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CERC BI-WEEKLY UPDATE - March 20, 2008 NEW RESOURCES EDITORIALS OF INTEREST EDUCATION MATTERS Note from the Managing Editor:
Once again I want to thank Dee Gieser for her professionalism and perfect design, Harvey Aarmoogan for his technical wizardry and dedication to this project over the years, and finally to the Norcliffe Foundation for the grant which made this possible. This is a timely and important next step in the development of this apostolate. We will be entertaining paid advertising from solid Catholic/Christian sources on the site shortly. Please write me if you’re interested in advertising on CERC. And please send us a donation — if you haven’t already — to help us to continue doing what we do. We need your support. Please donate here Finally, I wish you all a solemn and holy Triduum. - J. Fraser Field This CERC Bi-Weekly Update is also available on our web site here.
Pope2008 - National Catholic Register Blog watch Why so cruel to home school? - Education Excellence Homeschoolers and the Law in the Golden State - First Things Blog Governor vows to protect homeschooling - SF Gate Home is not where the school is - Get Religion For Muslim teen, Catholic school just made sense - Times online Is America getting dumber? - Dallas News World's richest prize won by Polish physicist and Catholic priest - Vancouver Sun Rounding up the faithful - Denver Post Five school reformers walk into a bar... - Gadfly Group has severance plan for 'worst unionized teachers' - USA Today The anxiety epidemic: Why are children so unhappy? - Gadfly Cardinal Dulles Urges Faithful Catholic Colleges - Assumption College Bishop D'Arcy releases strong statement - Cardinal Newman Society The Easter Triduum: Entering into the Paschal Mystery - Carl E. Olson - Ignatius Insight The liturgical year is a great and ongoing proclamation by the Church of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a celebration of the Mystery of the Word.
Morality and Spitzer - Theodore Dalrymple - City Journal The governor’s fall is not an argument for de-moralizing social policy.
The blood of the martyrs is being poured out in Iraq, an ancient land of Christian witness.
In his book, Without Roots, Pope Benedict XVI deplored the addiction to historical self-deprecation rampant at the higher altitudes of European cultural and intellectual life: a tendency to see in the history of the West only "the despicable and the destructive."
When he finished his interview with L'Osservatore Romano , Archishop Gianfranco Girotti probably thought that his main message had been an appeal to Catholics to use the sacrament of Confession. Little did he know that the English-language news media would play the interview as a newly revised list of sins.
This past Saturday, March 15, Pope Benedict XVI approved a decree recognizing the heroic virtue of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus.
As a young chaplain candidate in the U.S. Navy in the late 1980s, the Rev. Daniel L. Mode became captivated by the story of a Roman Catholic priest who was killed at age 38 while ministering to U.S. Marines in 1967.
From Robespierre to al-Qa’eda: categorical extermination - Paul Johnson - The Spectator An intellectual is someone who thinks ideas matter more than people.
Media: Just say no . . . to Moses - Mollie Hemingway - Get Religion It usually happens during Holy Week each year — a new rash of media pieces attempting to undermine miraculous stories about Jesus and his life.
Canada just became scarier for the disabled - Michael Coren - National Post Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer who killed his disabled daughter, has been released on day parole.
A Geography of Kind - Anthony Esolen - Touchstone The preservation of landscapes and the beauty of the sexes.
Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville - Father George W. Rutler - Inside Catholic It seemed that wherever he went, he would have been more at ease somewhere else.
God and Man in China - Bret Stephens - Wall Street Journal The violent protests in Tibet that began last week and have since spread across (and beyond) China are frequently depicted as a secessionist threat to Beijing. But the regime's deeper problem in the current crisis is neither ethnic nor territorial. It's religious.
I feel like, therefore I am - Professor Theophilus - TrueU.org Once again, the lock on my office door wasn't cooperating with the key.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days - James Bowman - Jamesbowman.net As I was coming out of a screening of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, as shaken up by the experience as I imagine everyone who has seen the film must be, I accidentally fell into step behind a couple — she in her 20s or early 30s, he considerably older, both elegantly dressed — who were making their reaction to what they had seen a matter for public remark.
