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Middlemarch Revisited
A friend reminded me of the artistry of Middlemarch when he mentioned how much he enjoyed listening to an audio book of the novel on his way to work. I had to reflect that I had read Eliot first fifty years ago, under a magnolia tree in Fordham's Rose Hill in the Bronx, caught up in Dorothea's story but equally aware that I had yet another novel to read that week for Dr. Santaniello's English Fiction course. So taking up the book again, I was surprised and humbled by the number of times I had to read the following passage, Edward Casaubon's proposal of marriage (in letter form) to Dorothea.
I am not, I trust, mistaken in the recognition of some deeper correspondence than that of date in the fact that a consciousness of need in my own life had arisen contemporaneously with the possibility of my becoming acquainted with you. For in the first hour of meeting you, I had an impression of your eminent and perhaps exclusive fitness to supply that need (connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate); and each succeeding opportunity for observation has given the impression an added depth by convincing me more emphatically of that fitness which I had preconceived, and thus evoking more decisively those affections to which I have but now referred.
The knottiness of this passage, reminiscent of the frustrating Latin of Cicero, whose periods made me weep in the frustration of incomprehension, works in veritable counterpoint to the fluency of composition – and the ease of the prose rhythms. Casaubon's self-regard, rendered in the subordination of the clauses and in the parenthetical notes to his own assertions are all too great warnings against the very proposal that Dorothea accepts. The weight of the words simply and ironically crushes any hope of realizing the "affections" that he mentions but are somehow buried in the qualifications that he has laid out earlier.
Perhaps it is too easy to comment that novelists do not write like this anymore. But I have to ask if that also means that our contemporaries do not make the demands upon us that the great Victorian writers did?
Take this passage, an intrusion by the narrator which coyly places her purpose in relation to a predecessor, Henry Fielding.
A great historian, as he insisted on calling himself, who had the happiness to be dead a hundred and twenty years ago, and so to take his place among the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under, glories in his copious remarks and digressions as the least imitable part of his work, and especially in those initial chapters to the successive books of his history, where he seems to bring his armchair to the proscenium and chat with us in all the lusty ease of his fine English. But Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house. I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
Now this act of self-exculpation, the petty successor walking between the legs of precedent colossi, calls attention to the elevation of the writer's own prose. She mildly notes the diminution of the graciousness of her times in the contrast of "armchair" and "proscenium," "campstool" and "parrot-house." Perforce, modern times demands a closer focus, a less wide or embracing vision of the world; but then, paradoxically, who can doubt the control exerted by the narrator in "unraveling certain human lots"? She has her universe in time.
Is it simply easier to surrender as a reader to such a presence, so assured in her place in the tradition of the novel, and guaranteed by the deftness of comparison and rhythm of the prose? The fictive god in her own universe dooms and saves as the burden of character and action weigh in the balance. Here a last passage, also a comment by the narrator:
Who shall tell what may be the effect of writing? If it happens to have been cut in stone, though it lie face down-most for ages on a forsaken beach, or "rest quietly under the drums and tramplings of many conquests," it may end by letting us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:—this world being apparently a huge whispering-gallery. Such conditions are often minutely represented in our petty lifetimes. As the stone which has been kicked by generations of clowns may come by curious little links of effect under the eyes of a scholar, through whose labors it may at last fix the date of invasions and unlock religions, so a bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe. To Uriel watching the progress of planetary history from the sun, the one result would be just as much of a coincidence as the other.
We have here, clothed again in the language of almost epic timbre, the mechanism of plot laid out. What is obscure or hidden, given the proper scrutiny by the right interpreter may yield remarkable results – "the opening of a catastrophe." We are warned of secrets to be revealed in the story. And yet this is cast again into another, more mythic perspective, Uriel watching Earth from the Sun. Milton's Paradise Lost has the archangel unknowingly directing Satan to Earth, upon the Demon's request, and thence to the temptation and Fall. How odd the reference here; the implication that the Eyes of God look on the decisions and acts of men as linked by coincidence and not Providence. How Eliot uses that tradition in subversive ways to characterize the fates of her creations.
All of this is to admire the artistry of the prose, the ease in manipulation of the long, syntactic line, and the power of the characterization of that line, both of the actors in the drama and of the narrator in her god-like role. Middlemarch is worth rereading.
