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Gomez after two years
Jim Holman2013-02-17T19:47:13-08:00February 17th, 2013|
The following February 16 story appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
In more than two decades leading the Los Angeles Archdiocese, Cardinal Roger Mahony headlined immigration rallies, marched for worker rights and made national news by announcing he would defy a congressional bill he regarded as anti-immigrant.
But the man who replaced him in 2011 — Archbishop Jose Gomez — has shied away from such attention-getting actions. Instead, he plans to take 60 conservative Catholic business leaders on a spiritual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City this fall in hopes of winning them over on immigration reform.
It's a distinctly different style from that of Mahony, whom Pope John Paul II nicknamed "Hollywood" for his frequent media appearances.
"Cardinal Mahony was pretty much everywhere," said parishioner Carlos De Leon as he departed from Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angelslast week. "Archbishop Gomez seems much more behind the scenes. It's a different management style."
Yet Gomez has begun quietly making his mark on the archdiocese, the nation's largest with 4.5 million Roman Catholics in 120 Southern California cities.
He has elevated issues such as opposition to abortion and euthanasia. He has promoted evangelization and religious education and embraced more conservative voices.
At the same time, he has not led an ideological purge of the archdiocese as some liberals had feared might happen under a cleric associated with the orthodox Opus Dei organization. Gomez has not, for instance, shut down a program Mahony developed that has trained lay leaders, particularly women, for powerful church roles, said Claire Henning, a pastoral associate at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Westwood.
"I was one of the first to say, 'Oh my God, Opus Dei,'" Henning said. "But I've been very impressed. I had a lot of presuppositions about him which were wrong."
One of Gomez's most ambitious initiatives has largely gone unnoticed in English-speaking Los Angeles: active outreach to Latinos, who comprise 70% of archdiocese members and 60% of Catholics under the age of 35 nationwide.
The archbishop has launched a weekly Spanish-language radio and TV show to teach the faith, covering such topics as marriage and respect for life, that reaches an audience of more than 2 million.
The 61-year-old Mexico native has also attended popular Spanish-language gatherings — Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrations at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum and a Divine Mercy conference at the L.A. Convention Center, for instance.
For Frances Guerrero, the archbishop's outreach has had a powerful effect on her family.
The parishioner at St. John the Baptist church in Baldwin Park said she has brought her family to see the archbishop celebrate Mass, preside over a cultural festival and speak at a Guadalupe event sponsored by Univision, the Spanish-language television network. Each encounter has deepened her family's connection with Gomez, she said, drawing her husband back to church.
"We feel very connected to the archbishop," she said. "He makes you feel welcome, at home and important."
Gomez believes Catholics must first know their faith to understand the theological reasons for taking stands on social issues, said Father Virgilio Elizondo, a longtime friend in San Antonio, where Gomez previously served as archbishop.
In his first pastoral letter last October, he announced a push for a "new evangelization" to combat society's increasing secularism and said his first priority would be to increase teaching about Catholic beliefs and how to apply them in parishioners' daily lives and the world. The Spanish-language broadcasts are part of that push.
"He's concerned about social justice but feels if you're not well-grounded in the basics, then it can be seen as just activism and not … evangelization of the Gospel," Elizondo said.
Gomez, for instance, has proclaimed that respect for life is the "true foundation" of justice and peace. As a result, he has expanded the mission of the archdiocese's peace and justice office to includeissues such as abortion, contraception and euthanasia and renamed it the Office of Life, Justice and Peace. The department that had handled those issues had been eliminated under budget cuts several years ago.
Some conservatives say he hasn't gone far enough.
It irks some of them that he has not yet rid the archdiocese's annual Religious Education Congress — the world's largest gathering of Catholic workshops and exhibits, scheduled for this week — of speakers who promote such causes as gay rights and other causes they consider anti-Catholic.
Still, Gomez has welcomed conservatives who say they were shut out by Mahony in years past, such as Terry Barber, a Covina-based producer and distributor of multimedia Catholic educational material. Barber said he was told by Mahony's theologian that he was too conservative and didn't fully embrace Catholic theology.
In 2011, Gomez summoned a Los Angeles-ordained gay celibate priest and Georgetown University professor who was advocating same-sex marriage rights in Washington, D.C. The priest, Joseph Palacios, said Gomez told him he was being pressured by Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl to silence him.
Gomez gave him time to consider his options; after a year, Palacios placed himself on inactive clerical status.
"He doesn't come in and bulldoze what was here but adds to the mix," said John Allen, senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter.
In light of his quiet style, parishioners were stunned last month when Gomez publicly rebuked Mahony in a letter released alongside a raft of documents on the church's mishandling of the sex abuse crisis. The documents showed that Mahony plotted with other church officials to prevent police from investigating priests accused of molesting children.
In the Jan. 31 letter, Gomez said he was relieving his predecessor of "any administrative and public duties," although he later clarified that Mahony remains a bishop in good standing.
Gomez's action was seen as an unprecedented public rebuke of Mahony — and friends said it was uncharacteristic.
"His style is subtle, careful and cautious," said Tim Busch, an Orange County businessman and close friend of Gomez. "He is much more soft in style and doesn't want to offend anyone. He knows where he wants to go, but he's going to take his time getting there."
On Friday, Gomez sent out a new letter urging parishioners to pray for Mahony as he goes to Rome to help select a new pope. He said Mahony's accomplishments and experience with such issues as immigration and social justice would "serve the College of Cardinals well" during deliberations to elect a new pope.
Gomez declined an interview request.
Since moving to Los Angeles, Gomez has been overwhelmed but fascinated by the city's size and spiritual diversity, colleagues say.
At an interfaith welcome reception, he was interested to learn about Sikhs and other non-Christians present, according to Father Alexei Smith, the archdiocese's ecumenical and interreligious officer. He recently asked Smith, pastor of St. Andrew Russian Greek Catholic Church in El Segundo, to arrange a meeting on immigration reform with Jewish leaders and to explore the issue from a theological standpoint with an interfaith council.
Some wish Gomez would cross more into politics and social justice as Mahony did. Liberals say Gomez has been conspicuously absent from Labor Day Masses, immigration rallies and juvenile justice gatherings
"Cardinal Mahony used the public square as a pulpit to really create a megaphone for these issues," said Angelica Salas of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "Archbishop Gomez is doing his work much more quietly."
Maria Elena Durazo of the L.A. County Federation of Labor said Gomez was attentive and engaged at two 2011 union gatherings aimed at introducing him to low-wage and immigrant workers. But he has not continued the church's annual Labor Day Masses or yet forged the close relationship with labor that Mahony generally enjoyed, she said.
"He does not have an activist history," Durazo said of Gomez. "He's been listening to us and is open, but when we call on him to do something, we'll see if he agrees or rejects us…."
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Gratias February 17, 2013 at 11:33 pm - Reply
Best way to contact His Exellency Josè Gomez is:
https://www.facebook.com/ArchbishopGomez
Mbûkû Kanyau Mbithûka February 19, 2013 at 9:34 am - Reply
The Lord see's through all things. He even see's the Archbishop's soul! I trust that Archbishop Gomez is working hard for souls so that when he goes before our Almighty Savior, he shall hear the words, "Well done, my good and faithful servant; since thou hast been faithful over little things, I have great things to commit to thy charge; come and share the joy of thy Lord."
