In a few days, the Jubilee Year of Hope will close, and we’ll say another goodbye to the Pope Francis era. yup, some people got this close to him Like his predecessors, Pope Francis spoke a lot about peace, hope, joy and God’s mercy. Of particular relevance to me in the past half year, he of course continued in the tradition of writing encyclicals and other documents. It was a wonderful learning experience to be in Fr David Garcia’s Social Ethics class for a look at the social teachings of the Church. Everyone in the class now knows the significance of Rerum Novarum and why Pope Leo is Pope Leo! Two highlights for me – the first was summarising Veritas in Caritate (Pope Benedict XVI). I’d only ever thought of our school motto In veritate, et caritate in broad and general terms. Yes, truth and love are so basic and important in our faith. Veritas in Caritate ...
The title has an airy, genial feel and the show does have its airy, genial side, but also think of it as TRAPPED, since everyone was trapped by the past. It was fun trying to figure out who was who, who was on whose side and how the awful king would fall. The scholars It wasn’t too hard to guess that Kang San (Ryeo Un) is the deposed/missing prince and that he isn’t really gruff and disinterested although he’s exasperated and rolling his eyes most of the time. Shi-yeol (Kang Hoon) has the best ‘disguise’, with the nice contrast between his highly-skilled fighting and loyalty versus his silliness. It felt at times that Yoo-ha (Jung Gun-joo) was an extra but finally, he gets that one brave act of letting himself be captured to protect the rest. Shi-yeol identifying himself to Kang San as his watchman was dramatic but the most shocking revelation in the show was that the Old Guy (Shi-yeol’s mentor) is the king’s watchman! Howe...