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The convolutions of Edward Casaubon's prose struck me immediately as more than enough to squelch the interest of its target. But how different is its squirreling around from that of the narrator's (Eliot's) own writing? I say they are comparable, that while Casaubon's style is an example of complexity run amok, Eliot's own prose is, sadly, an example of complexity showing off. If the complexities of Casaubon's and Eliot's styles are commparable, shouldn't this force the conclusion upon us that Eliot's prose is not among the greatest?
I'll take Racine and Hemingway, thank you. Wanna know what killed the novel? Unnecessary complexity.
The novel's dead? I always read the obits, so how did I miss that?
What was she (Dorothea) thinking? He was a very bookish and humorless religious scholar -- and on BBC TV, dried up, self-centered and prunish while Dorothea was luminous. As I recall from the book (read after the TV series) the above passage fits him to a T. It was what a person like him in that day would speak like. And she didn't have the best opinion of herself at the time. And she may not have looked like she did on TV.
While I don't remember the quoted passage, I do remember a later chapter when Dorothea talked with the distressed young doctor, essentially doing psychotherapy 25 years before Freud.
The psychotherapy session occurred in
Book VIII. Sunset and Sunrise
Chapter LXXVII
Abe --
What are the great novels that have been written in English the last 30 years or so, besides McEwan's Atonement? I didn't finish Atonement because it was just overwhelming. See? I do look at a novel once and a while hoping to find some, but I"ve always been disappointed. What distinguishes the new great ones from the lesser ones? (Answer in 50 words or less :-)
There's just too much great non-fiction these days to waste time on lesser stuff.
Philip Roth's "American Pastoral", Margaret Mazzantini' s "Don't Move", Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Meg Wolitzer's "Uncopuled", any of John Updike's "Rabbit" books, Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead", Colm Toibin's "Blackwater Lightship". All them deserving of the adjective "great" (as in, they'll be read a hundred years from now) and all of them spellbinding reads.
That's off the top of my head but it should get you through spring.
Others that are great--and I mean really great: Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower; Marilynne Robinson's Gilead AND Home AND Housekeeping; Edward St. Aubyn's whole Patrick Melrose cycle; Caleb Crain's Necessary Errors; Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian ...
Ann, I kind of think that it's not so much that good fiction isn't being written as that you just aren't that into reading any of it. That's fair enough, but it's different than there not being any good novels. I feel that way whenever anyone makes a "decline-of-the-arts" argument: no more good music, movies, or books? You're probably just not really looking.
Kevin and Anthony ==
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give several of them a shot. I'm not going to try the Roth - a bit of Portnoy years ago was enough Roth for me. Talented undoubtedly, but too adolescent. (Some authors fail by reason off character, not talent. See Burgess' Enderby.) I know the St. Aubyn fans are wild about him, but I don't generlaly go for historical novels. (I didn't even finish Anna Karennina.) Cormac McCarthy sounds much too violent for me. I've read the Rabbit books because I think Updike's Maples short stories are indeed great, but I wouldn't call the novels great -- they accomplish in a couple of hundred pages what the short stories do in a few dozen. Just yesterday a friend recommended the Fitzgerald, and I hurt her feelings when I said it sounded dull. (She likes really crummy Regency novels. Ugh.) But maybe I'll look at it.
I don't doubt there are a few others out there worth the time. (I've been meaning to look at Charming Billy), but the trouble is I just don't trust critics these days to pan things that deserve it. And I do read some reviews. I even buy a novel occasionally (e.g., a de Lillo's and one of David Foster Wallace). But mostly when I leaf through books at the library, so many of their authors seem to have all gone through the Iowa State Writers Program, or some such common regimen. "Show, don't tell", "Speak in your own voice". "Kill your babies". Few surprises worth noticing.
But thanks. I'll try to keep an open mind.
George Eliot on a familiar social type in the age of reform:
"If we had to describe a man who is retrogressive in the most evil sense of the word--we should say, he is one who would dub himself a reformer of our constitution, while every interest for which he is immediately responsible is going to decay: a philanthropist who cannot bear one rogue to be hanged, but does not mind five honest tenants being half-starved:
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"we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance."
Middlemarch, Part 4, Chapter 38
Abe -- I grant you there's good fiction, and I enjoy a bit of it sometimes . e;g, Richard Russo. He's extremely funny at times, does well drawn characters, has a "sense of place". But shallow. If he had an interest in the existential or the religious or transcendent or even just an interest in the deeper psychological parts of the human psyche, he might have been a great novelist. But he doesn't. So I don't expect him ot be around in a hundred years.
