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Marianne Duddy-Burke: Why isn't the Boston Archdiocese accusing her of causing harm to the community?
As I mentioned in a previous post, "Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of the homosexual Catholic-in-name-only 'DignityUSA,' praised the new policy of the Boston Archdiocese which prohibits "discrimination" against students who come from a homosexual household while stating clearly that it is her belief that, 'As long as the doctrine stands [Catholic doctrine which defines marriage as a heterosexual union and which says that homosexual acts are acts of grave depravity], it makes it really hard for the pastoral and the doctrinal aspects of our faith not to come into a clash...The people of the church are changing, and by and large very affirming of gay people, and the hierarchy and the doctrine are lagging behind.' (See here).
This is nothing less than a call for the Church to abandon its teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically evil acts. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which was solemnly promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992, teaches that there are explicit kinds of human acts, specified by the object of moral choice, which are always morally wrong because a willingness to choose an object of this kind demonstrates a disordered will (i.e., moral evil). The Catechism explains that, "A morally good act requires the goodness of the object, of the end, and of the circumstances together. An evil end corrupts the action, even if the object is good in itself (such as praying and fasting 'in order to be seen by men'). The object of the choice can by itself vitiate an act in its entirety. There are some concrete acts - such as fornication - that it is always wrong to choose, because choosing them entails a disorder of the will, that is, a moral evil." (1755).
The same Catechism identifies various kinds of intrinsically evil acts, proscribed by absolute norms. For example, the intentional killing of the innocent (2273), specific examples of which are infanticide (2268) abortion (2273) and mercy killing or euthanasia (2277); masturbation (2352), fornication (2353) adultery (2380-2381) and homosexual acts (2357).
If one is to be faithful to Christ and His Church, one may not assert that what the Magisterium teaches is false and that the faithful possess a right to reject its teaching and substitute it with their own opinions or those of dissenting theologians. But this is precisely what Marianne Duddy-Burke is doing. She is agitating for a change in the Church's teaching while suggesting that the Church needs to "catch up" with those who are "very affirming of gay people," (in other words, who condone homosexual acts).
But the Church, while respecting the homosexual person (CCC, 2358), cannot affirm acts which are intrinsically evil. Which is why the Catechism states clearly that, "Homosexual persons are called to chastity." (2359). In his Encyclical Letter Veritatis Splendor, No. 113, Pope John Paul II warns that, "dissent, in the form of carefully orchestrated protests and polemics carried on in the media, is opposed to ecclesial communion and to a correct understanding of the hierarchical constitution of the People of God." In the face of such dissent, a dissent which harms the Church's communion, Pope John Paul II insists that, "the Church's Pastors have the duty to act in conformity with their apostolic mission, insisting that the right of the faithful to receive Catholic doctrine in its purity and integrity must be preserved" (No. 113).
Has Cardinal O'Malley done this? Has he acted in conformity with his apostolic mission to address Ms. Duddy-Burke's public dissent from the Church's teaching regarding homosexual acts? How about Father Emile "Mike" Boutin's dissent from Church teaching? Thus far there has been nothing from the Boston Archdiocese but silence. But the same archdiocese managed to find the time to accuse Boston Catholic bloggers faithful to the Magisteium of harming the community of the faithful. Pope John Paul II never said that fidelity to the Magisterium is opposed to ecclesial communion. But rather dissent.
Why the silence from Cardinal O'Malley? What do you think? And more to the point: Why is it that the Church in Boston finds it so easy to partner with individuals who are engaging in intrinsically evil acts but so difficult to partner with Catholics faithful to the Magisterium? While you wrestle with that, let me finish this post with another quotation from Marianne Duddy-Burke, taken from an article she authored for The Huffington Post:
"We will be looking for someone to fill Senator Kennedy's shoes--and no one will. But perhaps his leadership can give hope to the many Catholics who feel their values on LGBT issues do not agree with what they hear from their bishops. Ted Kennedy confirmed that progressive Catholics can live out their deep convictions and genuine faith even when these convictions differ from those of the church hierarchy." See here.
God save the Boston Archdiocese!
Labels: Acts, Archdiocese of Boston, Catholic Bloggers, DignityUSA, Dissent, Executive Director, Faithful, Homosexual Acts, Intrinsically Evil, Magisterium, Marianne Duddy-Burke
BostonCatholic2011 said...
And they wonder why people are leaving in droves? Figure it out Cardinal O'Malley. And soon.
Why do they find it easy to partner with homosexual persons and not devout Catholics loyal to the Church? Because they identify more with those who have a disordered will.
