Pope Benedict XVI’s message from Australia; San Francisco chocolate ‘in beta’; British Open begins
Summer’s nearly halfway over already, so if you’ve been procrastinating on your trip-planning, now’s the time to act. CheapTickets and Orbitz have good sales going. Big Sur is open. Or, follow in the traveling footsteps of popes and golfers and those cuckoo for cocoa beans …
Papal travel | Pope Benedict XVI is in Sydney, Australia, for the six-day World Youth Day, a Roman Catholic festival. In a speech, he emphasized concern for the environment; see the article “World’s natural resources are being squandered, Pope says” for more. According to the AP story “A look at papal travel,” the pope has made nine pilgrimages abroad since his papacy began in 2005.
San Francisco | Read about the new wave of Willy Wonkas in Los Angeles Times staff writer Betty Hallock’s article “Think chocolate can’t get any better? These Willy Wonkas beg to differ.” One of these mad scientists is a former space shuttle technologist now tinkering with chocolate at Tcho, where he currently has chocolate “in beta.” Tcho opens to visitors early next year.
Golf news | The British Open –- or the Open Championship, as it’s officially called –- began today at Royal Birkdale. North of Liverpool in Southport, England, it’s a historic course intriguingly described by writer Chuck Culpepper as set “against the Irish Sea and between such menacing foliage as sea buckthorn, common polypody and the always-malevolent gorse.”
— Susan Derby, Special to the Los Angeles Times
[Photo: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times
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July 17th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Regarding conserving the environment and moral responsibility etc - there appears to be a clash between what the Pope is talking about and what the Church is doing.
In the light of the Church position favouring “natural family planning” ie without using contraceptive devices and relying on timing and body cycles - this philosophy may work well (debatable) in an educated society but how do you explain it to an uneducated/illiterate person - who doesn’t even know enough to remember which day his child was born (which applies to upwards of 50% of the population of south Asia which are below the poverty line). If these people followed the ‘natural method’ they will be the ones with more children to feed - no responsibility/burden to the Church (rather a positive as it will lead to more followers and a bigger collection) - leading to an increasing population of a greater number of poor people who will again not have the ability to pay for an education - thus leading to more children ad infinitum. These people, not having financial resources will be a further strain on the food sources - not to mention what goes on in poor villages where people cut down trees galore for firewood etc
This one policy alone -’natural family planning’ is a scourge on the earth and the environment. If the Pope really means what he says about the environment etc then why keep proclaiming these methods? Seems like he’s speaking with a forked tongue.