What do you value in a novel?
The first paragraphs of Middlemarch...:
Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order.
That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse.
Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
... and the last:
Certainly those determining acts of her [Dorothea's] life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of a young and noble impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventional life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is for ever gone. But we insignificant people with our daily words and acts are preparing the lives of many Dorotheas, some of which may present a far sadder sacrifice than that of the Dorothea whose story we know.
Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
I have always enjoyed George Eliot's assurance as a stylist and psychological observer. Once you get into her linguistic groove, she's a pretty astute observer of human psychology with a special interest in religious experience, which seems to be an in her best-known novels.
I was surprised to learn that she thought "Romola" was her best novel. It's an awful hard slog even for a fan, the prose is extra stilted, and it takes a lot of stamina not to give up. In the first two-thirds, I wanted to smack Romola upside the head and tell her to grow a spine.
Then it turns into one of the most extraordinary conversion narratives I have ever read.
This is tangential -- about the absence of great Catholic writing these days. Paul Elie, a sometime Commonweal contributor, has started a three-way conversation on the subject over at his blog Everything that Rises. The other two participants are Gregory Wolf, another Commonweal contributor, and Dana Gioia, the poet and critic.
Ann, while I have zero interest in laying out what I value in fiction, I will say that those authors active in the last 30 years who have meant the most to me include Antonio Muñoz Molina, Christoph Ransmayr, Louise Erdrich, Sergei Dovlatov, and--above all others--W.G. Sebald.
Thanks, Abe. I'll take a look.
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If a young Jewish girl was raped, what are the protocols for her getting married? Is there anyone that she can't marry other than the Kohen or Kohen Gadol? What are the halachot for these types of circumstances, and what do you recommend should be the protocol as she is looking to shidduchim now?
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Thank you and welcome to the site. We hope this is a theoretical question; however, Judaism covers the difficult cases too.
First off, this isn't pleasant to bring up, but not all forms of rape would be of halachic consequence to the question at hand; but we'll assume here that this was conventional full penetration, which would present an issue.
The Kohen Gadol issue isn't so relevant at the moment; as you'd indicated, if the rapist was a non-Jew or a close relative, she may not marry a Kohen. (And if the rapist is not identified, we'd generally assume it was a non-Jew.) Most shadchanim simply have a checkbox -- "are you ineligible to marry a Kohen?" The lady can simply check this -- or say "sorry no Kohanim" without giving another drop of detail. Could be her father wasn't Jewish, could be she had a non-Jewish boyfriend, could be rape, could be all sorts of things -- none of it is the shadchan's business.
(If the rapist was a Jew who was not closely related to the victim, she may still marry a Kohen.) (Source below.)
The important thing for this young woman would be (well hopefully all criminal and medical issues have been resolved first) to spend some time with a mental-health professional to make sure she is healing properly and can look forward to a life of positive sexual experiences within the framework of marriage. Please don't think "oh I'll get married and then all my problems will disappear" -- it's not fair to you or your spouse.
Provided she is emotionally okay, this is quite frankly none of a young man's business on a first date or two. She does not have to walk around at a singles event with a sign on her hat saying HI MY NAME IS JUDY; I WAS RAPED. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ruled that a young widow could remove her hair covering, see if she could meet someone, and then explain her past to a suitor at some point in the dating process if things are looking like they are headed quite seriously. (Depending on your culture, this is probably sometime around the 3rd date or so.) I think the same would apply here; assuming whatever trauma issues have been resolved, first go find someone with whom things look promising, then explain the situation before any serious decisions are made. (And if a man meets a woman and likes everything about her for several dates, then suddenly would drop her because of something in her past that's of no halachic or psychological consequence, then phooey to him. Rabbi Ovadya Yosef has, in his written responsa, a question from a woman who had given up for adoption an out-of-wedlock child years earlier and never told her current husband.)
As for the wording in the ketubah -- "betultah" simply means "kohen eligible." If this woman is not kohen-eligible, the preferred wording is "it'ta" (simply Aramaic for "woman.") If she chooses to go this route, only a small handful of people need to know this; this is none of the crowd's business, and they can instruct whoever's reading the ketubah so say "betulta" out-loud instead.
Rambam, Laws of Prohibitions on Relations, Ch. 18:
From a Biblical standpoint (ie, in the times of Tanach, but not necessarily today), the rapist was required to marry the girl he raped, should she wish to do so.
