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Regime Change
[Editor's note: William L. Portier's and Richard R. Gaillardetz's are the final in a special series of stories we are posting as the cardinals gather for the conclave. All of the previous articles in this series appear below.]
William L. Portier
On Monday, February 11, my wife called me at 7:30 in the morning. "The pope resigned," she said. "Who?" I replied.
Pope Benedict XVI surprised the whole world by announcing his resignation. As it turns out, he had been thinking about it for some time. Since the announcement, we have been reminded that, in a 2010 interview with the journalist Peter Seewald, Benedict mentioned the possibility of a papal resignation. And we've been reminded that he prayed at the tomb of Pope Celestine V, who resigned amid great turmoil in 1294. Benedict had witnessed the long decline of Pope John Paul II. By resigning, Benedict leaves to his successors an alternative to the example set by John Paul II, whose conscience did not permit him to leave the office to which he had been called by God. Benedict's conscience led him in a different direction, and his decision will have increasing significance in the future, as further medical advances increase the likelihood of a pope living beyond the time when he can fulfill his duties. Theologians who lament the lack of constitutional checks on the papacy will welcome this more recent precedent. Whatever one thinks of Benedict's papacy, his resignation is clearly an act of courage and humility—a gift of hope to the whole church. He reminded us that the papacy was about the church and not about him.
He leaves behind a mixed legacy. No pope in history—not even Leo the Great or Gregory the Great—was a better theologian in terms of breadth of knowledge and professional training, or according to the classic definition of the theologian as one who prays. Benedict's encyclicals on love and hope strike the reader with their clarity and depth. Apparently we will not have an encyclical on faith to complete the triad of the theological virtues. In his February 11 statement, the sentence in which he admits that he no longer has the strength to fulfill his office begins with an observation about the prospects for faith in a world "shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith." We are left to wonder what more he might have said about these questions.
We do have Caritas in veritate. Written in the wake of 2008's worldwide economic collapse, this encyclical is simply brilliant in bringing the resources of the tradition to bear on that crisis. It should be required reading for those who make economic-policy decisions that affect human well-being. Benedict writes in this encyclical of the "grammar of creation," a phrase he applies to both natural law and the environment. His many interventions on environmental questions, especially climate change, and even the solar equipment he has had installed in the Vatican surely distinguish him as a "green pope."
Pope Benedict's three Jesus of Nazareth books, two of which I have used in graduate classes, grapple seriously with the present impasse between theology and exegesis, and offer signs of an approach to Scripture that is both theological and historical-critical. His Wednesday addresses on the saints and fathers of the church now run to three volumes and will be a lasting literary legacy
For the foreseeable future, Benedict's 2005 interpretation of the Second Vatican Council, as neither rupture nor simple continuity but rather reform in continuity, remains the framework within which the council will be discussed and assessed. It also signals his passion for the unity of the church. On this front, he has made two controversial moves. First, his long-standing efforts to reconcile schismatic traditionalists to the church have included the introduction of the Extraordinary Rite of the Roman Liturgy. It is not clear whether this will have the effect he desired of leavening current liturgical practice with greater reverence and solemnity, or will instead just further polarize the church.
His creation of quasi-dioceses (ordinariates) for traditionalist Anglicans who wish to be in full communion with the church is another gamble whose long-term effects are not yet clear. The way this was carried out, through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith rather than the curial office for ecumenism, makes clear how dysfunctional the Roman curia has become—or at least how unresponsive to the pope's wishes.
Sadly, we are still waiting for a pope who will publicly discipline the bishops complicit in the sexual abuse of children by priests.
Benedict chose as his own papal name that of the founder of Western monasticism. That choice reflects his preoccupation with Europe's Christian roots and his concern for its re-evangelization. His successor will have to steer the church through the demographic transition of decline in Europe and North America and growth in the global South. The next pope could well be African or Latin American. The Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has already laid down odds for the various papabili, but the Spirit blows where it will.
Richard R. Gaillardetz
As the Catholic Church awaits the election of a new pope, we might pause to consider the ecclesiological significance of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation. As many have already suggested, the resignation itself is likely to constitute Benedict's greatest legacy, at least as pope.
When Benedict became pope in 2005, it was commonly assumed that his would be a pontificate in substantial continuity with that of his predecessor. The assumption was understandable given the dominant role Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had played as prefect of the CDF throughout much of John Paul II's pontificate. Any difference between the two pontificates, it was thought, would be subtle—more a matter of style than of substance. And certainly Benedict's style and taste were different from those of his predecessor. When it came to the liturgy, for example, John Paul was far more open to inculturation, while Benedict preferred a more somber and traditional approach, one deeply influenced by his Bavarian piety. In retrospect, however, it was Benedict's vision of the papacy itself that marked his most profound departure from his predecessor.
A charismatic figure comfortable on the public stage, John Paul II took full advantage of the symbolic power of the papacy in a media age. Even though he wrote more pages of ecclesiastical text than any pope in history, for many of us his pontificate was reflected less in his papal teaching than in a series of symbolic events: his meeting with leaders of world religions to pray for peace in Assisi, his prayer with the chief rabbi at the synagogue in Rome, the joint recitation with the ecumenical patriarch of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed in Greek (excluding the filioque!). All of us can call to mind photos of John Paul II praying in a room with his would-be assassin, kissing the ground of a country he was visiting for the first time, wagging his finger at Ernesto Cardenal during a visit to Nicaragua, and, finally, hunched over in a tableau of pain and physical incapacity during his final days.
Pope Benedict, the introverted theologian-pope, demonstrated little of his predecessor's aptitude for the compelling image. This was more than a difference in personality; Benedict had a more circumscribed view of the papacy from the very beginning. John Paul II saw his papacy as providential, even more so after the attempted assassination: he was convinced that the Blessed Mother had averted his death. He explicitly rejected the possibility of resignation as an unconscionable repudiation of his divine calling. By contrast, long before his election Ratzinger had frankly admitted that the Holy Spirit could be said to have only a limited and indirect role in the choice of a pope. He wryly noted that there had been too may popes who clearly were not the choice of the Spirit.
Benedict's resignation is consistent with this more modest view of the papacy. He understands well what was too often forgotten over the course of the second millennium—namely, that a pope is pope only because he is bishop of the local church of Rome. Consequently, a papal resignation is, in principal, no different from any bishop's resignation or retirement from office. Benedict's resignation can be understood as a salutary reminder that the papacy is essentially an episcopal office, not a personal apotheosis.
But there is more that can be gleaned from his decision. Benedict resigned because his declining health meant that he could no longer fulfill the obligations of his office. Catholic teaching holds that all bishops—and in a preeminent way the bishop of Rome—are given the assistance of the Holy Spirit for the exercise of their office. Benedict's decision reflects a healthy theological anthropology, one according to which the assistance of the Holy Spirit is mediated in and through our human capabilities. As such, it is also inhibited by our human frailties and failings. The Holy Spirit's assistance does not simply override the diminishment of our created human capacities. Of course the applicability of this insight can be extended beyond the question of physical infirmity. The assistance of the Holy Spirit also does not magically overcome ignorance, an obstinate refusal to give proper attention to a difficult pastoral or doctrinal issue, or a failure to consult the wisdom of others
Finally, Benedict's resignation invites a further question. Is the papacy, as currently configured, simply more than one person can handle? Even many who have been ideologically disposed to both Benedict and his predecessor have acknowledged dangerous blind spots in their administration of the church. John Paul II could not accept the obvious culpability of Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, who had been credibly accused of sexually abusing young boys and apparently fathered several children. Indeed, John Paul II harbored an uncritical enthusiasm for a wide array of new lay movements such as Opus Dei, the Neocatechumenal Way, Focolare, and Communion and Liberation. For his part, Benedict XVI made a series of blunders in public statements on Islam, condoms, clerical sexual abuse, and other topics. Eager to heal the schism with the Society of Pius X, Benedict prematurely removed the excommunications of four schismatic bishops, including one who had made outrageous anti-Semitic statements. Neither pope was known for particularly shrewd episcopal appointments, and many of those made by John Paul II were simply abysmal. Neither showed any interest in, or aptitude for, the administration or reform of the Vatican's bureaucracy.
