Bianchi, Eugene C., and Rosemary Radford Ruether (editor), A Democratic Catholic Church: The Reconstruction of Roman Catholicism, Crossroad 1993  
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Canon Law Society of America, Holy See, Code of Canon Law: Latin-English Edition, Canon Law Society of America 1984 Pope John Paul XXXIII announced his decision to reform the existing corpus of canonical legislation on 25 January 1959. Pope John Paul II ordered the promulgation of the revised Code of Canon law on the same day in 1983. The latin text is definitive. This English translation has been approved by the Canonical Affairs Committee of the [US] National Conference of Catholic Bishops in October 1983. 
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Collins, Paul, Papal Power: A Proposal for Change in the Catholicism's Third Millennium, HarperCollinsReligious 1997 Jacket: 'The papacy of the Roman Catholic Church is the world's oldest continuous institution. Paul Collins, historian and inveterate Vatican watcher, has looked beyond the details of this astonishing parade of over 260 popes to uncover the dynamics of papal power. . . . He traces the developments in theory and reality that have led to a modern papacy that exercises virtually sole and total rule over the world's largest religious community. Collins' provocative . . . study proposes a new model in the Catholic Church as it enters its third millennium - one that would allow all Catholics to participate in the work and decision-making of the Church.' 
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Jauch, Joseph-Maria, and Fritz Rohrlich, The Theory of Photon and Electrons, Springer-Verlag 2013 ' The author of a new edition must take this into account and thus faces a difficult task: he must "bring the subject matter up-to-date" as the phrase goes, but at the same time he cannot change a basic graduate text into the much more advanced text it was twenty years earlier without rewriting the entire book. That would have been unreasonable and uncalled for. In fact, while a lot of new material can be added, from a fundamental aspect not very much has changed during this time; only our point of view has become much more sophisticated, especially mathematically. We now have a much deeper mathematical understanding of quantum electrodynamics, especially due to the work of axiomatic quantum field theorists; but we have still not solved the basic problem of formulating the theory in a clean mathematical way, not even with all the complicated and highly sophisticated limiting procedures presently used to justify the results of naive renormalization theory in simpler quantum field theories and in lower dimensionality. The hopes and aspirations indicated in the outlook of twenty years ago (Section 16-5) remain valid today.' 
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Kung, Hans, Infallible? An Inquiry, Doubleday 1983 Amazon customer review: 'In the book the controversial Swiss theologian Hans Kung investigates the problems of dogmatic infallibility in the Catholic Church. He begins by discussing the fact that Popes and ecumenical councils have contradicted each other in the past. He then goes on to explain the development of infallibility and shows that it was not always universally accepted in the Church. He also argues that the idea of bishops being direct successors to the Apostles is historically false. He then argues from a philosophical standpoint that dogma cannot be infallible because of the limitations of human language. After this, he gives a description of his vision of the Church. One where bishops and Pope act as leaders but give more freedomg to theologians to engage in scholarship and teach doctrine. In Kung's vision, the bishops would only step in and exercise binding teaching authority when there was an "emergency" where the Church was rife with heresy and disunity.' Joe 
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O'Brien, Herbert, and Leonard Swidler, A Catholic Bill of Rights, Sheed & Ward 1988  
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O'Farrell, Patrick James, The Catholic Church and Community in Australia: A History, Nelson 1977 'Patrick O'Farrell (1933 – 25 December 2003 ) was a historian known for his histories of Roman Catholicism in Australia, Irish history and Irish Australian history. He was born into an Irish Catholic family in Greymouth, New Zealand, and was educated at the Marist Brothers High School, Greymouth, and at the University of Canterbury, where he received both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in History. Having moved to Australia in 1956, he received a PhD from the Australian National University. He was Professor of History at the University of New South Wales from 1972 till his retirement in 1990, thereafter Emeritus Professor.' 
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Reik, Theodore, Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions, Transaction Publishers 2002 Book Description 'These selections from Theodor Reik's work concern the love life and sexual activity of men and women. Reik establishes the theme of this work in the following way: "The sex urge hunts for lustful pleasure; love is in search of joy and happiness." Over a third of this volume had never been published in book form before it originally appeared half a century ago. Its appearance in paperback, for the first time, is a welcome addition to current debates, liberated from ideological and political constraints.' 
