0.7.6-rc3 is at last a version of tiger envelopes that is able to pull mail from schierer.org. This means that the 0.7.6 release should be a good one. ☺

0.7.6-rc2 is also a no-go. It seems to get the ssl right (at last), but fails to log me in over IMAPS. Looking at the logs, I am unsure if it is sending luke@schierer.org or luke@@luke@schierer.org, but either way, it should be sending just luke. At least, that is what I think is happening. We will see what I hear next from them.

“By intervening directly and depriving society of its responsibility, the social-assistance state leads to a loss of human energies and an inordinate increase of public agencies, which are dominated more by bureaucratic ways of thinking than by concern for serving their clients.” —Pope John Paul II, Centesimus annus (1991)

“The state which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person — every person — needs: namely, loving personal concern.” —Pope Benedict XVI, Deus caritas est

Mr. George Weigel has masterfully summed up were we stand, after nearly 5 years of open warfare.^[1] Our war in Afghanistan, and our war in Iraq, the war between Isreal and Lebanon, and the radicalism at work in Iran are not separate events, separate conflicts. They are just the next chapter in the centuries long conflict between Christiandom, or in this case its remains, and radical Islam. We will continue to have trouble winning in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in influencing Iran until we recognize this fact, and react accordingly: with conversion of self (and others) and with a renewed, reborn, commitment to prayer.

Moreover, when we do engage in armed conflict, be it resistance, or be it offensive, we must do so remembering that we are seen as representatives of Christiandom and act accordingly. For that reason, if no other (and I do believe there are other good reasons), we should rethink our commitment to Isreal, who does not support even so much of the fullness of our Christian faith (though we do worship the same God), as our separated (Protestant) brothers and sisters do. We have an obligation to protect them, but we need not enable their own tendency to atrocity.