Given the character of a global church with well over a billion members, Benedict's resignation invites us to consider whether it is time to reverse the centralization of papal authority that began in the early nineteenth century. At Vatican II, the church made a substantial effort to reverse the universalist ecclesiology of the preconciliar period and to recover an ancient understanding of the church as a communio ecclesiarum—a communion of churches. Local churches were no longer to be viewed as mere branch offices of a transnational organization; they were the church of Jesus Christ in that place. Bishops, it followed, were not vicars of the pope but the ordinary pastors of those churches. The council further recognized that all the bishops, as members of a college of which the bishop of Rome is both head and member, shared leadership responsibility for the universal church.
At the council, many bishops had discovered the value of meeting with brother bishops from the same region, and this sparked new interest in episcopal conferences as real, if only partial, expressions of episcopal collegiality. A number of council fathers enthusiastically supported the creation of a standing synod of bishops, of the kind common in Eastern Christianity, as a means of allowing bishops to share with the pope the exercise of universal pastoral leadership. But in a markedly uncollegial move, Pope Paul VI acted on his own authority, while the council was still in session, to create a synod of bishops that was a cheap facsimile of what the council fathers had envisioned. Instead of a standing synod exercising deliberative authority, the synod Pope Paul created was merely consultative and would meet only occasionally.
In the first decades after the council, episcopal conferences bore much fruit as an expression of collegiality. However, leading figures in the Roman Curia, including Cardinal Ratzinger, would soon challenge their status, leading eventually to the apostolic letter of Pope John Paul II, Apostolos suos, which dramatically restricted the conferences' authority.
Is it time to unburden the papacy by applying the principle of subsidiarity to the church? If so, then we might consider revivifying intermediate structures of authority, including those of metropolitans, new patriarchates (a possibility once championed by Ratzinger himself), and episcopal conferences, all functioning at levels between the papacy and the local diocese. Do we need to admit that the current authority granted to the curia is inherently dysfunctional and fundamentally at odds with the council's teaching on episcopal collegiality? If so, would we do better to redirect much of the authority currently residing in the curia toward a properly episcopal structure such as a standing synod? Finally, in light of Pope Benedict's honest and courageous action, we must ask ourselves whether there is something to learn from a more ancient time in the church when the pope was not so much the vicar of Christ as the vicar of Peter; not chief theologian, but court of final appeal; not monarch, but pontifex—literally, bridge-builder.
John Wilson
My mother was still very much herself when she turned eighty-five—in possession of her "faculties," as the characters in Muriel Spark's Memento Mori say. Within a few months, though, that began to change, and month by month dementia tightened its grip on her.
When I heard the news about Benedict, I was finishing a book by J. I. Packer (whom I greatly admire), Puritan Portraits. I had been reading about Richard Baxter and the "good death": the notion that, in dying, a faithful Christian should demonstrate the authenticity of his faith. I thought about my mother—who was ninety years old last December—and other faithful Christians I have known whose minds have been broken long before they died. God has promised that he will never abandon his children, and I believe him. But he has not promised us a "good death."
In stepping down from the papacy, Benedict acknowledged his frailty. He did not elaborate, and there was no need for him to do so—nor for us to speculate. The church he has served with great devotion will elect a new pope. As with his predecessor, John Paul II, there has been a tendency, both among Benedict's hagiographers and among the church's fiercest critics, to credit him with an influence far exceeding what he has done or could possibly have done. Benedict himself knows better.
From my standpoint as an evangelical Protestant who has gained much from the Catholic tradition, and from Benedict in particular, I am baffled by the criticism of his decision from writers I respect (including, not least, my dear friend Jody Bottum in the Weekly Standard). The notion, for example, that the existence of a former pope (devoting himself to prayer and reflection) might well pose a serious threat to the administration of his successor sounds like something from The Daily Show.
Before long, of course, attention will shift from Benedict to the upcoming papal conclave. I have no idea who the next pope will be. He will inherit a terrible mess—and a powerful witness to the God who created the universe and sustains it, the God who promises the restoration of all things: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The Roman Catholic Church is in desperate need of reform. So too the Orthodox Church, and evangelicalism, and what used to be called "the mainline," and Pentecostalism...and so it has always been, from the first century on.
I don't write that blithely, as if (for instance) the scandal of abuse perpetrated by priests and covered up by their superiors is to be waved away or somehow cancelled out by reference to the long history of egregious wrongdoing that all honest Christians must own up to. But if what we say when we join our voices in the Apostles' Creed is anything like the truth, there is a lot more to the story.
Mary C. Boys
In early January a beloved friend of mine died. A serious student of Vatican II, she was a passionate advocate for women's voices in the church. The night I received word of her death, a phrase came to me in a dream: "strategic perseverance." When I awoke, those two words, which I had never before juxtaposed, stayed with me. I regard them as my friend's wise counsel, particularly with regard to living in the Roman Catholic Church today.
For my part I persevere in the Catholic tradition because that tradition is rich, deep, and broad; I am edified by its spirituality and sacramental life, including the witness of so many who walk the Way of Jesus. I persevere, because the Petrine ministry is vital for the unity of the church. Yet one must be strategic in dealing with a ministry exercised as an absolute monarchy governed exclusively by men—one moreover, that, in too often exercising its authority in a punitive manner, alienates those it judges. Strategic, because working in the interreligious realm and belonging to a woman's religious community in the United States today requires us to be, in the words of Matthew 10:6, "wise as serpents and harmless as doves."
That "strategic perseverance" has become my watchword offers a hint of my mixed feelings about Pope Benedict XVI. The promulgation of Dominus Iesus in 2000, when the future Benedict was the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, foreshadowed his complicated legacy in ecumenical and interreligious relations. Authoritarian in tone, that declaration surveyed the religious landscape from a position of omniscience. Subsequently, as pope, Benedict ignited controversy with a poorly articulated claim about Islam in a lecture at the University of Regensburg in September 2006. A month later, when thirty-eight Muslim religious authorities and scholars issued an "Open Letter to the Pope," Benedict showed openness to their response, and his visit to the Blue Mosque in Istanbul in November 2006 partly quelled the protest. On the first anniversary of the open letter, 138 Muslim religious leaders published A Common Word between Us and You, and the numerous conferences that followed in its wake have included Vatican involvement.
In the sphere of Catholic-Jewish relations, Benedict committed himself to honoring the remarkable legacy of his predecessor, indicating in an address in June 2005 his resolve to "continue on the path of improving relations" with Jews. Yet he has been less successful in striking the right dialogical tone. His May 2009 visit to Israel notably failed to escape the shadow of John Paul II's memorable visit there in 2003. Like John Paul before him, Benedict gave an address in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to victims of the Holocaust—a speech that was dispassionate and detached, in stark contrast to his predecessor's personal, even visceral address.
