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Pope has incentives to step back from the brink
View Larger Image Pope Francis with Cardinal Napier of South Africa
The following comes from an article in the Oct. 26 New York Times by Ross Douthat.
To grasp why events this month in Rome — publicly feuding cardinals, documents floated and then disavowed — were so remarkable in the context of modern Catholic history, it helps to understand certain practical aspects of the doctrine of papal infallibility.
On paper, that doctrine seems to grant extraordinary power to the pope — since he cannot err, the First Vatican Council declared in 1870, when he "defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church."
In practice, though, it places profound effective limits on his power.
Those limits are set, in part, by normal human modesty: "I am only infallible if I speak infallibly, but I shall never do that," John XXIII is reported to have said. But they're also set by the binding power of existing teaching, which a pope cannot reverse or contradict without proving his own office, well, fallible — effectively dynamiting the very claim to authority on which his decisions rest.
Not surprisingly, then, popes are usually quite careful. On the two modern occasions when a pontiff defined a doctrine of the faith, it was on a subject — the holiness of the Virgin Mary — that few devout Catholics consider controversial. In the last era of major church reform, the Second Vatican Council, the popes were not the intellectual protagonists, and the council's debates — while vigorous — were steered toward a (pope-approved) consensus: The documents that seemed most like developments in doctrine, on religious liberty and Judaism, passed with less than a hundred dissenting votes out of more than 2,300 cast.
But something very different is happening under Pope Francis. In his public words and gestures, through the men he's elevated and the debates he's encouraged, this pope has repeatedly signaled a desire to rethink issues where Catholic teaching is in clear tension with Western social life — sex and marriage, divorce and homosexuality.
And in the synod on the family, which concluded a week ago in Rome, the prelates in charge of the proceedings — men handpicked by the pontiff — formally proposed such a rethinking, issuing a document that suggested both a general shift in the church's attitude toward nonmarital relationships and a specific change, admitting the divorced-and-remarried to communion, that conflicts sharply with the church's historic teaching on marriage's indissolubility.
At which point there was a kind of chaos. Reports from inside the synod have a medieval feel — churchmen berating each other, accusations of manipulation flying, rebellions bubbling up. Outside Catholicism's doors, the fault lines were laid bare: geographical (Germans versus Africans; Poles versus Italians), generational (a 1970s generation that seeks cultural accommodation and a younger, John Paul II-era that seeks to be countercultural) and theological above all.
In the end, the document's controversial passages were substantially walked back. But even then, instead of a Vatican II-style consensus, the synod divided, with large numbers voting against even watered-down language around divorce and homosexuality. Some of those votes may have been cast by disappointed progressives. But many others were votes cast, in effect, against the pope.
In the week since, many Catholics have downplayed the starkness of what happened or minimized the papal role. Conservatives have implied that the synod organizers somehow went rogue, that Pope Francis's own views were not really on the table, that orthodox believers should not be worried. More liberal Catholics have argued that there was no real chaos — this was just the kind of freewheeling, Jesuit-style debate Francis was hoping for — and that the pope certainly suffered no meaningful defeat.
Neither argument is persuasive. Yes, Francis has taken no formal position on the issues currently in play. But all his moves point in a pro-change direction — and it simply defies belief that men appointed by the pope would have proposed departures on controversial issues without a sense that Francis would approve.
If this is so, the synod has to be interpreted as a rebuke of the implied papal position. The pope wishes to take these steps, the synod managers suggested. Given what the church has always taught, many of the synod's participants replied, he and we cannot.
Over all, that conservative reply has the better of the argument. Not necessarily on every issue: The church's attitude toward gay Catholics, for instance, has often been far more punitive and hostile than the pastoral approach to heterosexuals living in what the church considers sinful situations, and there are clearly ways that the church can be more understanding of the cross carried by gay Christians.
But going beyond such a welcome to a kind of celebration of the virtues of nonmarital relationships generally, as the synod document seemed to do, might open a divide between formal teaching and real-world practice that's too wide to be sustained. And on communion for the remarried, the stakes are not debatable at all. The Catholic Church was willing to lose the kingdom of England, and by extension the entire English-speaking world, over the principle that when a first marriage is valid a second is adulterous, a position rooted in the specific words of Jesus of Nazareth. To change on that issue, no matter how it was couched, would not be development; it would be contradiction and reversal.
Such a reversal would put the church on the brink of a precipice. Of course it would be welcomed by some progressive Catholics and hailed by the secular press. But it would leave many of the church's bishops and theologians in an untenable position, and it would sow confusion among the church's orthodox adherents — encouraging doubt and defections, apocalypticism and paranoia (remember there is another pope still living!) and eventually even a real schism.
Those adherents are, yes, a minority — sometimes a small minority — among self-identified Catholics in the West. But they are the people who have done the most to keep the church vital in an age of institutional decline: who have given their energy and time and money in an era when the church is stained by scandal, who have struggled to raise families and live up to demanding teachings, who have joined the priesthood and religious life in an age when those vocations are not honored as they once were. They have kept the faith amid moral betrayals by their leaders; they do not deserve a theological betrayal.
Which is why this pope has incentives to step back from the brink — as his closing remarks to the synod, which aimed for a middle way between the church's factions, were perhaps designed to do.
Francis is charismatic, popular, widely beloved. He has, until this point, faced strong criticism only from the church's traditionalist fringe, and managed to unite most Catholics in admiration for his ministry. There are ways that he can shape the church without calling doctrine into question, and avenues he can explore (annulment reform, in particular) that would bring more people back to the sacraments without a crisis. He can be, as he clearly wishes to be, a progressive pope, a pope of social justice — and he does not have to break the church to do it.
But if he seems to be choosing the more dangerous path — if he moves to reassign potential critics in the hierarchy, if he seems to be stacking the next synod's ranks with supporters of a sweeping change — then conservative Catholics will need a clear-eyed understanding of the situation.
They can certainly persist in the belief that God protects the church from self-contradiction. But they might want to consider the possibility that they have a role to play, and that this pope may be preserved from error only if the church itself resists him.
To read the original story, click here.
To read Ron Dreher's column about Andrew Sullivan's criticism of the Douthat column, click here.
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JOSE October 29, 2014 at 4:18 pm	- Reply
From an article by the NY Times – an author who has not read the "Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition" which clearly already states homosexuals must be respected as people.
But then again, alas, many Bishops do not encourage reading of the Bible and CCC at home. So people do not know their Faith in entirety.
ANDREW October 29, 2014 at 4:28 pm	- Reply
Why is no one crying out about the lack of transparency for the final document "Relatio Synodi" of Oct 18, 2014 ?????
It has only been posted on the Vatican web site in Italian, yet all the preliminary documents have been posted in several languages as quickly as they happened.
The number of votes for each paragraph have been posted at the bottom of the Italian version. However, the 3 paragraphs #52, 53, and 55 that did NOT get the required 2/3 vote are still in the document – why ????? https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/10/18/0770/03044.html
Who is playing games at the Vatican ????? And under whose orders ?????
Catherine October 29, 2014 at 9:32 pm	- Reply
"Do you all remember the Holy Father's words from his sermon at the "inaugural" Mass for his pontificate?"
"Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves."
https://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/03/pray-for-me-that-i-may-not-flee-for-fear-of-the-wolves/
My dear friends – at this moment I can only say:
pray for me, that I may learn to love the Lord more and more.
Pray for me, that I may learn to love his flock more and more
– in other words, you, the holy Church, each one of you and all of you together.
Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves. Let us pray for one another, that the Lord will carry us and that we will learn to carry one another.
[Pope Benedict XVI, 24 April, 2005]
JOHN October 30, 2014 at 4:06 am	- Reply
Others are starting to ask the same questions.
Who is making the decisions on what is being posted, and why are important documents on the Vatican web site not being translated into major languages, like all the lessor preliminary docs ?
Even the Pope's daily audiences are translated (as well as his closing Synod statement within a matter of hours.)
And why weren't the paragraphs that did not get the 2/3 vote removed from the document?
Something smells of manipulation again.
There is no legitimate excuse for this.
MATT October 29, 2014 at 4:38 pm	- Reply
