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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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Fresh update on "pope francis" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Benz and other things of value to the senator and his wife. He also alleges the Democrat took steps to secretly help Egypt. North Carolina gets the first blast from a storm system that's expected to become a tropical storm. WNCN TV meteorologist Laura Smith in Raleigh. We're expecting rain this afternoon but soaking rain by this evening. Saturday that low is going to be centered eastern over North Carolina. Most of the wind and rain early in the morning becomes more scattered, wet, windy and just downright chilly tomorrow. The system will have an effect on up into New England overseas Russia says Ukraine carried out a missile strike on the main headquarters of its Black Sea fleet. That's correspondent Cami McCormick. One Russian service member is missing in the strike which sent large plumes of smoke over the building in Bostopol and annexed Crimea. Firefighters were battling the blaze. Russian authorities have accused Ukraine of stepping up its attacks on the city. This attack was the biggest in weeks. In France today Pope Francis blasted what he called the fanaticism of indifference that greets migrants looking for a better way in Europe. Amazon Prime Video says it will start showing ads in shows and movies early next year. All streets right now the Dow is up 48 points. This is CBS News. You need to hire fast and hire right? You need Indeed. Their all -in -one hiring platform helps you attract, interview and hire candidates efficiently. Visit indeed .com slash credit. 1 -0 -3 on
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Larry Taunton
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to listen to a man of grace, sophistication, integrity, and whimsy? Well, so are we, but until such a man shows up, please welcome Eric Metaxas. Welcome back, folks. This is Eric Metaxas, and welcome to the show. It's hour two. I continue talking to John Smirack, and after this segment, we'll bring on Larry Taunton to go over the news of the day and other things, but the news of the day being Tucker Carlson's mind -blowing interview with Larry Sinclair. Absolutely insane, insane that we're hearing about this for the first time 15 years after we should have heard about it. And the country's a different country because the media and the Republicans just squashed this information because they think you're too stupid to be able to process it on your own, so they have to censor it for you, scandalous. Okay, John, you were talking about something else. I was saying that Winston Churchill had a lot of flaws. He had been a warmonger in 1914. In 1923, he was hostile to the Germans, even though they were the Weimar Republic. He was an anti -German jingoist, but in 1940, he was the indispensable man, the only man who would stop the British from surrendering after France fell and cutting a disgraceful deal that let Hitler essentially run Europe. He was the indispensable man for all his flaws. And there were people in his party, the British Conservative Party, who wanted to push him aside and make a deal with the Nazis because it seemed like the prudent and sensible thing to do. That is exactly when you hear pious Christians condemning Donald Trump saying, well, he's got this terrible moral character. And he says, he puts out mean tweets. They wanna shove Winston Churchill aside and make a deal with the enemies of freedom and surrender to them because they find things unsavory about Donald Trump. And that's what's happening potentially in the Texas Senate right now with Ken Paxton, a heroic defender of religious freedom and the unborn and America's borders and election integrity. He's being savaged from the left by people who hate all those things and attacked from the squish center by the Bush family, which just resents him for beating one of their family members, George P. Bush, in an election. So you've got the most disgusting squish rhinos on the one hand and the far left cooperating the way they cooperated in the election of Obama. So that is my latest political article, but I've got a much more important piece I'd like to talk about. Sure. It has to do with our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Was Jesus a sinner? Do we get to say that Jesus was a sinner too? I can't wait to hear where you're going with this one, John Smirack, what do you got? This is a theme I've seen first in mainline Protestant preaching and then in some woke evangelicals. So now of course it eventually filters down to the Vatican. One of the closest advisors to Pope Francis is Father Antonio Spadaro. He runs the semi -official magazine at the Vatican, La Civilta Cattolica. So he is like Pope Francis' right -hand man. He gave a sermon just recently about Jesus' encounter with the Canaanite woman. And I think we all sort of remember that story, this Canaanite woman whose daughter is possessed by a demon starts basically pestering Jesus for a miraculous cure. And Jesus makes her jump through a bunch of hoops. He tells her, look, I've only come to preach to the lost children of Abraham. It is not fit to give to the dogs the bread that is meant for the children. And when we read this, I think we're all a little shocked by it at first. Jesus doesn't sound very nuts. And we're like, wow, what is this? What is this about? I think it is one of those hard sayings in the gospel that we have to think through that challenge us. Jesus was not acting like Oprah here. He was being kind of a hard guy, kind of a tough guy. He makes the woman, basically she gets to the point of saying, but even the dogs get the scraps that fall from the master's table. Then Jesus praises her for her persistence and for her faith, and he heals her daughter, just remotely, heals her daughter. A happy ending. Well, Father Antonio Spadaro, Pope Francis's right -hand man, gave a sermon recently where he says Jesus does not care. He calls Jesus angry and insensitive. He says that his hardness is unshakable. He said that Jesus replies in a mocking and disrespectful way towards that poor woman, because he's apparently blinded by nationalism and theological rigor. But - Hold on, hold on, hold on. You're telling me that one of the top priests at the Vatican genuinely publicly disapproved of the behavior of Jesus of Nazareth, our God. He said that Jesus is giving in to his own racism and nationalism, but by the end, the woman, through her persistence, heals Jesus. He says, quote, Jesus also appears healed and in the end shows himself free from the rigidity of the dominant theological, political and cultural elements of his time. So in other words, the woman heals Jesus instead of Jesus healing the woman's daughter. Jesus's racism is rebuked and repents Jesus for his sin of racism. This is what Pope Francis's right -hand man is saying, but don't take comfort in the fact that you're Protestant. This crap has been around. Protestants have been preaching this for years. You would see it if you go to Woke Preacher TV, you can see videos of Protestant ministers saying this five years ago. Well, first of all, the word Protestant is meaningless because the Protestant church has been in the tank, since Dietrich Bonhoeffer was at union in 1930. I mean, we've had liberal, progressive Protestantism for about a hundred years, so - These are self -described evangelicals. Right, that's the difference. Some of these folks would be described as evangelicals, but they are woke and they're doing the same thing you're describing. But somebody that close to the pope to be saying this, unless you're exaggerating - No, I'm not exaggerating. I was quoting directly from the translation. So let me unpack what's going on here, okay? This is an attempt to put ourselves above Jesus to where we can judge Jesus Christ, because we're so enlightened and we're so intelligent and we have made so much progress. This is the ultimate rebellion, the ultimate new gospel of the Antichrist. And this is what is being preached in our churches where we can judge even the behavior of Jesus Christ. John, it's the clearest mercy I've ever heard. I mean, for somebody to be criticizing Jesus as having sinned even slightly, that goes against every doctrine of the church from the beginning. I can't imagine that this could be - That is what the Vatican is now preaching. So really what happened in this story is this woman is a Canaanite. She's a member of a fertility cult that used to sacrifice infants. So she basically is in a religion that worships demons. She comes to Jesus. The daughter she raised in the demon -worshipping religion is, big surprise, possessed by a demon. She asks Jesus for a miracle, a miracle, a suspension of the laws of nature. God is not some water tap. We turn it on and off. Oh, I need a miracle. Okay, thank you. She's asking for a miracle from a God whom she has rejected her whole life. He makes her jump through a few hoops to show her sincerity and then gives her a miracle. And yet these progressive Christians are so proud that they want to condemn Jesus so that they can feel superior to Jesus. That is the essence of liberal Christianity, where you are the ultimate authority and the secular culture around you are the ultimate authority. George Soros, Microsoft, Facebook, Harvard, Google, they are the authority. They judge even Christ. We have less than a minute left. It's just hard for me to believe that things are that bad, but it seems like they are that bad. I don't know how your average faithful Catholic could make sense of this. This is very, very disturbing. Well, we've had terrible popes before and we've had heretical popes before. We now have one who's probably the worst, most heretical in the history of the church.
