Day: October 12, 2010

Connecting the Nobel prize in economics to (mis)placement of priests

Our previous item on the placement practices of the Catholic Diocese of Chicago can be looked at from the perspective of the Nobel prize in economics awarded for work in job matching. Why might priests who have been credibly accused of child abuse be assigned to churches in neighborhoods where there are a relatively high proportion of minorities, and relatively low income?

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Pointing the finger

The threat of a single fundamentalist pastor to burn Islam’s holy book in a tiny never-heard-from-before church in Florida made international headlines recently. This incident broke open the raw areas in our collective consciousness where freedom of speech, religious conscience, and common decency meet. But it also reflected back to us our deep tendency to blame others for our ills.

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The Spirit in nature

The truth of universal force is recognized by science as a physical fact; it becomes in poetry a spiritual law. It follows that the delight of the poets centres no longer in permanent scenes, but dwells rather on those constantly shifting and successive manifestations of power which forever struggle to shadow forth to us the ideal beauty that lies beyond our senses’ ken.

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