Showing posts with label State of Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State of Israel. Show all posts

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Notes: Wednesday, October 5, 2022-Saturday, July 15, 2023 (part 1 of 2)

1: "That the principles of America opened the Bastile is not to be doubted"

That quotation comes from the digitised letter "To George Washington from Thomas Paine, 1 May 1790" at the U.S. National Archives Founders Online website:


(It came to my attention via the article "Strict rules on gifts date back to the birth of US" by Troy Lennon on p. 80 of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, June 13, 2014, available through the N.S.W. State Library eresources Gale OneFile: News (itself available in Gale Research Complete), ProQuest Central, and NewsBank.) Paine seems to have sent that letter to Washington with a key—supposedly the main key to the Bastille—which he had received from Lafayette; see footnote 18 of chapter VIII ("The French Revolution in America") of The Age of Federalism, by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, published by Oxford University Press, March 2, 1995:


See also, at the George Washington's Mount Vernon website, the pages "Bastille Key" (in The Digital Encyclopedia of George Washington) and "Key to the Bastille":



Labels: Americanism, Democratism, France, liberalism, U.S.A.

2: According to The Pope, the death penalty "is always inadmissible since it attacks the inviolability and the dignity of the person", and it "cannot be employed for a purported State justice, since it does not constitute a deterrent nor render justice to victims, but only fuels the thirst for vengeance"

Those quotations come from The Holy See Press Office's bulletin item "Udienza al Corpo Diplomatico accreditato presso la Santa Sede per la presentazione degli auguri per il nuovo anno, 09.01.2023"; they translate parts of this paragraph in the original Italian of the Address in question:
Il diritto alla vita è minacciato anche laddove si continua a praticare la pena di morte, come sta accadendo in questi giorni in Iran, in seguito alle recenti manifestazioni, che chiedono maggiore rispetto per la dignità delle donne. La pena di morte non può essere utilizzata per una presunta giustizia di Stato, poiché essa non costituisce un deterrente, né offre giustizia alle vittime, ma alimenta solamente la sete di vendetta. Faccio, perciò, appello perché la pena di morte, che è sempre inammissibile poiché attenta all’inviolabilità e alla dignità della persona, sia abolita nelle legislazioni di tutti i Paesi del mondo. Non possiamo dimenticare che fino all’ultimo momento, una persona può convertirsi e può cambiare.
[https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/01/09/0020/00038.html]
A stand-alone English translation of that bulletin item is also available, titled "Audience with the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See for the presentation of wishes for the New Year, 09.01.2023", and so are the English translation and original Italian of that Address:




Labels: death penalty, Francis Bergoglio, morals

3: The Pope on the difference between cause and condition in the formation of a society: "“What God has joined together, let not man put asunder” (Mt 19:6). “God himself is the author of matrimony”, as Vatican Council II affirms (cf. Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes, 48), and this can be understood as referring to every single conjugal union. Indeed, spouses give life to their union, with free consent, but only the Holy Spirit has the power to make a man and woman a sole existence."

That quotation comes from the Papal "Audience with the Tribunal of the Roman Rota on the occasion of the Inauguration of the Judicial Year, 27.01.2023", which is a translation of the original Italian given in The Holy See Press Office's bulletin item "Udienza al Tribunale della Rota Romana in occasione dell’inaugurazione dell’Anno Giudiziario, 27.01.2023" (also available in the Vatican's "Speeches 2023 January"/"Discorsi 2023 Gennaio" webpages):





Labels: marriage, morals, politics, society

4: "the only two special religious instruction providers still operating in [Victorian ]state schools say there are now about 750 students" enrolled (actively?) with those providers; that is down from "nearly 93,000 Victorian students" enrolled with those or other providers in 2013

Those two quotations, excluding my square-bracketed interpolation, come from the news report "Religion class enrolments slump in state schools in decade since program changes", by Madeleine Heffernan, dateline: "February 26, 2023 — 3.47pm", downloaded from The Age's website:


(It was also interesting to read, in the final paragraph, that Special Religious Instruction "program materials" "must comply with minimum standards regarding human rights and anti-discrimination laws." For more on those standards, click the "Policy" tab on the "School operations": "Special Religious Instruction" page in the schools "Policy and Advisory Library" at Victoria's Department of Education and Training beta website:


Above all, s.v. "Program and materials", "Freedom of religion", and "General religious education".) For background to that article, see item 3.1 of the Tuesday, August 11-Tuesday, September 29, 2015 issue of my "Notes":


Labels: education, Victoria

5: Mr. Wesselinoff on the demography of (at least) nominally Catholic Australians in 2021

See the news report "New stats show Catholics have smaller families, more education, are older and more diverse", by Adam Wesselinoff, April 20, 2023, at the Sydney Catholic Weekly's website:


Mr. Wesselinoff based his report on the 2021 "Social Profile of the Catholic Community in Australia", from the National Centre for Pastoral Research:



Labels: demography

6: "Just 11 minutes [after David Ben-Gurion supposedly asserted Israeli independence], President Truman announced that the United States would be the first nation to recognize the government of Israel."

That quotation, excluding my parenthesis replacing the word "later", comes from the April 25, 2023 "Statement from President Joe Biden on the Occasion of Israel’s 75th Independence Day":


Labels: State of Israel, U.S.A.

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Monday, February 4, 2019

Notes: Tuesday, April 24, 2018-Monday, February 4, 2019 (part 2 of 2)

6. On July 19, 2018, the so-called State of Israel decreed that it is 'the nation-state of the Jewish people'

See the Knesset press release "Full text of Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People", dated July 19, 2018, which gives a "complete, unofficial translation of the final version of Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People, passed by the Knesset on July 19, 2018":

https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/Pages/Pr13978_pg.aspx

According to clauses 1.b) and 1.c) of that translation, "The state of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, in which it actualizes its natural, religious, and historical right for self-determination.", and "The actualization of the right of national self-determination in the state of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.", respectively. One of the sponsors of the bill, Knesset member Avi Dichter, offers the following, slightly different, translations of those clauses:
(B.) The State of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, in which it exercises its natural, cultural, religious and historic right to self-determination.
(C.) The exercise of the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is exclusive to the Jewish people.
[https://avidichter.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/leom_law_en_press_18.7.18.pdf]
See also the other Knesset press releases "Joint Committee approves Nation-State Bill for final plenary vote", dated July 18, 2018, and "Knesset passes Jewish nation-state bill into law", dated July 19, 2018:

https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/Pages/Pr13977_pg.aspx

https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/News/PressReleases/Pages/Pr13979_pg.aspx

According to the former, a Knesset "joint committee of the House Committee and the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee"
revised a clause which stated that “Each resident of Israel, without regard to his religion or nationality, shall be entitled to strive for the preservation of his culture, heritage, language and identity,” and that “The State may permit a community, including the members of a single religion or the members of a single nationality, to establish separate community settlements”

The new version of the clause determines that “The state sees developing Jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to
encourage, advance, and implement this interest.”
and according to the latter,
Two clauses in the bill were revised. The Diaspora clause reads, “The state will act in the Diaspora to maintain the connection between the state and the Jewish people.” The original version said that the connection would be maintained among “the Jewish people, wherever they are.”