INTERESTING observations in article which are accurate:
"generational (a 1970s generation that seeks cultural accommodation
and a younger, John Paul II-era that seeks to be countercultural) and theological above all."
Kasper is 81; Danneel is also 81; plus other old guys want accommodation.
They preach the acceptance of mortal sin – "gradualism".
" They have kept the faith amid moral betrayals by their leaders; they do not deserve a theological betrayal. "
This is really true and needs no explanation.
Linda Maria October 30, 2014 at 5:21 am	- Reply
I think that the belief and practice of true Catholicism, has been nearly forgotten, since the end of the Vatican II Council! Many liberal, immoral, and heretical Church leaders and laity, just float along, doing as they please, calling themselves "Catholic." And no one seems to care– especially, the Pope! Eventually– without firm and true leadership, the Church could collapse, or else end up in a schism! Also– Pope Francis could end up in so much heresy, that he himself could get excommunicated, and dumped from the Papacy, by some smart prelates! We just have to place everything in Gods hands! When was the last time a Pope and his prelates met for a long session of daily prayers, like a big Novena– asking for God to truly guide the Church to right solutions, according to His Will?? Did the Fathers of Vatican II do this?? Well– it seems, all too often– that Church leaders leave God out– and do what they humanly desire to do!! Like the disobedience of the ancient Israelites– there are consequences to pay!
Anonymous October 30, 2014 at 9:45 am	- Reply
fruits and nuts will take over the church. oh wait, it's already happening. just read that comment by lindamaria.
St. Christopher October 30, 2014 at 11:26 am	- Reply
You had best be respectful, "Anonymous". "Linda Maria" makes some excellent points. Of course, the Liberal approach to anything approaching a belief-based comment is to attack the speaker, not with argument, but with Fourth Grade words and insults.
In fact, the Church is in deep crisis. Pope Francis is very popular with the non-Catholic world, without question, as well as with Catholics demanding changes in sexual ethics and morality: those that are pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage, pro-fornication generally; all these folks love the Pope.
But the Catholic Faith is not something for barter, like a political issue might be. There is no consensus to be reached on matter of Faith and morals; it is not a field upon which a compromise to fighting might be reached. And, to the extent that Francis seeks to change doctrine, then the present Church ceases to exist. (It will not be entirely lost, as we were promised, but there is no promise that Church leaders will always be free from apostacy and heresy.)
Catholics have much to fear from bishops and cardinal that almost passed the Relatio with truly revolutionary provisions regarding homosexuality. And why is that? Because these men are company men and want security and advancement: men like Cardinals Dolan, Wuerl, and Maradiaga, and others. They are not men of Faith, but are dissemblers, liars if you will, that want power and luxury at the expense of serving the Faithful.
It is time to gear up for battle. Stop calling names to someone that has much to say.
Linda Maria October 30, 2014 at 12:57 pm	- Reply
Thank you, St. Christopher, for your post! The Church is truly in a deep crisis, and it is a big worry!
Gary O October 30, 2014 at 2:22 pm	- Reply
I still miss our retired ex Holy Father.
Anonymous October 30, 2014 at 3:23 pm	- Reply
It is quite clear the side with which she takes up. It is not that of a rational side, one of reason, nor of compassion. It is the one that desires a faith built upon fear and lothesomeness. This is not the faith of our Fathers, nor of our Scriptures, nor of our Catechism, yet she (and apparently you) peddles it here s though it is some authentic Gospel. It is not the authentic gospel. It is a self-hating, arbitrary and obnoxious God and his followers. We have no part in that Gospel, We follow Christ who died for us. Who loves us unconditionally. Who saves the world so that the entire world will be one with him. Linda Maria is not to be mocked, but her theology is to be disdained from start to finish because it is not of God but of some other creation.
Linda Maria October 31, 2014 at 12:27 am
Anonymous, do you see how much you get picked on, for attacking and harassing other writers, who are sincere Catholics?? How very SAD!! I most certainly do not want to hurt you! Neither does anyone else!
Linda Maria October 31, 2014 at 1:50 am
Anonymous, you will no longer be receiving any further responses from me, to anything at all, that you write! You will, from now on– be completely ignored! You really do not treat good Catholic ladies, with any chivalry nor respect!
Ann Malley October 31, 2014 at 5:44 am
"…her theology is to be disdained from start to finish because it is not of God but of some other creation."
Sorry, Anonymous, but the 'new' creation is the theology that eliminates all reality of God's power and justice and righteous anger. Fear of the Lord is a gift of the Holy Spirit.
The idea that the 'entire world' will someday be with the Lord negates the reality of Hell of which Our Lord spoke very clearly of in His earthly life.
Please stop cutting off the merciful means of Our Lord, to include the fear of Hell, from saving souls. There are many souls that will only be moved to correspond with God's grace via fear of Hell, much like there are people who will only avoid certain dangerous behaviors if there is a stiff penalty weighing in the balance.
So if you disdain Linda Maria's 'theology' then you disdain Catholic theology and the very teachings of Christ who warned of the results of God's justice.
Rodney November 1, 2014 at 11:56 am
Well shouldn't you provide a little evidence to back the plethora of sweeping statements you make about irrationality, lack of compassion, faith built on fear and loathsomeness, an inauthentic gospel etc. etc? How can you show her theology is not of God but of some other creation? It seems to me you are just hurling all the dirt you can at the wall and hoping some of it will stick.
Dana October 30, 2014 at 8:09 pm	- Reply
As I used to tell my students, using derogatory words to describe people shows a limited vocabulary. If you think people are nutty here, why do you continue to intrude, nameless ? Linda Marie is passionate about her faith, and backs up her comments with her experiences and years of being a faithful Catholic. You, however, bring nothing but negativity and unpleasantness. Why don't you just hit the road, take a hike, skip town or find another website to pester? And take the other anonymous with you…good grief, if I wrote such drivel, I wouldn't put my name to it either. Their name is legion.
This is in response to Dana's post: Bless you, Dana, and thanks!
Ann Malley October 30, 2014 at 2:30 pm	- Reply
Good gravy, Linda Maria. You know you've revealed a portion of the rotted gooey center of Church crisis when mous tags you.
God bless and keep posting. I *love* your indomitable and always direct observations.
Linda Maria October 31, 2014 at 12:31 am	- Reply
This is in reply to Ann Malley's post: Thanks so much! Bless you!
Anytime, Linda Maria. You speak truth out of love for God. There is nothing more faithful and/or Catholic than that! God bless you, too.
Christ is the center of the Catholic Church.
Christ is the center of the Catholic Church, but not the center of the Church's crisis, mous. And getting to the core of that nastiness is often what sets many mice off for their job is to foment more of that nastiness in the hopes of rotting the whole.
SIDNEY October 30, 2014 at 9:02 am	- Reply
GLORIA TV –
"Pope knows exactly what he is doing, let no one doubt that" says German, Cardinal Marx;
& the principle (heresy) of immoral "Gradualism".
https://gloria.tv/media/Jp9QriBR4JL
" War Against the Eucharist 10-30 "
" What we're dealing with at the Synod is an attack on the Eucharist."
https://www.churchmilitant.tv/platform/?today=2014-10-30
Catherine October 30, 2014 at 9:13 am	- Reply
Confusion is a tool of the devil. "My people perish for lack of knowledge." Now we see that the Family Synod of Lasting Confusion has enabled more in society to proudly rebel against God's Laws with the permission of mixed message blessings.
" So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me."
Tim Cook Speaks Up
By Tim Cook October 30, 2014
Photograph by Ashley Gilbertson for Bloomberg Businessweek
"Throughout my professional life, I've tried to maintain a basic level of privacy. I come from humble roots, and I don't seek to draw attention to myself. Apple is already one of the most closely watched companies in the world, and I like keeping the focus on our products and the incredible things our customers achieve with them.
At the same time, I believe deeply in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, who said: "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' " I often challenge myself with that question, and I've come to realize that my desire for personal privacy has been holding me back from doing something more important. That's what has led me to today.
For years, I've been open with many people about my sexual orientation. Plenty of colleagues at Apple know I'm gay, and it doesn't seem to make a difference in the way they treat me.
Why do people keep accusing the Pope of being confusing?
He is not confusing at all. Perhaps they do not really know the Catholic Faith or perhaps they are using poor sources of information or just maybe not able to follow things. Or maybe they just do not like that he insists that we must obey the demands of the Gospel.
I respect your feelings about being gay (although I am not gay so I do not really understand that) but you must never rebel against God's Laws. If you do not know them, please read the Scriptures and get a Catholic Catechism. I hope you live in conformity with the Gospel. You did not say if you are a Christian.
"Why do people keep accusing the Pope of being confusing? = "Elton John: 'Make Pope Francis a saint now, OK?"
Bishop Tobin: 'Pope Francis is Fond of Creating a Mess. Mission Accomplished.
Taken from Creative Minority Report
'Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid"
"Not that any German Cardinal can be trusted to tell the truth, but for your consideration. This comes from Cardinal Reinhard Marx, chairman of the German Episcopal Conference. (For the uninitiated, the German Episcopal Conference is to the faith what Obama is to humility, unacquainted.)
