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Do you need to vent about your family?
This is not a "Please help me solve this problem" question. This is a "I know there are things that I could do or say to make this better but I've tried and it hasn't work and it probably won't and I just need to vent somewhere that my family won't see this" question.
Okay, I feel better now.
I love my family. I'm not as close to my sister as I once was and I live in a different state than she does. And we do things differently, value things differently and believe differently about many things. And I'm glad we can get together for a while and I love playing with my nephews and joking with my brother-in-law and hanging out with my parents (who arrive later this afternoon) but why, oh why can't she accept my offers to help around the house and cook a Christmas Eve dinner that's not frozen lasagna and buy apples like Dad I and enjoy for lunch and tell us what she has planned for various days and, just, AAAAAAAAhhhhh!!!!
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I hear your pain. Finally asked sister in law NOT to come (too many issues to say) but still stuck with an 8 year old nephew who WILL be in jail someday.
Two DILs who refuse to really get along with everyone - just because. One really should be on some strong drugs but won't let anyone in the family approach her doctor to get her evaluated (she acts like a spoiled 13 YO and is in her 30s; it's all about me); while there is hope for the other the wheels move slowly.
Two additional DILs are just fine and a lot of fun to be around.
Just a sample of what goes on. The one that acts like a spoiled 13 YO just found out two others are pregnant and she threw a fit, slamming doors, etc. Anything that draws attention away from her is bad as far as she's concerned.
I have had many of these holidays too. I have a sister that does not do any of the prep work (my kids and I help my mom by shopping, chopping, and baking on the days leading up to each holiday) and then she shows up on the holiday when we are all in the kitchen putting the meal together. She stands around and proceeds to tell us all how we are doing everything wrong and how we could do it all better (without lifting a finger to help). She will also critique the tried and true recipes and tell us how we should prepare the food, even if the item is something she will never eat. Way too much advise and too little help!
Anyone else check this thread to make sure it wasn't their family talking about them? No... oh just me then!
To answer the question, usually yes. With 5 sisters, one brother, unstable family members, interesting in-laws, and the holidays all at once, I usually need to unload at some point. Just oddly enough, not this year.
Sorry you're stressed. Just go to the store and buy the apples you and your dad want. Then, consider throwing them at people who annoy you.
In-laws: MIL here in town hosts a Christmas Eve dinner but has started inviting her EX DIL who DH hateshateshates for what she did to his late brother before and after they split up. We are left with the option of having her intrude on our Christmas Eve festivities, or of being the black sheep who refuse to visit his widowed mother that evening. We caved but found that MIL was counting on us to provide the entree, regardless AND hasbeen blabbing to others about a family issue we specifically asked her to keep quiet. URGH!
My widowed mom and sister live several hours away and I am the black sheep for being too far away to provide much help. Had a dispute with everyone last week, but it SEEMS to be blowing over. Fingers crossed.
At home, DS & future SIL had a fight that came to blows on Monday. DS is having anxiety attacks and has a cracked wrist. Future SIL is banned from our house for the forseeable future. DD is stuck in the middle but being a B.
No one on my mother's side of the family is ever on time. Ever. They set the time for events, then show up 15 to 60 (yes, 60) minutes late. I find it extremely disrespectful and have brought it up multiple times, but the response I invariably receive from each of them is, "Well, I know everyone else is going to be late, why should I show up on time?"
Why, yes, yes I do. I recently made the two hour trip to visit Mom, specifically to set up her new tablet, and show her how to navigate it. My brother, who works 5 minutes away, shows up, knowing I was there. He wants us to go with his familly to pick out pumpkins. Cool, sounds good, a diversion, but fun. But there is no room for me in the car, BECAUSE THEY BROUGHT THEIR FULL TIME SERVANT! We spent 20 minutes in the parking lot, me saying, don't worry, I'll see you when you get back, and him insisting I must go, but not offering any solution, one of which would have been to let the servant wait at my Mom's, but no. Only then does he finally remember that he has a third seat. While at the pumpkin patch, I watch my SIL give my nephew a phobia about horses, but that is another story.
In the interest of disclosure, they are both psycologists, and have 3 healthy kids.
I reserve my place. Family thing is next couple days. I will see what comes up new this year. I have a large family and it will be something.
The crazy comes and goes like some communal plague spread through my maternal extended family. This season it's aunt #2 and her son who have it. Thanksgiving was pretty bad, and our Christmas party was last night. Avoided aunt #2 like the plague, and I'll probably get flack for that from my mother. Tough cookies. I told her about the issues at hand and that I wouldn't be speaking to aunt if I could avoid it, so my mom hanging out with her had the inevitable consequence of no baby granddaughter time.
Cousin (aunt #2's late 20's son) had the gem of the night when he butted into my conversation with one of my sane cousins. "Is she going to be a midget?" because that's the logical place to go from my saying my little squish is in the 5th percentile for height.
I'm seriously thinking of just getting together here and there as we can with whoever's sane for the moment during non-holiday times next year.
This was a fun read...ahhh the good old days. We used to have no less than 30 people under one roof and it was bedlam. My biggest rant about Family this year is that the rotten buggers keep dying on me!! The last of my siblings passed a few months ago, and the Grandbabies will be with their Dad this year so it's just myself, the Hubby, DD and SIL having a quiet dinner for 4. (the rest are all too far away) It's all good though!! We are supposed to have a good snowfall on Christmas day which is pretty rare for us, I plan on enjoying every flake! :-)
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Yes, wow, I can relate to much of this. This year I am staying here. My fiancee is staying where she is to spend one last year with her mother and family there. Given that at least on SIL to be (really, two) are full of crazy I'm glad I'm not there. I'm also very happy that I will miss that mess. When I was last there the fiancee and her mom skipped out on the rest of her family to spend Christmas dinner with me. Partly because I'm a much better cook, but also to avoid the craziness. Quite a statement from her mom, as we can't communicate well directly (my Spanish is as bad as her English).
This year I didn't go to visit my mother and sister (who live on the other side of the country). I can only deal with the lot of them in relatively short amounts. Two weddings in 6 months (brother in Aug, mine in Feb) are bad enough without holiday family joy.
This says it all:
This is a "I know there are things that I could do or say to make this better but I've tried and it hasn't work and it probably won't and I just need to vent somewhere that my family won't see this" question.
I.....am stunned by the accuracy and relevancy of this right now...LONG story real short.....see, I've got no family of my own really (never had much of one).....love my in-laws....but since I have been insanely crammed (Trying for Law Degree, Gov't Employee, single father of 2 and my own mother who's mentally/physically deteriorating rapidly) for so long, they're convinced I hate them simply because I can't make it over there (this is in another town, mind you).....and would like for my long-term girlfriend to now cut me off because of it......NOTHING I've ever said/done works.....SO F'NG FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!! I OFFICIALLY AM NOT LIKING THIS CHRISTMAS!
