Sunday, October 9, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Kellie Started work in Temple TX
Kellie started work on August 29 with a Kindergarten class at St Mary's Catholic School in Temple. Click onthe picture to go to St Mary's webpage.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Laura's living in Sacramento
Check out Laura's new home in Sacramento, where she is working as Children's Service Coordianator for Women's Empowerment 
Friday, August 5, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
This morning we saw the time trials for the Palio in Siena. Every year there is a horse race and the teams are the different districts of the city who each have a flag and animal mascot. The man above is a part of the Snail district (there is a small snail on his hat) and he is marching in a parade standoff with the Giraffe district. We stumbled upon this tradition, and the people of Siena were very enthusiastic. The woman who we bought pottery from informed us that they used to have two districts stand on either side of Il Campo and throw rocks at each other. There also was a period in which they raced cows. The horse race has been going on for 400 years now.
Here is Giovanni and Caterina trying to push over the tower!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Our Ghost Friend
Today at the Lay Center Katherine and I made a ghost friend. Her name is Giulia, and she is wearing Katherine's new hat. The likes pistachio gelato, cats, and playing hide and go seek.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Something to read
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Catholic scholars say infallibility is widely misunderstood
By Kristen Moulton
The Salt Lake Tribune
Published: March 31, 2011 06:38PM
Updated: April 9, 2011 01:33AM
In in this Feb. 17, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II breaks into a long laugh at the Vatican. T (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti, File) Almost every teacher of Catholicism will tell you this: People have mistaken notions of what the faith believes about infallibility.
The misconceptions go something like this: The pope takes dictation from God. Bishops and priests always teach truth. The pope cannot sin. His every utterance, every decision is without blemish.
And that’s just from Catholics; never mind fellow Christians’ muddled thinking on the matter.
“It’s not,” theology professor Margaret O’Gara says, “like a hotline to God.”
Rather, infallibility is the belief that God will not allow his church to veer too far on central questions of faith.
“It’s not that everything the church teaches will be exactly right, but the gospel will not be completely lost,” says O’Gara, who teaches at University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto and often writes about infallibility. Her 1988 book, Triumph in Defeat, explores papal infallibility.
James F. Keating, who teaches theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, puts it this way: “It’s a charism, a gift given to the entire church that it will be preserved in the truth.”
And it makes sense, Keating says, that every faith has its own notion of infallibility, though that word is not used much outside Catholicism.
Jews, Muslims and non-Catholic Christians have their own ways of believing that God protects believers from error.
“In a way, you have to believe it,” Keating says. “You have to believe that what you believe has been protected by God from human manipulation.”
For most Protestants, he says, that belief revolves around the inerrancy of the Bible.
The Catholic take on that, explains Stephen Ray, a former Baptist turned Catholic apologist, is that the gift of infallibility guided the early Catholic Church to decide which Christian writings belonged in the Bible in the first place.
“I like to say, ‘When Jesus ascended to heaven, he didn’t yell back down, “Be sure to read my book,” ’ ” says Ray, who wrote the 1999 book Upon This Rock.
In the beginning • Indeed, most of the infallible teachings of Catholicism — the dogmas — were defined in Christianity’s earliest centuries, O’Gara says.
For instance, early ecumenical councils defined central tenets such as Christ’s divinity and humanity, the Trinity and the necessity of grace for salvation, she says.
The creeds written by early Christians spell out the most central dogmas.
In the past 200 years, there have been two instances in which a pope has defined a teaching as infallible in a solemn “ex cathedra” declaration, which is one of three ways the charism of infallibility is employed.
The first was in 1854, when Pope Pius IX declared Mary’s Immaculate Conception, the belief that the mother of Jesus was born without sin.
The second also pertained to Mary. In 1950, Pope Pius XII deemed that Mary was assumed into heaven at the end of her earthly life.
The other two ways the Catholic Church determines beliefs to be infallible are through the bishops in concert with the pope — either in a worldwide ecumenical council or not.
Most church dogmas have been defined by ecumenical councils, which occur, on average, once every century. The other way is more theoretical, which is why some confusion exists over the infallibility of certain teachings, such as that on contraception.
By that method, a teaching can be considered infallible if the bishops, in concert with the pope, say that it is a belief of the church. Most theologians say that’s not the case with birth control, or, indeed, any moral issue; some traditionalists insist that it is.