Anyway, here is what Cardinal Marx had to say about what the heretics achieved at the Synod and what we can expect in the near future from this pontificate. (NC Reporter –no link)
"Anyone who comes to that conclusion has not had their eye on what has been going on in our church over the past one and a half years," Marx said. "Up to now, these two issues have been absolutely non-negotiable. Although they had failed to get the two-thirds majority, the majority of the synod fathers had nevertheless voted in their favor.
"They are still part of the text," Marx continued. "I especially asked the pope about that, and the pope said he wanted all the points published together with all the voting results. He wanted everyone in the church to see where we stood. No, this pope has pushed the doors open and the voting results at the end of the synod will not change that."
Your Fellow Catholic October 30, 2014 at 3:52 pm	- Reply
Catherine, we have known for a long time that you have a certain obsession with homosexuality. Even understanding that, I don't get your post. Why, may I ask, do you have to turn a conversation about Pope Francis into a conversation about the homosexuality of the man who heads the company that provides many of your computers? I ask in all honesty and with genuine curiosity. Your iPhones. Your USB devices. The very blog technology that is used by CCD? I just don't get the point, unless you are asking all of us to give up all of our iDevices. Windows is no better. It is not headed by a gay guy (so far as I know), but it certainly as gay friendly as Apple. Remote participation in sin? Yes you all do it. Every time you log into CCD. Think that your motives will get you out of jail for free? No, please go back and read the Catechism. Your motives are no justification for your use of these tools of sin.
I find it ironic that a person who lives, eats, breathes his homosexuality is telling a happily married woman that she's obsessed with the topic. What are you thinking, YFC? I can assure you that other than in my prayers you and your friends are not on my radar as I prefer pleasant thoughts, and I'm sure Catherine feels the same. That homosexuals have been plotting, planning and purloining power for lo these many years, is obvious. Such a minority are sure trying to make life hell for those of us who have families, for those of us who cherish values, a wholesome society and Gods Will in our lives, who have known a world where homosexuality was not only forbidden, but not spoken of…and then to be called unwelcoming and uncharitable because we don't want you turning truth on its head is just way over the top.
Your Fellow Catholic October 31, 2014 at 8:15 am	- Reply
Very simple and observable by gay and straight people alike that Catherine has a very big habit of turning discussions that have nothing to do with homosexuality in one. She threadjacks constantly. If you don't like that objective reality, you are just not a fair observer of facts, and prefer instead to condemn the messenger. And your life is being made a hell by gay people? Because they aren't styling your hair the way you'd like them to?
Catherine October 31, 2014 at 12:31 pm	- Reply
Thank you Dana! Excellent post because it is so very true!
MIKE October 31, 2014 at 4:34 am	- Reply
YFC, we have known for a long time by your posts that you promote homosexual acts.
When are you going to read and ABIDE by the CCC ? You are hypocritical when you tell others to do so but refuse to do it yourself.
ADMIT that homosexual acts are Mortal Sins.
CCC: 2357, 2358, 2359, 2396
Gen 19:1-29; Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10; Jude 1:7 .
If you really loved those with the temptation of same sex attraction, you would do your best to help them get to Heaven. Rather your lust is more important to you.
CCC: "1791 … ignorance can often be imputed to personal responsibility. This is the case when a man takes little trouble to find out what is true and good,
or when conscience is by degrees almost blinded through the habit of committing sin.
In such cases, the person is culpable for the evil he commits."
MIKE October 30, 2014 at 10:00 am	- Reply
Here it is in ENGLISH from the Vatican web site.
(Thanks in part to Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register who is on site in Rome and made inquires.)
'Relatio Synodi' of Oct 18, 2014
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/10/18/0770/03044.html
It includes paragraphs # 52, 53, 55 that did not get the required 2/3 Vote (even through the paragraphs were modified from the interim report of Oct 13.
Votes are at the bottom.
Thank you for providing this link.
What, exactly is your point? Are you saying that the two paragraphgs that did not obtain a consensus vote, as admitted by the Vatican, are not representative of Church teaching? Are you saying they are wrong? If So, what parts of them are wrong in yoru view that you would go against a MAJORITY of bishops to oppose?
Are you saying that – as perhaps some prelates present there who voted agaisnt the paragraphs – that they didn't go far enough in welcoming these people into our midst? What exactly is your point???
DOTTIE October 31, 2014 at 9:19 am	- Reply
No one has any idea what you are talking about.
Facts are facts, plain and simple. If you do not get that, no one can help you.
No poster on this site set the rules for the Synod.
If the Bishops wanted to include everything, they didn't need to vote.
All Sinners are welcome, and always have been. That will not change.
But their MORTAL Sins are not welcome.
Their MORTAL Sins are hated, and always will be.
Catherine October 31, 2014 at 10:13 am	- Reply
"All Sinners are welcome, and always have been. That will not change. But their Mortal Sins are not welcome"
Excellent truth Dottie!
Bob One October 31, 2014 at 7:55 pm	- Reply
This is a very interesting thread for a number of reasons, but it raises a key question for all of us. What does it mean to be Catholic? Is being Catholic simply an adherence to every single rule of the Church? Is being a Catholic a cultural state of being? Is being a Catholic a process of growing in faith over a lifetime? Is being Catholic a commitment to working with the poor disenfranchised? What does it mean to be Catholic? If I came to this site from who knows where, knowing nothing about the Catholic Church, this thread and many others on this site would have me totally confused. Seriously, when you say "I am a Catholic" what do you mean? Unless we can answer that question, all of our individual comments don't have much meaning do they?
PETE November 1, 2014 at 8:17 am	- Reply
CCC: " 830 The word "catholic" means "universal," in the sense of "according to the totality" or "in keeping with the whole." The Church is catholic in a double sense:
First, the Church is catholic because Christ is present in her. "Where there is Christ Jesus, there is the Catholic Church."
In her subsists the fullness of Christ's body united with its head; this implies that she receives from him "the fullness of the means of salvation" which He has willed:
CORRECT and COMPLETE CONFESSION of FAITH,
full sacramental life,
and ordained ministry in apostolic succession.
The Church was, in this fundamental sense, catholic on the day of Pentecost and will always be so until the day of the Parousia."
CCC: " 831 Secondly, the Church is catholic because she has been sent out by Christ on a mission to the whole of the human race:
All men are called to belong to the new People of God. This People, therefore, while remaining one and only one, is to be spread throughout the whole world and to all ages in order that the design of God's will may be fulfilled: he made human nature one in the beginning and has decreed that all his children who were scattered should be finally gathered together as one. . . . The character of universality which adorns the People of God is a gift from the Lord himself whereby the Catholic Church ceaselessly and efficaciously seeks for the return of all humanity and all its goods, under Christ the Head in the unity of his Spirit. "
Janek November 1, 2014 at 6:58 am	- Reply
Cardinal Pell alluded to the fact that in history there have been many false popes and anti-popes. He said this without naming Francis of course but we all know who he was referring to. BERGOGLIO must step down he has damaged Holy Mother Church enough, only Cardinal Burke can save the Church and restore The Mass of All Times.
Anonymous November 1, 2014 at 8:11 am	- Reply
We know who the anti-Pope is in this situation: The self appointed personal critic of the duly elected Pontiff. This is a scandal for which I hope Burke is sent into real exile very soon.
MARK November 1, 2014 at 2:28 pm	- Reply
Saint Padre Pio was sent into exile for several years as well.
Andrea November 1, 2014 at 2:32 pm	- Reply
Cardinal Pell is a Faithful Bishop.
He was also recently in charge of reforming the Vatican Bank.
Gerhard Cardinal Muller is the Prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, and is very much against violations of the Faith as proposed by Kasper and Danneels.
Sensorium lux November 1, 2014 at 11:37 am	- Reply
Many bishops don't hack on the ravages and pollution that is an outgrowth of sodomy…why?…many of these Post-Vatican II clerics, are "gay"! Many secretly hope that our Church and it's members will endorse this pernicious depravity! Look at the conga-line of sodomites that were recently secretly filmed in Rome, at an underground sodomite party.
Your Fellow Catholic November 1, 2014 at 1:28 pm	- Reply
Ah yes that conga line. I wonder who wrote those words?
Gratias November 1, 2014 at 12:02 pm	- Reply
The writing is on the wall: next year the continuing synod will pass sexual liberation for all. Pope Franciscus is beloved by the mass of Catholics but he intends to complete the now obsolete "Spirit" of Vatican Council II. Seems to me that, like 1964, 2014 is one of the worst years for the Church to open its doors to the secular world.
Only two years ago we did not have a single state approving Gay marriage by free ballots. The tide has changed and the Pope is helping it along. Like Peronism and Obammunism, the new Church policy will leave the poor poorer.
Purchase the book "REMAINING in the TRUTH of CHRIST" published by Ignatius Press 2014,
and edited by Robert Dodaro, OSA.
Writing contributors are GIANTS of the Faith – – -: Walter Cardinal Brandmuller; Raymond Cardinal Burke;
Carlo Cardinal Caffarra; Valasio Cardinal De Paolis; Robert Dodaro OSA,
