August 18, 2016 headlines
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Has it come to this that one of the world's leading universities now considers the word 'man' offensive? That's one measure of the lunacy to which
the ideology of 'nothing can be too hyper' secularism has driven its proponents, and the utter mindlessness of political-correctness-trumps-truth-any-time.
Liberal lunacy goes mainstream...
The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary.
The relatively new policy in effect at the Ivy League institution spells out the directive in a four-page memo that aims to make the department more gender inclusive.
Instead of using “man,” employees are told to use words such as human beings, individuals or people.
Other guidelines? Instead of “man and wife” use spouses or partners. Switch out “man made” with artificial, handmade or manufactured. Don’t use the verb “to man,” as in to work something, instead use to operate or to staff. Throw out workmanlike and replace it with skillful.
The memo goes on to list a variety of occupations that typically include the word “man” in them and offers replacements: business person instead of businessman, firefighter instead of fireman, ancestors instead of forefathers, and so on.
It doesn't say what to call a man - I suppose it would be a 'male'. But I guess they still have not figured out what to do about the '-man' in human or woman - who, for instance, would ever say 'huperson' or 'woperson'? The crazies are fast taking over American culture - and reducing people's brains to nothing more than a biologic automaton to generate PC reflexes for any and all circumstances!
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As for the palliating, sometimes appalling Mons. Paglia, Sandro Magister has a good post about how the bishop has come to be a key man in
the Bergoglio Curia, but more anon... It is John Allen who writes about the 'marching orders' given by the Pope to Paglia in this report:
https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2016/08/18/pope-issues-marching-orders-new-pro-life-leader/
Magister obviously had advance notice of the Vatican bulletin yesterday, 8/17, announcing the formation of a new super-dicastery in the Roman
Curia, as he anticipated it in his blogpost of 8/16... in which he describes the further rise of a clerical careerist who has gained the pope's favor
in the way that matters most - getting two plum assignments that are certainly more prestigious and pivotal than the post he has had to give up
because the office he used to lead has been absorbed in the new super-dicastery...
Magister's title plays on the bishop's surname, which means 'straw' in Italian, 'fuochi di paglia' = straw fires. Too bad Paglia isn't one of
JMB's generic 'straw men' from his straw man arguments, but a real flesh-and-blood man and prelate very much in the Bergoglian mold, having
been spiritual adviser to the ultra-liberal (or even radical chic) Sant'Egidio Community from beginnings, and even more Bergoglian now that he
appears have become part of the pope's inner circle...
The latest 'straw fires' on Mons. Paglia
who gets a couple of new plum posts
Translated from
August 16, 2016
On Wednesday, August 17, the Vatican will announce a double papal nomination for Mons. Vincenzo Paglia, as president of the Pontifical Academy for Life as well as Grand Chancellor of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family.
Paglia was named in 2012 by Benedict XVI as president of the Pontifical Council for the Family after the retirement of Cardinal Ennio Antonelli. But the Council on the Family had earlier been fused by this pope to the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
Now both councils will cease to exist as of September 1, 2016 to be replaced by the new Pontifical Council for the Laity, Family and Life, whose statutes were handed down by the pope
ad experimentum last June 4.
Indeed, Paglia had hoped to head the new super-dicastery. Instead, he gets the no less prestigious and double nominations he is getting.
Paglia's nomination to the Curia was one of the most flagrant personnel errors committed by Benedict XVI, though Paglia at the time - other than his Sant'Egidio official function - was Bishop of Terni, to which he was named in 2000. [When he was given the appointment by Benedict XVI, it was openly said that he did it as a
In Terni, he certainly did not - in his faulty administration of diocesan real estate - manifest the wisdom of a
pater familias that a good bishop needs.
The 'reproof' is found in the lengthy and detailed farewell communique written in 2014 by the last IOR president (before Pope Francis named his own person) - Ernst von Freyberg, a German banker.
In explaining the slim net profit of IOR in 2013 (2.9 million euro vs 86.6 million in 2012, Benedict XVI's last full year in office), Von Freyberg underscored that among the urgencies that the IOR had to fund in 2012 was "3.2 million euros of financial assistance to the diocese of Terni".
This had to do with the diocese's declaration of bankruptcy when Paglia was its bishop. The diocese was placed under administrative supervision and IOR earlier had to cover half of the 20-million euros of its financial deficit.
But even as a leading light of the Sant'Egidio Community, Paglia had never 'shone' for his competence in dealing with family issues. Not him, nor any of the other leaders of Sant'Egidio, including the movement's founder, historian Andrea Riccardi. Even if the latter was also inappropriately entrusted with family problems while he was Minister for International Cooperation in Prime Minister Mario Monti's 'technocratic' government.
An indication of the Sant'Egidio community's dubious record on marriage and the family, despite its 'brilliant' public facade, was that in 2003, a leading Roman member of 25 years requested the Roman diocesan tribunal to declare his marriage of
25 years - to another Sant'Egidio member - null and void.
He submitted documents that alleged he not only was married 'under constraint' but that this was part of the more general authoritarian system exercised by the Sant'Egidio community which also 'managed' the engagements and marriages of its members.
The diocesan tribunal of Rome accepted his arguments and decreed the 25-year marriage null and void on account of 'constraint'.
But miraculously, none of all this has touched the career of Paglia which has been on the ascendant in this pontificate.
One must also note that Pope Francis was very careful not to invite Paglia's predecessor at the Family Council, Cardinal Antonelli, to take part in his family synods, even if Antonelli's competence in this area is incomparably superior to Paglia's. 'Unfortunately', Antonelli openly expressed with frankness and clarity his opposition to allowing unqualified remarried divorcees to receive communion.
Meanwhile, Paglia was shrewdly doing all he could do in the opposite direction, most notably, by officially sponsoring a seminar of experts and theologians open to pastoral leniency along the lines of Bergoglio and Kasper, whose views came out in a book published by the Vatican in the interval between the first and second Bergoglian family synods.
Besides excluding Cardinal Antonelli from his family synods, the pope had also excluded him from any active role in the John Paul II Institute, whose president was Livio Molina and whose Grand Chancellor till Paglia's appointment was Cardinal Agostino Vallini in his capacity as Vicar for Rome and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Lateran University, seat of the John Paul II Institute.
Now, everything has changed. As Grand Chancellor of the Institute, Paglia's function will be more than just honorific. He is to change the personnel and the orientation itself of the Institute according to the new course set by Bergoglio.
As for the Pontifical Academy for Life, which the pope has also asked Paglia to lead, one must expect similar shake-ups there.
Just think that one of its members is the Austrian philosopher Josef Seifert, author of the most 'murderous' demolition yet published of
Amoris laetitia, who ends his 26-page critique with an appeal to this pope to retract the 'heretical affirmations' contained in the document.
It remains to be seen whether Paglia will be made a cardinal by JMB, who plans his third cardinal-naming consistory soon, considering that neither of Paglia's two new positions are necessarily 'cardinalatial'.
If he is tapped to get a biretta, could JMB leave out yet again one of his most assidious courtiers, Mons. Fisichella? He was a past president of the Pontifical Academy for Life and currently heads the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization.
Tapping both Paglia and Fisichella would mean two Italians, both Curial officials, in the new papal list for red hats, and that goes against his criteria of not naming cardinals from the Curia nor from Italy because he wants to make way for more countries to be represented in the College of Cardinals, preferably countries on the 'periphery' of just about anything you could think of.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 19/08/2016 20:45]