Deuteronomy 22
Why would she wish to marry him? Ancient peoples placed great emphasis on purity and virginity, and the victim would be considered defiled and disgraced (in addition to no longer being a virgin.) As such, her marriage prospects were very slim, and she might choose to marry her attacker rather than face the prospect of never getting married. This unfortunate situation (ie, that rape is viewed as shameful for the victim, not the attacker) is still prevalent in many places today, such as rural India.


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Special feature: Bernardin's consistent ethic of life, thirty years later
Thirty years ago Friday, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin came to Fordham University to deliver a follow-up lecture on the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter "The Challenge of Peace" [.pdf], a presentation in which he introduced his formulation for a consistent ethic of life [.pdf].
I was a freshman at Fordham in December 1983; dealing for the first time with end-of-term papers and final exams, I did not attend the lecture. But it was big news on campus (and off), its key passages highlighted in the official student paper and discussed in my theology, philosophy, and political science courses in the semesters to come. To an eighteen-year-old recently compelled by the 1980 proclamation from President Carter to register for the draft, and made further anxious (like many of my classmates) by the belligerence of the Reagan administration's nuclear-weapons rhetoric—limned with references to scripture—Bernardin's wedding of issues made sudden, stunning sense. A pro-life position consisted of more than focusing singularly on abortion; it also meant opposing what he called "the moral and political futility of nuclear war" and directing states "against the exercise" of capital punishment. A formulation like "consistent ethic of life" provided shape for inchoate railings against what I was beginning to think of as the injustices of the day, coming along in time for the moral and political awakening common to first-year students. I still remember the weather (pouring Bronx rain) and how my mother drove the seventy miles from New Jersey to hear Bernardin in person, a basket of all my younger brothers' laundry in the back seat because the washing machine had broken down and she needed to stop at a Laundromat on the way home.
That's my personal reflection, in service of directing you to a more thorough and informed discussion over on our website. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of Bernardin's lecture, we've asked four contributors to reassess his idea for a consistent ethic of life and to comment on its influence and its relevance today. Lisa Fullam, David Cloutier, Robert P. Imbelli, and Cathleen Kaveny are the participants in the discussion, "Consistent Ethic of Life, Thirty Years Later," which you can find here. Once you've read it, come back to this post to share your comments.
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Used both pastoral letters in teaching during the mid-1980s and have continued to quote and use Bernardin's Common Ground Initiative. Two of your presentors highlight the connection between Francis and Bernardin's approaches (especially in terms of not making abortion or, now, same sex marriage the only issues as if everything else is secondary).
Prof. Kaveny's summary hits the nail on the head.........unfortunately, Law (talk about a lack of a consistent ethic of life), Weigel (who never met trickle down economic theory he didn't love), and Neuhaus (whose overbearing neo-conservativism missed the actual *conservative* which is the total and consistent ethic of life across all issues) only reinforced Kaveny's *cultic* religion and whose extremism defeated any type of on-going efforts to engage and influence American culture (all three never passed up a chance to define themselves by being against something......but, by always saying NO, they never engaged and never *encountered* US culture).
IMO, the bishops currently have failed - the Fortnight for Freedom is a good example of cherrypicking so that any consistent ethic for life becomes impossible. Their continued failure on Humanae Vitae only drives a *cultic* view of catholicism and too often their focus on abortion or same sex marriage becomes anti-abortion or anti-gay rather than any gospel oriented approach on human dignity or even basic pro-life initiatives.
- Cdl Dolan was on Meet the Press last Sunday (the usual blowhard good ole boy act). So, in addressing the issue of health insurance for all (essential part of human dignity and human rights per papal and USCCB documents for decades) Dolan skipped past this and focused on contraception and abortion and immigration. Thus, the ACA's consistent ethic of life is not supported because - Congress's compromise eliminated illegal immigrants from the program and ACA covers contraception/abortion. (except the abortion part is incorrect and a Dolan meme from Fox News and contraception ignores the reality that 90% of all catholics practice birth control). Thus, any type of consistent ethic of life is sacrificed to single issues. (interesting that folks such as Charles Curran continue to use Bernardin's approach and calls statements such as Dolan's to be asserting *certitude* where there is none)
Almost any reputable study about abortion will show that *poverty* or *lack of education* is the primary driving force behind abortion. Bernardin's approach would be that the church must address current realities - job loss; lack of educational opportunities; disparities between the rich and poor; access to health clinics, housing; or, as Obama said yesterday, too high a percentage of Americans are born into poverty and have little to no chance of ever escaping poverty (sounds like we still live in Victorian times - Charles Dickens anyone). Yet, our bishops rarely sponsor a *Fortnight for Freedom* on minimum wage increase; addressing the inequality in prison sentences/population; gun laws; immigration reform; early childhood education; affordable housing. All of these are *life issues* - why is abortion seen as the only issue and unconnected to all of these other realities? Fact - poverty; lack of health insurance; poor housing; neighborhood violence can all result in the loss of life - why is abortion special?