Paul Mankowski SJ; Gerhard Cardinal Muller; John Rist;
and Abp Cyril Vasil SJ.
Send a copy to your Diocese Bishop as a Christmas gift,
or in preparation for the 2015 Synod.
They accurately and clearly refute Kasper's assertions in his book.
Bob One November 1, 2014 at 7:58 pm	- Reply
If the world were flat, the Pope might be leading us to the brink, but the world is round (although not everyone believes that). So he is not taking us over the edge, he is taking us to the new horizon, and then to the next. He has seen the damage done by those who resist Vatican II's call for change. They, however, bask in the knowledge that most Catholics don't pay much attention to what they think is important. People are, and have been leaving the church in droves, not because the church is becoming too "liberal" whatever that means, but because the church has not found a way to Pastoral in the midst of a culture that disagrees with much of what it teaches about, let's be honest about it, about what goes on in the bedroom. It didn't concentrate on the family in the last synod, did it. It talked about divorce and same sex relationships, etc. What about the family? How did it deal with the single mom family? How did it deal with the abandoned wife and children? How did it deal with the lack of educational opportunity that keeps a family in poverty? How did it deal with families that cannot feed their children because there is not work? How did the deal with the minimum wage earner who has to work three jobs to pay the rent? It really didn't deal with family, did it? It dealt with those who are no longer married and same sex issues like they were the most important things in the world. The southern hemisphere Bishops are tearing the northern European and American folks with disdain for ignoring the plight of the people and worrying about Curia power, wouldn't you agree? The Synod proved that we need a house cleaning in Rome. My fear is that our new Pope may not be up to doing what needs to be done.
Bob One, the teachings of Vatican II are contained in the CCC.
The CCC includes teaching on Heaven, Hell, particular judgment, mortal (grave) sin, divorce with remarriage, and homosexual acts.
Curia power was not even discussed at the Synod, Bob One. Why do you lie to people?
If you are inferring that Church teaching should be changed by each individual Diocese Bishop rather than including the Pope in the Magisterium, you again are violating Jesus's words when he named Peter the head (not merely an equal) to all the other Apostles.
In addition, the Synod of 2014 made ZERO concrete/specific recommendations on how to be more Pastoral, or even how to teach more effectively.
They merely stated what all of us already know.
THIS is IMPORTANT – – – – – – –
It is OK if people leave the Church in droves, as long as they are taught the Faith accurately and completely.
God gave everyone a free will, and Jesus said many will not be saved, and the way to salvation is not easy. Mt. 7:13-14; and Lk 13:23-28.
Many disciples left Jesus (Jn 6:66) when they thought His teaching was too hard. Jesus let them go. He did not change His teaching, nor his vocabulary, nor his method of teaching.
Gratias November 2, 2014 at 8:28 pm	- Reply
The continuing Synod next year is likely allow concubinage, lesbianism, sodomy, contraception and probably women ordination. This Pope is all in for Socialism, as explained in his Joy of the Gospel program, so enjoy aggiornamento Bob One while the pendulum is on your (left) side.
"Bob One": You are incorrect. The "damage done," as you put it, is the fact of Vatican II implementation, not those that "resist" it. Implementation of Vatican II has created a wasteland in the Catholic Church, in any and all measureable respects. Resistance to this insanity is mandatory for faithful Catholics.
The issue with the present Pope, the Curia, and the worldwide "Order of Bishops" is that they are basted in the sauce of Vatican II, and understand the foundations of the Church as beginning at that point. The hostility of present Catholic leadership to even acknowledging its own foundations, traditions, and practices is breathtaking. No institution can exist that denies its very self.
Present leadership understands this better now. Unfortunately, the response of Francis is pretty much what you saw at the Synod: remake Catholic teaching. Oh, you can call it whatever you want: an exercise in "mercy", or needed "pastoral" behavior, the point is that the Church leadership will be constantly hunting for an universal label by which it can change everything under the heading of, "discipline" (or some-such).
Your comment — "something needs to be done" — is typical of people that simply do not know the Faith. How about this: teach the Faith, instruct with mercy so that those in spiritual need — homosexuals committing sodomy, remarried without annulments, using contraception, regularly fornicating — will know that they have a home, and application of forgiveness of sin. This is true mercy, this is how Jesus did it when speaking, eating, conversing with "sinners": "Go and sin no more" is how He put it. Catchy phrase, full of mercy, forgiveness, and the promise of salvation.
Sue November 3, 2014 at 1:42 pm	- Reply
It ain't over till it's over, as the saying goes.
The worst may still be coming from the Synod of 2015.
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Stupidest Anti-Gaming Accusations?
General and high profile video game topics.
DaHeckIzDat1
Postby DaHeckIzDat1 » April 3rd, 2015, 9:22 am
I'd wager we all probably know at least one of those people who hate video games and will give you thousands of reasons as to why we should throw them all in the trash and do other things with our lives. What are some of the stupidest reasons or accusations you've heard? For me, my parents weren't exactly anti-gaming, but they wouldn't let me play shooting games for the longest time because they bought into the whole "it teaches kids to murder in real life" shtick.
Gentlegamer1
Postby Gentlegamer1 » April 3rd, 2015, 5:27 pm
Any thing expressed by Anita Sarkeesian or her master Josh McIntosh.
Vexer1
Postby Vexer1 » April 3rd, 2015, 5:27 pm
My mom had this one rule for R-rated movies when I was 13-15, she didn't care if I watched creature films like the Alien series, but she didn't want me watching stuff like Friday the 13th since it had people killing other people, my parents were also hesitant about me getting Soulcalibur since I was only 12 at the time(luckily my cousin got it for me as a Christmas present), but aside from that they didn't seem to pay much attention to the games I was playing, my mom didn't mind going with me to GAmestop so I could pick up M-rated games like Quake 4 and Perfect Dark Zero.
My dad used to spout that lame statement about how video games desensitize you to real violence, but he never actually bothered trying to stop me from playing them and he eventually must've realized what he was saying was utter nonsense, cause I haven't heard him say that in a long time.
Postby Rev1 » April 3rd, 2015, 6:26 pm
Probably the stupidest argument I've heard was that video games make people into killers. I was playing GTA when I was like 12 and I haven't killed anyone... yet.
Sut1
Postby Sut1 » April 4th, 2015, 3:50 am
When I was young my dad used to think playing games would ruin my eyesight (don't know what sort of games he thought I was playing!). So for a while he restricted my playing time to just over an hour. Problem was I had a ZX Spectrum at the time and some of the more complex 128k games could take 10-15 minutes to load !
Fortunately once I'd eventually convinced him it's no different to watching TV, he relented as long as I wasn't on it all the time.
Postby DaHeckIzDat1 » April 4th, 2015, 8:49 am
[QUOTE=Sut]When I was young my dad used to think playing games would ruin my eyesight (don't know what sort of games he thought I was playing!). So for a while he restricted my playing time to just over an hour. Problem was I had a ZX Spectrum at the time and some of the more complex 128k games could take 10-15 minutes to load ! Fortunately once I'd eventually convinced him it's no different to watching TV, he relented as long as I wasn't on it all the time.[/QUOTE]
A whole hour? Lucky! Haha, my parents limited me to 30 minutes a day. Yeah, try making any serious progress in Final Fantasy in half an hour. More often than not, the timer went off in the middle of a cutscene (right after a really hard boss fight, too), and off it went. No time to save
Postby Sut1 » April 4th, 2015, 11:20 am
[QUOTE=DaHeckIzDat]A whole hour? Lucky! Haha, my parents limited me to 30 minutes a day. Yeah, try making any serious progress in Final Fantasy in half an hour. More often than not, the timer went off in the middle of a cutscene (right after a really hard boss fight, too), and off it went. No time to save [/QUOTE]
Haha wouldn't have stood a chance with the Metal Gear Solid games then!
ptdebate1
Postby ptdebate1 » April 4th, 2015, 1:44 pm
One day my brother and I stayed up playing Star Ocean: The Second Story way after bedtime. My dad got mad and actually broke the CD ROM. I still had disk 1, but because he broke disk 2, it would be a long, long time before we actually got another copy and could finish the game.
Postby Vexer1 » April 4th, 2015, 7:03 pm
Gentlegamer- They are not "anti-gamer", that is complete and utter BS, and spare me the "master" nonsense.
Anyways my parents didn't limit my game time, they just insisted I do my chores/homework first.
Jon1
Postby Jon1 » April 4th, 2015, 8:45 pm
I agree with how ridiculous it was to imply that violent video games would make someone commit terrible acts of violence. I remember when Columbine happened they made a big stink about it. If anything, these games act as a way to get your aggression out nonviolently. Although, to be honest, games these days are awfully realistic and it can get creepy seeing some of the ways you dispatch your enemies.
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OceanScrub is an interactive mobile game that encourages you to cultivate the habit of reducing waste. You will play the role of Ambassador for Ocean Protection where you guide sea creatures - the Ocean Pals - through polluted waters to safety and prevent them from consuming plastic waste. Collect as many points as possible by eating the right kind of food, while steering clear of life-threatening plastics. Share your pledge to reduce consumption of plastics within the game. This app is also available for download on the App Store.


