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Stagger a vision nobody tonight at nine right here on news radio and I'm thirty the president will travel to Chicago. Which is his hometown and give his farewell address I could not be happier I cannot I cannot contain my lead. One can only hope that. That before he is a replaced by. I'm Donald Trump president elect he doesn't let all the prisoners on jail. Maybe he's got another shot. A left in them so let me even more prisoners out of jail. One of our tax says let's just hope they don't steal anything on the way out. That's a that's a reference to the clintons when the clintons left office that took furniture would them. And but. It wasn't there as they're written on it they just talk. And so they had to bring it back can you imagine the humiliation. A being a former. The president and First Lady having to return furniture that they that they. Talk and talks stall and pay for it as. I have Billy's eyes and yeah exactly so that's a reference that I know I I think VO Mamas and pick up their own furniture I'm sure they'll be fine without but I'm just glad. That he is leaving and I'd like your farewell express meanwhile regarding Meryl Streep you know Merrill. I like deal as a as a media performer very good is no sense and denying that. Just is extra eyes and as a performer I don't have to like your politics but you're basically dishonest. In and you are a speech at the Golden Globes because you left one war record out a or that change is everything. And the word is illegal. When she was going down the laundry list of if we didn't let this group in the country at Bagram a country. First she's at all have left is that MMA and football. Believe me Merle load via a lot of people will be glad to keep football and am remained Garrity you. But that's another story shoes a worthwhile artist she's I think she's one numerous numerous award is nonsense and denying that. But by leaking the ordeal the legal now she's being dishonest. Totally dishonest because she puts the order legal and she loses her allies. Because then she is promoting illegal activity. And the of the legalities came from a congress went to a president. Signed by a president that's the way we do things in this country allegedly. I'd and so she wouldn't have the complaint she has as if she leaves the word illegal now Tony give me a couple of them all the. Or you're gonna like this one I'd go to Bobby says thanks for eight years of low gas prices thanks for bringing value back to my home thanks for getting us out. Of the terrible recession caused by greedy politicians okay. And thank you Bobby for allowing a little humor to get on the show Donnie is to is cherry picking somebody's just because there aren't a lot of the easily get some. But we got a lot of them and that's the reason when when your screen and there we ask you basically what you're gonna say not though not Asencio not at all it's to balance the show because occasionally we'll get subjects that. We don't get many calls on the other side of the subject. And so have we do get something all right today as a class and and those so we can balance it out and that's what Tony's going. Tony is that it is is timing is turning the knife in between the rebels. Big time as well this is another Bobby and it's gonna continue. Thank you President Obama you will be missed the new president elect is dividing the people a bucket is a laughingstock. The president's dividing the people all I love this. That's as Jacqui thank you for posting that Jackie is. As my idea is my pet nickname for Shaquille grain of course who is the definitive Vegas comedian thank you guys I enjoyed that. So where are going to be divided. Because of from and of course we were so together would Obama. GIA. I hate to lose that in on talking about. Let's go to Tom in Boston time there on WB again. Your candidate. Pleasure to hear here. Childers Roy. Well I think you've done what Jeff Morris. Well now that Obama would go aren't easy mistake about it solid city in the bridge loan that India had been damaged in one sentence you about or are. Went six years later. Six years after parliament he says brought up well they're playing and then made gains and organized stealing all been so you'd be. And hundreds of millions there be ashamed of themselves they did it take it Capel arguments yield which is why. Well I'm telling you. People that are against an agenda world go to billions of the earth to find some thing that they can quote. That little look unfavorable so it doesn't surprise me Carl's big boy he can handle himself and has in the past thank you thank you very much. Also yesterday the farewell address give me yours Merrill Streep. Bigamy your opinion overtake keep in mind. She was quivering when she was delivery and she's an actress she may have legitimately felt as they should affected. What I am saying is she's a performer. And she was performing. But to me to be honest would you. A especially Hollywood. They live a fantasy life. They live in gated communities. There's all kinds of armed security around the if you bumped into a minister of market they might say hello maybe they'll just signal your own house. And made millions and millions of dollars. For what they do but they don't understand why anybody else in business should be making millions of dollars and put them down now. They today here's the life they lead. They going to work in the morning somebody probably drives them there. They sit in a maker of chairs somebody puts on their makeup. They sit and another chair somebody does there hair. They go to someplace else and they put on a costume made by somebody else. And they go to a stage this lit by technicians. They go to was staged its led by some people okay. Then a men they have memorized. Words that somebody else wrote. And then they look at the camera or look where they're supposed to look. Miles somebody else's words underneath somebody else's hair with somebody else's makeup. And read words that they didn't even think of OK may be good at it. But don't give me this crap about how all Mo and you are. All I mean you probably couldn't do any of the jobs necessary to get you on camera. But that's fine you're very good at it now pay my money and and watch movies in the future when I'm saying is. He got to be a little hypocritical. To think that you have all the original thoughts in the world. When you're living in such a fantasy world yourself will be back after this. It is it's refreshing. Even though there they're still believe thing. There's though winning and whining because they lost the election is still refreshing to see the process began to get the cabinet members seated. That's very good presume the president will take the oath of office. Antonio when he takes the growth will know that what do you like him or not he means what he's saying. He's going to dry and doing as best he can now he may find some things that. Are not doable after you get into office but. At least we go we got a better feeling about this guy that he is not just another example of what we just spent eight years on. So I'm very very pleased and I would like your farewell message to him as he is going to give his there Rome while message to you tonight. On WBM and 9 o'clock from Chicago. Let's code to Joseph in on a cell phone Joseph Iran WB yen. Lawler and I'm fine job I understand your musical guys and you have a little tone for us. Yeah I got a little to own their personal like this say you know he brought the country down or no doubt about it enough vote for the man. But I was hoping he would do better and he he letter solves our I have never seen this country sort of like that totals liberal that are listening I'm sorry but you gotta. Wrong you know you picked the wrong guy blow we we were in a position where he could have done a lot of good and he didn't. And that's the truth so it's much at least singer they're afraid to think we're out continental there's still another calm enough that actually went not afraid. This thing attributes on the Barack Obama is way out to you by command with current. Case. It so by the way public tightly sang this song your physical self farewell for a high school. And he with the quest guy never does anybody remember in the interview he'd get depressed they were trying to ask them where he fell on the Vietnam War. It'd stick coal belt on he said all hunting. They keep my political views to myself I'm just an entertainer. And when he got drafted he went willingly they shaved his head. And that a lot of go lot of good for road recruiting and things like that. Class so yeah regarding my song and none of illegal okay. Sheryl though Barack hope. Mulch who and reed and Jerry Hughes. Are all bad June. Does the data crisis every king and true. We will back. Lady and I know you used geared at all. Abuse than me the as. You Reuters at all. There'll. But. Little intricate and that you move them. Jeanne. You know you're here after the war. Guys have other video he'll be here always hear the holiday and I think he should be a lyricist hello I'm a well nobody uttered or dried Joni. I'm sorry I hit the gong could. Or might it did during really isn't going here is when they were making homemade songs about the bills. And that I go to Wisconsin the first juvenile was overwhelming makings army songs up there and couldn't get away from them but it was a nice drive it was a good shot. Also Meryl Streep hordes argue about that. I don't know how you can talk about Merrill. Sure what she's dead and nobody's there nobody is saying this is not a consummate artist Joshi is we all know that but she is also dishonest because she did not use the word illegal. When she it was a reference thing people coming into this country and Donald Trump basically a motion to mention my name. Wanting to cut them off. Is she to issue his. Using a ploy trying to appeal to your heart strings without the essential word of illegal. You may have a great deal of empathy as I do for people want a better life to come here. But I don't have any empathy for people who do it illegally and and she knows that. And that's why they won't use that word and it's got to be really frustrating. Just that one simple. Word illegal. Let's go to us ozone and buffalo on of this my ex wife Suzanne here on WB. How how are you I'm finally you know my ex wife harnesses and I. Don't think they'll I think that we will have remembered it what do you have for us today. Well I would. I will see on elm street Mike's favorite actor it's about time on. We're on the opposite she ran pretty. Well been you know Warren on the bike to India and hoping that she Cairo. I'm not a political like she gets that eighteen months. And unfortunately she you