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If I’m interested in learning more about Pope John Paul II, do you have any good book recs? Love both of your blogs by the way!!

Thank you! I’m sorry that I didn’t see this question earlier; I always tend to overlook the papal blog because I’m so terrible at updating it.

There are tons of books about Pope John Paul II, so I’ll try to narrow the suggestions down to a handful:

•George Weigel’s two-volume biography of John Paul II is almost certainly the best-known and definitive studies of John Paul II’s life from Poland to the Vatican. The first volume, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (BOOK | KINDLE), was originally published in 1999 and tracks the Polish Pope from birth until the turn of the millennium.

The second volume of Weigel’s biography, The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II -- The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy (BOOK | KINDLE), was published in 2010 and devotes almost the entire first half of the book to an in-depth look at John Paul II’s lifelong crusade against Communism. The other half of the book focuses on the Pope’s final years as his health began to fail and as he seemingly used his very public physical deterioration as a lesson in suffering, humility, and strength until his death in April 2005.

In 2017, Weigel published another book -- Lessons In Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II (BOOK | KINDLE) -- which isn’t a traditional biography, but a much more personal book about Weigel’s journey as the Pope’s biographer and his relationship with John Paul II over the years. It’s unique compared to his formal biographies because it shows John Paul II from a different, more human perspective than that of the infallible “Keeper of the Keys to Heaven”.

Some of the other books that I’ll suggest are very good, but they can also feel incomplete because John Paul II’s papacy lasted so long that the authors were only able to capture certain parts of his reign.

•His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time (BOOK | Kindle not available) by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi is one of those books that is solid but not a complete history of the Pope’s reign because it was published in 1996, nearly 10 years before John Paul II’s death. And, yes, the co-author is the Carl Bernstein of Washington Post/Watergate/All the President’s Men/Woodward & Bernstein fame.

•John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father (BOOK | Kindle not available) by former Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan was published shortly after John Paul II’s death in 2005 and is excellent. Noonan’s book is also very personal to the author and paints a portrait of John Paul II that helps us understand what he meant to so many people. Noonan also helps explain the source of the Pope’s unique charisma and how he used his immense natural political gifts to reach his audiences. 

•The Pontiff In Winter: Triumph and Conflict in the Reign of John Paul II (BOOK | KINDLE) by John Cornwell is not the most flattering book about Pope John Paul II, but it is an important book to get a balanced understanding of his life and of the health of the Catholic Church towards the end of John Paul II’s papacy. Cornwell has long been one of the best connected Vatican journalists and this book is important because it questions how much blame should have or could have been placed on John Paul II for the scandals and corruption that simmered below the surface inside the Vatican throughout his reign.

•John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor (BOOK | Kindle not available) is a short collection of writings and homilies by Pope Benedict XVI that he wrote about John Paul II over the years -- as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger while John Paul II was alive, and as Benedict XVI after succeeding John Paul II in 2005. There’s nothing earth-shattering in the book, but it’s an interesting look at one Pope directly from the pen of another Pope.

•The last recommendation isn’t a book about Pope John Paul II, but a book written by John Paul II: The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II (BOOK | Kindle not available). This book of poetry written by John Paul II at various points throughout his long life is an incredibly unique window into the soul of a Pope. Some of the poems -- which are translated into English from John Paul II’s native language of Polish by Jerzy Peterkiewicz -- are quite good! Like I said, it’s not a biography of John Paul II, but in many ways reading his poetry can be just as revealing.

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Faith, Power, Manipulation - The Secrets of the Opus Dei sect | DW Documentary

For many critics, the arch-conservative Catholic community Opus Dei is a diabolical sect. However, Opus Dei (which translates to "Work of God”) sees itself in a very positive light. Even today, it’s very difficult to look into the inner world of the sect.

That's because its 90,000 members worldwide have taken a vow of secrecy - and those who have left report persecution if they break that vow. Meanwhile, Opus Dei is working to become the most influential player in the Catholic Church. To this end, it maintains a secret network - including branches in Germany.

It is no coincidence that the German headquarters are located in Cologne - Germany‘s most powerful Catholic archdiocese. In Germany, Opus Dei is focused on trying to gain a foothold in the field of education, by running daycare centers and schools.

The examination of a daycare center in Munich shows that Opus Dei deliberately conceals its involvement in these institutions. Another component of the network is IESE, the business school of Opus Dei, which also has an offshoot in Germany. It is considered one of the best schools of its kind in the world.

