tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314206492024-03-14T01:54:47.122-05:00ex corde ecclesiaeThese are my personal comments and meditations about Catholicism, culture, liturgy, and the linguistic causes of theological controversy. I will occasionally digress into other topics.Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.comBlogger352125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-17768905775020097602022-07-07T20:58:00.000-05:002022-07-07T20:58:31.524-05:00Independence Day: Don't Declare Victory Till the Job is Done<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">July 4th, 2022</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2uiB974Nge-AB9t8CPQM56Apv41MXFeStrFOdJ71wcDPM2HelpQyKjP-gMR_PhWrG4CkqWeTHlsDW9e1-R-NlHUH53oJ5TbDZW2wwhacgQqn0cBFaT-3-8QvdoDupD-uQJY_CLanNzlR_GctL7k72NFuF8NTVA9BFk_3DClvLn80St8e7Cg/s2000/o-DECLARATION-OF-INDEPENDENCE-facebook-457535361.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="2000" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2uiB974Nge-AB9t8CPQM56Apv41MXFeStrFOdJ71wcDPM2HelpQyKjP-gMR_PhWrG4CkqWeTHlsDW9e1-R-NlHUH53oJ5TbDZW2wwhacgQqn0cBFaT-3-8QvdoDupD-uQJY_CLanNzlR_GctL7k72NFuF8NTVA9BFk_3DClvLn80St8e7Cg/w432-h216/o-DECLARATION-OF-INDEPENDENCE-facebook-457535361.jpeg" width="432" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #e69138;">The stirring words of the Declaration of Independence have inspired Americans for generation after generation. It is well to remember that within six months, the British had captured Philadelphia, the new born country's capital and largest city. It was a few short months until the remnants of Washington's army was huddled in the bleak winter of 1776-7 at Valley Forge. The British had amassed victory after victory, the troops were freezing and starving in the cruel winter, and desertions were rampant. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(230, 145, 56); color: #e69138; font-family: arial;"> So less than six months past the signing of the </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(230, 145, 56); color: #e69138; font-family: arial;">Declaration, the American cause was at its lowest, seemingly hopeless and outgunned. </span><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;">Washington. their General, having learned conventional war tactics with the help of such as Lafayette and von Steuben and his own experiences in unconventional tactics in the French and Indian wars, realized he had to translate the American's competitive advantages and his own inspiration into a win or two when all seemed lost. The Americans' superior local knowledge and unconventional tactics are reminiscent</span><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;"> of Ukraine's tactics in its current war defending its land and people from Russian aggression. <span style="caret-color: rgb(230, 145, 56);">The daring counter attacks at Trenton and Princeton, Benedict Arnold's impossible victory at Saratoga (while under house arrest), and the French alliance, were still in the future.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Winning the Revolution required stirring words: yes, but also guts, leadership, diplomacy, and foreign help. As we grill, watch fireworks, and celebrate, be grateful for the patriotism of those who fought in that and subsequent wars including so many members of our own families. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(230, 145, 56); color: #e69138; font-size: medium;">On this day, my thoughts</span><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;"> keep returning to the patriots of Ukraine who with </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Ukraine flag map postcard | Zazzle.com | Ukraine flag, Flag, Postcard" class="tile--img__img js-lazyload" data-src="//external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.O_82BM2jE6QcHfH3jT-_cgHaHa%26pid%3DApi&f=1" height="350" src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.O_82BM2jE6QcHfH3jT-_cgHaHa%26pid%3DApi&f=1" width="428" /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(230, 145, 56); color: #e69138;">guts, leadership, diplomacy, and foreign help, have defended their land and people. Their</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(230, 145, 56); color: #e69138;"> </span><span style="color: #e69138;">successes have surprised our intelligence community, vindicated Britain's training after Russia's land grabs of 2014, and inspired the world. Unfortunately Putin's judgement that Ukraine's struggle will fade from the headlines has been too true. </span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The war is not over until the job is done!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;">Our Lady appeared in Ukraine in 1914 and 1987 in Hurushiv. Her first appearance was shortly before World War I started. She appeared to 12 year old Marina Kirzin. She continued to visit </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(230, 145, 56); color: #e69138;">Hurushiv until August 15th, a date special to my heart. </span><span style="color: #e69138;">The second time Mary visited</span></span><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(230, 145, 56);">Hurushiv was in 1987, this time to two young girls, similar in age to another member of my family. As many as a half million people visited the sites of the apparitions.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(113, 113, 113); color: #e69138; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px;">The ailing John Paul II visited </span><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(113, 113, 113);">Ukraine in 2001 as pictured below.