The stone statues as authorities are reinterpreted in Phantom Hourglass as phantom guardians who Link has to sneak around in stealth gameplay, another Zelda play mechanic developed since Zelda 3. 8 Fußnotenauszug: The knight enemies in Zelda 3 didn't just move around randomly (like most previous enemies) or outright hunt Link but walked along certain paths. If Link entered their field of... The docks seemed meant for cargo and passenger ships rather than fishing boats. There were many huts similar to Oshus', along with a bar, multiple trading posts, and quite a few inns. There were many huts similar to Oshus', along with a bar, multiple trading posts, and quite a few inns.
the depends what Zelda game you r playing. Also do u mean a big fish or a little fish?.
How do you catch the stowfish on Zelda Phantom Hourglass?
1/10/2007 · Once you get the Big Catch Lure you go to the spots on the map where insted of a normal fish shadow you will see swordfish shadows also. Fish there and once you catch the Rusty Swordfish show it to the the Old Wayfarer and he will tell you about Neptoona.
The Legend Of Zelda Phantom Hourglass A Link Between Worlds A Link To The Past This sword is the first sword obtained in a single entry in the Zelda series. The sword was originally made for the Captain by the Blacksmith of the area.


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``Two of the horses were euthanized after the fire; 29 burned to death in one of the barns.
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Kay Kerper Schellhase '57 (center) is surrounded by Joan and Will Abele '61 (left) and members of her family during the dedication of the Schellhase Commons.
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Commons Officially Dedicated in Honor of Schellhase
It is named for Richard T. Schellhase '45 and his wife, Kay Kerper Schellhase '57. Members of the Schellhase family attended an intimate ceremony on Friday, October 22.
by Ed Moorhouse October 23, 2021
The Schellhase Commons—the welcoming gateway to the Ursinus College campus that sits on the corner of Main Street and Fifth Avenue—was officially dedicated in honor of its namesake during an intimate ceremony on Friday, October 22.
Thanks to the generosity of trustee Will '61 and Joan Abele, the 17,305-square-foot two story building is named for former assistant professor of religion, wrestling coach, and executive secretary for the alumni association Richard T. Schellhase '45 and his wife, Kay Kerper Schellhase '57.
Richard Schellhase, who passed away in February 2020, was a mentor to Will Abele during his time at Ursinus. During the dedication ceremony, Will Abele said, "Most of all, my wish is that through this building, the Schellhase Commons, the very best of him will continue for generations."
In front of a small audience that included many members of the Schellhase family, including Kay Schellhase and her children and grandchildren, Abele recounted the impact that Schellhase had on his life, and the generosity he showed him throughout the years. He said, "Richard epitomized the highest of academic standards, reflected in everything he ever wrote, or spoke, or shared with others. He imbued each and every one of those who encountered him with his thoughts, intellectual references, and powerful questions."
"Richard was also the best in teaching, coaching, and mentoring … I know I'm one of the many whose lives he touched," Abele said.
Abele often speaks about the influence that Schellhase had in shaping his own philanthropy and has said that Schellhase told him, "Someday this is going to be your responsibility." The Abeles sponsor the Richard T. Schellhase '45 Essay Prize in Ethics every year.
"We truly are overwhelmed by the generosity and the thoughtfulness that went into this gift," said Richard's and Kay's daughter, Janet Schellhase Dial.
The Commons incorporates historic Keigwin Hall and includes the Café 2020 coffeehouse, the campus bookstore, and a "home base" for the college's admissions team comprised of 10 offices for admissions counselors. It connects generations of Ursinus students, serving as the place that prospective students and their families come when they first step foot on campus; a popular gathering spot for current students; and a home for the thousands of alumni that return to Collegeville throughout the year.
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Q: iOS cocos2d call to recognize new Orientation? Trying to figure out how to make a call to trigger a orientation notification? By this I mean I want to make a call that checks if the device's orientation has been changed (dynamically in a variable by me) and then re-orients the device based on that variable?
I tried making a call to:
[appDelegate.navController supportedInterfaceOrientations];

