Saturday, May 25, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
RENEW Still Exists
Not gone yet - RENEW International
NCReporter: Small communities offer a path to 'renewing the priestly heart' by Brian Roewe
Smaller parishes would help priests perceive themselves more as spiritual fathers and ministers rather than bureaucrats and dispensers of the sacraments. But is changing attitudes enough, without changing habits of acting? Contemporary ideas about "servant-leadership" is supposed to counter clericalism, but is it also counter to authentic patriarchy? Can "servant-leadership" still be tied to erroneous ideas about the authority of priests (or bishops) and their areas of competence?
Related: Renewing the Priestly Heart
NCReporter: Small communities offer a path to 'renewing the priestly heart' by Brian Roewe
Smaller parishes would help priests perceive themselves more as spiritual fathers and ministers rather than bureaucrats and dispensers of the sacraments. But is changing attitudes enough, without changing habits of acting? Contemporary ideas about "servant-leadership" is supposed to counter clericalism, but is it also counter to authentic patriarchy? Can "servant-leadership" still be tied to erroneous ideas about the authority of priests (or bishops) and their areas of competence?
Related: Renewing the Priestly Heart
George Weigel Reviews Russell Shaw
U.S. Catholics: Overly Assimilated?
And seems to give the nationalist, neo-Yankee proposition-nation view as the basis of his critique (which would not be surprising given his reputation as a theo-con):
Related:
Religious freedom and the need to wake up by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
And seems to give the nationalist, neo-Yankee proposition-nation view as the basis of his critique (which would not be surprising given his reputation as a theo-con):
To read the history of the Catholic Church in the United States as a centuries-long struggle for assimilation and acceptance certainly sheds light on one dynamic in the development of the Church in America. Yet too close a focus on the question, “Is it possible to be a good Catholic and a good American?” is to argue the question of Catholicism and America on the other guy’s turf. Once, the “other guy” challenging Catholics’ patriotic credentials was militant Protestantism; now, the other guy is militant secularism. To play on the other guy’s turf, however, is to concede at the outset that the other guy sets the terms of debate: “We (militant Protestants/militant secularists) know what it means to be a good American; you (Catholics) have to prove yourselves to us.”
That’s not the game, however. It wasn’t really the game from 1776 through the 1960 presidential campaign—when militant Protestantism was the aggressor—and it isn’t the game today. The real game involves different, deeper questions: “Who best understands the nature of the American experiment in ordered liberty, and who can best give a persuasive defense of the first liberty, which is religious freedom?”
The nineteenth-century U.S. bishops and intellectuals whose enthusiasm for American democracy Russell Shaw now views skeptically (and, yes, they did go over the top on occasion) did get one crucial point right: the American founders “built better than they knew,” i.e., the founders designed a democratic republic for which they couldn’t provide a durable moral and philosophical defense. But the long-despised (and now despised-again) Catholics could: Catholics could (and can) give a robust, compelling account of American democracy and its commitments to ordered liberty.
Mid–twentieth-century Catholic scholars like historian Theodore Maynard and theologian John Courtney Murray picked up this theme and made it central to their reading of U.S. Catholic history. Murray presciently warned that, if Catholicism didn’t fill the cultural vacuum being created by a dying mainline Protestantism, the “noble, many-storied mansion of democracy [may] be dismantled, leveled to the dimensions of a flat majoritarianism, which is no mansion but a barn, perhaps even a tool shed in which the weapons of tyranny may be forged.”
Related:
Religious freedom and the need to wake up by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
BSA Embraces the New [Dis-]Order
Boy Scouts to Admit Openly Gay Youths as Members
Some Reactions:
Thomas Fleming
And then there are the den mothers...
The Thinking Housewife: here and here
Why I'm Starting a New Boy Scouts: My Catholic Scouting Manifesto ~ Dr. Taylor Marshall (The piece has been picked up by Rorate Caeli. How are the Catholic scouting groups in Europe? Many are linked to the EF of the Roman rite.)