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Fresh update on "pope francis" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"Good morning, I'm Ed Donohue. One week into a at strike three by autoworkers plants, the walkout is being expanded. United Autoworkers Union President Sean Fain says progress is being made in talks with Ford. There hasn't been much progress in Stellantis. All of the parts distribution facilities at General Motors and Stellantis are being to stand up and strike. We will be striking 38 locations across 20 states across all nine regions of the UAW. Workers are already on strike at a Ford near factory Detroit, a GM plant outside St. Louis, and a Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is again facing federal charges. Here's the AP's Sagar Magani. Menendez and his wife have been indicted on bribery charges. Prosecutors say a search of their home turned up $100 ,000 in gold bars and $480 ,000 in hidden cash. The new charges are unrelated to a case six years ago when a jury deadlocked over whether Menendez accepted lavish gifts from a friend to pressure government officials. The Senate Historical Office says the Democrat appears to be the first sitting US Senator indicted on two unrelated criminal elections. Menendez is facing reelection next year with Democrats holding a slim Senate majority. Sagar Magani, Washington. Russia says a Ukrainian missile strike hit the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea fleet and annexed Crimea. Pope Francis is in the French port city of Marseille. His message? He wants Mediterranean the to be a man wanted for 2021 killing in Minnesota, who was mistakenly released from jail in Indianapolis last week. Kevin Mason is believed to be in Indianapolis or the United States. I'm Seth Suttel, this is Markets In A Minute. Stocks are edging higher in early trading, giving Wall Street a bit of reprieve. The market is still headed for its worst week in six months. S &P The S 500 was up 0 .2 % early Friday. The Dow was a little changed. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0 0 .5 %. All three indexes are coming off a steep slide that was caused by the stock market's growing understanding that interest rates aren't likely to come down much any time soon. Treasury yields eased a bit after jumping the earlier week in to their highest levels in more than a decade. The yield on the 10 -year Treasury note, which helped set mortgage rates, edged the week. That rate is still near its highest level since 2007. the year. Elastic slumped 10%. The publisher of children's books and teaching materials reported a loss that was much higher wider than Wall Street was expecting. Seth Sutell, New York.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Father Frank Pavone
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. It's the show featuring Go -Go the Chimp. Nothing like a chimp to liven up the radio show. Easy there. Go -Go, Go -Go. No, Go -Go, no! Hey there, folks. Welcome back. As you know, the unborn are important to God, and it turns out God is important to me, so the unborn are important to me and to many of you. And someone who's been a really heroic figure, a voice for unborn human beings is Father Frank Pavone. He's the head of Priests for Life, and I have wanted to get him on recently to talk about this issue and specifically to talk about what is troubling to many people, not just Catholics. But Pope Francis's kind of mixed messages and waffling on the issue of speaking out strongly on behalf of the unborn. So Father Frank Pavone, welcome back to this program. Hey, Eric. It's great to be with you. Thanks so much. It was great to see you in person not too long ago, and thank you for all your work and advocacy as well. Well, this is important stuff. My gosh, I feel honored that I get to do anything. I don't think I get to do much, but whatever I get to do, I praise the Lord for it. You have been really at the forefront of this issue for many years. How many years has this been, you know, something that you've been involved in so directly? 47. I got involved in the pro -life movement three years after Roe v. Wade. I was a high school senior 1976, in went on my first March for Life. And then, of course, I went into seminary. I got ordained in 88. But then in 93, I got Cardinal John O 'Connor's permission to make fighting abortion my full -time work. So, Eric, I've been leading this Priest for Life movement for 30 years now. Now, Cardinal O 'Connor, I'm a New Yorker, he was a heroic figure. He spoke strongly against evil in its various forms. But it seems like not just this pope, but that many American bishops are not in the mold of Cardinal O 'Connor. Since I'm not a Catholic, I'm a very pro -Catholic, non -Catholic, I'm always mystified. And I always want to ask my faithful Catholic friends, such as yourself, what do you make of so many leaders in the Catholic Church who don't seem to share your views on this issue? It's baffling to me. It is baffling, Eric. You're certainly not alone in that. You know, I often think about the fact that when it comes to popes, we've been spoiled for most of the lifetime of those listening to us now. We've had saints as popes, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, right? What a great papacy he had. And there was clarity and there was conviction and there was pastoral compassion and there was the uniting of people across multiple, multiple avenues. And now we have a pope who seems to be just confusing people left and right with so many things that he says. You know, Eric, the way I'm dealing with this is very simple. I say to people, you know, it's okay to be confused about something the pope says. We never have to be confused about what the faith says. So I ask people to focus on six simple words, what the church has always taught. That's the anchor. That's an anchor to which the pope himself is responsible. He's the vicar of Christ. Vicar of Christ is a referential term, right? It's not the word of the pope. It's the word of Christ that he's supposed to be articulating as the rest of us are to do as well. So, you know, it's a time of confusion. These popes are men. They're human. They're sinners just like we are. And they're going to have their own ideologies at times. And I'm afraid that's what we're dealing with in this case. Well, I think not just non -Catholics, but many Catholics are themselves confused about the pope. They say, oh, isn't the pope infallible? And I have to I mean, I've been on Newsmax and I am, you know, as a non -Catholic having to clarify. No, the pope is not infallible. He can say idiotic things. If he's speaking ex cathedra, that's a different story. But he's almost never speaking. No pope is hardly ever speaks ex cathedra. So it's a doctrine that does not apply to the blitherings of human beings who happen to be pope. It applies in a different way. But so many people are confused by this. And so many people, particularly Catholics, think if the pope says something, I have to agree with it. Of course, that's not true. That's not the teaching of the Catholic Church. But can you say more about that? You just touched on it. Yeah, that's a crucially important point. I've been making that point recently as well. When we say the infallibility of the pope, what we're really talking about here is the faithfulness of Jesus Christ to his bride, the church. The Lord is never going to let his entire body, the church, depart from his teaching. I mean, that would be, when you think about it, a severing, right, of the head of the body, Christ from the rest of the body. That can never happen. Now, that doesn't mean that individuals in the church can't get it wrong or fall away. They can and they will. And so the pope has a particular role when he's talking about, in an official capacity, the things that the church already believes, the things that the church has always held, those things that are rooted in the word of God and the teaching of Christ. When he pronounces to the world, as you said, ex cathedra or in certain other circumstances where it's clear a he's articulating firmly held belief of the church, what we believe is the Lord is not going to let the church go astray. It has absolutely nothing to do with agreeing with everything the pope says, especially in an instance like this that came up recently. He's giving informal comments to a group that he's sitting with, where he'll give comments off the cuff on a plane ride back to the Vatican. And, you know, this is not the way that official church teaching gets proclaimed. This is the comment of a man who happens to be sharing his opinion. Well, that's what's so important to clarify. Now, you just wrote an article at gatewaypundit .com. What is the article at gatewaypundit .com about that you've just written? It responds to this statement of the pope recently that, oh, well, you know, in America, who's who are they are, they have a backwards mentality and they're replacing faith with ideology. And I basically made two points. If by going backwards, you mean holding on to the changeless teachings of the church? Well, then that we consider that being faithful. And secondly, as far as replacing faith with ideology, if you want to find the culprits there, it's the Democrat Party. It's people like Biden and Pelosi who will say, oh, I'm a practicing Catholic. And in the meantime, they're pushing for unrestricted abortion. That's replacing faith with ideology. And then they commit the further sin of saying, oh, but this is the faith. This is, you know, misguided if the pope is trying to talk to those of us who are in the conservative movement, those of us who are aligning with policies that essentially fall on the, quote, right side of the equation. Well, this is what the pope and the bishops and everybody in the church need to realize is the Democrats right now have set themselves up against everything we cherish, against faith, against human life, against freedom, against America. Unless we realize the nature of the battle right now and stand up and defend those things, we're not going to have a Catholic Church in America. We're going to have the preachers of the gospel increasingly persecuted, thrown in prison, and our religious freedom denied. That's what the agenda of the left is. I didn't know you were going to go there, but what you're saying is exactly what I've been saying a whole lot, especially over the course of the last year. I wrote a book called Letter to the American Church where I am trying to explain to people that times have changed and we cannot pretend that the Democrats are represented by Tip O 'Neill. We have to understand the reality. And when you're dealing with a political party, it would be like dealing with a political party that is pro -slavery. And then you say, well, I don't want to be political. Well, if you're some kind of a Christian, you're obliged to be political if one of the political parties has embraced slavery. If you're silent on that, you're a pig, you're a fool, you're a hypocrite. You cannot pretend that silence is an option when things are that stark. So we can talk about slavery, but what about abortion? What about all these other things? So when I come back or when we come back, I want to talk to you about all these other issues and how if you're any kind of a Christian, you have to take them seriously. We'll be right back.
Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh "Pope Francis" from Bloomberg Surveillance
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A highlight from IP#492 Sarah Park McLaughlin Praying with St. Augustine on Inside the Pages with Kris McGregor Discerning Hearts podcast
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I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I am delighted to be joined by Sarah Park McLaughlin, author of four nonfiction books who taught freshman English at Texas Tech University for 34 years. Her book, Meeting God in Silence, was later translated into Korean and published in Seoul. She's a former award -winning newspaper columnist who has published numerous scholarly articles about C .S. Lewis, G .K. Chesterton, and her original theory of humor. With Sarah Park McLaughlin, we go inside the pages of Praying with St. Augustine, published by Sophia Institute Press. Sarah, thank you so much for joining me. Well, thank you for inviting me, Chris. I'm excited. Not any more excited than I am to have this wonderful book, Praying with St. Augustine. It is something that I think is so long overdue. I am so glad that you compiled all these wonderful prayers of this incredible doctor of the church. Well, thank you. It really was a labor of love. I started in the 90s collecting them old school, just looking through the Fathers of the Church books, and it was so much fun to have a mission like that. And then it got rejected quite a few times and I kind of put it aside. So I know it's God's timing that it was accepted by Sophia Institute Press. And now we have Praying with St. Augustine we can take with us to Eucharistic adoration or just uplift our spirits reading it at home. Rejected? I can't even imagine that, Sarah, because this is so phenomenal. I just love it. I will tell you the only reason was people said that they thought only people would be interested in a collection of prayers by many great saints. They couldn't really imagine that somebody would want a book with just St. Augustine, but they didn't know what they were missing. I mean, he's phenomenal. And these prayers are not ones that people accidentally run across very often. You have to really dig through his sermons to find the gems. I love what you did. I think what makes this so lovely is that not only did you just go through and read the sermons, you were listening. You were listening to St. Augustine and you could hear his prayers jump off those pages, didn't you? I really did. I mean, I think that's what makes him so amazing. If somebody looked at this and didn't know who he was or when he lived, they just thumbed through it. They would never guess this is somebody from the fourth and fifth century. Because with the modernized language referring to God as you, he's just as fresh today as if he lived 10 years ago. Get to write. We can all kind of identify with his struggles and his cries to God to make him pure, to have mercy on him. Even though he was a great saint, he never lost that sense of humility. He's not just a plaster saint on a shelf. He's a real person who struggled and who we can identify with, his prayers to God. Well, he sounds like a good friend to you. He's been very instrumental in my life. It's funny. Many different crossroads I bumped into St. Augustine. What really gave me the idea for the book was I went to a silent retreat and some nuns were reading these prayers during the temple services. I'd never heard that they were so eloquent. They started out things like, oh, banquet of love. Afterwards I asked, where are those prayers from? They said, they're St. Augustine. But they didn't have a book. They just had some notes. I thought, oh, okay, when I get home, I'll order prayers of St. Augustine. I was flabbergasted back then. Still, there's no real compilation. There have been some books in the past that kind of come and go that are small, like devotional books. And so I couldn't believe it. And I knew that I really felt like God and maybe St. Augustine was directing me to follow that lead and compile the prayers. I love the fact that you got Dr. Peter Kreeft to do the foreword for the book because he's written a little bit on St. Augustine. He knows him. He is a wonderful person. I was fortunate to meet him at an academic conference one time. He's been so helpful because I wrote to him when I was working on the book and even sent the draft to him and he commented on some of the prayers. And I asked if he would do the foreword and he graciously did. One of the funny lines in there, he says there should be a warning label on the book that if you read these prayers and you don't have the luxury of academic distance that the publisher is not responsible for what may happen to you, God is. And I think that's a terrific line because really when you read these prayers, you get goosebumps. It's reading and praying at the same time. Oh, I think it's so enlightening that he would write that because this is an experience of the heart. This is a divine communication, as it were, God speaking into this man's soul and him responding with this incredible prayer. I think you captured it beautifully. Is it OK if I read one of my favorites? Please do. You read away. Read away. Well, this one, I think, may ring a bell with I mean, many people don't know much about St. Augustine other than they may have heard hearts. You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless till they rest in you. Some people may recognize this, though. Too late did I love you. Oh, fairness, so ancient and yet so new. Too late did I love you, for behold, you were within and I without. And there did I seek you. I, unlovely, rushed heedlessly among the things of beauty you made. You were with me, but I was not with you. Those things kept me far from you unless they were in you or not. You called and cried aloud and forced open my deafness. You gleamed and shined and chased away my blindness. You exhaled sweet perfumes and I drew in my breath and panted after you. I tasted and hungered in thirst. You touched me and I burned for your peace. Now, imagine one hundred and fifty four pages of those type of prayers. Oh, it's just fantastic. They're all gorgeous and they're unique. He has prayers that are strictly praise. And it was interesting because recently I read a quote from Pope Francis in an interview who said, Mary praises God while we Christians so often forget the prayer of praise and the prayer of adoration. And so it's a lot of fun. I subdivided the prayers into groups and one of my favorite sections is the prayers of praise, just pure praise, because I think, of course, there's prayers of petition and some prayers for forgiveness, salvation, some prayers that kind of reveal God's attributes, including the incarnate Christ. But I think that a lot of us can use the models for prayers that are just pure praise. And they're they're really eloquent. And praying with St. Augustine really does draw you closer to God. I think so, too. It's because of his compelling witness, his life story, his conversion story, that he has become so relevant throughout so many centuries. I think of other great saints that have been touched by him. I know even St. Teresa of Avila looked at the confessions of St. Augustine and saw something that just really penetrated her heart. And I think that's so true. I mean, but for somebody out there, Sarah, who doesn't know St. Augustine, how would you put his life into context? As you said, you know, he had a dramatic conversion. He was not a believer in his youth. He was, of course, brilliant and precocious. And when he went on, his mother prayed for him, St. Monica, in the wings for many, many years. She's a real icon of the faith. But when he went off to university, he did want to pursue wisdom. But along the way, he was kind of rebellious and he had a mistress and he fell into some different sins. And he always kind of longed for truth. So God honors that. And when he was in his 30s, he had a profound conversion where the Lord just touched his heart. And boy, from then on, he was a ball of fire. He wanted to be a monk. He became a priest. They wanted him to be a bishop. He kind of reluctantly did. He lived in North Africa. And so he did become a bishop and he wrote literally five million words that we still have preserved today. And like I said, people may think St. Augustine sounds kind of highbrow. Some of his writings are, but these prayers are not. You don't have to have any prerequisite knowledge of him other than to know that he loved God to really get a lot out of these prayers. The thing about St. Augustine is that when he became the bishop of Carthage, journeyed with his people. He was right there in the thick of not only their suffering and because that particular area, it would become under terrible Roman attack. Ultimately, he saw the destruction, didn't he? I mean, he was right there in the thick of their everyday lives. He was. He saw the suffering and he also did a lot of work fighting the heretics. I mean, the Catholic Church has so much gratitude to St. Augustine. And that wasn't easy. I mean, a lot of doctrines back then kind of threatened the truth of the Catholic Church. And so he really stood up for the truth. And he had a profound effect on the church's understanding of the Trinity, for example. He wrote a piece called De Trinitate. And some of his prayers are fantastic because he talks about, he just speaks to God directly and says, Lord, help me understand what am I supposed to tell people? How can you be up there and down here at the same time? I mean, they're just so they're so frank. He has such an intimate relationship with God that he just spoke to him. And I think that really gives me goosebumps and kind of encourages me to just open up my heart and just tell God, you know, hey, look what's going on in the world right now. What are we supposed to say? Give me wisdom. I think that's the key and the beauty to enter into prayer by praying with St. Augustine, by entering into his particular devotion or whatever arena that might be, whatever area he's praying into, whether it's Thanksgiving or if it's in suffering or whatever that might be. It helps train us, doesn't it? That we'll ultimately find our own words after allowing St. Augustine to pray with us in his. I think so. I mean, one of the things that praying with St. Augustine will show you, I included a letter he wrote to a woman named Probut, a very famous letter, and she asked, you know, how to pray. And so he's given her all these tips on how to pray. He covers what Jesus, three most important things Jesus taught us about prayer. So praying with St. Augustine is a real guide to prayer on many, many levels. It's inspirational to see what he had to say and the struggles and prayers, what he asked for, wisdom, humility, truth, strength, forgiveness. He prayed for God to enlighten his darkness. Fill my mouth and heart and all my bones with your praise. Let my soul praise you that it may love you. Cramped is the dwelling of my soul. Expand it that you may enter in. It is in ruins. Restore it. Isn't that beautiful? Absolutely. I think that's one of the reasons why not only for men, but for women, he has this universality about him, doesn't he? That just everybody can identify with his quest to be known to God and to know God. I guess it's that relationship to know and to be known. I think you're absolutely right, Chris. And of course, a lot of people identify with his mother, St. Monica, who we have to thank for her steadfast prayer. Many people who have family members who've left the church and they're praying for them to return. And St. Monica never gave up. And look what her prayers produced, one of the greatest church fathers. It gives us a reason to think that we too can pray and pray and pray and never give up because we don't know. We have no idea the far reaching effects of our prayers. Look at St. Augustine, for example. I mean, I bet he had no idea that he would be this influential this many years after his death. He was very humble. I really enjoy your commentaries, too, in the very beginnings of each of these different sections of prayer, that those different times that in, how do I want to say, the avenues we might travel to engage in that prayer. And the very back of the book is actually the longest chapter of the book. And it talks about that petitionary type of prayer. And we shouldn't be surprised, should we, that St. Augustine would have many of those. Oh, of course. I mean, you know, Jesus told us to ask for our daily bread, even though God knows what we need before we ask. St. Augustine says that when you pray, it makes you ready to receive God's blessings. It's for your benefit, not God's. And it also establishes the relationship between you and God that, like a child, and you really relate to God like a Heavenly Father, that you're not afraid to ask for what you need. And you can ask for those things which of your blindness you don't know to ask. But you're right. The petitionary prayers are beautiful, too. I always love that section. Almost all of his prayers included a little bit of petition, like he prayed to be cleansed from sin and to be freed from anger and armed with patience, drive out the enemy from my deeds and thoughts, and he hungers and thirsts for truth. That's, of course, my favorite. One of the things I like about the prayers that I'm not sure everyone would identify with some might is that he understands somehow deep down the paradoxical nature of God. For example, how Jesus could be a tiny infant nursing with his mother, yet he's feeding her at the same time with his truths. I mean, those are deep thoughts. If you really want to sit with this book and read one of those prayers, it's just something beautiful to meditate on and let the Lord speak to your heart about those deep truths.