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Robbins, Tom, Skinny Legs and All, Bantam 1995 Amazon editorial review From Library Journal 'A painter's struggle with her art, a restaurant opened as an experiment in brotherhood, the journey of several inanimate objects to Jerusalem, a preacher's scheme to hasten Armageddon, and a performance of a legendary dance: these are the diverse elements around which Robbins has built this wild, controversial novel. Ellen Cherry Charles, one of the "Daughters of the Daily Spe cial" in Jitterbug Perfume ( LJ 1/85), takes center stage. She has married Boomer Petway and moved to New York, hoping to make it as a painter. Instead, she winds up a waitress at the Isaac and Ishmael, a restaurant co-owned by an Arab and a Jew. Robbins's primary concern is Middle Eastern politics, supplemented along the way with observations on art, religion, sex, and money. Few contemporary novelists mix tomfoolery and philosophy so well. This is Robbins at his best.' - Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc 
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Veltman, Martinus, Diagrammatica: The Path to the Feynman Rules, Cambridge University Press 1994 Jacket: 'This book provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. The aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules, and to outline their domain of applicability. ... The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. ...' 
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Wain, John, Samuel Johnson: A Biography, Macmillan 1980 Jacket: 'This universally acclaimed book, first published in 1974, is about every aspect of Samuel Johnson: a discussion of his ideas, a criticism of his writings, an historical placing of the man within the social and intellectual landscape of the day, and a personal story—above all a personal story. ... ' 
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Zee, Anthony, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press 2003 Amazon book description: 'An esteemed researcher and acclaimed popular author takes up the challenge of providing a clear, relatively brief, and fully up-to-date introduction to one of the most vital but notoriously difficult subjects in theoretical physics. A quantum field theory text for the twenty-first century, this book makes the essential tool of modern theoretical physics available to any student who has completed a course on quantum mechanics and is eager to go on. Quantum field theory was invented to deal simultaneously with special relativity and quantum mechanics, the two greatest discoveries of early twentieth-century physics, but it has become increasingly important to many areas of physics. These days, physicists turn to quantum field theory to describe a multitude of phenomena. Stressing critical ideas and insights, Zee uses numerous examples to lead students to a true conceptual understanding of quantum field theory--what it means and what it can do. He covers an unusually diverse range of topics, including various contemporary developments,while guiding readers through thoughtfully designed problems. In contrast to previous texts, Zee incorporates gravity from the outset and discusses the innovative use of quantum field theory in modern condensed matter theory. Without a solid understanding of quantum field theory, no student can claim to have mastered contemporary theoretical physics. Offering a remarkably accessible conceptual introduction, this text will be widely welcomed and used.  
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Adam G. Riess, Sefano Casertano, Wenlong Yuan, Lucas M. Macri and Dan Solnic, Larg Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Standards Provide a Foundation for the Determination of the Hubble Constant and Stronger Evidence for Physics Beyond LsmbdaCDM, ' We present an improved determination of the Hubble constant (H0) from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of 70 long-period Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud. These were obtained with the same WFC3 photometric system used to measure Cepheids in the hosts of Type Ia supernovae. Gyroscopic control of HST was employed to reduce overheads while collecting a large sample of widely-separated Cepheids. The Cepheid Period-Luminosity relation provides a zeropoint-free link with 0.4% precision between the new 1.2% geometric distance to the LMC from Detached Eclipsing Binaries (DEBs) measured by Pietrzynski et al (2019) and the luminosity of SNe Ia. Measurements and analysis of the LMC Cepheids were completed prior to knowledge of the new LMC distance. Combined with a refined calibration of the count-rate linearity of WFC3-IR with 0.1% precision (Riess et al 2019), these three improved elements together reduce the full uncertainty in the LMC geometric calibration of the Cepheid distance ladder from 2.5% to 1.3%. Using only the LMC DEBs to calibrate the ladder we find H0=74.22 +/- 1.82 km/s/Mpc including systematic uncertainties, 3% higher than before for this particular anchor. Combining the LMC DEBs, masers in NGC 4258 and Milky Way parallaxes yields our best estimate: H0 = 74.03 +/- 1.42 km/s/Mpc, including systematics, an uncertainty of 1.91%---15% lower than our best previous result. Removing any one of these anchors changes H0 by < 0.7%. The difference between H0 measured locally and the value inferred from Planck CMB+LCDM is 6.6+/-1.5 km/s/Mpc or 4.4 sigma (P=99.999% for Gaussian errors) in significance, raising the discrepancy beyond a plausible level of chance. We summarize independent tests which show this discrepancy is not readily attributable to an error in any one source or measurement, increasing the odds that it results from a cosmological feature beyond LambdaCDM.' back

