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Motherly tenderness: Pope says church must embody, mirror God's mercy



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Motherly tenderness: Pope says church must embody, mirror God's mercy


Pope Francis addresses journalists on his flight from Rio de Janeiro to Rome. (CNS/Paul Haring)
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Mercy is a word Pope Francis uses often, and an attitude he believes the Catholic Church must embody and all Catholics must mirror.

"This is the time for mercy," Pope Francis told reporters July 28 during his flight back to Rome from Brazil. "The church is mother and must follow the path of mercy, and find mercy for everyone."

"This age is a 'kairos' of mercy," he said, using the Greek word for a special or particularly opportune moment.

The church has a special obligation particularly to the many who are suffering because "of the not-so-beautiful witness of some priests, also the problem of corruption in the church, and the problem of clericalism, for example, which have left so many wounds, so many wounded," he said. "The church, which is mother, must go and heal those wounds."

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told Vatican Radio July 30 that one of the things that strikes people most about Pope Francis is his "great effectiveness in helping people understand the theme of God's love and mercy, which reaches out to soothe and heal the wounds of humanity."

For Pope Francis the best place for an individual Catholic to experience God's mercy is in the sacrament of confession. But he has insisted that human repentance does not trigger God's mercy -- God already is waiting for his children to return.

When speaking about God's mercy, Pope Francis often uses the story of the Prodigal Son from the 15th chapter of St. Luke's Gospel, and he used it with the reporters as well.

"When the Prodigal Son returned home, the father didn't say, 'Sit down. Tell me what you did with the money.' No, he threw a party. Maybe later, when the son was ready to talk, he spoke. The church must be like that," the pope said. And like the father in the story, the church must not "just wait, but go out and watch" for those in need of mercy and forgiveness.

In his first Angelus address, just four days after his election March 13, he told a crowd in St. Peter's Square that "God's face is the face of a merciful father who is always patient. Have you thought about God's patience, the patience he has with each one of us? That is his mercy. He always has patience, patience with us, he understands us, he waits for us, he does not tire of forgiving us if we are able to return to him with a contrite heart."

In that same address, he said the book "Mercy" by retired Cardinal Walter Kasper "has done me so much good," particularly its insistence that the church needs to develop a stronger theological reflection on "this mercy of God, this merciful Father who is so patient."

"Let us remember the prophet Isaiah who says that even if our sins were scarlet, God's love would make them white as snow," the pope said. "This mercy is beautiful!"

In one of his daily Mass homilies in late April, Pope Francis told Vatican employees that going to confession is not like going to "the dry cleaners," but is an encounter with "Jesus who waits for us as we are," helps people feel shame for the wrong they have done and embraces them with God's love so that they know they are forgiven and can go out strengthened in the battle to avoid sin in the future.

In his speech to Brazilian bishops July 27, Pope Francis said, "We need a church capable of rediscovering the maternal womb of mercy. Without mercy we have little chance nowadays of entering the world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love."

When he spoke to reporters on the plane, Pope Francis said the need for a new age of mercy was an intuition of Blessed John Paul II, who wrote an encyclical, "Rich in Mercy" in 1980, and instituted the celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday on the Sunday after Easter.

Pope John Paul's encyclical, like Cardinal Kasper's book, recognized that many people assume that God's mercy is limited by God's omnipotence and justice, but -- as the late pope wrote -- even in the Old Testament God's mercy "is shown to be not only more powerful than justice, but also more profound."

Love and mercy, Pope John Paul wrote, condition God's justice and, "in the final analysis, justice serves love."

"No human sin can prevail over this power (of God's mercy) or even limit it," the late pope said. "On the part of man only a lack of good will can limit it, a lack of readiness to be converted and to repent."

Cardinal Kasper wrote that mercy isn't God's response to a person's conversion; rather his mercy is "a grace that aims at conversion."

Although it's not an exchange or barter -- God saying he'll be merciful if one promises to repent -- Cardinal Kasper said God's mercy also isn't the "cheap grace" denounced by the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed in a Nazi concentration camp.

"Mercy without truth would be a consolation lacking honesty," Cardinal Kasper wrote; it would be "empty chatter."

"On the other hand, however, truth without mercy would be cold, off-putting and ready to wound," he said. "The truth isn't a wet rag that you throw in someone's face, but a warm cape that you help him wrap around him" to protect and give strength.