Same sex marriage - this now appears to be joining abortion as the top issue rather than any type of consistent approach to human dignity. Unfortunately, an approach that respects human dignity clashes with an *older( (or outdated) natural law concept that clashes with science; the church's position on equality and freedom; etc. This outdated natural law approach assumes *certitude* about human sexuality (which science appears to contradict) and, too often, earlier papal pronouncements treated gays as less than human.
Finally, two other discussion points
a) Ms. Fullum touches upon one of these....too often the current singular focus does not include any feminine perspectives, experiences, or even medical knowledge (the celibate, male theology appears to be self-referential and clerical vs. a consistent ethic of life that respects all human dignity);
b) too often the use of a new category - *intrinsic evil* - has obscured and discouraged Bernardin's consistent ethic of life. Yet, even this intrinsic evil approach is not consistent (it feels more like a condemnation battering ram)......intrinsic evils include divorce; lying; etc. and yet the church doesn't react the same way...this only highights the inconsistencies and picking/choosing that is the current USCCB approach. (could we have an exorcism over that behavior?)
I was a sophomore at Fordham in December 1983 and attended the lecture. I even had a chance to speak to Cardinal Bernadin after it. (Personal aside, the NY Times actually used a picture of my conversation with Bernadin on its front page the next day. My two seconds of fame. The other student in the photo, his name is Lawrence Downes, made better use of his 2 seconds -- he now sits on the editorial board of the Times.)
My conversation with the Cardinal focused an another lecture given at Fordham about 7 months earlier by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Weinberger's speech was an attempt to whitewash the clear prophetic challenge the bishop's Peace Pastoral to Reagan's militarism. The Reagan Administration clearly did not like the idea of not being able to count on the support or silence of the bishops on these issues. Bernadin told me he was very much aware of Weinberger's speech and part of the reason he accepted the invitation to give the Gannon Lecture was to respond to Weinberger and re-affirm that the Challenge of Peace was indeed meant to challenge current US nuclear policy.
No rich people on death row and the rich have can go anywhere to have an abortion. Even pay enough to have it done in their homes. Novak, Weigel and Novak appealed to the pope to approve the Iraq war which everyone now sees as a complete disaster. Very little done as to the reasons for abortion. Mostly poor people dying in the wars. Certainly no one or few in the W administration. Law and Co ganged up on Bernardine and won the war on words (unambiguosly pro life) shouting at the government officials at Cardinal O'Donnell's funeral. The coverup revealed those with no clothes. But the politics continues.
Francis is shifting the direction. We will see how it plays out.
Should be Nuehaus, Weigle and Novak.
Re: Professor Fullam's post
If Cardinal Bernadin in his speech left rendered the pregnant woman "invisible," it seems to me, at least from my perch in progressive, brownstone Brooklyn, the fetus/baby suffers that fate now, at least in some circle. I dare not mention the question of the life of the unborn fetus/child in polite, liberal society (on either side of the East River) lest I be considered a Republican monster wanting to force back-alley abortions on women. I would conjecture that society and culture surrounding Fullam in the Bay Area is not that different (though the weather is often more pleasant).
What a terrific ensemble of contributors on the topic of the Consistent Ethic. There is an interesting symmetry in the views of Lisa Fullam and Joseph Bernardin's conservative detractors. It seems like their lament is very similar to the inability Lisa articulates "to wholeheartedly embrace the idea of the consistent ethic of life because of important differences between the issue he sought to unite" and when she calls for "recognition that there can be a diversity of particular policy judgments even among those who share fundamental commitments." Which begs the question: Do we really share fundamental commitments?
I am intrigued with David Cloutier's appropriation of the term 'culture warrior' for Bernardin's quest to shape a cultural consensus on attitudes but I fear it is too late for such a redefinition. We're stuck with the traditional meaning which he well renders as "the sense of a hostile, brooding presence condemning some aspect of 'the culture.'"