More unsettling was Benedict's lack of candor with regard to the church's role in the Holocaust. In Israel, he spoke of the brutal extermination of Jews "by a godless regime that propagated an ideology of antisemitism and hatred." Such phrases—"the Nazi reign of terror," an "insane racist ideology, born of neo-paganism"—typify Benedict's characterization of the Holocaust. Rarely does he admit to any degree of ecclesial complicity; and when he does, he seriously understates it, via such contorted formulations as "it cannot be denied that a certain insufficient resistance to this atrocity on the part of Christians can be explained by the inherited anti-Judaism in the hearts of not a few Christians." The failure to grapple with disturbing truths about the church in relation to the Holocaust, together with his pursuing the canonization of Pope Pius XII, suggest a reluctance to gaze into the tarnished mirror of history.
Benedict's patient pursuit of reconciliation with the Society of St. Pius X and other traditionalist groups has also complicated relations with Jews—most notoriously in his removal of the ban of excommunication from the Lefebvrist Bishop Richard Williamson, whose denial of the Holocaust (and misogynistic social views) were apparently unknown to the pope. More consequential was the prayer for Jews Benedict composed for the Good Friday liturgy in the Tridentine Rite. Released in February 2008 under the title "Pro Conversione Iudaeorum," it petitioned Jews to acknowledge Jesus as the savior of all. Given the church's long history of denigrating Judaism, particularly the Good Friday prayer for the "perfidious" Jews from the Roman Missal of 1570 that prevailed until 1960, the pope's formulation was seen as contentious. Cardinal Walter Kasper, then President of the Pontifical Council for Religious Relations with the Jews, intervened in the ensuing controversy to argue for an eschatological interpretation. While Kasper's intervention alleviated some of the tension, the reality remains that the Catholic Church now sanctions two versions—the 1970 prayer in the Roman Missal and the pope's composition for the Tridentine Rite—that are at theological odds.
If Benedict's papacy is ambiguous in its relations with Jews, its treatment of American women's religious congregations reflects a more coherent—and hostile—posture. Two investigations were initiated under Benedict's watch: the "Apostolic Visitation" of religious institutes in the United States, launched in 2008 under the auspices of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life with the stated purpose of assessing the "quality of life" in these congregations; and the doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The result of the visitation, although completed in January 2012, has yet to be announced. The outcome of the doctrinal assessment, meanwhile, was announced last April. In it the CDF accused the LCWR of advocating "radical theses incompatible with the Catholic faith," and of advocating for economic justice, while insufficiently supporting magisterial teaching against homosexuality and abortion. The CDF appointed Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain to supervise changes in the LCWR's statutes, programs, and affiliations in order to align them more closely with the church's "teachings and discipline."
Personally, I view these investigations as disturbing and deeply ironic symbols of a dysfunctional church. It should be noted that some of the Vatican officials who championed the investigations are among those most complicit in the sexual-abuse scandal. But more fundamentally disheartening is the revelation that the church that champions human rights across the globe denies them to those members it deems deviant. Externally, the church expresses a commitment to dialogue with the religious other. Internally, however, no such commitment is evident. In Benedict's eyes women religious apparently are not capable of being dialogue partners; rather, we are treated like children, told what to think and how to behave.
The bitter irony is that in diversifying their programs, mission, and way of living in the world, women have merely obeyed what was asked of us. In the early 1960s the Belgian Cardinal Léon-Joseph Suenens urged that women's religious congregations utilize their "latent capacities" and enlarge their vocation by opening new dimensions. In his influential 1963 book The Nun in the Modern World, Suenens observed that women religious "[appear] to the faithful to be out of touch with the world as it is, an anachronism." Women religious, he recommended, must jettison outdated customs and costumes and "continually adapt to the demands of the moment." In October 1965 Vatican II issued Perfectae caritatis, the Decree on the Renewal of Religious Life, recommending that religious communities examine the "manner of life, of prayer, and of work" and see to it that "their members have a proper understanding of the conditions of the times and the needs of the church" in order to "help humanity more effectively."
And so we did. Contrary to hierarchs who charge that we have been misled by "radical feminism," we have in fact been led by our experiences among those with whom we live and work—people whose lives may be at variance with official teachings, yet who nonetheless strive to live with integrity and love of neighbor. As Sr. Margaret A. Farley said in regard to her book Just Love—a book harshly denounced by the CDF—"I wrote it because people are suffering." It is dismaying to have to point out to those hierarchs (or to any alert Christian) that the process of entering into the experience of suffering people opens new perspectives. The truth is that women religious did not set out to challenge church doctrine or governance; much more simply, our experiences have affected us, giving us new lenses on the world. We have learned more than we can bear about the unspeakable violence done to women worldwide through rape, sex trafficking, "honor" killings, and acid attacks. And we are faulted for not being more outspoken against contraception?
When the cardinal electors meet in the Sistine Chapel, will they elect a pope with sympathy for women's experiences in and outside the church? Likely not. That is why I'm keeping in mind the counsel that St. Vincent de Paul gave to his Daughters of Charity: to act in the church with "holy cunning." And to that I will add, thanks to my late friend, that we must act with "strategic perseverance" as well.
Peter Jeffery
It may be the last time a surprise is announced in Latin. But as soon as I heard about the pope's unexpected retirement, the conspiracy theories were not far behind. Was he bailing out one step ahead of a whole new scandal? Was this some sinister plot to appoint his own successor? Scarier still were reports that canon law requires a resigning pope to be of sound mind and acting freely. So a pope of unsound mind can't resign or be forced out? Then lightning struck St. Peter's.
Doubtless there have been medical issues we hadn't heard about, but I think it's obvious why Benedict XVI is retiring. It was he, as Cardinal Ratzinger, who labored to hold the Vatican together during the long, slow decline of John Paul II, so differently chronicled in Stanislaw Dziwisz's Let Me Go to the Father's House and John Cornwell's The Pontiff in Winter. Back then, rumors were rife about Vatican factions pushing pet causes and jockeying for advantage in the next papal election. It was said that John Paul had met with the archbishop of Canterbury without knowing who he was. It was rumored that a secret cabal of curial cardinals was planning to keep John Paul in a permanent vegetative state, so they could indefinitely issue encyclicals in his name—brain-dead but still infallible. There were jokes about John Paul's successor taking the name George Ringo, in a dramatic gesture to world youth. Even Ratzinger's election failed to stop it all: the secrets his butler got in trouble for revealing were partly about people positioning their cronies for the conclave that is now upon us. Clearly our Holy Father was right to spare the church another long decline. Better to get out of the way so a younger pope can fully take charge.
But what sort of pope will we get? The American liberal media thinks it has already figured that one out. Coverage on CNN and the in New York Times tends to strike a note of pessimism: Don't get your hopes up for a pope who will endorse the Democratic Party's social platform—all the cardinal electors were appointed by the last two popes, and will surely continue the same old tired agendas. For once, the folks at Fox News hope the Times is right.
I don't believe that terms derived from politics, like "liberal" and "conservative," offer the best vocabulary for talking about tensions in the church. And I don't believe we can predict the new pope's policies on such issues as Vatican finances, women in the church, the pedophilia cover-up. Half the popes I lived through were surprises: John XXIII, John Paul I and II. When the man some people had called "God's Rottweiler" was elected Benedict XVI, lots of Catholics on both sides thought they could hear the knives being sharpened for a long-anticipated bloodbath. What we got instead was an encyclical called "God Is Love." I am eager to be surprised again.
Still there are some things I think we can safely predict about the next pope. First, he will probably be the first pope ordained as a priest in the Vatican II era. He won't remember the preconciliar church, and may not even know Latin. That, frankly, worries me. There's way too much amnesia already. Our disputes about liturgy, models of leadership, the church's role in society would be far less painful if the most vocal partisans on every side knew more history. We need a "hermeneutic of continuity" now more than ever before. You can't know who you are if you don't know who you were.
