Chesterton Schools Network aims to add 22 schools worldwide this year (Catholic Review via OSV): “The Chesterton Schools Network unites the growing interest in classical, Catholic education with the entrepreneurial spirit of faithful parents who want to be of service to the Church …”
‘Influencer priest’ announces his departure from the priesthood (The Catholic Herald): “One of Italy’s best known priests has announced his intention to leave the priesthood.”
Fallout Continues at Notre Dame Over Pro-Abortion Appointee (National Catholic Register): “Two scholars have resigned their roles at the university’s Asian studies institute, while the student pro-life group has called for the appointment to be withdrawn.”
Synodal way meeting ends with clash over monitoring dioceses (The Pillar): “The ‘first phase’ of the German synodal way ended Saturday with a heated debate over whether a new permanent national synodal body should regularly monitor the implementation of synodal way resolutions in dioceses.”
Converts: Graham Greene’s Fraught Relationship with the Confessional (Church Life Journal):”Greene had grown up as an Anglican and on at least one occasion as a child he had felt the presence of God vividly, but we can reasonably take his word that he had lost God by the time of his instruction. “
Vatican Orders Removal of Fresco Depicting Far-Right Leader as Angel (artnet): “The restorer originally claimed he had not deliberately depicted Giorgia Meloni, but an investigation proved otherwise.”
Cardinal Cupich’s Ever-Expanding ‘Coaching Tree’ (National Catholic Register): “The cardinal-archbishop of Chicago has profoundly reshaped the American hierarchy over the past 10 years and is poised to exert a lasting influence.”
A Proposal for the Church to Argue Again (What We Need Now – Substack): “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Nation’s biggest universal school choice program sees huge success on launch day (Zeale): “Texas’ universal school choice program garnered several thousand applications as soon as it launched Feb. 4, making it the most successful first day of a school choice program in U.S. history, according to Texas officials.”
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Re #6 – Vatican Orders Removal of Fresco of Far-Right Leader as Angel (artnet)
Tell me the labelling of Georgia Meloni as far-right comes from artnet, not CWR.
If you click the link, you see that the title of the article at Artnet is exactly what CWR posted.
The people who report at Artnet are clearly as left-of-center as a typical New York Times reporter, but they do an outstanding job of covering news related to art.
“The face of an angel that looked suspiciously like the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has been removed from a church fresco in Rome, allegedly on the order of the Vatican. ”
Today’s word is pareidolia, boys and girls. If only they had that controversial painting that appeared to have the commissioning Bishop’s image from some years ago.
“…the commissioning Bishop’s image…” Enter stage left: Bishop Paglia! Himself removed last year, by Pope Leo, from his lofty Vatican office. Still awaiting news whenever the mural itself is removed from his home cathedral…
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/leading-vatican-archbishop-featured-in-homoerotic-painting-he-commissioned)
What is not be written in the Cardinal Cupich article is the massive catholic School closings that has happened under his leadership in the Archdiocese. As part of this, he allowed a Illinois state law to be repealed that provided tax credits that supported donations and tuitions for Catholic schools. This and his little if any support for pro life activities, among everything else makes won wonder who and what he is, and how in the world did he get to such a high position.
Mr. Flynn above (1:17 p.m.) – Thanks. I expected it was Artnet. Good to know they are good at something – art.
You are welcome, and I have enjoyed Artnet’s reporting for years.
Mr. Pitchfork above (1:32 p.m.) – “pareidolia” – not sure I want to know but can you give me an English translation?
Seeing “pictures” in clouds, flames, etc
The favorite hobby of Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy, except they had more insight than today’s Vatican.
Wikipedia:
Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a specific but common type of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningful …
Etymology
The word derives from the Greek words pará (παρά, “beside, alongside, instead [of]”) and the noun eídōlon (εἴδωλον, “image, form, shape”). Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum introduced the German term Pareidolie in his 1866 …
I too didn’t know and couldn’t wait for Rebel.
Meiron (6:11 a.m.) – Thanks for the etymology. That’s what I need to get the meaning of the word and maybe have it stick.
(Good to know there are more word-fanatics out there. Word-philia it must be. I’ll have to look it up.)
The favorite hobby of Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy, except they had more insight than today’s Vatican.