All of the sacraments are sacraments of God's mercy, the cardinal wrote, but the sacrament of penance is the one where an individual actually hears God's voice say to him or her personally, "I absolve you."

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Microsoft boosts Xbox One GPU clock speed

The latest in the series of many changes to the Xbox One since its announcement is an increase in its GPU performance. Although the hardware in the Xbox One is more or less identical to the one in the PS4, due to differences in tuning it is theoretically slower compared to its Japanese rival.

With the update, however, Microsoft has reduced the gap, albeit by a small amount. The GPU in the Xbox One was originally clocked at 800MHz but Microsoft has now confirmed that it has now been increased to 853MHz. This makes it 6.5 percent faster than before in theory but it is still slower than the PS4.

Even though the PS4 is still more powerful than the Xbox One, it is best not to read too much into the numbers. Technically, the PS3 is also more powerful than the Xbox 360 but that difference never actually showed up in the games. The PS3?s convoluted development process coupled with developers choosing to optimize their cross platform games for the lowest common denominator (which was the 360 in that case) meant that the Xbox 360 was not just on par with the PS3 in terms of real world performance but often bit better.

The same could be true for the Xbox One and the PS4. Although the PS4 no longer has the same complex development process thanks to the use of mainstream x86-64 architecture, developers are still likely to optimize for the Xbox One since it is the weaker of the two and few will take the time to tweak their games to take advantage of the PS4?s more powerful hardware.

As such, Microsoft choosing to increase the hardware performance of the Xbox One is not just good news for Xbox One owners but PS4 owners as well.

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Sex, Violence, and Autocomplete Algorithms

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Warning: This article contains explicit language.

Autocomplete is one of those modern marvels of real-time search technology that almost feels like it?s reading your mind. Thanks to analyzing and mining what millions of other users have already searched for and clicked on, Google knows that when you start typing a query with a ?d,? you?re most likely looking for a dictionary. Besides the efficiency gains of not having to type as much, suggestions can be serendipitous and educational, spurring alternative query ideas. In the process our search behavior is subtly influenced by exposure to query possibilities we may not have considered if left to ourselves.

So what happens when unsavory things, perhaps naughty or even illegal, creep into those suggestions? As a society we probably don?t want to make it easier for pedophiles to find pictures of naked children or to goad the violently predisposed with new ideas for abuse. Such suggestions get blocked and filtered?censored?for their potential to influence us.

As Google writes in its autocomplete FAQ, ?we exclude a narrow class of search queries related to pornography, violence, hate speech, and copyright infringement.? Bing, on the other hand, makes sure to ?filter spam? as well as to ?detect adult or offensive content,? according to a recent post on the Bing blog. Such human choices set the stage for broadly specifying what types of things get censored, despite Google?s claims that autocompletions are, for the most part, ?algorithmically determined ? without any human intervention.?

What exactly are the boundaries and editorial criteria of that censorship, and how do they differ among search engines? More importantly, what kinds of mistakes do these algorithms make in applying their editorial criteria? To answer these questions, I automatically gathered autosuggest results from hundreds of queries related to sex and violence in an effort to find those that are surprising or deviant. (See my blog for the methodological detail.) The results aren?t always pretty.

Armed with a list of 110 sex-related words, gathered from the linguistic extremes of both academic linguists and that tome of slang the Urban Dictionary, I first sought to understand which words resulted in zero suggestions (which likely means the word is blocked). In the following diagram, you can see words blocked only by Google or Bing, and by both or neither. For example, both algorithms think ?prostitute? is just dandy, suggesting options for prostitute ?phone numbers? or ?websites.? They?re not about sexual deprivation: Bing is happy to complete searches for ?masturbate? and ?hand job.? Conspicuously, Bing does block query suggestions for ?homosexual,? raising the question: Is there such a thing as a gay-friendly search engine? In response, a Microsoft spokesperson commented that, ?Sometimes seemingly benign queries can lead to adult content,? and consequently are filtered from autosuggest. By that logic, it would seem that ?homosexual? merely leads to ?too much? adult content, causing the algorithm to flag and filter it.