Alexandra Petri, Bill Barr goes to Hell. And finds a client, ' “Testify where?” he asks, sounding a bit snitty. It is dark in the car. The figure in the front does not turn, but Barr thinks he sees something red and luminous — like eyes, but not quite like eyes — glinting in the rearview mirror. “I told the House ‘no.’ ” “After seeing your performance yesterday,” the driver says, “my boss wanted you to come testify on his behalf, as well.” “Your boss?” “Call him Individual-0, if you like.' back

Calla Wahlquist, Family of Aboriginal woman who died in custody want coroner to consider 'systematic racism', ' At a hearing at the Melbourne coroners court on Tuesday, lawyers for Day’s family argued that the coroner should consider whether decisions made by police, V/Line officers and paramedics that led to Day going from “being asleep in the train to dying from a fatal injury sustained in police custody” were influenced by systemic racism.' back

Cardinal Secretary of State - Wikipedia, Cardinal Secretary of State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Cardinal Secretary of State—officially Secretary of State of His Holiness The Pope—presides over the Holy See, usually known as the "Vatican", Secretariat of State, which is the oldest and most important dicastery of the Roman Curia. The Cardinal Secretary is regarded as being in charge of the political and diplomatic activities of the Holy See and is thus referred to as being the Holy See's and Vatican City's "Prime Minister".' back

Communication protocol - Wikipedia, Communication protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Communicating systems use well-defined formats (protocol) for exchanging messages. Each message has an exact meaning intended to elicit a response from a range of possible responses pre-determined for that particular situation. The specified behavior is typically independent of how it is to be implemented. Communications protocols have to be agreed upon by the parties involved.[2] To reach agreement, a protocol may be developed into a technical standard. A programming language describes the same for computations, so there is a close analogy between protocols and programming languages: protocols are to communications as programming languages are to computations.' back

Cosmological constant problem - Wikipedia, Cosmological constant problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In cosmology, the cosmological constant problem or vacuum catastrophe is the disagreement between measured values of the vacuum energy density (the small value of the cosmological constant) and the zero-point energy suggested by quantum field theory. Depending on the assumptions[which?], the discrepancy ranges from 40 to more than 100 orders of magnitude, a state of affairs described by Hobson et al. (2006) as "the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics." ' back

Creede Newton, Old wounds open as Franco's mass graves loom over Spain's votr, ' Madrid, Spain - As Spain prepares to vote in national elections on Sunday, old wounds have come to the forefront of the campaign season. The question of Spain's treatment of its dictatorial past, and its causalities, has become a hot-button election issue, thanks to a rising far-right.' back

Daniel Okrent, A Century Ago, America Built Another Kind of Wall, ' In early 1921, an article in Good Housekeeping signaled the coming of a law that makes President Trump’s campaign for immigration restriction seem mild by comparison. “Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend,” it read. “The dead weight of alien accretion stifles national progress.” The author was Calvin Coolidge, about to be sworn in as vice president of the United States. Three years later, the most severe immigration law in American history entered the statute books, shepherded by believers in those “biological laws.” ' back