A clause that could have permitted one religious group to bar another from living in their community was replaced with one saying that “The state sees developing Jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage, advance, and implement this interest.”
Mr. Dichter's translation came to my attention via the Wikipedia page "Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People", whose "References" section links to numerous sources dealing with the matter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law:_Israel_as_the_Nation-State_of_the_Jewish_People

Among those sources is the opinion piece "The legitimacy of Israel’s nation-state bill (I): comparative constitutionalism", by Prof. Eugene Kontorovich, dated December 10, 2014, available at the Kohelet Policy Forum's (K.P.F.'s) website:

https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/the-legitimacy-of-israels-nation-state-bill-i-comparative-constitutionalism

That article gives useful background to the decree in question, above all with respect to the notion of national self-determination. (Although published years before the enactment in question occurred, that opinion piece is still relevant to the final text; hence Prof. Kontorovich's recapitulation of his main points in the opinion piece "Get Over It—Israel Is the Jewish State", dated July 19, 2018, published originally in The Wall Street Journal (available behind a paywall):

https://www.wsj.com/articles/get-over-itisrael-is-the-jewish-state-1532039000

and also available at the K.P.F.'s website:

https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/get-over-it-israel-is-the-jewish-state

The only noteworthy respect in which the former article is out of date is its treatment of the question of official languages.)

Labels: Confessional State, Jews, State of Israel

7. Some items regarding the two premier British chivalric orders

7.1 The Order of the Garter as the mother order of court chivalry

See p. 11 (22 in the document reader) in the text of the speech by James Johnston (Williamite English Envoy Extraordinary to The then-Elector of Brandenburg) in An account of the ceremony of investing his Electoral Highness of Brandenburgh with the order of the Garter, perform'd at Berlin on the 6th of June, 1690, London, 1690:

http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=BLL01017684096&vid=BLVU1&lang=en_US&institution=BL

or go straight hither:

http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100027415381.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1301%2C-135%2C4464%2C2686

or hither:

https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=BL:A0020755743&redir_esc=y

Also available in other formats here:

http://ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/headers/A24/A24980.html

(The HTML version is here:

http://downloads.it.ox.ac.uk/ota-public/tcp/Texts-HTML/free/A24/A24980.html)

See also here:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A24980.0001.001

or go straight hither:

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A24980.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext

For a biography of Johnston, see "JOHNSTON, James (1655-1737), of Orleans House, Twickenham, Mdx.", by Richard Harrison, at The History of Parliament:

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/johnston-james-1655-1737

Labels: Order of the Garter

7.2 Getting back up to date with the two premier British chivalric orders

Over the four or so years to early- to mid-last-year, I lost track of developments in The Order of the Garter and The Order of the Thistle. In the next two items I aim to rectify that oversight.

7.2.1 Recent additions to, and losses from, The Order of the Garter

The last time when I noted that The Order of the Garter had its full complement of twenty-four Knights Companions or Ladies Companions who are neither Royal-Family nor Stranger Knights nor Ladies was on Thursday, April 23, 2009:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-st-georges-day.html

Unfortunately, the webpage which I seem to have used as my source for that observation is no longer available, but you can still verify that I was correct. Begin with the royal.uk Press Release "Appointments to the Order of the Garter 2005":

https://www.royal.uk/appointments-order-garter-2005

That webpage lists twenty-four non-Royal-Family/-Stranger members of the Order (three new appointees and twenty-one previous ones); they were, in chronological order (dated to April 23 in the years mentioned), with only abbreviated titles and neither styles nor post-nominal letters):

1. The Duke of Grafton (1976) 2. Lord Richardson (1983) 3. Lord Carrington (1985) 4. The Duke of Wellington (1990) 5. Lord Bramall (1990) 6. Sir Edward Heath (1992) 7. Lord Ridley (1992) 8. Lord Sainsbury (1992) 9. Lord Ashburton (1994) 10. Lord Kingsdown (1994) 11. Sir Ninian Stephen (1994) 12. Sir Edmund Hillary (1995) 13. Lady Thatcher (1995) 14. Sir Timothy Colman (1996) 15. The Duke of Abercorn (1999) 16. Sir William Gladstone (1999) 17. Lord Inge (2001) 18. Sir Antony Acland (2001) 19. The Duke of Westminster (2003) 20. Lord Butler (2003) 21. Lord Morris (2003) 22. Lady Soames (2005) 23. Lord Bingham (2005) 24. Sir John Major (2005)

Only two Garter Knights (and no Ladies) seem—unless I've missed any Stranger Knights—to have died between then and St. George's Day 2009: Sir Edward died on July 17, 2005, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica article "Sir Edward Heath":

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Heath)

(and his set of Garter insignia was delivered up on November 22, 2005, according to the Court Circular) and Sir Edmund died on January 11, 2008, according to the same encyclopedia's article "Sir Edmund Hillary":

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edmund-Hillary

(and his set of Garter insignia was delivered up on April 2, 2008, the day of the Service of Thanksgiving for his Life, according to the Court Circular. (Judging by the same source, Lords Richardson and Carrington, Sir Ninian, Lady Thatcher, and Sir Timothy were each not present at the Garter Day—the Monday in Royal Ascot week—activities of at least one year from 2005 to 2009, inclusive of both, but they were still alive as of Garter Day 2009, as I'll soon show. (Garter Day fell on June 13, 19, 18, 16, and 15 in 2005, ’06, ’07, ’08, and ’09, respectively.)))

Over the same period (that from St. George's Day 2005 to St. George's Day 2009, inclusive of both), only two other non-Royal-Family/-Stranger Garter Knights (and no Ladies) were appointed, namely Lord Luce and Sir Thomas Dunne; see Notice No. 510023, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 58679, p. 6383, Friday, April 25, 2008 (but the appointments in question are to be dated April 23, 2008):

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-58679-510023

(A digital version of the full text of p. 6383 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58679/page/6383

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 58679 is available here, with p. 6383 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58679

See also the royal.uk Press Release "Appointment to the Order of the Garter", dated April 22, 2008:

https://www.royal.uk/appointment-order-garter

That also mentions The Duke of Cambridge's appointment, but His Royal Highness is, of course, a Royal Knight Companion; over the period in question, two other Royal-Family Knights (and no Ladies) were also appointed, namely The Duke of York and Prince Edward: See the royal.uk Press Release "Appointments to the Order of the Garter 2006", dated April 23, 2006:

https://www.royal.uk/appointments-order-garter-2006)

With two deaths and two new appointments, and so no change in the number of members, over the period in question, it seems that there were indeed twenty-four non-Royal/-Stranger Garter Knights or Ladies as of St. George's Day 2009, and they were those of St. George's Day 2005, minus Sir Edward Heath and Sir Edmund Hillary, plus Lord Luce and Sir Thomas Dunne. And that was still the case as of Garter Day 2009 (June 15 that year), when, according to the Court Circular, nineteen of those Knights or Ladies were present for that Day's activities, and the five absentees—Lords Richardson and Carrington, Sir Ninian Stephen, Lady Thatcher, and Sir Timothy Colman—were still alive then, as we'll soon see.

