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May the Fourth be with you: My Favorite Independence Day Films

Here is a sampling of some of my all-time favorite Independence Day films.

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

This is a great family about the patriotic life of Broadway star and composer George M. Cohan played by James Cagney. I think it is Cagney's best acting role in a movie. I first saw this film when I was in elementary school and watch at least yearly to give myself that patriotic shot in the arm. The music, dancing, and patriotism are all very addictive! It includes the musical numbers "Over There," "It's a Grand Old Flag," "Give My Regards to Broadway" and the film's rousing title number. 

Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary De Camp, Jeanne Cagney, Frances Langford, George Barbier, S.Z. Sakall, Walter Catlett, Douglas Croft, Eddie Foy Jr., Minor Watson

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

When idealistic junior senator Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) arrives in Washington, D.C., he's full of plans and dazzled by his surroundings -- qualities he retains despite widespread corruption among his cynical colleagues. Jean Arthur puts in a sharp performance as Smith's streetwise secretary, who helps him navigate his way through Congress, in this Academy Award-winning classic from director Frank Capra.

Cast: James Stewart, Frank Capra, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi, H.B. Warner, Harry Carey Sr., Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly, Grant Mitchell, Porter Hall, Pierre Watkin

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

This is one of the best movies ever made about America's war for Independence. John Ford's adventure tale follows settlers Gilbert (Henry Fonda) and Lana Martin (Claudette Colbert) as they try to survive the rugged frontier, while defending their liberty in upstate N. Y. during the Revolutionary War.

Cast: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine, Dorris Bowdon, Jessie Ralph, Arthur Shields, Robert Lowery, Roger Imhof

The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

In this engaging comedy of manners, the radiant Loretta Young plays Katrin "Katie" Holstrom, a naïve Minnesota farm girl who leaves home to study nursing in the big city. Bilked out of her cash the first day, Katie lands a job as maid to U.S. Sen. Glenn Morley (Joseph Cotten) and soon finds herself thrust into politics when she takes a public stand for immigrants. Young's performance netted her the Academy Award for Best Actress.


Cast: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, James Arness, Jason Robards Sr.

John Adams (2008)

Paul Giamatti shines in the title role of this epic Emmy and Golden Globe winner in this mini-series that recounts the life of founding father John Adams as revolutionary leader, America's first ambassador to England, the first vice president and the second president.

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, David Morse, Sarah Polley, Rufus Sewell, Justin Theroux, Tom Wilkinson, Danny Huston, Stephen Dillane, Clancy O'Connor

Bishop of Leeds Rt Rev Arthur Roche 'sorry to be leaving'

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The Bishop of Leeds, who has been promoted by Pope Benedict XVI to a senior position in the Vatican, said he is "sorry to be leaving" the Diocese.

The Rt Rev Arthur Roche was appointed a Secretary in the administrative arm of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church in England and Wales said he has been elevated to the title of Archbishop at the same time.

Bishop Roche, 62, said it had been "an enormous privilege" to have served the people in the Diocese of Leeds.

"I was very shocked. It was an enormous surprise. I wasn't expecting anything of that kind, I'm very happy being the Bishop of Leeds and I had nothing other than that beyond my sights," he said.

 

'Deeply humbled'

Bishop Roche, who was born in Batley, West Yorkshire, was made Bishop of Leeds eight years ago.

He said: "I am sorry to be leaving the Diocese of Leeds with its priests and people whom I have loved very much. I shall miss them enormously."

Bishop Roche said he was "deeply humbled" to become Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, a key department within the Roman Curia.

Archbishop of Westminster and leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales, The Most Rev Vincent Nichols, said: "It is a great honour for England and Wales that one of our bishops has been given this responsibility in service of the Apostolic See. Bishop Arthur has our full support and prayers as he undertakes this role. We will miss him very much."

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is one of nine departments that form the Roman Curia. 

It handles the regulation and promotion of the Church's liturgy or worship.

Vatican bank starts headhunting for new chief

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The board of the Vatican bank met on Wednesday to start the hunt for a new president to replace Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who was unceremoniously ousted last month.

The Vatican said the board, which is made up of outside lay experts, had met to "identify the universally recognised criteria of professionalism and experience" needed for the job.

The board includes Carl Anderson, the American head of the international charity group Knights of Columbus, Ronaldo Hermann Schmitz, formerly a top executive at Deutsche Bank, Manuel Soto Serrano of Banco Santander and Antonio Maria Marocco, a prominent Italian notary.