On the other hand, the new pope will have grown up in a church that has always wrestled with the challenges of ecumenism, modern culture, liturgical renewal, the vocation shortage. He will know that these things are not temporary detours on our way home to the golden age: they are where we live now, and where he has lived all along. I don't know what vision he will offer of where we need to go, but I am hopeful he will recognize that we need to do some regrouping and reshuffling to face our challenges head on.
The next pope will take office in the middle of the Year of Faith, which is dedicated to promoting the New Evangelization. Despite some reported wistfulness about a smaller and purer church, Pope Benedict recognizes that, by definition, no church-of-the-few could ever be the Catholic Church. Smaller and fewer is what we're getting, though, as historic European edifices empty out, ancient communities flee the Middle East, Latin America goes Pentecostal. Rather than accept this shrinkage with relief or resignation, the pope's response has been to call back the lost sheep with a New Evangelization.
What exactly is a "New Evangelization"? Probably the best guide would be the documents generated by the Synod of Bishops that opened the Year of Faith. Unfortunately the most important of them are available only in unofficial translations, since the official Latin texts are confidential. That is because the synod since its inception has had only "the function of providing information and offering advice" to the pope, who may or may not use the synod's report to compose an Apostolic Exhortation. Benedict himself, in the homily at the opening Eucharist, said the New Evangelization was aimed "principally at those who, though baptized, have drifted away from the church and live without reference to the Christian life." One could see this as an unrealistic, even reactionary desire to somehow reverse the recent history of formerly Catholic countries. But rather than giving him a political label, I would say Pope Benedict is the kind of Catholic who sees particularly clearly the immutable, transcendent Truth to which all of us need to conform ourselves—the Christ who, when lifted up, draws all people to himself. The Catholics who don't feel drawn to his kind of leadership tend to be those who see more clearly the immanent truth hidden in creation, the Spirit who blows like the wind, the Son of Man who emptied himself, taking the form of a slave. The New Evangelization should draw these perspectives back together in a kind of binocular vision, revealing the one Truth as a unity of wholeness, not a unity of exclusion.
Indeed, the unofficial "Final List of Propositions" published on the Vatican website is no jeremiad about rescuing a sinking Europe. Inculturation is one of the first things they mention. Globalization is paired with secularism as "challenges of our time." The church should "welcome migrants and promote their human dignity," recognize the charisms and "dynamism of the new ecclesiastical movements and new communities," "be present in all fields of art." The bishops also recommend "greater attention to the church's social doctrine," rendering liturgical celebrations "relevant to the urban context" of city life, "changes in the dynamics of pastoral structures which no longer respond to the evangelical demands of the current time." "The preferential option for the poor" means that "they are both recipients and actors in the New Evangelization." And "the synod acknowledges that today, women (lay and religious) together with men contribute to theological reflection at all levels and share pastoral responsibilities in new ways."
One of the next pope's responsibilities will be to decide what to do with the synod's propositions; he could do a lot more than write another Apostolic Exhortation. And, given the challenges of evangelizing a world that is more interconnected and complicated than ever, he will need all the help he can get. We should take seriously what Benedict's resignation statement had to say about the burdens of being pope "in today's world."
This brings me to the last prediction I feel I can make with certainty: The next pope won't be me. But, just for the sake of discussion, I'll tell you what I would do. The first thing I would do is deliver the traditional blessing of the crowd assembled in St. Peter's Square. The second thing I would do is announce the theme for the next Synod of Bishops. They are to begin discussing how to shape a transitional process for making the synod itself a more deliberative and legislative body, which will operate in union with the national episcopal conferences and St. Peter's successor. This would help fulfill the desire Pope Paul VI expressed in the synod's founding document, "for a continuance after the council of the great abundance of benefits that We have been so happy to see flow to the Christian people...as a result of Our close collaboration with the bishops." And it would confirm his observation that "This synod...like all human institutions, can be improved upon with the passing of time." John Paul's and Benedict's appointees do not all think alike, and the worldwide pastoral experience of all the bishops will be crucial in addressing every problem we face now. When the Spirit speaks to the church, we should listen with all ears.
About the Author
William L. Portier is the Mary Ann Spearin Chair of Catholic Theology at the University of Dayton.
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Let's see, a Year of Faith but all the recommendations from the bishops' synod are kept secret because we are waiting for a pope to write an 'Exhortation?' What mideaval monastery did that notion come from? Peter, the first leader/pope was not a great writer nor steeped in arcane mystery of fanciful liturgy. He was plain spoken and relatively uneducated. What a contrast! Our next pope should spend some time fishing.
You seem to have missed a lot of what we got with Benedict. It was much more than an encyclical on love. He continued the roll-back on Vatican II and established an unprecedented extraordinary form in the liturgy to satisfy his conservative urges and those of his minions. Along with that we got more bishops and cardinals decked out in ermine and the cappa magna, along with fiddle backs and high miters. We got Anglicans who are anti-women and anti-gay. We got a ridiculous and extended attempt to bring the sede vacantists like SSPX back into the fold. We got a dreadful English translation of the Mass. We got a huge slap down of women religious, the ones who truly witness to the Gospel. We got even less collegiality than under JP II. Were you asleep during his papacy?
This article does not provide anything new, interesting or positive! Where is the Holy Spirit and faith behind this? All od these sarcastic remarks about suffering, deeply religious, intelectual and very well educated two former popes are quite disgusting. I really hope the next pope will be again a big surprise and that he will not be the author of this artcle.
Bravo, Peter Jeffrey! What rock have your commentators crawled out from under? Peter not steeped in arcane, fanciful liturgy? He was a synagogue-attending Jew, for God's sake, steeped in Jewish ritual, whether or not he could actually read Hebrew! Benedict and his "minions" in their fiddle-backs, rolling back the reforms of Vatican II? I'm reminded of John Paul I of unhappy memory: he said Vatican I has its supporters, and so too does Vatican III, but poor Vatican II has so few supporters! Ms. Kaminska, I'm not qualified to discern the Holy Spirit in Peter Jeffrey's column, but neither are you. I'm with you, Peter Jeffrey! I too long to be surprised. Good, solid, thoughtful column. I'm kinda sorry (tee, hee, little joke here) you've taken yourself out of the running for Pope.
"The Catholics who don't feel drawn to his kind of leadership tend to be those who see more clearly the immanent truth hidden in creation, the Spirit who blows like the wind, the Son of Man who emptied himself, taking the form of a slave. The New Evangelization should draw these perspectives back together in a kind of binocular vision, revealing the one Truth as a unity of wholeness, not a unity of exclusion."
Great view, but...even if the Synod had shared this view we wouldn't know because we are not allowed to have access to their writings. So how would having another Synod be a step towards this vision, and even if it was we might never know and their suggestions could be completely rejected by the pope.
What we need is a Synod that actually has a shared authority. It's time the Vatican show us how messy the pursuit of Truth really is. And it's time for Catholics to realise that papal pronouncements are not equivalent to the voice of God.
"When the Spirit speaks to the church, we should listen with all ears." When the Spirit speaks, the Spirit will speak with one voice, one message and indeed all must listen as those who attend Mass proclaim "I believe in One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church." Unfortunately there are many who will still believe that their own subjective conscience trumps the the Spirit's voice on beliefs and teachings on significant matters of Faith and morals and these should be modified or subjected to the secular mores of the times.