Initially it would appear Google is stricter, blocking more sex-related words than Bing. But really they just have different strategies. Instead of outright blocking all suggestions for ?dick? as Google does, Bing will just scrub the suggestions so you only see the clean ones, like ?dick?s sporting goods.? Sometimes Bing will rewrite the query, pretending a dirty word was a typo instead. For instance, querying for ?fingering? leads to wholesome dinner suggestions for ?fingerling potato recipes,? and searching for ?jizz? offers suggestions on ?jazz,? for the musically minded searcher, of course. Both algorithms are pretty good about letting through more clinical terminology, such as ?vaginas,? ?nipples,? or ?penises.?

For something like child pornography, the legal stakes get much higher. According to Ian Brown and Christopher Marsden in their book Regulating Code, ?Many governments impose some censorship in their jurisdiction according to content that is illegal under national laws.? So it?s not entirely surprising that, in order to head off more direct government intervention, corporations like Google and Microsoft self-regulate by trying to scrub their autocomplete results clean of suggestions that lead to child pornography.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/08/words_banned_from_bing_and_google_s_autocomplete_algorithms.html

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RadioShack Debt Gets Even Junkier

After markets closed last night, Standard & Poor?s downgraded the already junk-rated debt of RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) from ?CCC+? to ?CCC?. That?s eight notches below investment grade. S&P?s outlook on the company remains negative.

S&P said that the downgrade reflects the agency?s view that RadioShack could default within 12 months without a major turnaround or increased liquidity. We should probably count out more liquidity because lenders willing to front some cash to RadioShack are likely to be pretty scarce. And those that are willing will want a pretty steep premium, which will not help the company in the short term.

Earlier this year we closed our eyes and held our noses and put RadioShack on our list of the nine most promising turnarounds of the year. But we added as many caveats as we could stack up:

We would simply point out here that this is a situation where investors are betting with enough dollars that whatever turnaround plan that will be formalized actually works, or at least stops the bleeding. With a new solid CEO, our key-man concern is that RadioShack hired a guy with a drugstore background. Maybe it is that no one else was willing to gamble on a career here. We remain doubtful, unless RadioShack will open a prescription drug delivery service as well.

Shares are down about 10.4% in the early afternoon today, at $2.59, in a 52-week range of $1.90 to $4.28. That?s still a gain of about 36% from the low. It?s also about 40% below the high.

Paul Ausick

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Astronomers discovery a graveyard for comets

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Astronomers have discovered a graveyard of comets. The researchers describe how some of these objects, inactive for millions of years, have returned to life leading them to name the group the ?Lazarus comets?.

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Xu Desheng, Man From China, Commits Suicide Over Struggle To Use Smartphones, Says He Was 'Unable To Keep Up With The Times'

Xu Desheng, a 53-year-old man from China, felt he was drifting away from his young grandchildren who were continually surfing their smartphones or computers ? so much so that it led to the decision to take his own life.

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"It was too soon for him part from us like this, just too soon." Xu's son told Matome Naver.

According to his son's account,?Xu was a devoted and loving grandfather who tried to visit his grandchildren at least once a week. Xu's life as a fruit and vegetable vendor did little to prepare him for the technology boom of which his grandchildren were clearly a part.

"I suddenly realized that I really have to get with the times. I'm useless at just about everything these days, whether it be computers or cellular phones," read a suicide note left beside Xu's body.

"I rarely buy anything new and there really isn't much I can do. Going on living in this way is scarier than dying. Therefore I've made the decision to end my life."

Local authorities found Xu's body slumped over in the front seat of his pick-up truck with a bottle of weed killer and a container of burnt coal. This led police to believe he took his life by intentional carbon monoxide poisoning.

There were other factors in Xu's life that could have led to his eventual suicide. His second marriage that ended last month was reportedly due to his short temperedness. The man also suffered from diabetes, which may have contributed to his unfortunate decision.

Although Xu clearly faced troubles in his life, there's no denying the strain that smartphones have put on relationships. Lew Bayer, etiquette expert and president of Civility Experts Worldwide, says that technology dependency is causing not only a lack of communication, but also a lack of trust with loved ones.

"Our research shows people are in the habit of being dependent on their technology and not even realizing the extent to which they're withdrawing physically and visually and making less eye contact (with others)," explained Bayer.

"People trust you less. They see you as not listening to them, being inattentive, lacking confidence and having low social intelligence."

If anything, remember a little face-to-face contact can never hurt your relationships with those closest to you.

