Jesuits are always visible and always changing. During the 18th century they got so visible that the papacy suspended the whole order for decades. They’re always in cat-and-mouse games with the Catholic Church, and turnaround Is fair play. Now one of them is the Pope. I’d call that a change.
Interesting. Trump went to Fordham 1964-66. My husband received 9 years of Jesuit education—HS, BS, and MA. High school in Ohio 1963-67. Georgetown U 1967-72. I worked at GU for a year while he got his MA. Even though there were one or two Jesuits at both schools who were off the wall, throughout those years in general the admin and profs were liberal but not crazed.
I agree that Jesuits have had a dodgy reputation almost from their founding, but after the early 70s they jumped off the cliff and over the shark. Now we have a collectivist Jesuit pope who denounces Americans while opening his hands for their money. I’m from northern Ohio. No Catholic I know who lives there has any use for him.
Maybe your mom got an early taste of what was forthcoming ...
More people should tell Alberta, Canada. I did, but that’s not enough. Canadians care about what people think of them. If enough non-Canadians speak out, maybe they’ll stop arresting church and small business personnel.
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I give money only to causes DONALD TRUMP personally approves. No Republicans whatsoever. Why?
Anybody—ANYBODY—can set up a website and start trolling for funds.
The nonprofits in this country are accountable to nobody. Nobody seriously validates or verifies their financial statements. A pretty website and an emotional appeal on a hot topic can rake in bucketfuls of easy cash.
I’m not playing (or paying) until they explain their spending to me in terms that I can understand. And until they can prove that they stick to their original mandate.
I’ve had it with nonprofit CEO grifters. SHOW ME how you walk your talk.
So sad. And your daughter seems strangely docile. Is it possible she’s depressed or deluded. Many good-hearted young women believe that nothing bad can happen to them if they remain pleasant and compliant in the face of adversity. Reading Flannery O’Connor reveals the opposite, if one is willing to read her work as both textbooks and fiction.
The other commenter here is right about there being very few music educators now. I once worked at the National Association for Music Education (NAFME). It is shocking to see their decline in membership over the past ten years. You and your daughter really need to look at actual employment outlook figures, not promises from professors.
It’s possible, barely, to be a music teacher these days, but your daughter may need to teach privately and would need a lot of support from you to get started. Her professors may be all rosy about a “career” in ME, but they themselves need a constant influx of new students in order to justify their college jobs. (BTW, the literature profs did the same thing to English majors. Ask me how I know.)
I hope I’m wrong; I sense a tragedy in the making. Yet things don’t necessarily have to happen that way. Sensibly, you’re not telling your daughter what to do and how to run her life. Comfort her regardless of what happens—while encouraging her to consider what is fair, factual, and most of all, to her personal best advantage. No one—even you—can take care of her better than she can. Her current situation is a first-class opportunity to learn how to do that.
Maybe this will help:
—confrontation, catastrophe, critical situation, dilemma, disaster, emergency, exigency, extremity, quandary, trouble, adversity, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, tragedy, trouble—
All of which can be modified (bad, worse, worst, etc.) and pluralized: add an “s” to make more. Or delete the “y” and add “ies.”
“Immigrant border surge” works well, too. You’ve just solved their problem!
... or they could put adverbs like “dire” or “overwhelming” in front of “immigrant border surge” ... the possibilities are endless, and Politico issuing “forbidden” words is just plain comical. ?
You think they’ll sell them as government surplus? I’d be interested in a smaller one for use at home ...