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PROBLEM: Nine years after  Bill Buckley âs death  reflecting on his Catholic life
William F. Buckley Jr. died nine years ago today. When I announced his death on the website  a stream of e-mails poured in testifying to what an impact he had on people âs  lives by his presence â in print  on television  and in person. Person after person told of the one time they met him  and in each case the story was nearly identical:  Bill  treated them like they were the most important person in the world. Priests and at least one religious sister shared the influence his public Catholicism had on them. Others said that while their own father wasnât in the picture when they were growing up   Bill  was a reliable presence in their lives with wisdom  even if only via Firing Line.
When I interviewed  Bill  for Crisis back in the mid Nineties   he  inspired me with two comments: One  that  he  prayed the Rosary every day. Two  that  he  had had a love affair with Jesus Christ since his childhood  when He answered his prayers about his mother  who was going through a very difficult pregnancy.
Following the interview  I began describing  Bill  as the Saint Paul of the modern conservative movement. Saint Paul because (a)  Bill  was a true believer in  his  faith and philosophy  spreading both wherever  he  traveled; and (b)  he  was an apostle of caritas. âThough I speak with the tongues of men and angels  and have not love  I am no better than a clanging gong or a brass bell.â So many  many acts of charity throughout his life. He proselytized for conservatism for nearly 60 years  sustained by his deep faith.
 Bill  was the opposite of ostentatious in  his  religious observances. But any close friend could see that prayer occupied an important place in the spiritual economy of  his  life. I think  he  would have liked what the novelist Anthony Trollope had to say about such matters. In the late 1850s  Trollope wrote:
I suppose we might cavil over the deflationary phrase âamuse himselfâ â perhaps âengageâ or âoccupyâ would have been better â but in essentials  I think  Bill  would have smiled on Trollopeâs enumeration of duties. And it was the prelude  the recognition that our sojourn here on earth is ineluctably short  be it full of years or  like that of Lessingâs son  numbered in hours only  that distributes weight to the obligations articulated.
Pascal expresses the discomfiting aspect of this humbling recognition  the side that pushes people into graduate seminars in philosophy and the therapistâs couch.  Bill  did not have much time for this allotrope of existential anxiety.  He  recognized  as  he  put it in  his  magnificent account of  his  visit to Lourdes  that âfrom the day of birth  we are on our deathbed.â But if  he  found in it a private inspiration to prayer   he  publicly embraced it as a goad to action and enjoyment  not paralysis.  His  focus was adamantly outward  blissfully with the particularities of  his  latest adventure. Socrates may or may not have been right that âthe unexamined life is not worth living.â  Bill  indisputably demonstrated that the unexamined world just wonât cut it. âThe entertainment committee â  he  liked to say  ânever sleeps.â
Our secular age is unfriendly to Catholics  to religion generally  but the irony is that secularists are often less jubilantly worldly than their Jewish and Christian compatriots. âGod made the world and saw that it was good.â That bulletin from Genesis might have been the motto of  Bill Buckleyâs  life.  He  certainly did everything  he  could to broadcast it among  his  many friends. I have never known a more generous person. I do not mean only materially generous  though Billâs largesse in that department was legendary. I mean spiritually  constitutionally generous as well.
Billâs generosity was perhaps most solicitous in matters touching on religious faith. I think of  his  account  alternately moving and amusing  of the last days of  his  National Review colleague Frank Meyer. In  his  last illness  Meyer struggled with the momentous decision of whether to convert to Catholicism.  Bill  was a tireless emissary between Meyer and various confidants.  Bill  reports that Meyer  from his bed of woe  complained that âthe only remaining intellectual obstacle to his conversion was the collectivist implication lurking in the formulation âthe communion of saintsâ in the Apostlesâ Creed.â Two days before the end  Meyer somehow overcame that final obstacle  partly  I like to think  with the help of Billâs armory of arguments.
Another anecdote: Everyone knows that  Bill  commanded a formidable vocabulary. It was significant  therefore  that he should have telephoned us once in search of a word. âIt means taking pleasure in the misfortune of others â he said to my wife. âSchadenfreude?â she ventured. âThatâs it!â he said and rang off. How perfectly Buckleyesque that he should have forgotten it. It named an emotion that was as foreign to him as joy was native.
When I met  Mr. Buckley   I was a sophomore in college  and even at a distance of all these years  I know that what most struck me about  him  then was what might be called a certain Catholic matter-of-factness: not in the sense of nonchalance in approaching matters of faith  but just the opposite. From  his  lifetime of familiarity with the Lord came an ease of conversation about  Him  and a givenness that  his  life was firmly situated within the context of a lived discipleship in the middle of the Church.
 Father Gerald E. Murray
Bill Buckley  went on pilgrimage to Our Ladyâs shrine in Lourdes a few years before  he  set out on the final pilgrimage to eternity. I was a chaplain on that trip and spent time with  Bill .  He  remarked that at Lourdes  he  felt completely free from the ordinary sense of time and schedules.  He  must have experienced the heavenly sense of Lourdes. When the Blessed Virgin Mary came down to speak with Bernadette Soubirous in 1858  eternity entered into time and left a lasting mark on a faraway corner of France. Time is a measurement of change; eternity is beyond change  for it is the perfection of everything we seek when we pursue the true  the good  and the beautiful.
 Bill  spent  his  lifetime resisting those who impossibly sought to âimmanentize the eschatonâ by violence  deceit  and deception. The eschaton is reserved for the next life. A sweet foretaste  however  is offered when and where God chooses to intervene in human history. Lourdes is such a place  and  Bill  knew by conviction  and now by experience  that Catholicism blesses her children with such joyful experiences of the fundamental truth that God is good. That joy transports us  if only for a moment  out of the limited horizon of daily life. That joy allows us to return to our daily schedule knowing it all has a meaning and higher purpose as we journey to eternity.  Bill Buckley  was a pilgrim who sought and upheld truth and goodness in the great struggle against the 20th centuryâs promoters of lies and evil. We are all in his debt. Requiescat in pace.
â  The Reverend Gerald E. Murray   J.C.D.  is a canon lawyer and the pastor of Holy Family Church  in New York City.