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"Ago. Eric Bolling invited me on his Newsmax show. I guess I'm their go to religion guy, whether I'm a Catholic or not. He wanted to ask me about the something happening in the Vatican right now. And John, you probably know the details, but they it seems that Pope Francis, who may be the anti pope, I don't know. I don't know what he is officially, but he's pushing somehow the LGBTQ. My name is Legion Agenda. Yes. And when I I hear this, what I said on Eric Bolling's program on Newsmax is that it really does seem like end time stuff, like it's hard to know how to process it. I'm not a Catholic, but on any level, it's very difficult for me to process this. And I thought, wouldn't it be great to get John on the program? Maybe he can help us. So, John, what are you thinking? Well, what we're seeing is whether the religion of Antichrist will take over the seat of the Church of Christ in Rome by religion of Antichrist. I'm referring to St. Paul's words where he said, if anyone comes and preaches you a new gospel, he is he is Antichrist. Pope Francis repeatedly has reversed authoritative teachings of his predecessors, grounded in scripture and grounded in early church tradition. The most egregious is where he says, where he said that capital punishment is always wrong and has always been wrong, is intrinsically bad.
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"Pope Francis returned to work Saturday meeting with a famous American director after a fever interrupted his regular schedule. The pontiff met with Martin Scorsese and a number of other artists, while addressing a conference on the global ethics of the Catholic imagination, according to Vatican news, he also met with visitors from Georgetown university, the Vatican's confirmation of the 86 year old Pope's fever sparked concerns about Francis's health in March he was rushed to the hospital, diagnosed with acute bronchitis, the Vatican says the Pope will preside over Pentecost mass Sunday and meet with Italy's president Monday. I'm Julie Walker
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"Pope Francis peace envoy for Ukraine has blasted war as a pandemic and says all Christians are called to be peacemakers. Cardinal matthieu zuppi in his first public comments, since being named the Pope's peace envoy calls for the creation of a culture of peace to respond to that deep anxiety, sometimes an expressed he says often unheard of peoples who need peace, zappy, is the archbishop of Bologna, president of the Italian bishops conference, and a veteran of the Catholic Church's peace mediation initiatives. He helped mediate the 1990s peace deals ending civil wars in both Guatemala and Mozambique and headed the commission negotiating a ceasefire in Burundi in 2000. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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Zelenskyy visits UK on European tour seeking military aid
"President volodymyr zelensky is visiting the UK on a European tour seeking military aid. Zelensky is in Britain as the staunch ally of Ukraine prepares to give more military aid in an effort to change the course of the war with Russia. It is the fourth European country zelensky has visited in the past few days. He made an unannounced visit to Paris on Sunday evening to meet president Emmanuel Macron after earlier trips to Germany and Italy, meeting those countries leaders as well as Pope Francis, a message posted on Monday on zelensky's official telegram channel, says he would meet my friend Rishi for talks. Office confirmed the two leaders would meet at chequers, the prime minister's country retreat outside London, Charles De Ledesma, London
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Pope Francis meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican
"Ukraine's president has met with the Pope at the Vatican as his country continues to endure a war against Russia. Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky arrived at the gates of the Vatican guarded by two Vatican soldiers robed in traditional colors, Pope Francis using a cane comes to meet the president's zelensky puts his hand to his heart and utters it's a great honor. The Vatican later released a statement saying the two men spoke about the humanitarian and political situation provoked by the ongoing war last month Ukraine's prime minister also met with the pontiff at the Vatican. He asked Francis to help Ukraine get back children illegally taken to Russia during the invasion. I'm Karen Chammas
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Zelenskyy, in Rome for talks with pope, hears Italian president say, 'We're at your side.'
"Ukraine's president is in Rome for talks with the Pope, and Italy's president and premier, as his country finds to liberate itself from Russia's military invasion launched last year. A military band played as Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky was welcomed by Italian Panera giorgia meloni outside of kichi palace upon his arrival many Ukrainians and Italians alike lined the streets of Rome to welcome him, Eleanor litvinova told the AP she hopes Ukraine will be victorious. And we want that Kremlin many should be stopped. On Twitter zelensky cited his schedule in Rome, first his meeting with Italian president and then the premier zelensky is also due to meet Pope Francis, who recently said that the Vatican has launched a behind the scenes initiative to try to end the war launched by Russia last year. I'm Karen Chammas
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Pope greets Russian Orthodox envoy amid peace mission talk
"Pope Francis has greeted the foreign envoy of the Russian Orthodox Church, just days after revealing a secret mission was on the way to try to put an end to the war in Ukraine. Francis devoted his remarks at an audience to a recap of his weekend visit to Hungary during which he made repeated calls for the end of the war, while in Budapest, he met with metropolitan hilarion, metropolitan Antony's predecessor, as the foreign envoy of patriarch Khalil, the head of the Russian church, who strongly supported the Kremlin's war, justifying it on religious grounds during a press conference en route home. Francis praised hilarion and Anthony as knowledgeable and main conduits to reach kuril. He was asked if hilarion and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, who has maintained relations with Moscow, could facilitate a mediation to the war. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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"Tens of thousands of Hungarians fill Budapest's cautiously or square to see Pope Francis as he wraps up a three day visit. Speaking to crowds, Francis has urged Hungarians to open their doors to others with a plea for Europe to welcome migrants and the poor. The Pope has also called for an end to Russia's invasion of its neighbor as the Vatican grows concerned for the polite of Ukraine. How sad and painful it is to see closed doors Francis said from the banks of the Danube. In a final prayer at the end of the mass Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine and a future of hope not war, a future full of cradles, not tombs. I'm Lawrence Brooks
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"Pope Francis has urged Hungarians to carry on a culture of charity in a country run by a prime minister who is staunchly anti immigration. At a mass attended by refugees, Pope Francis thanks the Hungarian people for their welcoming nature. Thank you for having welcomed not only with generosity, but also with enthusiasm, so many refugees from Ukraine. At the end of the events, a band of Hungarian Roma musicians serenaded the pontiff, drawing a standing ovation and cheers from the crowd, and a thumbs up from Francis. Outside the Greek Catholic Church in Budapest, Pope Francis greeted crowds over barriers to get the chance to touch his hands. Hungary's nationalist government has implemented firm anti immigration policies and refused to accept many asylum seekers trying to enter the country the move has led to prolonged legal disputes with the European Union. I'm Karen Chammas
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"Of this week's AP religion roundup of France's lamb mince the return of war in Europe and Pittsburgh's Jewish congregations prepare for a trial in the nation's deadliest anti semitic attack. On a three day trip to Hungary, Pope Francis outlined his vision for the future of Europe. In a carefully calibrated speech, Francis blasted what he called adolescent belligerents that brought war back to Europe. He said the continent must recover its founding spirit of peaceful unity to confront Russia's war in Ukraine. Francis addressed Hungary's top leadership, whose lukewarm support for Ukraine has rankled other European Union countries. Jury selection has begun in the federal death penalty trial of a truck driver accused of shooting to death 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest anti semitic attack in U.S. history. Robert Bowers faces 63 counts of the October 2018 attack at the tree of life synagogue. Peter Smith of AP's global religion team explains the questions posed to potential jurors. A lot of the questions focused on whether the jurors could or would impose the death penalty if it came to that. There was very little discussion in today's hearing about whether they could render a fair verdict guilty or innocent. If convicted, Bowers could receive a death sentence. The 50 year old offered to plead guilty and return for a life sentence, but federal prosecutors turned him down. You know, I'm not the same person. That I was the day before. On October 26th, I don't think you can be. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the tree of life congregation was one of the survivors of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. He says that he and other survivors are determined that the attacker will not have the final word, and that they will write the next chapter of their story. I do believe God wanted me to be here as a response. And I don't say that out of a place of haughtiness or arrogance, but of divine mission of responsibility. Myers and members of the congregation say that since the shooting, they practice their faith boldly, fought for gun safety policies and honored the dead. I'm Walter ratliff