</span></span></p><p><img alt="Our Lady of the Ukraine | Divine Mysteries and Miracles" class="tile--img__img js-lazyload" data-src="//external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.0Yc-a7qBxN3GSvJciPLEKAHaFF%26pid%3DApi&f=1" src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.0Yc-a7qBxN3GSvJciPLEKAHaFF%26pid%3DApi&f=1" /></p><p><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(113, 113, 113); font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #e69138;">On August 27, 2002, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(113, 113, 113); color: #e69138; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px;">Olenka Kuruts was ten years old, and her friend, Mar’yanka Kobal, was nine years old, when Our Lady appeared to them. Eventually the bishop </span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span face=""Source Sans Pro", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(113, 113, 113); font-size: 18px;">Marhitych,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(113, 113, 113); color: #e69138; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px;"> visited the site.</span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;">Our Lady of Ukraine pray for these people and for America.</span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-86793132520291220982022-03-18T22:37:00.001-05:002022-03-18T22:37:25.801-05:00Appreciation: Len Scigaj<p> </p><li data-selenium-selector="paper-doi" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #536479; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><section class="doi" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;"><a class="doi__link" href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2006.10589013" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #536479; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">1080/14688417.2006.10589013</a></section></li><li data-selenium-selector="corpus-id" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #536479; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Corpus ID: 178658769</li><h1 data-selenium-selector="paper-detail-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(46, 55, 67); color: #2e3743; font-family: "Roboto Slab", Georgia, serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Appreciation: Len Scigaj</h1><div>https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Appreciation%3A-Len-Scigaj-Gifford/e9a41241bbbaeb8c3014eb6c3a25299b0b28231a</div><div><ul class="flex-row-vcenter paper-meta" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; color: #536479; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><li class="paper-meta-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span class="paper-meta" data-selenium-selector="paper-meta-subhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-wrap: wrap; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span class="author-list" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span data-heap-author-id="97113898" data-heap-id="heap_author_list_item" data-selenium-selector="author-list" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="author-list__link author-list__author-name" href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/T.-Gifford/97113898" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #536479; cursor: pointer;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">T. Gifford</span></span></a></span></span></span></li><li class="paper-meta-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px;"><span data-selenium-selector="year-and-venue" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Published <span data-selenium-selector="paper-year" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 January 2006</span></span></span></span></li></ul></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-3194569939814803162020-10-30T14:06:00.018-05:002020-10-30T14:18:32.659-05:00Washed in the Blood of the Lamb: <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mc17gYmz5gM/X5xYyAOKbjI/AAAAAAAABFE/UO13dcmLI2E7JlOpUuqIC9dGG5yYlsi1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/Paying%2Btribute%2Bin%2Bfront%2Bof%2Bthe%2BNotre%2BDame%2BBasilica%2Bin%2BNice%2Bfollowing%2BThursday%25E2%2580%2599s%2Bknife%2Battack.ARNOLD%2BJEROCKI%253AGETTY%2BIMAGES.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="269" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mc17gYmz5gM/X5xYyAOKbjI/AAAAAAAABFE/UO13dcmLI2E7JlOpUuqIC9dGG5yYlsi1gCLcBGAsYHQ/w404-h269/Paying%2Btribute%2Bin%2Bfront%2Bof%2Bthe%2BNotre%2BDame%2BBasilica%2Bin%2BNice%2Bfollowing%2BThursday%25E2%2580%2599s%2Bknife%2Battack.ARNOLD%2BJEROCKI%253AGETTY%2BIMAGES.jpg" width="404" /></a></div> <p></p><div class="wr-block b-lectionary padding-top-s padding-bottom-xxs bg-white" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(54, 57, 54); color: #363936; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1170px; outline: none; padding: 0px 17px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1136px;"><div class="row" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px -17px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="p-wrap col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2 col-xxl-6 offset-xxl-3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 66.66667175292969%; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 189.328125px; max-width: 66.66667175292969%; min-height: 1px; outline: none; padding: 30px 0px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 757.328125px;"><div class="innerblock" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0b416c; font-family: "Eb Garamond", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-people-killed-in-knife-attack-at-church-in-french-city-of-nice-11603963626" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Paying tribute in front of the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice following Thursday’s knife attack.</span></a></h2><h2 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0b416c; font-family: "Eb Garamond", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-people-killed-in-knife-attack-at-church-in-french-city-of-nice-11603963626" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ARNOLD JEROCKI/GETTY IMAGES</span></a></h2><h2 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0b416c; font-family: "Eb Garamond", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">An Islamist terrorist killed three worshippers in Notre Dame Basilica in Nice, France T<span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Exchange; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;">he alleged attacker shouted “Allahu akbar” before being shot and detained. He appears to be responding to a call from Al Queda to attack France.