The Wall

I’ve heard rumors of some elderly walls grumbling about the lack of Latin, but it seems like it’s been a boon for the Church in encouraging new parishioners in many locales around the world, which was one of its intended effects, I believe. For more details, check the 1,172 items we have in our collection on the topic: bit.ly/BC-vatican-2

Sadly I’m don’t travel around much (although I have been known to go to some Boston-area conferences in the past). I’m going to have to sit this one out I think.

You had better check in with the Office of International Programs right away! Phone: (617)-552-3827; Email: oip@bc.edu

Trust is the soil of love. Without it, love withers and dies. Real talk: when someone can’t trust someone who loves them unconditionally, there are two possibilities: one, he doesn’t love you, or two, something in his life damaged his ability to extend trust. Trust is risky, and takes the willingness to be vulnerable. If he can’t do that, move on. There’s a third possibility, and it’s the hardest one to look in the eye: you don’t love him unconditionally; you love a version of him that you want him to be.

The Bapst Library, named for the first president of Boston College, served as the original Library, and in 1993 was designated as the Art Library. Bapst now supports the (increasingly) interdisciplinary teaching and research needs in the areas of Art, Architecture, Museum Studies, and Photography. While the Burns Library is located in the same building, it operates separately and houses a range of rare books, special collections, and archives. Burns Library is best known for the strengths of their Irish and Irish American collections and those which reflect Boston College’s Jesuit, Catholic heritage, including British Catholic authors, and also houses the University Archives.

The Left is the less common hand to write with.

IDK, but if it is, the seed of the idea will be in one of these papers in arXiv: bit.ly/reimann-geometry. Good luck to you!

I’m sure there are as many perspectives on this as there are books about Reformation. At present, there are 3,851 items on the subject of reformation just in BC Libraries (bit.ly/BC-reformation). It might be hard to establish a definitive yes/no answer, but if there is one, reading 3,851 books is probably where to begin.

Hooray! It’s such a joy to cheer people’s victories! (I’m sorry I had to redact the name: I have a strict policy of anonymity.)

I would perhaps encourage a different view from the typical conservative/liberal dichotomy. “Political Correctness” is the effort of some to use the terminology that various groups prefer when being the topic of discussion. It is always going to be fraught with disagreement, exception, and change. At one point the correct term was “Native American”, although many now prefer “American Indian”; at one point “transvestite” was acceptable, though now the term is “transgender”; “Negro” to “Black” to “African American” and (for some) back again to “Black”; “oriental” to “Asian American” to actually using individual’s ethnicity of origin, etc. Political correctness is all about respecting the dignity of the group or of the individual when speaking to or about them. To that extent, respecting human dignity through “policial correctness” is a shared value between conservatives and liberals.

Some people benefit from the existing order, and are apt to celebrate those who defend it. Plenty of smart thinking is against the grain, though: Freud, Einstein, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King. We think of them as “the order” now, but they took a whole lot of flak for their disruptive ideas. In fact some (especially King) are misremembered as defending an order, when most of what he said & wrote criticized it.

I’ve had my assistants contact several BC offices; I’ll have them follow up.

Sorry about the wait! Facilities Management did a full inventory of baby changing stations in restrooms, and gave my assistants permission to make it publicly available: bit.ly/BC-baby

10/10 is not lukewarm. The Wall says to go for it! And to take it day by day.

Lizzo put the sing in single.