Pray for Archbishop Gomez and all our Bishops. That they may keep their eyes on the prize and may focus on care of souls, and that the distractions of high office and trappings of all things mammon may not be for them an obstacle to serving their Lord and Master whom they so loved as to enter the Priesthood.
Clinton R. February 18, 2013 at 12:15 am - Reply
"Gomez has not, for instance, shut down a program Mahony developed that has trained lay leaders, particularly women, for powerful church roles…"
Isn't this why we have all this nonsense such as liturgical dancing, the touchy feely hand holding, girl altar boys and the like? Along with the modernism espoused by liberal bishops and priests along with their horrible conduct, the feminization of the Church is greatly responsible for the decrease of priestly vocations.
Gator February 18, 2013 at 9:32 am - Reply
Yup… clapping, hand-holding, girl-altarboys, guitars and drums (what, no pipe-organ?)… "forbidden liturgical dance", that looks pagan/wiccan and is diabolical! This is the poisoned fruit…
Spit it out, this roten fruit.
Gratias February 18, 2013 at 12:17 am - Reply
Archbishop Gomez will have been two years at the helm February 27, 2013 (Cdl. Mahony's birthday). I have written him precisely on that date since concerning the poor situation of the extraordinary form of the mass in the Archdiocese.
I have noticed several improvements so far. He answers letters, unlike his predecessor. He implemented the new English translation of the mass, which is a great improvement. My ordinary form parish is very liberal but in the beginning they reinstated the confession of sins (it is not said any longer) and started kneeling after the Sanctus for consecration again (but continuing not kneeling after receiving communion).
In our EF parish of San Juan Buenaventura Mission the new pastor cancelled the EF mass aiming for before the start of Lent. Many letters were written to Archbishop Gomez who responded to each one. However the EF mass still continues on Sundays, while a new church willing to accept the ugly ducklings of the Church materializes. The Auxiliary Bishop responsible for Ventura County, Thomas Curry, conspired with Cdl. Mahony in the homosexual priest scandals and Gomez accepted his resignation. So there is some hope we might even be able to stay at the 200 year old San Buenaventura Mission where a Diocesan Latin Mass has been held every Sunday for the past 15 years. On the other hand we had a magnificent complete 1962 Triduum, which was flat out cancelled by the new pastor.
Most importantly, by removing Roger Cardinal Mahony from administrative and public duties Archbishop Gomez gave Los Angeles Catholics a much needed moral boost. When Cardinal Mahony impertinently replied in his personal website he sealed the fate of the ultra-liberal ancienne régime.
Abp. Gomez will need our support in the Cdl. Mahony affair.
All in all, a good start.
R.B. Rodda February 18, 2013 at 1:18 am - Reply
Now that Cardinal Mahony has once and for all lost the concrete support of the great majority of Latinos in the Archdiocese of LA, I suspect reform will come much faster.
Abeca Christian February 18, 2013 at 10:24 am - Reply
Are you sure about that? I doubt that he lost enough support…from what I can guess….just saying. : )
Mbûkû Kanyau Mbithûka February 19, 2013 at 1:43 pm - Reply
What is this 'support' for business. The Church in Los Angeles sounds like a Political party. The Bishop should never be a populist.
"The good Prelate, when prevented from walking down the street in the service of the Lord, should try to walk down a new path, and never stop. If he is prevented from implementing reforms with the aid of law and religion, he should do so with his voice. If he cannot preach, let him write; if he cannot write, let him pray; if he is not able to pray, let him weep. He must always keep watch and work in the service of God, for the good of the souls under his charge, for splendor in Divine Worship, and for his Church, up to the moment of his last breath.; at least according to Blessed Juan de Palafox"
Borrowed from Rorate Caeli Blog.
Joe February 18, 2013 at 4:41 am - Reply
Catholics can go back and forth about who to please, Traditional or Blue Book Catholics. The teachings of the faith has been written for some time and to think from both sides we define them to please us creates more confusion. We please, our Heavenly Father and his Son, throught the Holy Ghost.
Mbûkû Kanyau Mbithûka February 19, 2013 at 11:54 am - Reply
On the letter of faith, Tradationalists are correct. Vatican two was not a Dogmatic Council.
While its not in error, we do not have to beleive anything it said.
MIKE February 18, 2013 at 5:23 am - Reply
Cardinals, Bishops, and Priests must adhere to the "CATECHISM of the CATHOLIC CHURCH, Second Edition" in entirety (100%).
They MUST NOT teach or preach their own politics in any public forum.
(For example: gun registration and gun control is not 'Catholic teaching'.
If it is rare and with other stipulations, preaching against the death penalty is not 'Catholic teaching'. Immigrants who do not obey the laws of the host country, including immigration laws violate 'Catholic teaching'.)
Their main job is to TEACH.
This means they and their Priests must actively and publically and continually tell their literate flocks to read and study the BIBLE and the "CATECHISM of the CATHOLIC CHRCH, Second Edition".
Reading and study can be done at home so there will be no excuses.
They must do everything possible to protect the "REAL PRESENCE".
This means they must stop SACRILEGE.
They must do everything possible to stop HERESY, SCHISM, SCANDAL, CONFUSION, and TEACH the confused and those obstinate in grave (mortal) sin within their own Diocese.
This means the mandatory enforcement of Code of Canon Law: 915, 1399, 1329, 1326, and the teaching of St. Paul 1 Cor 5:11-13 which includes public excommunication when necessary.
CCC: "1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them: …. – by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so;….".
Bishops clean your own House (Diocese). Take the log out of your own eye first.
All of us should pray for them.
Skai February 18, 2013 at 8:06 am - Reply
Teaching is third down on the list of what shepherds are supposed to do. Apostleship and prophesy are first and second. You can read all about it in the Magisterium, say for example, in St Paul's Letters … this one being, as I recall, in first Corinthians.
No Skai, Teaching is their FIRST responsibility —
CCC: "888 Bishops, with priests as co-workers, have as their first task "to preach the Gospel of God to all men," in keeping with the Lord's command.
They are "heralds of faith, who draw new disciples to Christ; they are authentic teachers" of the apostolic faith "endowed with the authority of Christ."
For the words of Jesus please see – – – Mk 16:15; then LG25.
Skai February 18, 2013 at 11:42 am - Reply
The CCC is not part of the magisterium, MIKE; however, the Bible is. I'll pick St Paul over the bureaucrats any day. In fact the Pope recently blasted the bureaucrats … ie the cardinalate running the Vatican.
Anonymous February 18, 2013 at 1:50 pm
I wish people would get a Catholic dictionary.
MIKE February 19, 2013 at 5:19 am
Skai, you are not correct. The CCC is from the Magisterium.
Go to "What Catholics REALLY believe SOURCE" on the internet for quotes from our Popes about the CCC.
Here is only one quote including the source where you can check out this exact wording:
"The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I approved … and the publication of which I today order by virtue of my Apostolic Authority, is a statement of the Church's faith and of catholic doctrine, attested to or illumined by Sacred Scripture, the Apostolic Tradition and the Church's Magisterium.
I declare it to be a sure norm for teaching the faith and thus a valid and legitimate instrument for ecclesial communion." – Pope John Paul II. (CCC pg 5)
Skai February 18, 2013 at 10:20 pm - Reply
MIKE, your own CCC reference does not even prove your point. You should read it more carefully, as it does not say what you claim it says.