Former Bundesbank head Hans Tietmeyer has denied Italian media reports that he was a candidate to become the next head of the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR).

Gotti Tedeschi, who left after a no confidence vote by the board on May 24, has said he was ousted because he wanted to make the bank more transparent.

The Vatican denied this and said he was an ineffective and divisive manager.

On June 5 Italy's financial police searched his home in northern Italy in connection with a separate, unrelated investigation into a kickback scandal involving defence technology group Finmeccanica.

Gotti Tedeschi is a close friend of Finmeccanica CEO and Chairman Giuseppe Orsi, who is under investigation in the probe, and magistrates believe the former Vatican banker may have held documents relevant to the Finmeccanica case.

While looking for evidence in that investigation police found a dossier compiled by Gotti Tedeschi concerning his nearly three years at the helm of the Vatican bank, according to judicial sources.

His lawyer, Fabio Palazzo, said police had confiscated notes that his client believed would be useful to counter the accusations made by the board of the Vatican bank when it voted its no-confidence motion.

BRIEFING THE CARDINAL

The Vatican statement said that after their meeting on the requisites for the new president, the board briefed Cardinal Tarciscio Bertone, the secretary of state, who heads a commission of cardinals who oversee the bank.

The choice of a new president for the bank comes at a time when the Vatican is seeking to make the so-called white list of states that comply with international standards on financial transparency.

The next hurdle the bank faces is the judgment of MONEYVAL, a Council of Europe monitoring mechanism that rates states on their effectiveness to fight money laundering and terrorism financing and comply with international standards. 

The report is due next month.

Anderson, the board member who signed the no-confidence memorandum against Gotti Tedeschi last month, said the IOR was committed to making the white list.

"We are going to continue doing everything necessary to reach that standard. There is no question the board and management are fully committed to that," he told Reuters at the time of Gotti Tedeschi's ousting.

Benedict XVI’s open Curia

The Pope has reshuffled the cards in a less conservative way with his new appointments.

With yesterday’s nominations, including the imminent appointment of the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Benedict XVI has shown he is steering the Roman Curia in a different direction. 

As is known, the Pope promoted the French Archbishop Jean Louis Brugues, formerly Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, to the post of Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. 

He then called Bishop Vincenzo Paglia from the Italian Diocese of Terni, appointing him as President of the Pontifical Council for the Family. Paglia was previously spiritual assistant of the Community of Sant’Egidio. 

He also moved the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Augustine Di Noia, to the Ecclesia Dei commission, appointing him as deputy president. Di Noia’s previous role in the dicastery will now be covered by the Englishman, Arthur Roche who up until now has been Bishop of Leeds (Britain). 

Finally, the Pope chose the Bishop of Kigoma (Tanzania), Protase Rugambwa as Secretary of Propaganda Fide and the Pole Krzysztof Jozef Nykiel as Regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary.

 

It is interesting to note that whilst three Italians leaving their post (Cardinals Raffaele Farina and Ennio Antonelli and Bishop Gianfranco Girotti), only one Italian has been appointed (Paglia). It is also important to highlight that these changes do not follow along a traditionalist or conservative route. 

Paglia has a great deal of experience in the field of ecumenical dialogue and initiatives in favour of the poor; Brugues is considered to be open and a competent mediator in controversies over Catholic universities in recent years; Roche is a modern bishop (not a modernist), who is faithful to the Council, an expert on the liturgy – he chaired the ICEL (International commission on English in the Liturgy) for ten years – and certainly does not have a traditionalist agenda. He was already a candidate for this post in 2009 and was auxiliary for Cardinal Murphy O’Connor.

 

The batch of nominations as a whole marks a standstill for the Curia’s more conservative wing and shows a willingness on the part of the Pope to keep dialogue open on all fronts. Benedict XVI’s increased openness will be confirmed over the coming days when he will appoint the Bishop of Regensburg, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, as the new Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Müller is a German theologian whom the Pope knows well. In recent months his candidacy was threatened by ecclesiastical circles who considered him to be too open.

 

Yesterday’s promotions and transferrals offer no indication that the Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, will be leaving his post any time soon. A change has been considered but it will not take place in the immediate future, with the Pope’s “prime minister” having become one of the main targets of the tensions caused by the Vatileaks scandal.

