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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sick of hearing Americans complain about the winter weather? Too bad. Because the corporate kvetching has only just begun.
While meteorologists say warmer temperatures finally are on the way, savvy investors know a cold front could still be looming when it comes to the profits of publicly traded U.S. companies.
Indeed, if history is any guide, CEOs will still be moaning about the recent cold snap well into spring, when they report first-quarter earnings. Why? Because the coldest winter in a quarter century provides them with a handy — and reasonably plausible — excuse for any results that fall short of expectations.
For some companies, such as those in transport-dependent businesses, the explanations may be valid. For others, it may well be a case of the (chilly) dog ate their homework.
After Hurricane Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, a host of companies with not especially big exposures to the affected region - including Avon Products Inc., Books-A-Million Inc and Tempur-Pedic International Inc, now a unit of Tempur Sealy International Inc - blamed the disaster for poorer-than-expected results. When their rivals did just fine despite the hurricane, analysts cried foul.
The latest weather-related claims have begun to come in. Recent U.S. economic indicators, including unexpected drops in retail sales and manufacturing output in January, showed the deep freeze is having an impact.
Last week, McDonald's Corp partly pinned a fall in January sales at its established U.S. restaurants on the frigid cold and snow, while vitamin and nutritional supplements retailer GNC Holdings Inc warned that its first quarter results would fall short of expectations because of bad weather.
Earlier this month, Ford Motor Co, CSX Corp and United Continental Holdings Inc have also warned that the severe cold weather is wreaking havoc on their operations in the first quarter.
Analysts say experience shows it is inevitable some companies will use the severe temperatures and serial snow and ice storms as a cover to conceal problems, such as management missteps and other internal shortcomings.
"While managers will be quick to use weather as an excuse for soft earnings ... most sectors of the economy aren't impacted," said Matthew Patten, the president, Cutler Investment Counsel LLC.
To be sure, this winter will go down in the record books as one of the coldest in recent history.
"The last one that was this cold was the winter of 1993, 1994 - and this one is edging that one out," said Dale Mohler, a senior meteorologist with Accuweather, the private weather forecasting company. "This is something that comes around maybe once every 25, 30 years."
Temperatures across a vast area of the United States, stretching east from the Great Plains through the Midwest and into the northern Appalachians, have been running 6 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit (3.3 to 5.5 degrees Celsius) below normal for two-and-a-half months straight.
The weather clearly has discouraged some consumers from heading out to shop. U.S. retail sales fell 0.4 percent in January, led by a tumble in automobile sales and categories such as clothing, furniture stores and restaurants that depend on foot traffic.
But the impact of the cold snap has extended beyond the retail industry. A number of U.S. companies, including Ingersoll Rand Plc and Emerson Electric Co, have complained about transportation and logistical problems that the snow and sub-zero temperatures have triggered.
"We're all losing days of production, we're losing days of shipments," Emerson Chief Executive Officer David Farr told an investor conference last Thursday.
U.S. airlines have been especially hard hit, with flight cancellations and delays soaring. In January alone, nearly 40,000 U.S. flights were canceled and another 136,000 delayed, according to FlightAware.com - four times the number affected by weather in any of three previous Januaries.
As a result, most big airlines, including Delta Air Lines Inc, American Airlines Group Inc and United Continental have waived change fees and relaxed rebooking rules for customers who had tickets to fly through storm-hit airports.
United Continental said the storms and sub-zero temperatures cost United $60 million in January alone. They "were among the worst weather events in our history," said company spokesman Luke Punzenberger.
Mike Englund, chief economist at Action Economics, points out that the prolonged bad weather has been good news for some industries. For example, it has boosted demand for the power that publicly traded utilities generate, as well as for the industries that supply the power plants.
Campbell Soup Co, the world's largest soup maker, reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday, helped in part by the cold weather.
But Miles Yourman, a portfolio analyst with Knightsbridge Asset Management LLC, warned investors not to assume the weather will have a positive effect just because a company is in one of the industries that stand to benefit. He cited Chesapeake Energy Corp, one of the stocks in the Knightsbridge portfolio, as an example.
"The cold weather has obviously been very good for natural gas prices, but on the other hand it's interfered with their production. So they haven't enjoyed the benefit," he said.
And weather-related downturns, like the cold weather itself, may soon melt away. A company like motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson Inc may see a drop in foot traffic to its showrooms in the current quarter, but wind up benefiting in the next few quarters, Yourman said.
"After being cooped up after a long winter, that's when you really want to go out and buy a new bike to get the wind in your face," he said.
Additional reporting by Lewis Krauskopf, Dhanya Skariachan, Phil Wahba and Luciana Lopez in New York, Lisa Baertlein In Los Angeles, and Shailaja Sharma and Siddharth Cavale in Bangalore; Editing by David Greising and Tiffany Wu

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Eventually the site will become an online community that my audience could interact with to maximize their progress. The site will have a creative feel to it and needs a crisp logo.
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Motorists might be able to legally drive a little faster on Illinois interstates and tollways should Gov. Pat Quinn approve a measure that would raise speed limits to 70 mph.
