<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ee71d7d1-7fff-e966-384f-89dcdfe0cb17"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For this Sunday, December 2, the Today’s Issues group will have a slide presentation of paintings by Eugène Delacroix. This will be followed by a discussion of celibacy in the Catholic Church.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The readings for this week are both from the November 22 issue of the New York Review of Books. The essays can be read without a password on the NYR website, just click on the titles below:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Page 14, Jed Perl,</span><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/22/delacroix-romanticism-unruly-hero/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Romanticism’s Unruly Hero</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a review of exhibitions of Delacroix’s works at the Lourve and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Page 18, Alexander Stille, </span><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/22/catholic-church-sins-celibacy/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Sins of Celibacy.</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am not attaching a copy of the readings since they are available on the NYR web site (click on the titles above).  The group meets in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church.  Please do the readings and join our lively discussion.  Please email me if you have trouble accessing the readings.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></span>I am attaching one of Delacroix's best known paintings. There are a few more on the NYR site, Ernie Novak will show us many more in the slide show.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div><img src="cid:ii_jozwi8ax0" alt="Delacroix.jpg" width="487" height="469"><br></div></div></div>