Krupp on Pius XII: The “black legend” is over

 

The founder of the Pave the Way Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to building bridges between the world's religions, speaks to Zenit news agency about his in-depth research.

After six years of untiring research that has uncovered 76,000 pages of original material, plus multiple eyewitness accounts and testimonies from prominent international scholars, Gary Krupp is confident the besmirching of Pope Pius XII's reputation is coming to an end.


"We're definitely winning, absolutely no question," Krupp tells Zenit news agency in an interview, during a visit to Rome this week.


"Every time we do more research, we find a diamond. It's incredible, but there's nothing on the other side because there's no documented foundation for any of their accusations."

Krupp, the founder of the Pave The Way Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to bridging the gap between world religions, is well known for being one of the most passionate defenders of Pius XII's reputation for heroism in his relations with the Jewish people.

As a Jew from New York who grew up, like many others of his generation, with an indoctrinated hatred of the wartime Pope for his alleged anti-Semitism and unwillingness to help Jews during the Holocaust, his anger at realizing this was all a lie, and his willingness to reveal the truth, is both heartfelt and compelling.

Now he and his team of researchers have uncovered more documented evidence that Pave the Way believes should act as incontrovertible proof to any serious historian that Pius XII did all he could to protect and defend Jews before, during and after the Second World War. All the documentation can be viewed on the organization's Web site: www.ptwf.org

Some of these documents show that Pius XII favoured the creation of a Jewish state as far back as 1917. In further recent discoveries, Pave the Way has come across a letter, written by Cardinal Pacelli in 1939, in which he attempted to obtain visas for 200,000 Jews who remained in Germany after Kristallnacht.


"He wasn't able to obtain the visas, but he tried," says Krupp. "The point is, he didn't do it from the safety of Washington DC or London. He did it while surrounded by hostile forces, and infiltrated by spies, and yet he still managed to save more Jews than all the other world leaders combined."


Further letters reveal how, through his nephew Carlo Pacelli, Pius XII helped prevent the arrest of Roman Jews in 1943, giving an estimated 12,000 of them the chance to seek refuge in Church monasteries, convents, and the homes of Italian Catholics. "All these archival records show how he personally helped save Jewish people," says Krupp, adding emphatically in his broad New York accent: "Anti-Semites don't do that!"

Other ground-breaking discoveries show how the Pope was not just a target for assassination by Hitler (Pave the Way has a copy of a letter Pius wrote to cardinals expecting to be killed and giving them instructions to form a government in exile), but that he and his secretary were also named in a German report as co-conspirators in the Valkyre assassination attempt on the Fuhrer in July 1944.


Pave the Way has combed through copies of the New York Times and Palestine Post from 1939 to 1958 to find any evidence of animosity toward the Jews. "There's not one negative article. Not one," Krupp says, adding that a French friend of theirs also went through French Communist and Socialist papers from that time, and similarly came up with nothing negative.

Krupp points out a "fantastic letter" from the American ambassador to Germany, reporting on 3rd March 1939 on the new Pope's election on 2nd March. The ambassador recalls in the letter meeting Cardinal Pacelli in 1937, and wanting to visit the Sistine Chapel, but he wasn't able to as the Cardinal had kept him in his office for three solid hours, talking about National Socialism and Hitler. "In the letter it says: "While his views against Hitler were well known to me, I had no idea of the extremity of his views,'" Krupp recounts.

Like many, Krupp is convinced the smearing of Pius's reputation was due to an elaborate misinformation campaign by the Soviets and, in particular, the film "The Deputy," which was widely performed after the Pontiff's death. The play, which spread what's become known as the "Black Legend" of Pius XII, is still being performed today, currently in Munich and even in an American university – something that greatly irritates Krupp given the dean of the university is allowing it on grounds of "academic freedom."


What makes him so unstinting in his desire to uncover the truth is his firm belief that history must be accurate. "People die with history," Krupp says, "so it's absolutely essential people realize that history is a sacred thing – you must get it right because people kill one another on perceived history." He says anti-Pius historians are "historical revisionists," and makes no apology for calling them "liars" instead of scholars.

He is particularly indignant with Rome's Jewish community and those who persistently propagate the Black Legend in the face of the contrary evidence. "All of Rome's Jewish community despises Pius XII, when a few short few years ago they erected a monument in his honour because he saved all of their lives," says Krupp (the monument, erected in 1946, is no longer there).