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"Garland is so far refusing to weigh in on the recently discovered classified documents at the home of former vice president Mike Pence. University of Virginia political science analyst Larry sabado says Pence has made the issue by partisan essentially neutralizing it. Mike Pence has done a great favor for both Donald Trump and for Joe Biden. It's now bipartisan, it extends to people who are not seen as being on the edge. Political science analyst Larry sabato wonders whether other former presidents, vice presidents and others, also have classified documents somewhere in their official papers. Authorities say they don't know yet what caused the gunman to open fire and kill three people at a circle K convenience store in Yakima, Washington. Police chief Matt Murray. Literally as he was opening the door, he started shooting these people. And then after shooting both of them and remember, he was not masked up. He did nothing to conceal his identity. He walked out, saw somebody else in a car and shot them. Chief Murray says the suspected gunman 21 year old Jared haddock shot and killed himself. Pope Francis says it's still a sin, but he has criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as unjust, saying God loves all his children just as they are. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Pope Francis called on Catholic bishops to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios, this is global news. 24 hours a day on air, and on Bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists, and analysts, in more than 120 countries. I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg. Hi, everyone. Al Roker here. As a guy with his own catch phrase, I appreciate that smokey's only said only you can prevent wildfires. But I'm feeling it because there's a lot
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"Take. This is Bloomberg radio. Pope Francis is paying tribute to his predecessor, former Pope Benedict XVI. France's recalled Pope emeritus Benedict as a noble and kind man of faith, while leading the traditional end of the year celebration of vespers at the Vatican today. Pope Francis will also preside over Thursday's funeral for Benedict, the Vatican announced the 95 year old former pontiff died Saturday at his home in a former monastery in Vatican City. Trailblazing broadcaster Barbara Walters has died. Her former view co host Elizabeth Hasselbeck called Walters her mentor. She cared deeply personally about the women in this industry. Walters broke the glass ceiling in broadcast news and was the first woman to co host both a morning and evening newscast. In 1974 she became the first female co host of NBC's Today Show and in 1976 became co host of ABC's evening news. She won an Emmy for her interviews of celebrities and politicians and in 1997, she started a daytime talk show just for women the view, Barbara Walters died Friday at the age of 93. A graduate student is facing murder charges in the university of Idaho stabbing murders. Moscow Idaho police chief James fry says 28 year old Brian coburger is in custody after being arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with the crimes. In a news conference Friday, Idaho prosecutor Bill Thompson said coburger was charged with four counts of murder after his DNA was recovered at the off campus house where four students were stabbed to death in November. Queen guitarist Brian May is being knighted. He's one of over a thousand people included on King Charles the third's first honors list since taking the throne, may receive the title of knight bachelor for his services to music and charity. He took to Instagram to share a video thanking fans for their love and support. In addition to his music career, may as an astrophysicist and vocal supporter of animal rights. I'm Julie Ryan. Today is doctor Anthony Fauci's last day as a public servant. The nation's top infectious disease expert has advised 7 presidents on epidemics ranging from aids to COVID-19 and turned 82 years old on Christmas Eve. In an interview with The New York Times Fauci said he plans to write a memoir after he retires. House Republicans have promised to investigate Fauci's handling of the pandemic when they take over next month. Fauci says he has no problem testifying before Congress and could easily explain and justify everything he's done. A host of new laws in states and cities across the country will go into effect in the new year. Michael kessner reports
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"The visit Pelosi said the purpose of the trip was to send a clear message to the world Pope Francis is calling for an end to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in a message delivered today in Saint Peter's square the Pope said the war is a macabre regression of humanity Frances said his thoughts and prayers go out for the city of Mario pole which the Pope calls the city of Mary The governor of Arkansas says the U.S. should be concerned about economic recession Anybody that looks at where we are and the fact that we didn't have any economic growth this last quarter has to be concerned about that Appearing on CNN State of the Union asa Hutchinson urged the Biden administration to quickly address the issue the Republican governor blasted the idea of canceling student loan debt as irresponsible He suggested that having a solid economic plan in place would be more effective than immediate relief That's the latest on DD kodiak I'm Barry Rudolph you are listening to masters in business on Bloomberg radio My extra special guest this week is Michael Lewis Who win the audio rights for liar's poker reverted back to him he decided to make a complete audio recording of the book and that forced him to reread it for the first time in three decades I just reread it for the first time since the mid 90s Tell us what your experience was rereading your own work Unsettling I don't reread my books Sometimes I feel like I should and I pick them up and I read the first sentence that I can't do this And I did that with liar's poker I remember on the paperback tour year after it came out and I thought I got to go read it and remember within it and I couldn't even do it So this really is the first time I reread it And I thought a couple of things were instantly obvious One I was in the hands of an amateur And I could actually hear one form the amateurism took was the pros is infected by the voices of whoever's book I was reading while I was writing it So one point I was reading some George Orwell and other Mark Twain or Tom Wolfe or Rebecca west or I remember when I was reading at the time because I can hear their voices in my prose And it's a pale imitation of their voices but I could see that the voice was wavering in the book And particularly early in the book and not the first chapter because I wrote the first chapter last but when you start at chapter two you're seeing me in the beginning of my career And it's kind of interesting It's not till I get to about I can't do the passage in chapter 8 where I thought huh I'm liberated This is actually more me I recognize this And it's subtle but it was sort of like I don't advise anybody do this I was learning how to write a book by writing a book And you can see it in the pages of the book So that's surprised me The other thing Let me jump in here because I just have to tell you I had the same experience rereading this in that it's clear in the beginning it's not truly you hadn't discovered your voice yet but towards the 60% mark or so and I read this on a Kindle which I normally I prefer hard paper but I noticed that where you start talking about the mistakes that Salman brothers management made like the beginning of the end of Solomon brothers your becoming Michael Lewis in that you're making these broad observations about other people's judgment errors and your voice really rings true there And my own judgment errors I think the moment the moment I first recognize really recognize myself on the page is an 8 page or ten page story where I it's the first time I rip off a customer And I'm so stupid I don't know I'm ripping them off I think that the trader is just giving me a smart thing to do And that's the first time I thought oh God this works I wouldn't actually change this And this feels like me So that's So that was the first takeaway I was figuring out how to trust my self As I was writing the book and I came to trust myself eventually So that's observation number one Observation number two was how much the financial world had changed Since then that I remember thinking as I was reading I was thinking God I was so lucky that people actually shout out at each other and through telephones at each other And we're actually doing trades face to face Because without that the book just has no life And you walk into trading floor or hedge fund now and it's just like silence It's like people staring at screens and Tapping away and algos are doing the trades And I would be very hard to make it interesting now As it was I think it was just a more lively place But there was the butt was you could see the seeds of what Wall Street is now in what Wall Street was becoming then There are big macro things happening and they're happening in the book that are big changes Starting with the class of Princeton wants to go work on Wall Street These changes that are happening in the culture That are happening right then And so in that way there was a current there was still some currency to it That was that was the other reaction I had lots of other little reactions The main little reaction was and this is like a rule When I thought I was being funny I wasn't funny And the stuff that was funny I didn't realize it was funny When I was laughing I was rereading my book I was laughing at places where I didn't laugh when I wrote it And I wasn't laughing in places where I did laugh where I wrote it So let me share one thought with you that I didn't I couldn't have picked up in 94 and 96 whenever I read it The first time but it was very clear this time not just that Salman brothers was formative to liar's poker but liar's poker very much foreshadowed your future books The whole discussion of how mortgage bonds were developed and other the IOP bonds and other sort of things sort of presage the big short There's conversations about geeks and experts being ignored presaging money ball and premonition There's even some discussions about the computer guys coming in and they're still ignored but eventually that's flash boys and am I wildly overstating this or are there seeds of your future books present in 1989 Well there's no question that the big short is.