know with the low road. Yet quote shall our outgoing for a slightly when they go no we go high. Obviously she knew Atlantic. Yeah I end today you know they've all they have for standing is a camera and the she has no more our intellectual rights. And then you do for her own opinions she can have urge you can have viewers and it shouldn't hold any more weight because she's a good actress. An opinion wealth on how well researched. Is welcome by anybody vote because she has that captive audience and because there are people all I like jury in that film so she must be telling the truth. That that I think it's really taking advantage of me. And and she should take a lot from you know really superb. Practices such recently departed. I don't know wonderful entertainer. Wonderfully accurate. On. You know cancer political views. Why I mean all the cheap unfortunately personally in the public eye on you know not nothing of her file on but. Happening at the different you look at something like that and then you look at some extra. I got in from outshot. I think that they do it against street cred aware of of the other actors and people in Hollywood. And yet there are people of courage I read several times Donnie Wahlberg schools shut by now law. And he didn't say well. Mark Wahlberg I'm a marker giving him his broad mix them Mark Wahlberg did you see those quotes yes ice while they've been on all over now she seems so that's good yeah you should have a right to and you shouldn't. Should be discounted because you are an actress. But you have a worldwide audience watching a TV show though they'll probably do it at the Oscars through bill take advantage of anytime they have. That many people that are willing to listen to him but I'm what you I wish you a big captive to herself. So that says she doesn't taint in my mind any performance as the year in the future thank you. And I'm in look like this. What has brush they've never given him should get you good performance. So she's taken your your your money for the ticket and you felt that was money well spent an issue donning elsewhere. As she held to it and it. As she watched her processor. She babysit your kids. She hasn't done anything for you you and oranges and Leo but she is she is going to give her her political view because you like terrorism performer. There's a lot of people like that. That are willing to use their position. To try and further their political position. And I think. You know you can do it if you want to know I guess and you're taking a chance. He commands the Dick's teacher so that worked out for them just starting to get there they're sea legs back after all these years. You have a right to say whatever you want. And I have a right to do whatever I want I can go to your move not only remotely. I'm Kim though like you. Again like you I don't care what your political views are and that's the hokey. If you weren't asked. About it like this. What is it warrant a movie star. What is today you're going to the dentist. And the Dennis casual in his or her chair. And there are about to start drilling when all of a sudden they start spewing. How much they hate to see Barack Obama leave the White House and blah blah blah blah blah. He wouldn't accept that. What if your doctor did that. Now what are your cab driver did that what if you're what are your lift driver did that. What are your airplane pilot did it what does any other profession did it what do the clerk at wegmans did it. What if they did you wouldn't accept it but because it's a movie star. And is surrounded by other movie stars in the limos are outside waiting and all the women have diamonds. That they have to bring back by the way to borrow most of them and they're wearing designer gowns and they are paired looks fabulous I guess they. Have more importance than the person engines Karachi the port jobs of the local meat market. Why. Good question. Why eyes that they have any more knowledge than you probably not. But they have a way of giving a good presentation mode. We'll be back. After. Okay. And ads policy 9 o'clock in the president will give his farewell address and you know give his thoughts as the eight years when. In the his opinion you can agree with a just threw it at your will but I'd like you to give the president York farewell address policies they divide him. It over Montreal on 80616926. 9:30 AM I think he's wandered. Squandered a you know I'm really good opportunity. They're going to bring people together and instead it's worse than it was before now Tony on your FaceBook page musical notes low little calmer. Saddam he had this basically sums up with a our our our last poster. OK okay. You're a piano there. Sony's dancing. It's his 25 anniversary. No Molineaux. I hit the road jag and Nomo a brother ray. That's also very Hillary Clinton. No magma dome. Very good hit the road Jack a musical tribute. And by the way we mentioned earlier a few days ago it was being bandied about that Hillary Clinton. Was I was being pressured by encouraged. To run for mayor of New York to run against the blahs EO and rounds and some is itself or Null. Stop bet it's the end of your. Political career. And then it was speculated that as she did that when Cuomo ran for presidency to run for governor all of these terrible thoughts racing through my mind. But last night on television they spokesperson alleged spokesperson. I'm closer said she has done in the running for office. As she always she wants to. Spend the rest of her it's time working with children it's nice that's good coaches as well. Who would that just don't answer my vote anymore not that you have gotten it in the first placement. Just tired of it. Let's go to Peter and saint Catherine's Peter your on WB again. And the good morning thank you very much and yeah that's good morning Peter what do you think what do you think what do you think your farewell address to the president. Well. Food so who knows he has been. The most devastating president in my lifetime I think in the last two to forty years to the United States and consequently to wooed. I mean you ask anybody if I would addressing him I was in the the president. I would like you to tell us one thing and don't see talks. Boot it up because that was already put him in its lead by bush and poston and those guys you just button it up. That was not an accomplishment. Because as taxpayers still would it's got money was stolen from the practice so can you name one thing to have done just want to look ten. I think he kind of knew that broke currency. I would look at him and I would say. So black crime. African Americans. Is our hopes of do it it is it it's it's it's in this kind now it is. It it you have been Australia. The black condition has worsened dramatically under EU. Crime unemployment six sectors that you have been out Celia. What I will Warner society and I think this is very important and it and it touches on something that. I'm Pete had said I think that. I would wanna ask him. Mr. President bluntly. We elect whether I'm Canadian but you guys we have Seattle we elected you and you have three. Islamic names you name is Barack Hussein Obama. I won and why. I think no one has about us and that's why is you and means that. Dan I would look like and what. Are you going to do would backlight Marta because what Pete said it is I think it's been me and consume mr. trump is gonna see this guy. Has not moved out of Washington. And we're not know go to Washington and accused had he put in many poisoned toads. We can all of those different agencies. Such that you think he's no longer president but yet people ruled around the through higher up. Who's going to be communicating with him and keep him informed on things that trump is doing he's sub slipping him. So I would want mr. trump. I would want to succumb to move from every single agency in the United States government. Four deep from top four levels down I would what accounts salute every single accept cuts. But every single agency I would want every single pact would change every one. No one if you see that when the government a horse candidate have been to government cohorts for a week. And to east title well because once every single thing that Obama touched. We want that we've. That is under our top to bottom up trojans. I hear what you're saying I think he wants the mere shadow president. Because no president in modern times stayed around Washington. They go they left they had they did their duty in fact. The founding fathers wanted people to run for office. Go to Washington do what they do at the end of their term go home to their real lives and their real wives and their real families. And he's not gonna do that because I think. He doesn't wanna like go power if I could ask him a question and he worked under all not under oath that wouldn't matter if it was hypnotized or truth serum I would say. Look what back at the last eight years would you do with the same way again. Because I think if you are really truthful he would have to admit that that way did not work. Whether society. I don't know what was your objective and first this is almost as what you said Julia the United States and consequently the wound. Lost is very important years because nothing he has done. Not one act nothing. Has benefited United States people who do. We've got to bear that we have to mend fences now we have to go back and undo. A lot of the things he did and regain the trust of our allies and rebuild our military. And there's a long list of to do's that'll take at least there the first term of this president. You're right instead of passing a baton and moving forward we got a clean up the mess thank you appear appreciate it. That's all think I would love. If he had to tell the truth had do we resource to lose him and to guys who have gone through Surma summit would you do with the same. Because if you irrational. He'd say well here's what I accomplishes what I didn't accomplish and I think the didn't accomplish was much bigger. I cannot make an image as this earlier if I were black I'd be furious. I would be boy I would be furious. Because what a wonderful opportunity. To make things better for everybody. Amend a law a lot of these deep feelings. That we've had in our past history of various. Clashes and things like that to get things together. And he blow. He just blow it he did it it was all about him it was all about revenge. It it was like him going house to house saying I'm here. And I'm going to revenge every wrong you've ever encountered will be back with more with beach and company under Israeli and I'm thirty W via the and oh tonight. For his farewell speech if this president had class. And I don't think he does but if he's dead. People like them like