DeNeen L. Brown, A symbol of slavery — and survival, ' By the time Angela was brought to Jamestown’s muddy shores in 1619, she had survived war and capture in West Africa, a forced march of more than 100 miles to the sea, a miserable Portuguese slave ship packed with 350 other Africans and an attack by pirates during the journey to the Americas.. . . Between 5,000 and 8,000 people from Kongo, Ndongo and other parts of West Africa were being shipped each year to Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas. The total number of Africans captured and transported to the Americas between 1501 and 1867 would eventually grow to more than 12.5 million.' back

Gregory XVI, Mirari vos: On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism, '5. We speak of the things which you see with your own eyes, which We both bemoan. Depravity exults; science is impudent; liberty, dissolute. The holiness of the sacred is despised; the majesty of divine worship is not only disapproved by evil men, but defiled and held up to ridicule. Hence sound doctrine is perverted and errors of all kinds spread boldly. The laws of the sacred, the rights, institutions, and discipline -- none are safe from the audacity of those speaking evil. Our Roman See is harassed violently and the bonds of unity are daily loosened and severed. The divine authority of the Church is opposed and her rights shorn off. She is subjected to human reason and with the greatest injustice exposed to the hatred of the people and reduced to vile servitude. The obedience due bishops is denied and their rights are trampled underfoot. Furthermore, academies and schools resound with new, monstrous opinions, which openly attack the Catholic faith; this horrible and nefarious war is openly and even publicly waged. Thus, by institutions and by the example of teachers, the minds of the youth are corrupted and a tremendous blow is dealt to religion and the perversion of morals is spread. So the restraints of religion are thrown off, by which alone kingdoms stand. We see the destruction of public order, the fall of principalities, and the overturning of all legitimate power approaching. Indeed this great mass of calamities had its inception in the heretical societies and sects in which all that is sacrilegious, infamous, and blasphemous has gathered as bilge water in a ship's hold, a congealed mass of all filth.' back

Hamid Dabashi, The resurrection of the 'new atheism', ' In March this year, a new volume called, The Four Horsemen, hit the book market in the United States. The book boasts an introduction by British comedian Stephen Fry, three essays and the transcript of the 2007 recorded discussion among four proponents of the so-called "new atheism" - Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens. back

Hanlie Booysen, Why New Zealand needs to translate it response to Christchurch attacks into foreign policy, ' But the question now is whether New Zealand can translate its new-found domestic cohesion and goodwill into foreign policy. The Israel-Palestine conflict is a good place to start. If solidarity at home is to influence global understanding and cooperation across cultures, Palestinian sovereignty must be a foreign policy priority. The international community’s failure over the past 72 years to find a just and sustainable solution to the “Palestine question” is an ongoing source of discord between Muslims and non-Muslims.' back

Hugues Felicite Robert de Lammenais - Wikipedia, Hugues Felicite Robert de Lammenais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Hugues-Félicité Robert de Lamennais (or de la Mennais) (June 19, 1782 - February 27, 1854), was a French priest, philosopher and political theorist.' back

Ignatius of Antioch - Wikipedia, Ignatius of Antioch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopewdia, ;Ignatius of Antioch (Ancient Greek: Ἰγνάτιος Ἀντιοχείας, also known as Theophorus from Greek Θεοφόρος "God-bearer") ((ca. 35 or 50) - (from 98 to 117))[1] was among the Apostolic Fathers, was the third Bishop of Antioch, and was a student of John the Apostle.[2][3] En route to Rome, where according to Christian tradition, he met his martyrdom, he wrote a series of letters which have been preserved as an example of very early Christian theology. Important topics addressed in these letters include ecclesiology, the sacraments, and the role of bishops.' back