In Spain, where Opus Dei originated, sect members are active in parts of the judicial and educational sectors. The documentary tries to uncover these connections in both Spain and Germany, and lets both victims and experts have their say. It also includes an interview with the head of Opus Dei, Christoph Bockamp.

For the first time, a former member from Germany reports on her ordeal in Opus Dei and the harassment she experienced after she broke away from the sect. Spaniard Carmen Charo developed mental health problems during her time in Opus Dei, due to brainwashing and psychological pressure. Today, she helps others in their journey out of Opus Dei.

Dietmar Scharmitzer is trying to do the same thing with German-speaking people who want to leave, and runs an Internet platform to help inform them. Finally, Marco Politi, an author and Vatican expert from Rome, takes stock of the influence Opus Dei has exerted since the time of Pope John Paul II.

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Elezioni Europee 8-9 giugno 2024. I dati sui voti riportati dalle liste e dai candidati presenti nella Circoscrizione V : ITALIA INSULARE

Elezioni Europee 8-9 giugno 2024. I dati sui voti riportati dalle liste e dai candidati presenti nella Circoscrizione V : ITALIA INSULARE Sezioni + Comunicazioni f. s.: 7.167 / 7.169 Dato aggiornato al: 10/06/2024 - 10:23 Liste Voti % FRATELLI D'ITALIA 420.444 21,25 FORZA ITALIA - NOI MODERATI - PPE 402.208 20,33 PARTITO DEMOCRATICO 330.909 16,73 MOVIMENTO 5 STELLE 321.376 16,24 LEGA SALVINI PREMIER 138.354 6,99 ALLEANZA VERDI E SINISTRA 121.494 6,14 LIBERTA' 117.856 5,96 PACE TERRA DIGNITA' 44.183 2,23 STATI UNITI D'EUROPA 42.456 2,15 AZIONE - SIAMO EUROPEI 29.100 1,47 ALTERNATIVA POPOLARE 9.928 0,50 TOTALE LISTE 1.978.308 100       FRATELLI D'ITALIA Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze MELONI GIORGIA DETTA GIORGIA 242.050 MILAZZO GIUSEPPE 65.221 RAZZA RUGGERO BENEDETTO ITALO 61.500 GIAMMUSSO MASSIMILIANO DETTO MASSI, DETTO MUSSO 43.223 DEIDDA SALVATORE DETTO SASSO 29.405 AMATA ELVIRA 24.833 SAVARINO GIUSEPPA DETTA GIUSI 22.680 SCORPO ALESSIA 14.734   FORZA ITALIA - NOI MODERATI - PPE Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze TAMAJO EDMONDO DETTO TAMAIO, DETTO DI MAIO, DETTO EDY, DETTO EDI, DETTO EDDY 121.356 FALCONE MARCO 99.953 CHINNICI CATERINA 93.291 DELL'UTRI MASSIMO 69.231 GRASSO BERNARDETTE FELICE 47.445 COSSA MICHELE 36.267 LA ROCCA RUVOLO MARGHERITA DETTA RITA 28.000 CALIA MADDALENA 22.995   