I doubt that the Holy Spirit speaks about the accidentals (in more ways than one!) of church structure.
To quote Frank Bruni from today's New York Times:
"And while it may be impossible to guess whether the next pope will come from Europe or Latin America or even Africa, it's almost certain that he will abide and maintain the church's opaqueness, preserve the current requirements of the priesthood, stay the course.
And many hopeful, hurting Catholics will be left where they were under Benedict: with a faith whose essence warms them, but whose formal administration leaves them cold."
To Peter Jeffery: forget about unity until the present theological idiots on all sides wil dissapear, probably yourself also (i smell in your article). The proof: I tried to ridicule on Huffingston Post the present official stand of: a) the present Pope on Eucharist, b) The Protestant Congregation of Churches: on Sola Scriptura and "to be saved by "faith", c) Jews: on childish literall reading of OT, d) Hinduism on "reincarantion". No, free press will not allow you to do i!
The main proof: Benedict xvi made a right decision in the light of his last, Jesus's Infancy-very childish! Have you sent rebuke to him as me (on Twitter)? Is a proper for the Leader do not know Scripture and Church documents on it like Verbum Dei of Vat II, CAtechsim nr.110, Fides et Ratio, 1998 and of cours one sentenc of Bible, Mark 3:21 undermines totaly his biblical fancies! How many theologians revealed this except me?
I see kids discussing on the problem.
ps.US religious- you are and wiil be more totalitarian than even your critized men, Popes. Your hidden unspoken goals are obvious for anyone with Aristotelian brain. If someone confronts you at your university you destroy him/her not in intellectual arguments but by administrative power- you [email protected]!
Please Peter Jeffery, don't rush to take your name off the list of "papable" people. In the eyes of this 85 year old Catholic, the only really feasible road to move out of the "holy mess" in which we the Church are presently floundering is to get somebody in as pope who has enough intestinal fortitude to go back and pick up where we were at the end of our Second Vatican Council.
There the Church has already spoken. Of the 4 pos-Vat. II popes: one tried to move out-- and he woke up dead in bed. The other 3 popes worked at castrating our council, each with his own particular knife.
I might suggest that if we really wanted a "change of course" in today's floundering "Bark of Peter", let's just have the Holy Spirit find us a new pope willing to accept as his motto on his masthead and in his mind and heart: "HONOR OUR SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL WITH ALL MY HEART AND MIND EVEN UNTO DEATH."
And as you mention so well, Peter, the first step would be to decentralize authority from the Vatican just as was projected by Vatican II.
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I hadn't read these comments before I blogged this morning http://puptrax.blogspot.com/2013/03/morning-has-broken-like-new-morning..... I can see from what they say that it was better that way.
Back home in the pews and choir loft, I see little change to the Mass other than the new English translation, whose success may be measured by the fact that some still stumble over the words, including clergy, and some still say the old words.
But then I am old and I would like to go back less decades than some. And I am in a diocese that has grown, is growing, and just got another aux. bishop, in spite of the loss of large numbers of Hispanics who have returned, mostly voluntarily, to their home countries.
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In Germany, I hear a lot of jokes containing "Deine Mudda", but I don't understand them. What does this mean and what kind of jokes are containing them?
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Joking viciously about your mother is an indirect way to insult you: if your mother is so bad, you seem to be even worse.
The typical jokes include some negative comparisons of smb's mother with some illustrative example, following the form "`Deine Mudda ist so ... dass sie (sogar) ...". Those comparisons are usually very funny and make the overall joke sound not so dirty or insulting, but rather eliciting some laughing and smiling.
For example:
Your mother is so fat that she is sitting while she is standing.
You mother is so fat that when she stands on the scales it shows her cellular phone number.
Your mother is so fat that when she was lying on a beach Greenpeace threw her into the water.
Your mother is so silly that she goes to the left in Mario.
These jokes are also common in English (and probably originate from English language), but are rather limited to the mother being fat. Here are some examples:
In addition to Alexander's answer, I would like to add that simply replying "Deine Mudda!" means something like "Get lost!". Of course, as with all youth slang, usage probably varies highly by region and even social circle.
This is shortened from a form of exchange often seen among adolescents:
This means something along the lines of "Yes, I understand; don't bother me!" (Or "I disagree with your statement"). It is obviously not a nice thing to say, but often used as a form of bantering among friends.
There are some regional variants. In bavaria, for instance, I've heard the variant "Dei' Mudda", which is "Deine Mutter" in bavarian dialect.
"Deine Mudda", pronounced like Hamburg slang, is used nationwide, though, probably popularized by hip-hop artists. There is a big and influential hip-hop scene in Hamburg. Of note, there was a 1999 Single by Hamburg hip-hop stars Fünf Sterne Deluxe named "Ja, ja... deine Mudder" which reached position 38 in the german single charts. The record label was called "Yo Mama Records"...

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After first falling to Free State 25-22, 25-22, the Lady Lions bounced back against Topeka Seaman for a 21-25, 25-22, 25-22 victory. The win capped off a night where the team played well according to coach Rhonda Lang.
"We played great in both games and just happen to lose two tough sets in that first match," Lang said. "But they still battled and I really feel like it was a good performance by the girls."
Against Free State, Amanda Dalbey stood out with four kills for Lansing while Lang highlighted the blocking prowess of Charlotte Moe and Kelsie Pitsenbarger versus Seaman.
Lansing, 2-2, will host Mill Valley and Blue Valley Thursday at 5 p.m.
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That's the preliminary finding. But Rick Huhn, chief of Leavenworth Fire District No. 1, said the fire is still under investigation.
The fire was reported at 1:43 a.m. today at 318 Fawn Valley Court. No injuries were reported.
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If I see port 25 is open, but I dont have access to the program running the smtp server, could It be flooded with enough information to make it unusable (but not affect any other services)?
You could make the program behind the port unusable. If the given program handles the DoS so badly that it actually fully crashes and thus dies, the program will give up the port, and the OS will reclaim it after a moment or two. After that, it's available for use for any application running on the machine. Assuming it has the right priviledge to use that port and so forth.
Opened or Listening Port means a service working and listening to this port(s) in order to do something.
Like Web server, it's listening on port 80 which mean a particular service listens to this port
to stop the port you have to stop the service it self. You can stop the service by kill its process or Attack it by DoS (if it's vulnerable) or DDoS by flooding this service.
I asked this question without a good understanding of ports, however, I now do.
A port is not a fixed bandwidth like a usb plug or cat5 connection, just a way to tell the kernel what application is to be reached.
It is therefor not possible to flood a specific port and prevent access to only that port in the way ddos does to an entire server


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Satilla River Flathead Catfish Project
Project Description
The Satilla River historically has been one of the premier sunfish angling destinations in Georgia, with redbreast sunfish being one of the most sought after species. Monitoring efforts, such as tagging and sampling, are critical to the proper management of the flathead population and the recovery of the redbreast sunfish.
Modeling studies in other states indicate that high exploitation or removal of flathead catfish may provide an avenue for the recovery of native fish populations. The current removal method is electro-fishing equipment. This equipment generates a low frequency electrical current in the water, stunning the fish which float to the surface.
Tagging and Removal
From March through April of 2007, 471 flathead catfish were caught using electro-fishing methods and tagged with a 3-inch long bright orange anchor tag. Similar efforts were repeated in 2008, and between March and May, 96 flatheads were caught and tagged.
These tagging studies were used to obtain baseline information (such as movement, population size, total mortality and fishing mortality) on the Satilla River flathead catfish population. Gathering data on the effect of catfish removal and fishing mortality on the population each year will help biologists gain a better understanding for the amount of effort required to suppress the flathead population while biological and/or genetic controls are developed.