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"For much too long working people of this nation in the middle class in this country have been dealt out of the American deal It's time to deal them back in Eugenics in these bills is what 81 million Americans voted for So let's get this done The president of the United States a tumultuous Thursday no other way to put it we are welcome you on Bloomberg surveillance and radio and television here As the president as the First Lady meet with the Pope at Vatican city with Pope Francis and on to speak with the secretary state of the Vatican state I should say the Vatican City state and then on the meetings with Italian leadership including Mario Draghi In 1963 another Catholic visited Rome John F. Kennedy in July the summer before his assassination and it was really quite a scene as he struggled as the first Catholic president his messaging to Europe at the time He received quite the greeting in a post World War II Italy It is very different now and from the JFK memorial square in Rome our Annie Horton joins us this morning at Washington correspondent Emory I've been watching out of the side here on my TV wall Various and sundry airlines touched down in Rome There isn't an airline from Russia There isn't an airline from China Let's start with the why Tom that is a great point Really what this is about this G 20 what's more interesting is who is not attending Xi Jinping is not attending He has not left China since the pandemic And then you have course president Vladimir Putin who has decided he's going to stay at home in Moscow as well We should also note that neither of these two leaders are going to Glasgow as well where we have a number of international leaders heading after the G 20 summit in Rome to discuss climate initiatives without these two individuals there there will still be some sort of communique that will be released but of course it is much harder We do know that the Biden administration is trying to plan some sort of sit down particularly with Xi Jinping potentially that can happen next month But again this will be virtual because Xi Jinping has not left China since the pandemic struck Can the president accomplish more in Rome than he accomplished yesterday in Washington He's facing two big struggles one at home in Washington as you mentioned And one here in Rome and the question is if he can not deliver his economic agenda at home and bridge his factitious party together what message does that send when he sits down with world leaders today in this evening Today it's going to be the president of Italy Prime minister Mario Draghi and then of course Emmanuel Macron where they try to really bridge that rift following the dispute of the submarine spat and then tomorrow it's going to be negotiations regarding the JCPOA the nuclear talks with the UK Germany and France And if the president is unable to deliver at home with some of his agenda what brings world leaders their interests really is can he deliver on a global stage That is a big question One on the Iranian nuclear deal because Iran wants to make sure it's ironclad The fact that the U.S. had a unilateral withdrawal with president Donald Trump They want to make sure that if you have a swing of domestic politics in the United States that that does not affect global agenda items also like the Paris climate accord which the president is going to struggle to deliver given the fact that his initiatives are.
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"Pope Francis plans to visit the impoverished Roma community in Slovakia. Pope Francis will pay a visit to a neighborhood in Slovakia. Most Slovak's would not even think about going, which until recently, even the police would avoid after dark. Francis will make the visit to the Roma community, a highlight of his pilgrimage to the heart of Europe. He'll be the first pontiff to meet the country's most socially excluded minority group. Most lack basic, such as running water, gas or electricity. Priests in the community say the pope's arrival is a chance to restart relations between the Roma and the rest of the population. Francis arrives in Slovakia after a brief stay in Hungary on Sunday. I'm Walter Ratliff. Some GOP governors are resisting President Biden's call for new federal vaccine requirements he hopes will contain a coronavirus search. The requirements could impact some 100 million Americans from the private sector to the federal government. Republicans say the president's overreaching and some are threatening legal action. He says, have added, We're playing for real here. This isn't a gang visiting Washington Middle school. The president says he's disappointed that some GOP governors are being cavalier with both the health of kids and their communities. Saga or Megane. Washington President Biden has a message for Republican governors who are resisting his new federal vaccination requirements. Some GOP leaders say the president's overreaching and are threatening legal action and special legislative sessions have added, Speaking at the Washington Middle School, the president says it's disappointing, particularly some of Republican governors. Have been so cavalier with the health of these kids..
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"Pope Francis plans to visit the impoverished Roma community in Slovakia. Pope Francis will pay a visit to a neighborhood in Slovakia. Most Slovak's would not even think about going, which until recently, even the police would avoid after dark. Francis will make the visit to the Roma community, a highlight of his pilgrimage to the heart of Europe. He'll be the first pontiff to meet the country's most socially excluded minority group. Most lack basic, such as running water, gas or electricity. Priests in the community say the pope's arrival is a chance to restart relations between the Roma and the rest of the population. Francis arrives in Slovakia after a brief stay in Hungary on Sunday. I'm Walter Ratliff. Some GOP governors are resisting President Biden's call for new federal vaccine requirements he hopes will contain a coronavirus search. The requirements could impact some 100 million Americans from the private sector to the federal government. Republicans say the president's overreaching and some are threatening legal action. He says, have added, We're playing for real here. This isn't a gang visiting a Washington middle school. The president says he's disappointed that some GOP governors are being cavalier with both the health of kids and their communities. Saga or Megane. Washington President Biden has a message for Republican governors who are resisting his new federal vaccination requirements. Some GOP leaders say the president's overreaching and are threatening legal action and special legislative sessions have added, Speaking at the Washington Middle School, the president says it's disappointing, particularly some of Republican governors. Have been so cavalier with the health of these kids. So cavalier..
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"Smith nibley and gains smith deeply gains. If you need me. Call me dr pepper. The bella man forum news i m role aram harsh fog. Stunning news yesterday from rome. Pope francis acted swiftly to squash the enemies of the church immediately upon exiting his hospital. Stay where he was recovering from complex surgery. He asked for a pen. Sources close to the events. A pope francis first words. Were i need depend. So i can sign this document. Experts saiki intends to squash the greatest threat to church. Seen in over five hundred dollars over to you sweet occur thank you. We have obtained both documents. Signed by pope francis. The first document is a letter. Wearing pope francis expresses sadness caused by abuses in the liturgy on all sides. We thought this might pertain to action against the modernists or ending the abuse of lay ministers during mass offloading. The fraudulently obtained in four communion in the hand. No the greatest threat is latin. Mass pope francis lashed out at pope benedict unshackled the latin mass back to his tight control by vatican apparatchiks. This is free decrease manner in reporting for the men for them news. Wow thank sudak sitting there with this puzzle now of this great threat. The are never guessed that the extraordinary action enforce of a multi proprio would be merited to stifled the latin mass. There's left me with many questions though in. I sat out to to learn what this document. Pope francis issued was. I began to ask around and my questions quickly led me to professors the big new aginsky chair of the theological marian akita chair at trent university. Professor aginsky can you explain to me. What motoo proprio is out of all the documents that the pope can put out there. What is this thing. what is it supposed to do. Yes thank you for calling. I am glad you asked this question. It is a pleasure to speak with. Bill mean forum. I have looked in my modern catholic dictionary in attest to definitions a refers to words used in rescre to drawn up and issued by pope on his own initiative and not conditioned by any petitionary requests. The documents are always signed personally by pope. The dictionary then tells me to see proprio multi. So i turn the pages and find the second definition proprio mighty more commonly referred to as motor proprio. It means something don on one's own initiative or by one's own will said especially if certain papal documents written on the pope's own authority often tomato special and urgent need in the church so from what the professor told us these documents that left me scratching my head. It's not that there was a great need new church or people ask but the pope moves on his own initiative. That was the first part. I got out of that. And it's always signed by the pope and we know that from the report on the pen in wanting to sign those documents but the last part got me often to meet a special urgent need in a church. Something extraordinary something like terrible. That really requires attention. I'm just surprised. It became the latin mass. We learned from the news. Reports and neither pope francis surveyed bishops around the world and ask them about the threat of some more and pontifical the issued by pope benedict..