PARTITO DEMOCRATICO Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze SCHLEIN ELENA ETHEL DETTA ELLY 84.686 LUPO GIUSEPPE DETTO PEPPINO 49.627 BARTOLO PIETRO 44.384 NICITA ANTONIO 43.407 QUAQUERO ANGELA MARIA 42.338 TILOTTA LIDIA 37.361 TIMBRO MARIA FLAVIA 11.326 BELVISI GIUSEPPE 2.744   MOVIMENTO 5 STELLE Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze ANTOCI GIUSEPPE 64.554 PILO CINZIA 39.494 CINQUE PATRIZIO 30.987 FARRUGGIA VIRGINIA 21.321 PORCU MATTEO 18.417 DI PRIMA ANTONELLA 17.386 MONTAUDO MATILDE DETTA MONTAURO, MONTALDO, MONTALTO 13.304 RANDAZZO ANTONINO 11.332     LEGA SALVINI PREMIER Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze STANCANELLI RAFFAELE 44.162 VANNACCI ROBERTO 35.145 TURANO GIROLAMO DETTO MIMMO 18.620 TARDINO ANNALISA 17.578 GERMANA' ANTONINO SALVATORE 14.002 REITANO FRANCESCA 10.057 BONAFEDE ESTERINA 7.987 LUNESU MICHELINA 6.853     ALLEANZA VERDI E SINISTRA Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze SALIS ILARIA 50.398 LUCANO DOMENICO DETTO MIMMO 25.780 ORLANDO LEOLUCA 18.539 MUSCAU FRANCESCO 9.979 PAGLIAZZO STEFANIA 6.496 BARBARA EMANUELE 3.318 DATO CINZIA 3.271 FIERTLER GIULIANA DETTA FIRTLER, DETTA FITLER 2.723     LIBERTA' Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze DE LUCA CATENO 69.752 CASTELLI LAURA 30.666 LA VARDERA ISMAELE 20.208 FERRO GIULIA 10.956 BANDIERA EDGARDO DETTO EDY 10.747 AIELLO PIERA 3.609 FIGUS BARBARA 3.476 PARRINELLO ANTONIO GIUSEPPE 2.796     PACE TERRA DIGNITA' Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze SANTORO MICHELE 21.047 FRESU GIOVANNI 5.757 SABENE BENEDETTA 3.065 MONNI ELISA 2.504 BACCOLI FEDERICA 2.097 LA VALLE RANIERO LUIGI 1.423 MANTINEO ANTONINO 1.253 BOMPIANI GINEVRA ROBERTA 1.206     STATI UNITI D'EUROPA Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze RENZI MATTEO 15.739 FALLETTA VALENTINA 6.455 MICARI FABRIZIO 4.506 BERNARDINI RITA 3.883 PUTZOLU PIETRINA 2.927 BALLATORE LUCA 2.532 CALANNA FRANCESCO CONCETTO 1.522 POLITI CAROLA 886     AZIONE - SIAMO EUROPEI Sezioni: 7.163 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze CALENDA CARLO 7.968 ALFANO SONIA 4.903 PALAZZOLO GIANNI DETTO GIANGIACOMO 3.558 TRUDU NICOLA 1.202 BONETTI ELENA 1.199 BENONI MARTINA 1.190 COCOMERO ROSANNA 583 DAMIANI GIANFRANCO 514     ALTERNATIVA POPOLARE Sezioni: 7.162 / 7.169 Candidato Preferenze ROMAGNOLI MASSIMO 4.364 BANDECCHI STEFANO 1.022 ALAIMO ALFONSO 437 GATTUSO MATTIA DETTA TEA 431 VALENTI VALENTINA 346 CIAMBRONE MANUELA 283   Read the full article