</span></span></h2><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><h2 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0b416c; font-family: "Eb Garamond", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Solemnity of All Saints</span></h2></div></div></div></div></div><div class="wr-block b-verse bg-white padding-bottom-m" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(54, 57, 54); color: #363936; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reading 1 </h3><div class="address" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div><div class="content-body" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I, John, saw another angel come up from the East,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />holding the seal of the living God.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />who were given power to damage the land and the sea,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />“Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />until we put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />I heard the number of those who had been marked with the seal,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />one hundred and forty-four thousand marked<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />from every tribe of the children of Israel.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After this I had a vision of a great multitude,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />which no one could count,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />from every nation, race, people, and tongue.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />They stood before the throne and before the Lamb,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />They cried out in a loud voice:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />“Salvation comes from our God, who is seated on the throne,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />and from the Lamb.”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All the angels stood around the throne<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />and around the elders and the four living creatures.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />They prostrated themselves before the throne,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />worshiped God, and exclaimed:<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />“Amen. Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanksgiving,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />honor, power, and might<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />be to our God forever and ever. Amen."</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.3px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then one of the elders spoke up and said to me,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />“Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?”<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />I said to him, “My lord, you are the one who knows.”<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />He said to me,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />“These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress;<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />they have washed their robes<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.”</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-26590833652182008162020-03-02T09:53:00.000-06:002020-03-02T09:53:30.570-06:00March 2nd: St. Chad, Patron of disputed elections<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> St. Chad</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Today,
March 2nd, is St. Chad's feast day. In today's hyper political and
partisan times in the U.S. and elsewhere, his humility would be
welcome. He is considered the patron saint of disputed elections, a
fact that was a great irony in the wake of the 2000 presidential contest
between Bush the Younger and Mr. Gore.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">You may read his story in Ronald Knox's sermons given while with school girls exiled to the country from London during the Blitz.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-45796737435913462622018-03-13T13:25:00.001-05:002018-03-13T13:25:28.791-05:00Back Pain<h1>
Why Back Pain Is Nearly Non-Existent In Some Populations</h1>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Ralph Woods reviewed Jonathan Rogers's <i>The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor</i>. Woods makes an excellent point:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=26-03-050-b#continue">When Christians have been decisively shaped by their Enlightenment heritage, they are not likely to discern the drastic difference between the agenda of the state and the witness of the Church. Though sometimes overlapping, they are never coterminous. The prophetic and sacramental body of Christ, as O'Connor saw from the start, will scandalize even the best political regimes. </a><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">You will enjoy the whole review.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-11415320655076059352018-02-21T22:30:00.000-06:002018-02-21T22:30:32.607-06:00Carly Fiorina Accptes the Human Life Foundation Great Defender of Life Award<a class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/HumanLifeFoundation"><img class="style-scope yt-img-shadow" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/--h31acKd6Qk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/r_bE2yT0zBk/s88-c-k-no-mo-rj-c0xffffff/photo.jpg" width="48" /></a><br />