There was no dogma defined at the most recent ecumenical council — Vatican II in the 1960s. In fact, Keating says, Pope John XXIII explicitly said the world needed pastoral care, not more dogma, when he called the council.
The last time an ecumenical council handed down an infallible teaching was at the first Vatican Council in 1870, when the bishops approved the dogma of papal infallibility, meaning the pope can, at times, declare teachings on faith or morals to be infallible even without consulting the other bishops.
When the church declares a dogma, it’s not that the belief is new, Ray says. It’s that the church is challenged by rival interpretations and has to define what scripture and tradition teach on the matter.
Letters by first-century Christians, for instance, indicate that, from the start, the church believed the bishop of Rome — the pope — possesses the authority to sort out true belief, he says.
Moreover, not every core Christian belief has been declared infallible. Some, such as Christ’s resurrection, have never been seriously challenged, O’Gara says, and are assumed to be central.
While the notion of infallibility is “very, very ancient,” the word was not used until medieval times, she says.
The charism of infallibility is understood as protecting the church from error, not guaranteeing the church knows the full truth, Keating says.
“Basically,” Keating says, “the argument is, no matter how evil a pope was — and there were a lot who were evil — none led the church into doctrinal error.”
Consequently, many dogmatic definitions explicitly reject error, but do not expound on the truth because the church can teach only what it knows from scripture or sacred tradition.
In that way, Keating adds, the church acknowledges that not everything has been revealed.
“Whenever human beings speak about divine things,” he says, “we’re often as wrong as we’re right.”
Levels of assent • So how are Catholics to regard church teachings — whether infallibly taught or not?
Canon law spells out varying levels of assent required of Catholics, O’Gara says. Those teachings considered infallible — the dogma — are not optional. Catholics are required to give unconditional agreement.
But other teachings, such as those in letters from bishops or encyclicals from popes, require only conditional assent, O’Gara says.
“You say, ‘I submit myself to this teaching. I take it seriously … but finally it could be wrong and could be rejected,’ ” she says.
“You give it the strong benefit of the doubt … [because] you expect to hear the truth from the church in these matters.”
There are instances of the pope and bishops changing course on moral teachings, she notes.
The church for centuries condoned torture for the sake of the truth, but it was condemned by the bishops meeting at Vatican II.
Pope John Paul II dissented from a long tradition of support for capital punishment and, toward the end of his life, was almost a pacifist in his examination of the doctrine of a just war in the modern world.
One of the most common misconceptions about infallibility among Catholics, O’Gara says, is the assumption that whatever a pope teaches soon will be dogma.
“People think that’s what they’re supposed to believe, and they leave the church,” O’Gara says. “That isn’t Catholic teaching, though.”
kmoulton@sltrib.com
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© 2011 The Salt Lake Tribune
Catholic scholars say infallibility is widely misunderstood
By Kristen Moulton
The Salt Lake Tribune
Published: March 31, 2011 06:38PM
Updated: April 9, 2011 01:33AM
In in this Feb. 17, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II breaks into a long laugh at the Vatican. T (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti, File) Almost every teacher of Catholicism will tell you this: People have mistaken notions of what the faith believes about infallibility.
The misconceptions go something like this: The pope takes dictation from God. Bishops and priests always teach truth. The pope cannot sin. His every utterance, every decision is without blemish.
And that’s just from Catholics; never mind fellow Christians’ muddled thinking on the matter.
“It’s not,” theology professor Margaret O’Gara says, “like a hotline to God.”
Rather, infallibility is the belief that God will not allow his church to veer too far on central questions of faith.
“It’s not that everything the church teaches will be exactly right, but the gospel will not be completely lost,” says O’Gara, who teaches at University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto and often writes about infallibility. Her 1988 book, Triumph in Defeat, explores papal infallibility.
James F. Keating, who teaches theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, puts it this way: “It’s a charism, a gift given to the entire church that it will be preserved in the truth.”
And it makes sense, Keating says, that every faith has its own notion of infallibility, though that word is not used much outside Catholicism.
Jews, Muslims and non-Catholic Christians have their own ways of believing that God protects believers from error.
“In a way, you have to believe it,” Keating says. “You have to believe that what you believe has been protected by God from human manipulation.”