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Hey there, Filipino anon here! I'm a little curious about the name you chose for your 2P!Philippines, since while it's true that the maharlika refers to a specific class in some precolonial polities, the word is also very tied with Marcos and martial law-era propaganda (especially with the whole controversy around the 'Maharlika Kingdom', which is a creation used to justify the Marcos family's ill-gotten wealth). I wanted to make sure you were aware of this, or if there was any other justification you had for the name you chose.

[Okay so saw this so had to clear it out, and speaking as I'm also Filipino so, hello kabayan]

[Mahárlika was a name that I chose because one, the name sounded cool, and two the meaning behind the word was something that caught my eye. While doing research I did notice the mention of Marcos using this term in his reign although I would never intend for the 2P to represent the martial law era]

[The term can mean freeman, that's why I chose that for his name. But like most good things, people can modify things to fit their twisted mindsets— so I guess you helped me come up with lore now, lol]

[So yeah I'm aware, but also clearing it out, Mahárlika has nothing to do with the Marcos Marshal Law era, he represents the Katipunan to be more accurate so I guess let's say his name was twisted into something that was once a symbol of strength and freedom into this. Much like the instance of the swastika once being a symbol of spiritualism and good luck now ruined by the appropriation of the Nazi party]

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Deurverkoop en collecteren mag in Krimpen aan den IJssel alleen na schriftelijke toestemming. Voor inwoners is nog vaak onduidelijk wie wel en wie niet aan de voordeur mag bellen. Er ontstaan soms hele discussies over wat urgent is en wat wel of niet mag. Saskia Oudshoorn, raadslid voor Stem van Krimpen vroeg om verduidelijking. Buurtpreventie Zeven jaar geleden richtte Oudshoorn de eerste Buurtpreventie WhatsAppgroep van Krimpen aan den IJssel op. Op het archiefbeeld onthult ze met toenmalig wethouder Marco Oosterwijk het bijbehorende bord in de wijk Lansingh-Zuid.  Oudshoorn vertelt: 'Inmiddels kunnen we wel stellen dat het concept een groot succes is. Bijna heel Krimpen is gedekt door de preventiegroepen in de wijken. Er zijn niet-urgente groepen voor de dagelijkse beslommeringen en een beheerdersapp waar alle beheerders van de groepen inzitten. Wanneer het nodig is, kunnen we heel snel schakelen.'   Discussies aan de voordeur Er is veel onduidelijkheid over wie wel en wie niet aan de deur mag bellen. Er zijn regelmatig discussies aan de deur over wat urgent is en wat wel of niet mag. Saskia Oudshoorn legt uit. 'Dat klopt. Sommige discussies kunnen we als beheerders van de Buurtpreventie WhatsAppgroep niet helemaal voorkomen, maar wat me stoorde is dat er zoveel onduidelijkheid is wat er wel en niet mag qua venten of collecteren. In principe mag er niet aan de deur verkocht worden, dat staat zo ook in de Algemene Plaatselijke Verordening (APV). Maar sommige instanties mogen wel collecteren of iets aanbieden als daarvoor specifiek een vergunning verleend is. Eigenlijk weet niemand nu goed wat nou wel en niet mag. Soms gingen er zelfs inwoners aan de deur in discussie. Niet leuk voor de inwoner en ook niet fijn als je toestemming hebt om te collecteren of iets aan te bieden.'   Wie mag aan de voordeur bellen Op de website van Krimpen aan den IJssel is het niet te vinden. Een onwenselijke situatie dus, en Oudshoorn kaartte dit bij de portefeuillehouder aan. 'Er is beloofd dat er op de nieuwe website van de gemeente duidelijk aandacht aan besteed gaat worden. Op mijn vraag hoe we rekening houden met de mensen die niet digitaal vaardig zijn, is een mooie oplossing gekomen: Lokale collectes en verkopen worden op de gemeentepagina van de lokale krant Het Kontakt geplaatst. Niet in het gebruikelijke overzicht van apv-vergunningen, maar losstaand dus opvallender. In de krant van dinsdag 30 januari staat een verwijzing naar het digitale landelijke collecterooster. Voorlopig worden niet alle landelijke collectes los in de krant vermeld. Dit kan, indien gewenst, in de toekomst nog.' Mocht die laatste wens er zijn, dan hoort Oudshoorn het graag! Stem ban Krimpen blij met duidelijkheid voor inwoners 'Weer een mooi stapje richting duidelijkheid voor de inwoners en een veilige gemeente voor iedereen,' volgens het raadslid van de lokale partij Stem van Krimpen. Bij www.wapb.nl kunt u zich aanmelden bij de wijkpreventiegroep in uw buurt. Mochten er zich huis-aan-huis verkopers zich melden die geen toestemming hebben, dan kan dat in Krimpen tijdens kantoortijd gemeld worden bij de gemeente op tel. Nr 14 01 80 en op andere uren bij het niet urgente nummer van de politie: 0900 8844.

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Milano 4 Mental Health: gli appuntamenti di mercoledì 11 ottobre

