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You just know that these scandalous priests could not have been faithful in saying their Office, for example. It is impossible to maintain an active prayer life and indulge in such heinous sins at the same time.

Being in love does monopolize a person.

Got a package from South Bend today. Started E. Michael Jones's "Libido Domini ... Sexual Liberation and Political Control" at the bus stop after Mass. Intense.

But Mr. B needs a walk. More later.

As you know, I'm quite keen on Jones, but the book you mention is news to me. It sounds like a natural development of the themes from Degenerate Moderns, Dionysus Rising, and Living Machines. I'll have to pick it up.

I still haven't been able to shake this nasty cold, and I have a lot of cantoring/choir duties in the next few days. After that I've got to do my taxes. So I probably won't have time to look at FR until Monday. Also, I won't be able to get back to work on the Quantum Measurement section of my paper for at least a week. Feel free to put up the stuff I've got so far, and I'll fill in the missing sections as soon as I can. I can do a conversion to HTML for you if it would help.

I'm also looking forward to seeing patent's presentation on the topic of this thread.

My best to Mr. B!

You are going to love the new book ... I'll put up some excerpts on Newtonianism I've already come across!

And, on being in love, there is this:

> "Celibacy is hardest when we fall out of love with Christ. Then it becomes a great burden. I could draw a curve of my own life, and I am sure any priest could draw a comparable one, and my attitude toward celibacy would be seen always in direct relationship to my personal love of Christ. Once our passions cease to burn for Him, then they begin to burn toward creatures...Christ on the Cross and Christ in the Eucharist forever become the touchstone of the question of celibacy. The more we fall away from response to that gift, the less we want to look at a crucifix, the less we want to vist the Lord in His Sacrament."

from Bishop Fulton Sheen's book Treasures in Clay in a chapter entitled "Reflections on Celibacy," sent in to OSV by Father Joseph Follmar.