"You have air in your lungs today because he saved your lives," he says in pointed words directed at them, "and yet you despise him? This is a sin. This is a Jewish sin." Krupp frequently stresses that one of the worst character flaws a Jew can have is ingratitude, and notes that the Hebrew word for Jew is actually based on the word gratitude.


He believes if any of the community were willing to look at the documents, they would change their minds. "Anyone who refuses to look at documents and the proof is a fool," he says. "This is especially obnoxious to me, as this community is alive because of his actions, very provably alive – everyone from the era said so," Krupps argues.


He also says he has come to discover the enemies of Pope Pius XII tend to be "ultra-left wing Jews and Catholics" with an agenda to destroy the Pope's reputation because he "typified the conservative, traditional Church."


But what about the regular accusations one hears made against Pius? Krupp bats away each of them away with ease.

On why Pius didn't lay down his life as a martyr: "Why didn't General Patten do the same thing? Why didn't Roosevelt do the same thing? Don't forget the Vatican is two entities, head of the Catholic Church and also a government. It would be the worst thing one can do, especially when he could do the good that he did alive. Being dead would be no good at all."

On the claim no Nazis were excommunicated: "They were -- I love this one. The German bishops said anyone who joined the 'Hitler Party,' who wore the uniform or flew the flag were excommunicated and a priest couldn't attend their funeral if any of them died."

On the accusation that Pius XII helped Nazi war criminals flee to South America after the war: "No, it was exactly the opposite according to Bishop Hudal himself [Hudal was a Nazi collaborator in Rome]; just read his [Hudal's] autobiography."

On the claim that Pius authorized forced baptisms of Jewish infants: "Nonsense. In fact he forbade it. There were some … You had some overzealous nuns and others who did this, but he forbade it. He forbade it because he had a great love and respect for Judaism, starting from his childhood. His closest friend was a Jewish orthodox boy, Guido Mendes."

Krupp recognizes "Nostra Aetate," the Second Vatican Council declaration considered by many to have transformed Jewish-Catholic relations, as "one of the most important events in Jewish-Christian relations." It's arguable whether his invaluable efforts to clear Pius XII's name would have taken place had it not been for that document, but Krupp began working on the Pius issue after receiving a papal knighthood, seeing it would "open things up to do wonderful things between Jews and Catholics."

I'm interested to know if he himself ever considered becoming a Catholic? "No, never," he says. "If someone gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't. This is the way I am supposed to be. I'm doing what I'm supposed to do as a Jew not as a Catholic."

He says he has a "huge love and respect for the Church" because he "looks at the bottom line" and sees there's "no greater provider in the world for health care, education or charity." Indeed, he was delighted and honoured to be invited this year to receive an honorary doctorate and deliver the commencement address at St. Thomas Aquinas College, Orangeburg, New York.

"I feel my brothers and sisters are in the Church, but I would never consider converting," he says. "I'm very proud to be Jewish, and I think this is the path God meant for me to take."

The Vatican Secret Archives Unveiled

The very name “Vatican Secret Archives” tends to trigger the Dan Brown reflex in minds given to conspiracy theories and black legends about the Catholic Church.

In fact, there is nothing sinister about the title of this treasure trove of historical materials; “secret,” in this case, is Vaticanspeak for the private archives of the papacy, which were opened to qualified scholars in 1881 by Leo XIII, the founder of the modern papacy and a man unafraid of the truths that history could teach.

To mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of this remarkable institution, the Vatican and the City of Rome have assembled an extraordinary exhibit of materials from the Secret Archives, Lux in Arcana (“Light in Mysterious Places”), which can be enjoyed at the Capitoline Museum in the Piazza del Campidoglio until September 9, and sampled online at www.luxinarcana.org.

If good fortune brings you to La Città before September 9, reserve at least three hours to savor an assemblage of primary historical materials of a magnitude never before exhibited in one place, and unlikely to be shown again in the foreseeable future.

