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CERC WEEKLY UPDATE - January 15, 2013 NEW RESOURCES EDITORIALS OF INTEREST EDUCATION MATTERS Note from the Managing Editor:
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And that's why you will want to have What Is Marriage? by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George on your bookshelf and its reasoning in your head. (You can see a video of the authors discussing their book here.) Alvin Plantinga is the emeritus John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and a man who takes obvious delight in matching wits with — and dismantling the arguments of — the atheist crowd. So I was pleased to receive permission late last week to publish to CERC "Why Darwinist Materialism is Wrong" by Alvin Plantinga from The New Republic. While his article is a little long, I think you'll find it beautifully and cogently reasoned. - J. Fraser Field This CERC Weekly Update is also available on our web site here.
Quote of the Week: "The Church has vast boundaries to defend, and each generation finds itself called to service upon a different front." - Evelyn Waugh
• An Exclusive Look at a new Word on Fire Project! - The Anchoress The great ever-present reality - Father Anselm Moynihan, O.P. - from The Presence of God "Lo! You were Somebody all of a sudden."
Why Darwinist Materialism is Wrong - Alvin Plantinga - The New Republic According to a semi-established consensus among the intellectual elite in the West, there is no such person as God or any other supernatural being.
God made man who plays and watches sports. God is watching too, and sees that it is good.
"I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." (Gen. 22:17-18)
Benedict XVI's unique trilogy about Jesus Christ has, in a sense, bypassed the whole world of academia by going right through it.
Why does Thomas More still matter? Why does he matter right now?
America can't arrive at a serious answer to this question — Should government redefine marriage to include same-sex partnerships? — by appealing to equality.
Submitting to the narcissistic impulse - Barbara Kay - National Post I laughed out loud when I read my colleague George Jonas' Saturday column.
AntiChrist and the cult of self-esteem - Father George Rutler - From the Pastor While St. John the Evangelist was still alive, there was already a Gnostic heresy that separated the human Jesus from the divine Christ.
2013: Baptism of the Lord - mp3 - Father John Horgan - CERC John's Baptism and the Baptism of the Lord.
An Exclusive Look at a new Word on Fire Project! - The Anchoress The New Evangelization continues the story of Fr. Barron's award-winning series, exploring the Church's mission and the challenges of contemporary culture.
French protest at Eiffel Tower against plan to legalise gay marriage and adoption - Reuters Hundreds of thousands of French marched yesterday against gay marriage, gay adoption, and the provision of artificial insemination to lesbian couples — all measures bing pursued by the Socialist government of France.  France's Surprising Resistance to Gay Marriage - On the Square Napoleon, who was a brilliant strategist, often told subordinates that they should treat the pope as if he had 200,000 men at arms.
Chief Rabbi of Rome: "Duty to Oppose" Gay Marriage Push - First Thoughts Moked, a leading portal for Italian Jews, praises recent statements by Benedict XVI and Paris' chief rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, in defense of the traditional understanding of marriage.
Gay marriage could signal return to 'centuries of persecution' - Telegraph More than 1,000 priests have signed a letter saying same-sex marriage could harken back to the "centuries of persecution" of Roman Catholics.
God is alive and well in America, says Gallup boss - Salt Lake Tribune An interview with a Gallup pollster who says stories about the rise of "nones" in America are misleading only 6 percent of Americans are atheists.
Poll Finds More than 8 in 10 Americans Favor Significant Abortion Restrictions - Knights of Columbus Four decades after the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Roe v. Wade legalized abortion throughout the United States, a new KofC-Marist Poll shows that more than 8 in 10 Americans (83 percent) favor significant restrictions.
Whispers of Faith in a Postmodern World - Wall Street Journal The myth of secularism triumphant in the arts is just that — a myth.
Bad demographic news gets secular attention, at last - OSV It took a while, during which the rot spread. But now, in their own way, secular sources have begun to make points very much like those made by Paul VI and a few others.
Philippines: 9 million in procession in honor of Black Nazarene - AFP A crowd estimated at nine million has taken part in the annual procession in Manila honor of the Black Nazarene, a statue of Christ carrying the cross.
Restoration of Raphael frescoes completed at Vatican museums - Ansa Restoration work has been completed on a famous series of frescoes by Raphael in the Vatican Museums.