State Sen. Jim Oberweis, R-Sugar Grove, sponsored the legislation and said he's hopeful that Quinn will pass it into law.
"I certainly hope that the governor would recognize the small step that Illinois is coming into the 21st Century," Oberweis said. "I think it's the right thing for our state to do."
All the states that surround Illinois except for Wisconsin have speed limits of 70 mph, according to a news release.
In total, 34 states have speed limits of 70 mph or higher, 15 states have speed limits of 75 mph and one state has a speed limit of 85 mph.
The House of Representatives approved the legislation earlier this week after the Senate passed it in late April.
Oberweis said raising the speed limit is popular and said about 75 percent of Illinois citizens support the increase.
He said that most motorists in the state already drive faster than the 65 mph speed limit.
"It's bad to have a law on the books that's so widely ignored," Oberweis said. "Really, all we're doing is recognizing reality, not creating a new reality."
The Illinois State Police have requested that the bill enhance public safety by lowering the threshold for speeding penalties, the release states.
Speeding in excess of 26 mph, but less than 35 mph, still is a Class B misdemeanor.
Speeding in excess of 35 mph, rather than the current threshold of 40 mph, would result in a Class A misdemeanor.
Oberweis said one argument against changing the speed limit is that it could cause more accidents and fatalities.
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"Allowing law-abiding citizens to drive 70 without feeling like breaking the law is right," he said.


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"This bivy is super easy to set up and with the included pole allows for a bit of extra comfort. I can even read or write in my journal while fully zipped inside.
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Great lightweight canyon backpacking
I've used this 3 trips now for a total of 5 nights, all in western Colorado/eastern Utah. It took me a little time to work out the zippers and layers so the I could easily work the separate bug mesh and outer canopy in the dark. This bivy is very long and I think for most people, if you need to store gear or clothing at the foot inside there would be plenty of space. I only had a condensation issue in the one night when I slept through a storm. On a tyvek ground sheet it did not leak but I had sealed the seams already. As mentioned by others it is very toasty so I bought my first shoulder season ;45 deg bag to use with this. It almost works like a vapor barrier so my 3-season bag was killing me even in the shoulder seasons. The stakes that come with it do not hold well in sand (buy sand stakes) but if the head hoop was a tripod it would be free-standing. Overall, I am very happy with it and would recommend to a friend.
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I gave this as a gift to my mother who is excited to go on some backpacking trips this summer. She wanted to try out a bivy but was worried that she would feel claustrophobic. The Spotlight Bivy fit the bill perfectly for her. The added space at the head of the bivy made her feel much better. She fit it in perfectly and loved the ability to just sleep with the bug net so she could see the stars. Based on other's reviews, I will encourage her to seam seal it before taking it out. Overall, it seems like a great beginner bivy for the price!
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I bought this as a gift, for my cousin Eddie. Here's what he had to say :
"Super incredibly small when packed up. I did not get to use it in the elements yet but I am very excited to. When it arrived my girlfriend and I tested it out to see if it could comfortably fit 2 people. It fit 2 people however it was a little tight and I would only recommend in emergency situations with hypothermia. Super durable, incredibly insulated, and toasty. On a spring day, when tested, I could not keep the bivy completely closed because it was like a sauna. Cannot wait to use next winter for backcountry skiing. Not many parts so it is super easy and quick to setup. Negative: Not very spacious, meant for sleeping and that's about it. No solitaire, or cooking in this bad boy.)"
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That is including the DAC Pole, the 4 stakes, and it is post treatment with silicone on the seams to waterproof - or at least weatherproof (about 35grams worth)
Use it like this (bivy is on the right). Ideal for winter mountaineering. You will be damp in the summer.
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I bought this bivy for winter mountaineering. I have had condensation like others mention. But when it gets COLD (down below 0 F) I just end up with some frost on the outside of my bag, and no dampness.
No, it isn't particularly waterproof. If you seal the seams well it supposedly (according to the kind folks at B.D.) will hold up for about an hour in the rain. I don't plan to find out.
It is awesome for winter in the mountains. Keeps me warmer than a tent. Packs tiny. Single wall, four season construction is perfect.
My only complaint is the foot-box area. With a Neo-air all season pad and a zero-degree bag, the bivy compresses the bag's down at my feet. I haven't suffered yet, but I wonder how much of a liability this is. Compressing your down is never good...
The photo is from Canyonlands, where I had no condensation problems :)
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
This is a pretty good little bivy bag in most respects (lightweight, adequate headroom, ability to use only the bug mesh and therefore see the stars at night, etc.). However, a MAJOR problem is condensation; I had this out for three nights in great weather (no rain, around 8-10 C) and within hours each night my sleeping bag started getting damp, eventually getting quite wet by the morning. I dried the bag and bivy out each day, only to have the same thing happen again the following night. The problem is that the top of the bivy is right against the sleeping bag, so there is little breathability (imagine sleeping right up against the wall of a regular tent). Because of this, you'll be uncomfortable and will keep waking up regularly to change position in a futile attempt to stay dry.