Skai February 18, 2013 at 5:04 pm - Reply
For example, when Abp Gomez says of Cdl Mahony that his actions were evil, that is an act of the prophetic office. Read the Prophets and try to understand that they are not crystal ball gazers, which is the popular notion of prophesy.
jon February 18, 2013 at 8:13 pm - Reply
That is a very narrow characterization of what Abp. Gomez did. "Prophetic" is not the precise word for what the Abp. did. He acted as judge, and teacher.
Mackz February 18, 2013 at 7:01 am - Reply
As always, you're darned if you do, and darned it you don't.
If everyone is happy with you, you are doing something wrong!
Mackz, this might be hard or impossible for you to understand, but bishops are not vocationed as salesmen. Their vocation is altogether different from yours.
jon February 18, 2013 at 10:18 am - Reply
Their vocation Skai is also not as a punching bag for those with a perpetual "grievance" against the state of the world, liberalism, the Democratic Party, and whatever else you don't happen to like.
Pete February 18, 2013 at 9:21 am - Reply
The Bishops' job is NOT to make everyone happy on this earth. Quite the contrary.
In fact Jesus said — Mt 10:16-17 "Behold, I send you out as a sheep in the midst of wolves; …" "Beware of men; for they will deliver you up to the councils, and flog you in their synagogues."
Bishops and their Priests main job is to teach according to the: Bible, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition, Code of Canon Law, and GIRM (General Instruction of the Roman Missal) for the Ordinary Form of the Mass, and the 1962 Missal for the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
Kenneth M. Fisher February 19, 2013 at 12:13 am - Reply
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Allyson Smith February 18, 2013 at 7:11 am - Reply
Archbishop Gomez has taken a major and positive step toward cleaning up the L.A. archdiocese by publicly rebuking Cardinal Mahony and relieving him of his duties. Now, he should continue that trend by either shutting down the annual "Religious Education" Congress, or else changing it by replacing the dissidents who regularly appear there with faithful and orthodox speakers.
This rebuke of Cdl Mahony so far has not accomplished anything at all. At best it serves as a shot across the bow … well, perhaps more since part of the rebuke was a statement by Abp Gomez that Cdl Mahony did evil in the eyes of God. But what does that prophetic statement mean? What will be its outcome? Will its potency devolve into some also ran drivel that there are tares in the field of wheat, and that we cannot and should not do anything about this condition?
Laurette Elsberry February 18, 2013 at 8:13 am - Reply
Archbishop Gomez has taken a most postive step also in reaching out to Our Lady of Guadalupe, although it might have been a better idea to take 60 LA politicians to Mexico City. Hundreds of years ago Our Lady of Guadalupe brought millions of Mexican Indians to the true faith. Now too many of their descendants are leaving the faith of their childhood in Mexico, and buying into the false gods promised by the US and California – money, material goods, abortion, fornication, homosexuality, contraception, pornography, divorce. I pray that the Archbishop will increase his efforts to evangelize Latino immigrants back into the true Catholic Church via good, solid Catholic teaching.
Those who want the Archbishop to be active in politics (like Cardinal Mahony) are asking him to violate the teachings of the Church.
It is the Bishops' (and their Priests') job to teach the Laity. It is the Laity's job to be involved in politics.
CCC: 898 "By reason of their special vocation it belongs to the laity to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing them according to God's will. …
It pertains to them in a special way so to illuminate and order all temporal things with which they are closely associated that these may always be effected and grow according to Christ and maybe to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer."
CCC: "899 The initiative of lay Christians is necessary especially when the matter involves discovering or inventing the means for permeating social, political, and economic realities with the demands of Christian doctrine and life.
This initiative is a normal element of the life of the Church".
Bill February 18, 2013 at 9:04 am - Reply
These other things that some have mentioned as not yet having been done will happen "naturally" "at God's pace". Such words and phrases are consistent with the spirituality of Opus Dei.
Over time, the 'Religious Education Congress' will be transformed into something much more than it is, something more substantial (and less superficial and trendy), something more holy, useful to our formation, and concrete. The Archbishop will "re-purpose" the energy of it, toward something more. But this transformation will be done at God's pace.
Matt February 18, 2013 at 10:46 am - Reply
The REC (Religious Education Congress) made by the "will of men" including some heretics and schimatics – may need to be disbanded.
God did not make the REC.
Bill February 18, 2013 at 6:28 pm - Reply
Do you doubt that God can convert it into something wonderful and useful?
Sam February 19, 2013 at 5:23 am - Reply
God can do anything.
BUT he gave man a free will. God does not interfere in that free will.
The REC is full of heretics and schismatics who need to be excommunicated.
God has yet to convert the REC. If He did choose to convert it, don't you think He'd go about converting the bishops in the Vatican bureaucracy first? The Pope has all but gone into a fit of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the corruption in the Vatican, and some peole fantacize that God will wave a magic wand and make everything better.
Bill February 19, 2013 at 8:49 am
Remember God has both a permissive and a positive will. This is basic theology. Maybe God is waiting…maybe He knows that if we are forced to wait, this may increase our desire, or the desire may broaden beyond the boundaries of the "devout" few.
Maybe God is hoping that we expand the boundaries of our normal conversation about such matters to include others…perhaps ones not so fervent. Maybe the Holy Spirit will act in us during this waiting period, bringing more people into the fold, creating unity where they may not have been unity.
R.B. Rodda February 18, 2013 at 5:08 pm - Reply
You are very correct. Many here will not understand your comments.
The "shut it down now!" crowd just doesn't realize how much good the REC already does and just how much more good it could do in time as it is reformed.
Many such programs die in other dioceses due to lack of attendance. The REC has the potential to do much good.
anniem February 18, 2013 at 8:04 pm - Reply
I must disagree that the REC has been corrupt from the beginning and that much good has come from it. Yes, in the 1980s and early 1990s, the REC featured orthodox speakers such as Fr. Benedict Groeschel and others who gave us the TRUTH. Unfortunately as time went on, liturgical dancing workshops and dancing during certain liturgies began to take place, along with heterodox teaching, such as promoting women priests. One Religious Order of very holy Sisters withdrew from the REC because of all the aberrations. In the last 10 years or so it became a total waste of money and time to attend. The SCRC in late August, early September, is a great alternative, but teachers are not mandated to attend that Conference. What we need are booths featuring CMAA leaders and musicians/composers who are following the liturgical guidelines from Rome, giving workshops to truly educate teachers and musicians in the SACRED liturgy. Unfortunately the music publishers are dictating to most parishes what is to be sung or played. Terry Barber's being welcomed by Bishop Gomez is a good sign, perhaps a sign that orthodoxy will return, and entertainment will vanish.
As a prolife volunteer, I attended the REC about 1981, the second year of my Catholic experience. The prolife manager cautioned me to beware of not a few of the REC speakers. I was not acutely tuned into the issues at all, but did perceive nefarious impressions from some of the REC booths.
"Time" is in this case lost souls!
God can save us in the last nanosecond of our life. He knows all the tricks.
When rhetoric descends to such as "God's pace" and "we just need to wait a bit longer", what we are then hearing or reading is a "language" called, bureaucrateze. It seems that to most bishops, the Church is the bureacracy, and the Bureaucracy is the Church: Didn't some European say that once, some friend of Chesterton?