Since Garter Day ’09, there have been twelve deaths in the Order; I mentioned five of those deaths in the following issues of my "Notes", collectively:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2014/07/notes-tuesday-may-6-2014-thursday-july.html (item 1.2)

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2012/04/notes-wednesday-april-4-tuesday-april.html (item 4)

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2011/04/notes-tuesday-april-12-monday-april-18.html (item 8)

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2010/04/st-georges-day-coming-up-and-theres.html

(Those deaths can also be verified by reading the references to the late Garter Knights' or Lady's respective obsequies or returns of sets of Garter insignia (or both) in the Court Circular; see the issues of March 10 and May 19, 2010, March 3, 2011, May 9, 2012, July 17, 2012, and March 12, 2015.) The other seven Garter Knights or Ladies to have died since Garter Day ’09 were
  • Lord Kingsdown, whose Memorial Service occurred on February 6, 2014 and whose Garter insignia were delivered up on March 20 of that year
  • The Duke of Wellington, whose Garter insignia were delivered up on December 8, 2015
  • The Duke of Westminster, whose Garter insignia were delivered up on December 13, 2016
  • Sir Ninian Stephen, whose Garter insignia were delivered up on May 23, 2018
  • Sir William Gladstone, whose Funeral occurred on April 13, 2018, and whose Garter insignia were delivered up on June 12 of that year
  • Lord Carrington, for whom a Service of Thanksgiving occurred on 31. ult.
Over the same period, no new Royal-Family Garter Knights nor Ladies, two new Stranger Knights (and no Ladies), and nine new other Knights or Ladies have been appointed. The two new Stranger Knights appointed were
  • The King of Spain, apparently on July 12, 2017 (the following Instagram post, dated July 13, 2017, refers to the appointment occurring "Yesterday":

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BWfZo_ugUYo)

    (Wednesday, July 12, 2017 was the first official day of a three-day British State Visit by The King and Queen of Spain (though Their Majesties arrived on the previous Tuesday, according to the Court Circular). See the royal.uk article "The Spanish State Visit" dated July 12 (sic, though the article deals with all three days of the Visit), 2017, in which I found that Instagram post embedded (though it isn't embedded there anymore):

    https://www.royal.uk/spanish-state-visit)
Of the nine new other Garter Knights or Ladies, I've already blogged about five of them, namely Lords Boyce and Phillips in item 2.1 here:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2011/05/notes-tuesday-april-19-monday-may-2.html

(though for completeness see Notice No. 1354859, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 59775, p. 8393, Thursday, May 5, 2011 (but the appointments in question are to be dated April 23, 2011):

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-59775-1354859

A digital version of the full text of p. 8393 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59775/page/8393

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 59775 is available here, with p. 8393 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59775)

Lord Stirrup in item 2 here:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2013/05/notes-wednesday-april-24-monday-may-20.html

and Lady Manningham-Buller and Lord King in item 1.2 here:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2014/07/notes-tuesday-may-6-2014-thursday-july.html

The remaining four new appointees are
It seems, then, that the current Knights Companions and Ladies Companions of the Garter are (again with abbreviated titles and with neither styles nor post-nominal letters, and the dates in the years given are April 23 unless stated otherwise):

Royal-Family Knights and Ladies: 1. The Queen (November 11, 1947; Sovereign of the Order upon becoming Queen, February 6, 1952) 2. The Duke of Edinburgh (November 19, 1947) 3. The Prince of Wales (July 26, 1958, presumably becoming a Knight of the Order by the very fact of becoming Prince of Wales) 4. The Duke of Kent (October 9, 1985) 5. The Princess Royal (1994, though the exact date seems disputed—either April 23 or June 13) 6. The Duke of Gloucester (1997) 7. Princess Alexandra (2003) 8. The Duke of York (2006) 9. Prince Edward (2006) 10. The Duke of Cambridge (2008)
(s. v. "The Royal Family and the Order of the Garter" on the webpage "Orders of Chivalry" at the website of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle:

https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/about-st-georges/royal-connection/orders-of-chivalry/

Or see the previously-cited 2005 royal.uk Press Release, which mentions the current Royal-Family Knights and Ladies appointed in or before 2003, and other Press Releases there announce the Royal Knights and Lady appointed in and after ’03. (See the appendix to this post for links to all available Garter-related royal.uk Press Releases.) And the Court Circular's Garter Day issues name the Royal participants in the activities of those Days. (I've already mentioned Garter Day dates of 2009 and earlier; those since 2009 are June 14 in 2010, 13 in ’11, 18 in ’12, 17 in ’13, 16 in ’14, 15 in ’15, 13 in ’16, and 18 last year. (Garter Day activites were cancelled in 2017—see the article "Queen to perform 'dressed down' State Opening of Parliament, wearing hat instead of crown for first time in 43 years", by Hannah Furness, dated April 27, 2017, downloaded from the London Daily Telegraph's website:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/27/queen-perform-dressed-state-opening-parliament-wearing-hat-instead/))

The Duke of Edinburgh was the only Royal-Family Knight or Lady not to participate in the Garter Day activities last year, but His Royal Highness is, of course, alive and well.)