Too small for my needs, seems flimsy
I ordered this for a trip to South America & ultralightweight domestic weekend trips. It is definitely light and compactible (though I wish the single pole would fold down one size smaller so you could fit the whole bundle into one tidy bag - as it is there is one bag for the bivy itself and another for the pole).
I received the item and set it up in my yard. I have since decided to take a larger backpack (45L instead of 32L) with me on my trip - will allow for a few more comforts, layers, space for souvenirs, and unforseen space needs. I lay down inside the bivy and it has adequate space considering how small it is. The area around teh head is actually quite spacious. The area around the feet would be, but there is nothing included to keep it stiff and upright, it kind of just flops down on you. I'm willing to bet moisture would seep through to your feet. So you would need another stake and/or some nylon rope or something to keep that area taut and off of your body.
I tried laying inside with my pack (not going to leave it outside the bivy because of weather and theft concerns). No way I'm fitting in this this with a pack (no matter what size), at least not comfortably.
Also, the material seems a bit flimsy. I know it must be thin to be so lightweight and compressible, but I can see it snagging and ruining a trip real easy. The area that pulls over the pole to keep the seam protected is a novel idea, but I could already see the stitches in the area straining as I pulled it taut, and I think they would be the first thing to go (barring a rip in the fabric).
Perhaps I'm not using the bivy as it is intended. I think a slightly bigger (and yes, heavier and bulkier) solo tent is what I need. I do wonder where people who use the spotlight bivy keep their packs. Outside with a rain cover on it?
Finally - only a one year warranty? That's a dea-breaker for me. So many other products have lifetime.
Bottom line: for ultralightweight guys who don't mind bringing an extra stake/rope to keep this thing off of your feet (and who don't mind leaving their pack outside) go for it, you'll love it. As for me, I need something bigger. Cheers to backcountry for their awesome return policy and great customer service.
I am accustomed to leaving my pack outside with a rain cover on it when I use my single wall solo tent. I have never had any problems with this camping style. This item is 1/2 the weight of that tent and 2/3 smaller. I think for dry conditions like desert and high altitude camping it will be fine but I will post a review myself when I have the chance to use it for intended conditions.
I got the big agnes ul 1 copper spur it is great 2.3 lbs, room in vestibule for a pack but I usu keep mine under a pack cover. I thought bivy sacks were for emergency shelter... that is what I use mine for.
I took this piece of crap out one night, a light rain developed over night and I got SOAKED. This has NO rain protection and it's not worth it. Get the Black Diamond Bipod, not as small, but it actually keeps you dry.
It's not factory seam sealed. I think if you did that then you'd be fine.
So can you get it sealed after you have already bought it?
Coop - Yep, you can seal the seams yourself using a product like McNett's Seam Grip or similar...
Great little bivy.
This is a great bivy. To start this packs oh so nice and small and I can through it in any pack that I would do an overnight trip with.
Setup becomes a breeze after about your first handful of times. The first time I set it up it took about 10 min. of trying everything to get the pole in. A tight fit to say the least. Now I know how to position it and can do the entire thing in about two minutes. Packing it away is just as easy. The longest thing to do is push the air out of it while getting it into the stuff sack.
This is a little bit snug with my pad (Big Agnes Air Core), bag, and myself in there but what you would expect from a bivy at these dimensions. I had plenty of room to keep a rain jacket, clothes I hiked in, and boots above my head. A pack probably won't fit. At 5'9" I can get in and out with ease. The ventilation is good at night as long as you leave it cracked in the right places. I just had it out on a trip that started with very high humidity and led to heavy rain. Never had a problem with condensation build up on the inside. It doesn't come seam sealed and I haven't done so yet. It held up very well in a down poor that lasted about an hour with no moisture on the inside. Going to seam seal it however to avoid pushing my luck.
Overall an excellent bivy and misses on five stars because I have to seam seal it myself and a little difficult to setup out of the packaging.
Love the pic showing a suggestion of guying the footbox upward. I'm wondering about not seam sealing it at all if the only intent is to use it in reliably dry conditions. I wonder it in that case, not sealing it would provide extra breathability.
Does this product come with a stuff sack or do I need to get one?
hi! i purchased this yesterday and had a...
hi! i purchased this yesterday and had a problem setting it up. The pole streches the fabric too much and also it doesn't stay in place. Any advice? Thanks
well black diamond is known to do all of that but not stay in place.
dont worry black diamond is known for their strength.
I have seen mixed answers so I will ask...
I have seen mixed answers so I will ask it once more to clear it up: how is this bivy in the rain? Can anybody clear it up for me please?
In a low rain it great...but in a HEAVY rain the rain will go IN. BD say this canvas is NOT totally rain proof
Does this have a pole, peg and seam sealing...
Does this have a pole, peg and seam sealing adhesive?
One pole and 4 pegs
does this bivy have taped seams?
does this bivy have taped seams?
No, if you read below you'll see that it is not seam sealed.
but that doesnt mean you cant do it yourself
How far does the zipper run down the side...