Anglers are still asked to report any fish caught with a tag by any of the following methods: mailing or hand-delivering the tag to the Wildlife Resources Division Fisheries Management office located in Waycross (P.O. Box 2089/108 Darling Avenue, Waycross, GA 31502). Anglers should include their name, address, phone number(s), date of catch, catch location (GPS coordinates if possible or local landmarks, etc.), fish length, fish weight and whether the fish was harvested or released (preferably harvested).
In 2007, a total of 4.399 flathead catfish (25,357 pounds) were removed from the Satilla River. Fifty-three percent of previously tagged fish were recaptured and removed from the 2007 tagging study. Results from the 2007 tagging study indicated an exploitation estimate (fishing mortality) of .526 or 53 percent, a total annual mortality of 37 percent calculated from the otoliths of 484 catfish, and a 40-52 percent reduction in the flathead population as indicated by depletion models. Biologists conclude that the range of different mortality estimates calculated for the 2007 removal ranged from 37-53 percent.
In 2008, a total of 3,285 flatheads (9,398 pounds) were removed from the Satilla River. Similarly to 2007, 50 percent of the previously tagged fish were recaptured and removed from the river in 2008. Results from the 2008 tagging study indicated an exploitation estimate (fishing mortality) of .5 or 50 percent.
Consecutive years of tagging (2007 and 2008) has revealed estimated fishing mortality rates of more than 50 percent each year. Biologists find this rate encouraging considering that past modeling estimates indicate significant declines in the size and numbers of Satilla River flathead catfish when fishing mortality rates are higher than 25 percent.
Because similar successful results were obtained for tagging in 2007 and 2008, tagging will not be conducted in the future and instead sampling efforts will focus solely on the removal aspect of the project. In 2009, a total of 5,788 flatheads (7,815 lb) were removed and in 2010, a total of 6,289 flatheads (11,101 lb) were removed from the Satilla River.
Since the implementation of the full-time flathead management program in April 2007, more than 53,671 pounds of flathead catfish (19,761 fish) have been removed from the river. The size structure of the flathead population has been affected with the average size fish removed dropping from 5.8 lb in 2007, to 2.9 lb in 2008, to 1.4 lb in 2009, but slightly increased to 1.8 lb in 2010. Biomass per effort show a similar trend and had also declined from 57.1 kg/hr in 2007, to 23.6 kg/hr in 2008, to 23.6 kg/hr in 2008 to 19.9 kg/hr in 2009, but increased to 31.1 kg/hr in 2010.
Maintenance control of flathead catfish in the Satilla River appears possible given our reported changes in the size structure and biomass of the population, but intense harvest needs to be maintained to prevent the flathead population from rebuilding, especially during high water years, where strong recruitment has been demonstrated by the introduced flathead population.
Other Options
The project's lead biologist has made efforts to look at other control methods, including genetic research that might yield a triploid (3 chromosome) flathead catfish. Introduction of this fish could potentially limit reproduction or reduce the genetic fitness of the population. However, additional research is necessary to determine the safety and effectiveness of this option.
Researchers with Auburn University have recently reported tremendous strides in artificially spawning triploid flatheads. Analysis revealed a 100 percent triploid induction rate. This research indicates that triploid flathead catfish can reliably be produced in a lab setting.
In the future, Division biologists are planning additional research, including possible future collaboration with Auburn University on the sexual reproduction of triploid flathead catfish.
Project Length
Monitoring efforts of the flathead catfish population and redbreast sunfish population will provide the best guideline. It is unknown how removal efforts will affect these fish populations over time. Therefore, the length of the project is undetermined at this time.
Sunfish Update
The Satilla River is a typical floodplain driven ecosystem. Large amounts of beneficial nutrients enter the system during high water periods.
Ancedotal fishing reports suggest that the redbreast sunfish has begun to make their comeback in the Satilla, but there simply has not been enough time for this population to recover. During the spring and summer of 2010, favorable water conditions (high water) for redbreast sunfish production have persisted on the Satilla. Such conditions combined with continued efforts to reduce the flathead catfish population will hopefully result in the redbreast sunfish population rebounding to historical levels throughout the entire river.
Spring standardized electro-fishing efforts in 2010 did reveal a large increase in the catch per effort of redbreast sunfish (88 fish per hour in 2009 compared to 208 fish per hour in 2010). Biologists caution that the majority of these fish were less than four inches in length and it is currently inconclusive as to whether or not these fish will survive to the desired harvestable size of 7-8 inches. This increase also may be due to flathead reduction, but other factors, such as water level and fishing effort may also have been an important influence on the increase of redbreast sunfish abundance.
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Athlete's foot (tinea pedis) is a fungal infection that usually begins between the toes. It occurs most commonly in people whose feet have become very sweaty while confined within tight-fitting shoes.
Signs and symptoms of athlete's foot include a scaly rash that usually causes itching, stinging and burning. Athlete's foot is contagious and can be spread via contaminated floors, towels or clothing.
Athlete's foot is closely related to other fungal infections such as ringworm and jock itch. It can be treated with over-the-counter antifungal medications, but the infection often recurs. Prescription medications also are available.
Athlete's foot usually causes a scaly red rash that typically begins in between the toes. Itching is often the worst right after you take off your shoes and socks. Some types of athlete's foot feature blisters or ulcers. The moccasin variety of athlete's feet causes chronic dryness and scaling on the soles that extends up the sides of the feet. It can be mistaken for eczema or even as dry skin.
The infection can affect one or both feet and can spread to your hand — especially if you scratch or pick at the infected parts of your feet.
If you have a rash on your foot that doesn't improve within a few weeks after self-treatment, see your doctor. Seek medical advice sooner if you have diabetes and suspect you have athlete's foot or if you notice excessive redness, swelling, drainage or fever.
Athlete's foot is caused by the same type of fungus that causes ringworm and jock itch. Damp socks and shoes and warm, humid conditions favor the organisms' growth.
Athlete's foot is contagious and can be spread by contact with an infected person or from contact with contaminated surfaces, such as towels, floors and shoes.
You are at higher risk of athlete's foot if you:
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When John Wycliffe's followers gained support from the common people, why did the church call them Lollards? What does Lollard mean? Why didn't they just call them Wycliffites?
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Lollard means: "From M[iddle] [Dutch] lollaerd, lit. 'mumbler, mutterer', f[rom] lollen to mutter, mumble".
This was a pejorative term to refer to a CLASS of people that held certain religious beliefs, as opposed to holders of the beliefs themselves. Specifically, it referred to "uneducated" Englishmen (in the traditional sense), who had never been trained in the "catechism" in Latin, and therefore were considered to have "no basis" for their beliefs. Hence the designation Lollards, or "mumblers."
Wycliffe HAD been trained in the traditional way, and chose to deviate. Calling his followers "Wycliffites" was considered "too kind," when most of them could be attacked on grounds of "ignorance," as opposed to merely the "unsoundness" of their beliefs.
The name was derived from lollium, a tare, but was used in Flanders early in the fourteenth century to refer to one as a "hypocrite". Others took it to mean "idlers" and connected it with to loll.
In the fourteenth century the word "lollard" was used to represent a number of terms. People who were identified as anti-clerical and wishing to disendow the Church, tenants of an unpopular abbey, or parishioners who refused to pay their tithes, would often be called Lollards as well as fanatics.
