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The Times is a serial offender of (none / 0) (#1)
by scribe on Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 11:41:58 AM EST
wiping parts of the print article from the website, though they're surely not the only one.  

But, more seriously, immediately before checking in and writing this comment, I had a German radio station streaming in, and they had a discussion (host and local theologian*) about the current Pope's emphasis on reading the texts of St. Augustine.  The host was discussing the various upsides and downsides of this - how Augustine was considered one of the sources of the Catholic Church's antipathy toward the sensual, etc.  Then, they got to one of the more (for them) controversial issues - Augustine's antipathy toward the Jewish faith, and how that was used to justify anti-Semitism.

All of which is foundation for my asking the question:  

Given the checkered history associated with the writings of St. Augustine, particularly the violent anti-Semitism associated with it (and the many, violent prison gangs which have anti-Semitism as a part of their credi), will the Bureau of Prisons deem the writings of St. Augustine suitable for inclusion in the chapel libraries, or will they deem them incitements to violence, etc., and keep them out?

And, if they keep them out, what will they tell the Pope?

Not that I'm expecting an answer or anything....

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* It's a cultural/artsy station.  This year, one of the "big" local events on their cultural scene is an anniversary surrounding a local saint important in the development of the early Church, so they've had program after program about early-church history, etc.  Last year was a big Mozart anniversary, so every day they had a well-known actor reading from Mozart's letters, to show - I guess - the day-to-day of being a genius....  Go figure.

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