Some of the documents — written on such various materials as parchment, vellum, paper, and birchbark (the medium for an 1887 letter from the Ojibwe Indians to the pope, “the Great Master of Prayer, he who acts in Jesus’s stead”) — bring to mind epic moments and historical turning points across ten centuries: the handwritten records of Galileo’s trial before the Inquisition; Alexander VI’s bull Inter Cetera (which might be translated, “Among Other Things”), dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal; the 1530 petition from dozens of members of England’s House of Lords, asking Pope Clement VII to annul Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon so that the Tudor king might marry Anne Boleyn; Gregory XIII’s calendar of 1582 with the “missing ten days” in October, an excision that rectified the inaccuracies of the earlier Julian calendar; a letter from Mary Queen of Scots to Sixtus V just before her execution; Polish king John III Sobieski’s 1683 letter to Innocent XI, reporting his victory over the Turks at the Battle of Vienna; letters from Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln to Pius IX during the U.S. Civil War.

More recent documents and artifacts recall the darkness of the mid-20th century: a report on the execution of Italian partisans and patriots by the German SS at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome in 1944; a miniature Polish “Black Madonna” crafted from scraps at the Oberlangen concentration camp as a gift for Pius XII; a handwritten index of the hundreds of priests imprisoned at Dachau in what some historians refer to as “the world’s largest rectory”; and a heart-rending 1945 letter to Giovanni Battista Montini, later Pope Paul VI and then Vatican deputy secretary of state, from the representative in The Hague, forwarding a request for information on the fate of Edith and Rosa Stein from a brother-in-law in New York who had lost track of them three years earlier — just prior to their execution at Auschwitz (Edith Stein was canonized by John Paul II in 1998).


There is also one major surprise, to this visitor at least: a letter from Voltaire to Benedict XIV, written in 1745, in which the man remembered for the hypersecularist slogan Ecrasez l’infâme! (“Crush the infamous thing!” — namely, biblical religion), addressed the humanist pope as “the Father of the World,” and closed with “a kiss in all humility . . . of the most sacred feet.” Benedict XIV and Voltaire had their differences, but however much the latter may have been engaging in flattery tinged with irony in this letter, he seems to have recognized the intellectual and literary accomplishments of the former — a sentiment unlikely to be replicated by, say, Richard Dawkins in respect of Benedict XVI.

Then there are the documents of particular interest to Catholics and historians of Christian thought. One great historical might-have-been is embodied in the parchment manuscript of Laetentur coeli (“Let the heavens rejoice”), the 1439 papal bull announcing the end of the schism between Rome and Constantinople, the Christian West and the Christian East — a temporary repair of the breach that did not last, to the detriment of both parties. Leo X’s 1521 decree excommunicating Martin Luther provides one documentary bookend to the exhibit’s recollection of the subsequent fracture of western Christendom; the other is a 1524 letter from Erasmus to his friend Matteo Gilberti, bishop of Verona, in which the Dutchman urges moderation in Catholicism’s response to the challenge of the early Reformers, so that “to remedy one evil, another is not committed.”

Then there is the 1542 bull convoking the Roman Church’s ultimate response to the Reformation, the Council of Trent, which, over 21 years, created the form of Catholicism that is now leaving the stage — to be succeeded by the Evangelical Catholicism whose birth was accelerated by Vatican II (whose bull of convocation by John XXIII is also in Lux in Arcana).
One of the more striking aspects of modern Catholicism, the rise of popular Marian piety and Marian pilgrimage shrines, is remembered through two impressive documents of entirely different character and style.

The first is the 1854 parchment proclamation of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, with its beautiful calligraphy and a papal pendant seal attached with a yellow and red silk cord. The second is an utterly simple handwritten letter from Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary of Lourdes, who in 1858 saw the “beautiful lady” who styled herself “the Immaculate Conception”; Bernadette wrote Pius IX in 1876, describing herself as “a little Zouave of Your Holiness’s, armed with prayer and sacrifice.”

And for Americans caught up in today’s battles for religious freedom, there is what some might well regard as one of the foundational documents of western democracy: the Dictatus papae of the papal reformer Gregory VII, who in 27 propositions defended the independence of the papacy and the Church in ecclesiastical matters.

Gregory’s challenge to the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV, who sought to make the Church a cabinet department of the state by controlling the appointment and investiture of bishops, was absolutely crucial in setting the conditions for the possibility of the social pluralism of the Middle Ages, from which, in turn, grew Magna Carta and, eventually, the western theory of the limited, constitutional state.
Lux in Arcana is splendidly laid out, with a vast amount of historical information compressed into brief, reader-friendly electronic commentaries in Italian and English beside each of the documents and artifacts (which are of course displayed in special cases for purposes of preservation). I would quibble with a couple of the commentaries on the documents.