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Practice Philosophy
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Dr. Harvey's reputation in San Francisco is built on more than 25 years of excellence in his field. He is Chief of Staff at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital after having served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Chairman of Plastic Surgery. His warm manner and ability to work in tandem with his patients forges long standing relationships based on trust. Listed below are many of the procedures that Dr. Harvey provides.
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Board Certification
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Professional Background
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, Bachelor of Arts
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, Doctor of Medicine, including study at The London Hospital, University of London, London, England
Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI, Straight Surgery Internship and Residency in General Surgery
The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, New York, NY, Resident and Chief Resident in Plastic Surgery
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Master of Business Administration
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Instructor in Surgery, The Michigan State University School of Medicine
Instructor in Surgery, Cornell University Medical Center
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"Post-traumatic Sympathetic Dystrophy", Kleinert, Cole, Wayne, Harvey, Kutz, Atasoy, in Orthopedic Clinics of North America, October 1973
"Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin in Adolescence", Harvey, Chaglassian, Knapper, Goulian; in Journal of the American Medical Association, August 1977
"Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy", Robert A. Harvey, M.D., in Body Image, Self Esteem, and Sexuality in Cancer Patients, Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology, Volume 14,1980
"Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy", in The Karger Gazette, Number 40, April 1980
"A Plastic Surgeons Casebook", in Good Housekeeping Magazine, pages 45-48, Volume 206, Number 1, January 1988
"Dermabrasion: Its Uses and Alternatives", Chapter 2, in Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation Instructional Courses, Volume 2, Pages 20-43, C.V. Mosby and Company, Publishers
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Certificate of Advanced Education in Cosmetic Surgery, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Physicians Recognition Awards, American Medical Association
Deans Honor List, University of Notre Dame
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Hospital Affiliations
Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco, CA
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
Society Memberships
Memberships spanning a 25 year period:
American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
California Society of Plastic Surgeons
International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
Pan Pacific Surgical Association
American Medical Association
California Medical Association
San Francisco Medical Association
Offices Held
Co-Chair, Local Host Committee, California Society of Plastic Surgeons
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Lipoplasty Society of North America, 1989 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
International Relations Committee, The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Chair, Time and Place Committee, California Society of Plastic Surgeons
Chair, Time and Place Committee, The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Nominating Committee, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, The Lipoplasty Society
Chair, Awards Committee, The Aesthetic Society Education and Research Foundation
Judicial Council, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
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During your initial consultation, Dr. Harvey will take your medical history, take clinical photographs as needed, and recommend and discuss the procedures that are appropriate for you. You are welcome to look through a file of Before and After Photos. Financial information will be discussed including the many payment options available to you.
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Surgical Facility
All surgical procedures are performed at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital or at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Harvey has been on the staff of both institutions for more than 20 years and serves as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at St. Francis Hospital. Our staff will make all necessary arrangements for your admission and care while in the hospital. We are also happy to make arrangements for comfortable local accommodations for those patients who are coming from a distance.
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Our In-Office Skin Care Clinic is administered by Anne Elterman, a registered nurse with many years of experience in the aesthetic field.
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In a standard kayaking class, you're taught solo self-rescues using a paddle float and assisted rescues using another kayak. Then there are eskimo rolls. But I've also heard about other self-rescue techniques after a wet exit without a paddle float (ladder, cowboy, scamble). What options are there for kayak self-rescues without a paddle float or a friend, and in what conditions would each be used?
Being without a sold "roll", partner, or paddle float can make it quite challenging for a novice to re-enter their kayak after a capsize. However there are techniques which will make it easier to get back in your boat safely.
Note: All of these should first be practiced in mildly shallow water, in flat water. Don't practice in rough water until you can achieve these in flat water. However no self rescue can be called confident until you can reliably perform it in conditions rougher than you like to paddle in. You are most likely to capsize in rough conditions, not flat water, so work up to the challenging stuff. With a partner or group.
Second note: No amount of reading or self study is substitute for a good teacher, and practical experience. Don't think that because you read this article that you now are competent in self rescue. You can only get that from practice. Join a paddle club, and get face to face assistance.
Now that's out of the way...
From easiest to most challenging...
Note: All except the wet entrance and roll should be attempted with a partially empty boat. Do this by tipping the boat from the bow with your body weight and using a quick flip.
Ladder Crawl
Beginning from the back of the boat:
Side-entry without float
Re-entry and Roll
Note: This is a move usually only achievable by someone with a semi-consistent roll. Also, do not worry about the water in the cockpit unless it is completely full. Water can actually help, because the boat will sit lower in the water.
Next time paddle with a buddy, and a paddle float.
Please see these excellent videos
You can usually lay the paddle across the kayak as if you had a paddle float and use it for stability to climb in. It's not as stable as a paddle float, but it's better than nothing. If there is another kayaker with you, they can pull up along side you and hold the floatless end of your paddle on their cockpit.
You can also climb in over the side without anything for stability if you grab the far side of the cockpit and are careful.


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WEIRTON - Consumer bankruptcy filings may have leveled off, but an attorney who specializes in helping people get out of debt says too many people wait much too long before they look for help - and when they do, they don't always turn to the right place.
Attorney Roger Isla, who recently relocated to 3618 West St., said there are too many misconceptions about bankruptcy.
"A lot of what I do is try to educate the public about the dangers out there from people who are basically trying to rip them off," he said. "A lot of the debt settlement companies turn out to be fraudulent. For example, say you owe $30,000 in credit card debt and you go to a debt settlement company. They'll tell you they can settle your debts for $10,000, but they won't make any payments until you accumulate that much. Meanwhile, they're charging you a lot of money ... so all you did was give people your money, they took a fee for holding it and you still end up getting sued, it provides you no protection at all."
A bankruptcy attorney, on the other hand, is tasked with "going in and dealing with peoples' debts." A lot of times that means filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, which allows filers to reorganize their debt.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy is strictly for individuals and typically gives filers fiscal breathing space: Debtors don't have to pay all their debts back, "only as much as they're able to pay." For some that might mean 50 cents on the dollar, for others it might be more.
"There are certain tests to determine how much you can pay," he said. "One of the ironic things about bankruptcy is if you reorganize under Chapter 13, your standard of living often goes up. Most of the time, the credit card company has been dictating what you have to pay - if you have a lot of debt, you have to live on what's left over and sometimes that's not enough to buy proper clothing or food. So what ends up happening in reorganization is we form a budget that's reasonable, that has all the necessities (but) nothing extravagant, then you pay the difference to the credit card company. It turns the whole dynamic around."
Isla said he's had clients emerge from bankruptcy in two years "and pay 100 percent of their debt back, and I've had people in bankruptcy for five years and only pay back 5 percent," he said. "It just depends on individual circumstances.
"While you're in bankruptcy, nobody can sue you," he added. "You are protected by the bankruptcy code - that's a huge advantage. A debt settlement company often will give you legal advance but it's bad advice - they'll tell you don't pay any more money, pay them and they'll put it in an account for you and try and settle your debt. The problem is, by the time that happens, your debt's doubled because you haven't paid on it for three years."
Isla, too, says the general public tends to equate bankruptcy with failure, "and it's just not the case. The safety net exists for a reason. Sometimes people get in bad circumstances - they get divorced or lose their job or have a medical catastrophe.
"There's no shame in filing for bankruptcy," he adds. "The only shame is not looking (for help) and letting the credit card companies take advantage of it."
He said all too often, a bankruptcy attorney is the last place people look for help "but should be one of the first."
"People will take money out of their 401K, their IRAs, their pension plan to try and take care of debts when they could have kept all that and reorganized, then they could retire and not be paupers in retirement," he said. "People don't know it, but the government wants people to have a decent retirement, they don't want them to rely on Social Security."