Stranger Knights and Ladies (except for the two last-mentioned appointees, I have only been able to find the year, not the exact date, of appointment): 1. Grand Duke John of Luxembourg (1972) 2. The Queen of Denmark (1979) 3. The King of Sweden (1983) 4. King John Charles I. of Spain (1988) 5. Princess Beatrice of The Netherlands (1989) 6. The Emperor of Japan (1998) 7. The King of Norway (2001) 8. The King of Spain (July 12, 2017) 9. The King of The Netherlands (October 23, 2018)
(See the article "Order of the Garter full list", dated June 16, 2008, downloaded from the website of the London Times:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/order-of-the-garter-full-list-8ltqldhl6hb

Or see "Garter Banner Location (updated October 2018)" (bold and underline in the original), available at the webpage "Garter Banner List" at the official website of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle:

https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/about-st-georges/history/the-order-of-the-garter/garter-banner-list/

or go straight hither:

https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Garter-Banner-list-Oct-2018-2.pdf)

Other Knights and Ladies (April 23 of the stated year of appointment): 1. Lord Bramall (1990) 2. Lord Sainsbury (1992) 3. Lord Ashburton (1994) 4. Sir Timothy Colman (1996) 5. The Duke of Abercorn (1999) 6. Lord Inge (2001) 7. Sir Antony Acland (2001) 8. Lord Butler (2003) 9. Lord Morris (2003) 10. Sir John Major (2005) 11. Lord Luce (2008) 12. Sir Thomas Dunne (2008) 13. Lord Boyce (2011) 14. Lord Phillips (2011) 15. Lord Stirrup (2013) 16. Lady Manningham-Buller (2014) 17. Lord King (2014) 18. Lord Shuttleworth (2016) 19. Sir David Brewer (2016) 20. Lady Mary Fagan (2018) 21. Lord Brookeborough (2018)
(In addition to obtaining that list by removing the subsequently-deceased members from and adding the subsequently-appointed members to the 2005 list, one can corroborate it by referring to the nineteen-member list of participants in the Court Circular's account of last year's Garter Day activities and confirming that they, The Duke of Abercorn, and Lord Inge are (though the latter two were absent that day) still alive.)

(I have also consulted the Wikipedia article "List of current Knights and Ladies of the Garter" and its "View history" page.)

Labels: Alan Brookeborough, Charles Shuttleworth, David Brewer, Mary Fagan, Order of the Garter

7.2.2 Recent additions to, and losses from, The Order of the Thistle

The last time when I noted that there were no vacancies in The Order of the Thistle was Wednesday, December 2, 2009:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2009/12/hm-queens-new-appointments-to-order-of.html

Unfortunately, I didn't mention the source for that observation, but it can be verified by a similar procedure to that used in the item before the present one. Begin with the royal.uk Press Release "New appointments to the Order of the Thistle", dated November 30, 2003 (apparently incorrectly, given that the year of the new appointments mentioned there seems to have been 2004):

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-thistle

That document names the following fifteen Thistle Knights and one Thistle Lady who were or are neither Royal-Family nor Stranger members of the Order (the names are here abbreviated, and with date of appointment (November 30 unless otherwise stated) but neither styles nor post-nominal letters):

1. Lord Weymss (April 12, 1966) 2. The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry (1978) 3. Lord Elgin (1981) 4. Lord Thomson (1981) 5. Lord Airlie (November 29, 1985) 6. Sir Iain Tennant (November 29, 1986) 7. Lord Arbuthnott (November 29, 1996) 8. Lord Crawford (November 29, 1996) 9. Lady Marion Fraser (November 29, 1996) 10. Lord Macfarlane (November 29, 1996) 11. Lord Mackay (November 27, 1997) 12. Lord Wilson (2000) 13. Lord Sutherland (2002) 14. Sir Eric Anderson (2002) 15. Lord Steel (2004) 16. Lord Robertson (2004)

(That Press Release mentions the death of Lord Younger in 2003 and Sir Donald Cameron in 2004; according to the Court Circular, the former's Thistle insignia were delivered up on June 25, 2003 and the Service of Thanksgiving for his Life occurred on April 26, 2003, and the latter's Thistle insignia were delivered up on October 27, 2004 and his Memorial Service occurred on October 15, 2004, so that Press Release presumably dates to not much later than October 2004, nor much earlier.) From when that Press Release was issued until when I blogged about the Order having a full membership, four Thistle Knights (and no Ladies) died, judging by the Court Circular:
  • Sir Iain Tennant's Thistle insignia were delivered up on July 24, 2007
  • The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry's Thistle insignia were delivered up on February 22, 2008, and his Memorial Service occurred on December 12, 2007
  • Lord Wemyss' Memorial Service occurred on April 4, 2009
  • Lord Thomson's Thistle insignia were delivered up on July 8, 2009, and the Service of Celebration for his Life and Work occurred on January 13, 2009
There were four new appointments over the same period; I've already blogged about the November 30, 2009 appointments of Lords Hope and Patel (though for completeness, see Notice No. 986932, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 59258, p. 20801, Tuesday, December 1, 2009:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-59258-986932

(A digital version of the full text of p. 20801 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59258/page/20801

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 59258 is available here, with p. 20801 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59258)

Or see Notice No. 991717, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 59262, p. 21165, Monday, December 7, 2009:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-59262-991717

(A digital version of the full text of p. 21165 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59262/page/21165

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 59262 is available here, with p. 21165 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59262))

and the other two appointments were those of Lord Cullen and then-Mr. Garth Morrison on November 30, 2007—see Notice No. 403362, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Change of Name and/or Arms" (sic) (Notice Code: 1107), The London Gazette, Issue No. 58529, p. 17439, Friday, November 30, 2007:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-58529-403362

(A digital version of the full text of p. 17439 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58529/page/17439

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 58529 is available here, with p. 17439 being p. 1 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58529)

See also the royal.uk Press Release "Appointments to the Order of the Thistle 2007", dated November 30, 2007:

https://www.royal.uk/appointments-order-thistle-2007

It seems, then, that the Order did indeed have its full complement of sixteen members on St. Andrew's Day 2009, and that was still the case the next time Thistle-related Holyrood Week activities occurred (that is, on July 15, 2010; see the Court Circular of that date. (In previous years, such activities occurred on July 2, 2003, July 7, 2006, and July 2, 2008.)) (Lords Elgin, Arbuthnott, and Crawford were each absent on July 15, 2010, but, as we'll soon see, they were alive at the time.) Indeed, the Order seems still to have had its full membership on May 29, 2012, the date of the royal.uk Press Release "New appointments to the Order of the Thistle":

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-thistle-0

(also available, in a slightly different format, at the same website under the headline "The Duke of Cambridge is appointed Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle by The Queen", with the same date:

https://www.royal.uk/duke-cambridge-appointed-knight-most-ancient-and-most-noble-order-thistle-queen)

Since the date of those two Press Releases, three Knights and one Lady of the Thistle have died, judging by the Court Circular:
  • Lord Arbuthnott's Memorial Service occurred on September 14, 2012, and his Thistle insignia were delivered up on November 14, 2012
  • Sir Garth Morrison's Memorial Service occurred on June 21, 2013, and his Thistle insignia were delivered up on March 5, 2014
  • the Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Lady Marion Fraser occurred on February 9, 2017, and her Thistle insignia were delivered up on July 3, 2018; Lord Sutherland's Thistle insignia were delivered up on the latter date, too, and the Service of Thanksgiving for his Life occurred on October 16, 2018
Over the same period, five new Thistle Knights—one of them a Royal-Family Knight, and none Strangers—and no Ladies have been appointed; the Royal Knight was, as you might have noticed earlier, The Duke of Cambridge, whose appointment I logged in item 14 here:

https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2012/07/notes-tuesday-june-26-monday-july-16_16.html