Anothyer alternative? Federation of North American Explorers
While it might be a relatively "good" thing to work for the etasblishment of a new, more tradition-observing group, I still have doubts about earning a livelihood in a support position.
Related:
New Federal Bill Seeks to Punish Adoption Agencies That Give Priority to Married, Heterosexual Couples
Some Reactions:
Thomas Fleming
I do not say all Scouting leaders are of this type, but I will say that I do not much trust grown men who want to spend time with boys. In some cases, of course, fathers in a community accept such positions as one of their obligations, and if they have woodcraft, they enjoy sharing their skills with their sons and with the sons of their friends. Otherwise, such people tend to be at best of the social worker/youth pastor type: people who get a kick out of bossing the young and vulnerable.
I understand and agree with the ideals of the early Scouting leaders. We have to be good barbarians before we can become civilized, and spending time outdoors is a great antidote to the corruption of urban life. But, whenever possible, these ideals should be communicated by families and by friends of the family, not by do-gooders who give out medals to boys who help their mothers around the house.
And then there are the den mothers...
The Thinking Housewife: here and here
Why I'm Starting a New Boy Scouts: My Catholic Scouting Manifesto ~ Dr. Taylor Marshall (The piece has been picked up by Rorate Caeli. How are the Catholic scouting groups in Europe? Many are linked to the EF of the Roman rite.)
Anothyer alternative? Federation of North American Explorers
While it might be a relatively "good" thing to work for the etasblishment of a new, more tradition-observing group, I still have doubts about earning a livelihood in a support position.
Related:
New Federal Bill Seeks to Punish Adoption Agencies That Give Priority to Married, Heterosexual Couples
Thursday, May 23, 2013
I'm surprised this is still up at YT.
I was thinking about the documentary today, and I was reminded that it gives examples of the expenses involved in holding a ball such as the one at Netherfield. The modern woman's Regency fantasy requires wealth and everything that goes with it to back it up - does she instinctively know this, with the lifestyle, clothing, houses and so on as signs of opulence, as opposed to being informed by a knowledge of history and the "facts" (which the documentary provides)? How many of them value English Country Dance for the community and the tradition and not because of the accidentals of clothing and wealth?
I was thinking about the documentary today, and I was reminded that it gives examples of the expenses involved in holding a ball such as the one at Netherfield. The modern woman's Regency fantasy requires wealth and everything that goes with it to back it up - does she instinctively know this, with the lifestyle, clothing, houses and so on as signs of opulence, as opposed to being informed by a knowledge of history and the "facts" (which the documentary provides)? How many of them value English Country Dance for the community and the tradition and not because of the accidentals of clothing and wealth?
Some Good News for Tolkien Fans
Medievalists.net: The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien Released Today
But how many in Great Britain will read it? Will it rouse them from their stupor? (Look at the behavior of the bystanders in the murder in broad daylight of a British soldier in London yesterday.)
But how many in Great Britain will read it? Will it rouse them from their stupor? (Look at the behavior of the bystanders in the murder in broad daylight of a British soldier in London yesterday.)
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Western Dominican Novitiate:
"In honor of the Translation of the Relic of St. Dominic, the novices will assist Fr. Thomas Hayes, OP, at a Dominican rite Mass this Friday, May 24. The Mass will take place at 11 AM at the Chapel of St. Anne’s Home for the Aged (300 Lake Street, San Francisco, CA 94118)."
"In honor of the Translation of the Relic of St. Dominic, the novices will assist Fr. Thomas Hayes, OP, at a Dominican rite Mass this Friday, May 24. The Mass will take place at 11 AM at the Chapel of St. Anne’s Home for the Aged (300 Lake Street, San Francisco, CA 94118)."
What is the Foundation of the New Evangelization?