the pretended as if he did I think a speech that's set in essence. I did the best I could in eight years but I've made some mistakes. And what I'd like to do is be able to help correct those mistakes that we can move forward with the we do live the racial divide in closing of further even further so I hope you understand when I tell you that. I'm going to be in the vicinity of Washington. Just doing my best as a conscientious citizen of the country. To make things better. I wish I could have done in the eight years and it didn't work out like that but it I'm will be there to try to make America better in the future if he. Where classy person he might says that. But he's not anything that he's he's. He's go out kicking and screaming. Saying how wonderful he was and who would have been even better had those bad Republicans helped them out. And then everybody was against them. And that sort of thing he will not do what I just under any circumstances but I'm just saying if you war. Classy then at least you can understand if he meant it. Why he's staying in Washington. Because I think he wants to be a shadow president I think he wants that had to be able pulls strings. And I don't know in our day of superfast electronics and things like that I don't know why you would physically have to be in Washington. To have some kind of impose with a government should be able to do it electronically. But maybe I'm from Hillary that is not the best idea. To put things on your private server. As events prince's in hammers venture on WB again. I am morning sandy club ends. The idea. I had to pay attention to Rush Limbaugh. I've quoting an. Of some kind of national surveys. And it said 70%. Of the people in this survey. I guess felt that some things are bad that things are good and America right now. I would think look I not right now I. Think be in the future going forward Goran. Yeah yet is Baylor. Well I liked it and that they had that attitude thing and as so bad. That makes a big difference in a lot of what we think can do make choices because we hit the in bed dude. One or the other. Ally has star. Apple shipments. Vote present on Bynum back amount was and now I can't remember if it's intriguing. Where is your all and down. The idea. Control. Of Israel. Making. Dynamic weapons. Well I'm not so I'm not familiar with that though though the eggs thing you just expressed by a sub Bibi Netanyahu interviewed a couple of weeks ago. And he is practically has bursting with excitement up as a note getting a new president. As I am so it tells me that Israel sees their position with the US having weakened over the last eight years and now maybe back going to be back on track. Yeah well I'd bet that treaty I think it was intriguing and I can't remember. And it's just that. Israel all of from pursuing a dynamic guy weapons. And as the men episode that the dynamic and then applause okay. I can remember that as the Federal Reserve. System. And you night they gave them sixty minutes that he said. And the second. The second week of October. 2008. We're the eight and Neal who has. Red made nineteen point 89 net prayer. But in the auto industry has come back under Obama. Is that our policies have been rather. Look what he had to do over the auto industry I'm mean he had to bankrupt. All the stockholders in General Motors is bankrupt the stock certificates were used as wallpaper basically. He had to give billions of dollars to do that. And then avail the days since then General Motors has taken plugged at least tool. Brands off the market. And as you now. And they were there was a big push toward more fuel efficient vehicles and now that the gas prices are down nobody wants those. And also a big push toward wind and solar. Which hasn't worked out in dollars and sense of very well he is it sounds good and it looks good but it's. Not hasn't it hasn't done the job they expected it to do. But the fact is that the item I industry has recovered. While Ford was the only one it didn't take. That and now Florida is doing very well and affords us agreed to build that next plant in Michigan so. The I he was there was some of his stuff happens some of them preceded him whatever buttery Cuban mine who owns General Motors announced basically the unions. Now while that's yeah that's. Bags the bags and thank you very much. If if he really wanted was best for America. He would have tried to work and bring people closer together it was his mission right from the beginning he was like. As the president show revenge year or avenger oceans. Where he was gonna go back if anything. Anything that you think was negative as happened to you he was gonna corrected. Instead of trying to just look over the country and say okay aka we worked together on these things. How can we real lines on our thoughts how can we exchange ideas and things. That would really make it better and easier instead you know we got to do now we gonna do so much correcting. So much redo stuff it's it's takes a lot of time it's very wasteful money wise. We re we've got to re connect everything that was disconnected during his. Administration now may be every thing doesn't deserve to be reconnect it. But the things that do will have to be and that takes time and it takes money and takes effort and follow along the way you're gonna have the same people. There or in here is. And his cadre during the eight years fighting every step of the way. That's the way it is the only principal loss the battles Hillary Clinton. Sandy can we wish special shout out to deadbeat. In her husband's shoes and a way to visit him. In the hospital she said that you make her day every day you make her laugh and she's very grateful it was her wish. For us to say shout out to her. Well okay. Best of luck with the hospital and thank you for listening we appreciated thank you very much. Was Itamar. Morning at nine under Israeli and I'm thirty WB.


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Dan Burke is an award-winning author, writer, and speaker on Catholic spirituality. He has written and/or edited nine books on faithful Catholic spirituality and is the Executive Director and writer for EWTN's National Catholic Register. Dan is the president of the Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation, and the creator of Divine Intimacy Radio and SpiritualDirection.com.
One reason that Pope Francis rattles the cages of many faithful Catholics is that the emphasis of his message is prying at our disordered attachments. It is not that he is seeking to strip us of our commitments to critical social causes like the abolition of abortion or pornography, but that he wants us to move these important things to their proper place.
To illustrate this, we can imagine a target with concentric circles and a center bull's-eye. The bull's-eye would contain the single most important thing, and each ring out from the center would reflect things that are in degrees of descending importance.
So, what would be in the center? Before we answer this seemingly obvious question, it is worth noting that disordered attachments (which cause us confusion and a lack of peace, among other things) secure their hold on us when we put things in the center that don't belong there. These can even be very good things, virtuous things — essential things like, for instance, the battle to save innocent children from the horror of abortion.
I believe that the Pope recognizes something that has yet to set in with those of us who have fought these challenging battles all of our adult lives. It is something I came to see after two decades of work with the evangelical "Moral Majority." During this period, the Moral Majority was valiantly fighting the same battles that are before us today and, in general, using the same basic line of attack.
If you recall, it was the Moral Majority that helped to elect President Reagan and began what many saw as a conservative revolution in our country. It is an unfortunate reality that the movement quickly faded and failed to achieve many of its central goals, all the while alienating many who might have otherwise embraced Christianity. Serious mistakes were made — and we run the risk of continuing in that failed legacy.
It is no shocking revelation that we live in a climate that is increasingly hostile to our faith. We have a culture that no longer accepts the morals and virtues of years gone by. Yet many of us feel like it is giving up the fight if we acknowledge that we are in a new America — one that will not likely be restored to what it was for our parents. In this holding on to the past, we then forfeit our ability to personally deal with and engage the America that is, which, I believe, was one of the key mistakes of the Moral Majority. If we don't get this, what little influence we have will fade as quickly as did their voice.
We cannot bring the communication and battle strategies from the past America into the present one. These messages and means of communication not only fail to advance the cultural causes we care about, but they actually are destructive to the souls of those who are not yet convinced that we have anything to say to them about the most important issues of time and eternity.
I believe this reality is at the heart of what Pope Francis is calling us to: He's asking us to focus on the message in the center of the bull's-eye.
The message has a thousand variations, but goes something like this:
"God created you for one purpose, an eternal relationship of love with him. He knows your pains, your struggles, your emptiness. He even knew when he created you that you would reject him, deny him the love he deserves, and violate what it means to honor him with the gifts he has given you. Even so, he sent his only Son to die on your behalf to enable a cleansing of your soul — the ability to reconcile with him through the provision of his very life in the sacraments. No matter what you have done or what you are, he loves you and desires to restore you to a relationship with himself."
Living and delivering this message is the central purpose of the Catholic Church. It's in the center of the bull's-eye. And this is the message of Pope Francis. Until we heed this message ourselves and begin to work in our culture with this message as central, we will continue to be marginalized as a political enemy, and our culture will continue to slide at an alarming rate. We will repel more souls than can be counted.
When Jesus met Nicodemus in the middle of the night, he said to him, "You must be born anew to see the Kingdom of God." In a culture that is predominantly — or at least practically — godless, a public proclamation and discourse focused on a morality that people cannot and will not understand, is the height of insanity.