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Snowden leaves airport after Russia grants asylum

MOSCOW (AP) ? National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer said Thursday, a move that suggests the Kremlin isn't shying away from further conflict with the United States.

Snowden's whereabouts will be kept a secret for security reasons, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said, making it even harder to keep track of the former NSA systems analyst, who has been largely hiding out at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23.

The move could further strain U.S.-Russian relations already tense amid differences over Syria, U.S. criticism of Russia's human rights record and other disputes.

President Vladimir Putin has said his asylum was contingent on him not hurting U.S. interests, but the Kremlin could have interpreted that to exclude documents he had already leaked to newspapers that continue to trickle out.

The U.S. has demanded that Russia send Snowden home to face prosecution for espionage over his leaks that revealed wide U.S. Internet surveillance practices, but Putin dismissed the request.

In his application for asylum, Snowden said he feared he could face torture or capital punishment if he is returned to the U.S., though the U.S. has promised Russia that is not the case. The U.S. has revoked his passport, and the logistics of him reaching other countries that have offered him asylum, including Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia, are complicated.

"He now is one of the most sought after men in the world," Kucherena told reporters at the airport. "The issue of security is very important for him."

The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday published a new report on U.S. intelligence-gathering based on information from Snowden, but Kucherena said the material was provided before Snowden promised to stop leaking.

The one-year asylum can be extended indefinitely, and Snowden also has the right to seek Russian citizenship. According to the rules set by the Russian government, a person who has temporary asylum would lose it if he travels abroad.

Kucherena said it would be up for Snowden to decide whether to travel to any foreign destination, but added that "he now has no such plans."

Snowden's father said in remarks broadcast Wednesday on Russian television that he would like to visit his son. Kucherena said he is arranging the trip.

WikiLeaks, the secret-spilling group that has adopted Snowden's cause, said its legal adviser Sarah Harrison is now with him. The group also praised Russia for providing him shelter.

"We would like to thank the Russian people and all those others who have helped to protect Mr. Snowden," WikiLeaks said on Twitter. "We have won the battle ? now the war."

Kucherena said that Snowden spent little time packing and left the airport in a taxi. The lawyer said the fugitive had friends in Russia, including some Americans, who could help ensure his security, but wouldn't elaborate.

"He has got friends, including on Russian territory, American friends, who would be able to ensure his safety for the time being," Kucherena said.

He refused to say whether Snowden would stay in Moscow or move to stay elsewhere in Russia, saying the fugitive would discuss the issue with his family.

Kucherena argued that Russia did the right thing by offering shelter to Snowden despite U.S. pressure. "Russia has fulfilled a humanitarian mission with regard to the U.S. citizen who has found himself in a difficult situation," he said, voicing hope that the U.S. wouldn't try to slam Russia with sanctions.

Putin's foreign affairs aide, Yuri Ushakov, sought Thursday to downplay the impact on relations between the two countries.

"This issue isn't significant enough to have an impact on political relations," he said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies.

He said that the Kremlin hasn't heard any signal from Washington that Obama could cancel his visit to Moscow ahead of next month's G-20 summit in St. Petersburg.

But Sen. Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement that the Russian decision to grant asylum to Snowden would hurt ties.

"Edward Snowden is a fugitive who belongs in a United States courtroom, not a free man deserving of asylum in Russia," the Democratic lawmaker said. "Regardless of the fact that Russia is granting asylum for one year, this action is a setback to U.S.-Russia relations. Edward Snowden will potentially do great damage to U.S. national security interests and the information he is leaking could aid terrorists and others around the world who want to do real harm to our country."

Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a veteran of Russia's human rights movement and head of the respected Moscow Helsinki Group, welcomed the news on asylum for Snowden, but added that his quest for freedom of information has landed him in a country that has little respect for that and other freedoms.

"Having fought for the freedom and rights, Snowden has ended up in a country that cracks down on them," Alexeyeva said, according to the Interfax news agency.

Rachel Denber of Human Rights Watch sounded a similar note. "He cannot but be aware of the unprecedented crackdown on human rights that the government has unleashed in the past 15 months," Denber said in an e-mailed comment.

Putin has launched a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent since his inauguration for a third presidential term in May 2012, with the Kremlin-controlled parliament stamping a series of laws that introduced heavy fines for participants in unsanctioned protests, imposed new tough restrictions on non-government organizations.