Milano 4 Mental Health: gli appuntamenti di mercoledì 11 ottobre. Milano. Domani, mercoledì 11 ottobre, Milano 4 Mental Health, l’iniziativa del Comune di Milano che ha l’obiettivo di porre la salute mentale al centro del dibattito sociale e politico, arriva alla Triennale Milano di via Alemagna per una giornata di talk, incontri e approfondimenti aperti alla cittadinanza e gratuiti. Si parte alle 9.30 si parte con il dibattito dal titolo “Professionisti della Salute mentale: un valore di cui prendersi cura” a cui parteciperanno l’assessore al Welfare e Salute Lamberto Bertolé, Marta Giacometti della Commissione di Albo Tecnico della riabilitazione psichiatrica, il segretario della sezione lombarda della Società Italiana di Psichiatria Giovanni Migliarese Caputi, la giornalista del Sole24Ore Sara Monaci, il presidente della Commissione d'Albo degli Educatori Professionali Renato Riposati e la direttrice dell’unità operativa di psicologia clinica dell’ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo Elena Vegni. Alle 10.30 si prosegue con l’incontro “Salute mentale: la dimensione individuale e la responsabilità collettiva. Dalla legge Basaglia ad oggi” che verrà introdotto dall’assessore Bertolé e che vedrà gli interventi di Valentino Ferro, docente di Psicologia Dinamica alla Sigmund Freud University di Milano, della direttrice sociosanitaria di ATS Milano Rossana Giove, del direttore del dipartimento di salute mentale di Roma 5 Giuseppe Nicolò, del direttore dell’Area Salute e servizi di comunità del Comune di Milano Marco Papa, del delegato del coordinamento degli enti del Terzo settore del Tavolo sulla Salute mentale di Milano, moderati da Francesco Caroli del Gabinetto del sindaco di Milano. Dalle 11.45 si parlerà della figura dello psicologo di base con l’assessore Bertolé, la presidente dell’Ordine degli psicologi della Lombardia Laura Parolin, il segretario provinciale della Società Italiana di Medicina Generale e delle Cure Primarie Alessandro Politi, il presidente di Fondazione Soleterre Damiano Rizzi e l’onorevole Rachele Scarpa, promotrice dell'intergruppo parlamentare per la tutela del benessere psicologico e della salute mentale. Parteciperà inoltre, il vicepresidente della commissione Welfare e Salute del Comune di Milano Valerio Pedroni. Seguirà, alle ore 14, l’incontro dal titolo “Due professionisti si confrontano: i terapisti occupazionali e i tecnici della riabilitazione psichiatrica per la salute mentale”. Alle 15 si parlerà invece di “Ambiente positivo di crescita e individuazione precoce che ‘qualcosa non va’”. Alle 16 ci sarà il workshop “Dare voce alle voci” sul tema della collaborazione tra servizi e territorio nell'ambito della salute mentale e, alle 17, il talk "Quando il bambino costruisce la sua storia. Sintomi e cura nell’infanzia". Dalle 18 partiranno i talk curati e organizzati direttamente dal Comune di Milano e moderati dalla giornalista Giovanna Maria Fagnani del Corriere della Sera. Nel primo, si parlerà di “Salute mentale e ambiente”, con un affondo sulla cosiddetta ecoansia legata alla paura degli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici, insieme all’assessora all’Ambiente Elena Grandi, al rappresentante d’istituto del liceo classico Carducci Samuele Carazzina, a Michele Carugno dell’Università degli studi di Milano, alla neuropsicologa clinica Loredana Locusta e al copresidente della Società Italiana di Neuropsicofarmacologia Claudio Mencacci. Alle 19 si parlerà di “Prima infanzia e scoperta del mondo” con la psicologa e psicoterapeuta Francesca Dall’Ara, la referente sull’autismo della Città metropolitana Gilla Cauli, il responsabile del laboratorio di Biologia della sinapsi di CNR e Humanitas Matteo Fossati e il direttore del Dipartimento di Pediatria dell’ospedale dei Bambini Buzzi Gianvincenzo Zuccotti. Alle 20 si affronterà l’argomento della genitorialità e dei nuovi equilibri che è necessario trovare, soprattutto nei primi giorni di vita del bambino. Interverranno il responsabile della U.O.C. Riabilitazione del Centro disturbi del comportamento alimentare dell’Auxologico Leonardo Mendolicchio, il copresidente della Società Italiana di Neuropsicofarmacologia Claudio Mencacci, il direttore del Dipartimento di Salute Mentale e Dipendenze dell’ospedale Niguarda Mauro Percudani, la presidente del corso di laurea in Psicologia Clinica dell'Università Bicocca Alessandra Santona.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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Vatikanexperte Marco Politi: Es gibt in der Kirche „einen Untergrund-Bürgerkrieg“

Der Vatikanexperte Marco Politi hat erklärt, es gebe in der Kirche seit mehreren Jahren „einen Untergrund-Bürgerkrieg“. Im Gespräch mit dem Kölner Domradio in dieser Woche sagte Politi: „Seit dem Moment, wo Papst Franziskus nach den zwei Synoden über die Familie praktisch die Kommunion für die wiederverheirateten Geschiedenen autorisiert hat, wurde dieser Bürgerkrieg begonnen, https://de.catholicnewsagency.com/story/vatikanexperte-marco-politi-es-gibt-in-der-kirche-einen-untergrund-buergerkrieg-12436

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El papa Francisco se aleja del "delirio de omnipotencia" occidental en el conflicto de Ucrania

El líder mundial de la Iglesia católica, el papa Francisco, no ha aceptado adherirse a la narrativa del conflicto que sostiene el presidente Volodímir Zelenski contra de Rusia. l periodista italiano Marco Politi consideró esto en un editorial del diario Il fatto quotidiano, donde recordó que Zelenski desea una visita protocolaria de Francisco a Kiev, de preferencia antes del 13 de septiembre,…

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adidas Originals | Original is never finished | FW18 from Jeph Burton on Vimeo.