(see also my comment in the combox there) and the other four Knights were
  • Lords Home and Smith, whose appointments I noted in item 13 here:

    https://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2014/03/notes-tuesday-january-11-monday-march_17.html

    (and those two appointments seem to have brought the Order's membership back up to its full complement of sixteen, judging by the sixteen relevant participants in the Thistle-related Holyrood Week activities of 2014 (indeed, that seems to have continued to be the case when such activities occurred in 2016, given that Lord Crawford, though absent, was still alive; see the Court Circular for July 3, 2014 and July 7, 2016. (Thistle-related Holyrood Week activites occurred on July 5 in 2012.)))
It seems, then, that the current Knights and Ladies of the Thistle are (their respective names here abbreviated, with neither styles nor titles, and the date of appointment is November 30 unless another date is given):

Royal-Family Knights and Ladies: 1. The Queen (Sovereign of the Order since February 6, 1952; I have not been able to confirm that Her Majesty was not admitted to the Order before becoming Queen; it's perhaps not unlikely that The Queen did join the Order in the previous reign, given that "At the time of the coronation[of George VI.] - highly appropriate for a Queen[ Consort of that King] of Scottish birth - the King also appointed her the first Lady of the Thistle ever created." (my square-bracketed interpolations, s. v. "Honours" in the royal.uk Royal Encyclopaedia article "Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother":

https://www.royal.uk/queen-elizabeth-queen-mother

The exact date of Her late Majesty's admission to the Order was May 11, 1937, judging by the second full notice on p. 3074 of the Supplement (No. 34396) of Tuesday, May 11, 1937 to The London Gazette of Friday, May 7, 1937 (Issue No. 34395):

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34396/supplement/3074

(The full text of that Supplement is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34396/data.pdf)))
2. The Duke of Edinburgh (April 21, 1952) 3. The Prince of Wales (February 11, 1977) 4. The Princess Royal (2000) 5. The Duke of Cambridge (May 29 or June 25, 2012)
(See the royal.uk Press Releases "Appointments to the Order of the Thistle", dated November 30, 2002:

https://www.royal.uk/appointments-order-thistle

or "New appointments to the Order of the Thistle", dated (incorrectly, as we saw earlier) November 30, 2003:

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-thistle

and "New appointments to the Order of the Thistle", dated May 29, 2012:

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-thistle-0

or "The Duke of Cambridge is appointed Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle by The Queen", dated May 29, 2012:

https://www.royal.uk/duke-cambridge-appointed-knight-most-ancient-and-most-noble-order-thistle-queen

and Notice No. 1621276, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 60195, p. 12473, June 25, 2012 (printed Friday, June 29, 2012):

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-60195-1621276)

Stranger Knights or Ladies: None. (According to the Encyclopædia Britannica article "The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle", "The only foreigner admitted has been King Olaf V of Norway." (hyperlink in the original):

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Most-Ancient-and-Most-Noble-Order-of-the-Thistle)

Other Knights (currently no Ladies): 1. Lord Elgin (1981) 2. Lord Airlie (November 29, 1985) 3. Lord Crawford (November 29, 1996) 4. Lord Macfarlane (November 29, 1996) 5. Lord Mackay (November 27, 1997) 6. Lord Wilson (2000) 7. Sir Eric Anderson (2002) 8. Lord Steel (2004) 9. Lord Robertson (2004) 10. Lord Cullen (2007) 11. Lord Hope (2009) 12. Lord Patel (2009) 13. Lord Home (2013) 14. Lord Smith (2013) 15. The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry (2017) 16. Sir Ian Wood (June 9, 2018)
(Instead of verifying that list by removing the subsequently-deceased Knights and Lady from and adding the subsequently-appointed Knights to the 2004 list, one could verify it by consulting the July 6, 2018 (last year's date of Thistle-related Holyrood Week activities) issue of the Court Circular and confirming that the non-Royal participants and the only two non-Royal absentees—Lords Elgin and Crawford—are still alive.)

(I have also consulted the Wikipedia article "Order of the Thistle" and its "View history" page.)

Labels: Ian Wood, Order of the Thistle, Richard Buccleuch

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Feast of St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop, Confessor, A.D. 2019

Appendix: Links to all available Garter- or Thistle-related royal.uk Press Releases:

Garter-related:
Thistle-related:
Labels: Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Notes: Friday, August 1-Wednesday, December 31, 2014 (part 2 of 2)

9. H.H. The Pope on, among other things, the death penalty

See the Speech to the delegates of the International Association of Penal Law, October 23, 2014, available at the "October 2014 Speeches" page at the Vatican's website:

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/october/index.html

Labels: death penalty, Francis Bergoglio, justice

10. Dr. Brown on the content and structure of the New Order of Mass compared to that of the Traditional Latin Mass

See his comment of 1 November 2014 at 11:01 pm at Fr. Zuhlsdorf's blog post "GERMANY: Where the weird stuff comes from" of November 1, 2014 at Fr. Z's Blog:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2014/11/why-is-it-that-truly-weird-stuff-comes-into-the-church-from-germany/#comment-483619

Labels: N.O.M., theology, T.L.M.

11. Dr. Summers on, among other things, H.M.A. Government's continuing overseas Feminist propaganda

See the opinion piece "Forget the F-word, action is what counts", by Dr. Anne Summers A.O., dated November 15, 2014, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/forget-the-fword-action-is-what-counts-20141113-11m2g5.html?skin=text-only

(That article came to my attention via the version printed on p. 38 in the "COMMENT" pages of the "NEWS REVIEW" section of The Sydney Morning Herald, weekend edition, November 15-16, 2014, Issue No. 55256, ISSN 0312-6315, published by Fairfax Media Publications Pty. Ltd.)

Labels: feminism

12. Ms Wilkinson on, among other things, "the growing body of “guilty until proven innocent” laws being made" in Australia

See the opinion piece "Politicians should be considered guilty until proven innocent too", by Cassandra Wilkinson, dated November 8, 2014, downloaded from (behind the paywall at) The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/politicians-should-be-considered-guilty-until-proven-innocent-too/story-fnhuliiz-1227116002659

(That article came to my attention via the version printed under the same headline (though all the letters were in capitals), with the same author, on p. 22 in the "INQUIRER" section of The Weekend Australian, November 8-9, 2014, Second Edition, No. 15570, ISSN 1038-8761, published by Nationwide News Pty. Limited.)