What to Expect in Obama's Second Term - The Catholic Thing The next four years will not be good ones for practicing Catholics or, for that matter, anyone who subscribes to Judeo-Christian beliefs.
There's More to Life Than Being Happy - The Atlantic The life of Viktor Frankl, author of Man's Search of Meaning, shows that there is more to the good life than the pursuit of simple happiness.
Science must be seen to bridge the political divide - Nature Scientists in the United States are often perceived as a Democratic interest group. For science's sake this has to change, argues Daniel Sarewitz.
Cardinal Dolan's Letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo - Patheos He sent it under the letterhead of the New York State Catholic Conference.
I've lived through the greatest revolution in sexual mores in our history. The damage it's done appalls me - Daily Mail From being schoolboys who read Lady Chatterley under the sheets, to teenagers and young men who had the Rolling Stones reverberating in our ears, we had no intention of being stuffy like our parents.
Humanists slice and dice the world's sacred texts - RNS The American Humanist Association has produced a new version of the "Jefferson Bible" &mdash and distributed it to all members of Congress.
British Airways discriminated against Christian staffer by asking her to remove crucifix, court rules - Holy Post Religious freedom is a right but not an absolute one, Europe's top court said Tuesday, ruling that British Airways discriminated against a devoutly Christian employee by making her remove her crucifix, but backing a U.K. charity that fired a marriage counsellor who refused to give sex therapy to gay couples.
Why 'Time' Magazine 'Pro-Life' Cover Might Be No Big Deal - NCRegister For the conspiratorial mind, it might seem odd that Time magazine ran a cover story on how abortion advocates have been losing ever since their Roe v. Wade victory, legalizing abortion 40 years ago.
Monks in California Breathe Life Into a Monastery From Spain - New York Times The rebirth of a medieval Cistercian monastery building here on a patch of rural Northern California land was, of course, improbable.
100,000,000 persecuted Christians - Reuters About 100 million Christians are persecuted around the world, with conditions worsening for them most rapidly in Syria and Ethiopia, according to an annual report by a group supporting oppressed Christians worldwide.
New CUA Business School Rooted in Catholic Teaching - Campus Notes The Catholic University of America announced today the creation of a new School of Business and Economics based on Catholic social doctrine and the natural law.
Incivility, Persuasion, and Higher Education - Minding the Campus Today's Wall Street Journal has an excellent article by Father John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, entitled "Persuasion as the Cure for Incivility."
The climbing cost of college - Family Edge A visual representation of how expensive it is today.
'Virtual' Public Schools Draw Interest of Religious Families - source Worried about exposure to foul language, immodest dress, peer pressure, and other inappropriate behavior, Susan Brown didn’t want her two daughters attending public schools — even though she’s a substitute teacher in a public school in Minnesota.
The goal of chastity - Ignitum Today People don’t understand chastity and find it hard to practice. Of course it is, and Jesus himself told us the gait to eternal life is a narrow one.
Grammar Lesson of the Day: The Indefinite You -First Thoughts You’d never believe how much time I spend with my college freshmen, unteaching them what they’ve been taught in high school.
Grammar Lesson of the Day: The Phrasal Possessive - First Thoughts We in English have an odd and useful tool: a possessive that can be appended to an entire phrase, rather than to just one word.
Reform Agenda Gains Strength - Education Next In the following essays, we identify some of the key findings from the sixth annual Education Next-PEPG Survey.
Virtue and the Lake Wobegon Effect - Acton PowerBlog During the mid-1990s I spent a tour of duty as a Marine recruiter in southwestern Washington State. One of my primary tasks was to give talks at local high schools, but because many of the guidance counselors were not exactly pro-military, I was expected to give generic "motivational" speeches.
Pop Goes the Culture - Weekly Standard One man's quest to preserve and defend the good, the true, and the beautiful.
Canadian law professor calls for legal changes to bring about 'queering' of Catholic schools - CWN In "Queering Schools, GSAs and the Law: Taking on God" — an excerpt from the book The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity & Justice — a law professor at the University of Manitoba calls for changes in "state-issued law and policy approaches" to ensure that Canadian schools, including Catholic schools, become "queered." Subscribe/Unsubscribe |