Just as all creativity is a work-in-progress, so are all creators. For adidas Originals' FW18 campaign, we launched a film that was itself a work-in-progress. Every scene, unfinished. Every creator, in a constant state of beta. Coopting the digital loading symbols of our hyperconnected consumer to inspire them to keep pushing on — but to recognize no matter where the work ends, original is never finished.

Client : adidas Originals SVP / Brand Director Asia Pacific: Marc Leroux Vice President Brand Activation: Adrien Seuge Snr Director, Originals & Snr Director, NEO: Patrick King-Hei Ng Snr Director, Brand Communications, SS: Lorna Luo Snr Manager, Brand Communications, SS: Frank Wang Global Snr Manager, Communications: Ken Aerts Manager, Brand Communications, Originals: Sissi Ni Snr Director, Sports Marketing: Brian Cupps Director, Sports Marketing, HBS/OD: Qian Wang Global Sales - Marketing: Stephanie Zhou Snr Manager, EIM: Rosaline Wong Snr Shoot & Production Manager: Andreas Hemmerlein

Agency: Johannes Leonardo Chief Creative Officers: Jan Jacobs, Leo Premutico Creative Director, Partner: Ferdinando Verderi Creative Director: Wesley Phelan, Matthew Edwards Associate Creative Director: Jeph Burton Associate Creative Director: Hunter Hampton Head of Integrated Production: Dana May Executive Producer: Maria Perez Senior Producer (Film): Tina Diep Producer (Film): Jay Jenkins Senior Producer (Photography): Alexia Politis Group Account Director: Sam McCallum Account Director: Dom Dalton Account Supervisor: Adriana Mariella Account Executive: Tiff Liu Head of Strategy: Mark Aronson Strategist: Miné Cakmak Senior Business Affairs Manager: Alesa Blanchard-Nelson

Production Company: Anonymous Content Director: Marco Prestini Head of Production: Kerry Haynie Managing Director: Eric Stern Executive Producer: Lori Stonebraker Line Producer: Joanne Duray Director of Photography: Rud Nils Mattias Production Designer: Norman Page Buckner East Coast Sales: Stacie Gillman, Paul Muniz

Service Production Company: Eagle Media General Manager: Edmond Tao Head of Production: Iris Chan Production Manager: Jason Chang 1st AD: Maxine Zhang

Editorial: Exile Editor: Robert Lopuski Jr Editor: Steve Nelson Executive Producer: Sasha Hirschfeld Producer: Becca Riehl

Post Production: Blacksmith EP: Charlotte Arnold VFX Supervisor: Jacob Slutsky Post Producer: Bindy St. Leger

Lead Compositors: Jacob Slutsky Iwan Zwarts

Compositors: Yebin Ahn Robert Bruce Tim Regan Caio Sorrentino Nick Tanner

3D Lead: Olivier Varteressian

3D: Alvin Bae Casey Reuter Hassan Taimur Tuna Unalan

Color: The Mill Colorist: Fergus McCall Color Assist: Nate Seymour, Andrew Cee, TJ Seiler, & Elias Nousiopoulos Senior Producer: Rochelle Brown

Audio Post Production House: Mr Bronx Sound Designer & Mixer - Eric Hoffman Executive Producer: Molly Burke

Music Music: Human Executive Producer: James Dean Wells Creative Leads: Mike Jurasits & Morgan Visconti Rearrangement of “Keep Pushing” by: Daryl Pinsdorf

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"The Pope's Worst Nightmare": Chapter 3 of 'The Pope, His Chamberlain, the Jinetera & Fidel'

“The Pope’s Worst Nightmare”: Chapter 3 of ‘The Pope, His Chamberlain, the Jinetera & Fidel’

Protestors against the Pinochet regime during the Pope’s Mass in Chile’s main soccer stadium Comment This is one of the chapters with firm grounding in reality. The pope’s nightmare is based on the report of what happened during his 1987 trip to Chile. In their biography (His Holiness: John Paul and the hidden history of our time) Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi described the papal Mass in the…

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La tela di McCarrick e tutto il marcio che ancora c’è Condividiamo questa importante intervista che monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò ha concesso a al vaticanista Marco Tosatti per il suo blog…

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Stiamo lasciando il Papa solo?