But it does not trigger a rotation to occur, but is working the way I want.

A: I got around my issue by doing this:
AppDelegate.m
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
    if (!self.lockedToOrientation) {
        // iPhone only
        NSLog(@"default portrait");
        if( [[UIDevice currentDevice] userInterfaceIdiom] == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone ){
            return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
        }

    // iPad only
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
else {
    NSLog(@"lockedToOrientation");
    return self.lockedToOrientation;
}
}

and HomeScreen.m
AppController *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;

    const UIInterfaceOrientation ORIENTATION = appDelegate.navController.interfaceOrientation;
    appDelegate.navController.lockedToOrientation = ORIENTATION == UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;

    UIViewController *mVC = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
    [appDelegate.navController presentModalViewController:mVC animated:NO];
    [appDelegate.navController dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:NO];

Thoughts on this process? Would Apple reject? I've heard they dislike some ways of changing/forcing orientation.
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Since the late 1970s, the federal Healthy People Initiative has been a visible component of the United States' approach to improving population health.[11][12] In each decade, a new version of Healthy People is issued,[13] featuring updated goals and identifying topic areas and quantifiable objectives for health improvement during the succeeding ten years, with assessment at that point of progress or lack thereof. Progress has been limited to many objectives, leading to concerns about the effectiveness of Healthy People in shaping outcomes in the context of a decentralized and uncoordinated US health system. Healthy People 2020 gives more prominence to health promotion and preventive approaches and adds a substantive focus on the importance of addressing social determinants of health. A new expanded digital interface facilitates use and dissemination rather than bulky printed books as produced in the past. The impact of these changes to Healthy People will be determined in the coming years.[14]
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The SRST, for example, did not participate in good faith in the hearing process set in place to let SRST members and the broader population or work with the Army Corps of Engineers and state public utility commissions. Instead, the Tribe used patently false claims and disruptive protests to slow down a project beneficial to millions of people. Advertisements that invoked Equator principles and they called for banks to stop funding unspecified "environmental disasters," falsely said to threaten rights of indigenous people, without once acknowledging that DAPL is the safest and most environmentally option available.
The Morton County Sheriff's Office reported over 180,000 hours of response time at a cost of $22.3 million. Most of the protesters were from out of state, and many had a history of violent activities or criminal records. The right to protest peacefully is, and should be, constitutionally protected, but peaceful protests do not include burning cars, using threats of force against company or government personnel, or blocking access ways into the construction sites. In fact, those actions should subject the SRST to liability under the tort law for the willful destruction of property. In addition, the U.S. legal system has long treated as a legal wrong any conduct that amounts to an "Intentional Interference with contractual relations with a third party." The Army Corps of Engineers spent $1.1 million in public funds to haul away 835 dumpsters of trash and debris after thousands of protesters finally left the site. The SRST deserves little credit for contributing to the clean-up of a mess that it should have never help create in the first place.
The dubious exploitation of the legal process, the misrepresentations, and the often violent and destructive nature of the protests of DAPL, do not help indigenous people to safeguard their lands from destruction. Instead, these incidents let small factions of environmentalists and their allies disrupt and stop energy projects, with utter disregard for the principle that good faith engagement in public permitting processes must be a two-way streets. The development of alternative energy sources is likely to be slow and fraught with risk. It is therefore incumbent to make sure that spurious claims of indigenous rights not be used to block fossil fuel projects. Slowing down needed projects will not address any issue of climate change, but it could do much to frustrate the economic development needed to improve the lot of all peoples around the world.


On the prosody of Paradise regained and Samson Agonistes.
Being a supplement to the paper On the elements of Milton's blank verse in Paradise lost, which is printed in the Rev. H. C. Beeching's edition of Paradise lost, bk. I, Clarendon Press, Oxford.