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Carly Firoina accepts the Great Defender of Life award in New York City's Union League Club, 2017<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white;">This could become a family tradition. Hockton's great-<span></span>grandfather, Joseph Sunny Truman, served in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers during World War II. Having been captured, he and other prisoners of war were being marched ahead of the Allied advance. As Hockton's mother tells it, "<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7922172/Soldier-saved-by-rosary-just-like-his-great-grandfather.html">He was walking across a field with half a dozen of his platoon....He bent down to pick something up and was the only one to survive a sudden bomb blast. He had picked up a rosary.</a>"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white;">This year, 2017, being the hundredth anniversary of Our Lady's appearance at Fatima, is a great time to brush off those beads. We are in a special time. May 13th, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, was the anniversary of Mary's first appearance in 1917. This October 13th will be the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun during her last of seven appearances. John Paul the Great was convinced that Our Lady played a role in preventing his death from </span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-John-Paul-II">Mehmet Ali Agca's assassination attemp</a>t. Agrca shot him on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima in 1981. Agrca, an agent of the Bulgarian KGB, shot the pope four times. Usually when the Russians send one of their client country's agents, these professionals know where to shoot.</span></span><br />
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Steve Bannon: BuzzFeed News originally posted a complete transcript of the then–Breitbart News chairman’s remarks. This is a YouTube video of the opening remarks:
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A Michael G Ryan, who "has been pastor of St. James Cathedral, Seattle, since 1988," writes in <i>America</i> that the Pope has set up a commission to study "<i>Liturgiam Authenticam</i>." Father Ryan obviously has an agenda, He does not like the
2011 English translation of the mass. Does he want to return to the 1973 ICEL translation
that we endured during our forty years in the liturgical desert? That is not clear. I hope I do not misrepresent him by assuming so and I must give the caveat that <i>America</i>'s subeditor may have slanted the tittle and the opening paragraphs in an attempt to engender controversy. If so, I apologize in advance and my bone is to pick with the subeditor not Father Ryan.<br />
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He writes that we have had to struggle since "<a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/01/27/why-pope-francis-right-revisit-new-mass-translation">2011 with a wooden, woefully inadequate, theologically limited Missal that is low on poetry, if high on precision.</a>" Furthermore, he judges the translation awkward and literal, "T<a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/01/27/why-pope-francis-right-revisit-new-mass-translation">he church’s greatest prayer should not depend on awkward, literal compositions that would earn poor marks in any high school English (or theology) class.</a>"<br />
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Now I am a fan of poetic liturgical language. Indeed it is essential to deal with our faith's mysteries and to move people's hearts as well as their minds. To be consistent, he should denounce the 1973 ICEL translation in even stronger terms. The 1973 translation purged images as thoroughly as Stalin purged dissidents. I remember hearing an experimental translation of what we now know as the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer. I thought it exquisitely beautiful and, some years later, wanted to have it used at our wedding. I could not find it in the 1973 translation, which had made it sound so bland, it was unrecognizable.<br />
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The author or subeditor denounces the 2011 translation as literal. Accurate might be a better term. I remember deciding to go to the monthly Latin mass at St. Leo's in Fairfax, Virginia. This was the "new" mass according to the 1970 Missal not the "old Latin mass" of the 1962 Missal. I had thought there was no new scandal to tear at me me, it was after all the late 1990s. They had a missalette with the Latin on one side and the English on the other, the English being what we normally said each Sunday. The old scabs were ripped raw once more. I could not believe the discrepancy between the Latin of the new mass and what we had believed was a honest translation of that very same Latin. We weren't saying the "new" Mass of Paul VI every Sunday at all!<br />
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The author or subeditor also criticizes the theology of the translated words. He goes on to elaborate "<a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/01/27/why-pope-francis-right-revisit-new-mass-translation">Think, for instance, of the tone of the prayers, with their exaltation of merit over mercy, their emphasis on human weakness at the expense of human dignity, their 'sacral vernacular' (No. 47 [of Liturgiam Authenticam]) that keeps God at a majestic distance.</a>" Is my logic faulty? If the translation is too literal a translation of the actual text of the mass and the theology is wrong, is the problem not with the actual words of the mass that have been translated into English rather than the translation? In other words, the new mass itself as promulgated in its original language is faulty in its theology. And if the theology of the 1973 translation is at odds with the "literal" 2011 translation, then Father Ryan is confirming what many conservative critics charged: that the 1973 translation itself changed the theology of the mass.<br />
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Note that Pope Francis has not called for a revision of the current translations (which are based on the principles of "<i>Liturgiam Authenticam</i>"), but that the commission look at principles of translations. The 1973 translations into English and other other languages were based on the "hot" linguistic theories that were all the rage in scholarly circles in the 1960s. These principles, based heavily on Noam Chomsky's theories, were embodied in a document called “Comme le Prévoit” (1969) which was written in French. Cardinal Roche, whom Pope Francis appointed as head of this new commission, has stated quite clearly that “Comme le Prévoit” (1969), <i>Liturgiam Authenticam's</i> predecessor "<a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/01/26/pope-francis-has-ordered-review-new-mass-translation-rules">has become 'outmoded,' ... Over the last 40 years, specialists in language 'have become more aware that the form we choose for an utterance is itself expressive of our purpose in speaking.'</a>” In other words, linguistic scholars now reject the very principles that lay under the 1973 translation.<br />