Stiamo lasciando il Papa solo?

E’ la tesi del vaticanista Marco Politi, il quale, da non credente, nel suo ultimo libro “La solitudine di Francesco” (presentato il 16 novembre a Ferrara) interroga laici, vescovi e cardinali, esortandoli ad avere più coraggio, a esporsi di più nel difendere il Pontefice dagli attacchi e nella sua missione di far conoscere il Dio della Misericordia e di costruire una Chiesa aperta e sinodale

Il…

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Venerdì 10 settembre 2021, nell’ambito dell’evento di presentazione del libro di Giovanna Politi dal titolo LA STANZA ROSSA (Edizione Graus), presso il Chiostro del Convitto Palmieri di Lecce è stata organizzata la mostra personale di acquerelli dell’artista Angelo Grasso.

Le opere dell’artista leccese hanno dialogato artisticamente con la scrittura della Politi, interpretata da Anna Giaffreda e Francesca Magnolo, ottenendo un mix di linguaggi creativi di notevole impatto emozionale per il pubblico intervenuto, e ciò anche grazie alle musiche di Marco Rollo.

Lo scenario figurativo è stato anche l’affascinante set del confronto dialettico sul romanzo tra la Politi, Maria Pia Romano e Mauro Marino.

“Gli acquerelli di Angelo Grasso sembrano ricordi appannati di un mondo naturale lontano, incontaminato e rinvenibile solo nella memoria. I contorni incerti e a volte sfocati dei paesaggi, dei fiori, dei frutti denunciano un approccio artistico espressionistico coinvolgente, che quasi invita l’osservatore a condividere il sogno. Grasso guarda alla realtà contemporanea in maniera originale, la nega attraverso il rifugio in un mondo est-etico che fa parte della sua storia umana e creativa”. Marco Eugenio Di Giandomenico (critico di arte contemporanea)

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Angelo Grasso nasce nel 1948 in provincia di Lecce. Si diploma al Liceo artistico e successivamente all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Lecce. Nel 1974 ottiene la nomina per insegnare Educazione  Artistica in provincia di Bergamo e continua tale attività didattica per circa 40 anni. Ha un’intensa attività di produzione artistica utilizzando varie tecniche. Negli ultimi anni si focalizza sull’acquerello, che meglio rappresenta la sua evoluzione creativa.

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Cybercriminaliteit is een groeiend probleem. Daarom doet Lisse mee met HackShield. Burgemeester Lies Spruit, jeugdagent Michael en wijkagent Marco gaven donderdag 26 oktober om 13.00 uur het startsein voor het werven van Cyber Agents voor Hackshield. Dit deden zij samen met kinderen van basisschool De Klarinet. HackShield is een online game die kinderen tussen de 8 en 12 jaar leert hoe zij online gevaar kunnen herkennen en voorkomen. Zo leren ze zelf en de mensen in hun omgeving hoe ze online veilig kunnen blijven. Samen met andere cyber agents leren ze ook de gemeente veilig te houden. Wat is HackShield? HackShield is een spannend spel dat kinderen bekend maakt met digitale veiligheid. Door het spelen van het spel leren kinderen zich op een speelse manier te wapenen tegen digitale gevaren, zoals hacken, datalekken en phishing. Via de game worden kinderen opgeleid tot Cyber Agents, waardoor zij zichzelf maar ook anderen, bijvoorbeeld ouders, opa’s en oma’s, vrienden en vriendinnen kunnen waarschuwen en samen zorgen voor een veilige online wereld. Meedoen met HackShield Kinderen tussen de 8 en 12 jaar keken donderdag op school naar een video van de burgemeester en de politie, waarin zij worden opgeroepen mee te doen met Hackshield. Hoe meer kinderen meedoen, hoe digitaal veiliger Lisse wordt. Online meespelen is kosteloos en kan op www.joinhackshield.nl/gemeente/Lisse. Samen de gemeente Lisse veilig houden De gemeente wil dat Lisse een veilige plaats is om te wonen, te leven en te werken. Samenwerking met inwoners, ondernemers en ketenpartners is en blijft daarin essentieel. Lisse geeft prioriteit aan een digitaal weerbare gemeente en zet zich in om te voorkomen dat inwoners en bedrijven slachtoffer worden van cybercrime en gedigitaliseerde criminaliteit. Door te vertellen over Hackshield wordt de weerbaarheid van jonge inwoners vergroot.