It pains me to see how the Bernardin 'moment' was squandered (and causes me to fear for the durability of the Bergoglio 'moment.') In her essay, Cathleen Kaveny nails the incredible damage conservative Catholic culture warriors inflicted on the Consistent Ethic. While the predominant responsibility for the ethic's demise rests squarely on the shoulders of anti-abortion culture warriors, not all the responsibility can be laid there. Damage was also inflicted by their mirror image: anti-anti-abortion culture warriors.
Keen fans of the prolife hypocrisy trope, anti-anti-abortion Catholic culture warriors share an often hostile and brooding disdain for those who take the opposite position. They rarely detect and call out prochoice hypocrisy. Catholics for Choice discourse is safe from their scrutiny notwithstanding its major influence on national opinion leaders.
Anti-anti-abortion culture warriors can be incapable of even imagining how compassion rather than control might motivate fierce advocacy for the unborn. Somewhere along the line, prolifers became 'them,' and 'they' were stereotyped as a pretty loathsome lot at that. 'Their' inability to move on, 'their' preoccupation with the unborn is frankly an embarrassment among prochoice friends and colleagues
Anti-anti-abortion Catholics are distinctly unenthusiastic about consistent ethic formulations that don't deemphasize abortion. It is as if they invert the bishops' priorities. Whereas for the bishops' abortion is reflexively assigned the undisputed #1 spot on the Top 10 list, for anti-anti-abortion Catholics it is #11 if it makes the list at all.
Lisa says that renewed attention to the consistent ethic "might even begin to heal the deep ideological divide in the church that, alas, has become deeper and broader since Bernardin's time." I hope so. Most Catholics aren't culture warriors. As noncombatants in the culture wars, they might respond well to a reconsideration of the consistent ethic. So polarized are we, however, I wonder if there are Catholics willing to lead such a discussion without sinking into culture war rhetoric. The megaphones deployed by both sets of culture warriors serve as impediments to a new appreciation of the seamless garment. As David says, "Any Catholic equally committed to all the components of Bernardin's framework is likely to feel caught in a no-man's land between warring camps."
One the greatest cultural warriors Pat Buchanan said in 1990: "The agenda [Bill] Clinton and [Hillary] Clinton would impose on America — abortion on demand, a litmus test for the Supreme Court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat — that's change, all right. But it is not the kind of change America wants. It is not the kind of change America needs. And it is not the kind of change we can tolerate in a nation that we still call God's country"
America now is not only for homosexual rights but even supports their right to marry. Women in combat is more accepted. Abortion on demand is still prominent despite some wacky legislators. So much for what America wants.
@ A. Andreassi: I think you're right--while magisterial teaching explicitly rules out the woman's health as a consideration in thinking about abortion, and implicitly teaches that the woman's life doesn't matter either, (by ruling the fetus "not an unjust agressor," as Bernardin repeats in the Fordham lecture), on the other side of the divide there's a tendency to disregard fetuses entirely. For most of the women I know who've had abortions, their feelings lie in the middle, between the "only the embryo counts" side and the "only the woman counts" side. But the extreme positions on either side tend not to hear their voices.
In a consistent ethic of life, I'd imagine, women's lives should count for something.


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The U.S. Bishops' Border Mass for Immigration Reform
Today at noon (Eastern time), a group of U.S. bishops, led by Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley, will say Mass at the border wall between Mexico and the United States in Nogales, Arizona. "Following the example given by Pope Francis at the Italian island of Lampedusa, where where the Holy Father remembered migrants from Africa who have died trying to reach the island and Europe, the bishops will call attention to the humanitarian consequences of the broken U.S. immigration system."
You can watch a livestream of the Mass, and learn more about the Justice for Immigrants effort, here. It will be followed by a press conference. [UPDATE: Watch the whole thing below.]
Why Nogales? Read Ananda Rose Robinson's 2009 Commonweal article "Borderline: Stranded in Nogales" for a look at what conditions are like there for immigrants, and those who help them.
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"...the bishops will call attention to the humanitarian consequences of the broken U.S. immigration system."