SOLUTION: William F. Buckley Jr.: Catholic Faith Was Central to His Life

PROBLEM: Just over a week ago  on the evening of Dec. 7  Lloyd C. Blankfein hosted a reunion of one of the most elite clubs in American finance: former partners of Goldman Sachs  the Wall Street giant he has led  with remarkable and controversial success  since 2006.
 The gathering  held at the venerable New York Athletic Club  both celebrated Goldman's past and looked toward its future. What  Blankfein was asked  did he want his legacy to be?
 Blankfein replied that like his predecessors  he hoped to position Goldman Sachs to capitalize on whatever opportunities might arise during his tenure. As bland as that might sound  few on or off Wall Street have seized opportunities in these troubled economic times as skillfully as Blankfein.
 But as President Barack Obama prods the financial industry to do more to help ordinary Americans -- he chided "fat cat bankers" on Sunday for increasing their pay -- some current and former Goldman executives say Blankfein has built a money machine that  while it still values its customers  culture and reputation  puts profits above all.
 Interviews with nearly 20 current and former Goldman partners paint a portrait of a bank driven by hard-charging traders like Blankfein who wager vast sums in world markets in hopes of quick profits. Discreet bankers who give advice to corporate clients and help them raise capital -- once a major source of earnings for Goldman -- have been eclipsed  these people said.
 Blankfein has surrounded himself with a tight circle of executives drawn from Goldman's trading operation. Many of these executives  like Blankfein  cut their teeth in the commodities division  J. Aron
 After first guiding Goldman through the near-collapse of the nation's financial system and then deftly extricating his bank from a federal bailout  Blankfein is now presiding over one of the richest periods in the bank's 140-year history. Blankfein has accelerated a decade-long decline of Goldman's old partnership ethos  which was built around the principle that its bankers and traders can do well -- indeed  very well -- while putting their customers first  former partners said.
 Some Goldman alumni worry that Blankfein is jeopardizing the culture of success that defined the bank for much of its modern history. They wonder if Goldman will become  as one former partner put it  "just like every other bank on Wall Street" -- that is  focused on short-term profits rather than long-term gains.
 Publicly  Blankfein espouses the Goldman Sachs way. But privately  current and former partners say that he has fundamentally changed the way Goldman views its customers and the broader marketplace. The changes began when Goldman went public in the late 1990s  but have accelerated under Blankfein  they say.
 Bowing to pressure from shareholders and the public to rein in runaway pay on Wall Street  Goldman announced last week that its top executives  including Blankfein  would forgo cash bonuses this year. Instead  the executives will be paid in the form of special stock -- an arrangement that  while eliminating big paydays this year  nonetheless may turn out to be enormously lucrative if Goldman's share price rises in the future.
 Today  the traders -- Blankfein's camp -- are firmly in power. While Goldman employs nearly 31 000 people  in business ranging from money management to traditional investment banking  the bank makes the bulk of its money from trading. Van Praag said 50 percent of Goldman's revenue came from fees that it charged for services like investment banking. The other half is generated by Goldman using its capital for itself and its clients. While Blankfein's traders are minting money  his investment bankers are being pressed to keep a closer eye on the bottom line. Bankers who once spent years cultivating corporate clients  in hopes of one day landing lucrative work like advising on a big merger  are now being urged to squeeze more revenue from their customers.

SOLUTION: AS GOLDMAN THRIVES SOME SAY AN ETHOS FADES

PROBLEM: Elsa D'Silva  was 13 years old.  She  was riding a local train in Mumbai  India  with  her  mother  sister and brother. And just as  she  was about to get off   she  felt it â a hand reaching up  her  skirt.
"It affected my ability to use a train as a means of transport â and it still does  even still  " D'Silva  says. But for 25 years   she  didn't tell anyone why  she  avoided trains.
Then  in 2012  the now infamous rape of a 23-year-old medical student on a Delhi bus sparked a national conversation. For the first time   D'Silva  says  Indian women began openly discussing experiences of sexual violence  harassment and intimidation. "I realized that so many of my friends had similar experiences to mine â but until then we had never talked about it."
That year  she co-founded Safecity â an online platform that lets women immediately and anonymously report their experiences of harassment and abuse. "It's so women can share what happened  where it happened and when it happened "  D'Silva  says.
That's why  D'Silva  and  her  Safecity co-founders decided to take their efforts offline as well â with community workshops and street art campaigns.
"In New Delhi  for example  we discovered through the app that one of the hot spots for sexual harassment was a public toilet  " D'Silva  says. "It didn't have proper lighting  it didn't have proper doors and windows. And there were also young men sitting outside on a couch  harassing the women as they went in and out  even taking their photos without permission."

SOLUTION:
Apps To Document Street Harassment Give Global Women A Way To Speak Out : Goats and Soda : NPR