Social notes
July 23, 2009, 12:34 pm
Posted by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels
In the midst of all these important discussions, let the following encounters be noted:
I am in the great city of San Francisco and last evening having delivered myself of a very long talk on how to save the church, two members of the audience introduced themselves: Jimmy Mac and Ed Gleason! They are both very tall and very friendly. Among other items we agreed that we are all curmudgeons.
Good to meet you guys and thanks for admitting you were there!
Aw, shucks!
Try as hard as I could, I could not rope the Steinfels into extending their stay through Sunday so they could get their liturgical socks knocked of @ http://www.mhr.org.
(Peggy — thanks for the opening for yet another commercial.)
For those who would like to listen to Peggy’s three talks, go to:
http://www.usfca.edu/lanecenter/
It also should be noted that besides ‘the usual curmudgeons’ interested in saving the church, A/B Neiderauer and USF president Fr Privett enjoyed Margaret’s talk. a ‘green shoot’ ????
Jimmy. when I tried your link, I got a dialog box saying the cliup could not be played because the material could be corrupt.
While I found that hard to believe, I think it would be great if these lectures could be published as a series in the print Commonweal!
I heartily agree that wse’re all curmudgeons (and prousd of it!)
maybe one of our scholars here could design a coat of arms for the Comonweal cover with the legend (in Latin, of course. “We Are All Curmudgeons!”
Hmmmmmm – I got the same message. I had just assumed that USF IT would make things work properly.
Maybe Peggy has some “pull” with the Lane Center and could have a miracle performed on her behalf. Then she’d only need one more for sainthood.
I trust you repaired to the bar forthwith?! That would seem to be what the occasion called for. And if you guys let Margaret buy a round, I’m going to be very disappointed in both of you!
I checked out the website Jimmy provided (Thanks!) and found that the first two lectures in the series are available readily enough on the website. (The first, on a Catholic girlhood in Chicago in the fifties I have seen, and it was wonderful. Don’t miss it. Much of what she says resonates with me, as a BIC –Bronx Irish Catholic schoolgirl of the same period.) But the third lecture, as mentioned above, doesn’t have a working link. However, if you scroll down the page further and look at the part of the site that offers texts of the Lane lectures, you will find live links to videos of all three of Margaret’s lectures.
Susan:
I went here: http://www.usfca.edu/lanecenter/events/past_events.html but still got the same error message. Evidently I don’t have the necessary software to open these lectures and I’m too lazy/techie impaired to find out what I have to do. I’ll wait until they appear in text form. (Hint, hint to Commonweal editors everywhere.)
Jim P:
Unfortunately her talk ended about 6:30, so it was straight home, into the jammies, drink a glass of warm milk, and off to bed!
Right.
I want to thank my old friend, Gene Palumbo, and a Ms. Lane at USF for trying to get the problem fixed -so far no go.
So I contented myself with reading the (superb) transcript, now on line, on conscienc eand public policy from the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture.
Highly recomended and now worth a thread!
Questions:
-does this mean Fordham is more technically proficien than USF?
-jammies and milk? Is this San Francisvco high life?
Correction =it’s thanks to Ms. Dowd at the Lane Center.
Probably too much warm milk -sorry.
Sorry guys. My computer is no great shakes and I am using a Mozilla browser recommended by a computer outfit called “seek a geek” that caters to curmudgeons, but here is a URL that might help. Try it and scroll down to the place that says” Margaret O’Brien Steinfels Summer Lecture Series”and see if that works for you. It really is worth the effort.
http://www.usfca.edu/lanecenter/events/past_events.html
Susan: no good, but thanks for the suggestion.
Bob: do you mean there is MORE to the high life than jammies and milk?????