Instead, if we first lead people to the truth by reclaiming the centrality of the Gospel message of mercy and forgiveness, we then have the opportunity to teach them the entirety of what it means to live in a covenant relationship of love with God. And living in that relationship does mean devoting ourselves faithfully to what lies in many of the other important rings just outside of that bull's-eye.
When we get this right with enough of God's people, then, and only then, will we see a shift in America. I know that it is not too late for any one of us individually, but I pray that it is not too late for our country.
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
From an article in the NYT:
"Francis's ability to communicate derives from empathy, not individual actions. Only Bill Clinton and the early Barack Obama showed the same ability to get on other people's wavelengths."
It remains to be seen whether this approach will succeed. Glibness has certainly changed our country, The sheep voted for change and change is certainly what we got. Welcome to RED America where Catholic priests are threatened with arrest for voluntarily offering the Sacraments to the faithful!
@Dan Burke…...To respond to your question, no. Catholics, who have not been properly Catechized since Vatican II, elected the worst president in history. And no amount of the "love is all you need approach" will result in Catholics who are in love with Christ. Discipline, prayer, and fasting are what is needed. And our pope and religious leaders should set the example. Pope Francis' interviews and off the cuff statements are confusing at best. The MSM media is spinning every word. No one ever had to translate the message of Bishop Fulton Sheen! Lukewarm and/or non-practicing Catholics may come back in to the Church, not because they've seen the light and repent, but because they believe the Church has relaxed the rules. The progressives are dancing in the streets. Woe to us who mislead!
I can see the point of not forgetting to also put emphasis about radical love and mercy and focusing our message on gospel values and from there the discussion on moral consequencees will flow from. But mercy pre-supposes repentace. Unless a person recognizes his faults, how can mercy be given when he doesn't seek it? It seems as though the tone of the interview weakens the exhortation to repent and believe in the gospel. It is disheartening to hear comments about interfering in spirituality of a person (where we as a church only proclaims and never imposes), religion's "opinions", as though they are mere opinions rather than divinely revealed truths, and simple minded rules as though what is at stake is not a matter of grave concern. When we are confronted with intrinsic evil constantly, what is our moral obligation? The Church's moral teachings are divinely revealed truths that is entrusted upon her to proclaim. And proclaim the Churhc must. And condemn evil she must. Just like what the prophets did. Just like what St John the Baptist did. I guess I see the words used and the tone that somehow weakens our moral obligation in passionately proclaiming these moral truths.
I really enjoyed this article because it was a good idea on what the Pope is trying to get across, but I was left with some questions and concerns.
I have struggled with this whole balancing thing myself. How do we really implement what Pope Francis is talking about? Is he telling us not to worry about teaching people to follows Gods laws? I can't believe that is what he means as we have been watching an all accepting Church for some 40 years and the result has been terrible with 80% of Catholics not even attending Church anymore. If we must be accepting of all behavior, then what reason do we have for even being Catholic? What is the benefit? Why not just join the ranks of society in their fornication, divorce, abortion, contraception, etc?
The point I am making is that we as Catholics do recognize that God is demanding, that there is a terrible outcome for sinners without repentance. We also know that we can have great spiritual rewards now and in the future. The love God shows us shows itself in so many wonderful ways.
So how does the Church go about teaching Catholics the truth about sin and their responsibility before God, while bringing in those outside the church.
I have, in the past, been a strong opponent of abortion, going to marches etc. Now I wonder it is a waste of time since the message I am putting forth seems to be one of condemnation rather than love. Should I instead be putting my efforts toward evangelizing in an organized way? I know some religious groups use systems with rewards, training and goals to help adherents to evangelize. This seems to really work well in getting folks to take part.
The problem I see is that we are loosing 80% of Catholics today because they don't get the TRUE message of love either. I sit through the sermons Sunday after Sunday where the priest preaches to us about loving our neighbor, reaching out to sinners, etc. What I see is 80% of Catholics literally making love with their neighbors and reaching out to become sinners. I fear that the message isn't working correctly. The US church appears to has been trying to do exactly what Pope Francis has been calling for with the result of a Church that is spiraling down.
We in the West have been insulated by our government and society from the obvious damage that comes from sin. Now we are being told that there is no damage in divorce, fornication, adultery, etc. The only damage is imagined by those who claim they are hurt. Yet untold millions of children live without the benefit of a father, are aborted every year, etc. More millions of adults live broken lives, going from one crisis to another, never knowing God's love.
It seems that when the USCCB tells us to vote for candidates that support welfare programs, we are actually shooting ourselves in the foot. When government helps a woman with children out of wedlock, there is no encouragement for her to change her sinful ways. In past centuries, when the Church helped the poor and unwed mothers, she used this help in a way that pointed unwed mothers toward God. Now we depend on the government to do it and the results are terrible. Why can't we help the poor and lead them to the TRUE food and drink of Jesus Christ.
Now as far as Catholics being demanding and condemning, when is the last time you heard a Catholic condemn anyone for their actions, both Catholic and non-Catholic. This isn't the problem in the US. The only visible way the Church has in effect 'condemned' anyone is through the political efforts of the USCCB to fight same sex legislation, abortion, etc. So on the one hand, when dealing with Catholics who are sinful, we are all accepting, while our face to the world seems to be constantly condemning. It seems to be just the opposite of what it should be, help Catholics to become ever more obedient to God through truth and sometimes tough sermons and training, while being more inviting to those outside the Church who don't love God yet.
As I slowly left the Church as a young adult, nobody condemned me, nobody tried to stop me, every priest and Catholic I knew just showed me love. It encouraged me to live a sinful life because there were no risks in sinning. Thirty years later God knocked me along side the head and showed me how a 'nice guy' can also be an 'evil guy'. But the problem was I thought I was happy being an 'evil guy'. I never had bad consequences for my sin and I was having a good time. So what was it that would draw me back to God?
It was the love of God I had been taught by some fine nuns back in the early 60s and find priests from the FSSP today, not the 'love of neighbor' I was taught in the 70s, where we openly accept all sinful actions. True love of God brings us to love our neighbor. Those Nuns taught me about a demanding God who sacrificed himself for us. They showed me how much God loved me but as a loving parent he knows what is best for us and in order to get what he wants for us, we MUST obey him.
The danger I see in this is that this will embolden liberal Catholics lay people, priests and even bishops to change policy in their dioceses and parishes. Still other sincere Catholics will listen to these church 'leaders' and join the attitude of relativism in our society. I saw this happen in the 1970's and 1980's in my family, some left the church for protestant religions, a few left the church for schismatic Catholic groups, a few stayed in the Church but only because their parents were Catholic and the remaining left the church entirely. Just like the statistics of the Church as a whole, about 80% no longer attend Church weekly. Almost none of the younger ones attend at all or even bother having their children baptized. They don't think they have to because they think that all the rules of the Church went away with Vatican II.
AT some point the conservative Catholics who are the most obedient to the Church, will just throw up their hands and let the liberal all accepting, 'kind' and 'loving' Catholics take over as they did in the 1970s and 1980s. What you will have then is an even faster shrinking Church.
WHAT IS THE ANSWER? While Pope Francis is right, we do need to show a kind and loving face to society, while trying to change their hearts and actions, most Catholics will accept the liberal bent on all this. I already see this across the board with Catholics I know. Both the conservative and liberal Catholics think the Pope is making things more liberal, accepting homosexual marriage, abortion, etc.
The church needs to ensure that all Church leaders are implementing this change of attitude correctly. Yes, we still MUST obey God as Catholics, but we also MUST lead society to God in a loving and kind way. We are the Army of God, fighting Satan for the souls of mankind, and as with an Army there must be discipline among the leaders especially, and the laity that they lead.