The Thirty Years’ War (represented by Pope Innocent X’s brief criticizing the terms of the Peace of Westphalia) is treated as an entirely religious affair, whereas the best of contemporary scholarship shows it to have been much more complicated than that and far more political than theological in its causes and passions.

And the dots are just not connected between the aforementioned reforms of Gregory VII and the modern democratic project in the West. But perhaps the latter is not all that accidental, given the reluctance in 21st-century Europe to concede any role to Christianity in the formation of Europe’s commitments to civility, tolerance, social pluralism, human rights, and democracy.


Yet that, in turn, underscores the importance of Lux in Arcana. If this magnificent exhibit is a powerful reminder of the corruptions that were a result of the Church’s various alliances with state power and the mistakes the Church made in its initial reactions to the rise of secular modernity and modern science, it also makes clear that there would be no “West” in the political, cultural, and social senses of the term without the Catholic Church. Try as contemporary European secularists might to eradicate Christianity from the continent’s cultural memory, that erasure cannot be done without causing severe damage — as Europe’s present demographic crisis and its parallel crisis of political culture testify.

Thus I might suggest that those who refused, in the preamble to the constitutional treaty that governs today’s European Union, to concede Christianity any role in forming contemporary Europe’s democratic commitments pay a visit to Rome and have a close look at Lux in Arcana.

There they will find, openly displayed, the work of the Catholic Church in preserving documents decisive for the cultural and historical memory of the West — documents that have, over time, compelled the Church to examine its own conscience and develop its own social doctrine to the point where the Catholic Church now has a richer concept of democracy than most European political theorists.

And perhaps, reflecting on that, secular Europe can be brought to its own examination of conscience — and its own development of thought.

Bishop in beach photo scandal resigns

 

You would think that after the Padre Alberto affair, priests would learn that it's risky to take your secret lover to the beach. Not (ex) Mons. Fernando Bargalló. Last week, Bargalló, who in 1997 was designated the first bishop of Merlo-Moreno in Argentina, became the latest casualty of photos published of himself cavorting on the beach at a luxury resort in Mexico, with a woman whom he first described as a childhood friend and then admitted was his lover.

Thus a promising 34-year career as a priest -- 18 of them as a bishop, first in Irina and Moron and then of Merlo-Moreno -- came to end as Bargalló submitted his resignation to the papal nuncio to Argentina. Bargalló was also president of Caritas for the Latin American and Carribbean region, a post to which he was elected in 2007. Some sources have suggested that, as one of the younger bishops, he might even have been in line to be the next Archbishop of Buenos Aires.

The couple are evenly matched in age -- he is 57 and she, 55, income, and social status. The woman is María de las Victorias Martínez Bo, long divorced from her physician husband and mother of three children. She is a co-founder and owner of the stylish Jolie Bistro restaurant. Mons. Bargalló performed her wedding and baptized her three children. In fact the couple were friends during childhood and adolescence since their families both owned vacation homes in La Cumbre. They separated only when Bargalló decided to carry on the family tradition of having a priest in each generation and entered seminary.



 Although having a vow of poverty as a priest, Bargalló was also independently wealthy as a result of a substantial inheritance following the death of his mother. It is thought that he used these funds to subsidize his romance with Martínez Bo.



 According to the newspaper Crónica, the couple took great pains to conceal their romance and the Mexican getaway that resulted in the photos. They took separate flights to the United States and met there before travelling together, first to Mexico City and then to other vacation destinations. They also returned on separate flights.



Immediately after the compromising photos became public, Bargalló issued a terse communiqué in which he apologized for any harm the photos might have caused and reiterated his commitment to the priesthood: "I also want to clearly state that I am completely committed to God and to the Church in the mission that has been entrusted to me in this beloved Diocese of Merlo-Moreno and in the other responsibilities at the service of my brothers and sisters. I have deep feelings for my priesthood and dedication to Jesus the Lord and I want to persevere in it to the end."

In spite of these words, in the end, Bargalló became the second Argentine bishop after the late Jerónimo Podestá to step down because of a woman. Podestá and his wife became active and respected in the Latin American Federation of Married Catholic Priests. We can only hope that Bargalló and Martínez Bo will follow in their footsteps as they put this scandalous beginning behind them and live their love openly.