In fact, the immigration system is not broken. The problem is that the present immigration laws are not being enforced. And the wall that was promised but never completed (and which proved to be quite effective where it was built) completes the fiasco. Were the laws to be strictly enforced and the wall completed, the flow of illegal immigrants would slow to a managable quantity. As far as the illegals already here, as they come up on the radar, they get processed according to the laws. And last but not least, those people who came here in violation of our immigration laws, and brought their children, they are responsible for the mess they created, not the U.S., and therefore it is up to them to resolve their problem. It is so unfair to those who came here in compliance with our immigration laws and did all that they were required to do to just give all illegals instant legal status.
And Mollie, this is not a troll.
It is very encouraging to see the effect which Pope Francis is having on the Church, and on the US Bishops.
God Bless
Mr. Schwartz clearly does not live at the border, live among immigrant populations nor pay much attention to international economics like the utterly violent so-called "free trade" agreements which have destroyed the Mexican rural economy driving millions of people to search for work anywhere.
Perhaps for the remainder of Lent he might read "true" accounts of the plight of immigrants like that of the Houston Catholic Worker's founders Mark and Louise Zwick's book "Mercy Without Borders".
It is not clear to me what a "violent" trade agreement is, or for that matter what a "violent" agreement of any sort is. As far as the plight of immigrants, are you referring to illegal immigrants? And do you mean those living in the U.S. in violation of our immigration laws, or those living in Mexico, Central America, or South America planning on entering illegally? By the way, to me the fact that so many want desperately to come here to live is testimony to the greatness of our country, it's constitution, and it's political structure. And looking at Mexico, and especially Venezuela tells me all I want to know about Mexico's constitution, and Venezuela's socialist nightmare. But I digress.
Cardinal O'Malley's homily is a masterpiece! Thank you, Pope Francis for recognizing his gifts.
Bob S., some might consider this a "violent" trade agreement:
It is estimated that 2 million family farms have been lost since NAFTA has been enacted, and that 20-25% of the Mexican population is food-insecure. Now of course there are other factors that enter in. But it is a fact that the price that farmers are able to get for their crops have been driven down; at the same time the price of food has gone up, largely due to NAFTA. Which, BTW, has not done American workers any favors, either. I'm not saying that all illegal immigrants are here because they couldn't feed their families at home. But a significant number of them are. The path to legal residency is expensive, long, and uncertain. Some people are sufficiently desperate that they take a short cut. I'm not so certain that if my family was hungry I wouldn't do the same. I feel that we need to reconsider some other possible approaches, such as maybe a guest worker program. And it's time to put a fork in NAFTA, for the sake of American workers as well as those beyond our borders.
This one statement from the article you recommended I read,
"As heavily subsidized U.S. corn and other staples poured into Mexico, producer prices dropped and small farmers found themselves unable to make a living."
Gave me pause. Why are American taxpayers subsidizing corn and other staples? This sounds like the problem is not NAFTA but the fact that American taxpayers are subsidizing American farmers, something that I oppose as a conservative.
Well, Bob, I'd recommend that your look up David Stockman's account of what happened when the almost-sainted Ronald Reagan tried to stop the subsidies for American farmers. The top frugal Republicans from the Senate rushed to his office to tell him: "Farm subsidies are Republican welfare!" That was the end of that, and there were only conservatives in the room at the death watch.
In fact, the immigration system is not broken. The problem is that the present immigration laws are not being enforced.
Bob, I would urge you and everyone to become familiar with the US bishops' critique of our current immigration system. This landing page provides helpful summaries and a variety of resources to do deeper dives on some of the important issues: current policies that are harmful to families, mistreatment of undocumented individuals, and root causes of injustices in our existing policies. I don't believe the Catholic church would agree with your statement that "the immigration system is not broken".
Regarding enforcement: in some ways, the Obama Administration has actually been more committed to enforcement than previous administrations, including Republican administrations. And this at some political risk, as Spanish-speaking Americans, who tend to be quite sympathetic to the plight of undocumented individuals, are an important part of the Democratic political base. I don't think the conservative perception that the Obama Administration has been "soft" on immigration squares with the facts. In addition, the immigration reforms that President Obama has proposed have been modest, common-sense, and are aligned with church teaching. That they haven't succeeded says more about our current political dysfunction than it does about the quality of the President's proposals. I would say the same, by the way, about common-sense conservative proposals like guest worker programs.


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all those apps drive me nuts using the remote as a keyboard does not work well for me...no other complaints
This seems like an insane price for a wifi bluray player, no?
Check out the Amazon Reviews. I was going to get one, but not after this....
mabe so when you consider they are now (diff brands) half the price i paid
It seems to be a good deal but be aware that this is not progressive scan and it is not 3D compatible.