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Week 9

Continuing last week's topic, we focus now on modern texts and how the idea of the Underworld and of katabasis is transformed in the twentieth century.

Main texts:

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot, “Ulysses, Order, and Myth”. [Course Pack]

Primo Levi, If This is a Man (also published in American editions as Survival in Auschwitz)

Please re-read Walcott's "The Schooner Flight" (it was in the Course Pack for week 3)

Some secondary bibliography on Levi

Levi Cicioni, Mirna., Primo Levi: Bridges of Knowledge (Washington: Berg, 1995) Ferme, Valerio, 'Translating the Babel of Horror: Primo Levi's Catharsis through Language in the Holocaust Memoir Se questo è un uomo', Italica, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 53-73 http://www.jstor.org/stable/480222 Gordon, Robert S. C., Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001) Gunzberg, Lynn M., 'Down among the Dead Men: Levi and Dante in Hell' Modern Language Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1986), pp. 10-28 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3195249 Homer, Frederic D., Primo Levi and the Politics of Survival (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001) Kremer, Roberta S. (ed.), Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001) Levi, Primo, The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961-87, ed. by Marco Belpoliti and Robert S. C. Gordon (Cambridge: Polity, 2001) Rudolf, Anthony, At An Uncertain Hour: Primo Levi's War Against Oblivion (London: Menard Press, 1990) Sachs, Dalya M., 'The Language of Judgment: Primo Levi's "Se questo è un uomo"', MLN, Vol. 110, No. 4, Comparative Literature Issue (Sep., 1995), pp. 755-784 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3251203

Some bibliography on Eliot (in relation to today's theme)

Heaney, Seamus, 'Envies and Identifications: Dante and the Modern Poet', Irish University Review, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring, 1985), pp. 5-19 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25477569 Leland, Blake, '"Siete Voi Qui, Ser Brunetto?" Dante's Inferno 15 as a Modernist Topic Place', ELH, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Winter, 1992), pp. 965-986 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2873302 Reckford, Kenneth, 'Recognizing Venus (II): Dido, Aeneas, and Mr. Eliot', Arion, Third Series, Vol. 3, No. 2/3 (Fall, 1995 - Winter, 1996), pp. 43-80 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20163573 Reeves, Gareth, '"The Waste Land" and the "Aeneid"', The Modern Language Review, Vol. 82, No. 3 (Jul., 1987), pp. 555-572 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3730416 Spears Brooker, Jewel, 'Transcendence and Return: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism', South Atlantic Review, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 53-74 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3200797 Worthen, William B., 'Eliot's Ulysses', Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer, 1981), pp. 166-177 http://www.jstor.org/stable/441137 (on Eliot and Joyce's Ulysses) If you are interested in Black fiction: Cooke, Michael G., 'The Descent into the Underworld and Modern Black Fiction', The Iowa Review, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Fall, 1974), pp. 72-90 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20158305

Myth

Myth:

Greek muō [or myō] = “ I have my mouth closed” or “I have my eyes closed” in everyday situation, but also “I say in a special way” or “I see in a special way”, in the context of ritual.  From the latter meaning, mustēs [or mystēs], “one who is initiated”, and mustērion [mystērion], “That in which one is initiated, a mystery”.

Muthos [mythos], “myth”, derives from the same root, and can mean “special speech” as opposed to ‘everyday speech”

[Gregory Nagy, “Early Greek views of poets and poetry”, in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 1 Classical Criticism, ed. by George A. Kennedy (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989), p. 3]

The concept of myth is initially linked to that of ritual.

In pan-Hellenic society, the poet / singer travels from city to city and is exposed to variant myths in different communities; myth becomes detached from ritual, and the concepts of myth and truth (alētheia) also diverge: what can be accepted as genuine (etumon / etymon) in one city may be seen as fallacy or lie (pseudos) in another.

The word “myth”, which initially stood for truth-values related to rituals, acquires the meaning of what is variable, has local meaning, what has to change in the singer’s repertoire as he moves from one community to another; the singer will select those aspects of myth that are common to all places he visits. (Nagy, pp. 29-30)