Zenit: Pope's Q-and-A With Movements
"Don't forget: never a closed Church, but a Church that goes out"
Christians are called to love everyone, especially those with whom they come into contact. But if they do not know how to love their fellow Christians and live in friendship with them, how can they really be human?
Last Wednesday's audience: On the Work of the Holy Spirit
Pope Makes Appeal For Catholics in China
"Don't forget: never a closed Church, but a Church that goes out"
But man is the image of God! Because of this it is a profound crisis! In this moment of crisis we can't be concerned only about ourselves, shut ourselves in solitude, in discouragement, in the sense of impotence in face of the problems. Don't shut yourselves in, please! This is a danger: if we shut ourselves in in the parish, with friends, in the movement, with those with whom we think the same things … do you know what happens? When the Church becomes closed, she gets sick, she gets sick. Think of a closed room for a year; when you go in, there's a smell of dampness, there are so many things that are not on. A closed Church is the same thing: it is a sick Church. The Church must come out of herself. Where? To the existential peripheries, whatever they are, but go out. Jesus says to us: "Go into all the world! Go! Preach! Give witness of the Gospel!" (cf. Mark 16:15). But what happens when one comes out of oneself? What can happen is what might happen to all those who leave home and go out to the street: an accident. But I say to you: I prefer a thousand times an 'incidentata' Church, involved in an accident, than a sick Church because she is closed! Go outside, go out! Think also of what Revelation says. It says a beautiful thing: that Jesus is at the door and knocks, he knocks to come in to our heart (cf. Revelation 3:20). This is the meaning of Revelation. But ask yourselves this question: how many times is Jesus inside and knocks on the door to go out, to go outside, and we don't let Him go out, because of our securities, because so many times we are in obsolete structures, which only serve to make us slaves, and not free children of God? In this "exit" it is important to go to the encounter; this word is very important for me: encounter with others. Why? Because the faith is an encounter with Jesus, and we must do the same thing that Jesus does: encounter others. We live a culture of clash, a culture of fragmentation, a culture in which what isn't of use to me I throw away, the culture of rejection! But we should go to an encounter and with our faith we must create a "culture of encounter," a culture of friendship, a culture where we find brothers, where we can speak also with those who don't think like we do, also with those who have another faith, who don't have the same faith. All have something in common with us: they are images of God, they are children of God. We must go out to meet everyone, without negotiating our membership.
Christians are called to love everyone, especially those with whom they come into contact. But if they do not know how to love their fellow Christians and live in friendship with them, how can they really be human?
Last Wednesday's audience: On the Work of the Holy Spirit
Pope Makes Appeal For Catholics in China
Allan Wall's Latest
Memo From Middle America | The Richwine Ruckus—What Do We Know About Mexican Intelligence Anyway?
John Derbyshire Asks: Do We Need More Smart Foreigners?
Something from Mark in Mexico: "The Last Word On Mexico" --A Dangerously Insightful Essay On Mexican History
From Under The Rubble: Is The Rule Of Law Immoral (Part II)? More Bishops Weigh In
You can find some commentary on the Richwine controversy at Conservative Heritage Times or AmCon. I don't have the time to dig them up at the moment.
John Derbyshire Asks: Do We Need More Smart Foreigners?
Something from Mark in Mexico: "The Last Word On Mexico" --A Dangerously Insightful Essay On Mexican History
From Under The Rubble: Is The Rule Of Law Immoral (Part II)? More Bishops Weigh In
You can find some commentary on the Richwine controversy at Conservative Heritage Times or AmCon. I don't have the time to dig them up at the moment.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Jack Yee's Training Tips
His story was featured in Free at 50 - a fit 50-year-old Asian-American male, his is an inspirational story. Here is his guest post at MDA: Mental Toughness Training in the Primal World.
Chris Hedges's Call to Action
Chris Hedges: Rise up or Die
There was another video featuring some speaker against plutocracy but I can't find the link at the moment...
There was another video featuring some speaker against plutocracy but I can't find the link at the moment...
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