How far does the zipper run down the side on this bivy? And how usable is the space at the head of the bivy? I'm 5'6'' - do you think I could fit a small pack and shoes in the space near the head?
Very small - and about 1/2 way. You will probably find it more comfy however to NOT store your gear there as the top is where it is designed to give you breathing space - you may not feel as comfy if your face is closer to the sac since there is gear taking up the top.
What's the size of this bivy. One size...
What's the size of this bivy. One size fits all scares me.. 5'11"/ 200
92 long x 30" wide @ the shoulders x 20" tall @ the highest point. Easy fit for someone your size, but if you're claustrophobic, you'll want to think twice about any sort of bivy.
I've never had a bivy and I'm wondering...
I've never had a bivy and I'm wondering where I would keep my pack. Outside? What if it rains? Will a simple rain cover do the trick?
Find a natural canopy under the trees to store your pack and keep it dry....A rain cover is a good idea,but then you will have to carry extra weight....
Mike makes a good point, but a wet pack and gear weighs more than any rain cover I've ever carried.
Use a trash compactor bag as a packliner instead of using a pack cover. Ultralight and effective.
I'm useing a rain proof pack now
In the past in hevy rain I put the pack inside the bivi
Does this have guy lines? How many?
Does this have guy lines? How many?
There are two loops where you could guy this out. They don't come with guylines and not really necessary either as there is only one, very small pole and this thing is freestanding.
How does the nanoshield hold up to heavy...
How does the nanoshield hold up to heavy rain and wet snow, is it up to the task or do i need to get the bibler version for those conditions?
I would go with the Bibler Tripod Bivy.
The Spotlight DOES NOT protect against rain. I took it out one night thinking it would keep me dry and I got SOAKED in a light rain. Get the Bipod, small, but protects against anything.
If you seam tape the bivy it'll do fine. Black Diamond probably doesn't do it in the factory so it seems lighter than it actually is.
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A renewed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission focus on employment practices that have a disproportionate impact on members of a minority group is challenging longstanding human resources practices, says Paul Patten, a partner with Jackson Lewis LLP in Chicago.
Patten, a former trial attorney with the EEOC who now represents employers in lawsuits, says several recent EEOC cases highlight the increasing government scrutiny of employers that use blanket criminal background checks to screen applicants.
The EEOC recently sued Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based Dollar General and a U.S. unit of German automaker BMW AG, alleging the companies refused to hire applicants with criminal records, when the companies should have individually considered each applicant. The lawsuits said the companies' practices disparately impact blacks, who have higher arrest and conviction rates than whites.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with shoving a man in front of a New York subway earlier this week says the victim instigated the confrontation. Ki-Suck Han was struck and killed by the train. Naeem Davis was arraigned last night on a second-degree murder charge. As he walked past reporters, Davis said 58-year-old Han attacked him first, saying: "He grabbed me." Davis' Legal Aid lawyer says his client "was involved in an incident with a man who was drunk and angry."


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As the Pentagon prepares to survey soldiers about President Obama's decision to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, a new poll of military personnel who served in the Afghanistan or Iraq wars has finds that sexual orientation is "not a burning issue that overwhelms veterans' lives."
The new poll, commissioned by The Vet Voice Foundation and conducted jointly by Republican and Democratic pollsters, finds that most veterans are "comfortable around gay and lesbian people, believe that being gay or lesbian has no bearing on a service member's ability to perform their duties, and would find it acceptable if gay and lesbian people were allowed to serve openly in the military." Fifty-eight percent of veterans said they served alongside gays or lesbians, and only 22 percent thought they had not:
— 60% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans believe that being gay or lesbian "has no bearing on a service member's ability to perform their duties." Only 29% disagree.
— 73% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans say it is "personally acceptable to them if gay and lesbian people were allowed to serve openly in the military." Only a quarter (25%) would find it unacceptable.
— 73% Iraq and Afghanistan veterans say "they are personally comfortable in the presence of gays and lesbians." Only a quarter (23%) is uncomfortable, and hardly anyone is very uncomfortable (only 7%).
The survey, which sampled 45% self-identified Republicans and just 20% Democrats, suggests that military personnel are more comfortable serving alongside openly gay and lesbian troops than previously thought. The poll also contradicts the findings of a widely circulated Military Times survey, which reported that 58% of respondents are opposed to efforts to repealing DADT, and undermines the claims of some conservative lawmakers who argue that lifting the ban would undermine the primary goal of the military.
"Simply put, our military is the most professional organization the world has ever known. Not only will service members abide by a repeal, but they'll largely accept it and move on to the task at hand. For all of the hyperbolic rhetoric from those opposed to a repeal, today's military really doesn't see an issue here," said Jon Soltz, Chairman of the Vet Voice Foundation. Indeed, the survey concluded that veterans under age 35 lean toward favoring allowing gay and lesbian people to serve openly (41% favor to 35% oppose) while veterans over age 35 lean toward opposing by five points (31% favor, 36% oppose).