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Nah, I've done my time. Now, if I don't like the way it's going, I just leave, or feign illness & call in sick. Fun's fun, but I don't need to take the crap anymore(and I'm SURE that I'm a joy to be around as well...).
My immediate family lives on the other side of the country as the rest of our family. We have offered for them to come see us, but we do not go over there. They are all spread out around the east coast and it is not feasible to see them all and would not be fair to see just 1 or 2. No one gets together for the holidays, so the 3 of us just do our own thing.
No ranting here, but I feel for all of you that have to vent. I guess I am pretty lucky in having a relaxing holiday.
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I gave up long ago...Now I live peacefully, sans family. My choice. Better for me that I've left them physically (geographically & mentally). Best of luck to those of you who have not made that decision.
Family'd out this year, so spending the holidays solo. Been very relaxing so far.
Good luck y'all. :)
@belyndag: I give up. What is a DD and DS? And B -- what is B?
@pstrnutbag44: I was 50 pages into my first Hemingway book (back around age 16 or so) before I realized why he so often repeated the word "expletive."
As in, "The expletive weather was not as expected and the expletive boat....."
@magic cave: Lemme guess: Divorced Daughter, Divorced Sister, and B = Biatch.
Score me, now I'm curious. I only suspect these things since I'm the only 1 of 5 kids who's not divorced, and none of my nieces or nephews on my side is still on their original spouse. I can't keep up with 'em all, haven't even tried to learn all the new names- what's the point?
@havocsback: @havocsback: Not quite. DD=Darling Daughter, DS=Darling Son. Son and fiancee of daughter mixed it up, now the fiancee is banned from the house, son has a messed up hand (what kind of mom are you @belyndag, didn't you teach them not to hit a somebody on the face/head with a fist? That is what beer bottles are for) and daughter is kind of caught between her fiancee and the rest of her family, and being a biotch about it. How did I do there?
Wow. This is way better than the TV. Keep 'em coming. I'll just uncork a bottle of Woot Barely Adequate Gift red tonight and read these as they come in.
@wilfbrim, @magic cave, @havocsback: LOL! So sorry. I picked the abbreviations up from some social-media-savvy friends and found that they're pretty popular:
DH = Dear Husband. Great abbreviation since the D can, at least in your mind, be used for damn, darn, dingbat, darling, dipstick, etc., depending on the circumstances and mood. Same for the others:
DW = Dear Wife
DS = Dear Son
DD = Dear Daughter
As havocsback said, B = biotch, and that was definitely how DD has been acting. Stuck in the middle, for sure, so I can be sympathetic to her distress, but seriously? Yelling at me when I just ask if she has to work on Monday? "Why would you ASK me that? What do you MEAN by that?"
MIL, FIL, SIL, BIL all refer to in-laws, of course.
Wilfbrim - Thanks for the laugh. When I see "What kind of mother are you?" I wait to get beaten up for creating this Jerry Springer-esque family. Argh!!!!
@belyndag: During my divorce, DH meant D'Head.
Let's see... When dad married his 2nd wife, we tried to figure out a Christmas schedule.
Christmas Eve: Nope, her family celebrated at her parents.
Christmas Morning: Nope, that was reserved for her kids only
Christmas Afternoon: Nope, that was dinner with the family at Dads/her house but we weren't invited
Christmas Evening: Yes, we could do that but her kids stayed there and watched us.
For many years, Dad just did Christmas Eve dinner and presents with us. His wife never joined us.
It was lovely and that family dynamic was one of the driving reasons that I took a job out of state those many years ago.
@thunderthighs: There again, proving that that doing whatever I feel like is the appropriate choice. Who needs all this??


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Let $X$ be projective and Gorenstein (over $\mathbb{C}$), of dimension $n$, then $\chi(\mathcal{O}_X)=(-1)^n\chi(w_X)$. Hence a "generalization": $\chi(w^{\otimes k}_X)$.
I'd like something of this sort for the topological Euler characteristic. For example, suppose $X$ is smooth, so $\chi(X)=c_n(T_X)$. We could consider $c_n(T^{\otimes k}_X)$. More generally, let $\lambda$ be a Young tableau (symmetrization pattern), then we can consider $c_n(T^{[\lambda]}_X)$. In a similar way, starting from $\chi(X)=\sum(-1)^{p+q}h^p(\Omega^q_X)$ one could suggest $\sum(-1)^{p+q}h^p((\Omega^q_X)^{[\lambda]})$
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1975 Chevy Laguna - Yearn To Turn!Written by Johnny Hunkins on November 2, 2009 Fix Your Chevy's Ill-Handing Steering With A Brand-New Bolt-In Steering Box From Classic Performance Products.
Whether you dig the Pro-Touring movement, and its attendant propensity for big g-force turns or not, you will at some point need to turn the corner. Even drag racers need to turn, and if your tires don't mimic the directional input of the steering wheel, you, my friend, are in serious trouble. Virtually all muscle cars were equipped with recirculating ball and nut steering (sometimes called worm and sector). This type of steering box was almost universal in domestic cars through the 1980s; they're simple, they work, and their universal nature means they're compatible in cars of widely varying vintage (read: easy bolt-on).
The original steering box in our '75 Laguna project car is a recirculating ball-type box-no surprise there. It's also no surprise that after 34 years, it's a bit tired. A worn steering box can be dangerous-even fatal-if not rebuilt or replaced. Fortunately, worn steering boxes of this design have some pretty specific symptoms that you can be on the lookout for. Let's take a peek at how the recirculating ball steering mechanism works, and see where problems can arise.
The box's input shaft is mechanically linked to a worm gear inside a block. The block and the gear both have a spiral, cylindrical channel milled in their mating surfaces that ball bearings ride in. When the worm gear is turned by the steering wheel, the block moves in relation to the rest of the chassis; a sector gear on its side acts on the gear teeth of a shaft that splines to the pitman arm. In a traditional worm gear, the mating faces between the worm gear and the nut (i.e. block) are in direct contact, but in a recirculating ball worm gear, the ball bearings take the brunt of the contact force in order to reduce friction, and to reduce slop in the gear assembly. This is a very tight tolerance setup, but over time, the channel and the ball bearings themselves, become worn. As the balls make contact, they ride up on each other, accelerating the wear on the balls and their worm channel. This can be felt in the steering wheel as a brief resistance to being turned, sometimes when you need it most. The resistance stutters on and off as you turn, and becomes worse with increased input effort. Another negative effect of ball and channel wear is that the slop increases as the clearance loosens up. At best, it causes a numb on-center feel with a continual need for correction to drive straight, and at worst, it can cause a loss of control.