The Boston Church is currently running a campaign to call people home (meaning back to Church). The problem for Boston is, home is where the heart is. And the heart of faithful Catholics who are disenfranchised with the Church is not with a radical homosexual agenda.
I think most people are quickly losing faith in a local Church which is disintegrating. Try to put a positive spin on it if you want. But the Boston Church is coming unglued.
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AMD Reveals The Radeon RX 6000 Series: RDNA2 Starts At The High-End, Coming November 18th
by Ryan Smith on October 28, 2020 12:25 PM EST
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AMD Reveals The Radeon RX 6000 Series: RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT, & 6800 RDNA2 At A High Level: Ray Tracing, Infinity Cache, & A Whole Lot of Clockspeed
Preparing to close out a major month of announcements for AMD – and to open the door to the next era of architectures across the company – AMD wrapped up its final keynote presentation of the month by announcing their Radeon RX 6000 series of video cards. Hosted once more by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su, AMD's hour-long keynote revealed the first three parts in AMD's new RDNA2 architecture video card family: the Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT. The core of AMD's new high-end video card lineup, AMD means to do battle with the best of the best out of arch-rival NVIDIA. And we'll get to see first-hand if AMD can retake the high-end market on November 18th, when the first two cards hit retail shelves.
AMD's forthcoming video card launch has been a long time coming for the company, and one they've been teasing particularly heavily. For AMD, the Radeon RX 6000 series represents the culmination of efforts from across the company as everyone from the GPU architecture team and the semi-custom SoC team to the Zen CPU team has played a role in developing AMD's latest GPU technology. All the while, these new cards are AMD's best chance in at least half a decade to finally catch up to NVIDIA at the high-end of the video card market. So understandably, the company is jazzed – and in more than just a marketing manner – about what the RX 6000 means.
Anchoring the new cards is AMD's RDNA2 GPU architecture. RDNA2 is launching near-simultaneously across consoles and PC video cards next month, where it will be the backbone of some 200 million video game consoles plus countless AMD GPUs and APUs to come. Accordingly, AMD has pulled out all of the stops in designing it, assembling an architecture that's on the cutting-edge of technical features like ray tracing and DirectX 12 Ultimate support, all the while leveraging the many things they've learned from their successful Zen CPU architectures to maximize RDNA2's performance. RDNA2 is also rare in that it isn't being built on a new manufacturing process, so coming from AMD's earlier RDNA (1) architecture and associated video cards, AMD is relying on architectural improvements to deliver virtually all of their performance gains. Truly, it's AMD's RDNA2 architecture that's going to make or break their new cards.
Over the coming months, RDNA2 will filter down into an increasing number of AMD chip designs. But for now, in the PC space, AMD is starting with enthusiast-level video cards. The first RDNA2 GPU out of the works is Navi 21 – AKA "Big Navi" – which AMD will be using as the basis of a trio of video cards. These are the Radeon RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT, and 6800 respectively. With these latest cards, AMD is aiming squarely at NVIDIA's recently-launched GeForce RTX 30-series lineup, aiming to meet (or beat) the RTX 3090, 3080, and 3070 respectively. Suffice it to say, AMD hasn't been able to match NVIDIA's top cards for several years now, so these are very bold claims from a company that has re-learned how to become very bold in the last five years.
AMD Radeon RX Series Specification Comparison
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT AMD Radeon RX 6800 AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
Stream Processors 5120?
(80 CUs) 4608?
(72 CUs) 3840
(40 CUs)
ROPs 128 128 96 64
Game Clock 2015MHz 2015MHz 1815MHz 1755MHz
Boost Clock 2250MHz 2250MHz 2105MHz 1905MHz
Throughput (FP32) 20.6 TFLOPs 18.6 TFLOPs 13.9 TFLOPs 9.75 TFLOPs
Memory Clock 16 Gbps GDDR6 16 Gbps GDDR6 16 Gbps GDDR6 14 Gbps GDDR6
Memory Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit
VRAM 16GB 16GB 16GB 8GB
Infinity Cache 128MB 128MB 128MB N/A
Total Board Power 300W 300W 250W 225W
Manufacturing Process TSMC 7nm TSMC 7nm TSMC 7nm TSMC 7nm
Transistor Count 26.8B 26.8B 26.8B 10.3B
Architecture RDNA2 RDNA2 RDNA2 RDNA (1)
GPU Navi 21 Navi 21 Navi 21 Navi 10
Launch Date 12/08/2020 11/18/2020 11/18/2020 07/07/2019
Launch Price $999 $649 $579 $399
As today's announcement is not a full tech deep dive – like the Zen 3 announcement, the deep dive will come closer to launch – AMD is only sharing some high-level specifications of the new cards. But with information on the number of CUs, memory support, and power consumption now in hand, we have a good idea of what AMD is bringing to the table, and why they believe the RX 6000 series will once again make them fully-competitive at the high-end.