@Tony: A Hindu will answer nothing of the kind; having been born as a man he would have to sin gravely to be reborn as anything other than, at least, a man of comparable status. And the ACTUAL problem is that both he and a "Shinto-ist" will actually respond, "Being born anew is the very thing my religion is set up to eventually exempt me from." (Roughly 98% of "Shinto-ists" are Buddhists who also pray to Japan's native pantheon, the Yaoyorozu no Kami or Eight Hundred Myriad Gods, for luck.) Both the major forms of Hinduism and the Buddhism that makes up most of a "Shinto-ist's" afterlife-beliefs are all about "moksha", release from the cycle of reincarnation and union with the thing that Christians call God (the whole point of Buddhism is "advaita", "non-duality", the idea that nothing is real except the Tathagatagarbha, which is essentially the Monad of the Platonists—which is our God).
When did Francis say abortion shouldn't be the #1 issue considered in an election? More to the point, when exactly did you all decide that the Catholic Faith's primary purpose is as a voting guide? That seems to me to be a necessary pre-assumption before you can interpret Francis' remarks as you do, which…seriously? Way to mix up Christ with a common Zealot.
Matt said, 'God chose this method for saving us because he wanted to show us the depth and breadth of his love…....It's funny that a lot of people ask for proof of God's existence and of his love, and assume it cannot be found. I can think of no greater proof than the image of Christ on the Cross.
Now, if God proved his love for us on Golgatha, is it necessary for us to do anything in return as appreciation of this love? What is the best that we can do in our circumstances
@Paul - the words in quotes are from me.
@Lin - I don't know who your comments are aimed at so I will assume you are reacting to what I wrote. Are you saying that Catholics who are in love with Christ, in submission to the magisterium of the Church, faithful in their baptismal promises, elected our current president and will continue to vote this way if there are more Catholics who are fervently faithful?
This is how this country elected the worst president in history! The pendulum has swung too far! We are confirming Catholics in their sin. Woe to all of us!
@Chris: I can't quite tell if you already think you know the answer to your question or if you are genuinely seeking an answer. In case it's the latter, I'll attempt an answer for you. Jesus Christ did not have to die on he cross. He choose to. God, being all-powerful, could have simply forgiven all of our sins and granted us the beatific vision by fiat—He chose a better way. God chose this method for saving us because he wanted to show us the depth and breadth of his love—put another way, he wanted to show us how far he was willing to go and how much he was willing to do to save us. It's funny that a lot of people ask for proof of God's existence and of his love, and assume it cannot be found. I can think of no greater proof than the image of Christ on the Cross.
Now, here's my question, @DanBurke: How can we convince people of the need for God's mercy if they have no sense of having sinned? It seems to me that the biggest problem we face today is the lack of a sense of sin.
Bob wrote, on the issue of slavery, "It was the duty of Christians at that time to speak out—loudly—against the practice, as many Christian abolitionists did."
And as the Catholic hierarchy studiously refrained from doing, knowing that a possible schism on what was an important but secondary issue, was more harmful to souls.
Thanks for a well-written and balanced editorial. One question – is the extended quotation actually by Pope Francis or are these words your summary of the fundamental principle? These words are well-written and I would like to give the credit to where it belongs.
One point made is that it is very difficult to reach people about the saving message of Christ if they don't recognize that they need saving. Nor do most acknowledge having an immortal soul, and the possibility of spending a marvelously happy eternity with God, or an absolutely miserable eternity without Him.
Many people are basically miserable, and in sin; but they don't acknowledge the connection. They may try to drown the misery with alcohol or drugs or . . .
Praying for friends and relatives in this situation is highly recommended.
Mr. Burke,
Thank you for your column, which compliments Pope Francis' interview by being both insightful and challenging. I agree with your central message, as I do that of Pope Francis. At the same time, I believe he could have made better choices of a few words in the interview, which I fear are already leading many to misinterpret his messages. (The phrase "small-minded rules" is one example.) It is with the same concern, that I wish to respond to two comments you have posted in response to other commenters:
1. A commenter named Paul stated, "We must be careful not to lower the impact of abortion by placing it lower down the order of 'serious sin' . . ." You resonded, "What does that have to do with this post?" I suspect that Paul, like me, is concerned that people will misinterpret Pope Francis' distinction of the Church's teaching on abortion from "the essentials" and "necessary things." While this teaching may not be at the bullseye of the target (to use your metaphor) along with the Paschal Mystery of Christ itself, it is very "necessary" to Catholic Social Teaching, which is only a ring or two out from that bullseye. And in your column, you yourself acknoweldge that it is "essential."
2. In an other comment you stated, "[M]y point is that in order to transform culture, hearts must be transforemed, Som, how are hearts transformed? They are transformed when they encounter God in a personal way. The encounter leads to a relationship and intimacy with God which leads to personal transformation. This personal transformation then impacts how we engage in society - how we vote - the values we exemplify, etc." Well put. The process you are describing here is, on some level, nothing less than the history of Humanity. We cannot lose sight of the fact that along this journey, we will encounter injustices that it is our duty to address. In the 1850's, the United States was a predominantly Christian country; yet slavery was still practiced. Many slave owners were practicing Christians who, no doubt, had deep personal relationships with God. Yet, at the same time they were engaged in an activity that was inherently un-Chrisitan and hurtful. It was the duty of Christians at that time to speak out—loudly—against the practice, as many Christian abolitionists did. Christ would not have wanted them to wait less vocally in the hope that people's hearts would soften on the issue as they depened their relationships with Him. However, I fear that a few poorly chosen words within Pope Francis' interview will be misinterpreted as permission for Catholics to do just that with respect to the issue of abortion. Perhaps his remarks on abortion the day after the interview was released will mitigate that effect. I agree that the Church's teaching on the sanctity of human life is not—and should not be falsely placed with—the bullseye of the target. But it needs to be on that target for some of our arrows to hit—not at some unspecified time in the future, but today.
I too, R Pinion, am concerned about the danger of abortion being shifted from the number one issue when voting in an election - the right to life is and must always be the number one issue.
I woud also like to make the point that, these days, all one has to admit is that one goes along with the Teachings of the Church as far as women priests, and there is no need to qualify your views on anything else. The obsession comes from out there…....
I agree with John Fisher here, and many faithful Catholics agree with him as well. We'll just have to wait and see whether Pope Francis' approach brings more people to the catholic faith. He is right to focus on service to the poor, but to not take a firm stand on things like homosexuality when asked directly is terrible. He's the pope!
It is interesting how some Catholics rationalise and justify in order to make sense of a reality. We have a Pope who is a fruit of the times and a strange contradiction between the Faith of his formative years and over layers of liberal/ vague theological opinions that he has assimilated. His statements are vague/ contradictory and highly emotive. This allows hearers to make what they want of it.
to the person who said its not about pomp, etc. No kidding. Pope Benedict, John Paul II and popes before them did not think so either. See..this has been repeated over and over. I just get comfortable with Pope Francis and then someone implies this non sense again. I felt that Pope Francis made a mistake by saying no to the papal apt. shoes etc. He was making his predecessors look bad and they are saints! True humility would accept what comes with his state in life. I wish he had not done that then I would be at ease :(
Your post is a good one to reflect upon, Mr. Burke. Thank you so much. Let's all keep praying and supporting Papa Francis with our prayers.
@Tony: Brilliant thanks. I always enjoy arguments against points not made. It doesn't help the conversation but it is amusing. "Get real." wow…
No matter what you have done or what you are, he loves you and desires to restore you to a relationship with himself."...
When Jesus met Nicodemus in the middle of the night, he said to him, "You must be born anew to see the Kingdom of God."
Oh for crying out loud. You go out and tell a pagan or a New-ager or Shinto-ist "you must be born anew" and see whethey they take notice. Go tell it to a Hindu and they will answer "yeah, I know that. First I will be born again as an insect, then a dog, and so on until ultimately I can be born as a cow, boy am I looking forward to THAT."
Get real. There are many different parts of "the message" just as many different versions, because there are many different teachers of the message and many different hearers each in their own place. Telling someone to "repent and be one with God" after they have just spent 20 years in therapy overcoming damage from sexual abuse, and you are likely to be poleaxed. People are living gravely immoral lives who mistakenly believe that they already have repented and are already in a living relationship with God (many, many New-Agers and relatavists) will simply nod their heads and say "yes, I did that." They need a different message because they are in a different place. Pope Francis's center part of the message is important, no question, but it isn't the WHOLE message, and it cannot be the only tool in our tool box. Christ's commission to the Apostles was to teach the entire Word of God, not just the critical core. "that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you."