Not at all. God allowed His people to wander in the desert for 40 years. Do you doubt that He can draw good out of our waiting, out of our generous patience.
Are you one of those "instant Americans" who like everything all tidied up after a 30 minute sitcom?
You think you've prayed and sacrifice enough? You can't do any more? You can't expand (maybe double or triple) your network of friends to include perhaps less devout or less convinced people?
You think your work is all done…and it's God's time to act positively?
Is that it?
Maryanne Leonard February 18, 2013 at 9:34 am - Reply
In this article, conservatives, as usual, are being presented as a bit peevish, albeit for good reasons; e.g., we are irked that he hasn't cleaned up the Religious Education Congress, etc. While the label "liberal" has come to be rejected by those who qualify for that categorization, why is it that those of us who like to follow the rules and like our leaders to be lawful and adhere to the teachings of Catholicism are not insisting on a more respectful, even admirable term? I think we could better be called "purists," not that we ourselves are always perfectly pure, but that we admire purity, cleanliness, lawfulness, goodness, kindness, tradition, simplicity, beauty, and all the things that might be called just plain Godly? What's wrong with being a conservative is that the media tries to make us look anachronistic, while in fact we are trying to raise up ourselves and the world to the highest, most admirable, pure and good levels we possibly can during our lifetimes. We are especially grieved when our Church allows stains to exist or even spread or be promoted, such as are seen in the priest abuse scandals, the REC deviance from Catholic values, nuns revolting (or should I say revolting nuns?), etc. Why is it not universally admirable that people who value their souls, their families, their society, and the Word of The Lord work to promote the elevation of those things for the glory of God and the greater good of mankind? We had expected Archbishop Gomez to be on board with our values, and compared to the previous occupant of the chair, he seems to be; but so much more is needed, including overt recognition of the priceless contributions of those who uphold the faith at every turn to the best of their ability. Our values are those that are promoted by the Church; why are we so denigrated, whether subtly or overtly, and categorized as kooks? Everybody should aspire to be on the side of righteousness, for God's sake!!
I prefer hanging out with pagans over liberal Catholics because of their greater integrity.
Maryanne Leonard February 18, 2013 at 8:12 pm - Reply
Yes, Skai, I understand what you are saying. Liberal Catholics are hard to take, because they should know better than to go against the teachings of the Church, which so many of them do openly and proudly, and sometimes loudly. Liberal atheists are even harder to understand, as their smug arrogance seems fearless of the consequences of denying their Creator even exists. To hear some of them talk, you'd think they they were their own Creator.
There is no such thing as liberal or conservative when it comes to our Faith.
Only those who adhere to the Faith, vs heretics or schismatics.
It would be best if we use the correct terminology.
Yep, well said, Maryanne.
"…Our values are those that are promoted by the Church; why are we so denigrated…"
So you say. I see rant after rant on here based on personal preference and not on what the Church actually allows or encourages.
I "denigrate" those who push their personal agendas ahead of the Church. As two examples (two of many) I denigrate ABp. Gomez with regard to the pouring of the Precious Blood. No way around that one — it's wrong and I suspect the great majority of those who post here would agree. (But while terribly misguided to do so, I suspect the archbishop does have the authority to allow the pouring. That does not make it right. All it does is place the responsibility for not following the Church on him, rather than those that adhere to his action or non-action.)
On the other hand I also denigrate those who get all revved-up in a tizzy demanding that we MUST (once again, for example) kneel after the Agnus Dei and after receiving Holy Communion. That's simply not true per the Church. Such people are trying to push their own agendas and it ruins their credibility…
Juergensen February 18, 2013 at 10:11 am - Reply
Canon 915 being enforced yet?
JOHN February 18, 2013 at 11:44 am - Reply
The Religious Education Congress or REC has been corrupt from the beginning.
I dare you to find even one copy of a Catholic Catechism at this Catholic education meeting.
This year the featured keynote speaker is Mark Shriver of the famous Kennedy-Shriver family. Shriver has taken the public position that he supports a "woman's right to choose" (to kill her unborn child).
Although Abp Gomez was informed that this pro-abortion speaker was unacceptable at a LA Archdiocese sponsored Catholic education forum, Abp Gomez has failed to cancel Shriver's presentation.
Right ON, and thank you!
sam February 18, 2013 at 2:02 pm - Reply
I truly find it difficult to believe that PJP11 called AB Mahoney "Hollywood" due to his media presence. PJP11 was ever present in the media — he loved the attention, which lasted even until his demise. He was the 1st Pope to use the media to such an extreme. Recall his 1st love prior to priesthood was acting. He was a born actor; just as Pope Benedict XVI is a born author/teacher.
Anton L. Seidl February 19, 2013 at 9:45 pm - Reply
Sam: Thank you for your very perceptive comments! You have distilled the natural inclinations of our two most recent popes down to their quintessential truth! I shall miss Benedict with great pain in my heart! JP2 despite his good intentions, was a poor steward of the church; he was first and foremost a personality. His youth outreach was unique and earned him much praise, but the end effects are still diffcult to assess. After each successful performance, no lasting benefits were achieved. I believe Benedict dreaded to have to follow the showmanship of his predecessor. His humble nature and natural reticence appear not to have bestowed upon him the same stage presence.
Dave N. February 18, 2013 at 2:32 pm - Reply
Certainly Archbishop Gomez's calling out the actions of Cdl. Mahoney as "evil" has been the high point of true leadership thus far—it's really sad to contemplate that his friends call such actions "uncharacteristic."
The Archbishop's utter failure on the REC and cleaning up St. John's Seminary are definitely the low points. I don't see inviting Terry Barber to REC (one speaker among a hundred) as an even noteworthy sign of improvement.
Dave N.,
Have you been out to St. John's Seminary lately? It seems to me that it was cleaned up long ago. Do you know something I don't know?
I know some priests that have completed their seminary work over the last 5 years from St. John's. All excellent priests.
Some have been conditioned to hate St. John's and results contrary to their beliefs are not about to change anything.
Dave N.
I have not seen Terry Barber's name on the REC speakers list!
Bob February 18, 2013 at 3:48 pm - Reply
As some have stated, what of the Catholic-in-name-only politicians that pervade the greater LA area?
What of the Catholic schools that are staffed with non-Catholics and give only lip-service to the Faith?
What of "social justice" that doesn't provide for unemployment insurance for employees?
What of some of the RelEd Conference speakers?
While some in this forum state that the archbishop has made a good start, I'm sure that it hasn't taken two years to see or hear what's wrong — so why are so many things the same?
One thing that most here will never realize is that it would have been destructive for Abp. Gomez to hack-n-slash programs they don't care for.
Take the educational congress for example. Most here are red-hot to "shut it down now!" If Abp. Gomez did that it would survive outside of the archdiocese and there would be even less control than there is now.
Far wiser to slowly change it from the inside. Like it or not it's a hugely attended event and the potential to do great good is there if it was more orthodox (some of it is already quite orthodox.)
The "shut it down now!" people will never understand. Their frustration will continue to build, often manifesting in some very sorrowful ways.