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How To Create Your Own Luck
Luck–in business and in life–isn't always something that happens to you, it's also something you can find and help create.
[Image: Flickr user Thomas Leth-Olsen]
By Drake Baer 3 minute Read
Failed actors rarely give career advice. "The advice business is a monopoly run by survivors," writes David McRaney of You Are Not So Smart. The chefs who failed don't have a line out the door of their restaurant. The entrepreneurs who launched, failed, and didn't try again don't end up on the cover of Fast Company.
To McRaney, the problem with the stories of the super productive, super creative, and super successful is that they miss half the equation:
You must remind yourself that when you start to pick apart winners and losers, successes and failures, the living and dead, that by paying attention to one side of that equation you are always neglecting the other. If you are thinking about opening a restaurant because there are so many successful restaurants in your hometown, you are ignoring the fact the only successful restaurants survive to become examples. Maybe on average 90 percent of restaurants in your city fail in the first year. You can't see all those failures because when they fail they also disappear from view. As Nassim Taleb writes in his book The Black Swan, "The cemetery of failed restaurants is very silent."
While the survivors are very, very loud, as they supply neat narratives of How They Did It, the satisfying movement of cause and effect. If you (get up early/stay up late/network hard) you will be a great (entrepreneur/artist/writer). If you think that one input creates one output, you're employing linear thinking, in a form of what Taleb calls the narrative fallacy, where we reduce the messiness of life into cleanly, consumable stories of how to live.
But success is nonlinear: we can't know how something will turn out at its outset. Not even Google can predict how employees will perform at the point of hire. As David Lee observes, the savviest entrepreneurs cooperate with the unpredictability: when Jeff Bezos is talking about going down "blind alleys" that turn into "broad avenues," he's really talking about exploring unproven trajectories can yield high-flying business–like Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm that's now eclipsing bookselling in sales.
You could say that Bezos is lucky, but it might be more accurate to say that he's cooperating with chance.
How to create your own luck.
Psychologist Richard Wiseman studies luck. Over a decade, he followed the lives of 400 subjects across professions who described themselves as lucky or unlucky. McRaney, again, provides a synopsis:
In one study, he asked subjects to look through a newspaper and count the number of photographs inside. The people who labeled themselves as generally unlucky took about two minutes to complete the task. The people who considered themselves as generally lucky took an average of a few seconds. Wiseman had placed a block of text printed in giant, bold letters on the second page of the newspaper that read, "Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper." Deeper inside, he placed a second block of text just as big that read, "Stop counting, tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $250." The people who believed they were unlucky usually missed both.
So luck–in business and in life–isn't something that happens to you, it's something that you look out for, and in looking out for it, participate in the creation of.
How so? It's your patterns of behavior–the actions and reactions you have with the events and people you interact with in life. Luck isn't "magical," Wiseman tells Skeptical Inquirer magazine, it's "rational": you can, with reason, better work with the weird, opaque, endlessly multifaceted probabilities that life presents us.
Wiseman, thankfully, has supplied us a cheatsheet for having a more productive relationship with chance. According to his research:
Lucky people maximize chance opportunities: They create, notice, and act on opportunities–like by meeting lots of people and being open to new experiences.
They listen to their hunches: And practices like meditation allow them to clear their mind of thoughts and act more quickly.
They expect good fortune: Anxiety precludes you from seeing possibilities, a calm optimism allows you to spot them.
And allow us to add a fourth: They're resilient. The more funding you have, the more "runway" the startup has to "pivot" from. The more you're determined that's "it's going to work," the longer you'll stick around until it does work. Grit predicts success. That success is born of courting serendipity.
Hat tip: Vianney Lecroart
Drake Baer was a contributing writer at Fast Company, where he covered work culture. He's the co-author of Everything Connects, a book about how intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational psychology shape innovation.


Nearly 30 years ago, a mother of three was bludgeoned to death with a bowling pin in her west Garden Grove home.
Police scoured the house and yard for clues and interviewed relatives, friends, associates and neighbors. But they never found the killer. And for decades, the case stayed cold.
This month, Garden Grove police teamed up with a new reality television show that uses psychics to help solve crimes.
"A lot of police departments don't use them because people [are skeptics] and I'm a skeptic too," Garden Grove Police Lt. Mike Handfield said, "but it has opened some doors for us."
He said he couldn't reveal how the psychics had helped, citing the ongoing investigation and a confidentiality agreement with the Discovery Channel series "Sensing Murder."
The 90-minute show has been a hit in Australia. Each show reconstructs a decades-old murder using forensic evidence and interviews with those involved in the investigation. Psychics then try to come up with fresh clues.
A few days before Thanksgiving 1978, Patricia Ann Neufeld, 34, was found beaten to death in her Richmond Avenue home. She had been caring for her 5-year-old son and babysitting another child when someone bludgeoned her in a rear bedroom; the two children were not harmed. Her assailant fled without taking anything.
Terrie Integlia, 58, a vocational rehabilitation counselor who bought the home several years later, said that the TV series' psychics may have found some help from a spirit that roams the house. "It's like a children's mischievous energy that's tiring -- but it's not haunted," Integlia said. "If it was, I would've been gone."
She said she allowed psychics Pam Coronado and Laurie Campbell to spend more than 80 hours in her home.
"I feel really good about it. I think they'll solve it," Coronado said.
"These psychics were pretty right on as to what happened," Handfield said. "They have theories that we're going back to look at."
The episode is scheduled to be broadcast in the United States in the fall. Police investigators said the broadcast may be more valuable in solving the crime than the psychics.
"The publicity could put the murder in the forefront of people's minds," Handfield said. "Our hope is that someone watches for entertainment and remembers what happened and calls us."


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Stencil printing is far more complex than many people think. There are over three dozen different stencil printing parameters that must be optimized on an SMT printer. Because of this complexity, the typical SMT line only runs at 90-95% yield. With proper stencil printing, SMT lines can run at 99%+ yields.
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Table of Contents » Title 10.1. Conservation » Subtitle II. Activities Administered by Other Entities » Chapter 14. Virginia Waste Management Act » Article 3.4. Reduction of Heavy Metals in Packaging Act » § 10.1-1425.21. Definitions
§ 10.1-1425.21. Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Distributor" means any person who takes title to products or packaging purchased for resale.
"Intentional introduction" means the act of deliberately using a regulated heavy metal in the formulation of a package or packaging component where its continued presence in the final package or packaging component is to provide a specific characteristic or quality. The use of a regulated heavy metal as a processing agent or intermediate to impart certain chemical or physical changes during manufacturing, whereupon the incidental retention of a residue of the metal in the final package or packaging component is neither desired nor deliberate is not considered to be "intentional introduction" where the final package or packaging component is in compliance with subsection C of § 10.1-1425.22.
"Manufacturer" means any person that produces products, packages, packaging, or components of products or packaging.
"Package" means any container which provides a means of marketing, protecting, or handling a product, including a unit package, intermediate package, or a shipping container, as defined in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) specification D996. The term includes, but is not limited to, unsealed receptacles such as carrying cases, crates, cups, pails, rigid foil and other trays, wrapping and wrapping film, bags, and tubs.
"Packaging component" means any individual assembled part of a package, including, but not limited to, interior and exterior blocking, bracing, cushioning, weatherproofing, exterior strapping, coatings, closures, inks, and labels. Tin-plated steel that meets ASTM specification A-623 shall be considered as a single package component. Electro-galvanized coated steel that meets ASTM specification A-525, and hot-dipped coated galvanized steel that meets ASTM specification A-879 shall be treated in the same manner as tin-plated steel.
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POCATELLO, Idaho — Bogdan Bliznyuk drilled a late 3-pointer to put Eastern Washington in front for good, sending the Eagles to a 74-69 Big Sky Conference victory over Idaho State Saturday night.
Bliznyuk scored 17 points, making him the fifth player in Big Sky history to score more than 2,000 career points.
The Eagles (16-13, 11-5) earn a sweep of their road trip, winning at Weber State Thursday. EWU hosts Southern Utah and Northern Arizona to close out the regular season.
Balint Mocsan hit a 3 with 2:01 to play to put the Bengals (13-14, 8-8) in front, 69-68, but Idaho State did not score again the rest of the way and Bliznyuk answered with 1:31 remaining. Jacob Davison converted two free throws and Jack Perry hit the first of two to set the final margin.
Brandon Boyd scored 23 points to lead Idaho State, with Novak Topalovic and Geno Luzcando adding 17 and 13 points, respectively.