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Crick's lecture, which was published the following year, continues to be read and cited by scientists all over the world. It is a monument of clear and penetrating thinking by one of the 20th century's greatest minds. In all his key predictions, Francis Crick was right, and he did indeed change the logic of biology.
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José María Castillo: "Seeing Jesus' humanity is how we see, find, and know God"
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December 26, 2016
"The economy doesn't fix this. Politics either." Theologian José María Castillo is referring to the multiple crises we are suffering today. Not just the lack of solidarity or democracy, but above all the deficit in mercy towards the suffering. A situation in the face of which, he points out, "there has to be another system." Specifically the one of the Gospel, whose strength he explores in his book, La humanidad de Jesús ("The humanity of Jesus", Trotta, 2016).
Today we are joined by a good friend, whom you surely know, who needs no introduction but, just in case, he is José María Castillo.
Good morning, José María.
Delighted, Good morning.
Madrid isn't Granada, but it's nice to come here once in a while.
Madrid has a singular charm and enjoys such a large, ample and important offering that it's like a very powerful magnet that attracts one.
José María Castillo is one of the best theologians in our country. We are lucky and honored that he has been a collaborator of Religión Digital for many years.
It's been at least ten years. Or maybe more.
Laying down the law and, most of all, helping us to think. And giving us subjects, which he talks about through his blogs, with his posts and also through his writings, through his books.
We've come here today to talk about one of them, La humanidad de Jesús, which he has published through Trotta. You presented it yesterday in a talk-colloquium at the ABC cultural hall, which was packed.
I would like to talk about the subject that the book is about. About Jesus' humanity. Because they've always talked about this divine Jesus, who is sublimated and makes us closer to God, and lately it seems that his more human side has been reviled. The one of the Jesus who ate, got sad, and laughed with his friends. Who passed through this world and walked with the disciples from Emmaus, with Lazarus, with his disciples. Who felt tragedy, betrayal. Who had all the good and all the bad of human beings. Even until he came to die.
Why this disappearance of the human Jesus in some cases?
As I indicated yesterday in my lecture, and it was the first thing I wanted to highlight, it's that, strangely, relations between the divine and the human have not always been easy. On the contrary they have been a motive, occasion and cause for tension, misunderstanding, difficulty, estrangement, and separation.
It's enough to think about this: the divine is translated, in public social experience, into the sacred. The human is translated, in public social experience, into the profane.
It is noteworthy that the sacred has always claimed to be above the profane. Having a more determining power than secular or civil power. Having authority, prestige, credibility, argumentation, etc., everything always above. From the moment things are put like this, tension is inevitably created.
Among other things because Jesus had all those things you've described. And he also had his human side. Of a person who was born, grew up, and lived in a family.
Of course, that's what's remarkable, because the gospels don't specifically emphasize that Jesus was a "holy or consecrated" person. We are used to celebrating the Feast of Christ, Eternal High Priest. Christ -- Jesus -- wasn't a priest. On the contrary, he came into conflict with the priests. And such a conflict, that the priests ended up killing him.
Defenders of the law and of the norm who are also here in our Church today.
Of course, because they couldn't stand him. They couldn't bear him and saw in him a menacing threat to their cause, their power, and their interests. That's why, yesterday, I stressed how the deep reason for Jesus' humanity is because it is in and through humanity that the divine is revealed to us Christians. Why? Because the divine is the transcendent. And the transcendent is not within our reach, we can't get to know it or know of it. This is possible because the divine -- the transcendent by definition -- is what is incommunicable with the immanent, with what is human. So, through what is human in Jesus, in him, we discover the divine.
I put forward yesterday, and I'll repeat them here because they seem eloquent to me, two texts from the Gospel of John. At the end of the prologue, in chapter 1, verse 18, we find: "No one has ever seen God." It's a way of saying that God is not within our reach. We can't know Him. His only son, that is, Jesus, is the one who has made Him known to us.
And even clearer and more eloquent, the text of chapter 14, after the Last Supper. In that farewell discourse, the apostle Philip suddenly interrupts Jesus and says, "Master, Lord, show us the Father. Show us God and that will be enough for us." And Jesus responds, "But Philip, you still don't know me?".
And I said last night, and I repeat, that if I had been there, I would have said, "Yes, I do know you; I'm not asking about you, but about God."
And Jesus continues, without heeding Philip, "Philip, whoever sees me is seeing God."
Therefore, Jesus is the revelation. The explicit manifestation of God. And seeing Jesus' humanity is how we see, find, and know God. This is the main argument of the book.
Someone could accuse you of denying the Trinity.
One thing has nothing to do with the other, because the Trinity thing is a later elaboration. In the New Testament it isn't clear, although it talks about the Father and the Son. But the title, Son of God (many people don't know this or don't take it into account), was an imperial title that the emperor Augustus adopted. The whole dynasty of the Antonines. They adopted the Son of God title as an imperial title. Hence, the title, applied to Jesus, doesn't mean that he was the son of God, as we understand it, of the same nature. It was an elaboration against Arius, in the 4th century, in the Council of Nicea.
