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[breakinglight11]

I got the job! I just found out this morning. I got the job! Now all I need to know is when we can move into the house so I can accept and tell them when I can start. Thanks so much, Sheena, for reccomending me.

Apparently Pope Benedict XVI is visiting America for the first time. That's interesting. There's been a lot of jokes about ol' Benny getting picked, and even I wasn't delighted with the selection of such a strongly traditionalist pope. There isn't much chance of him chilling out and deciding that birth control and stem cell research are okay. But what's interesting about him to me is that all of the things on which he does take such a conservative, hard-line stance are issues laid down in doctrine-- that is, the church has already taken a final, SO SAITH WE THE CHURCH OF THE UNIVERSE (heh) stance on it. Basically, he upholds the doctrine where it exists. But on things that doctrine does not already make a statement, he's actually fairly liberal. He opposes the war in Iraq, he's against the death penalty, he calls for environmental reform to deal with global warming. Wonder what that means. And I dig his current attempts to start building a relationship with Islam, and the way he calls the Jews "our older brothers in faith." So Emperor Popetine isn't all "join the dark church, Luke" and "use your self-righteousness."

Tonight I'm going to see Bang, Bang, You're Dead with Jared. It's a BET project show, done in the round in an artificial space made on the stage of the Shapiro Theater. I actually kind of hate this play, it's preachy and obvious and a performance of it very undeservedly beat my high school competitive theater troupe's production of an awesome Edna St. Vincent-Millay piece, but Alex is in it and I want to support him. He's the lead in fact, and he got it after trying out on a whim. I'm interested to see what I think of it, and what Jared thinks of it, given that I'm not a fan of the material and it's very difficult to put on an effective piece in the round, especially for a student director. It should be interesting at the very least, so I'm looking forward to it. It's at 8PM tonight and it's free, if anybody else feels like joining us.

Comments

[rigel.livejournal.com]

Woo! What's the job?

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Cosi department office assistant. Full time, $10 an hour, and apparently I'll spend most of the time screwing around on the computer. :-) Yay!

[linearequation.livejournal.com]

I'm going tonight too; I'll be on the look-out for you guys

[bleemoo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the more I hear about Pope Ratface, the more I don't mind his existence (sorry about the name; no offense intended, he just had a really funny name before he poped). Which, coming from me about the Catholic pope, is actually fairly high praise.

He's still really creepy looking, though.

Papal trivia: did you know that Pope Benedict owns a specially engraved iPod that is "packed... with Vatican Radio programming"? (source: Wall Street Journal

Congrats on the job!

[linearequation.livejournal.com]

Oh! And also! Congrats on the job^^

[neuromancerzss.livejournal.com]

Is the church's opposition to war and capital punishment still something not strictly defined? It may just be because in my life I have only really experienced two popes, but it seems like they've always been speaking out against people being killed.

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

The church has no general stance on war, and no official stance on capital punishment. It's so they can judge wars on a case-by-case basis, and acknowledge without necessarily sanctioning nations' rights to execute criminals. The last couple of popes have happened to be anti-capital punishment and at least generally anti-war, but those were their opinions, not anything officially purported by the doctrine of the church.

[flyingstalins.livejournal.com]

should be added that while still a cardinal Ratzinger said rather openly that he doubted the possibility that such a thing as a just war could exist in the modern age.

(also, congratulations)