Bob One February 18, 2013 at 5:48 pm - Reply
The LA REC is a major issue for many people on this site. We know that some are against some of the speakers or the general atmosphere of the REC. We know that Kenneth and his small group are committed to protesting outside the convention center. Yet, for all the complaining, the REC is the largest teaching session in the United States if not the world. It is attended by nearly 40,000 people from around the world. They are led by Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Priests. Parish directors of faith formation swarm the place to learn about how to better teach the faith. People go there to learn the faith. People go there to learn how to get greater parishioner involvement in parish life. This is the center for teachng our faith in this country.
If someone doesn't like what goes on there, perhaps we should question our wants and how we interpret the church of today vs. our wish for the good ole days. When I went to Catholic school in the 50s, we had to memorize the catechism by rote. We had no discussion. Our total learning was rote, including all the prayers in Latin that altar boys had to memorize. Kids don't learn that way anymore. They start learning early in the first year by exciting television programs. By the time they are three or four Sesami Street is too boring and they are ready to move on. They learn in ways we never thought of. Just telling people to read the CCC begs the question. Review the breakout sessions at this week's REC and you will see that most if not all sessions are based on the teaching of the CCC, but in a way that is different from the way us old persons learned it. Maybe we are the ones that are out of step.
R.B. Rodda February 18, 2013 at 11:59 pm - Reply
Thanks for your very interesting comments. I suspect most here who detest the REC have never attended a session.
One thing is certain — reforming the REC will take less effort than creating a new one from scratch.
Memorizing the Baltimore Cathecism is not an optimal way to learn the faith…
Rodda,
We see only two orthodox speakers on the list and we are constantly monitoring that list. Do you claim to see something we don't see??
Kenneth, I reviewed a list of speakers and the overview of their presentations. It looked to me like an interesting group of highly educated and exeperienced people. I find it difficult to think that only two of them meet your standards. Can you tell us why the others don't meet your standards. I think that you would have a greater impact on the readers if you would deal with data rather than just throwing grenades. I still don't know what you are protesting about.
Ken;
While I don't know you, I will be candid and say that I largely dismiss your comments.
In brief you seem to be driven by what you personally prefer in a church — not what is actually allowed or even encouraged in the Catholic Church.
You have a great deal more in common with those that you attack than you will ever know…
Bob One,
Apparently you think it is good for Religious Education teachers and students to be taught by advocates for Dogmatically declared Mortal Sin. Don't take my word for it, look at the list of speakers.
By the way, it was a beloved Monsignor in the Chancery who first asked me to investigate the REC, Msgr. Charles Fortier.
I could not find a speaker from the Dogmatically declared Mortal Sin organization. What was his/her name?
BO, when I hit Univ of Calif in the mid sixties I ran into Catholic kids for the first time. One Half of these parochial schooled kids had been taught rote, and the other half had been taught to reason things out. So, when you imply that all Catholic school kids from the fifties had no clue how to use reason or even that it existed is nonsense.
Because its offerings are so extensive and its attendance so great, it is all the more incumbent upon the presenters to adhere to the teachings of the Catholic Church, not to invent new "takes" that make the teachings of the Catholic Church seem out of date.
Those of us who uphold traditional Catholic values are not out of step with the times; our values are as needed in today's world as they were when Jesus Christ came to teach us how to live.
The REC is entirely too frisky with the teachings of the Catholic Church, although there is indeed lots of good mixed in with the bad, let's be honest.
The same can be said about Cardinal Mahony's leadership, who after all, did some good things. Don't forget those wispfully dressed, barefoot dancing girls in the aisles of our churches, who after all are getting aerobic exercise while giving the rest of us heart attacks.
Let's clean up anything associated with Catholicism so that the hearts and minds of our faithful are guided toward purity (an old-fashioned concept, I admit) and goodness (another dated idea they tell me) and the worship of God.
Saving the souls of all of God's children is an old-fashioned concept whose time has definitely come, whether yet trendy or not.
REC has an incomparable venue for helping educate people who are sincerely seeking the salvation of their eternal souls; to misguide these people in even a single way is to endanger souls and thus needs to be discerned, denounced, and swiftly eliminated.
Among a great many other things, this is the work of Archbishop Gomez, and I call for its accomplishment sooner rather than later.
Bob One February 20, 2013 at 7:00 am - Reply
But the teachings of the church are out of step with the times. That is a good thing! The nation and the world has drifted so far away from the truth of the Christian faith that we are counter-cultural at this point. The challenge is to find ways to bring the rest of the world around to the teachings of Christ. I find that most people on this site don't argue so much about the teachings as about how to teach them. To that point, I think it is imperative all of us to search for and embrace new ways of presenting the message. People learn in very different ways in this century than they did in the last. We need to remember that the kids in their freshman year of college were born in 1995-6. They have always had a cell phone, and now a smart phone, lap top and now the iPad. They don't remember the Vietnam war and they may not know who Pope JPII is. If we insist on the church being what it was, we will lose even more people. What keeps our churches full to day is the great immigration from the south. After a few years they leave for the evangelical and fundamentalist churches, just as is happening in Mexico and other South American countries. Why? What is it that we don't offer them that those other denominations do. Look at the you-tubes of the liturgies of the LA REC and you will find people of all ages falling in love with Christ all over again. Are we, you and I, fallling in love with Christ all over again or just wanting to take a legalistic approach to our religion? I would rather that people have faith in Christ as our savior than worry about if they are breaking the rules.
Rodda, hashing and slashing programs that one does not care for would be wrong.
HOWEVER – – –
Hashing and slashing programs that:
1) Do not adhere to the "Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition" in entirety;
2) Do not adhere to the Code of Canon Law;
3) Do not adhere to GIRM (General Instruction of the Roman Missal) for the Liturgy of the Ordinary Form of the Mass;
is critical for accurate teaching, and to stop heresy, schism, and scandal.
The "CCC 2nd Ed" is only 20 years old, and has nothing to do with only old people. There is no accurate way to teach the truth differently. Holy Scripture does not change based upon age either.
Sam: Keep in mind that you're not the arbiter of what
The Catholic Church is.
Too bad the devil does not exist outside the archdiocese, right Rodda?
Gator February 18, 2013 at 8:42 pm - Reply
I don't like the terms liberal and conservative… these are political terms and the Church is not a "political party"… it would be more accurate to ask… who is traditional and who is not?…a stretch might be, who is traditional and who is a modernist?… I am a traditional Roman Catholic… I may be conservative politically, but that is not an outgrowth of my religious beliefs…
R.B. Rodda February 19, 2013 at 12:00 am - Reply
"liberal and conservative" — no.
"traditional and non-traditional" — no.
"orthodox and heterodox" — YES.
There is no such terminology in the Catholic Faith as liberal or conservative, or modernist or traditional. Only Faithful Catholics who adhere in entirety to the CCC, or Heretical and Schismatic Catholics.
We should use the language for truth.
Faithful Catholics
vs. Heretical Catholics or Schismatic Catholics.
CCC: "2089 INCREDULITY is the neglect of revealed truth or the willful refusal to assent to it.
HERESY is the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt concerning the same;
APOSTACY is the total repudiation of the Christian faith;
SCHSIM is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him."