So here we were with a 34-year-old gearbox sporting a bad attitude. It bore all the symptoms of a dying box: a jerky resistance to being turned, lots of on-center slop, and the occasional loss of hydraulic boost when turned in one direction. This last trait was symptomatic of a worn-out rotary valve, which is responsible for directing hydraulic pressure to either side of the worm block. Simultaneous to this, we received news that Classic Performance Products (CPP) had just released a new 500 Series gearbox. The timing seemed too perfect to be a coincidence.
CPP's Series 500 steering box is an all-new (not remanufactured) unit that is a direct bolt-in for most Chevrolets. Currently, CPP has Series 500 gearboxes to fit '55-57 Chevy, '58-64 Chevy, Nova, Camaro, Chevelle, and full-size Chevy through 1970. They also have one to fit our '75 Chevy Laguna, which fits all '73-77 GM A-bodies. CPP's Series 500 box has an updated spool valve, which endows the box with a sharper, more rack-and-pinion-type feel. While the folks at CPP could've chosen to produce their Series 500 box with a more aggressive 12:1 ratio or a stock 18:1 ratio, they wisely gave it a 14:1 ratio, which is a great compromise between laid-back cruising, and hard-core autocrossing. The 14:1 steering ratio of the Series 500 keeps it comfortable to drive, while providing much better steering feel and road feedback than stock.
Those of you who have been around the block with steering box replacements before will be pleased to know that the Series 500 is a true bolt-on-and we mean that in the sense that you won't need to chase special hardware, fittings, or couplings. The Series 500 is a three-bolt box that attaches in the stock location with the stock fasteners. No biggie there, as most aftermarket boxes claim that as well. The box employs a 3/4-inch, 30-spline input shaft, which is the most common. CPP offers the proper rag joint (PN RJC-730R) for $49 extra, which is highly recommended. Put one more check in the column for CPP. Best of all, Series 500 boxes come with the appropriate adapters to work with your existing hydraulic feed and return lines. This means older compression-style, flared-end fluid lines can easily mate to the late-model O-ring-type ports in the Series 500 box. No need to build or buy new hoses or track down adapters of dubious quality. Awesome!
CPP's Series 500 steering box costs $379, which includes the adapter fittings and an attractive (and protective) aluminum sector gear cover. With those features at that price, we knew the Series 500 was the right choice for our aging Laguna. We needed a box that would thrive on the highway, not needing excessive directional correction to stay on course. We also wanted something a bit more aggressive than stock, so we could hit the road course or autocross without too much sawing at the wheel. The Series 500 sounded perfect, and fit the bill for an easy installation too. Having used CPP products in the past with our Street Sweeper '68 Chevelle, we knew the quality would be outstanding, and we wouldn't be disappointed this time either.
We set up an appointment with CPP, and brought our Laguna to their facility for a quick morning installation. It took about two hours for CPP technician Craig Chaffers to make the swap, and there were zero surprises. Back on the road in time for lunch, the Laguna was the poster boy for directional control, as the Series 500 box worked in perfect concert with the new Global West suspension. Gone was the slop of our original "widow maker" box, and in its place was a razor-sharp feel with confidence-inspiring cornering. As with the Global West suspension, the Series 500 box had the effect of making the car feel lighter and more "tossable," which was an unexpected surprise. Before hitting the highway, we were concerned that such a sharp-feeling box might dart around too much at high speed. Once we hit the freeway, we discovered that the Series 500 aimed straight as an arrow, needing little to no correction to stay on track.
If you are contemplating a steering upgrade for your aging stock steering box, and you don't want to pay a lot of money for a rack-and-pinion conversion (or you don't need anything that hard core), the CPP Series 500 should be perfect for you. It's got a tight, sporting feel without the "dartiness" of some fast-ratio boxes. It's simple and easy to install, and it won't break your bank. Plus, the all-new construction and high quality will keep it rolling down the road for decades to come.
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CPP offers every style and size rag joint that ever came on a Chevy, so if you're keeping your old box, and just need a new rag joint, give CPP a call. On the top is our old 13/16-inch, 36-spline joint. On the left is a new CPP 3/4-inch 36-spline joint, and on the right is a 3/4-inch, 30-spline joint-which is the one we used with the new Series 500 box.These hose adapters are included with the Series 500 steering box, and allow your original compression-style flare fittings on your old hoses to mate with the late-model metric O-ring ports on the new box. If you've already converted your hoses and power steering pump to a late-model setup, just plug your hoses directly into the box without the adapters. Most GMs converted from compression to metric O-ring fittings in the late '70s.Before installing the new Series 500 box, you'll need to disconnect the fluid lines from the old box, drain the fluid, remove the pitman arm, unbolt the rag joint from the input shaft, and unbolt the old steering box from the chassis. Reuse your three original chassis bolts to install the new CPP box. Note: Do not attach the new rag joint to the steering shaft first like we're showing here. After this photo, we found out it was better to slip the rag joint over the input shaft first, bolt the box to the chassis, and attach the rag joint bolts to the steering shaft side last.The Series 500 box attaches to the chassis with the three original steering box bolts, which you've hopefully saved. CPP recommends a new power steering pump to avoid contaminating the new box-we had a newer pump already, so we were good to go. Note that all the steering system components had been replaced or rebuilt at Global West during the suspension installation. If your tie rod ends, drag link, and idler arm are worn out, no steering box is going to make things better.After the box is bolted to the chassis, match up the bolt holes of the rag joint with the steering shaft and tighten the bolts.Note that the steering shaft is telescopic, and can slide in and out to accommodate the positioning of the rag joint. Double check that the steering wheel is level and the wheels are straight beforehand.Before you tighten the pinch bolt in the rag joint, you want to position the rag joint midway on the splines so that the rag joint collar doesn't rub against the steering box or the input shaft seal.The pitman arm only goes on one way, so if the steering isn't straight, you messed up at the rag joint. Make sure you reattach the pitman arm nut tight!Now's a good time to put a new pressure-side hose on if the old one is deteriorating or leaking. We actually replaced both hoses when we swapped in the new 408 small-block a few months back, so we were in good shape. With the CPP-supplied adapter fittings screwed into the steering box, we attached the lines using 11/16-inch (pressure) and 5/8-inch (return) line wrenches. A proper line wrench will reduce the possibility of doing damage to the fittings, which are prone to leakage if they become misshapen.When it comes to engine fluids, we only use the best stuff. We brought along a few quarts of Royal Purple Max EZ Power Steering Fluid. After the initial fill, we cranked the engine and poured more in gradually as the steering was turned back and forth. This technique ensures that the system gets completely filled. A quality synthetic like Royal Purple will extend the life of our new Series 500 box, while reducing heat-related stress. As we're not running a power steering cooler, we like the extra protection for the occasional track outing.


