{"id":1978,"date":"2016-12-13T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2016-12-13T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T16:08:03","slug":"bishop-rodgriguez-and-syrian-and-pronoun-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Rodgriguez, and Syrian and Pronoun Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1979 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/JavierEchevarria-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"javierechevarria\" width=\"93\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/JavierEchevarria-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/JavierEchevarria.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/>Bishop Javier Ecchevaria Rodgriguez<\/strong>, the Prelate of the personal prelature Opus Dei, <a href=\"catholicinsight.com\/wp-admin\/post.php\">died yesterday of complications arising from pneumonia<\/a>. \u00a0He had been chosen personally by Saint Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, to lead the worldwide lay apostolate, which fosters piety, spirituality in its members.\u00a0 Bishop Rodriguez oversaw Opus Dei from 1994 until his death. May God receive the soul of His servant&#8230; <em>requiescat in pace<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syria continues its civil war<\/strong>, now apparently in its last stages.\u00a0 One cannot believe everything reported in the media, to put it mildly, and one wonders in such a situation who is a \u2018civilian\u2019, and who not, who is in the right, and who in the wrong, the role of ISIS and militant Islam, and a leader, or a dictator, trying to \u2018win back\u2019 his country, rebels and loyalists, Russia, the United States, and on it goes. \u00a0There comes a time in a war, even an unjust one, wherein surrender is the only viable, and moral, option. \u00a0All we can do is pray for all those involved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The once proud and prestigious<\/strong>, venerable and hallowed halls of Oxford academia are slipping further from the truth.\u00a0 It seems the Students\u2019 Union of the British university, founded more or less in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> century, has now decreed from on high that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4021894\/Oxford-University-says-students-use-gender-neutral-ze-place-he.html\">all students must use the pronoun \u2018ze\u2019<\/a>, instead of \u2018he\u2019 or \u2018she\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The motto of Oxford, curiously, is <em>Dominus illuminatio mea<\/em>, the Lord is my light, from Psalm 27, which continues, whom shall I fear?\u00a0 Well, one can fear the thought police at Oxford, now on the prowl for anyone who actually tries to make the (true) distinction between male and female.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today is the memorial of Saint Lucy, the young virgin-martyr saint of \u2018light\u2019.\u00a0 Maybe she can pray for Oxford, Catholic up until the \u2018Reformation\u2019, and more or less sane until a few years ago, that they live back up to their motto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Javier Ecchevaria Rodgriguez, the Prelate of the personal prelature Opus Dei, died yesterday of complications arising from pneumonia. \u00a0He had been chosen personally by Saint Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, to lead the worldwide lay apostolate, which fosters piety, spirituality in its members.\u00a0 Bishop Rodriguez oversaw Opus Dei from 1994 until his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9,5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}