Links for 03/04/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The problematic Thomas Cromwell - the entire alter-ego of Thomas More who wrote about Counselorship in his Utopia in a way that likely applies to his opposite more than the series does. One wonders whether Cromwell worked for Henry Tudor or its the other way around? Or maybe its a bit of both. Of course, if the series has any longevity certain facts must come out.The sad question is why iconoclasm is often accompanied by execution? Were any of these killings out of resistance to the art being destroyed. That would be a pity, because no human life is worth paint on a canvas - especially when the Holy Family are protrayed as white people rather than Palestinian. Art is always self-portrait, which is why Cromwell is genteel and why ISIL is reduced to performance art of the ugliest kind.
P.,S. We could not have gotten to our present as either Catholics or Americans on religion were it not for this chapter in English history.
Archbishop Fitgerald's talk should be interesting. Let us see what kind of picutre he paints on Islam. I am sure one side or the other won't like it.
Scott Walker is who we get if we want charasmatic speakers. God preserve us from such things. Hillary will get her bearings and a better speech writer (I am available and free to travel) - but the short answer for her not running is Joe Biden. That may prove interesting. The presidential race, of course, is about demography. Any Democrat wins by picking up the states he or she should win - and that is for the foreseeable future. Any GOP winner will be an extreme accident and be due to bad campaigining by the Democrat as his own strenghts (can't imagine a GOP woman winning the nomination unless it is a symbolic gesture).
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