They don’t get much cooler - Robert Fulford - National Post Marshall McLuhan would have loved Barack Obama — not as a political leader, necessarily, but as a public figure who provides proof of a favourite McLuhan theory and a reason to develop it further.
Pope2008 - National Catholic Register Blog watch Tim Drake , Senior Writer with the National Catholic Register, is providing up-to-the-minute reports on news and preparations for the Pope’s visit to America.
Pope’s third encyclical to be titled “Love in Truth” - CNA Pope Benedict XVI’s third encyclical will discuss Catholic social teaching, touching on issues as varied as poverty, peace, wars, international cooperation, energy sources, and globalization. 
Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian - The Telegraph Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St Francis of Assisi.
Stations of the Cross — Without the Cross - Christianity Today The latest liturgical travesty, a "stations of the cross without the cross."
Faith of the Feminine - NRO Vatican conference on women highlights the Judeo-Christian tradition’s liberating power.
I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really - New York Times I took a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off. I was fully disconnected for 24 hours.
Airbrushing away diversity - Ottawa Citizen 'We often talk about embracing diversity in Canada, but ... true diversity, in the broadest sense, that's missing'.
G'Day... Ka-Ching - Whispers in the Loggia The cost of this summer's World Youth Day in Sydney has ballooned to AUS$150 million (US$140 mil).
One Party, One Child - Wall Street Journal As Communist Party elites hobnob in Beijing this week, the one-child policy has become a dangerous liability for current — and future — political leaders.
Catholic Confessors Get Vatican Crash Course - ABC News With Confessions on the Wane, the Vatican Organizes a Refresher Course for Priests.
Watch and listen - Amy Welborn Here is what is important to me about this. It is not the Pope’s intelligence, or even the still-lively and absorbing mind of a man in his 80’s.
Cared for comatose daughter 38 years - Miami Herald Kaye O'Bara, the Miami Gardens woman who kept vigil at her comatose daughter's bedside for nearly four decades, has died. She was 80.
Girl Power - Slate Coercion, money, and the rise of reproductive freedom.
AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right - First Things Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and false assumptions.
Who dare call it futile? - Mercatornet.com A Canadian man’s life depends on a ventilator. His relatives want to keep it on; his doctors want to turn it off.
Hellfire Preacher Stirs Up Campuses - AP Bible in hand, Micah Armstrong strides into the middle of a small group of students at the University of Alabama and starts preaching.
Abp. Burke's excommunication of the "women priests" - Canon Law Blog Edward Peters, whose "In the Light of the Law" weblog regularly provides reliable and often revealing commentary on canon-law issues, says that he would like to cite Archbishop Burke's announcement as a textbook illustration of proper disciplinary action. But he can't, he explains.
Sex & the Teenage Girl: The insights of Juno - Commonweal With great humor and humanity, the film suggests that among all the things teens need in order to grow up the most important is the experience of tender first love.
The mighty fall and the media cash in - Mercatornet Why are newspapers gasping in scandalised horror over the misdeeds of Eliot Spitzer? They wrote the script.
Something fishy in the STD stats - Get Religion One more time we have the whirlpool of questions about how newspapers should handle stories that raise moral questions.
Wuerl eyes humanity for illegals - Washington Times The archbishop responsible for shepherding Pope Benedict XVI around Washington next month cautioned the United States against deporting immigrants wholesale and called on America to act "responsibly" in Iraq.
A Church for Qatari - Whispers in the Loggia Palm Sunday Eve saw the dedication of Qatar's first Christian house of worship of any sort — a 2,700-seat (expandable to 5,000) parish church for the booming emirate's large expat population, who mostly perform service labor.
More Sambi - Whispers in the Loggia Building on the aforementioned Religion News Service interview with the "Super-Nuncio," the full text of Dan Burke's chat with Archbishop Pietro Sambi has been posted on the outlet's blog in three parts.
Death Threats Hit Oklahoma Politician - LifeSiteNews.com Oklahoma House Representative Sally Kern has received thousands of emails in light of a recorded speech posted on YouTube.com in which she called homosexual practices more dangerous to the United States than terrorism.
Royal college warns abortions can lead to mental illness - The Times Women may be at risk of mental health breakdowns if they have abortions, a medical royal college has warned.