Labels: burden of proof, law

13. Some recent articles regarding the State of Israel's proposed 'nation-state of the Jewish people' bill

See
  • the article "Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet backs 'Jewish state law' as tensions run high in Israel", by Isabel Kershner, dated November 24, 2014, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

    http://www.smh.com.au/world/benjamin-netanyahus-cabinet-backs-jewish-state-law-as-tensions-run-high-in-israel-20141124-11sdlx.html?skin=text-only
Labels: Confessional State, Jews, State of Israel

14. "Montini was moved out of the Vatican and made Archbishop of Milan in 1954 in an attempt by conservative factions in Rome to reduce his influence. But the next Pope, his friend John XXIII, in 1958 made him the first of his cardinals, and he succeeded John as Pope Paul VI in 1963."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "The renewed relevance of Paul VI", by The Rev. Fr. Bruce Duncan C.SS.R., undated, downloaded from the website of the Redemptorists of Australia and New Zealand:

http://www.cssr.org.au/contact_us/dsp-default.cfm?loadref=619

(That article came to my attention via this CathNews item.)

Labels: Paul VI. Montini

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Day within the Octave of Christmas, and the feast of St. Sylvester I., Pope, Confessor, A.D. 2014
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Notes: Tuesday, May 6-Thursday, July 31, 2014 (part 1 of 4)

1. A few recent items regarding the premier British orders of chivalry

1.1 In the afternoon of Tuesday, March 18, 2014, H.M. The Queen received Lord Home (pron. the same as when that name is spelt 'Hume') at Buckingham Palace, during which reception Her Majesty conferred upon His Lordship the honour of Knighthood and invested Lord Home with the Insignia of a Knight of the Thistle.

See the Court Circular of that date.

Labels: David Home, Elizabeth II. Windsor, Order of the Thistle

1.2 H.M. The Queen has appointed Lady Manningham-Buller to be a Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter and Lord King to be a Knight Companion of the same Order, and during a Chapter of that Order held by Her Majesty in the Throne Room of Windsor Castle on 16. ult. (Garter Day—the Monday in Royal Ascot week—2014), The Queen invested Her Ladyship with the Insignia of a Lady Companion of the Order and His Lordship with the Insignia of a Knight Companion of the Order, and presumably installed Lady Manningham-Buller and Lord King in the Order during the Installation Service held in St. George's Chapel in the afternoon of the same day.

Regarding the appointments: See Notice No. 2112871, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 60848, p. 8182, April 23, 2014:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2112871

(Note that, as the Gazette mentions on its "New website for The Gazette" webpage, "the publication date of each notice is [now ]the date the notice published on www.thegazette.co.uk", unlike "in the past,[ when] the publication date has been the date the notice appeared in the printed edition".) See also the press release "New appointments to the Order of the Garter", issued by the Communications Secretary to H.M. The Queen, undated (but released on April 23, 2014), downloaded from Her Majesty's official website:

http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/Pressreleases/2014/NewappointmentstotheOrderoftheGarter.aspx

which (press release) says that those appointments bring the number of (non-extra) Companions of the Order of the Garter to twenty-three out of a possible twenty-four, though the subsequent death of The Rt. Hon. Baroness Soames L.G. D.B.E. brings the former number down to twenty-two.

Regarding the investitures and installations: See the Court Circular of June 16, 2014.

Labels: Eliza Manningham-Buller, Elizabeth II. Windsor, Mervyn King, Order of the Garter

1.3 In the morning of Thursday, 3. instant., H.M. The Queen attended a Service in St. Giles' Cathedral for the Installation of Lords Home (pron. the same as when that name is spelt 'Hume') and Smith as Knights of the Thistle.

See the Court Circular of that date.

Labels: David Home, Elizabeth II. Windsor, Order of the Thistle, Robert Smith

2. Some information on the Passover Seder and Bar Mitzvah

See the blog post "The Last Lunch", by hereisjorgebergoglio, dated Friday, April 18, 2014, downloaded from his "Call Me Jorge..." blog:

http://callmejorgebergoglio.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-last-lunch.html

Labels: Jews

3. Some information on the U.K.'s demography

See the article "Changing face of UK hits Tories", no byline (though the stated source is The Times), dated April 24, 2014, downloaded from (behind the paywall at) The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/changing-face-of-uk-hits-tories/story-fnb64oi6-1226893791981

Labels: demography, social trends, U.K.

4. Mr. Netanyahu on what it means for the State of Israel to be 'the Jewish State': "the nation-state of the Jewish people"

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Benjamin Netanyahu wants to define Israel as a Jewish state in law", by Jeffrey Heller, dated May 2, 2014, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/benjamin-netanyahu-wants-to-define-israel-as-a-jewish-state-in-law-20140502-zr2wv.html?skin=text-only

See also the text of the speech "PM Netanyahu's Remarks During his Visit to Independence Hall" (or perhaps, rather, it's a translation of that text, assuming that the speech was given in Modern Hebrew), dated May 1, 2014, downloaded from the official website of the State of Israel's Prime Minister's Office:

http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Speeches/Pages/speechhall010514.aspx

in which speech the same terminology as in my headline is used three times (though with a capital "P" for "the Jewish People" in the second and third instances), though The Australian reported, in the article "Netanyahu vows to cement Jewish homeland" (no byline (though the stated source is the A.F.P.)), dated May 3, 2014), the tiny bit different form "the national state of the Jewish people", citing Mr. Netanyahu "in a speech in Tel Aviv, a transcript of which was provided by his office":

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/netanyahu-vows-to-cement-jewish-homeland/story-e6frg6so-1226903822812

(That article came to my attention via the version printed under the headline "Vow to cement Jewish homeland", no byline (but the stated source was, like the online version, the A.F.P.), on p. 9 in the "WORLD" pages of The Weekend Australian, May 3-4, 2014, Second Edition, No. 15408, ISSN 1038-8761, published by Nationwide News Pty. Limited.)

Labels: Confessional State, Jews, State of Israel

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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Notes: Tuesday, March 18-Monday, May 5, 2014 (part 2 of 2)

7. "The Philippines’ highest court has approved a controversial birth control law"

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Philippine court clears birth control law", no author credited (though the stated source is the A.F.P.), dated April 8, 2014, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/philippine-court-clears-birth-control-law-20140408-zqsfb.html?skin=text-only

Labels: abortion, contraception, law, Philippines

8. On Wednesday, April 9, 2014, the respective chief executive officers of the National Rugby League, the Australian Football League, the Australian Rugby Union, and Football Federation Australia and the executive general manager of Cricket Australia signed, on the initiative of the organisers of the Bingham Cup, a commitment to implement, by the end of August (August 31 is the last day of the Bingham Cup Sydney 2014 tournament), policies consistent with, but not necessarily embodying all the recommendations of, the Anti-Homophobia and Inclusion Framework for Australian Sports (which (Framework) was devised by the Human Rights Commission, Bingham Cup Sydney, Australian Sports Commission, Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, and the Human Rights Law Centre). That was the first time when the major professional sport codes in Australia—or, apparently, in any country—collectively pledged commitment to opposing discrimination on the basis of sexual disorientation. "In the evening, Her Excellency[ The Governor of New South Wales], as Patron, … hosted a Reception at Government House in support of the Bingham Cup Sydney 2014, Gay Rugby’s World Cup, and to acknowledge the signing" of the aforementioned commitment.