Lisa C February 19, 2013 at 12:45 am - Reply
I know something we can all agree on here: We must pray for Archbishop Gomez! :)
Orthodox is a confusing term for some… traditional is vastly better… heterodox and orthodox are theological terms, that some people don't grasp… traditional is clear, concise and everyone grasps it… even my pastor uses the term traditional… never does he say orthodox or heterodox… even those who aren't traditional are theoretically orthodox…
To suggest one Catholic is "traditional" and one is not is both confusing and inaccurate.
Many (including myself) Catholics are very "traditional" in how we live and worship within our faith yet we (for example) prefer the Ordinary Form of the Mass. For some preferring the EF Mass is the litmus test for being a "traditional Catholic" and that's just a bunch of hooey.
Yeah right…calling yourself "orthodox" as opposed to "heterodox", makes no sense… unless you're discussing "theology"…most people, including my pastor use the term…and it reflects the modality in which we worship…attending a "clown mass" or "hippie mass"…would not fall under the banner of "traditional"…you are wrong…attending a mass with altar girls, in a parish that doesn't have or even use an altar rail is also not very "traditional"…if it gives you peace to believe that, so be it…
A person can be theoretically orthodox, but may not be very traditional… some of these folks even "smack" of modernism… if the shoe fits…
Calling yourself "orthodox" also gives a rather unusual connotation, if you are in fact a Roman Catholic, in union with Rome… and not an "eastern orthodox" church member, which most might confuse you.
For, though you may be an "Eastern Rite Catholic"… still, that term is not reflective of a Roman Catholic's modality of worship.
There are Catholic Christians who are in no way RCC's who are in full communion with the Pope of Rome. I hope you realize that.
Anne T. February 20, 2013 at 10:52 am - Reply
Gator they are many other rites in the Catholic Church besides the Latin Rite. There are more Latin Rite adherents, but calling oneself Eastern Rite is quite correct if one is a Russian or Greek Catholic who is under the Pope of Rome. They is also the Syro-Malabar Rite of the Catholic church which is from India and uses the East Indian dialects in their Masses. That Catholic church and rite was started by the Apostle Thomas. Look up "the rites of the Catholic Church", and you will be surprised. I have taken Holy Communion in some of them, and it is perfectly legal under Canon Law for a Latin Rite Catholic to do so. Some of those churches do have English Masses besides the ones in their own languages.
Gator, there are three headings for the rites of the Catholic Church — Latin, Eastern and Alexandrian. Just under the Latin Rite heading are eight sub rites — the Ordinary, Extraordinary, Anglican Use, Mozarabic, Ambrosian, Bragan, Dominican and Carthusian. The Eastern and Alexandrian Rite Catholic churches also have their sub titled rites. We can take Communion in any of those who are under the Pope of Rome.
i have even witnessed revolting… diabolical liturgical dance, which is FORBIDDEN for use at all masses in North America! Yet some prelates are so disobedient to Rome, they will flagrantly disobey the Holy father, and the Magisterium…some even "blow" off the official teachings found in our catechism…
Bob One February 20, 2013 at 10:45 am - Reply
The only liturgical dance I have witnessed was before the actual start of the Mass. In fact, it was before the processional and after the recessional. That is ok. It is dance during the Mass that is not approved, for what reason I can't phantom since the Bible says we should praise God with music and song and dance. Even, horrors, with the clanging of cymbals.
Susanne February 20, 2013 at 7:08 pm - Reply
Bob One I believe it is in the Old Testament that God talked about dance. First of all the dance in the Old testament that King David did wasn't like you see today done by "liturgical dancers." I would say it would be along the lines of the beautiful and reverent movement of the Priest and altar boys at a "Latin Mass."
k February 20, 2013 at 9:40 pm - Reply
Susanne, you are right that David's dance wasn't like the liturgical dance of today (which is not permitted during the liturgy.) "Then David, girt with a linen apron, came dancing before the Lord with abandon, as he and all the Isrealites were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts of joy and the sound of the horn. As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord and she despised him in her heart… Michal came out to meet him and said, "How the king of Israel has honored himself today, exposing himself to the view of the slave girls of his followers, as a commoner might do!" But David replied to Michal: "I was dancing before the Lord. As the Lord lives, who preferred me to your father and his whole family when he appointed me commander of the Lord's people, Isreal, not only will I make merry before the Lord, but I will demean myself even more. I will be lowly in your esteen, but in the esteem of the slave girls you spoke of I will be honored." And so Saul's daughter Michal was childless to the day of her death." 2 Samuel 6:14-16, 20-23
Abeca Christian February 21, 2013 at 12:43 pm - Reply
In the old testament they didn't have the Eucharist….
Anne T. February 19, 2013 at 11:58 pm - Reply
It sounds as if Archbishop Gomez is making some good changes.
Fr. Bob B February 21, 2013 at 8:30 am - Reply
I noticed many references to "Eastern Rites" in the above blogs. Subject to correction, I believe that the Catholic Church now names them as Eastern CHURCHES, some of them even being "sui juris"– that is, being governed by their own internal canon law. Some, in fact, elect their own Patriarchs, Major Archbishops and bishops who then request acknowledgement from the Bishop of Rome that they are in full communion with him.
The change from "Rite" to "Church" in dealing with our Catholic brethren from Eastern traditions is more than a change in vocabulary. It acknowledges that the Catholic Church is more than the Latin Church, but rather includes "particular Churches" of various traditions and autonomy but always in communion with the Bishop of Rome, all of which together constitute the one Catholic Church.
The mindset calling them individual "Churches" is essential to our Church's hope of reuniting with their Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox counterparts. Ut unum sint!
Thank you, Fr. Bob B., for the information.
Maryanne Leonard February 21, 2013 at 11:28 pm - Reply
Yes, thank you, Father Bob B. I hope more priests will choose to post comments on this wonderful website as there is so much we are all hungry to learn, and sometimes different priests tell us conflicting things. If we hear various priestly comments, it is helpful even to us, the laity, to contemplate various aspects of what may be a fuller truth we could only come to comprehend by hearing various priestly voices.


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Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and this time of year can give us that warm, fuzzy feeling when we spend time feeling thankful for the things in our lives and talking about gratitude. But are thankfulness and gratitude the same thing?
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Living in the COVID era, we are getting used to the unexpected. Just as you think that things are finally getting back to normal, something happens that makes all your hopes go out the window.
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11 Creepy Superstitions People Have Had About Solar Eclipses Throughout History
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Historically, nothing has a tendency to shake things up and create more sense of uncertainty than a major natural phenomenon. And, as people around the world prepare for Monday's solar eclipse, 2017 is certainly no exception. Put that way, it makes total sense in many ways that superstition about solar eclipses would emerge. It's not every day that the sun is cast in total darkness. Plus, change is hard, especially when that change is fundamental to how we continue to exist on this planet. Hello, sunlight? Kind of important!
One of the coolest things about watching history unfold as we all will next wee, is learning about how it's played out over the decades and centuries that's preceded it. What's curious about eclipses however, is how different cultures around the world have viewed and interpreted this phenomenon — mostly as a bad and ominous omen. According to Hindu mythology, for instance, a demon by the name of Rahu was beheaded by Vishnu for drinking the nectar of the gods, and the belief was that after he was beheaded and his head flew by the sun, it actually swallowed it up... causing total darkness. There's even a reference to an eclipse in Homer's Odyssey, which describes it as an "evil mist that has overspread the world." In that vein, the Ancient Greeks believed that it meant the Gods were angry and an eclipse marked the beginning of disasters and destruction.
