![]() I was willing to let the shots pass until I read the next paragraph of the news release in which he criticizes television shows _ including The X-Files! That's going too far. That comes from Paul Kurtz, chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and coordinator of a newly formed Council for Media Integrity. Indeed, we are appalled by the number of "documentaries,' which are really entertainment programs, presenting fringe science as real science." But it especially applies to the United States, where the media have been distorting science, and in particular presenting pseudoscience as genuine science. the irresponsibility of the media in the area of science and the paranormal is a worldwide problem. "The media have now virtually replaced schools, colleges and universities as the main source of information for the general public. To show we are not thin-skinned, we offer this: Being bent over was a metaphor for his wanting to hide," according to James Baxter, who supervised the movie's animation. A back brace, exercise and surgery involving rods can help minimize the curve.ĭisney's artists say they tried to portray Quasi as "deformed but not disabled. But unlike Quasi, many children with kyphosis can be helped. Faustina was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000.It is a disease that can cause extreme physical pain and leave a person open to the taunts of thoughtless people. Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun who received revelations of Jesus, and wrote down his words in her diary. In more recent times, the Sunday following Easter is typically remembered as “Divine Mercy Sunday,” a feast day established by Pope John Paul II which honors the divine mercy of Jesus, as called for in the diary of St. But the rest of us sing about this as a reminder that there are children among us who need to be cared for, and that we all should preserve the spirit of the children of God and remain humble and submissive to the Divine Will,” according to an explanation from the New Liturgical Movement website. Properly disposed, the new communicant doesn't need to be told this. “It counsels the first communicant or the convert, likened to a newborn child, to desire the milk of the mother, to receive that nourishment and grow. The full chant, drawn from 1 Peter 2:2, is as follows: “As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation: If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.” On this Sunday, also known as Low Sunday, Catholics are called to remember the newest members of the Church. The entrance antiphon (also called the Introit) for Quasimodo Sunday begins with: “Like newborn infants,” or, in Latin, “ quasi modo geniti infantes.” It is drawn from the first words of the entrance antiphon for the day, which is the chant sung as the priest approaches the altar for Mass. ![]() Quasimodo is the Latin name (in earlier times) for the Sunday following Easter. Monseigneur Claude Frollo finds the child on “Quasimodo Sunday” and “called him Quasimodo whether it was that he chose thereby to commemorate the day when he had found him, or that he meant to mark by that name how incomplete and imperfectly molded the poor little creature was,” Hugo wrote. In Hugo’s novel, Quasimodo, rejected by his parents for his deformities, is abandoned inside Notre Dame Cathedral, at a place where orphans and unwanted children were dropped off. How did Quasimodo get his name? Esmeralda gives Quasimodo drink by Luc-Olivier Merson (1846-1920) photo: Musées de ParisBecause the name “Quasimodo” is most frequently associated with an ugly but lovable character from a fictional story, some may be surprised to learn that the hunchback’s name is actually liturgical. Given the emotional reaction to the sketch from thousands who saw it, the beloved character may be at least part of the reason that people once more rally behind the restoration of Notre Dame de Paris. Quasimodo was the hero of a novel by Victor Hugo, written at another time when Notre Dame needed saving, from years of destruction and disrepair. In a pencil sketch posted to Instagram that quickly went viral, artist Cristina Correa Freile depicted Disney’s version of Quasimodo, the famous fictional “Hunchback of Notre Dame”, crying and hugging the beloved church where he was the bellringer. ![]() As fire ravaged the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris earlier this month, one artist from Ecuador used her skills to express the grief that she and so many people throughout the world felt as the beautiful building burned.
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