In the end, in the Church, we have been laying on these types of elaboration by virtue of confrontations between different theological or thought currents. And we come to the twenty-first century, and in the end, the idea you might have of Jesus, maybe it doesn't look too much like the idea or the reality that those who knew Jesus experienced.
The one that many people have isn't -- nor can it be -- similar. Because in people, when mixing the divine and the human, the divine gains more force than the human. So, in a human image, they worship Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The most grotesque -- and I always tell this story -- is that I know of a very famous Jesuit, he died already many years ago, who was a great catechist and who was giving a class to the Jesuits themselves. He was explaining the story of Jesus walking on the sea at night, in search of the disciples, when the Gospel says they were frightened, and that Jesus told them, "Be not afraid, I am your Lord Jesus Christ."
That's nonsense -- How was he going to say of himself, "I am your Lord Jesus Christ"?
Moreover it would have frightened the disciples even more.
It was laughable. But it's that many people don't dare say the word "Jesus." There is something mysterious about this. Why the resistance? They speak of Christ, the Lord, Jesus Christ, our Lord Jesus Christ. But not Jesus.
It's a cultural issue. In fact, there are many countries where my name, Jesús, is practically never given to a child. And evidently, Jesus Christ -- I think there must be very few people or any in the world who are named that. But I think the term, in some cultures, is almost prohibited. As if it were something irreverent.
Or that distills a certain mysterious reverence. For example, I have thought a great deal about blasphemy against the Virgin, against God, against Christ, even against sacred objects -- the host, the pyx, the pallium ... all this. Against Jesus, I have never heard a blasphemy.
And to what is this due -- that those who don't believe see him as a model and to those of us who believe, he frightens us because we don't know how to define him well or can't understand him?
Jesus is a reality that impresses us, but at the same time he's so close, so human, so like us, and so much like what we need ...
Yesterday they asked me, "But what did Jesus' humanity consist of?".
Well, being a Jew, a Galilean, from a poor and humble village in those days (now it's a more important city), who one fine day left his home, left his family, and went off to hear John the Baptist. He got in the line of those who were going to be baptized -- those who John the Baptist called a brood of vipers, he received the baptism and had an inspiration there. He felt something. He experienced something that made him see many things that we neither see nor comprehend, nor can we see or comprehend them.
Then he began to work. And to what did he devote himself? He didn't put up a spirituality center or a house of formation, he didn't set up an office of spiritual direction or create a chair in Theology. None of that. It simply says that when he was aware that they had killed John the Baptist, he went to Galilee, where John had been killed, where the danger was. Where there were movements in which those who ended up being the Zealots some years later were beginning to rise up against the domination of the empire there. But he didn't start to fight against Rome, in that sense. Jesus was convinced that the truly crucial thing wasn't changing the rulers but changing the ruled.
Make us protagonists, co-participants and co-responsible.
And that we, by changing, would take responsibility for the situation we have, for why we have it, and for what we want. Let us be clear.
For example, it draws my attention that when it was announced to Jesus that Herod had beheaded John the Baptist, Jesus didn't organize a demonstration or go out with signs...
Or go to Herod's palace.
Or to the Great Square of Jerusalem, or of any other city. Nor when they announced to Jesus that Pilate had beheaded some Galileans while they were making a religious sacrifice that had to be in the temple, did Jesus tell them, "Pilate is a scoundrel," "This is exploitation," "We're oppressed, we have to rise up"...Jesus said to them, "All of you, since you haven't changed, you're going to end up the same."
Jesus paid his taxes knowing they were unjust. I know there are people with a leftist social mentality who get nervous when they hear this, they feel bad. But I have to say it, first, because it's in the Gospel. And I have opted for the Gospel for many other more private, more personal, deeper reasons that I'm not going to be explaining here. But there's something that does give me a lot to think about. And it's that you can see that the economy, as it's working, doesn't fix this world; rather, on the contrary, it's making us worse off every year. There's more distance between rich and poor. And more and more poor.
The economy doesn't fix this. Politics doesn't fix it either, because it's in the hands of the economy. And if the economy doesn't fix it, politics does it even less. There has to be another force, another mechanism, another system. And I haven't found one other than the one I read about in the Gospel.
And they'll tell me, "Well, we're fixed, now we'll all go to Church for the priest to tell us the Gospel." That's not it! The priest is the first one who needs to change and convert to the Gospel because the Gospel -- and pay attention to this -- isn't primarily a religion book. It's a life project.
Jesus' life project, and a model of values to build society and build the kingdom, here too.
Obviously. And in that is Jesus' humanity. Jesus was convinced that it was by becoming deeply human, that we would, first, fix this world and second, become more divine.
Now Christmas is coming. When I was a child they taught me a phrase that has always stayed with me because I think it's a great truth -- I don't know what you'll think -- that God became man so that we men might be a little more of God.
It's a conventional phrase that's very good. But the reality is that Jesus becomes human so that we will all be more human. Even God had to humanize himself to fix this world.
And what's that? A symptom of God's weakness or a sign of love -- recognizing that something has become bad and that He has to send His son -- or however we want to call him -- so that the whole world might truly believe?