Amongst AMD's video card stack, the company is taking a very similar tack as NVIDIA. So although the RX 6900 XT is technically their flagship part, at $999 it's still in a similar "more money than sense" category as the RTX 3090 – which is to say that AMD is looking to charge a good premium for the card. Since it's based on a fully-enabled (and undoubtedly heavily binned) Navi 21 GPU, it's the hardest part for AMD to produce, and thus the rarest. How rare remains to be seen, but as Navi 21 is undoubtedly a large chip thanks to the 26.8 billion transistors housing 80 CUs and 128MB Infinity Cache (more on that later), I don't expect AMD to be flooding the market with 6900 XTs any time soon.
At any rate, the card will be the full Navi 21 experience. All 80CUs will be enabled, and thanks to AMD's efforts in optimizing the RDNA2 architecture for clockspeeds, it will have a game clock of 2015MHz and a peak turbo clock (boost clock) of 2250MHz. Assuming that AMD hasn't done anything too crazy with the RDNA2 architecture, this means that the card will have an average FP32 shader throughput of around 20.6 TFLOPS, more than double the throughput of the RX 5700 XT – and right in line with AMD's goals to double their performance over the RX 5000 series.
Gallery: Radeon RX 6900 XT
On the memory side of matters the card comes with 16GB of GDDR6. AMD is not officially disclosing the memory clockspeed, but based on current tech trends we're expecting that GDDR6 to be running at 16 Gbps/pin (which AMD has since confirmed). Meanwhile, based on other AMD slides, it looks like this memory is attached to a 256-bit memory bus, which would give the card a total memory bandwidth of 512GB/sec. This is admittedly a bit anemic for a flagship video card, and is where AMD's new Infinity Cache technology will come into play.
Finally, AMD says that the card will have a Total Board Power (TBP) of 300W. At a time when ASIC designers everywhere are struggling to keep power consumption in check – and when even NVIDIA's top cards now hit 350W – a 300W TBP is a significant claim. Not only is it potentially a competitive advantage for AMD, but it means they haven't needed to increase their TBP versus their previous high-end card, the also 7nm-based Radeon VII.
With all of that said, however, some expectation management is in order. Although AMD is comparing the RX 6900 XT to NVIDIA's RTX 3090, there are a few potential gotchas involved. We'll break down AMD's specific performance claims and benchmark slides later, but suffice it to say and as AMD is pitching things now, if the RX 6900 XT can match the 3090, it's going to be at the very top edge of the AMD card's performance profile, overclocking included. Which would go hand-in-hand with the heavy binning mentioned earlier.
Moving down the line we have the Radeon RX 6800 XT. Based on a slightly cut-down Navi 21 GPU, this is the AMD card that mere mortals can afford. At $650 it's still expensive, to say the least, but significantly less so than the $1000 6900 XT.
Out of the box, the RX 6800 XT comes with 72 CUs enabled. Combined with clockspeeds identical to the RX 6900 XT – a game clock of 2015MHz and a boost clock of 2250MHz – and pending additional technical details from AMD, the card should average around 18.6 TFLOPS of FP32 shader performance. Relative to the RX 5700, this is just under 2x the performance of AMD's last-gen leading card.
Other than the reduction in CUs, according to AMD's specifications there are no other notable differences between the RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT. The more affordable card still comes with 16GB of GDDR6 memory, and I expect it'll be clocked at 16 Gbps/pin as well, giving it an expected total bandwidth of 512GB/sec. Augmenting this, like all of today's cards, will be 128MB of AMD's Infinity Cache. Meanwhile the card's TBP carries the same 300W rating as the 6900 XT as well.
AMD is positioning this card directly against NVIDIA's RTX 3080; and unlike the 6900 XT, there are no asterisks to speak of here. So if AMD can deliver on their claims, then this 6800 XT will be doing so right out of the box. In which case, meeting the 3080 in performance and possibly beating it in power consumption would be a big win for AMD and the RDNA2 architecture, and a sign of how far they've come in the last few years.