For most Protestants, he says, that belief revolves around the inerrancy of the Bible.
The Catholic take on that, explains Stephen Ray, a former Baptist turned Catholic apologist, is that the gift of infallibility guided the early Catholic Church to decide which Christian writings belonged in the Bible in the first place.
“I like to say, ‘When Jesus ascended to heaven, he didn’t yell back down, “Be sure to read my book,” ’ ” says Ray, who wrote the 1999 book Upon This Rock.
In the beginning • Indeed, most of the infallible teachings of Catholicism — the dogmas — were defined in Christianity’s earliest centuries, O’Gara says.
For instance, early ecumenical councils defined central tenets such as Christ’s divinity and humanity, the Trinity and the necessity of grace for salvation, she says.
The creeds written by early Christians spell out the most central dogmas.
In the past 200 years, there have been two instances in which a pope has defined a teaching as infallible in a solemn “ex cathedra” declaration, which is one of three ways the charism of infallibility is employed.
The first was in 1854, when Pope Pius IX declared Mary’s Immaculate Conception, the belief that the mother of Jesus was born without sin.
The second also pertained to Mary. In 1950, Pope Pius XII deemed that Mary was assumed into heaven at the end of her earthly life.
The other two ways the Catholic Church determines beliefs to be infallible are through the bishops in concert with the pope — either in a worldwide ecumenical council or not.
Most church dogmas have been defined by ecumenical councils, which occur, on average, once every century. The other way is more theoretical, which is why some confusion exists over the infallibility of certain teachings, such as that on contraception.
By that method, a teaching can be considered infallible if the bishops, in concert with the pope, say that it is a belief of the church. Most theologians say that’s not the case with birth control, or, indeed, any moral issue; some traditionalists insist that it is.
There was no dogma defined at the most recent ecumenical council — Vatican II in the 1960s. In fact, Keating says, Pope John XXIII explicitly said the world needed pastoral care, not more dogma, when he called the council.
The last time an ecumenical council handed down an infallible teaching was at the first Vatican Council in 1870, when the bishops approved the dogma of papal infallibility, meaning the pope can, at times, declare teachings on faith or morals to be infallible even without consulting the other bishops.
When the church declares a dogma, it’s not that the belief is new, Ray says. It’s that the church is challenged by rival interpretations and has to define what scripture and tradition teach on the matter.
Letters by first-century Christians, for instance, indicate that, from the start, the church believed the bishop of Rome — the pope — possesses the authority to sort out true belief, he says.
Moreover, not every core Christian belief has been declared infallible. Some, such as Christ’s resurrection, have never been seriously challenged, O’Gara says, and are assumed to be central.
While the notion of infallibility is “very, very ancient,” the word was not used until medieval times, she says.
The charism of infallibility is understood as protecting the church from error, not guaranteeing the church knows the full truth, Keating says.
“Basically,” Keating says, “the argument is, no matter how evil a pope was — and there were a lot who were evil — none led the church into doctrinal error.”
Consequently, many dogmatic definitions explicitly reject error, but do not expound on the truth because the church can teach only what it knows from scripture or sacred tradition.
In that way, Keating adds, the church acknowledges that not everything has been revealed.
“Whenever human beings speak about divine things,” he says, “we’re often as wrong as we’re right.”
Levels of assent • So how are Catholics to regard church teachings — whether infallibly taught or not?
Canon law spells out varying levels of assent required of Catholics, O’Gara says. Those teachings considered infallible — the dogma — are not optional. Catholics are required to give unconditional agreement.
But other teachings, such as those in letters from bishops or encyclicals from popes, require only conditional assent, O’Gara says.
“You say, ‘I submit myself to this teaching. I take it seriously … but finally it could be wrong and could be rejected,’ ” she says.
“You give it the strong benefit of the doubt … [because] you expect to hear the truth from the church in these matters.”
There are instances of the pope and bishops changing course on moral teachings, she notes.
The church for centuries condoned torture for the sake of the truth, but it was condemned by the bishops meeting at Vatican II.
Pope John Paul II dissented from a long tradition of support for capital punishment and, toward the end of his life, was almost a pacifist in his examination of the doctrine of a just war in the modern world.
One of the most common misconceptions about infallibility among Catholics, O’Gara says, is the assumption that whatever a pope teaches soon will be dogma.