@All: To clarify, my point is that in order to transform culture, hearts must be transformed. So, how are hearts transformed? They are transformed when they encounter God in a personal way. This encounter leads to relationship and intimacy with God which leads to personal transformation. This personal transformation then impacts how we engage in society - how we vote - the values we exemplify etc. To move this discussion to a false dichotomy between mercy and obedience or even law and gospel is to miss the point. I fear that some who tend this direction may not themselves understand the central reality of our faith (not judging but worrying). Do you know Christ in a personal way? I pray that you do (whoever "you" are). So, the question is, what MESSAGE must be communicated to individuals that will draw them to this relationship? Pope Francis seems to believe, and I agree, that the message must be one that draws people to see the forgiveness and redemption of God. Preaching the law in this society is received as mean spirited and judgmental. Preaching healing and forgiveness is likely to be more effective. The law must come but at the right time.
@Martin: You are right. I would content that this call to relationship can only come through individuals. The media can help or hurt, but it can't stand side by side with someone as they wrestle through ultimate issues to the proper conclusions of heart and mind.
I remember reading about one of Pope Francis' homilies where he says that God never tires of offering us mercy, that we tire of asking for it. We wouldn't need God's mercy if we were not sinners, wounded.
As Jesus said to the adulterous women, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more." Mercy first, then moral reform. We cannot preach morality without mercy, we cannot call people to change behavior they do not recognize as sinful. Then we come across as merely imposing our morality, as judgmental. No, we must propose a better way, show a better way.
A challenge I see is how to do this in the public square? It is easier one on one with individuals.
It's both mercy and the call to obedience. You can't emphasize one to the exclusion of the other. Pope Francis thinks we need to rebalance toward mercy; he seems to think that emphasizing the rules FIRST just drives people away. Mercy first, rules to follow, seems to be the approach. Some of us here in the States have believed that for years we have already been waaaay over on the mercy side of the scale with virtually no insistance that anyone follow the rules, with disastrous effects. That's why it came as a shock to some of us to hear Pope Francis' perspective. Maybe our perspective has been wrong. We sure have been challenged to re-examine our positions.
by Dan Burke Thursday, September 26, 2013 6:49 AM
"God created you for one purpose, an eternal relationship of love with him. He knows your pains, your struggles, your emptiness. He even knew when he created you that you would reject him, deny him the love he deserves, and violate what it means to honor him with the gifts he has given you. Even so, he sent his only Son to die on your behalf to enable a cleansing of your soul"
The central question is: why did the only Son have to die on the cross?
Mr Dan Burke if this question is not answer, i am afraid we are all (everyone of us) merely beating about the bush.
Why was it necessary for God's love to send the Divine Word into the world, to become flesh and dwell amongst us?
If we don't answer this central question we can not begin to answer does who say abortion, gay sex, atheism are not big deals.
@Paul - What does that have to do with this post? Is anyone suggesting that we lower the order of serious sin?
We must be careful not to lower the impact of abortion by placing it lower down the order of 'serious sin' because it will always be the sin of sins, the worst. How it occurs and why it occurs is immaterial as opposed to the gravity of what an abortion causes; death of an innocent and (without repentance and/or God's Mercy) spiritual death of those involved.
@Kent: There is wisdom in what you say. To know we are sinners in need of redemption is the work of the law and of grace. The key I am getting at here is with respect to emphasis in messaging. This is a particular problem with politics and media communications regarding truth. For instance, I agree with Bill May that our messaging about marriage should be more about care for the children of any union and the critical need to provide them with a mother and a father. This messaging to me is more effective and frankly more important than being against gay "marriage." As you probably recognize, many are against gay marriage because they are in fact homophobic, and many are apposed on solid sociological grounds. When both use the same messaging, the folks looking on are unable to distinguish between the two and any real ability to advance a persuasive argument is completely and irreparably lost. We should NEVER compromise on the truths of our faith but we better be wise about how we communicate them or we will continue to fail to bring any significant and lasting majority first to salvation and personal reformation, and then to the work of the reformation of our culture.
To me, God's mercy and the moral law are both at the center of the bull,s-eye.
And why can't God's salvific act an the moral law be presented together? Also, I know that some have come to Christ because of the beauty of his moral law.
And think about the Old Testament prophets who frequently chastised Israel with an unpopular message; they and God didn't seem to mind that many people were rejecting their harsh messages.
Pope Francis is a Pope who get's IT.He meets people where they are at,with the spirit of love,compassion and service.This Pope is not into pomp and EGO.I would say,he is a good business leader,as he moves along the front lines of Vatican city ,state.He is holding the finances with open books,and investigations.The Vaticanleaks are being addressed.He lives with in the organizational head of state,and so is better informed,and in touch with his leadership.He eats and breaks bread with his team leaders.He is focused on the poor,and the genius of women,that has gone untapped for centuries,due to ignorance.The world will be a better place with women receiving the full support of top male leaders-like Pope Frances,Dali Lama,President Carter…We are all in this together.Both sexes.And the global community of brothers and sisters,will be encouraged by Pope Frances, together in the spirit of love,compassion,joy,grace,and service to the OTHER, to have our roots in heaven and bring out fruits, into this one precious EARTH.Pope Frances also comes to the Vatican from a third world experience.A different voice,vision,background,experience,ethnic heritage was so needed.The zPope ants transparency and accountability.Out with the Private VIP club status,and in with the hard work of feeding the poor,and serving the needs of the least among us.The Pope does remind us that we live in the 21st century,and women's creativity needs to be high lighted,and motherhood praised.Why should women who choose to be mothers not have social security benefits from the state? Why are women not paid equally? Poverty is rampant among women who are left as single mothers in the U.S.Fatherless America is the norm now.The Pope has done a lot in a short amount of time.I am a cradle catholic,who has spent more time working with the poor,battered women in Denver,Stopping sex trafficking,Passing legislation to end genocide…I have spent no time at fancy RC banquets,and cocktail gatherings…Like this Pope…where is too much work out there in the trenches.AMEN.
dan burke, thanks for helping people realize that francis is on our side and the RCC's side.
Thank you Dan, I believe I am beginning to see things this way too. For some time I have despairingly felt we were losing the battle to secularists and if we just all teamed up we could push them back. But as I considered "What did the early Church do when faced with a world similar to this age?" I knew the only answer could be found in how it lived the gospel. And there is much freedom to be found and letting go and letting God.
@R.Pinion: This reality has not changed and Pope Francis has not wavered on this one iota. The issue I am addressing is one of emphasis and messaging.
What "rattles my cage" is the idea that when considering a candidate for an election, the candidate's stance on abortion is supposed to trump all other considerations. This is what I believe and "I thought" this is what the Church taught. But, if we move these issues to their "proper place", then how does that affect my thinking about abortion being the most important issue when considering which candidate to vote for? If any of you have a direct line to the Pope, please ask him to give us a little direction on this concern.
@Deborah: Thank you for your work in the trenches!
I am fighting right now mentally and physically to undo this damaging legislation that has posed such a threat to religious freedom; and was feeling especially low, when I read this message. My hope is always in the shed blood of our savior. Only through growing in my love for him, will I be more effective in being oblivious enough to the sins of this world, to truly feel love for my fellow man. I need to prioritize and find balance daily.
@Anastasia - Amen! Well said.