Overall, given AMD's performance expectations and pricing, along with the expected competition, it's unsurprising that AMD led with this card today for the Radeon keynote. It's technically not the flagship, but like the RTX 3080 on NVIDIA's side, it's going to be the card that garners the most attention.
It will be the final card in AMD's new product stack, however, that will garner the most in sales. Rounding out the Navi 21 trio of cards we have the Radeon RX 6800, a further cut-down Navi 21 part that trades off a drop in performance for lower power consumption and a cheaper $579 price.
The RX 6800 will ship with 60 CUs (3 shader engines) enabled, and with the fourth shader engine disabled, this by and large makes it three-quarters of a full Navi 21. Relative to the other cards, clockspeeds are going to be lower, with a game clock of 1815MHz and a boost clock of 2105MHz. Which, per our math, would give the card 13.9 TFLOPS of FP32 shader performance, or around 75% of the shader performance of the RX 6800 XT.
Gallery: Radeon RX 6800
Surprisingly, AMD isn't dialing back their memory configuration here. Despite being the third and most budget-friendly card in the stack, the vanilla RX 6800 still ships with 16GB of GDDR6 memory. And while I suspect AMD will go with cheaper 14Gbps memory here – giving the card 448GB/sec of bandwidth – that's still a lot of memory overall. Similarly, AMD isn't using lower-clocked memory either; even the RX 6800 gets the same top-tier 16 Gbps/pin memory (and resulting 512GB/sec of memory bandwidth) that the other cards are getting. Furthermore the complete 128MB Infinity Cache will be available as well, so the GPU itself still has a full pool of its fastest local memory on-hand.
Typical for lower-tier cards, the RX 6800 also carries a lower TBP rating of 250W, 50W less than the RX 6800 XT. AMD of course is no stranger to offering high-powered cards, but in some respects the RX 6800 is going to be the most interesting of the bunch, as it's going to be our first chance to look at what RDNA2 can do at a more reasonable TBP.
For the moment, AMD is classifying the RX 6800's performance relative to NVIDIA's RTX 2080 Ti. In reality this is card that will (roughly) compete with the RTX 3070 – the same card that replaced the RTX 2080 Ti – but as RTX 3070 doesn't launch until tomorrow, AMD doesn't have a card that they draw apples-to-apples comparisons against. So for the moment, AMD is instead playing with the transitive property of equality.
With AMD's own launch not coming until November 18th, there's still plenty of time for AMD to frame this card's performance with respect to the RTX 3070, so it will be interesting to see what (if anything) they have to say in a week's time. AMD's promotional material places the RX 6800 ahead of the RTX 2080 Ti, but we'll see if that holds true for the RTX 3070 as well. For now, AMD seems very confident that they're going to beat NVIDIA's cheapest RTX-30 series card, and with a projected performance and VRAM capacity lead they've priced it accordingly at $579.
One other curiosity on positioning is that AMD is also promoting the RX 6800 as a 4K gaming card, just like its more powerful siblings. Working to the card's advantage, its 16GB of VRAM means that it has plenty of memory to handle the larger buffers that come with the higher resolution. However as the card only has 75% of the RX 6800 XT's theoretical shader performance, I do wonder whether it's going to be outright fast enough for 4K over the long run. Current-generation games should be very doable, judging from what the RTX 3080 and RTX 2080 Ti can do, however there's a bit more concern over the long run as game developers switch to the next-gen consoles as their performance and feature baselines. In which case, the RX 6800 will instead be AMD's 1440p gaming king, and fittingly the company has published some 1440p performance slides for the card alongside the 4K performance slides.
Gallery: Navi 21 "Big Navi" GPU
Overall, AMD some very ambitious performance goals for the Radeon RX 6000 series of cards. At this point AMD knows exactly what kind of performance they need to deliver to take on NVIDIA for the high-end, and the company believes that the Navi 21 GPU they've built is just the tool to do that. Now with 3 weeks to go until the first RX 6800 series cards launch, it's just a matter of time until we can see first-hand whether AMD can deliver on those ambitious, RDNA2-fueled promises.
RDNA2 At A High Level: Ray Tracing, Infinity Cache, & A Whole Lot of Clockspeed AMD Reveals The Radeon RX 6000 Series: RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT, & 6800 RDNA2 At A High Level: Ray Tracing, Infinity Cache, & A Whole Lot of Clockspeed
The Benjamins - Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - link
The 6800 has 16GB of ram not 14GB Reply
Sub31 - Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - link
Nowhere in the article does it say 6800 has 14 GB of RAM. It does say that the RAM is 14 Gbps, though, which is correct. Reply
Kurosaki - Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - link
16gbps Reply
NikosD - Thursday, October 29, 2020 - link
AMD could kill 3090 with more TDP of 6900 XT.
