http://livingriver.eu/?s=C-C4H630-21 Prüfungsfrage 🩺 C-C4H630-21 Prüfungsvorbereitung 🌒 C-C4H630-21 PDF Demo 👯 Suchen Sie jetzt auf 【 itzert.com 】 nach （ C-C4H630-21 ） und laden Sie es kostenlos herunter 🤖C-C4H630-21 Echte Fragen The media attention which Fr. Reginald Foster has received in the past week since his death has been mostly exhilarating but sometimes saddening. The exhilarating part is seeing how many lives he touched, and how people remain interested in him. The sad part is seeing how the media outlets with the widest reach (such as the New York Times and the Telegraph) are the ones propagating the most cartoonish, incomplete portraits of the man. This has been going on for a long time. He was the stuff legends are made of. Many of the legends are true; many have grown in the telling; some were comments he made that subsequently were taken as deeds and practices; some are just false.
Louth He cultivated some of this, so if it comes back to dominate how people speak about him after death, it is in some measure just desert. He created the myth of Reginaldus, and lived with some of its negative consequences, and I suppose he will die with some of them too. But as his friend I will say that I really think he deserves a complete portrait, better than (for instance) the Times obituary, which sounded like a description of a character from a Vatican-themed sitcom, not the man I knew. It’s not that I don’t see the other side: I do. I know that pieces of writing like that Times obituary can get people interested in learning more, the way a graphic novel of the Odyssey can get people to start learning about Homer. It has its place.
But I’m already well on my way to completing a more nuanced portrait. I’ve been working on the Reginaldus biography project for years, amassing all kinds of material, interviewing him to get to the bottom of certain stories, visiting the places where he grew up and putting together the draft of his life. In the past six months I was sending him completed chapters to review, but this stage of the writing was less successful: after he made some very useful corrections to the first chapter, about his boyhood, he kept promising to send more comments but did not. I don’t know if those corrected chapters are among the papers left after his death. But for anyone who knew him, it was amazing how much he was willing to cooperate with a biography project at all. This was the person who, after his parents’ death, raided the house and threw anything that pertained to his own life in the dumpster – letters, pictures, etc. His neighbor Judy Doster rescued two albums from the dumpster, which constitute the best source of documents we have for his early life.
But one way or another, God has now composed the final earthly chapter of Reginald’s life, and so now it’s time for me to put the summa manus on my own prose shadow of it. If anyone wishes to contribute their testimonials to this project, please do not hesitate to contact me. Written remembrances (as opposed to merely volunteering to be interviewed) and photos are the most useful. I am always collecting his obiter dicta, which make for great reading.
And if you have ideas for essays that should be written, please do send them along as well. One former student of his noted that his work and life as a priest has not been written about in the coverage since his death, though I will say that some of the most beautiful, reverent masses I ever attended were ones he celebrated. I intend to write specifically on this topic and find an outlet for it. I also intend to write about the “nudist” question, which has gotten absurd attention in the media and really is conveying a false idea.
For those looking for reasonably balanced profiles of him, I will refer to the profile I originally wrote for the New Criterion and to the tribute I wrote for First Things immediately after hearing of his death. I also really admired the obituary by Ricardo Torres in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
More coverage:
I thought this profile in Smithsonian did an excellent job hunting down people who could speak effectively about his legacy. Foster taught a large number of teachers, which has had a multiplier effect on his impact:
“Father Reginald Foster Used Latin to Bring History into the Present”
John Allen is a Vatican reporter:
“Death of Legendary Latinist Leaves the Church a Grayer Place”
The Veterum Sapientia Institute is interested in the Church Latin angle:
Papal Telegram Commemorating the Passing of Fr. Foster (Veterum Sapientia Institute)
More:
“Amo, Amas, Amat: Remembering Father Reginald Foster, The Vatican’s Legendary Latin Expert”
Ad Memoriam Maximi Magistri Latinae Linguae: Fr. Reginald Foster (1939-2020)
http://theoldie.co.uk/blog/the-popes-latin-teacher
https://aleteia.org/2020/12/28/fr-reginald-foster-latin-teacher-par-excellence-dies-at-81/
I wrote this one up, about his funeral, as I know many people could not be there:
https://medium.com/in-medias-res/the-funeral-of-fr-reginald-foster-o-c-d-97bcdf1cb3bb
More to come, there’s more out there.
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