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Perhaps we can make this discussion more concrete by looking at today's mass, specifically the Proper. The Proper is the part which is special for that day's mass unlike things like the Creed which we say every mass.<br />
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Today's Collect, the prayer said or chanted before the First Reading, is:<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Familiam tuam, quaesumus,
Domine, continua pietate custodi: ut, quae in sola spe gratiae caelestis
innititur, tua semper protectione muniatur.</span></i><br />
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How should that be translated? The Latin has a number of military allusions and a distinctive rhythm and set of internal rimes that only emerge if read aloud. The old 1973 translation conveys none of that:<br />
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Father,<br />
watch over your family<br />
and keep us safe in your care,<br />
for all our hope is in you.</div>
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Those of you who struggled to translate Latin in high school will be amazed at how the English is so short. English translations are almost always longer than the Latin original, given the structures of the two languages. For instance consider a literal rendering:<br />
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Guard Your family, we beseech You, O Lord,<br />
with continual mercy,<br />
so that that (family) which is propping itself up upon the sole hope of heavenly grace<br />
may always be defended by Your protection.</div>
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And what of this suppossedly "wooden" 2011 translation? <br />
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Keep your family safe, O Lord, with unfailing care,<br />
that, relying solely on the hope of heavenly grace,<br />
they may be defended always by your protection.</div>
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If this exalts merit over mercy, I missed it. If it empathizes "human weakness at the expense of human dignity," his objection is to the theology of the mass itself, not its translation. It may share a very Augustinian view of merit, a view we share with that of our Lutheran brethren, but to me it evokes an image of a merciful God, a Father whom we ask to protect us as his children.<br />
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In the rest of today's Proper ask for the gifts to become the sacrament of eternity and that we bear fruit for the world's salvation:<br />
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<b>The Offertory:</b><br />
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Oh Lord our God, <br />
who once established these creative things,<br />
to sustain us in our frailty, <br />
grant, we pray, <br />
that they may become that they make become for us now <br />
the Sacrament of eternal life. </div>
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Through Christ our Lord.</div>
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<b>The Prayer After Communion:</b><br />
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O God, who be have willed that will be partakers</div>
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in the one Bread and the one Chalice,</div>
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grant us, we pray, so to live</div>
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that, made one in Christ,</div>
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we may joyfully bear fruit</div>
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for the salvation of the world. </div>
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Through Christ our Lord.</div>
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An additional practical note about the author's (subeditor's?) dislike of the translation's alleged literalness. The mass must be translated into many languages. It is an unfortunate truth, given the availability of translators and translating resources (dictionaries and grammars and the like), that the mass must be translated, not from Latin into some languages, but indirectly from the English translation. The less accurate the English, the even more inaccurate these secondary translations. <br />
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One final thought by the author of the hilarious Don Camillo stories:<br />
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"Latin is a precise, essential language. It will be abandoned, not because it is unsuitable for the new requirements of progress, but because the new men will not be suitable for it. When the age of demagogues and charlatans begins, a language like Latin will no longer be useful, and any oaf will be able to give a speech in public and talk in such a way that he will not be kicked off the stage. The secret to this will consist in the fact that, by making use of words that are general, elusive, and sound good, he will be able to speak for an hour without saying anything. With Latin, this is impossible." –Giovanni Guareschi<br />
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Did Christianity create slavery? <span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>No.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>Might it have been used to condone slavery in the American south? No doubt. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>How are we to think about it? </span></span></span></span></span><br /><span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><br /><span>1)
Slavery was universal in the ancient world and not racially based.