What is the real explanation of artificially limiting the full die of 80CUs at low clock speed in order to maintain 300W TDP while you compete with a 350W TDP card like 3090 ?
I mean the excuse of performance per watt increase from 54% of 6800 XT to 65% for 6900 XT compared to RDNA first gen is simply ridiculous.
We are talking here about a flagship card - the 6900 XT - competing with a 350W TDP monster like 3090.
AMD should have gone at least to 355W as some leaks have said before, in order to win clearly the 3090 by a decent margin. Reply
Spunjji - Thursday, October 29, 2020 - link
It's possible the performance just doesn't scale much further with the extra wattage. There must be a reason, as they'd have plenty of time to make the tweak if it were that simple. Maybe the board design just can't support that power? Reply
A slightly increase of 72CUs (6800XT) to 80CUs (6900 XT) gave a new card competitive to 3090 using the exact same clocks/TDP (for 6800 XT/6900 XT)
So, the architecture scales extremely well.
Also, judging by the rumors and PS5, boost clock could be at least 10% higher.
If they don't want to support a beefier cooler for a reference card, they should allow AIBs to do it.
It is very strange that AMD doesn't allow custom 6900 XT from the beginning.
Could they afraid of a nVidia respond of a 3090 Ti / Titan and they haven't prepared a RDNA2/ HBM2 card or something equivalent ?
The same clock/TDP for 6800 XT and 6900 XT cards, simply doesn't fit. Reply
10% increase in resources to get a 10% benefit is one thing, but I'm talking about how well the performance scales with additional clock speed vs. power usage. It's possible that throwing another 50W of power at the board will only get them a few percent extra in performance.
Designing a card to soak up 300W of power isn't simple, either. Look at the issues Nvidia have had with theirs.
I'd wager they're keeping the 6900XT to themselves because they can't bin enough of the chips to make it worth sending out to AIBs.
This is just me trying to make sense of it, of course - I'm guessing. But it seems more sensible to assume a reason than to assume they'd just... skip the opportunity. Reply
d0x360 - Thursday, October 29, 2020 - link
Well we saw those leaks with a card hitting 2.8ghz.. it's possible they are just holding stuff back for the inevitable 3080ti or supers from nVidia. They could also change to gddr6x, increase the bus size, add memory, add more cache and that alone would probably do the trick but if they also have headroom on the clocks with a TDP increase... It could be huge. AMD with the performance crown for the first time since the 290x. Reply
Yes, Ampere looked like it has a frequency wall at 2.0GHz mitigated by a recent driver but I've never expected RDNA2 to have a power wall of 300W as you describe it.
All the latest leaks and rumors were talking about custom 3080 cards with more than >350W TDP.
Yes, they could be wrong as in other things regarding RX 6000 series and your guess could be right, but I doubt it.
I mean 300W could be a sweet spot for RDNA2 efficiency, but AMD should/could sacrifice a little or more of its efficiency for a little more performance.
Custom 3080 cards and more tech info about increased TDP behavior of RDNA2 cards will enlighten us in the near future. Reply
Spunjji - Friday, October 30, 2020 - link
I'm not talking about a power *wall*, just a point of rapidly diminishing returns. We've already seen that with Ampere and the 3090 vs the 3080 - the 3090 should be a LOT faster going off specs, but it just isn't. Think of the same way Ryzen CPUs overclock - or, to be precise, don't. They don't draw anywhere near as much power as Intel's best, so in theory there's "headroom", but in reality the design is actually at its limits.
AMD have spent the past 8+ years sacrificing efficiency for performance, and when they do so and only get marginal leadership it just gets criticism poured on them (as with the 290X). I don't think pushing for a few percent extra performance at the cost of 50-100W more power makes sense.
As for those leaks about them hitting 2.8Ghz - even if they're true (bearing in mind that there's a cottage industry built around overhyping AMD products and then claiming to be "disappointed"), we have no idea under what circumstances they hit clocks higher than 2.2Ghz and what the resulting performance is.
I'm going with Occam's razor on this: if the architecture could reliably and consistently hit a significantly higher level of performance for about 50W more power, and that would allow them to beat the 3090 in both performance and performance-per-watt, then they'd have done it. But they haven't. Why would they top out with a bleeding-edge bin that *just* misses the target if it were trivial for them not to? Reply


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