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I've noticed that the word Usted can be abbreviated at least 2 ways, the most common of which being Ud. and Vd. to my knowledge. I see how Ud. makes perfect sense, but why is a
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I've noticed that the word Usted can be abbreviated at least 2 ways, the most common of which being Ud. and Vd. to my knowledge. I see how Ud. makes perfect sense, but why is a
Usted is a descendent of medieval Spanish Vuestra Merced, meaning "your mercy". It was an expression used to address upper classes in feudal Spain and evolved to be the general form of respectful address in the language in the seventeenth century or later.
The letters "u" and "v" — like the letters "i" and "j" — were written the same in Latin. The choice of consonant or vowel form was usually inferred by experience and context. Modern "v" (link) and "u" diverged by the sixteenth century, after "vuestra merced" was in place and only shortly before "usted" became popular.
As a result, the "Vd." and "Ud." abbreviations both remained common and still are today. "Vd." has a certain old-timey style I personally enjoy.
"Usted" comes from the ancient Spanish word "vusted". The latter term is no longer used but its abbreviation "Vd" sometimes is. It's up to you which one to use.
I have read about the Spanish language quite extensively and found that what the language that is spoke now in the world is castellano (Castilian). During the occupation of Spain by the Arabs, since 1000 to 1492, the language in the Spain region was dominated by the Arabs invasion. Unlike England, that during occupation of countries conquerors, the English language was somewhat reduced to nothing, in Spain, in Castilla, during the 500 years of siege, the pureness of the Spanish language was kept pure and flourishing. When the Arabs' dominion is reduced, the enriched Spanish language is released and spread all along the world. This is la language brought to The Americas by travelers such as Cristobal Colon (1492) and others later. This is the reason why the Spanish language is called castellano. The word "Spanish" is a translation by English-speaking people. In South America the word "Español" and "Spanish", in reference to the language, is only used by people who have studied "English" which are not many, but there millions of millions in South America and the world who has nothing to do with English language. At school it is not taught "Español", the course name is CASTELLANO. Spanish-speaking people ask "hablas castellano" instead of "¿hablas español?"


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Reasons to be hopeful about the LCWR and the CDF
Writing for the National Catholic Reporter, Robert Mickens takes up the case of Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and protege of the pope emeritus. Why, some have asked, has Francis left Benedict's man in charge of the CDF, when Muller's priorities seem so out of line with Francis's own?
As Mickens sees it, getting rid of Müller just a year into his appointment to the post "would have been seen as a serious criticism of the retired pope's judgment and wisdom." (Even the pope has to worry about being Fr. Bulldozer.) Of course, It may also be that Francis sees reasons to trust Müller in the job. But Mickens thinks it may not matter so much, because the CDF itself is becoming less powerful as Francis reshapes the curia and grants more power to the Synod of Bishops.
My column in the latest issue takes up Müller's remarks to the leaders of the LCWR (which Grant blogged about here).
His unquestioning acceptance of the USCCB's criticism of Elizabeth Johnson's Quest for the Living God was frustrating -- although it's not completely unreasonable for him to expect the U.S. bishops' committee on doctrine to do respectable work. What bothers me more is his insistence that, in light of that criticism, the LCWR's decision to honor Johnson could only be viewed as "a rather open provocation against the Holy See and the Doctrinal Assessment." And, he says, the fact that the sisters decided to honor someone the bishops had criticized just proves that the sisters need to get approval from the bishops (specifically, from Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, their CDF-appointed overseer) before they decide to honor anyone else. "Had [Sartain] been involved in the conversation as the Mandate envisions, I am confident that he would have added an important element to the discernment which then may have gone in a different direction."
The fact that Müller could not even imagine another way to look at the situation suggests just how difficult it will be for the sisters and the bishops to move forward together. He ended his remarks to the LCWR leaders by saying, "at this phase of the implementation of the Doctrinal Assessment, we are looking for a clearer expression of that ecclesial vision and more substantive signs of collaboration." But that collaboration always seems to require a lot more effort on one side than the other -- he told the sisters that the decision to honor Johnson "further alienates the LCWR from the Bishops," as though the fault for that alienation were entirely on their side.
Thus it's hard to be hopeful about the progress of this "collaboration," as I said in my column. But one reason I am is that the LCWR keeps sounding optimistic. "The actual interaction with Cardinal Müller and his staff was an experience of dialogue that was respectful and engaging," they said in a public statement after their April 30 meeting. In a longer statement to their members (quoted in Origins), the LCWR officials said, "in the honest, respectful, and engaging discussion that followed Cardinal Müller's opening remarks, we were able to offer responses that illuminated some of the perceptions about LCWR held by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."
That's good news. If the CDF is operating on the assumption that everything coming out of the USCCB's doctrinal office is trustworthy, they need someone to tell them otherwise. And if the sisters are going to examine their organization through Rome's eyes, it will be important to clear up whatever is preventing Rome from seeing them clearly. Archbishop Sartain may indeed help the LCWR in their discernment processes going forward. But discernment is not the sole province of the ordained, and the CDF can certainly benefit from the sisters' help, too.
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As an aside, it is good to see that NCR is taking advantage of Mickens' leaving The Tablet and is using him as (at least) a Rome stringer. I have always felt that Robert is as plugged in to what is going on at the Vatican as John Allen has ever been.
OK ... now start on the subject at hand.
This dialogue has been going on for a long time. I have never heard or seen what the differences are although, like most, I think I know. But now I propose that the readers of Commonweal focus their thoughts on just that. How do we make this a public discussion. What leverage can be applied.?
The Bishops of the Church are by no means beyond reproach, but what I am finding is that articles like these that are critical of the Bishops fail to mention that the Bishops are at odds not with nuns as a whole, but progressive religious who are publicly and privately opposed to Catholic faith and morals. This criticism doesn't depend upon devaluing the historical contribution of women religious - the great things that faithful Catholic religious have done in this country and elsewhere are honorable and praiseworthy. The CDF criticism directed at the LCWR is the criticism of all who share in full unity with the Catholic Church in faith and morals: many religious women and men are woefully ignorant of their place in the history of ideas and are seduced by many forms of pernicious secularism. It is a failure that ultimately should be placed with the Bishops, who are entrusted with the task of teaching. It is the Bishops who failed women religious, and the entire Catholic Church, by abandoning the role as teachers for 4 decades - leaving the liberating task of education and formation to those who see religion as a neurosis or pathology at worse, a helpful form of wish fulfillment at best. There are many, many, faithful women religious in this country, however, there are a whole host of them that are simply off the rails and leading people away from Christ and the Church. The LCWR is the representative of this group and the NCR and Commonweal are their mouth pieces. The criticism of the Bishops is not a bunch of men trying to be meanies but it comes from the successors of the apostles who are entrusted with fostering and preserving the communion of the Church. The pastoral task of the shepherd is to bring us sheep, yes, the women religious are sheep like the rest of us, into communion with Christ through the sacrament of salvation, the Church. If this communion isn't there, how is it that these religious can with integrity claim to act in the name of Christ and his body, the Church? The Bishops care for the Church, sure, they may lack tact, and they must bear responsibility for their failure in teaching, but the women religious that are under criticism have philosophical, as well as social and political agendas that undermine the Gospel as such. Any good work that the Church does comes forth from communion. It doesn't need mentioned that fidelity, closeness to Christ, bears fruit in vocations, and progressive women's religious orders are dying, and will continue to die, unless they deepen their communion. Faithful women's religious orders are thriving, they are the future of the Church.