I am a faithful cradle Catholic and have worked in the pro-life movement as a volunteer or professional for well over 25 years. Pope Francis' comments do not discourage, but rather remind me to put Christ first always. Abortion is just another issue: a grievous, horrendous, terribly important one, but merely another evil which is the resulting infection of a deep wound. Without premarital sex, there would be fewer abortions. Without broken homes and abuse, there would be less premarital sex and the list goes on. Our culture is called to a deep conversion, not just on the issue of abortion, but on all the issues around it and more. We are called to bring about a far more profound conversion of hearts to the light and truth which is Christ. Perhaps this is what our Pope meant about healing wounds. This doesn't mean I intend to stop doing my pro-life work. On the contrary, I will do so with even greater conviction and a renewed desire to ensure that all I do is done in Christ's name. It also just reaffirms what I have learned after decades of pro-life work already: pro-life messaging, to be truly effectively received, needs to be framed in the current cultural context. In other words, REACH PEOPLE WHERE THEY'RE AT, try to understand where people are coming from, find the common ground, and appeal to them with love and compassion. Never ever lose your commitment to the truth or your desire to share it, but always be open to new ways in which that can be done, bearing in mind that not everyone shares your perceptions and experience. That is the lesson I take from the Holy Father's words. None of these ideas are radically new or a departure from Pope Francis' predecessors or from the teachings of Christ Himself for that matter. As a pro-life activist and a Catholic, I say thank you to Pope Francis for encouraging that 'paradigm shift' in our hearts and minds that we are servants of God first, and our social justice masters second. (Just as pro-life work is my 'job' but marriage and family is my vocation.) The two are not mutually exclusive but must retain their proper place in the hierarchy. As a pro-life activist, I say thank you to Pope Francis for reminding me yet again of why I am loyal to the Magesterium of the Holy Roman Catholic Church! My prayers are with him.
Excellent article
In a 2007 interview, Archbishop Bergoglio, as he then was, was asked, "For you, then, what is the worst thing that can happen in the Church?"
BERGOGLIO: It is what De Lubac calls "spiritual worldliness." It is the greatest danger for the Church, for us, who are in the Church. "It is worse, "says De Lubac, "more disastrous than the infamous leprosy that disfigured the dearly beloved Bride at the time of the libertine popes." Spiritual worldliness is putting oneself at the centre. It is what Jesus saw going on among the Pharisees: "… You who glorify yourselves. Who give glory to yourselves, the ones to the others."
According to de Lubac, this occurs, when Christianity is treated as an exercise in self-improvement, rather than a personal encounter with the Risen Lord. It also happens, when people like l'Action Française see the Church as an instrument of social control, "to preserve in Catholicism," as Blondel said, "only a residue that is aristocratic and soothing for the privileged and beguiling or threatening for the lower classes." This is to treat God as a functionary for the human group, serving as a cosmic minister of health, law, police, and economics, but the focus is always on man and his well-being.
That's all well and good, but what does it mean when and where the rubber meets the road. All the platitudes in the world don't necessarily communicate what we should actually do; how we should live our lives; how we should spend our time, etc. And let's not start another program in our parish in response, OK?
Saints and Prophets always seem to have to rattle our cages. They push the "nook" button to wake us up.


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"Digital imaging is still relatively new to the veterinary community," says Smillie-Scavelli. She explains that most veterinary systems are designed to allow general practices to send images to a radiologist for an opinion: one viewer at a time. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Garden State Veterinary Specialists needs concurrent access to a large library of X-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds from any number of in-house workstations, offices and physician computers. Garden State's requirements are, "very similar to the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) systems that exist on the human side. But those kinds of systems just aren't there for veterinary practices like ours."
How We Made It Better: An Effective Platform
Working with CompuData, Smillie-Scavelli requested a setup where their images could be accessed via the network. CompuData created an effective high bandwidth in-house network of computer stations throughout the hospital, equipped with Eklin eFilm desktop imaging software to view all types of DICOM images, including digital radiography (DR), CT, MRI, ultrasound and computed radiography (CR).
Seamless Access
Specialists can access images remotely or from home through an AEP Netilla SSL VPN to access the server, images and patient records. The Netilla platform offers fast, secure, policy-based application access to Garden State's applications and files over the Internet through a standard web browser, while ensuring maximum network protection. It makes an organization virtually ubiquitous, allowing work to be done from any location, anywhere in the world, at anytime, and, as is often the case with Garden State Veterinary Specialists, in a moment's notice.
Improving Communications
For fast reliable Internet access and e-mail communications, CompuData provided Garden State Veterinary Specialists broadband data connection through AT&T and a Microsoft Exchange Server. CompuData recommended T-1 lines through which the large files are retrieved instantaneously, without compromising much-needed bandwidth.
Increased Security
CompuData also recommended and implemented a Juniper firewall to protect the network from uninvited hackers. Juniper offers a network security solution that allows Garden State Veterinary Specialists to cost-effectively secure its network without sacrificing performance. For additional security, CompuData provided CA Threat Manager for the Enterprise. It is a product that proactively warns you about, detects, analyzes and provides remediation for an entire range of threats—including viruses, worms, spyware, key loggers, Trojans and other malicious code.
Upgrading Storage Space
By law, all radiology images must be stored for five years. With more than 12,000 images per year, multiplied by two for raw images and data backups, space is a big issue. CompuData recommended and installed CA ARCserve® Backup, a product that delivers reliable, enterprise-class data protection across multiple hardware and software platforms unified by a single, easy-to-use interface. CA ARCserve Backup ensures all data is available and ready to recover in case of a disaster. "With all of our images, we would run out of space quickly," says Smillie-Scavelli. "Most IT companies wouldn't understand that. I'm always pulling them forward. I don't want the minimum; I'm looking towards growth." Fortunately for Smillie-Scavelli, her CompuData account manager keeps his finger on the pulse of the market, and anticipates the facility's needs, keeping them one step ahead of the next technological hurdle. "It's invaluable," she says.
"With all of our images, we would run out of space quickly. Most IT companies wouldn't understand that. I'm always pulling them forward. I don't want the minimum; I'm looking towards growth."
What's Next: Continued Growth
Keeping up with technology is the biggest obstacle to growth at Garden State Veterinary Specialists. Smillie-Scavelli knows that as pioneers in specialized veterinary medicine and digital imagery, they're blazing the trail for other veterinary facilities.
"We're grateful to have CompuData as a technology partner," says Smillie-Scavelli. "They have helped facilitate our growth and expanding technological needs, enabling us to keep focus on our core mission."


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USBWA writing contest entries due on June 15
By JOE MITCH
One of the most popular benefits for members of the USBWA is the opportunity to submit stories and columns in the association's annual best writing contest.
Over 160 entries are typically submitted each year, and the contest has attracted not only veterans but young reporters just entering the profession. There has been a noticeable increase in the number of women writers submitting stories, as well.
Entries can be submitted in five categories: column writing, moderate-length features, magazine-length features, spot news/game coverage and enterprise/investigative stories.
Plaques and cash prizes are awarded in each category, with $150 given for first place, $125 for second, $100 for third, $75 for fourth and $50 for fifth.
The rules for entering the contest are fairly simple. Members may enter more than one category, but may submit only one entry per category. A series of articles may be submitted in the enterprise/investigative category.
Entries must include at the top of each story the category, the story's author or authors, the publication in which the article appeared and the date of the publication. New this year is the addition of an email address and telephone number for the entry's writer or writers.
Only dues-paying members of the USBWA are eligible to enter the writing contest.
Entries must be submitted to email@example.com in a readable type size. Any entry submitted in type size so small it cannot be read won't be considered. Send Word or text files only. Do not send links to stories on the Internet and clippings from magazines or newspapers. Also, delete any advertising, photos and captions from the files and any unnecessary carriage returns.
The deadline for submitting stories and columns that appeared in print or online during the 2015-16 college basketball season is June 15. Entries received after the deadline will not be accepted.
USBWA SCHOLARSHIP: Applications are now being accepted for the USBWA's college scholarship for the son or daughter of USBWA members. The scholarship is $1,000 annually for four years and is open to students currently in college or planning to attend a junior college or four-year institution in the fall.
To qualify, students must take a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester in college, maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0, demonstrate academic excellence and show achievement in citizenship and leadership in a community service. The deadline to apply is June 1. Applications are available on the USBWA website at www.USBWA.com.
FINAL FOUR STUDENT WORKSHOPS: The USBWA will host two workshops for students on the Friday of the Final Four weekend in Houston – one for students interested in sportswriting and another for those interested in sports photojournalism.