Isla also handles domestic relations, criminal defense and personal injury cases.
"A lot of people have the misconception that they'll lose their house, their car, everything, but it's just not true," he said. "You can keep your house, you can keep your car as long as you can continue making payments on it. People are fearful, that's why a bankruptcy attorney is the last person they come to see. When they think bankruptcy, they think they'll be turned out with the clothes on their back, but the opposite is true - reorganization rehabilitates you and turns you back into a happy, productive member of society. I've had people tell me they wish they'd known it before they blew 25 years of savings in a (way) that wasn't going to help them."


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March 13, 2012
Novels have historically relied on their authors' biographies, but this type of writing was not formally identified until the mid-1970s when French author Serge Doubrovsky coined the term "Autofiction" to describe his novel Fils.
Thirty-five years after the publication of Doubrovsky's work, New York University's Center for French Civilization and Culture will host "Autofiction: Literature in France Today," April, 19-21, at NYU's Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science (100 Washington Square East/enter at 32 Waverly Place [between Washington Square East and Greene Street).
Doubrovsky, a professor in NYU's Department of French for 40 years, will deliver the conference's keynote address on Friday, April 20, 7-8:30 p.m. Other speakers include: Camille Laurens (In Those Arms); Francisco Goldman (Say Her Name); Catherine Millet (The Sexual Life of Catherine M); Catherine Cusset (The Story of Jane); and Philippe Forest (Sarinagara). For a complete schedule of sessions, click here.
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Autofiction is widely recognized as the most important and most interesting mode of writing in contemporary French literature. As the term implies, Autofiction combines two apparently contradictory concerns: autobiography and fiction. Authors depict aspects of their lives, usually using the first person singular, giving their real names to their narrators, modifying significant aspects of their lives or "characters," using fiction in the service of a search for self. Autofiction is principally practiced in France today, although writers in India, the U.S., Japan, Spain, Great Britain, Brazil, and other countries have used similar approaches.
The conference will consist of presentations in English by French and American writers of their work and concepts of writing, presentations by French and American critics of Autofiction in general and its relationship to fiction and to autobiography, and readings by the writers of short excerpts of their works. The conference's other speakers are: Michèle Bacholle-Bošković; Tom Bishop; Michel Contat; Isabell Grell; Siri Hustvedt; Daniel Mendelsohn; Rick Moody; Eugène Nicole; and Gisèle Sapiro.
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John Kerry casts his vote
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Kiss of death! Unless Kerry's delivering mega-bucks to Obama's campaign.
Amen! Voted for Kerry, appreciate some of his viewpoints, and reasonably like him, but I think he's come to symbolize another failed Democratic campaign and I wouldn't want him "reporting for duty" if I were Obama at this particular moment.
It's not exactly the kiss of death, unless he plans to campaign for Obama. Then it would be. I agree people don't want to revisit the past. All of the concern about the problems of race and gender make me think that the Democrats, and I am one of them, are really worried about losing because of votes changed in the voting booth where no one is looking. This applies to both Clinton and Obama because Clinton, unfortunately, has some excess baggage in addition to gender. Then if the Republicans take the advice of one of their own, David Brooks, and start paying attention to people earning less than $50,000 a year the election could be lost.
Sour grapes from Kerry who wants to run. Is he part of the change? The Times is reporting that other democratic Senators may be getting on the bandwagon along with Daschle who was early in. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/us/politics/10cnd-campaign.html?ex=135... how Obama is bringing all the old baggage in his quest for change. People are talking too much about Bill's adultery and Hillary's attitude toward it. Let's hope Obama will stop his identification with Kennedy and King, neither of whom were faithful to their wives.
Bill, are you in the employ of Hillary? It's OK, just say so. Anyway, I thought this was interesting: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/a-political... Andrew Sullivan's political-consultant reader is correct, Obama now has access to Kerry's voter file--and activists and supporter file.
Grant, besides my concern with the misogyny issue in this campaign I do see a stop Hilary movement among some powerful democrats. (The two may be related). How in the world does a relative newcomer raise all that money? Will Al Gore come out for Obama next? Secondly, how much of that data that Sullivan talks about is owned by the DNC?Further, you should know that, even though I am totally beholden to the mercy of God, I cannot be bought. One of my liabilities in my brief forays into politics.
I'm torn between two responses: Who Cares? and So What? Can someone help me with this dilemma?
What could be better than an endorsement from Kerry? A commercial of Michael Dukakis and Obama wearing helmets and riding around in a tank.
Bill M.: I don't think any women in Congress (House or Senate) have endorsed Hillary, have they? Is that misogyny?
Jean: Senator Clinton claims endorsement by almost 80 members of Congress, including Senators Cantwell, Feinstein, Mikulski, and Stabenow. I have no idea how much misogyny is involved.
Carolyn-Why is that a bad thing if Republicans "start paying attention to people earning less than $50,000"?
MATIt wouldn't be a bad thing for the Republicans because it would be the right thing for them to do morally speaking. David Brooks in his column the other day suggested that if the Republicans started to pay attention to the people earning under $50,000 a year they might win the election because they have the religious and family values voters already. Therefore, in my opinion would be a a bad thing for the Democrats, not for the Republicans or for the country. That is because I would like to see the Democrats win. But if the Republicans win having earned the vote of the people making under $50,000 a year, that would be better than having them win on their present economic platform.
William Phelps, thanks for that info. I will be visiting the Web sites of these legislators to see if they're publicly acknowledging the endorsements.I support women running for office in both parties. I certainly am grateful to Hillary for providing a female face in the line-up, and I'm happy to see she's been taken seriously. But supporting her right to run isn't the same as thinking she's the best candidate.Kerry's endorsement struck me as a move to prop up his own image as a progressive. Not that I'm cynical about him or anything.Carolyn, you have a very interesting idea there! Would you say that McCain's campaign finance reform bill was an effort to stop the fat cats from having undue influence over politics, and, thus, he could be said to be paying attention to those earning under $50K? McCain also supported an anti-torture measure, in part because he didn't want our troops to be subjected to torture. Since most of the people in the military come from the middle or working class, do you see that stand as one that pays attention to those $50K and lower folks?
As a draw for other voters, I think the Kerry endorsement is fairly useless. As a means of distracting the media from the Obama-lost-New-Hampshire-whatever-does-this-mean narrative, I think it's fairly priceless.
re Kerry endorsement:I thought Joe Klein on CNN was right: " a one day headline."
JeanYes to both questions. The greatest enemy the Democrats have now is overconfidence.
Carolyn, I hope overconfidence isn't a problem. With the elder statesmen, Dodd and Richardson gone, Clinton and Obama, in my view, look more like untested wildcards.I predict that Michigan will go overwhelmingly for John McCain, with Dems crossing over to avoid their votes going nowhere on the limited Dem ballot (Hillary is the only viable candidate on the ballot, your vote isn't counted if you write in, and party operators are advising us to vote "uncommitted").As a Democrat, I'm pretty torn. Some days, I'd prefer that a Republican be elected so that the party that's made some of messes (high deficit, mess in Iraq, growing unemployment and housing defaults, etc. etc.) have to clean them up. I'd say the Republican best qualified is McCain.Huckabee lost me entirely when he said that if people thought Social Security looked bad now, wait until a bunch of aging hippies retire and find out they can get free drugs. Sorry, Huck, that drug coverage ain't free, and half the elderly who qualify for it can hardly wend their way through the paperwork to get it. Buying a dime bag from your friendly, local supplier is probably still easier and cheaper.


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