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"Second vote advisors specializes in what you all call. Politically neutral socially conservative investment options. What does that mean and explain what's meant by. Es g neutral investments environmental social and governance. What does all that mean. How do you break that down right. So we we have a research company. This research company started in two thousand twelve and it rates companies on a scale of one to five one is liberal to lean liberal three neutral foiling conservative five conservative. And what we do. Is we look at a companies advocacy. It's philanthropy its charity. Its lobbying efforts. you know in the nineteen nineties in the twentieth century. You didn't have to worry about a coke getting involved in social justice issues. You didn't have to worry about software. Companies funding pro-abortion efforts. But unfortunately you have to do that. So when when you look at some of the Conservative organizations out there in the past they analyze companies through a twenty th century prism and what we do. Is we say okay. You know. companies have changed over the last twenty thirty years unfortunately and we need to really stop looking just at how they generate revenue but how they are spending their prophets so what we do. We analyze their profits. Replace them on this scale and what we have found is the s and p five hundred seventy three percent of the companies. If you take all of these scores come up with the composite score. Seventy three percent of the companies in the s&p five hundred score one or two so our liberal only twenty seven percent of the companies are still neutral and there are no companies in the s&p five hundred that have an overall second boats score of conservative. So we're starting to lose the battle but what we've decided to do what my company does is. We've taken those scores and we've created financial securities. So we have to publicly traded. Ats right now. The first one is life. Liffe the second is aegis eg i s in life for example if any company supports a pro abortion agenda so is rated or one or two they would not be included in our fund so we have eight. Phd's on staff. We look at what companies pass our social filters and then we apply financial methodology. And we come up with what what is top desktop performance in. Its working raymond if you look at what are each so wait a minute. Wait a minute are you looking. So you're looking at. You're looking at how these companies are spending their profits in their advocacy outside of the goods and the services that they provide. Or you're looking at both. You're looking at both in tandem. Oh you're looking at both in tandem. Of course you have to look at how a company is generating its revenue but it's a lot more nuance today as we all know you know coke delta. How are they supporting Social justice issues and you can see the headlines. Recently they're supporting social justice issues that a lot of us would not agree with what we are saying is. Those companies should stay out of social justice issues altogether. They should stood with making a great prophet stick with traditional charity and lead the social justice engineering to individuals. Why why are these companies placing politics And this virtuous signaling above profits. Does it make business sense. Long-term and to the to the prosperity of the enterprise. Well they would argue. It does We would argue and we can show that it does not The performance of our funds number one outpace the market so life was up Our life index was up twenty five percent. Our second amendment index was up twenty six percent while the s. p. five hundred is up fifteen percent but i'll tell you raymond Espn investing.
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"You point out that religious disaffiliation also hits all generations. You write this in the book while it would be easy to say that this is largely driven by young people moving away from a religious faith there are also some evidence that older americans are moving away from faith communities as they enter their twilight years while churches used to rely on many of their young people moving back toward a religious tradition when they hit their thirties and forties. That seems to be less and less likely with each successive generation. Why are we seeing the rise of nuns among older especially in that silent and boomer generation now well past middle age. I think it's the wave of secularization has crested on the shores of every generation. It just hit the millennials june z. Harder and push them farther but every generation now is less religious today than they were twenty or thirty years ago including the boomers and the silent generation. I've a friend who says that when we get older we cram for the final exam and go back to church if you look at the data. That's actually not true at all. If you look at birth cohorts every single birth were is less religious today than they were in two thousand eight so people are just moving away from religion different paces. Young people moving a lot faster away from religion than older people but every single generations being hit by disaffiliation. Wow what affect ryan does this have. This rise of the nonce on republic like ours. The founders were very explicit that this constitution was intended in the words of atoms for moral people. They assume that religion would be this under girding. Governor of the country unity is fractured without a common agreement or at least core moral beliefs right. Yeah so when we use it. How about religious pluralism. It was chris. Protestants accepting catholics or accepting jews or muslims. That was pluralism now. Pluralism is accepting jews. Catholics mormons buddhist and the unaffiliated. So now pluralism takes us bigger tent..
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"With a lethal disease this is this is inhumanity of scale now resulted in the death of millions of human beings around the world. The chinese communist party truly possesses evil. They are intent upon global dominance. And this is the latest example. This effort to put pressure on a country like eighty that is already suffering so much by denying them vaccines until they conform to the chinese political objectives. Wow this week. The state department updated its advisory on. Us companies connected directly or indirectly to china's actions against muslim leaguers. in that jinjiang region. Here are a few of the key points from that updated. Advisory it says the p. r. c. government is perpetuating genocide and crimes against humanity. In jing. jiang which your administration when you were at the state department you declared and it provides specific information regarding risks related to investment in pr see companies linked to sad surveillance and forced labour inching. Jay how close are we to an economic war with china mister secretary. Well i think if you had sitting in this chair general sexy shaping. He would have told you that we've been at economic war for an awfully long time. And he's been pretty happy that the united states just turn the other cheek and permitted them to a career at declare economic war on the american worker on american intellectual property on all the things that we know. And now you and they've they've grown on the backs of the american worker. So i i. I would argue that. The chinese believer there. We need to confront it in a serious way. We know administration was prepared to do that. So whether it's the issue around genocide in the west and forced labor no no american company. Should want to be part of that. Or whether you know whether it's the fact even this administration wants to talk about climate change or fifty percent of the urban gas the climate gases carbon. That's being omitted. Fifty percent of that comes from twenty-five mega-cities twenty..
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"Of Pope Francis WBC's Madison. Rogers has the update. The pope has been in the hospital since undergoing intestinal surgery on July 4th and he will be spending a few more days hospitalized. Originally, they said Pope Francis should be released by the end of last week. The 84 year old made his first public appearance over the weekend, standing on a balcony at the hospital as crowds looked on the Vatican's Says the pope has completed his post op treatment but will stay a while longer to optimize his recovery. And we are monitoring that story for you. Here in the WBC newsroom more information as it becomes available and simply remember that you can take us on the go any time. Check in anytime, anywhere with the I Heart radio app. We're always streaming live. Man from Milton faces charges of murder today in the deadly shooting of a 25 year old who had just stepped off a mo pad 21 year old miles. King is now under arrest and facing charges. Meantime, a violent weekend in Boston 10 shootings in five separate incidents. All of the victims, however, are expected to survive. Raining in Boston 67 degrees at 9 48 on a Monday morning a new era for college athletics. Twin sisters from Fresno State are now cashing in following a change in regulations from the N C double a their sisters and now business partners After the N C double a changed its rules to allow college athletes to earn money from their talents and fame. Twins Haley and Hannah Cavender have already signed endorsement contracts with two companies. The Fresno State basketball stars who have.
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"In Friendship Heights. At 8 51 84 year old Pope Francis today made his first public appearance since he had intestinal surgery last week, He greeted the faithful from a hospital balcony. The Vatican says the pope has been steadily on the men since surgery on July 4th to remove a portion of his large intestine. His voice sounded weak today as he greeted the small crowd at noon in Rome. That's the hour when he traditionally appears from a window at the Vatican overlooking ST Peter's Square on Sundays. DC, hasn't received anything close to the revenue. It was promised when it legalized sports betting, and now an audit is raising questions about the companies that were given a no bid contract to run the city Sports Betting APP. The company that was given a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars by the Easy council hasn't hired nearly enough city residents as the law says it needed to. In fact, the local company Intralot subcontracted. What was supposedly a significant portion of work only had two employees the first year of the deal, according to D. C. Auditor, Kathy Patterson. But when she tried to find out just who did all that work, her report says interlocked would not tell her. The actual amount Intralot paid out to small city owned businesses it was supposed to work with was less than 1% of what it was supposed to be in year. One. Her report also says neither city agency supervising the contracts really provided any oversight. Both blamed the other for that lack of oversight. John Doman W T. O be news that 14 year old girl from Louisiana, who this week became the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee has been offered a full college scholarship. The offer was made to Zyla avant garde on Twitter yesterday by Louisiana State University School wrote. Your academic performance reflected scholarship. First, you modeled intellectual excellence. Zella is not only an academic Phanom, however, she holds multiple Guinness world records for basketball and wants to play in the WNBA's 14 years old. Coming up in money news. Higher used car prices are leading to online auctions. It's 8 54 for the.