When I said above that women religious are sheep like the rest of us, I mean that in the metaphorical sense, that is, they are part of the great flock of Christ, not that they are sheep in the sense of being unwise, or uninspired. I wanted to make that clear so it didn't seem like an insult.
Look, as nice and promising as Francis is, he is as hopelessly enmeshed in the sexism and sexist "taken for granteds" of the hierarchy as most bishops. Of course he is not at odds with all women religious, only with the ones who have raised serious, sustained and highly intelligent challenges to the institutional view of women's status in the church. Nothing new there...and how very disappointing! Until women are equal players, with equal shared authority and a REAL place at the table, the discussions and inquisitions will resolve nothing and the big bleeding wound at the heart of the church---and in the hearts of many women and men in the church---will be left to fester, raw and so very painful. As long as "women" remain a "topic" for sexist popes, prelates, priests and others to define, contain, demonize or extol into irrelevance, nothing will change. The institution has yet to offer any sustainable defense---theological, anthropological, biblical, political--- of what appears to many sensible believers as rank discrimination...wonder what the response would have been if JPii had written "On the Dignity and Vocation of African Americans..." or some such. And when you hear of the astonishing violence and persecution of women and girls simply because they ARE women and girls, remember that our church offers a simple and deceptively benign version of the same...
I agree with Janet. I doubt the pope will take the side of the nuns over the CDF - his attitude towards women is really pretty depressing. And I think he agrees with Muller on a number of issues, including marriage. In his Monday homliy he said that ... "there are all kinds of things that Jesus doesn't like ... such as married couples that don't want children .." Yikes.
Crystal, I guess we will have to see how this plays out. Francis is far from being anti-woman. As far as "married couples who don't want children" Francis is not talking about not wanting because of health of financial conditions. It certainly is important to have children in genorosity of spirit. Of course, some people want children as slaves or symbiotic reasons which are wrong also.
Remember, Francis maid an important observation about the ordination of women, saying that that can be clericalism. Meaning the quest for power rathe than service. Further Francis has also said that the laity are just as important as the clergy. Maybe some popes have said it. But they have not given it the priority that Francis has.
Hi Bill,
It's hard for me to take what Francis said about clericism and about the worth of the layity seriously ... he and the others like him who don't want women to be priests are themselves priests and part of the system that created clericism. I doubt there are any more women who want to become priests out of a hunger for power than there are men who wat to. Women want to be priests for the same reason anyone does - because they feel they are called by God, because they've discerned a vocation. I won't go over all the arguments for why there's nothing wrong with women being priests, but suffice to say, they're compelling enough that I doubt anyone, including Francis, could be against women' ordination for any reason other than sexism.
Janet and Crystal, thank you.
Bill, Pope Francis is most likely not consciously anti-woman. But he actually is anti-woman. This is not surprising since he is typical of men of his generation who have been formed by the male, celibate patriarchal cultures of the church, of Latin America and even of his Italian heritage. Latin America has clearly changed - witness the number of women presidents and prime ministers in those countries. I really don't know how patriarchal male Italians are these days, so won't comment there. But very clearly, the Catholic church is the largest and most visible (outside of parts of Islam) patriarchal culture existing in the world today. It is truly a scandal.
The argument that ordaining women is "clericalism" is so ridiculous, that it's hard to believe that Francis would have made such a silly comment. If ordaining men is not automatically "clericalism", then ordaining women would not be either. The women who are called to the priesthood are called for the same reasons men are called - generally they seek to serve the church and God. There are some men who seek the priesthood because they seek power, and very likely, once women can be ordained, there may be some who also seek power. But the desire for power over service is no more common among women who are called to be priests than among men who seek the priesthood..
This anti-woman stance of the church and of most wearing roman collars is obvious to most Catholics, but obviously not to those on the "inside",, who are the power structure, such as Pope Francis and most other clerics at all levels of the church. There are some priests and some in the hierarchy who do see through the church's attempts to define women as "separate but equal". They see this as being just as false as was the same doctrine held by the government in the US 50 years ago when it was also used to define (and limit) the "proper" roles, jobs, schools, restaurants, bus seats, drinking fountains etc for African Americans. But priests and bishops who dare to speak out on this issue know that they are courting serious trouble. Bishop Morris of Australia was forced to resign (even though no bishops who enabled the sexual abuse of children have been forced to resign), and at least one priest has been excommunicated over the women's ordination question.
As far as marriage goes, there is no decision more important to any married couple than the choice to have children. It should not be done because anyone but themselves - parents, grandparents, friends and the church - expects them to have children. They must seriously look inward and ask themselves if they really think that they have the personal qualities needed to be good parents. Many fine people are not well equipped and do not have personalities that would make them good parents. The church should actively encourage couples to undertake a self-examination on this subject and should definitely back off from demanding that every couple who marries in the church be "open" to having children. There are many reasons besides physical health or poverty why some people should not become parents. This has nothing to do with "generosity of spirit". There a way too many neglected and abused children. Not everyone should become parents and they should not be pushed into parenthood by outsiders.
Bill...I don't have the exact quote but Francis has also suggested that feminism is a form of "machismo," and I see that type of equation as just another version of the "b#%ch" card: stay in your place, girl, if you don't want to be viewed/pegged as a you-know-what. Right. Same old, same old. That ordained women might behave clericalistically (made that one up!) is irrelevant. Has a man seeking ordination ever been barred for fear that he might become clericalist??? I think not. Like so many of his brothers (and those sisters who have internalized the sexist creed), Francis offers a silly, unreasonable reason. As for the old "power vs. service" card: do we typically say to a man seeking ordination that he is simply seeking "power"? No, we throw a party. But a woman who desires ordination---watch out! And out comes the "b#%ch" card.
When the men who run the church (and do so quite badly) can answer in a cohesive way the question why women cannot be ordained (not "should not" be ordained)---that is, why the human being of women, whom the church teaches are created in the image of God equally with men and fully redeemed by the Christ equally with men, is an obstacle to grace and gifts and the call to SERVICE---in a way that is well-reasoned, profoundly reasonable and rigorously honest about the mysogynistic elements of what has passed as "Catholic tradition," then I might be satisfied that the church is right about this. But I am prepared to remain dissatisfied (and a b#%ch, too, of course, for even asking the question), for I don't think any such answer exists.
