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mgt2011

In Weddings, Pope Francis Looks Past Tradition - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Social Religous weddings pope Cultural Europe

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  • “not a television show” but a symbol of “real life” with “joys and difficulties,”
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Who should get to decide who can legally get married and who can't? 
  • But in Francis’s new, more forgiving church,
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Forgiveness requires someone to say they are wrong and ask for it
  • have been declining even as separations and divorces are rising.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Divorce is frowned upon greatly in the Catholic church
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  • about 122,000 of the country’s 207,000 weddings were religious ceremonies,
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Important statistic
  • Vatican watchers said the public marriages, the first by a pope since 2000, were meant to send a message, something Francis has done previously to soften the church’s image on social issues.
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      makes it sound like a publicity stunt. Why would they need to soften their image? Losing followers?
  • for example, the pope said he would not condemn — or judge — priests because of their sexual orientation.
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      This is a big deal
  • he’s a realist.
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      makes him different than previous priests
  • ‘who am I to judge?
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Pope used to be the judge as in he literally forgave sins and you had to go through him 
  • pope, who doesn’t want to turn people away and instead wants to find a way to bring people in,
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      important
  • “The path is not always a smooth one, free of disagreements, otherwise it would not be human. It is a demanding journey, at times difficult, and at times turbulent, but such is life,”
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      realizes its not possible for everyone to be able to be perfect 
  • issues like allowing divorced members who remarry to receive Communion.
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      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      why is this an issue?
andie324

Most Russian Forces Now Out of Ukraine, Kiev Says - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...voices-hope-on-cease-fire.html

Europe Political

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  • the bulk of Russian forces had withdrawn from Ukrainian territory,
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      andie324 on 10 Sep 14
       
      Russian forces have left Ukraine.
  • Mr. Poroshenko appeared to be trying to create a sense of momentum around the peace process, even though a final outcome remains the subject of arduous negotiations. The very law he discussed, for example, has been the source of widely different interpretations.
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      andie324 on 10 Sep 14
       
      The truce between Russia and Ukraine is not set in stone yet. There is still potential for open conflict.
  • She also stressed that the path to solving the Ukraine crisis would be “long and rocky.”
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  • Mr. Poroshenko, who is due to meet with President Obama in Washington on Sept. 18, also said he would introduce a law as early as next week that would grant parts of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk temporary self-rule.
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      andie324 on 10 Sep 14
       
      Sections of Ukraine want to be self-ruled as individual states. 
mwhitney2017

The Push to Keep Scotland in the Fold - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...cotland-independence-vote.html

Europe Political

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  • nine days
  • recent polls suggesting that the outcome is very much in doubt
  • fly north to campaign
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  • more say over its own affairs if it votes to stay in the union
  • warned Scots against thinking that they could count on retaining the pound sterling as their currency should they secede.
  • Jane McGeachy
  • wants change
  • Gordon Brown
  • former prime minister and a Scot
  • new political powers for Scotland if voters rejected
  • greed Tuesday to put the legislation on a fast track
  • unimpressed
  • women, who were more cautious earlier in the campaign, are turning toward the “yes” camp, as are working-class voters, even though the Labour Party opposes independence.
  • more socially inclusive country that it says can be built only with the powers that independence would bring
  • British Parliament in Westminster is seen by many voters as remote and out of touch
  • The Conservative Party
  • 59 seats in Parliament
  • a society for the greedy people
  • have been torn down and a big new shopping complex opened.
  • attracting many disillusioned people who normally do not vote at all.
  • supported independence partly out of despair with his current situation.
  • £100 (about $160) a week
  • had depression
  • economy would be hurt by independence
  • Alex Salmond
  • cotland’s oil wealth
  • keep the pound
  • maintaining a common currency after independence was “incompatible with sovereignty.”
  • they are bluffing and that if London refused to negotiate a currency union, Scotland would walk away from its share of the national debt.
  • I’m sick of the English telling us what to do,
  • I think someone would strangle him.
  • emphasizing freedom and opportunity and a once-in-a-lifetime chance for self-determination,
  • is attractive to many who are still undecided.
  • struggled to shake off a reputation for negativity
  • she had not yet made up her mind
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    GLASGOW - With nine days left before Scotland votes on whether to become independent, Britain's leaders went into overdrive on Tuesday with efforts to keep the country intact.
jacob4575

David Cameron vows to hunt down 'monsters' who beheaded British hostage David Haines - ... - 1 views

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Middle East Political ISIS Cultural Europe

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  • The Prime Minister strongly indicated that he is preparing to authorise military air strikes against Isil terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
  • "They boast of their brutality; they claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is nonsense. Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters.”
  • He warned that Isil are planning attacks in the UK. “We cannot ignore this threat to our security and that of our allies,”
mgt2011

In Weddings, Pope Francis Looks Past Tradition - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ncis-looks-past-tradition.html

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      mgt2011 on 15 Sep 14
       
      hey this is a comment 
  • While the Roman Catholic Church considers sex out of marriage a sin, some of the couples married by the pope had already lived together and one had a grown child. Some couples had been previously married. But in Francis’s new, more forgiving church, these otherwise familiar domestic arrangements were not considered an impediment.
gcolley2017

Separatists Around the World Draw Inspiration From Scotland - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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chicken

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  • STEENOKKERZEEL, Belgium — For Kurt Ryon, the mayor of Steenokkerzeel, a Flemish village 10 miles northeast of Brussels, watching th
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      gcolley2017 on 10 Sep 14
       
      I like to eat chicken
emschaeffer

Why Does Scotland Want Independence? It's Culture vs. Economics - 0 views

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Europe Social Political Economic

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  • emschaeffer on 11 Sep 14
     
    If you had told someone in 2012 that in just two years the eurozone would remain bonded together but the United Kingdom might not, they would have thought you insane. But here we are. It's been a good three centuries, but now Scotland may want out of the United Kingdom.
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