Like a house on fire!!!

wow isn't it maddening and crazy how much of a run up to Christmas there is? and then in one day swoosh all done! after arriving back from visiting Matt's mom and sister we chilled out for a bit before going to check out a new sofa that my parents wanted even though we decided the sofa was a no Matt and my Dad decided that the computer desk still had to be moved. so they spent most of their day occupied with the rearrangement of furniture while the rest of us just hung out .
In the past we have taken Emma Christmas shopping for the family and decided to take her again this year. we were heading to the €2 store we passed a thrift store and decided why not look around! well lets say for the same amount of money o would have spent in the €2 store we got better stuff for everyone my sisters got jewelry and her cousins got usable toys! we did get the spouses (matt david and stewy) stuff from the €2 store silly string was what they got as for granny and pop a transformer sponge and bubble bath for Pop and a Hula hoop for Granny! it was a fun day. Robert Emma's cousin is 2 so he also helped pick out stuff to gicve to his cousins! most of this week has actually been devoted to shopping mostly for food but we kept picking little bits and pieces up for presents. We finally wrapped the presents on Tuesday night!

Wednesday we went carol singing and dropped of some cookies to those we carolled to it was fun and as always totally embarrassing! Emma Matt and Pop were confined to quarters as all where sick and we didn't want them getting sicker! after carol singing we worked our way up to My Aunt and Uncles house(their family had also come carol singing with us) for some hot chocolate and mince pies! in case someone didn't like mince pies we also brought apple pies turns out just about everyone prefers apple pies to mince pies!!!! so on top of the hot chocolate and the apple pie with cream and custard was custard custard and more custard which the next morning i regretted! no one should eat that much dairy in one sitting! but since custard is one of those things you cant really get in America i have to have it while i can!!!!!

This week Emma and Robert spent a lot of time with each other and like the title says they get on like a house on fire... that is really really well until the house burns down! anyway its a good thing for both of them Robert doesn't have an older sibling and Emma doesn't have a younger sibling so they are still ironing their understanding of each other out! My mom cant help but comment on how much their relationship reminds them of how my cousin Michael and I where when we where little there's even the same age gap ,except Michael was the older kid and i was the younger!

Christmas day and Emma was up at 4 am we contained her ..mostly other than she had to go check if Santa had been yet..until about 6 am then we came downstairs and jumped on Mel (she was sleeping in the lounge) Cath joined us not long after then we waited to be able to wake my parents at 7 . we even ate some breakfast! just after 7 Emma was sent to go wake Granny and Pop (Well she's a grandchild they wouldn't be mad at her!!!!) and there was a knock on the door Jenna was early!!!! and since everyone was up the fun began!!!!!!!!b we received loads of presents my favourites of course where from Emma she bought me a watch earrings and a necklace which she picked out herself -she did a good job of it too!!!! but i got tons of other great presents!as did every one . Later we met my aunts family at the chapel as no one had a house big enough! there's almost too many of us for my parents house without adding uncles and aunts into it too! so we used the relief society room since we were using a big space we also invited the missionaries and a few other people! Dinner was lovely i think Stewy did the biggest amount of cooking and it was well worth it well I appreciate it at least!!!! yum yum yum!!!!
St Stevens day as it is called in Ireland (the 26th dec) was to me even better than Christmas day maybe because the stress was over with? we all had a fry up for breakfast thanks again to Stewy- fried eggs scrambled eggs sausages(real ones!!!!i.e. nothing like those you get in America) bacon black and white pudding (look it up its a meat..sort of)even a few potato wedges we just sat around the table and laughed and laughed and laughed)

The true meaning of Christmas

a celebration of the birth of our saviour Jesus Christ and what a magnificent gift he was from our father in heaven. and the gift he has given us the way to return to our father in Heaven. Family is a great way to feel the true meaning of Christmas loving each other and enjoying each others company! and now i guess i need to start working on those new years resolutions!!!!

hope you had a great Christmas and have a happy new year!!!!

Tough week

This week we have been battling with trying to get an apartment to live in when we get to seattle, it hasnt been easy and i think we might finally have found a place, we find out tomorrow. I dont recall moving to BYU being this much of a headache but this move is provong to be a lot more stressful than our last move. I still have plenty of packing to do and of course a ton of cleaning,
Matt is approaching the end of the term with well GLEE! he cant wait to be done and I am starting to want to never move!
Emma is starting to act up a little and i guess it is to be expected as we are uprooting her from everything she has come to know, she has lived here more than half of her life so we are trying to be understanding...me being stressed leaves the understanding to a very minimum level but i am trying non-the less.