I doubt anyone, including Francis, could be against women' ordination for any reason other than sexism.
Sorry, Crystal, but I think you are giving the bishops too little credit for self-stifling pussyfootery. Sexism is probably the biggest part of it, but we mustn't completely ignore statusquoism, we'veneverdonethatism, Ican'tcontradictmypredecessorsism, and a lot of other scaredy-catisms that would leave Christ simultaneously doubled over with laughter and shaking his head in dismay if he heard them. Which he probably does.
John Prior: love it!!
Anne Chapman: excellent!
Thanks , Crystal and Gerelyn.
I think the situation is fairly hopeless.
Whoever said it was right: either ordain women or stop baptizing them. At least then we would stop lying to ourselves and to each other. Wonder what Francis thinks about the fact the overwhelming majority of the world's poorest people are women and their dependent children? Does he make any connection at all?
Oops...forgot to mention in the interest of full disclosure that I, to my shame, had fully internalized the sexism of the church. I am grateful to have been freed but so ashamed that I ever bought into it. Getting freed was like having meat hooks ripped out of your heart. But I wouldn't turn back for a second, even if I have to live on the margins of a church that is supposed to be my "home." Thanks.
"This is not surprising since he is typical of men of his generation who have been formed by the male, celibate patriarchal cultures of the church, of Latin America and even of his Italian heritage."
Well I'll be. Talk about repeating stereotypes without any personal experience. So much for dialogue. Shame on you Anne
I am annoyed that Crystal, Janet and Anne immediately go into diatribes without attempting to understand what clericalism is. Of course the clergy is guilty of clericalism. That does not mean that certain women are not. We are living in an age where the "glory" of the clergy is seen as outdated and silly. We should stop calling priests Father and Bishops Excellency etc.Clericalism is that system which puts the clergy on a pedestal. It is fine for women to become priests. But the issue is that we should learn how to wash each other's feet rather than to seek to perpetuate idolatry of the clergy.
We have to make sure that women have access to all the power centers of the church. But we should not in the process lose sight that the clergy has been overrated, overfeted, overpampered and outrageous. Reform is in the priesthood of all the faithful. Not to seek entry into pageantry and narcissism.
Bill, you may indeed be right " that the clergy has been overrated, overfeted, overpampered and outrageous." And you are right that women should have "access to all the power centers of the church".
However, in the real world of the real Roman Catholic church, that "access to power" is the exclusive province of ordained clergy. So, unless the church decides to eliminate the ordained clergy all together, access to Holy Orders must be open to both men and women.
I cannot begin to understand why you believe my statement about the patriarchal nature of the cultures that formed Pope Francis are "only" stereotype and do not reflect "personal" experience. My views most definitely reflect personal experience, along with a great deal of study.
In the United States, every woman has pesonally experienced sexism, both overt and subtle. Some women (especially older women and I am among those) may not even have realized how sexist so much of the culture was when they were young - it was all they knew. Every good Catholic girl was expected to grow up and choose - be a nun or be a mommy. Little boys were told that they could be a priest (the boss of the nuns who taught the kids), or a daddy AND something else - a doctor, a fireman, a basketball star. There were no "ands" for the little girls. Our roles had been defined for us -defined by men. This is still the operating mindset of the Pope and the hierarchy of the chruch. It is easily discerned in John Paul II's and Benedict's work - historic patriarchy affirmed, but couched in updated flowery Vaticanese.
Every Roman Catholic woman has experienced the effects of sexism and patriarchy in the church, itself up to the present day. Some have bought into it, the clever term "authentic" Catholic "feminism". It's just plain, old-fashioned patriarchy.
The truth may upset you, but one hopes that you might at some point try to imagine walking a mile or two in the shoes of a woman in the church. You might want to study some history while you are at it - the history of how women were treated legally in the US, in Latin America, in Europe until relatively modern times. It has been less than 100 years since women obtained the right to vote in this country. In some countries of Europe it has been less than 50 years. In some parts of the world women do not have basic civil and human rights even today.
The Roman Catholic church is the most visible religious institution on the planet. The way it treats women is an example to all. Unfortunately, the example it gives to the whole world is of one of perpetuating male power and patriarchy.
Perhaps the ordained priesthood should be abolished completely as you suggest. But that is not likely to happen so instead it would be better to keep it, but to have it reflect the makeup of the entire church, which is the makeup of the entire human race. The ordained priesthood should be opened to men and women, married and single. Lay people have no power in this church - lay people do not define the doctrines of the church, nor do they define the policies and goverance that impact every single Catholic. Ideally, this would also change and laity would be included among those who define doctrine and participate actively in the governance in the church.
The combination of teachings, policy and church governance paved the way for the tragedy of thousands of kids being sexually abused by priests who were, in turn, protected by bishops, enlarging the scope of this pattern of criminal behavior and cover-up tremendously. The pattern and the problem are both pretty obvious to those who do not choose to remain blind. Bishop Geoffrey Robinson (Australia) goes into this in some depth in his first book.
Eliminating the priesthood is not a realistic solution. Opening the priesthood to women as well as men, to non-celibates as well as celibates will go a long way towards correcting the weaknesses of the rotten foundation the church rests on. Eventually, this may open up the "power centres" to the laity as well. One can pray.
Given the state of the Catholic clerical culture these days, I have a hard time wondering just why any women would even want to be a part of that all-male feudal hegemony over the rest of the church?
If women are simply seeking admittance to the "power centres" of the church, something tells me - human nature being what it is - women will only succeed in being absorbed into the clerical morass.
The church right now needs much more pastoral leadership than that from women if we are to even survive to the end of this century. The words of my sainted sixth-grade teacher, Sister Mary Adelaide, after our daily reading from the newly published documents of Vatican2 echo strongly for me today: "Never confuse the Church for the Christ."
I have to believe that the LCWR's stances on issues in part reflects a recognition of the sad, sorry state of the clerics in these early years of the 21st century. It would certainly explain why the hierarchs are so fearful of the critique of these courageous religious women beyond the typical narcissistic injury clerics loudly protest whenever women speak truth to power.
If Catholics have learned anything from the last four decades of betrayal and complicity in scandal by the hierarchs it is that the priesthood must be completely reformed and renewed from parish to pope. No half measures. No tweeking around the edges. Catholic must complete revolutionize the way we do priesthood - Or, we will go the way of the dinosaurs. The judgements of evolution are brutal and final: adaption or extinction.
