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2005 saw the breakout of fake but accurate stories in the MSM, so here's a fitting word of the year.
A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is truthiness, defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
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Michael Adams, a professor at North Carolina State University who specializes in lexicology, said truthiness means truthy, not facty.
2006 is off to a very strong start in truthiness.
via richard cleaver.
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French President Jacques Chirac and his wife Bernadette seem to have had a difference of opinion over the propriety of prayer with meals.
France's first family has been divided by the simple, if old-fashioned, custom of saying grace at table.As a formal lunch drew to a close in the Elysée Palace, President Jacques Chirac reportedly raised his eyebrows when his wife, Bernadette, a devout Roman Catholic, asked a leading bishop among the guests to say a prayer.
Mgr Jean-Michel di Falco, the Bishop of Gap and a senior figure in the French Catholic church, responded to Mrs Chirac's request by telling guests he would say grace. The faces of both Mr Chirac and his daughter Claude, a key adviser, dropped as the bishop offered thanks "to our Lord for this meal".
He then closed the prayer by calling on "the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost". The events at the lunch were reported in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchainé. It said that while Mrs Chirac was visibly "with the angels", her husband refused to follow the bishop in crossing himself and wore a frown that betrayed his "disapproval of her mystical initiative".
Jacques, I hope you won't think it impertinent if I offer a suggestion: If you disapprove of saying grace at mealtime, then don't invite a bishop to lunch.
via Pave France.
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And, because I believed The Times, I got it wrong, too. That story I recently blogged about a high-ranking Vatican historian wanting to rehabilitate Judas was based on serious mistranslation of the original story in La Stampa, an Italian newspaper. The details can be found here. For those who can read Italian, the original text is here (although it may not be there much longer).
Some consolation is found in the fact that this guy tried to use The Times's mistranslation to support his extreme view that hell is empty. His face should be red!
First, it was the phony communion wafer snack story, and now this. I'm beginning to think that the press doesn't get religion.
via Relapsed Catholic.
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The collect for today, the Second Sunday After Epiphany, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty and everlasting God, who dost govern all things in heaven and earth; Mercifully hear the supplications of thy people, and grant us thy peace all the days of our life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Epistle: Romans 12:6-16
The Gospel: St John 2:1-11
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