The quotation in that headline comes from the webpage "Wednesday, 9 April 2014" at the official Governor of New South Wales website:

http://www.governor.nsw.gov.au/news/diary-of-engagements/wednesday-9-april-2014/

These are the sources for the other information in that headline:
  • the article "Bigoted sledges in sport on way out", by Mr. Benedict Brook, dated April 10, 2014, downloaded from the Star Observer's website:
    Warning: The Star Observer is a publication of the Gay press, so beware of obscene images and text (though in fairness I acknowledge that one also needs to beware of obscene images and text in non-Gay media these days):
    http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/local-news/bigoted-sledges-in-sport-on-way-out/121514
Labels: G.L.B.T., N.S.W., sport

9. How Mr. Carr accounts for the power of "the Israeli lobby": "party donations and a program of giving trips to MPs and journalists to Israel"

The quotations in that headline come from the transcript (under the headline "Bob Carr 'frustrated' by Israeli lobby and lack of First Class fares") of an interview between Sarah Ferguson and The Hon. Bob Carr, broadcast on April 9, 2014 on ABC1's 7.30, downloaded from the A.B.C.'s website:

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s3982168.htm

(That interview came to my attention via this installment of The Australian's "CUT & PASTE" column.)

Labels: State of Israel

10. Fr. Zuhlsdorf on what the Conciliar church requires in order for one of its deacons to receive Traditional priestly ordination

See the blog post "ASK FATHER: Can deacons request ordination in Extraordinary Form?", by The Rev. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, dated April 3, 2014, downloaded from his Fr. Z's Blog:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2014/04/ask-father-can-deacons-request-ordination-in-extraordinary-form/

Labels: Roman Curia, Summorum Pontificum

11. Liturgical dance still going strong in The Diocese of Wollongong

11.1 At two Masses for "all the Year 6 students from across the Diocese[ of Wollongong]", which (Masses) involved Msgr. Ingham and "a number of our diocesan clergy", "[m]any students carried out the various liturgical ministries as readers, servers, dancers, part of a procession, student musicians, choir and soloists."

The quotations, excluding my square-bracketed interpolations, in that headline come from the first item ("Bishop Peter celebrates with Year six students") of the "In schools" pages (pp. 24-25 of this issue; the quotations in question are on p. 24), no author credited, in Journey ("News from the Catholic Diocese of Wollongong"), No. 54, Summer 2013, ISSN 1835-7024, published by the Catholic Diocese of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, available online here:

http://www.dow.org.au/journey

or go straight hither:

http://www.imags.com.au/flipbooks/journey/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#1

Labels: liturgical dance, liturgy, Wollongong

11.2 "Girls from St Patrick's, Port Kembla, have been invited to present the water, which will be blessed as the Easter water, in a liturgical movement at the Easter Vigil Mass at 7pm on 19 April."

The quotation in that headline comes from an item in the "DIARY" section of the weekly "VISTA2014" ("Upcoming Catholic Events") pages (pp. 20-21 this week; the quotation in question is on p. 20), compiled by Nora Jonkers, in the Sydney Catholic Weekly, April 13, 2014, Vol. 73, No. 4720, published by The Catholic Press Newspaper Company Pty. Ltd., apparently not available online. Note that, although the term "liturgical movement" can sometimes, especially in the context of the Easter Vigil, mean something other than a liturgical abuse, judging by the restriction of the participants to girls, "liturgical movement" is presumably used here in the same way in which I always heard it used during my time (early 1990s to early 2000s) in Wollongong systemic (nominally-)Catholic schools: That is, as another way of saying 'liturgical dance'.

Labels: liturgical dance, liturgy, Wollongong

12. Mr. South on the conditions formerly known collectively as Gay bowel disease

See his comment of 27.3.14 / 11pm in the combox of the blog post "Church Busters: A How-To Guide", by Mr. Bill Muehlenberg, dated March 26, 2014, downloaded from Mr. Muehlenberg's CultureWatch website:

http://billmuehlenberg.com/2014/03/26/church-busters-a-how-to-guide/

Labels: G.L.B.T., health

13. In the afternoon of Tuesday, 1. ult., H.R.H. The Duke of Kent "visited the Masonic Hall, St. Michael's Road, Newquay", England.

See the Court Circular—the source of the quotation in that headline—of that date.

Labels: Edward Kent, Freemasons

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Feast of St. Pius V., Pope, Confessor, A.D. 2014
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Notes: Tuesday, January 1-Tuesday, February 12, 2013 (part 1 of 2)

1. "With developments in philosophical thought and in ways of understanding the modern State, the doctrine of tolerance, as worked out in detail by Pius XII, no longer seemed sufficient."

The quotation, including its hyperlink, in that headline comes from ""It was a splendid day" - Reflections of His Holiness Benedict XVI, published for the first time on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council", from "Castel Gandolfo, on the Feast of Saint Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli, 2 August 2012", appearing in L'Osservatore Romano on October 11, 2012. (I found that web-page at the Vatican website's page for the Year of Faith, which (Year) began on the same day (October 11, 2012, the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the II. Vatican Council).) The Catholic World Report said that that L'Osservatore Romano essay/article "is the introduction to a collection of [H]is[ Holiness's] writings on the Council, to be published in German next month[, i.e., November 2012]". Vatican Radio said that
Penned this past summer in Castel Gandolfo, the article is in fact the preface to a collection of writings by the young Prof. Joseph Ratzinger at the time of the Council, which, however, have never been published. Edited by Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, [current Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – ed], the complete collection is due to be published in Germany , by Herder.
[square-bracketed interpolation in the original,
"Pope pens rare article on his inside view of Vatican II", Vatican Radio, October 10, 2012]
And judging by that Vatican Radio article, the Holy Father's article was published not on Thursday, October 11, 2012, but on Wednesday, October 10, 2012, in "a special edition[ of L'Osservatore Romano] dedicated to Vatican II", though L'Osservatore Romano's website has a version of the article dated October 11, 2012, with the body of the article under the headline "It was a splendid day, Benedict XVI recalls".

For discussion of that article, see AQ, Ignis Ardens, or Rorate Cæli (which gives the date of the relevant issue of L'Osservatore Romano as October 10-11, 2012).