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"Scene. It appears to have been with the female that is in stable condition that deceased male and the female appeared to be having dinner at the bar. Investigators say the woman who was wounded in the leg, told them she and her husband did not know the man who shot them. This is a P news. The Vatican says Pope Francis is working and will deliver his Sunday blessing from the hospital. He's recovering following surgery. Pope Francis is walking in the corridor working and even celebrated Mass at a Rome hospital, where he will deliver the blessing. Later in the week. The Vatican update says that Francis his temperature was normal again following the slight fever he ran on Wednesday evening. The statement adds. Francis would deliver his noontime Sunday blessing from the 10th floor of the hospital, an appointment that will recall the practice of Saint John Paul, the second who also delivered the Angelus prayer and greeting from his sweet during his occasional hospital stays. I'm Charles a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that became a rallying point for white supremacists and their infamous 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, will be removed along with one Stonewall Jackson from a local park tomorrow. I'm Tim Maguire. AP News BIDEN and BUSINESS I'm Tim Maguire with an A P news minute President Biden signs an executive order to promote competition and limit restrictions large companies place on their workers. President says the effort toward consolidation and the elimination of competition hurts everyone. There's competition decreases. Businesses don't feel the pressure to innovate. Or invest in their workforce. That hurts working families and hurts our economy. All told between rising prices and lowering wages. Lack of competition costs the median American household $5000 a year the death toll and the collapse of the Miami area Condo building rose to 79. Today, a number of Miami Dade County's mayor calls heartbreaking Another 61 people remain unaccounted for. Colombia's top police officer says the Colombians implicated in the assassination of Haiti's president were recruited by four companies and traveled to the Caribbean nation in two groups via the Dominican Republic. I'm Tim Maguire, Biden and business competition. I'm Tim Maguire with an A P news minute president Biden has signed an executive order that he says will target anticompetitive practices by big business. I expect the federal agencies and they know this To help restore competition. So that we have lower prices, higher wages, more money, more options. More convenience for the American people. The order includes calls for banning or limiting non compete agreements in order to boost wages. Police in Toledo, Ohio, released Bodycam video of officers arriving at the scene of a shooting during 1/4 of July. Block party early Monday. Morning. Find cover. Oh, sit down. Get down! Get down! A 17 year old was killed and 11. Other people were wounded. Two are in critical condition after About 80 shots were fired by multiple gunmen. No arrests have been made. I'm Tim Maguire. AP News I'm Tim Maguire, the head of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the capital wants to hear from the police and those working inside the building Chairman Bennie Thompson tells the AP. Other committees have already heard from top officials like the capital's police chief. He wants to hear from the rank and file, not just those who fought back the attack, but the custodial staff that cleaned up afterward how they felt. We need to hear Uh what people who Broke into the capital say it two of them, Thompson says that will set the tone for the investigation. Many first responders pushed for an independent probe of the attack, which Senate Republicans blocked. Thompson has not said if the panel will call ex President Trump to testified but says nobody is off limits. Sagar Megane at the White House. President Biden talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin about ransomware and cyber attacks. United States expects.
WMAL 630AM
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"5 30 I'm Barbara. Britain knew this afternoon D C Mayor Muriel Bowser, Virginia Governor Ralph Northern and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan today. Issuing a joint statement ahead of next week's presidential inauguration, urging Americans not to come to the nation's capital on January 20th. But instead to participate virtually the three regional leaders also pledging to work together with federal partners to ensure a transition of power, insisting Americans air quote stronger than one extreme ideology unquote Virginia governor Northern also tweeting. The Commonwealth currently has 2000 members of the Virginia National Guard here in D. C. To help protect the U. S Capitol nor the matting. They will be there as long as needed. The House is now scheduled to begin debating a single article of impeachment against President Trump on Wednesday morning. House Democrats will force the vote tomorrow on a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence in the Cabinet to remove President Trump from office by invoking the 25th amendment early Wednesday morning. House Democratic leaders say debate Will begin on an article of impeachment, A group of Democrats introduced an impeachment resolution accusing President Trump of incitement of insurrection. Writing. The president will fully made statements that encouraged lawless action at the Capitol. If the impeachment resolution clears the House of Senate trial is unlikely before President elect Biden takes office next week. On Capitol Hill, Jared Halpern Fox News as the one B vaccine rollout begins across Virginia and parts of D. C. Thousands of kids are returning to the classroom in Chicago ordered back to school by the mayor of the Windy City for the first time since March of last year, the Chicago public School teachers are back in the classroom with students and that is happening with the objection of teachers and other teachers were required to start showing up last week, and only about half of them did totally. Chicago public school stress that those who don't show up will be considered absent without leave and subject to put Aggressive disciplinary procedures, which could lead to getting fired despite criticisms of poor protective measures. Janice Jackson, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, says $100 million have been spent on things like ventilation and mass getting the schools in line with public health guidelines. Still, the teachers union says instructors are risking their lives. The pope opens more roles to women in the Catholic Church changed to church law. Pope Francis says within May now read the Gospel on Distribute Communion during Mass that was already happening in many countries. But now it's official. The pope says he's recognizing women's contributions. The movie also means conservative bishops will no longer be able to block women from taking part. But the pope's decree stresses Thies roles are separate from the priesthood, which remains open to men. Only in London. Simon Oh, in Fox News, Checking your money. The Down closes down 89 points the NASDAQ Down 165..
WGN Radio
"pope francis" Discussed on WGN Radio
"All right, follow up some things that we were talking about a relief today. I would say in the first hour of the show today, didn't we had a lot of very interesting educational information in the show. Today. It's been pretty much downhill since then. But and quite often head can happen. Yeah, but one of the things when you were reporting you do some covered 19 stories I'd mentioned That Pope Francis is waiting his turn to get his covert 19 vaccinates. Right? And I said, you think You know you're the pope. Yeah. You have move right to the front of the line. If you want to. He doesn't want to. He wants the weight is through. On. I think that's why so many people like you. Me is such a man of the people. He, uh you know, it's humble that way. It doesn't see himself as being above anybody. So you know that story with that, But here's Here's the rest of the story. Aziz we've learned Pope Francis on. Lee has one lung. Yes, he had some surgery to remove a long he had a problem when he was a younger man when he's a teenager, it right infection because they didn't have the antibiotic treatments that are Commonly used today, and he had to have a long removed. You would think that a person who is what we say 84 84 right with one lung might go to go to the front of the line anyway, whether you're pope or not when you're putting down your occupation on the on the application I am a head of state name Pope Francis occupation Pope. You think that he go right in front of the line just because of his medical conditions..
The Non-Prophets
"pope francis" Discussed on The Non-Prophets
"The world had told her about medical miracles including juris for infertility and cancer. That happened after they prayed to her son. In february pope francis unexplained healing of a boy with a malformed pancreas decarlo after. The child came in contact with one of his shirts one of his shorts yet. Any interesting Because i went and tried looking into this further and the article. I found it actually went into more detail with it. Didn't say a shirt. It was a photo instead. So i'm not so i'm not sure either way it's supposed to be a relic details around the miracle. Oh yeah who'd have thunk. I'm shocked now. One of the interesting things here is sad. I looked up with is required for the vatican to identify something as a miracle and that's ambiguous as well because depending on what resources i'm looking at him getting slightly variated answers on that but the there is apparently a miracle commission that will be Sift through all the details and The healing the medical miracles need to be spontaneous..
The Non-Prophets
"pope francis" Discussed on The Non-Prophets
"The world had told her about medical miracles including juris for infertility and cancer. That happened after they prayed to her son. In february pope francis unexplained healing of a boy with a malformed pancreas decarlo after. The child came in contact with one of his shirts one of his shorts any interesting because i went and tried looking into this further and the article i found it actually went into more detail with it. Didn't say a shirt. It was a photo instead. So i'm not so i'm not sure either way it's supposed to be a relic details around the miracle. Who'd have thunk. Yeah now so one of the interesting things here is that i looked up with is required for the vatican to identify something as a miracle and that's ambiguous as well because depending on what resources i'm looking at him getting slightly variated answers on that but the there is apparently a miracle commission that will be Sift through all the details and The healing the medical miracles need to be spontaneous..