Typically slaves were the spoils of war. The first nations in the world
to outlaw slavery were Christian nations including Catholic Spain as the
movement gathered steam through the Catholic middle ages. Much of the
slavery of Africans was by Africans who sold conquered members of other
African tribes to Moslem slave traders who then sold them into the
international slave trade. Moslem nations were among the very last to
abolish slavery. That Christian nations participated in that slave
trade was more the evidence to the power of sin rather than to the triumph of
Christianity. And it was Christian nations that abolished the slave
trade.</span><br /><br /><span>2) Britain used its power and influence to
eliminate the slave trade worldwide in the first half of the nineteenth
century led by Christian principles rather than political or economic
interests (British slavers made as much money as other slavers and they were
opposed to the reforms that threatened their profits.)</span><br /><br /><span>3) Presentations of Christianity as the ideology used to hold slaves down strike me as propaganda. If Christianity was used by some in the south,
consciously or unconsciously, to subject Black slaves, it also pricked
the consciences of others to treat slaves as children of God. The
reason we in the West believe "that all men are created equal and that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights" is
because Christianity taught us in the west that we are made in the image
and likeness of God and what we do to the least of our brethren, we do
to Me (Christ.) Christianity converted both the barbarians and the
cultured Greeks and Romans, neither of whom believe in such an idea,
through stories, by the courageous evangelization by monks and priests,
and by martyrs. Belief in such a counter-intuitive view was only spread
to Black Africa with the spread of Christianity where it is now the fastest
growing region of the Christian faith in the world and is producing
new martyrs every day.</span><br /><br /><span>4) Christian churches have
done much to build Black communities and support the Back family. The
government and the ideologues have done much to destroy the Black family
finishing the job slavery started. Rebel against them not the Church. </span><br /><br /><span>5)
The temptation is to blame something outside us not ourselves. I know
this from my own shameful experience. That is sin talking not the Holy Spirit. T</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span><span><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>he easy way out is b</span></span></span></span></span>laming the Other rather than rallying yourself and pulling yourself up
by your efforts and your friends' help. That is the culture talking
whether Trump to the Hillbillies or the ideologues to Blacks. They are
not our friends. They make money by shilling sin to our weakness.</span><br /><br /><span>6)
I just got finished reading (actually listening to) J.D. Vance's book
Hillbilly Elegy. Read it. It is not just the Black family the culture
is destroying. I come from neither a Black nor a hillbilly family and
yet I found much to identify with and shed more than one tear. Don't give in
to the easy path that the culture portrays, the excuses it gives you or the
enemies it lets you wallow in. Rather take charge of yourself and triumph!</span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-56554112758530569222016-10-10T20:33:00.005-05:002016-10-10T20:33:58.054-05:00Java TriviaTwelve <a href="http://www.crs.org/stories/make-your-coffee-habit-count?utm_source=crs-briefing-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=crs-briefing-2016-10">coffee facts</a> via the Catholic Relief Services.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-7249392646989475902016-10-10T06:33:00.001-05:002016-10-10T06:33:03.024-05:00Who Needs German Lessons? GermansZeke Turner, "<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/who-needs-german-lessons-germans-apparently-1476030308">Who Needs German Lessons? Germans, ApparentlySwabia’s dialect has locals putting hand to mouth; drool drills,</a>" WSJ October 9th, 2016.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-65772765799013163612016-09-11T00:24:00.000-05:002016-09-11T00:24:42.197-05:00West Texas Comes to the Big Screen: Yes Heroes and Anti-Heroes Still Live in America<br />
Ross Douthat wrote that "Hell or High Water" was one of the few movies Hollywood makes in a year that you should see. Good plot, believable characters, dramatic tension what's not to like? Here is the trailer. although I suspect the triler over sells the action:
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Meanwhile Armond White give "Sully" <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439857/sully-clint-eastwood-author-jt-leroy-story-fraud-jeff-feuerzeig">a thoughtful and very positive review</a>.