“People think that’s what they’re supposed to believe, and they leave the church,” O’Gara says. “That isn’t Catholic teaching, though.”
kmoulton@sltrib.com
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© 2011 The Salt Lake Tribune
Saturday, April 9, 2011
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Watched VCU beat ku on the road to the final four
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The Kitties
Here is Katherine introducing the kittens, Midnight, Martin, Collana, Bijoux (Goggles is the white cat with the big tail!):
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Calendar of Events
***New Speakin'Keatin' Calendar on the blog***
Checkout the new link in favorite Links to the left. I've added a Calendar to share events.
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Checkout the new link in favorite Links to the left. I've added a Calendar to share events.
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Aloha from Kaua'i
We are wrapping up our trip with an evening in and a movie. Here is some additional photos from our helicopter tour of Wiamea Canyon and snorkeling at Anini beach where we saw a few sea turtles and swam with them.
Tubing was fun. We were on an irrigation ditch dug by hand in the 1860s and we tubed through five tunnels. The trip was cold and fun. We had some unexxpected cancelations, but we were able to use our time to see the sights. We even did some four-wheeling to a secluded beach which was well worth the drive.
Look forward to seeing everyone in a couple days.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Aloha!
Claire and I are having a great time. I am posting pictures of our surf lessons with Duke. This was a great outing and we were able to have private lessons. Cliare is quite the surfer girl and seems to have a knack for this. Me on the other hand, did make a showing and rode one wave in for a while. Today we learned that your ribcage is sore after a morning of surfing.
We walked up Diamond Head for a total round trip of 1.6 miles and 566 steps. We at on Wakiki beach and went out to the Arizona Memorial. It is facinating that now surviving crew members are being intered on the Arizona upon their death and request.
Our boating outing was cancelled today so we weny to the Eastern side and hung out on the beach until it was time for our Snuba lesson. I never got good with pressurizing my ears, bu we touched a stingray and fed some of the fish. It was fun. We neded the day with massages and now we are relaxing and enjoying our loose muscles.
Tomorrow we are off to Kauai. We'll keep you posted.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Happy Birthday John
Marie and I want to wish John a Happy Birthday! In the tradition of Marie's favorite show the Cake Boss. We designed and made this cake especially for him!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
It will be fun seeing everyone
We are looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend. The weather is great today and I hope it stays that way for the weekend. Here are some pics of the first flowers of spring!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Dad's new addition to his office
Don't think PJ is very happy with the new addition. This might have to go in the closet when we have guest.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
A Kitty Miracle
Dear All,
As you may know, we have a small white kitten left from the litter--her name is Goggles. This morning we noticed that she was not romping about the house per usual. At first we gathered that she was just sleeping or stuck somewhere in the house, but after a while it became clear that she must have slipped out the night before. It was cold as could be and we feared the worst. We decided to all go looking in the snow and ice wonderland that our block had become. After a bit, I heard a weak meowing from the driveway but no feline was to be found. It then became clear that the soft sound was coming from inside the car--but that was not possible. John looked through the frontgrill and saw a puff of white. Sandra unlatched the hood and after some struggle with the lever we unvieled one dirty, cold and frightened kitty nestled atop of the engine.
Let's not think of the obvious alternative plotline this story could have taken.
Jim
As you may know, we have a small white kitten left from the litter--her name is Goggles. This morning we noticed that she was not romping about the house per usual. At first we gathered that she was just sleeping or stuck somewhere in the house, but after a while it became clear that she must have slipped out the night before. It was cold as could be and we feared the worst. We decided to all go looking in the snow and ice wonderland that our block had become. After a bit, I heard a weak meowing from the driveway but no feline was to be found. It then became clear that the soft sound was coming from inside the car--but that was not possible. John looked through the frontgrill and saw a puff of white. Sandra unlatched the hood and after some struggle with the lever we unvieled one dirty, cold and frightened kitty nestled atop of the engine.
Let's not think of the obvious alternative plotline this story could have taken.
Jim
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Snow in Boston
Here are some snow pictures from the first blizzard a month ago. During this blizzard, Boston Public Schools had 2 snow days. I started student teaching the following week and each week we have had a snow day. Yesterday was the fifth snow day. The snow is piled much higher now.
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