Waiting for the “real” pope stuff - Get Religion At this point, I do not think that GetReligion will be creating its own special web site to cover the upcoming visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the United States (at least, to the parts of the U.S. that really matter).
Mosul Christians, angry and desperate - Asianewsit AsiaNews speaks to the faithful about archbishop Rahho who was found dead yesterday.
Religion 'linked to happy life' - BBC A belief in God could lead to a more contented life, research suggests.
Obama claims luck, blood, nomenclature of the Irish - Boston.com It is hard to imagine a less friendly room than the one Barack Obama entered here Monday night: a tribal gathering of Irish-Catholic women with a dais full of Hillary Clinton supporters in a a place she claims as a hometown.
Is West toning down criticism of China over Tibet? - Reuters When it comes to speaking out on Tibet, China has just got too much economic clout for Western powers to talk too loudly.
Police say rosaries are newest gang symbol - USA Today Never did Jaime Salazar imagine that wearing a rosarylike crucifix to school would provoke a national stir.
Focolare Founder Chiara Lubich Remembered for Her Pro-Life Convictions - LifeSiteNews.com Chiara Lubich, the foundress of the worldwide Focolare Catholic lay movement which strives to unite people to live their lives for God, died March 14 at 88 years of age.
Cellphone Pictures In Lhasa - Washington Post Cellphone photographs and videos from Tibet, blurry and amateurish, are circulating on the Internet.
Changes at St. Anthony make it a school to watch - JS Online Boosted by voucher funds, it triples student population while emphasizing basics.
Why so cruel to home school? - Education Excellence A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, tells us that California's Second District Court of Appeal was correct to rule last week that parents without teaching credentials cannot educate their children at home — i.e., that most of the 166,000-odd home-schooled students in the Golden State could be truants and their parents may be violating the law.
Homeschoolers and the Law in the Golden State - First Things Blog As word of an appellate decision — In re Rachel L. — in California got around earlier this month, homeschoolers around the country reacted with incredulity and outrage.
Governor vows to protect homeschooling - SF Gate Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denounced a state appeals court ruling that severely restricts homeschooling and promised Friday to change the law if necessary to guarantee that parents are able to educate their children at home.
Home is not where the school is - Get Religion A recent California appellate court ruling raises major questions about whether parents have the right to educate their children.
For Muslim teen, Catholic school just made sense - Times online For straight-A student Amanda Jaber, moving on to a Catholic high school after grade school was a no-brainer.
Is America getting dumber? - Dallas News "The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself."
World's richest prize won by Polish physicist and Catholic priest - Vancouver Sun The world's richest annual prize has been won by a Polish physicist and Catholic priest whose research on the origins of the universe and the tension between religion and science was conducted for decades under intense Soviet-era repression.
Rounding up the faithful - Denver Post Cowboy churches. Laid-back but filled with spirit, Western Heritage gatherings give hardworking folks a place to "come as they are" to worship.
Five school reformers walk into a bar... - Gadfly Okay — it was a restaurant, not a bar, where Green Dot's Steve Barr, AEI's Rick Hess, venture philanthropist Vanessa Kirsch, New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, and Gates Foundation alumnus Tom Vander Ark sat down with writer Paul Tough for a New York Times Magazine "roundtable" on education philanthropy.
Group has severance plan for 'worst unionized teachers' - USA Today A Washington-based anti-union group hopes to "jump-start a conversation" about the difficulty schools face in getting rid of bad teachers — with a contest that sounds as if it were designed for reality TV.
The anxiety epidemic: Why are children so unhappy? - Gadfly A creeping malaise exists amongst British children, it seems. In February 2007, the United Nations Children Fund labeled U.K. youths the most unhappy in the western world.
Cardinal Dulles Urges Faithful Catholic Colleges - Assumption College The Catholic college or university should gratefully acknowledge the mercy of God who has provided an institution that has for two thousand years kept the Christian revelation complete and unsullied.
Bishop D'Arcy releases strong statement - Cardinal Newman Society Reverend John Jenkins, CSC, and I have been in communication about his decision to allow performances of “The Vagina Monologues” at Notre Dame. Subscribe/Unsubscribe | |