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The US sanctions against Iran they have a boomerang effect and deepen the isolation of the North American country in the world, says an Iranian diplomat.
"The United States sanctions against Iran are nothing new. The US government is addicted to sanctions and (the current US president, Donald) Trump can not leave them. I believe that this US measure is a way of self-sanctioning, "says Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi.
On Monday, US sanctions come into force. against Iran, eliminated after the nuclear agreement signed in 2015 by Tehran and the 5 + 1 Group (USA, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and China, plus Germany), and from which Washington unilaterally left in May.
By withdrawing from numerous international agreements and treaties, Qasemi argues, the United States has shown that "it can not adapt to international mechanisms and that it has become isolated ."
The spokesman of the Persian Diplomacy points out that the unilateral embargoes against Iran "do not come from the power, nor from the logic of the US Administration, but from the inability of Washington to work with the international community."
According to Qasemi, the US restrictions against Iran are nothing but " a psychological war " and an attempt to create "iranophobia".
The Persian diplomat says that whatever the United States unilateral sanctions may be. against Iran will not come to fruition and will face global opposition.
The new US embargoes point to energy exchanges, transport and finance, also to the Iranian Central Bank. The US plan to reduce Iranian oil exports "to zero" has failed since the beginning, as the White House has had to temporarily exempt from sanctions 8 Iranian oil customers.
On Monday, Iranian President Hasan Rohani has declaredthat "Iran will continue to sell its oil and will nullify the sanctions."


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The End of Magical Oil
By Lisa Margonelli
Until this horrifying video of oil barreling out of the well drilled by the now drowned Deepwater Horizon rig surfaced a few days ago, few Americans had given the deepwater wells of the Gulf much thought -- but all of us were getting more and more dependent upon them.
Between 1995 and 2004, deepwater production grew by 535 percent -- an unimaginably high, Madoff-like rate in a country with tapped oil reserves and a driving habit that gobbles up a quarter of the world's oil production. If we glimpsed these wells at all, they were in a Jules Verne-like dreamscape of triumphant technology presented in an oil company ad. Dangers? We didn't think of them. These wells were not on the east and west coasts, where the politically-empowered environmentalists worry about their views. And they weren't in the pristine white north, so dear to many of us who've never been there.
Deepwater wells were in the Gulf -- the official sacrifice zone for U.S. energy policy -- where a critical mass of our refineries, a tangle of marine terminals, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and many decades of oil exploitation have sullied waters and local politics as far back as anyone can remember. Until it appeared on YouTube, this was "magic" oil, miraculously plugging the gap in our unspoken energy policy of increasing imports while yakking ineffectually about energy independence. Magically, too, its seemingly sacrifice-free growth was projected to jump by 62 percent to 2.1 million barrels a day by 2016 -- nearly 43 percent of the whole U.S.'s straggling domestic oil production in 2008.
Now, as BP eerily prepares to drop a "top hat" over this ever larger spill, it's time to re-examine this magic oil, and the trick that brought it to us.
Deepwater drilling had an improbable, unbelievable, giddy rise from its birth in 1993. Every well was pushing the envelope, either of depth in the water or the depth of the drillbit beneath the crust. "Every well I did was the deepest ever," an oil industry professional told me, yesterday. "I worked on 20 wells that set records. Every guy that did my job had worked on 20 wells that set records. We were sprinting, breaking records right and left. Everything they did had never been done before." For 17 years the deepwater rigs were jamming on the edge of the envelope.
As the demand for deepwater oil grew, so did the demand for deepwater rigs, each differently designed than the last. "A year and half ago there were 35 drillships like the Deepwater Horizon," an officer on a Transocean drillship told me, "and by 2016 there will be 65. There's a very limited number of people with the experience to be officers on them. And that pool is getting diluted.The age of the captains on these ships is falling from the mid 40's to the mid-30's." The International Association of Drilling Contractors recently bemoaned a coming shortage of professionals.
And they were drilling into trickier and trickier formations. By 2008, 25 to 30 percent of remaining reservoirs in the Gulf had pressure issues, which the industry and the MMS were trying to figure out how to manage.
Deepwater was, in other words, an increasingly risky business in risky conditions, with new equipment, people, and practices. If it sounds a bit like the conditions that led to the financial meltdown, perhaps it was, particularly when you factor in the behavior of the regulator. The MMS, the proxy for American citizens, had put its faith in magic rather than in regular inspections and regulation. Like those of us driving around madly on land, who preferred not to think about the risks of this oil, the MMS didn't pay much attention to the details, and sometimes even violated the law to assist in oil extraction.
As industry sprinted, the MMS shuffled. Since 1997, it appears to have issued only one notice on Deepsea BOP (Blow Out Preventer) inspections ( NTL No.2009-G07). Puzzlingly, this notice issued some clarifications on modifications to the BOP's, which include an interesting sentence: "Failure of a choke line installed below a bottom ram could result in a blow out." (Perhaps that has something to do with some of the info on the lack of schematic drawings for the BOP's and the fact that they'd never been "emergency" tested since they had been placed on the seabed, according to Congressman Bart Stupak's statement.) In any case, here was a regulator trying to stay on top of an industry that was moving the needle with every well, and it only issued one notice on the BOP in 13 years.
In addition to the famous scandal around sex and drugs, the MMS had more insidious issues with industry. In 2001 it worked on Project Deep Sea Spill, which modeled an underwater spill much smaller than the Deepwater Horizon, but kept the information proprietary among the 12 cooperating oil companies for four years.
And so now, we are not only faced with an extraordinarily large, frightening, and nearly unthinkable oil spill, we are also facing the end of magical oil. Like the financial crisis, there are physical issues to deal with now, but in the future there will be a crisis of confidence in the oil industry and in government's ability to regulate it. And at the same time, all of that new oil will not flow magically toward our shores, lubricating our lifestyle, allowing us to glide on without an explicit energy policy. We shouldn't kid ourselves that this is merely a large oil spill. It is much more.