Those of us who remember United Flight 1549's dramatic landing in New York Harbor, will appreciate the tale. Clint Eastwood directs this drama to show America's elites want to eat its heroes not honor them.Another movie critic in San Antonio, Patrick Harris, gives it a rave review.<br />
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YkUZCxd69Lg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-86915848349392873842016-03-27T21:06:00.002-05:002016-03-27T21:06:44.598-05:00What Did John See? <span style="color: #990000;">In the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, the Gospel for the Mass of Easter day is John 20:1-9. In the Extraordinary Form, this is the Gospel for Easter Saturday. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">John and Peter run to the tomb. John, the younger of the two, gets there first, but stops and peers in. True to character, Peter, rushes headlong in. John sees and believes. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Was it the image on the shroud? Was it the way the jaw cloth was tossed aside?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">The Shroud of Turin will be exhibited this spring from April 19th through June 24th. At <i>National Review,</i> Myra Adams asks, "</span><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416411/shroud-turin-easter-sunday-myra-adams">What Does the Shroud of Turin Prove about Easter?</a><span style="color: #990000;">" It also reproduces Babara M. Sullivan's 1973 article, "</span><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/213992/reading-shroud-turin-barbara-m-sullivan">Reading The Shroud of Turin.</a><span style="color: #990000;">" <br /><br />While a famous (infamous?) carbon dating puts it in the medieval period, there are a great many mysteries that baffle scientific explanation, particularly if it were a medieval forgery:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">1) Why is the image a photographic negative?</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">2) Since the image consists of light scorch marks on the outer fibers of the cloth, what process created it?</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">3) How did the image come to contain three dimensional information, a technical feat only brought out by the technology used to interpret images sent from probes to outer space in the twentieth century.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">4) How did the cloth acquire the micro spores from precisely the right centuries and locations that show its originating in first century Palestine, resided in Syria and Turkey as well as modern Europe?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">No known scientific process could have produced the image. It is more difficult to explain it as a forgery than as being authentic.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><i>Resurrexit sicut dixit, Alleluia!</i></span></b><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-32899292817897504732016-03-27T17:57:00.001-05:002016-03-27T17:57:28.490-05:00What If the Presidential Election in 2016 Ends in an Indecisive Three Way Race<span style="color: #990000;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span><span>People are already speculating on the possibility of a three way race. One scenario is Senator cruz or Governor Kaisic is nominated by the Republicans and Trump runs as a third party candidate. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is nominated by the Democrats and is indicted before the election. (If Clinton were indicted before the convention, the pols would desert her for Vice President Biden.)<br /><br />Let us further speculate that none gets a majority of electors in the electoral college. What happens?<br /><br />The
House of Representatives votes and each state gets one vote. (Article II Section 1.)
There is a possibility of deadlock, but presumably multiple ballots are
possible. The Senate only gets involved in the case of a tie for Vice
President, the president of that chamber.</span><br /><br /><span>If I remember right, Jo</span></span><span><span><span>hn
Quincy Adams was the last president so elected, although Andrew
Jackson, the Trump of his day, had more popular and electoral votes
(neither anywhere near a majority.) </span><br /><br /><span>Adams was
certainly worthy of the office. I can not make the same judgement about
his successor. Unfortunately, in the next election the populist,
rabble-rouser Jackson won, financed by the crony capitalists of the day
(mostly country bankers.) The "man of the people" had as his running
mate, the well heeled New Yorker Martin Van Buren. The demon of the
Trail of Tears promptly drove the economy into America's first recession
and the the first of the banking crises we have suffered from every ten
years since (in my professional judgement, no coincidence.) </span><br /><br /><span>Jackson
was the godfather of the expansionist policies that hoped to extend
slavery to ever newer lands. Professional historians frequently rate him
among our five greatest presidents. Greatest is not best and he hardly
exemplifies the virtue that the Founders believed essential to the