International Pulsar Timing Array, A Global, Galactic-Scale Gravitational Wave Detector, ' The experiment exploits the predictability the pulses from rapidly rotating neutron stars called millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and uses them as a system of Galactic clocks. Gravitational waves will cause changes in the travel times of pulses between pulsars and the Earth, detectable as perturbations in pulsar time-of-arrival measurements. Most importantly, this signature will show a characteristic sky correlation, predicted by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, detectable by correlating the data from all of the pulsars in the array.' back

Ivan Illich - Wikipedia, Ivan Illich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Ivan Illich (4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and "maverick social critic" of the institutions of contemporary Western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.' back

Jacqueline Williams, 'There' Poison in the Sea': An Oil Spill Fouls a Tropical Eden, ' KANGAVA BAY, Rennell Island — On Rennell Island, a wild, windswept speck in the Pacific Ocean, water binds everything, from its teeming tropical rain forest to its craggy limestone cliffs. It is the lifeblood of the island’s impoverished people, a source of income and sustenance. But a spill of hundreds of tons of heavy fuel oil from a cargo ship has now fouled the water off its southern coast. And residents have no choice but to keep eating from it.' back

Jerome - Wikipedia, Jerome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Saint Jerome (Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Greek: Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; c. 347 – 30 September 420) is an ancient Latin Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. . . . Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus was born at Stridon around 347.' back

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian, '12. Freedom of research, which the academic community rightly holds most precious, means an openness to accepting the truth that emerges at the end of an investigation in which no element has intruded that is foreign to the methodology corresponding to the object under study. In theology this freedom of inquiry is the hallmark of a rational discipline whose object is given by Revelation, handed on and interpreted in the Church under the authority of the Magisterium, and received by faith. These givens have the force of principles. To eliminate them would mean to cease doing theology. In order to set forth precisely the ways in which the theologian relates to the Church's teaching authority, it is appropriate now to reflect upon the role of the Magisterium in the Church.' back

Liam James, The most strange and rare cold-blooded creatures captured in striking detail, ' Photographer Matthijs Kuijpers has spent nearly 30 years in pursuit of the world’s most remote cold-blooded creatures and is now set to release a book featuring the most rare and bizarre of those that he has encountered. Of the 72 reptile and amphibian species that feature, Mr Kuijpers found that most are unduly feared by humans – and he wants to challenge those attitudes. He argues that far from being threatening, these creatures are vulnerable and their survival is under threat from climate change, habitat loss and poaching.' back

Lucifer - Wikipedia, Lucifer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Before the rise of Christianity, the pseudepigrapha of Enochic Judaism, the form of Judaism witnessed to in 1 Enoch and 2 Enoch, which enjoyed much popularity during the Second Temple period, gave Satan an expanded role. They interpreted Isaiah 14:12-15 as applicable to Satan, and presented him as a fallen angel cast out of Heaven. Christian tradition, influenced by this presentation, came to use the Latin word for "morning star", lucifer, as a proper name ("Lucifer") for Satan as Satan was before his fall. As a result, "Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan in the Church and in popular literature", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno and John Milton's Paradise Lost.' back

Mark Disendorf, Fixing the gap between Labor's greenhouse gas goals and their policies, ' As the federal election approaches, Labor has two principal climate and energy targets: a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the 2005 level by 2030, and for half of Australia’s electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030 (up from its current share of 19%). The renewable electricity target is easily achievable with inexpensive extensions to Labor’s existing policies, but that policy would still leave Labor far short of its emissions target. Because electricity contributes only 34% of Australia’s total emissions, more substantial policies are needed to reduce emissions from both electricity and the rest of the energy sector to achieve Labor’s greenhouse target. back

Minkowski space - Wikipedia, Minkowski space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In mathematical physics, Minkowski space or Minkowski spacetime is a combination of Euclidean space and time into a four-dimensional manifold where the spacetime interval between any two events is independent of the inertial frame of reference in which they are recorded. Although initially developed by mathematician Hermann Minkowski for Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism, the mathematical structure of Minkowski spacetime was shown to be an immediate consequence of the postulates of special relativity.' back