For those looking to pursue a career in sportswriting, the USBWA's "Full Court Press" workshop provides students the opportunity to meet veteran sportswriters and to compete for a $1,000 scholarship. The scholarship is awarded in honor of the late Larry Donald, a member of the USBWA Hall of Fame and the only person to serve two terms as president of the organization.
USBWA members will lead the discussion at a seminar that is expected to include topics such as the influence of social media, the state of the job market, navigational skills in a 24/7 digital era and survival tactics to deal with increasingly difficult deadlines.
Students electing to participate in the scholarship competition will receive assignments to cover events at the men's championship, including news conferences, practices and the announcement at NRG Stadium in Houston of the USBWA's Oscar Robertson Trophy for national player of the year.
This marks the 16th year for the writing workshop. Some 50 to 60 students are expected to attend.
The sports photography workshop is being held for the second straight year in partnership with famed sports photographer Rich Clarkson of Clarkson Creative. The workshop enables students to take pictures at open practices and the college all-star game and to have their work evaluated by Clarkson and his staff.
Both workshops are organized by the Sports Capital Journalism Program at IUPUI within the school's Department of Journalism and Public Relations. The program's director is USBWA past president and Hall of Fame member Malcolm Moran. This is the fourth consecutive year that IUPUI has been involved in the writing workshop. IUPUI will serve as the host for a similar workshop at the Women's Final Four in Indianapolis.
Students interested in attending the men's or women's workshops can contact Moran at email@example.com.
•Lodge Notes: Newell replaces Dodd on KC Star beat:
Jesse Newell, who covered Kansas for the Topeka Capital-Journal, was hired by the Kansas City Star to cover the Jayhawks. He replaces Rustin Dodd, who will cover the Kansas City Royals.
Bernadette Cafarelli, a 32-year veteran of collegiate athletics public relations who spent 22 years at Notre Dame, was named associate commissioner of the American Athletic Conference.
Former USBWA member George Rodecker passed away on Christmas eve, two days from his 65th birthday, after suffering heart problems in recent years. Rodecker, also a member of the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association, was a self-made journalist who wrote for a number of outlets, including Basketball Times, College Insider, College Chalktalk and Hoopville.
Awards luncheon planned for April 4
The USBWA will hold its annual awards ceremony for a second straight year as a luncheon rather than a breakfast at the men's Final Four in Houston.
The luncheon was a huge success last year, with over 150 people attending the event in Indianapolis, nearly doubling the past attendance.
This year's luncheon will be held at the downtown Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston on Monday, April 4, the day of the national championship game, starting at 12:30 p.m.
The luncheon will feature the presentation of several awards:
• Katha Quinn Award to NCAA director of media coordination and statistics David Worlock for service to the media;
• Induction into the USBWA Hall of Fame of long-time Notre Dame SID and now retired Roger Valdiserri, former USBWA president Blair Kerkhoff of the Kansas City Star and veteran sportswriter Bob Pille (posthumously) of the Peoria Journal Star and Chicago Sun-Times;
• Rising Star Award for excellence in sportswriting for writers under 30 to Laura Keeley of the Raleigh News & Observer;
• Most Courageous Award to former Butler player Andrew Smith and his widow Samantha for their heroic efforts working as a team during Andrew's two-year struggle with cancer that eventually claimed his life;
• Ray Marquette Award to Pat Forde of Yahoo Sports for his leadership this year as USBWA president.
ESPN serves as the main sponsor of the luncheon and has done so for many years, dating back to the mid-1980s.
Other luncheon sponsors include the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Connor Sports Flooring, Conference USA and the Atlantic Coast, Big East, American Athletic and Pacific-12 conferences.
The USBWA will conduct a short business meeting following the luncheon.
Watch lists for USBWA awards
Here are the USBWA watch lists for top player honors:
Oscar Robertson Trophy (men's national player of the year): Grayson Allen, Duke; Kris Dunn, Providence; Kahlil Felder, Oakland; Yogi Ferrell, Indiana; Buddy Hield, Oklahoma; Demetrius Jackson, Notre Dame; Brice Johnson, North Carolina; Jalen Jones, Texas A&M; Sheldon McClellan, Miami; Monte Morris, Iowa State; Georges Niang, Iowa State; Gary Payton II, Oregon State; Wayne Selden Jr., Kansas; Ben Simmons, LSU; Melo Trimble, Maryland; Tyler Ulis, Kentucky; Jarrod Uthoff, Iowa; Denzel Valentine, Michigan State; Fred VanVleet, Wichita State; Kyle Wiltjer, Gonzaga.
Wayman Tisdale Award (men's national freshman player of the year): KeVaughn Allen, Florida; Dwayne Bacon, Florida State; Malik Beasley, Florida State; Henry Ellenson, Marquette; Brandon Ingram, Duke; Jamal Murray, Kentucky; Ivan Rabb, California; Ben Simmons, LSU; Diamond Stone, Maryland; Caleb Swanigan, Purdue.
Ann Meyers Drysdale Award (women's national player of the year): Jillian Alleyene, Oregon; Rachel Banham, Minnesota; Nina Davis, Baylor; Diamond DeShields, Tennessee; Moriah Jefferson, Connecticut; Niya Johnson, Baylor; Jonquel Jones, George Washington; Kelsey Mitchell, Ohio State; Tiffany Mitchell, South Carolina; Kelsey Plum, Washington; Azura Stevens, Duke; Breanna Stewart, Connecticut; Morgan Tuck, Connecticut; Victoria Vivians, Mississippi State; Shatori Walker-Kimbrough, Maryland; A'ja Wilson, South Carolina.
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Tanzania misses out 18bn/- each year from international airlines using the country's skyline due to lack of surveillance radars to guide them, Deputy Minister for Works, Transport and Communications, Engineer Edwin Ngonyani, revealed yesterday.
"International airlines flying over our skyline are supposed to pay charges but this is not the case since we do not have the radars," Eng. Ngonyani disclosed when officiating at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) stakeholders' forum in Dar es Salaam.
Adding, "Our counterparts in Kenya and Uganda are now utilizing the opportunity since they have capacities to guide airlines in Tanzania's airborne." The country requires four surveillance radars to have full coverage of the airborne but the one currently operating is obsolete.
It is on this backdrop that the government has placed orders to purchase two radars at a total cost of US $24 million for installation at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) and Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA).
"During the current financial year the government will procure two radars and additional two radars will be acquired in the next fiscal year which will be fixed at Songwe International Airport in Mbeya and Mwanza Airport," Eng. Ngonyani explained.
According to the Deputy Minister, each of the radars will cost US $12 million dollars and are expected to be delivered in 18 months after the order has been placed. For his part, the Director General of the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA), Mr Hamza Johari, said a task force has been formed to work on procurement of the radars.
"We are still consulting International Civil Aviation Authority Organization (ICAO) to provide us with specifications for the equipment," Mr Johari told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting. The DG said the equipment would boost revenues as well as efficiency and safety in the aviation industry in the country. The IATA stakeholders' forum brings together member airlines from Africa to discuss and propose solutions to challenges facing the aviation industry in the continent.
The Deputy Minister went on to assure delegates at the meeting that the government of Tanzania was committed to revive Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) and restoring its membership with IATA. Privately owned Precision Air is the only member airline of IATA in Tanzania following suspension of Tanzania in the past on concerns of safety of its fleet of aircraft.
Eng. Ngonyani stressed that the revival of ATCL and eventual restoration of its membership with IATA was among priorities of the government.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PLAINTIFF,v.DUKE NOTTINGHAM, DEFENDANT.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: John A. Mendez Honorable John A. Mendez
By stipulation and agreement Defendant Duke Nottingham substitutes KRESTA NORA DALY, KENDALL DAWSON WASLEY, and Rothschild Wishek & Sands, LLP located at 901 F Street, Suite 200, Sacramento, California 95814, telephone 916-444- 9845, as his attorneys of record in the place and stead of DOUGLAS BEEVERS and the Office of the Federal Defender for the Eastern District of California located at 801 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, telephone 916-498-5700.
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