Posted on 04/13/2007 6:54:57 AM PDT by Frank Sheed
Two years into his reign, Pope Benedict XVI is finally poised to make a major mark on American Catholicism with a string of key bishop appointments and important decisions about the future of U.S. seminaries and bishops' involvement in politics.
Benedict's election on April 19, 2005, shook liberals and comforted conservatives who expected a doctrinal hard-liner. So far, they have found an easier hand - and someone who has not made the United States much of a priority.
When Benedict has gained attention, it has mostly been on the world stage, focusing on the re-Christianization of Europe, Islam and mending relations with Orthodox Christians. He also has stressed universal themes of faith and reason.
``The last two years have been much quieter years as far as the papacy is concerned because you have a very different personality'' than John Paul II, said Monsignor Robert Wister, chairman of the church history department at Seton Hall University's School of Theology.
``Many Americans were surprised - some happily, some disappointed - that he did not turn into the pit bull of dogma. He is taking a very pastoral approach, and I think people resonate very positively with that.''
Yet America's turn may be coming. At the top of the list is a looming generational shift among the nation's bishops, whose decisions at the local level greatly affect Catholics in the pews and can carry national weight. For instance, church leaders recently closed parishes in Boston and New York, while the St. Louis archbishop has clashed with a heavily Polish parish over control of its assets.
Key appointments are expected in New York, Baltimore and Detroit, where cardinals have reached retirement age - 75. And retirements or appointments are likely in at least seven other archdioceses...
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
That one would work if we lived in Hawaii!
You’re really on a roll - rhymes and scans :-).
I’m calling the Pope!
Bet they put you on call waiting....
Pressez un pour Francais.
Glockenspiel zwei fur Deutsch.
Press three for English.
Couldn’t find my beeber-like device. I asked Pat where it is, but he just flashed his eyes at me, hummed and clicked, and then frisked off, ethereally.
Time to get everyone ready for Girl Scouts! See you later.
(Watch out for zombies and dust-kittens!)
LOL!
;-o)
Mrs. Tax can’t find a jpeg of a Viking Kitty. Do you have any stashed in the Castle library she could link to?
F
Good luck! Thanx for catz.
:looks around in mild panic:
Did anyone mark the box we packed the cat in?
Watch your phraseology!
[Obscure theatrical reference.]
Not all that obscure ... I can hear it in my mind, but I can’t place it.
Got it - “Music Man”! (Thanks to Google!)
I was on the crew for that in high school!
Zackly!
And I always loved the train scene with the salesmen arguing. Call it the white origin of rap.
Query: My daughter tells me that her “computer guru” says all anti-spy and anti-ad programs “ruin” your computer.
I’m not sure what she means by that, but I also know that she believes everything anyone tells her (except me.)
HELP!
Good scene. I was shaking a section of the train-car backdrop from behind!
I have a security suite that does everything and bit by bit I have quit using my other anti-spywear programs because they keep coming up empty.
But the free stuff, Adaware, Spybot and Spyware Blaster all did a good job of keeping the nasties cleaned up before I got the suite. While they will take up a small amount of space the accumulation of six months of tracking cookies and other junk is enough to bog your computer down to the point of making it into a nice brick
If, by “ruin”, said “guru” means goes behind the curtain of the operating system and roots around for nefarious code, then said “guru” is correct. It’s the going behind the curtain part that ruffles the feathers.
FWIW: I resisted installing any kind of anti-anything until I absolutely had to to get work done from home. I still do not have anti-spy/ad ware installed; I run that from a special, bootable CD that my “guru” gave to me.
If I had my druthers (and I REALLY like my druthers, BTW), I’d still be running the machine without the anti-virus; just native XP Pro with Service Pack 2.
If your daughter, and everyone else who ever touches her computer, is careful about email attachments and bad websites, it’s no trick to get by just fine without the anti-whatever applications installed.
I STRONGLY recommend doing regular system backups, though, just in case.
Thanks! I’ve been using Adaware and Antispyware and run them about every month, and they BOTH pick up between 45 and 75 “spies.”
I’ve been using them for close to three years, and have never had any problems. However, my daughter thinks I’m a dummy, and that her husband knows it all. So does he.
But some days, I get confused by simple things, so that’s when I ask my FRiends. *sigh*
*HUGS*
Ohman...I forgot how to do system backups...:blushing:
Well, method vary greatly depending upon what you’re comfortable having to restore in the event of a failure.
Some view a major failure as an opportune time to wipe their hard drive and begin again from scratch with a fresh install of the O/S and their preferred applications. In this type of situation, all you’d really be concerned with is keeping a current backup of your data.
If, however, you’ve got more than a dozen applications, or if you don’t have all of the appication CDs, then you’re going to want a full backup such that you could restore everything to bootable condition.
Your best options are
Backup to an image file on your same hard drive.
(Downside risk is hard drive failure leaving you w/o backup to restore from)
Backup to an image file and burn that image to CD or DVD media.
(Downside is that it requires a CD or DVD writer)
Backup to an external USB drive.
(Again, additional hardware required, here)
Backup to a secondary hard drive.
(Yeah, you know the drill...)
All of the best methods require that you have an additional storage device or storage media and a device that will create it. Your choice of backup method will depend on what you’ve got and/or what you’re willing to buy. The easiest would probably be to use an external USB hard drive; second easiest would be to get a CD/DVD burner and make backup images on R/W CD or DVD.
Lots of data out there on backups.
Check out http://www.annoyances.org/ or http://techrepublic.com.com/ for deeper “dirt” on the subject. [No, that ISN’T a typo.]
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