Samsung Blu-ray players are some of the most unreliable on the market. I've owned two now and had to go 'Office Space' on both of them. After that, and a $1,400 Samsung LCD that quit after two years, I will never touch their products again.
Don't just walk away from this "deal" Run very very fast. Samsung has horrid customer support. I had to send mine back for repair which incidentally was a replacement for the D5700 that was sent back twice for repair. They never offered anything else but "repair" I was without a unit for a total of 1.5 months. This caused me to NEVER buy another Samsung product in any shape or form... EVER....
@cengland0: You're confusing what progressive scan means to a DVD/Blu-Ray player. Blu-ray discs all play at 1080p, which is progressive scan. What your probably thinking of is upscaling, when a standard DVD is played at HD quality. But that doesn't matter either, because all major brand blu-ray players upscale to at least 720p, which is still progressive scan. If the player wasn't progressive scan it would output a 1080i, or 720i picture (i = interlaced). You might be able to choose that if your TV displays as such, but there is no question that all blu-ray players are in fact progressive scan.
Bought this on regular Woot a couple of weeks ago figuring if the apps didn't work and the Wifi sucked, it'd still be a cheap Bluray player. The good: upconversion for regular DVDs is great, Bluray works. The so-so: when plugged into the router, the apps work okay. I can get decent Netflix and Hulu+. The bad: stupid thing does not remember where the show left off so if you're watching a series DVD you have to figure out what episode you were on. Even my 10+ year old Sony DVD player does that (man that thing is still chugging along). Remote response is painfully slow as is connecting to the apps. WiFi range is ridiculous. Small place and router was just two rooms away, no signal. If you're trying to improve your signal don't set anything on top of the box, I was told sometimes the WiFi receiver receives signal there. Bottom line: If you can plug it into your router, want a Bluray player, and have something much cooler to fall back on like AppleTV...you can't lose at this price.
@daver1617: You might be right but I'm just going by the comparison chart here:
It shows that it does not support Progressive Scan. Perhaps that's when you're playing a DVD but that would still be annoying to me if you put in a DVD and all you get is 480i instead of the 480p.
Even Samsung's website doesn't mention Progressive Scan capabilities:
I could be wrong but after seeing that comparison chart, I'd like to get confirmation that it can do 1080p and that it will also play a progressive scan DVD in 480p. Do you have any links that shows it will?
After reading all the reviews for all the different Blu-Ray players, I have decided to just cough up the cash and buy another PS3.
Only 5 minutes left if you want it.
Looks like they relisted it for 24 more hours.
Now $59.95....
Its dead.


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Consider simple diffusion $dX_t = \sigma dw_t$ and a parameter $a>0$ and $X_0=x$. Let us denote $Y_t = X_{at}$ - thus we made a change of time. Let us denote an original measure as $P$. How to find measure $Q$ such that the process $Y$ is obtained through the process $X$ not with the change of time but with a change of measure, i.e. $$ \mathcal{Law}(Y\text{ under }P) = \mathcal{Law}(X\text{ under } Q). $$ Maybe it is possible to find the density process $$ Z_t = \frac{dQ_t}{dP_t} $$ like for the case when we're looking for the martingale measure? Unfortunately, now it seems the Girsanov theorem is useless for my case.
for example, if $\sigma$ is a constant, then $Y$ satisfies $dY_t = \sqrt{a} \sigma dW_t$ so that the law $\mathbb{Q}_Y$ and $\mathbb{Q}_X$ of the processes $Y$ and $X$ on the Wiener space $C([0;T],\mathbb{R})$ are generaly singular: in other words $\frac{d \mathbb{Q}_Y}{d \mathbb{Q}_X} = 0$ if $|a| \neq 1$.
I think what you are looking for is not attainable (at least I can't see how) because the time change changes the filtration of the processes you are studying.
Nevertheless you can get by the transform below an equivalent process that the one you get by time change. (from $X_t=\sigma W_t$ getting $Y_t=dW_t$)
Under some conditions on the volatility of the diffusion you can (by so-called Lamperti's Transformation) get a process with unit volatility + drift term, then use change of measure technique (i.e. Girsanov) to get back to pure diffusion term and you are done.
NB: You can adapt Lamperti's transform (+ Girsanov) to get a process equal in law to your time change in more general case.
with this operation you still don't get the same law under different measure (because you have to transform the process first) but at least you stay within the same filtation.
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