The first thing Catholics need to do is stop looking to the present bunch of discredited hierarchs - including the humble Papa Francesco - to make the change. Not going to happen. The hierarchy in particular are a spent force. If we are to merely survive, Catholics must take matters into their own hands.
Personally, I don't believe Catholics should just start allowing women to breach the "ole boy's club." We should apply democratic principles to the way we organize the church. [I think in clerical-speak they would call that radical subsidiarity.]
Each community of believers should determine and CALL who is to be their priest, their deacons, their bishop, their confessors, their baptizers, their homilists, their celebrants of the Eucharists, and on, and on.
This decision should not be left to distant feudal oligarchs to make, but should again be located - as it was in the primitive church - within the community of believers.
If that decision is again located within the local community, I have no doubt that soon the Holy Spirit will make known to each community of believers just who are the women and men, gays and lesbians, married and celibates who should exercise the various ministries of the church.
Hence, LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!
Pope Francis has spoken out in favor of encounter.
Cardinal Gerhard Mueller's recent otburst about the LCWR is not inconstent with the spirit of encounter. At lest he s beng candid and getting stuff off hs chest.
Granted, his recent ouburst about the LCWR is not the optimal way to cultvate the spirit of encounter -- to put it mildly.
Under the circumstances, it is important for the LCWR not to be overwhelmed by his outburst.
After all, there are ways in which the LCWR could respond to his points in a cool, calm, and collected manner.
The congregations of women religious in general and the LCWR in particular have shown us exactly what "cool, calm, and collected" mean.
They don't need advice about "ways in which" they "could respond" to yet another Eminence "getting stuff off his chest."
Expecting abuse victims to keep taking it and to share/assume responsibility for it?
Interesting (imho) article in the NYT this morning about "Retro Rap That Puts Women Down."
I don't think women's ordination will solve the church's many problems. What I'm asking for is that both men and women in the church be treated the same, that they all be treated as "people" istead of treating them almost as if they were of two different species (JPII's complementarianism). I'd be just as happy if we got rid of the priesthood altogether and worshipped as the Quakers do, as long as all the baptized were treated equally.
Anne, Basically we agree. I saw no need for the "Italian" part. There are many Italian men (in addittion to youknowwho) who are in the forefront of equal rights and treatment for women. The Sopranos are a tiny minority.
I think we have to include in discussions like this the real atrocities going on in the world stage. Especially in so called developed nations like India and Pakistan. Their local envoys should be replete with protests until they insist that their countries act civilized toward women. We do not permit in this country any cruelty in the name of religion and culture. Nor should we with our allies. The Boko-Haram incident got Congress involved which is fantastic. That involvement should be continuous. By us and by congress.
BTW, is it my imagination or what----that the magazine and the blog of Commonweal is totally silent about Maya Angelou?
Crystal, I'm with you. ;)
Bill, when I referred to Italian culture being patriarchal, I was referring to the culture of the Pope's parents. He is almost 80 years old. I have a couple of friends (female) who are now 60ish who are of Italian heritage. Their families were very traditional, and one had to break with her family to accept a college scholarship that was at a school too far away to live at home. Her father was furious and wanted her to stay home. These two good friends were raised by parents (especially fathers) who had very traditional ideas about women's roles in life. I meant no offense to you, nor to Italian or Italian American men of later generations who may be more "enlightened".
Bill, the religion newsletter from Pew reports that 40% of Pakistanis believe that honor killings of women are "sometimes or always" justified in cases of extra-marital sex. However, 57% say that in cases where men have transgressed the same laws, killing is "almost never" justified.
Honor killings claim the lives of more than 1,000 Pakistani women every year, according to a Washington Post story citing a Pakistani organization that advocates against honor killings.
Janet, you are not alone. I too did not question the sexism of the church for many years. I encountered sexism soon after graduating from college, in job intereviews and in the workplace. I I worked in a male-dominated field and naively assumed that I would be paid the same as men with the same education (graduate degree) and experience - I learned that I wasn't even though having higher peformance appraisals than most of my male colleagues. However, my generation did not remain passive as the men would have preferred. Our daughters have reaped the rewards, but few even realize it. They take it for granted, and nobody in the private or government sectors would dare say that discrimination against women is justified, even if some secretly believe it. It is some in organized religion - especially the Catholic church - that continue to treat women as second-class officially and openly.
But even while awakening to sexism in the workplace, I did not question the sexism of the church for many years. I do a lot of research, both professionally and to answer my own questions. Although I never accepted the church's teachings on birth control (to me, the teaching was so obviously absurd it didn't warrant any angst at all), at some point something pushed me to seriously research the teaching, going all the way back to its roots. I was in my 50s by then. Frankly I was shocked. I didn't go to church for a year because I literally felt that I had been kicked in the stomach by what I learned. I had never realized how much the church's teachings on birth control, sexuality in general, marriage, and gender (and governance) were rooted in teachings that were not just patriarchal but, at times, seriously misognyist. I realized that these foundations were based in the overall ignorance of the eras in which the men who created them lived (Paul, early church fathers such as Jerome, Augustine, Aquinas etc) . So I could "absolve" them because their writings and beliefs (the foundations of current church teaching) were the product of their times and they did not have enough vision to escape the cultural influences of their own societies and time in history.
It is much harder to absolve the men who run the church and define the teachings today. They have the benefit of hundreds of years of advances in knowledge (scientific, pysychological, historical, biblical scholarship, etc) that they are choosing to ignore. That shifts their continued support for these patriarchal and even misognyist teachings from one of the ignorance of their predecessors to another plane. Some might say their stubborn refusal to change some teachings is a corporate sin, rooted in the capital sin of pride. I do not think that most men in the church are guilty of this - they also don't really study the issue, think about it, or otherwise reflect in a deeply conscious way about these teachings. Most parish priests could recite the teachings and make the official case for them, but few have ever really reflected on the origins and the implications. They are ignorant and not really aware of the harm they perpetuate through their continuance of patriarchy. I put Francis in that category.
Janet, I am still a Catholic in my heart, but the combination of the cover-up of the sexual abuse of kids, the resulting enabling of continued sexual abuse of kids, and the denial of equal status to women in the church finally bothered my conscience enough that I now spend most Sundays in an Episcopal church, even though I have not formally converted and most likely never will. I would like to be able to return to full participation in the Catholic church someday, but doubt I will ever be able to and still live with my conscience. If my heart was no longer Catholic, I wouldn't be reading and posting on this site! But I am still an "alienated" Catholic. The main reason I support women's ordination is because I think having women at all levels of church governance would help change the church, and eventually it would change some of the doctrines that need to change, without the subterfuge of "development" because the church "never" changes doctrine. . However, if ordination is limited to celibate females, it would have less of a positive impact., so dropping mandatory celibacy would be a good move. If it comes first for men, that would be some progress at least.