We see that religion as such, the religious factor as such, consists of beliefs, and especially of some rituals, which is the oldest part of the religious factor, and some rules. All around the sacred.
The divine is more complicated because we mustn't forget (many people don't know this, can't imagine it or expect it), that God is a very late product in the history of the religious factor. He's among the last to appear. Such that if homo sapiens, human beings, are some 100,000 years old, there have been vestiges of rituals since the beginning. For some 90,000 years, probably, rituals have been functioning.
Without God figuring in.
The God thing is very late. He appears, I don't know, 10-, 12- or 15,000 years before Christ.
But as a feeling of something higher, not someone?
There was a higher reality that slowly became outlined. Because, of course, since God is transcendent and is not within our reach, what we do is picture that ultimate reality.
And is representing him as a single figure against polytheism an evolution?
No. Polytheism is a different way of representing God. Specialized gods -- some in illnesses, others in calamities. But they are human representations. They are all human representations.
How has Jesus come to the 21st century? How is he understood? And all this, has it been thanks to, or despite the Church?
The Church thing was an organizing system that was established after Jesus died.
And that's where the other side, Paul's, comes from.
Jesus didn't found the Church. Nor did he found the clergy, or the priests, or any of that. It's not mentioned. All that began to take shape and function starting with Paul, who is the first about whom we have data that he made this work. He was founding CHURCHES [in Spanish "IGLESIAS"]. It's remarkable that they adopted that word that came from the Greek.
The ekklesia was a political institution the Greeks invented. It was a democratic assembly to make decisions. What happens, is that such as the Greeks experienced it, it was very restricted. Because women were excluded, slaves, children, and young people too. The participants in the ekklesia were very few in the Greek political culture.
But it's remarkable that the Christians, when they started to get together, instead of taking a religious name, adopted a political name -- ekklesia.
And they were doing it constantly, because the figure of the bishop, the diocese, all those terms...
Are civil names. An episkopos was an overseer. A presbyteros was a senator. However, the New Testament doesn't use the word "priest." Ever.
The word does appear with the representatives of the temple. With the Jewish priests.
Sure, it's applied to the pagans or the Jewish priests of the temple. But to the Christians, never.
I want to clarify two things that it's important that I not leave out. It's about the humanity of Jesus. How his fundamental concern was not a "religious" concern, but a "secular" one. What he cared about and why.
First and foremost, health. Something that concerns us all. Hence the amount of stories of healings.
Everybody asks: Did Jesus perform miracles? We can't know because it's a literary genre of that time to explain that he cared about people. About those who were suffering. And when he would see a person suffering, he would remedy that if he could. Because he went to his town, to Nazareth, and the Gospel of Mark says that he couldn't perform any miracle there. And why? Well, because they didn't believe and he always attributed the healing to faith -- "Your faith has healed you."
And second, he worried about the suffering because of the lack of food and of means of living.
Which leads to coexistence in community, because almost all meals or meetings with people, have an agape. And that leads us to think later of the Eucharist itself.
On almost all occasions, Jesus appears eating or healing people who were suffering from illnesses. They are stories that are repeated constantly.
And Jesus' third concern: human relations -- "Get along well", "Know how to forgive", "Understand one another", "Bear with each other", "Accommodate one another", "Know how to please each other", "Spread happiness to the people who live with you."
This is precisely the message that is contained in the Beatitudes, in the Sermon on the Mount, which is possibly the most universal of all, and the seed of other declarations that have been made throughout history, including the Declaration of Human Rights.
Obviously, because that leads us immediately as you've said to two issues that are wholly fundamental and that today are very absent, unfortunately.
On the one hand is the problem of corruption and it's that money, the eagerness for money and the power it has, has turned us all around. It has upset the coexistence, the politics and organization of society. Nobody trusts anybody. It's a terrible thing, and then we want to solve it with charity and beneficence. Which is necessary, of course, if there are people who are hungry. But it's also true that if you ask someone "What do you live on?" and he answers, "Well, I live on charity," that's humiliation. It's humiliating to live on charity. What people want is to earn their living and their money honestly. And to have dignity.
And second, the issue of human rights. Human rights assumes equality in dignity and in rights in the first article. We have created a society proclaiming human rights and creating more inequality at all levels and in every possible arena. This is such a strong, such a determining contradiction.
I want to stress something I said last night in my lecture and that I'll repeat here: a person who is responsible for this being thus and who, therefore, is the cause of suffering, can not believe in God.
The rulers we have, who know that the decisions they're making cause suffering, can not believe in God no matter how much they go to Mass, and no matter how much they belong to respectable institutions. The religious, the bishops and priests, the laypeople...All sorts of people who through their behavior, their conduct, their silence, are responsible for the fact that there are so many people suffering, can not believe in God. They believe in the representation of God they have made because it suits them.
And because it helps them to justify their actions or their ideas.
Right. That's it.
