversity" and Open Thread at Traditional Christianity.
Edit. Someone posted this for the FB page for the American Chesteron Society: "Happy Birthday America, the only nation built on a creed." Wow.
Counterpunch:
Gareth Porter, Despite Troop Surge, Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soared
Dave Lindorff, Our Incredible Shrinking Constitution
Reading the text you might think it was written by someone affiliated with the Claremont Institute.
The propaganda from the Union Army is rather humorous, if you're in the proper state of mind to read it that way. Otherwise it might be infuriating. On Facebook, from US Central Command:
On this Independence Day, we send out thanks and wishes to our troops as they continue to protect our nation and preserve her liberty. Thank you for your service!
And from the National Guard:
Happy Independence Day! As you celebrate our great country today, please take a moment to remember the true meaning of independence and to thank the men and women who fight for our Freedom. Land of the free because of the brave!
Protecting liberty? What of the encroachments on liberty by the National Leviathan? Add to that imperial wars that are not necessary for the defense of the Union -- I think those early American separatists would have a thing or two to say about the way things have turned out.
Something a bit more positive (or more constructive)... Distributism and the Modern Economy by Donald P. Goodman III.
See "American Diversity" and Open Thread at Traditional Christianity.
Edit. Someone posted this for the FB page for the American Chesteron Society: "Happy Birthday America, the only nation built on a creed." Wow.
Counterpunch:
Gareth Porter, Despite Troop Surge, Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soared
Dave Lindorff, Our Incredible Shrinking Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
Archive.gov: The Charter of Freedom
Declaration of Independence - transcript
A selection of letters of Thomas Jefferson
The Avalon Project
The Thomas Jefferson Papers
Related:
First Principles: The American Experience
Kevin Gutzman, There is No American Creed
Joseph Stromberg, The War for Southern Independence: A Radical Libertarian Perspective*
Southern Partisan: How Should 21th Century Americans Think about the War for Southern Independence? – This is Clyde N. Wilson’s speech given at the 13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, in Philadelphia on 03 November 2007.
Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding
Forrest McDonald, States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776–1876
Novus Ordo Seclorum
A Constitutional History of the United States - Study Guide
For the Fourth
American Scripture by Pauline Maier
REVIEWED BY GARY ROSEN
Sam Adams Alliance interview with Pauline Maier: Part 1 and 2.
REVIEWED BY GARY ROSEN
Author Pauline Maier and the Declaration of Independence
Sam Adams Alliance interview with Pauline Maier: Part 1 and 2.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
On the way to KK's we had to make a stop in Milpitas. One Abbott I saw something that I hadn't seen before -- St. Thomas Syro Malabar Catholic Church. Did the community acquire the building recently? Should I check out the liturgy?
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