A law passed in June bans imposes hefty fines for providing information about the gay community to minors or holding gay pride rallies, a move that has prompted gays in the U.S. and elsewhere to call for boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

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Laura Mills contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/snowden-leaves-airport-russia-grants-asylum-133202251.html

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Charting Death: Radio Host Breaks Old Barriers

As radio host Scott Simon put it, "the heavens over Chicago have opened up and Patricia Lyons Simon Newman has stepped on stage."

For the past two weeks, Simon, of NPR's "Saturday Weekend Edition," has been tweeting about the looming death of his 84-year-old mother, sharing it with his 1.2 million followers. She died Monday.

Since July 16, when he learned about her emergency surgery, through the ICU to the "Heart rate dropping. Heart dropping" moment, as he tweets, the world had a 140-character view of life's final journey.

Ethicists have taken note.

"This is the tip of a very big iceberg shift in thinking about privacy and intimate moments, when someone that prominent does that," said Art Caplan, director of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.

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"It's not that he should or shouldn't do it; that's for him to decide and discuss with his mom and other relatives," he said. "But it's clear to me that one of the last places -- sex, birthing and dying -- are not off limits anymore. There aren't many spheres left, and that's a really notable shift."

Simon, 61, described holding his mother's hand: "Haven't held it like this since I was 9." And shares her pain: "Will this go on forever?"

He jokes about her joy over flossing her teeth and tears up when his mother reacts to the birth of the royal baby.

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And one of the last goodbyes: "Mother cries Help Me at 2:30. Been holding her like a baby since. She's asleep now. All I can do is hold on to her."

He tweeted wryly Tuesday about being at the cemetery: "Almost interred next to total stranger. Why not make new friends?"

"Worst: telling our daughters," he tweets. "Oldest was flinty, youngest sobbed."

Simon himself broke into tears when he was interviewed on NPR Tuesday.

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Meanwhile, Simon's heartfelt messages have gone viral, encouraging strangers to respond and share in his grief.

One follower, Steve McLaughlin, tweeted, "I haven't held my mother's hand in a long time, thank you for reminding me that time is fleeting and that I need to do that."

Other public figures have shared similar moments, but not in real time on the Internet. In 2004, the photographer Annie Leibovitz documented the death of her partner, writer Susan Sontag. Her son later called the photos, "carnival images of celebrity death."

"Social media has changed the way many people do lots of things," said Dr. Stuart Youngner, the Bioethics Department chairman at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. "Why not grieving? Scott Simon is a public figure and may well find that pubic expression of what many consider private feelings is helpful to him."

"After all," he adds. "Eric Clapton wrote a song about his young son who fell and died from an open window."

Philadelphia psychologist Ann Rosen Spector agrees that social media are "just a fact of life now."

But when it comes to grieving, sharing can be helpful, "as long as people don't feel pressured into doing it," she said. "Some people share every time they buy a new pair of shoes or sneeze or cough. Some people share medical updates. It's a whole new world. There is not a standard of care to grieve."

Kenneth Doka, a senior consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America and author of "Beyond Kubler-Ross: New Perspectives on Death, Dying and Grief," calls the support system that Twitter created around Simon "an incredible phenomenon."

But he said he was "curious" why Simon's mother was in so much pain, given scientific and medical advances in hospice care. "I wondered if we did all we could for this woman in pain," said Doka, who's also a professor of gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle in New York.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/dying-twitter-radio-host-scott-simon-breaks-barriers/story?id=19821876

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The U.S. economy grew at only a ?modest pace? in the first half of the year, and while labor market conditions have shown improvement in recent months, unemployment remains elevated, a Federal Reserve committee that sets monetary policy said today ...

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    LinkedIn Expands The Influence Of Its Influencer Program With Search Functionality And Threaded Comments

    linkedinLinkedIn today is adding some new features into its "Influencer" program, the company's Klout-inspired network of experts and leaders in different fields launched in October 2012, who regularly publish posts that get extra special syndication on LinkedIn's network. Now, users can start conversations around Influencer posts with threaded comments. And now more than 300 people in the Influencer program -- some like Richard Branson with nearly 2 million followers -- users can now search for them and their posts specifically through LinkedIn's search box.

    Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/J6cPrplWJM8/

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