The core of the issue is reduced to that. Also to stress one thing that Professor Reyes Mate picked up from the book: that the determinant of God is mercy. Not mercy towards sin, but towards suffering. The blissful history of sin and the importance of sin, we owe to St. Paul.
Have we sacralized sin?
Have we made it more important than suffering?
It has been made more important than suffering. And to avoid sin and punish sinners, much suffering is caused and much violence is generated.
In that sense, I suppose the Pope would agree with you. He's getting brickbats for trying to open, even minimally, the field of mercy to families in special circumstances, so to speak. Or to women who have had to have abortions, or conflict situations. Brickbats are raining down on him from all sides, strangely from within the Church itself.
Which is exactly what happened to Jesus. The most religious, the most observant people, those most of the temple, were the ones who persecuted him the most and they didn't stop their persecution until they killed him. Well, the same thing is being repeated today, it goes on today.
With the difference that Francis -- and we're very pro-Francis here -- is still part of an institution that still accepts some issues as untouchable facts.
I'm very pro-Francis. They ask why he doesn't change more positions and why he doesn't suppress certain classes, or why he doesn't make certain decisions...
If I were in his skin, I might see that I had to do the same. Because the whole setup that is the Vatican State and everything in there is much more complex and more difficult to clean up and solve than we imagine.
We shouldn't envy him, as they say in my town.
In any way. And in that sense, I see that Francis is a man for whom the Gospel and Jesus' humanity is central, in which I think the future of the solution is. And if this approach doesn't work, it's because we're the ones who don't believe.
That we're afraid of returning to Jesus, taking away all the supposed support we have around us. Going back to Jesus has to be very complicated -- interpreting Jesus, understanding Jesus and experiencing him here. It's what you also said yesterday, that the true believers are those who try to live as Jesus would live.
Right, as he would live today. And that is what I think Francis is trying to do. He is doing what he can. Sometimes even being indiscreet, for example, in his way of expressing himself. Some have accused him of that, and sometimes they're right -- some phrases, especially, that have some validity in Latin America that they don't have here. Or a meaning that they don't have here. But I think the path goes there. And what gives me more hope, because he's of an advanced age now and his pontificate can't last very long, is that if this change that has taken place in the papacy keeps up and continues onward, the Church, in a few years, will be more different than we can imagine.
We trust in that and we trust that we will all look a little more like Jesus. To start now, when we finish the interview, we'll do the three things you said: We'll care about our health, we'll foment human relationships, and we'll eat. What do you think, José María?
We'll tell you the results of this meal. "La humanidad de Jesús" by José María Castillo, published by Trotta. It's always a genuine pleasure, you know. And we're glad to see you so well, so active, and so content.
And we'll go on.
Spreading that joy. Many thanks.
Thanks to you for the good you're doing, which is huge.
We try to. May we never lack support like yours to go on doing it and carrying it forward. Thanks.
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Monday, December 26, 2016
Christmas in spite of everything
Cristianisme i Justícia Blog
December 23, 2016
For a long time, in the bosom of the Christian people, very critical voices have risen up about Christmas -- the orgy of consumption, frantic purchase of gifts, food and drink, the chubby Santa Claus seeming to marginalize the Infant Jesus, carols being used as commercial propaganda, the Tree supplanting the manger, city lights having become marketing and a tourist attraction, there is leadership by people and institutions in charitable works at Christmastime... Christmas has become a solstice party ...
And all this as if in a bubble of well-being, on the margins of a world of violence and poverty, refugees and wars, with the heart anesthetized to the suffering of others.
True Christmas is different. What has happened is what is said of ants who, to be able to store wheat, cut off its germinal point. The West has tamed and perverted Christmas; it has ripped out its gospel nerve. All this is true and must be denounced prophetically. This bourgeois style of Christmas is the very opposite of the first Christmas. Today, Jesus is born again in Aleppo and Haiti, in the migrant and refugee camps of Lesbos and Lampedusa, in the victims of the Berlin bombing, in the new Christian martyrs of Egypt and the Middle East.
But what if, in spite of everything, the Christmas feast were to keep the mysterious light of Bethlehem on, because the darkness can never overcome the light? That families get together and often reconcile at Christmas, gifts to the little ones, especially the poor children, visits to prisons, hospitals and nursing homes, mangers in churches and families, a truce, sometimes, in the wars ... are these not a sign that, in spite of everything, the light and warmth of Christmas still linger amid the embers of so many ashes? Where does this sudden goodness that floods our hearts and sometimes our eyes these days spring from? No doubt this goodness is born from the manger of Bethlehem, the Child, the shepherds and angels who sing peace. And we also remember the old biblical prophecies that proclaim a new world, where the wolf and the lamb will graze together and a child will play with the serpent. The spirit of Christmas is never completely extinguished.
Because Christmas is not just a memory of the past but God the Father's plan for humankind -- a dream of filiation and fraternity, harmony and peace, love especially towards the least and marginalized. It is up to each and every one of us to make Christmas every day of the year so that the grain of gospel wheat does not lose its germinal power and produces true fruit. That is why, in spite of everything and in the midst of these ambiguities, Merry Christmas, the real one!
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