The list goes on, so suffice it to say, every culture has their own unique set of superstitions and folklore associated with a solar eclipse, and not surprisingly — since they had no idea what was going on — have interpreted them as a sign of something slightly more sinister.
While solar eclipses are nothing new (they date back to the first recoded incident in 1375 BCE), thanks to the achievements of modern day science we now know a solar eclipse is actually caused by the moon blocking the path of the sun thereby casting a shadow on earth. But. before we understood the way planets, and most importantly our planet, works within our vastly wide and complex solar system, people around the world had some pretty far-fetched ideas associated with what they thought was happening.
While scientists and astronomers around the world have debunked many of these superstitions, with, you guessed it, science — from the belief that people would turn into mice to birth defects in unborn fetuses and rubbing urine in your eyes, these are some of the downright creepiest superstitions people used to believe about eclipses.
1. Women Forced Indoors
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In historical India when a solar eclipse rolled around, women who were on their period were also considered to be especially prone to bad luck and forced to stay indoors. This is, obviously, very false and very offensive.
2. Beware Of Wet Hair
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OK. There could be some validity to this one. I mean, sleeping with wet hair is definitely not ideal. But, is it really enough to drive you crazy? That was one superstition associated with the lunar eclipse according to DNAIndia.com.
3. Don't Eat Or You'll Die
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While most of us can't go through an eclipse without a Hostess Moon Pie, many cultures in India believed that fasting during an eclipse would save them from impure or poisoned food.
4. Pregnant Women Can't Go Outside
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This myth dates back to the Aztecs, and interestingly, many people still hold these superstitions to be true. The superstition here is that a solar eclipse is dangerous to pregnant women and their unborn children due to the harmful UV rays. Scientifically speaking, the most harmful of these wavelengths are deflected by Earth's atmosphere — however, because of this, pregnant women in many places were forbidden to go outside during an eclipse. If they do go outside, the belief is that an unborn child could develop deformities — despite the fact that most have been scientifically attributed to a mix of genetic and environmental factors that have nothing to do with the solar eclipse.
5. Holding a Sharp Object Can Hurt Your Baby
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One of the most common eclipse superstitions is that pregnant women should not touch or handle sharp objects including knives, needles or anything else with a pointy edge out of fear that an eclipse will cause deformities to their unborn child. According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, even today many baby bloggers and forums ask if pregnant woman should wear some sort of metal, such as a safety pin, to protect their baby. It's believe these superstitions date back to the Aztecs, who thought that an eclipse was a celestial beast biting the Sun — and the same thing would happen to a baby if the pregnant mother dared to watch.
6. Birthday Blues
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According to one superstition, if a solar eclipse happens to fall within six months before or on your birthday, you will experience bad health. Which is a total bummer for like the gazillion people whose birthday falls anywhere between March 21 and August 21.
7. Children Would Turn Into Mice
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This has to be hands down ones of the weirdest and obviously most amazing superstitions in the history of solar eclipses. According to the Aztecs, lunar eclipses might turn gestating fetuses into mice, a theory that was documented by Bernardino de Sahagún, a Franciscan missionary who wrote about Aztec beliefs starting in 1529.
8. No Sex (Unless You Want Evil Demon Babies)
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Now this is unfortunate, but in Medieval times, people believed that sex during an eclipse would result in a demon baby, so they put a ban on it altogether while a solar eclipse was in full swing. A modern superstition has resulted from this, which is that a pregnant woman shouldn't touch her belly during a lunar eclipse, otherwise the baby could be born with a birthmark or birth defect.
9. Rubbing Urine In Your Eyes
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Even though urine is technically sterile, rubbing it in your eyes just never seems like a good idea. But, according to DNAIndia, there's a superstition in India that suggests rubbing urine in one's eyes if you don't want to go blind while they gazed up during a solar eclipse.
10. Poison Would Fall From The Sky
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According to Japanese folklore, an eclipse was believed to introduce poison into the atmosphere and that the poison would fall from the sky and cover their wells. So, wells were covered to protect their drinking water from whatever would come — and according to Shinto tradition an amulet with a shiny gem was then hung from a tree to compensate for the lack of light. Which actually sounds quite nice, I mean who doesn't like shiny gems hanging from trees?
11. Tooth Decay
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This one comes courtesy of DNA India: apparently if you let your children eat banana leaves it is said to cause tooth decay on a lunar eclipse day. Which is a bummer because what child doesn't crave banana leaves while watching the eclipse?
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The Maui Jim Lagoon sunglasses.
Keehi Lagoon Beach. Located on Honolulu's waterfront, it's a popular spot for outrigger canoes and attracts large, enthusiastic crowds during racing season.
Shape: Modified, large rectangular frame complements a range of facial shapes.
Fit: (eye) 62, (bridge) 20, (temple) 120, 8-base curve.
Finish: High-gloss for a sleek, sophisticated look and feel.
Material: Cellulose Propionate, a strong, extremely lightweight, injection-molded plastic.
The Maui Jim Lagoon sunglasses are suitable for medium to large adult faces.


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package org.apache.sling.ide.eclipse.core;

import org.eclipse.wst.server.core.IServerWorkingCopy;

public class SlingLaunchpadConfigurationDefaults {

    /**
     * Applies the default values to the specified <tt>workingCopy</tt>
     *
     *
Currently sets the <tt>auto-publish-time</tt> and
     * <tt>{@code ISlingLaunchpadServer.PROP_INSTALL_LOCALLY}</tt> values. It assumes that these
     * values were not previously set by the user and should only be used as a fallback when the
     * user has not specified them.

     *
     *
This method does not call {@link IServerWorkingCopy#save(boolean, org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor)},
     * it is the responsability of the caller to do so afterwards.

     *
     * @param workingCopy working copy
     */
    public static void applyDefaultValues(IServerWorkingCopy wc) {

        // auto-publish set to zero
        wc.setAttribute("auto-publish-time", 0);

        // only set publishing mechanism to 'local' for localhost
        wc.setAttribute(ISlingLaunchpadServer.PROP_INSTALL_LOCALLY, ServerUtil.runsOnLocalhost(wc));
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The US's Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts that the US fiscal deficit will hit $1.1 trillion this year - or 7.3 percent of GDP. But for 2013, the CBO projects the deficit falling to $641 billion, or 4 percent of GDP.
The CBO forecast for 2013 incorporates the improvement related to the so called "fiscal cliff", which refers to the enormous amount of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect starting in 2013. This includes the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the enactment of $1 trillion in other across-the-board spending cuts that will be automatically triggered if the US Congress fails to come up with an alternative debt-reduction plan.
Even though the enactment of the "fiscal cliff" would greatly reduce the US deficit and improve debt sustainability and, by implication, the country's long(er) term growth prospects, such a sharp drop in demand within a year will jeopardize the already weak US and global recovery.
In fact, the weak global recovery of 1Q2012 gave way to a synchronized slowdown in Q2, as financial market stress in the Euro area periphery intensified. Although financial markets have stabilized and improved over the last few weeks, real-side data (which lag financial market data) remain weak and, so far, do not suggest that a significant pick-up in activity is underway. At best, we can hope for a moderate recovery by year-end.