NASA, Hubble Astronomers Assemble Wide View of the Evolving Universe, ' Astronomers have put together the largest and most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies into one single image, using 16 years' worth of observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.' back

Neptune (mythology) - Wikipedia, Neptune (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the Roman god of freshwater and the sea[1] in Roman religion. He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. In the Greek-influenced tradition, Neptune was the brother of Jupiter and Pluto, each of them presiding over the realms of Heaven, our earthly world and the Underworld, respectively.' back

Particle Data Group. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, The Particle Adventure, The Particle Data Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presents an award winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors. back

Paul VI, Apostolic Constitution: Regimini Ecclesiae Universae, '1. § 1. Curia Romana, qua Summus Pontifex negotia Ecclesiae universae expedire solet (9),1 constat Congregationibus, Tribunalibus, Officiis et Secretariatibus. § 2. Congregationes sunt inter se iuridice pares. § 3. Conflictus competentiae, si qui oriantur, Signaturae Apostolicae subiciuntur.' back

Pius IX, The Syllabus of Errors Condemned by Pius IX, 'Venerable Brethren, you see clearly enough how sad and full of perils is the condition of Catholics in the regions of Europe which We have mentioned. . . .. Venerable Brothers, it is surprising that in our time such a great war is being waged against the Catholic Church. But anyone who knows the nature, desires and intentions of the sects, whether they be called masonic or bear another name, and compares them with the nature the systems and the vastness of the obstacles by which the Church has been assailed almost everywhere, cannot doubt that the present misfortune must mainly be imputed to the frauds and machinations of these sects. It is from them that the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ, takes its strength.' back

Pius X, September 1, 1910, The Oath Against Modernism, 'Finally, I declare that I am completely opposed to the error of the modernists who hold that there is nothing divine in sacred tradition; or what is far worse, say that there is, but in a pantheistic sense, with the result that there would remain nothing but this plain simple fact-one to be put on a par with the ordinary facts of history-the fact, namely, that a group of men by their own labor, skill, and talent have continued through subsequent ages a school begun by Christ and his apostles. I firmly hold, then, and shall hold to my dying breath the belief of the Fathers in the charism of truth, which certainly is, was, and always will be in the succession of the episcopacy from the apostles. The purpose of this is, then, not that dogma may be tailored according to what seems better and more suited to the culture of each age; rather, that the absolute and immutable truth preached by the apostles from the beginning may never be believed to be different, may never be understood in any other way.' back

Pius XI: 15 May 1931, Encyclical: Quadragesimo Anno, 'On reconstruction of the social order.' back

Pope Pius IX, Quanta Cura: Condemning Current Errors, '6. Amidst, therefore, such great perversity of depraved opinions, we, well remembering our Apostolic Office, and very greatly solicitous for our most holy Religion, for sound doctrine and the salvation of souls which is intrusted to us by God, and (solicitous also) for the welfare of human society itself, have thought it right again to raise up our Apostolic voice. Therefore, by our Apostolic authority, we reprobate, proscribe, and condemn all the singular and evil opinions and doctrines severally mentioned in this letter, and will and command that they be thoroughly held by all children of the Catholic Church as reprobated, proscribed and condemned.' back

Pope Pius X, Lamentabili Sane, The Syllabus of Errors (Condemning the Errors of the Modernists) Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office July 3, 1907 'WITH TRULY LAMENTABLE RESULTS, our age, casting aside all restraint in its search for the ultimate causes of things, frequently pursues novelties so ardently that it rejects the legacy of the human race. Thus it falls into very serious errors, which are even more serious when they concern sacred authority, the interpretation of Sacred Scripture, and the principal mysteries of Faith. The fact that many Catholic writers also go beyond the limits determined by the Fathers and the Church herself is extremely regrettable. In the name of higher knowledge and historical research, (they say), they are looking for that progress of dogmas which is, in reality, nothing but the corruption of dogmas. ... ' back

