tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post5448448459748462384..comments2024-02-13T11:11:28.246+00:00Comments on Bishop Alan’s Blog: Farewell, then, Ted KennedyBishop Alan Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-58937171291949515752009-09-05T12:08:59.996+01:002009-09-05T12:08:59.996+01:00Gone into the ether, I'm afraid. It referred t...Gone into the ether, I'm afraid. It referred to 'Dies Irae' as a counterpoise to the heavenly Jerusalem - not that Augustine would have disagreed in the least:<br /><br />Dies irae, dies illa<br />Solvet saeclum in favilla...<br />Judex ergo cum sedebit<br />Quidquid latet adperebit<br />Nil inultum remanebit.<br /><br />- along with some observations on the temptations to political messianism. <br />Anyway, I appreciate that while you are evidently leftish-liberal in your sympathies (like most of your confreres in the English establishment) you are not prickly about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-71348010621248446722009-09-05T00:28:05.770+01:002009-09-05T00:28:05.770+01:00Dear Anon, I haven't seen your rejoinder with ...Dear Anon, I haven't seen your rejoinder with its medieval Latin allusion. It is five months since I last blocked any particular coment on the blog, spmething I have only done three times in over two years.<br /><br />Please resubmit or email me. Anther commenter has emailed me a comment saying she couldn't leave it using the Blogger system, and it sounds as though something may not have been functioning correctly with it just recently...Bishop Alan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-1518266590670385962009-09-04T17:44:51.718+01:002009-09-04T17:44:51.718+01:00So you didn't want to publish my rejoinder wit...So you didn't want to publish my rejoinder with its medieval Latin allusion. As you wish. But note that Kennedy wasn't 'trashed' by the MSM; he was whitewashed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-84655160288161995512009-09-02T09:04:52.480+01:002009-09-02T09:04:52.480+01:00Sorry to fail to wholesale trash a politician, as ...Sorry to fail to wholesale trash a politician, as is the modern way. But as the old women of Naples used to say about the rats they fed, they are also God's creatures...<br /><br />The whole Kennedy Roman Catholic thing was probably more significant to estabishment minded US RC's who saw them as having broken WASP hegemony than anyone else, and for political rather than religous reasons. I don't know how heavily TK played that card himself. There's an interesting article in this week's Tablet on Kennedy as a Roman Catholic — plainly as flawed an area of his life as any other, perhaps with less achievement on the plus side than the others. <br /><br />I sometimes think of the Kennedy kids playing round what is now the Legoland Mansion in Windsor early in the war.<br /><br />One of the more wearing things we've experienced this side of the pond in recent years has been soapy hypocrisy about terrorism from US politicians, some of whom spent years funding terrorist groups in Latin America and, exactly as you say, providing arms for the IRA to blow up London by massaging the fantasies of ignorant Boston widows. It's not a pretty tale, but I think I have to say the RUC, of course were the police, so they got their arms from the UK government.<br /><br />With Augustine and Peter Abelard, we still await the City of God...<br /><br />Nostrum est interim <br />mentem erigere <br />et totis patriam <br />votis appetere <br />et ad Jerusalem <br />a Babylonia <br />post longa regredi <br />tandem exilia.Bishop Alan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-9822562632424183472009-09-01T11:45:02.272+01:002009-09-01T11:45:02.272+01:00You omitted entirely to mention that this patriarc...You omitted entirely to mention that this patriarch of America's 'First Catholic Family' (TM) was a vocal supporter of Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein who prevented the RUC from buying US arms (while IRA surrogate Noraid collected money in Boston)- a true son of his British-hating father ambassador Joe. Kennedy also became the most prominent supporter of 'Abortion Rights' (including partial birth abortion) in the United States before Barack Obama arrived on the scene.<br />His first marriage was annulled by the Catholic Church when he asserted he had lied about his promise of fidelity.<br />All politicians may be 'flawed' but few as egregiously as Kennedy. Only the weirdness of Massachusetts Democratic politics, and his deft hand at playing it, kept him in a job he only gained through nepotism.<br />That he kept his job is a tribute both to his indomitable will and the corruption of the Bay State. He was almost certainly DUI when he drove off the bridge and left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown, but had the presence of mind to go off to his hotel for a few hours to sober up and avoid the charge of causing death while drunk. The trivial charge he plead guilty to was a scandal to justice. But that's OK, 'cos this lovable, women-abusing, drunken rascal was a Kennedy (TM) and had the correct liberal views ...<br />What surprises me in your blog, Alan, is that you seem to have ignored how Kennedy abused US Catholicism and US Catholicism was complicit in this sham.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com