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Showing posts with label jargon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jargon. Show all posts

Thursday, January 8, 2026

The Cardinals Blew Out the TLM Hope Candle!

The cardinals took discussion of the liturgy off the table as soon as the consistory opened. One of the most important issues facing the Church got deep-sixed in favor of, can you guess, SYNODALITY. AGAIN! AD INFINITEM AD NAUSEUM.

How many times, how many meetings, how many plane trips, how much money, how many cardinals dancing on the head of a pin does it take before we can send that dead synodal horse to the glue factory? And why am I not surprised that, like the Phoenix, it's risen again? 

Monday, December 22, 2025

Of Jargon, the Jabberwocky, and New Year's Resolutions

 I was thinking about jargon today. There's a lot of it floating around in the ether, and in the cloud, and on social media, and on college campuses. In fact, jargon is everywhere. 

Now the word jargon has a couple of different meanings:

The specialized language of a trade, profession, or similar group, especially when viewed as difficult to understand by outsiders.

That definition is rather reasonable and not pejorative. A computer geek may use language about his work that is Greek to me. But then Greek is Greek to me as well, though it's perfectly comprehensible to someone raised in Greece. I don't understand Russian or Gaelic either. In fact, the only language I speak fluently is English. I have a smattering of French and Spanish, but not enough to converse, and that's about it.