Kingfishers, Dragonflies, and Stones

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; / As tumbled over rim in roundy wells / Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's / Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; / Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: / Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; / Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, / Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.// Í say móre: the just man justices/ [Gerard Manley Hopkins]

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In "Four Cultures of the West," John O'Malley, SJ, showed us how to read the open book of our own personal experience and look at what we find there. This is what I find about family and friends, academics and humanism, religion and the rule of law.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

I Am Poped Out

The New York Times for Sunday, January 25, 2009 headline:

    "Pope Reinstates Four Excommunicated Bishops"

In comparison to that for Fr. Roy Bourgeois, an action like this rains despair.

For which the euphemism is "I am poped out."

Such despair makes it impossible to comment. Except just one simple one. OK?

Both excommunications involve ordinations against the orders of a pope.

  1. One of men to the bishopric.
  2. The other of women to the priesthood.

Why do we still call The Vatican a Church?
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Unknown said...

If Jesus saw his attempt at organization disentegrate before his eyes the night before he died, can we expect anything less? But as his message survives, can we expect anything more? Bob S

January 25, 2009 at 7:54 AM

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