Spin-statistics theorem - Wikipedia, Spin-statistics theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In quantum mechanics, the spin–statistics theorem relates the spin of a particle to the particle statistics it obeys. The spin of a particle is its intrinsic angular momentum (that is, the contribution to the total angular momentum that is not due to the orbital motion of the particle). All particles have either integer spin or half-integer spin (in units of the reduced Planck constant ħ). The theorem states that: The wave function of a system of identical integer-spin particles has the same value when the positions of any two particles are swapped. Particles with wave functions symmetric under exchange are called bosons. The wave function of a system of identical half-integer spin particles changes sign when two particles are swapped. Particles with wave functions antisymmetric under exchange are called fermions.' back

The Cranberries, Animal Instinct, '
Suddenly something has happened to me
As I was having my cup of tea
Suddenly I was feeling depressed
I was utterly and totally stressed
Do you know you made me cry
Do you know you made me die

And the thing that gets to me
Is you'll never really see
And the thing that freaks me out
Is I'll always be in doubt
It is a lovely thing that we have
It is a lovely thing that we
It is a lovely thing, the animal
The animal instinct

So take my hands and come with me
We will change reality
So take my hands and we will pray
They won't take you away
They will never make me cry, no
They will never make me die

And the thing that gets to me
Is you'll never really see
And the thing that freaks me out
Is I'll always be in doubt

The animal, the animal, the animal instinct in me
It's the animal, the animal, the animal instinct in me
It's the animal, it's the animal, it's the animal instinct in me
It's the animal, it's the animal, it's the animal instinct in me

The animal, the animal, the animal instinct in me
It's the animal, it's the animal, it's the animal instinct in me

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Unam sanctam - Wikipedia, Unam sanctam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'On 18 November 1302, Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam[1] which some historians[2] consider one of the most extreme statements of Papal spiritual supremacy ever made. The original document is lost but a version of the text can be found in the registers of Boniface VIII in the Vatican Archives. . . . Most significantly, the bull proclaimed, "outside of her (the Church) there is neither salvation nor the remission of sins".[4] It is an extreme form of the concept known as "plenitudo potestatis" or the plenitude of power; it declares that those who resist the Roman Pontiff are resisting God's ordination.' back

Vatican II, Declaration on Religious Freedom - Dignitatis Humanae, 'Religious freedom, in turn, which men demand as necessary to fulfill their duty to worship God, has to do with immunity from coercion in civil society. Therefore it leaves untouched traditional Catholic doctrine on the moral duty of men and societies toward the true religion and toward the one Church of Christ. back

W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia, W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, ' Yeats was raised a member of the Protestant Ascendancy, which was at the time undergoing a crisis of identity. While his family was broadly supportive of the changes Ireland was experiencing, the nationalist revival of the late 19th century directly disadvantaged his heritage, and informed his outlook for the remainder of his life. In 1997, his biographer R. F. Foster observed that Napoleon's dictum that to understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty "is manifestly true of W.B.Y." ' back

Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Quantum origin of quantum jumps: breaking of unitary symmetry induced by information transfer and the transition from quantum to classical, 'Submitted on 17 Mar 2007 (v1), last revised 18 Mar 2008 (this version, v3)) "Measurements transfer information about a system to the apparatus, and then further on -- to observers and (often inadvertently) to the environment. I show that even imperfect copying essential in such situations restricts possible unperturbed outcomes to an orthogonal subset of all possible states of the system, thus breaking the unitary symmetry of its Hilbert space implied by the quantum superposition principle. Preferred outcome states emerge as a result. They provide framework for the ``wavepacket collapse'', designating terminal points of quantum jumps, and defining the measured observable by specifying its eigenstates. In quantum Darwinism, they are the progenitors of multiple copies spread throughout the environment -- the fittest quantum states that not only survive decoherence, but subvert it into carrying information about them -- into becoming a witness.' back