But such a recovery will be negated and reversed under a full blown "fiscal cliff" scenario, as the deficit reduction would represent the largest single-year drop in the annual fiscal deficit as a share of GDP since 1969. Over the short(er) term, this will have very significant aggregate demand and growth implications for the US as well as the rest of the world.
Already the World Bank's preliminary baseline forecast suggests that events-to-date imply a downward adjustment to the Global Economic Prospects June 2012 forecasts.1 Global growth is now expected at around 2.3 percent this year, and 2.6 percent in 2013 (a 0.2 and 0.4 percentage point respective downward revision since June). This latest baseline forecast incorporates US growth of 2.3 percent and 2.0 percent in 2012 and 2013 respectively, and is built on the assumption that about 70 percent of the imminent "fiscal cliff" will not expire.
But what would happen to US and global growth in an alternative scenario where the full-blown "fiscal cliff" becomes effective during 2013? Simulations on the World Bank's macroeconomic model indicate that the impact of the tax hikes and spending cuts, combined with the lower fixed investment spending in response to lower demand, which is to some extent offset by falling US imports, is likely to result in a 2.2 percent decline in US output in 2013, when compared to the baseline.2 Given the current baseline US growth forecast of 2 percent in 2013, an abrupt unraveling of the US "fiscal cliff" may push the US back into recession again. Albeit significantly costly in terms of US output forgone over the short(er) term, significant progress will be made in terms of reigning in the US fiscal balance, which is forecast to decline to around 4 percent (of GDP) in 2013, and to around 3 percent and 2 percent (of GDP) in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
With US output declining, the rest of the world is primarily affected via two transmission channels. Firstly, other countries (predominantly high-income and mainly European) are affected through reduced exports as US import volumes fall by more than 5 percent. Overall, global trade volumes are projected to decline by around 1½ percent (relative to baseline). Secondly, the weaker global growth contributes to a 6 percent decline in oil prices and a 2 and 1 percent drop in metal and internationally-traded food commodity prices.
Also in the Euro Area where the baseline forecast is for a very weak growth recovery of only 0.3 percent in 2013, an adverse unraveling of the US "fiscal cliff" will also push the Euro Area back into recession with output in the Euro Area expected to decline by 0.4 percentage points relative to the baseline. For high-income countries as a whole, GDP is forecast to decline by just more than 1 percent when compared to the baseline. Among high-income countries the trade-channel impact dominates and the slightly lower commodity prices only marginally soften the overall negative impact.
Declining global demand for oil and the resultant downward pressure on prices is forecast to reduce domestic income and (oil) tax revenues, with GDP and fiscal balances falling by 0.7 and 2.2 percent (of GDP) among developing oil exporters. But also in commodity exporting countries such as South Africa (-0.3 percent), Argentina (-0.4 percent) and Chile (-0.5 percent), GDP is forecast to come under significant strain. Moreover, fiscal and current account balances are forecast to deteriorate by around 0.3 and 0.5 percent of GDP in these three countries.
The hardest hit developing countries will be those that are relatively open. Thus, the East Asia and Pacific region, with its strong global trade linkages, is particularly vulnerable, with output in the region forecast to decline by 0.8 percent, when compared to the baseline. In addition, countries such as Mexico, where exports to the US represent a large share of the export basket, are also vulnerable to a slowdown. Simulations suggest that Mexican exports and GDP is forecast to decline by 4.9 and 1.4 percent respectively, while the Mexican fiscal balance is forecast to deteriorate by 0.4 percent of GDP.
At first sight, it would appear that there might be few spill-over effects to low-income countries, with a projected GDP decline of only 0.1 percent – reflective of their weaker global trade integration and benefits being accrued somewhat from lower oil and food prices. But for many low-income commodity exporting countries, lower commodity prices also mean lower incomes and tax revenues. In fact, among developing country regions, the deterioration in fiscal balances will be most severe in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a projected decline of 0.9 percent of GDP. Moreover, low-income countries are particularly vulnerable as the deterioration in GDP and fiscal balances in high-income donor countries may negatively impact aid flows (not taken into account in the above simulations).
1. Irina Magyer provided modeling and programming assistance.
2. These are very preliminary results (work in progress) and the underlying assumptions, technical equations and outcomes remain subject to (significant) revision.
3. In the macro model used to do these simulations, we have included 80 developing countries for which sufficient data exists.


Richmond International Airport (RIC) is operated for the benefit of Virginia's Capital Region by the Capital Region Airport Commission (CRAC), an independent political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Commission has adopted Rules and Regulations to provide all of its users a safe and efficient airport. If you received a citation, it was issued because of an observed vehicular or pedestrian violation of one or more of the rules set forth in the Commission's Rules and Regulations.
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My newest hero? The Internet Cooking Princess. Have you seen her blog? I hope you'll clicking over there and check it out. The retro look is lovely, the recipes are top-notch, and her voice is funny and fresh. Also: she made up this couscous salad recipe, and it has become my food of summer.
I took a first look at this recipe and thought, yep -- this is totally something I would make. Hook, line and sinker, I was sold. But examining the recipe more closely, I noticed all sorts of little touches that -- how do you say? -- I'd never have thought to do.
Example: it all starts with a brunoise, a summer squash chopped into pieces so tiny, so evenly tiny, you'll be hooked on their cuteness. Also, she has you cook some shallot, but just for a scant minute or two. I always brown shallots, or caramelize them, or hell, use them raw. I never just cook them for a hot minute. But it works; the shallot softens slightly, but retains its distinctive bite and stands up to the other ingredients in the salad.
And then there's that whole cooked-pistachios thing. I remember when Top Chef-Stephanie made a lamb dish with braised pistachios a few seasons back, and Tim Allen raved that he wished more people would serve him braised pistachios. I was as puzzled then as I was when I saw that ICP has you cook the pistachios. I always toast them until golden, adding them to a dish just before serving so they stay crunchy. Admittedly, I did toast them before following ICP's instructions, because I know I like that intensified pistachio flavor, but heating them through with the moist zucchini and raisins softens them both texturally and flavor-wise to nice effect.
Lastly, and most memorably, Internet Cooking Princess understands the value of subtlety. She has you smash a couple of garlic cloves and let them infuse the dressing while you do everything else. The salad is balanced: sweet and savory, tangy and nutty, rich and fresh. It's just right; it's addictive. And considering I've made it once with regular couscous, once with Israeli pearl couscous, and hell, once with leftover spaghetti, I think I'm an expert on the subject.
Preheat the oven to 350. Spread pistachios on rimmed baking sheet in a single layer. Toast about 10 minutes, until pistachios have turned golden. Set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk the lemon zest, lemon juice, honey, and 1/4 cup olive oil. Add garlic cloves and let them steep for about 30 minutes.
Next, bring stock to a boil in a medium saucepan. Stir in couscous, cover, and turn off heat; allow couscous to sit for 5 minutes, or until it absorbs all the liquid. Fluff the couscous with a fork so the grains don't start clumping together, pour into a large mixing bowl, and set aside.
Once the vegetables have reached room temperature, add them to the couscous and toss to combine. Remove and discard cloves of garlic from the dressing, and toss it with the couscous (add the dressing gradually, as you may not need it all; I used about half). Fold in the mint, season with additional salt and pepper if necessary and serve at room temperature.