I am intrigued by some of the suggestions here, notably by Bill M and Crystal. That would be true ressourcement - returning the church to its early roots, before the formal priesthood and hierarchy existed.
I have great respect for the brilliance of many in the RCC, of their good will, of the amazing work that is done by Catholics and Catholic organizations all over the world. I contribute directly to those organizations (Catholic Relief Services, Catholic higher education at selected schools - for scholarships, since I benefitted from a full academic scholarship - and some smaller groups whose work I know well. Both my undergrad and grad schools were Jesuit and I can support them in good conscience still, even though a lot of Jesuits are pretty patriarchal in their views also). I came to believe that supporting the hierarchy of the church was for me, at some level, a form of "cooperation with evil".
1. I am all for abolishing the priesthood as we know it.
2. I totally get why the push for women's ordination looks like just another form of clericalism.
3. I am not sure any of my comments here constitute a "diatribe."
4. My concerns about the sexism of denying ordination to women follow from the church's own teaching on creation, redemption, grace and the sacraments. They are not really utilitarian, sociological or political. But I am challenged in my belief that the church is really of God when I see that women are really not allowed to be fully integrated into the church's life...I know the hierarchs want to sacralize the sin and say it's the will of God and the way of Christ, but to me it looks simply like one more reason to doubt that the church is nothing but a merely human set-up, drunk on its own pretence and pride. Now here I mean the visible, institutional RC church, not the invisible church of disciples who strive to follow Jesus. Still, it makes belonging very hard to justify.
5. More in topic: maybe the next time the CDF boys feel the zeal to punish someone for "affronting the holy see" for honoring someone "the holy see" doesn't like, those same boys might want to reflect on jpii's habit of lavishing honor on the likes of Maciel or Escriva, to name a few. Talk about an affront...to truth, to decency, to human dignity, to God!
Dear Anne,
Only now did I notice that you are adressing me directly, in part, in your last, excellent post. Thank you for all that you say. I am not always able to read, reflect and respond to posts as carefully as I would like to but i did read yours just now, and it really comforts me. I am in the throes of a real crisis of belonging to RC right now. I have not been to Mass since Easter and, while I am experiencing that as a certain freedom and relief that I think is from God, I remain, like you, a "Catholic in my heart," and so feel quite alone and bereft. So hearing about your journey is a real consolation. I haven't yet started to go to another church nut that is on the horizon for me, when I am ready. So thank you for your smart, thoughtful comments and for sharing a bit of your personal story.
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Lawton rallied to outlast Andrew Dunn 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 for one of four championships crowned on the final afternoon of the three-day tourney.
Thirteen-year-old Trevor Schwarzmann was the Intermediate Singles champion, defeating Paul Carreiro 6-2, 6-4.
Gary Howaycek and Jay Sullivan were Men's Doubles champs after a 6-3, 6-2 win over Eric Gomes and Mike Gomes, while Mike DeMouranville and Kayleigh Holt knocked off Mike Delisle and Ali Vautrin 6-4, 6-4 in Mixed Doubles action.
Lawton, a Fairhaven High School graduate, overcame a tough start against Dunn, who played in the three longest matches of the tournament.
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STEUBENVILLE - Later today, members of the Community Improvement Corp. and the Jefferson County Port Authority will come together for a meeting that, at best, could bring about a unified approach to economic development in Jefferson County.
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"It's not about personalities, it's about the citizens of Jefferson County," CIC Chairman Bob Chapman said after Tuesday's CIC and Progress Alliance meetings at Voto Sales. "It's about getting opportunities for new jobs, creating new opportunities. We need to move forward. It's going to take the cooperation of everybody, not just us."
Earlier, Chapman had told the CIC board that the meeting is an opportunity "to sit down and talk about their goals and objectives, our goals and objectives and where we are headed to. We're going to have to see what their thoughts are, what their board would like to see happen."
"The landscape is changing, we understand that," Chapman said. "But you have to have a vehicle in place for economic development for one of them to take a reduced role. It doesn't exist yet. I'm not saying it can't, but it doesn't at this particular time."
The CIC and its Progress Alliance have supported formation of a port authority, seeing it as a necessary progression for an organization that has been able to leverage private as well as public dollars to bring new business and jobs to Jefferson County.
The port authority was organized in August, numbering among its members some of the most powerful and influential businessmen in the region. Four members were appointed by the county commissioners, four by the city, and one by Jefferson County Regional Planning Commission.
CIC members say that at some point, the port authority will be ready to take the economic development lead in Jefferson County. But until the port authority nails down its procedural issues and becomes self-sustaining, CIC members said they don't see that happening - meaning that, for the foreseeable future, the two organizations will have to work together to foster development opportunities in Jefferson County.
"Both entities need to cooperate or it will all go away," said Jim Emmerling, a CIC board member , adding that the port authority "is still going to need private funding" to operate.
"Every year we have to fight for our money," said board member Ken Perkins. "Now we have a new competitor in the ring."
"As long as they're considered a competitor, it's going to be bad," Emmerling said. "It shouldn't be about egos, it shouldn't be about self-serving interests."
Chapman said both organizations "need to look at what's at stake, and what's at stake is economic development for Jefferson County."
"I think everybody needs to put everything aside and move forward," he said. "It's time for us all to sit down and figure out how we can all work together."
Steubenville Mayor Domenick Mucci Jr. struck a conciliatory note, saying economic development opportunities "in our community and our county" are at stake.
"Look at it as an opportunity and bring them into the fold," he said. "We need to move forward for the sake of economic opportunities. We need to rise about (grievances) and understand that, ultimately, the goal is to provide economic development opportunities. (This) is going to be a very important meeting. I think the majority of that board and the majority of this board wants it to be successful."
Mucci said Jefferson County is at a critical juncture, with the shale oil and gas boom driving job creation. He said community and government leaders have been discussing "innovative" funding sources for Progress Alliance.
"It's important that we continue economic development in Jefferson County in one fashion or another," he said.
Progress Alliance Executive Director Ed Looman, who resigned Tuesday to accept a position with Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth, reiterated his support of the concept of a port authority, saying its formation "is a step in the right direction."
"This newly formed group can enhance the economic development activities currently under way," he said. "It is my hope the CIC board and the port authority board will work together in the near future for the good of the county as a hole.
"Going forward, I would encourage everyone to remember how strong the public-private partnership truly is in Jefferson County," he added. "Our organization stands as the model used by several counties when developing economic development organizations. The private support of Progress alliance has been nothing short of amazing. This strong partnership needs to continue."
Preliminary budget projections, meanwhile, put funding needs for Progress Alliance at about $270,000. About 52 percent of that is funded through the business community and fundraisers, the remainder is local government money. With Steubenville, in particular, strapped for cash, board members are taking a wait-and-see approach before setting spending plans for 2013.