Republic's success. The German word for "great" is "gross."<br /><br /><span style="color: black;">The moral: do not believe every <span style="color: black;">judgment</span> you <span style="color: black;">read in the history books.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-76170392851120011302016-03-27T17:39:00.001-05:002016-03-27T17:39:36.868-05:00Humility<span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span><span><br /><span>Moderation in pursuit of truth is no virtue;</span><br /><span>Humility in its service is no vice.</span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-15447812161017871672016-03-24T15:14:00.000-05:002016-03-24T15:14:20.890-05:00Blessed JJose Sanchez Del Rio<div data-contents="true">
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Cristero revolt for religious liberty, Blessed Blessed Jose Sanchez Del Rio as a saint of the universal church.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span data-offset-key="1ue7t-0-0"><span data-text="true">They were fighting for their religious liberty to worship Christ the King (whose feast, not so incidentally, was proclaimed for the universal church by Pius XI in 1925.) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span data-offset-key="1qjva-0-0"><span data-text="true">Religious liberty is a fundamental human right that inheres in our god-given human nature and that the church has dealt with it differently over the centuries. To my mind, how the church should treat this right is prudential rather than dogmatic. I appreciate anti Vatican II Catholics and I may differ on this. <br /><br />History does not treat the consequences of using state power to impose Catholicism kindly. It is no coincidence that the areas where Charlemagne imposed Christianity by the sword were the strongholds of the Protestant Revolt seven centuries later (<i>Niedersachsen</i> and Martin Luther's own <i>Sachsen Anhalt</i>.) The sins of the fathers fall to the sons even to seven centuries. Increasingly even the secularists are coming to appreciate the wisdom of Benedict's<a href="https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg.html"> address in Regensburg</a>, an address that seems prescient in light of the Brussels attacks. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Mora Godoy y José Lugones invitaron al presidente y a la primera dama de los Estados Unidos a la pista.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">He looked like he was tried to start an American Tango: shame, shame. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">She then backled him all the way<i>, </i>but she couldn't backlead him into a dip!<i><br /></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><i>Por Una Cabeza</i>: perfect comment on his tenure in <i>el Casa Blanco</i>.</span><br />
<br /><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-69182219878538478792016-02-29T09:41:00.002-06:002016-02-29T23:14:23.854-06:00Paul Scalia's homily for his father, Justice Antonin Scalia<span style="color: #990000;">Those of us who have lived in the Diocese of Arlington are familiar with the eloquence of Paul Scalia's homilies. What a difficult task it must have been to give the homily for his own father and before such audiences. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">This homily is not sentimental, but it is moving and full of power. It is worth the sixteen minutes. Rhetoric is a dying art and the word "rhetoric" has become a synonym for sophistry, but this is worthy of a Demosthenes or a Cicero. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">I will not analyze the homily in detail. Michael Pakaluk provides</span> <a href="http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/the-beauty-of-fr-scalias-funeral-homily">an excellent analysis</a> <span style="color: #990000;">in </span><i><a href="http://www.crisismagazine.com/">Crisis</a></i>.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Justice Clarence Thomas, whom Paul Scalia reconciled back into the church, was a lector doing a reading from Romans. Senator Cruz, a Southern Baptist, interrupted his campaign to attend the funeral. You can read <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/us/politics/justice-antonin-scalias-funeral-lets-washington-pause-in-praise.html">an account of the funeral</a> in the <i>New York Times.</i></span> <div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31420649.post-45460993657697516992016-02-01T11:29:00.000-06:002016-02-01T11:29:34.327-06:00Twentieth Century Martyr Leads to Twenty First Century Miracle<span style="color: #cc0000;">In a <a href="http://ex-corde-ecclesiae.blogspot.com/2016/01/blessed-jose-please-pray-for-media.html">previous post</a>, I prayed to Blessed José Luis Sánchez del Río for Kathleen Parker. Maybe a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist is a bridge too far even for one of God's heroes, but hope is one of the theological virtues. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">I knew of the young martyr's heroic sanctity. What I did not know is the nature of the miracle that has advanced Blessed José's cause. If you can read <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/one-familys-unimaginable-suffering-paves-the-way-for-a-teens-sainthood-61117/">the story</a> of Ximena Guadalupe Magallón Gálvez with dry eyes, good on you. But the glory of miracles is that they are eucatastrophes: yes, the story has a happy ending! Read it—it will make your day. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Reflections and comments from the heart of the church (Malcolm Harris at Friends University.)</div>Dr. Malcolm C. Harris, Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17980830934198211026noreply@blogger.com0