About a week ago it rained heavily cooling us all off and we thought it was wonderful until thurday.... when all of a sudden hundreds of baby spiders started playing on our ceiling so at about 2 am we started to vacuum them up take the cover off the light and vacuum what we thought where the rest, needless to say friday night we had a similar experience, so maintenance was called (i called them while Matt did battle with them) maintenace turned up and sprayed bug spray and advised us not to turn the light on and to call maintenance again on monday to get an exterminator out there have bee a few other problems in the quad too...darn rain!!!!!!!

well in 2 weeks we will have the apartment closed up all our stuff packed and be staying in a hotel waiting to leave on the monday.

time is flying along, Emma is trying hard to spell her name whole name her middle name is posing a problem and the closest we have got is cafrinn. guess we still have some work to do on the "F's" an "TH's"!!!!!!

Thanksgiving point

So yesterday we had the rare opportunity to spend the WHOLE day together, so we decided to go to thanksgiving point, they have tons of stuff happening there so expcet more posts about it before we leave becasue we didnt get time to do everything, infact we stayed in one building we arrived at 11am and left just before 4 pm, what did we do? lots!!!!

we went to the museum of ancient life it is pretty big with quite a few large ..DINOSAURS...yes now you get why we where there so long... Emma loooooooves dinosaurs she is not at the point of knowing there different names or anything but dinosaur hunting or looking for dinosaur bones is her favorite thing to do.

(thats us uncovering dinosaur bones at a hands on exhibit)

Even if it wasnt her favorite thing to do this museum was pretty cool! I didn't take pictures of the thing we spent most of our time at tho, it was a sand and water play area we built dams and showed emma the effects of erosion(the point of the table) and how this erosion helped bury dinosaurs and also helps uncover them. it was a lot of fun and there was a little tunnel so small kids could go into the middle of the table where it was raised up so they could reach the table while adults and bigger kids stayed on the outside it was a blast.

There was also this massive shark swimming about, matt decided the shark could have emma as long as the shark left him alone!!!
Luckily the shark wasnt interested and we were able to go to a 3d dinosaur show, not so much of a story as it was an informative show about dinosaurs we enjoyed it though, probably the 3d aspect!

we spotted this dino just hanging out in the passageway and emma took a break to just chill with her(her name is SARAH duh!)

thinking that we would have time to do other things in thanksgiving point we got tickets to the gardens and the petting zoo area too...we ran out of time so we will have to use those tickets.. before we leave!!!!
we also found out about this thing they do in the museum it is called the Dino-snore program
you stay all night sleeping under the massive dinosaurs watch the dinosaur movie it says do the work of a palentologist how fun would that be for a kid??? for me even???? sounds awwwweeeesooommmeee!!!!! (thats awesome!!!) only problem is its every second weekend of the month so will we have the time to do it before we go???? i guess we will see!!!!

6 YEARS LATER!!!!

Today we celebrate (sort of) our 6 year anniversary . so to all those who thought we would not stick it out i think its fair enough to say at this point ha! or so there!!! of course i will do that again in another 6 years!!!!!

We have had our ups and our downs sometimes it seems more down than up ! but when we are good we are very very good!!!!!

We stand now stronger than ever before facing life's troubles together hand in hand.

So in these 6 years what have we learned?!

1. It is very important to be right..- whether you are or not...
2. Mornings are for Matt , not for me.
3. Asking more than once is nagging when i do it, asking more than once is 'reminding' when matt does it.
4. The highest volume wins.
5. There's left and the other left
6. I sneeze in 3's
7. Keys are good at hide and seek
8. TV's where only meant to have one remote...and 1 user :)
9. Potatoes are very versatile...as is mac and cheese
10. Dishwashers are not a luxury item they are a necessity for a happy marriage
11. Men really are from Mars
12. Women really are from Venus

We are truly blessed to have been sealed in the temple for time and all eternity. I think it has made us work harder at staying married, we are in this for the long haul!
The promise that IF we obey the commandments and endure to the end doing all we can do, THEN we will be blessed to live with our spouse our family and our Father in heaven for all eternity , what a wonderful blessing that is

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