A senior Vatican priest has compared the recent attacks on the church over the sexual abuse allegations to antisemitism. And he has a Jew who supports him in email. (Or, regular mail. Or something.) [link]
ROME — A senior Vatican priest speaking at a Good Friday service compared the uproar over sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church — which have included reports about Pope Benedict XVI’s oversight role in two cases — to the persecution of the Jews, sharply raising the volume in the Vatican’s counterattack.
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Wearing the brown cassock of a Franciscan, Father Cantalamessa took note that Easter and Passover were falling during the same week this year, saying he was led to think of the Jews. “They know from experience what it means to be victims of collective violence and also because of this they are quick to recognize the recurring symptoms,” he said.
Father Cantalamessa quoted from what he said was a letter from an unnamed Jewish friend. “I am following the violent and concentric attacks against the church, the pope and all the faithful by the whole word,” he said the friend wrote. “The use of stereotypes, the passing from personal responsibility and guilt to a collective guilt, remind me of the more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.”
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“With a minimum of irony, I will say that today is Good Friday, when they pray that the Lord illuminate our hearts so we recognize Jesus,” Rabbi Di Segni said, referring to a prayer in a traditional Catholic liturgy calling for the conversion of the Jews. “We also pray that the Lord illuminate theirs.”
liese! I still think you should come and visit us. I almost bought Stanley Cup tickets as an enticement.
We are being furloughed for 5 days in June. The upside to this is we get out a week early. The downside to this is we'll be missing 5 days of pay over 3 paychecks (better than 5 days over one paycheck I guess).
I'm so excited to get out early!
Question for the hivemind for a colleague in health:
On the
Biggest Loser,
have they met with a doctor at least once in every season?
On the Biggest Loser, have they met with a doctor at least once in every season?
I didn't start watching until like the 3rd season but I think they meet with the doctor a number of times.
Clarification: I need to let a colleague in our health division know if she can say they meet with a doctor at least once every season, or whether she needs to qualify it (most seasons or something similar).
I really don't think that "collective guilt" means what that priest thinks it means. When talking about antisemitism, it can mean either that all Jews are responsible for the crimes of any Jew, or (appropriately for Good Friday) that all Jews are responsible for killing Christ. I don't think anybody is blaming all Catholics for sexual abuse.
I can't imagine they wouldn't, simply for liability reasons. I know they've had to hospitalize contestants. (Show makes me roll my eyes a lot, but I've ended up seeing a whole lot of eps for reasons that don't exist.)
Okay, someone explain this drink to me. It sounds great, right up until the inclusion of the black olive. Smirnoff vampire gimlet
(Hec, I'm especially looking at you on this one.)
Not Hec, and super-late, but I add green olives to Perfect Manhattans and the salt nicely offsets the sweetness of the whiskey and the sweet vermouth. I'm thinking that's the same idea here, especially since Rose's still had sugar instead of HFCS in it at that point. It'd be worth trying with real lime juice, vodka, sugar, and an olive.
I need to let a colleague in our health division know if she can say they meet with a doctor at least once every season, or whether she needs to qualify it (most seasons or something similar).
Yeah I couldn't say for sure.
(Show makes me roll my eyes a lot, but I've ended up seeing a whole lot of eps for reasons that don't exist.)
ha, yeah. I love a transformation, though. And I only ever watch it recorded so I can ff through most of it.
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OMG SO BORED. Friday afternoon. No signs of life in the office.