(It was a splendid day came to my attention via the printing of excerpts from it in the "THE CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD" item "Pope Benedict XVI recalls Vatican II" on p. 4 in AD 2000, Vol. 25, No. 11, December 2012-January 2013, published by Peter Westmore for the Thomas More Centre in Balwyn, Victoria, Australia; the item's stated source was L'Osservatore Romano. That "CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD" report is available online at the AD 2000 website here.)

Labels: Americanism, Benedict XVI. Ratzinger, Dignitatis Humanæ, religious liberty, Vatican II

2. "The QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 31 December 2012 to declare that all the children of the eldest son of The Prince of Wales should have and enjoy the style, title and attribute of Royal Highness with the titular dignity of Prince or Princess prefixed to their Christian names or with such other titles of honour."

The quotation in that headline is the body of a notice (Notice Code: 1108) in The London Gazette, Issue No. 60384, p. 213, Tuesday, January 8, 2013. (One can also find the text of the notice by going to the "Advanced Search" page of The London Gazette website and entering part of the quotation in the "With the exact phrase:" field.)

(That notice came to my attention via the article "If it's a girl, Kate's baby to be a princess", no byline, on p. 24 of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Friday, January 11, 2013, Vol. 1, No. 2743, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd., apparently not available online.)

Labels: styles and titles

3. "As far as I[, Michael Costigan,] know there is no special significance in the fact that some of the [Vatican II ]documents are introduced in this publication [, namely, THE DOCUMENTS OF VATICAN II: With Notes and Index ("Vatican Translation"), 2009 edition, St Pauls Publications ]as “solemnly promulgated”, others as “promulgated” and several as “proclaimed”."

The quotation in that headline comes from the book review "Up-to-date collection of Vatican II documents", by Michael Costigan, dated January 13, 2013, downloaded from the Sydney Catholic Weekly's website:

http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/article.php?classID=3&subclassID=20&articleID=11537&class=Features&subclass=Books

(That book review came to my attention via the version printed with the same headline and the same byline on p. 14 (the "Books" page) of the Sydney Catholic Weekly, January 13, 2013, Vol. 72, No. 4655, published by The Catholic Press Newspaper Company Pty. Ltd. The quoted portion of the online version is the same as the corresponding part of the print version except that the latter has a dash after the "u" in "documents".)

Labels: Vatican II

4. "In 1985 when the Australian Human Rights Commission bill passed the House of Representatives, it was intended to be the enforcement mechanism for cognate legislation, the Australian Bill of Rights Bill."

The quotation in that headline comes from a letter by Peter Breen to The Sydney Morning Herald, dated January 15, 2013, downloaded from the Herald's website where it is available with other letters under the headline "Distorted analysis adds fuel to the racial hatred fire":

http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/distorted-analysis-adds-fuel-to-the-racial-hatred-fire-20130114-2cppf.html?skin=text-only

Labels: A.H.R.C.

5. "There were about 29,000 Medicare-supported terminations in 2009 in NSW/ACT."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Using science to give birth to a better world", by Nicky Phillips , dated January 19, 2013, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/using-science-to-give-birth-to-a-better-world-20130118-2cykz.html?skin=text-only

That article also reports that "The highest proportion of women who terminate a pregnancy are at either end of their reproductive life - in their teens or above 40." The second part of that disjunction came as a surprise to me, for the reason given at the beginning of the article:
Most women think their fertility slowly declines with age.

''But it's actually a precipitous cliff from about age 34,'' reproductive biologist John Aitken says …
(That article came to my attention via the version printed under the same headline (as part of the "LUNCH WITH" series of profiles) and with the same byline on p. 10 of the "News Review" supplement of The Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition, January 19-20, 2013, No. 54690 (presumably, though the front cover said "54,69"), ISSN 0312-6315.)

(While searching unsuccessfully on Google for the ultimate source for the quotation in the headline of this item (item 5), I found a document whose publication details I wish to record for possible future reference to it; it is Briefing Paper No. 9/05 ("Abortion and the law in New South Wales"), by Talina Drabsch (from, and written for, the New South Wales Parliamentary Library Research Service), August 2005, © 2005, ISSN 1325-4456, ISBN 0 7313 1784 X:

http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/publications.nsf/0/4b0ec8db3b4a730dca2570610021aa58/$FILE/Abortion%20&%20index.pdf

Labels: abortion, Medicare

6. "It's also about[, i.e., "special rights being claimed by religious groups" are "also about"] the ongoing push by the religious right to define homosexuality as behaviour and to prevent it being protected as an innate part of a person's identity, as is gender and colour."

The quotation in that headline comes from the opinion piece "Exemptions for religious groups keep fears alive", by Brian Greig, dated January 22, 2013, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/exemptions-for-religious-groups-keep-fears-alive-20130121-2d2f8.html?skin=text-only

Labels: Dennis Altman, G.L.B.T.

7. "Worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation, the abortion rate has dropped from 50-60 million a year to an estimated 46 million a year, a figure that includes 20 million illegal abortions."

The quotation in that headline comes from the opinion piece "A woman's right to choose still a public battlefield", by Miriam Claire, dated January 22, 2013, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/a-womans-right-to-choose-still-a-public-battlefield-20130121-2d31w.html?skin=text-only

Labels: abortion

8. Mr. Nicholls on Mr. O'Farrell's motive for calling "an inquiry into how the state's racial vilification laws are operating in NSW"

See the article "Look behind Premier's motive", by Sean Nicholls, on p. 11 of the "News Review" supplement of The Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition, January 26-27, 2013, No. 54696 (presumably, though the front cover said "64,696"), ISSN 0312-6315, available online under the same headline and with the same byline, dated January 26, 2013, at the Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/look-behind-premiers-motive-20130125-2dbz9.html?skin=text-only

See also the follow-up article "Failure to prosecute rioters means laws need closer look - O'Farrell", by Sean Nicholls, dated January 28, 2013, downloaded from the Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/failure-to-prosecute-rioters-means-laws-need-closer-look--ofarrell-20130127-2dey4.html?skin=text-only

That follow-up article reported that Mr. O'Farrell "nominated the Muslim riot in central Sydney last year as one reason why an inquiry is needed into whether the state's racial vilification laws need strengthening." But the author of the Middle East Reality Check blog says that
… Sydney's so-called Muslim riot* occurred on September 15 last year. [Mr. O'Farrell], however, first announced his inquiry months before at an "Israel Independence Day cocktail event" in May. …
[asterisk, bold type, and italics in the original,
"Not So Fast, Baruch O'Farrell", no author credited, Tuesday, January 29, 2013,
http://middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/not-so-fast-baruch-ofarrell.html]
Labels: Barry O'Farrell, racism, State of Israel

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