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CERC WEEKLY UPDATE - September 26, 2012 NEW RESOURCES EDITORIALS OF INTEREST EDUCATION MATTERS Note from the Managing Editor:
His Grace Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia, introduces Colleen Carroll Campbell's new book this way:
Joseph Bottum, former editor of First Things, frequently has something a little different to contribute. He has this to say about Colleen's new book:
Colleen has written an engagingly honest book about her own life and journey of faith. It's beautiful and I have the first chapter, "Party Girl", for you below.- J. Fraser Field This CERC Weekly Update is also available on our web site here.
Quote of the Week: "It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." - G.K. Chesterton
• October: Extremely busy month for Benedict XVI - Rome Reports • Nation's Top 50 Catholic High Schools Announced - Campus Notes • Catholic Schools and The Sacrament of Reconciliation - A Bridge Too Far? - Being Catholic • Kids and chores: start young - Family Edge • The Curriculum Reformation - City Journal • Music and baby talk - Family Edge • All girls schools have the edge - Family Edge • Campus tour invites college students to vote pro-life first - CNA • Color, Size and Smoking Affect Tattoo Removal - Wall Street Journal • How to Stymie the Teachers Unions - Defining Ideas • HHS mandate allows minors free contraception, sterilization - CNA Greatness in Serving - Jean Vanier - from The Scandal of Service: Jesus Washes Our Feet Jesus asks his disciples to exercise authority like a child or a servant.
Party Girl - Colleen Carroll Campbell - chapter 1 from My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir A poignant and powerful spiritual memoir about how the lives of the saints changed the life of a modern woman.
In a month when you are probably spending too much time watching speeches beamed from Tampa and listening to "spontaneous" applause from Charlotte, let me take you away, just for a moment, to the Braemar Gathering: a day of bagpipe contests, footraces, games and parades, held every year in a remote Scottish village.
One of the West's greatest impediments in its struggle against religious extremism may well the fact that the secular part of its soul turns out to be far less enlightened than anyone imagined possible.
We've all experienced it; we've all been affected by it: The endemic lack of concern about evangelizing others so that they can be saved.
On the Fall of Man, recounted in but a few verses in the third chapter of Genesis, one might well fill many shelves full of books, so rich is the mythic presentation of what Newman called the aboriginal calamity, a disastrous turning away from God wherein we are all involved.
Laughter is an intimation of the joy in which we are created, a sign of the abundance of delight in the origin of our being.
What Catholic Women Think About Faith, Conscience, and Contraception - Carolyn Moynihan - Mercatornet A new study finds that Catholic women are more receptive to the Church's teaching on contraception than had previously been reported.
The Grey Lady and Whitewashed Tombs - Father George Rutler - From the Pastor Pope Benedict XVI was in Lebanon last week where the principal Catholic rite, the Maronite, traces its roots to Saint Maroun, who in the fourth century was a friend of Saint John Chrysostom.
25th Sunday of Ordinary Time - Father John Horgan - CERC His way is not our way.
October: Extremely busy month for Benedict XVI - Rome Reports The month of October will be quite busy for the Pope.
An exhibit on the life and inner flame of St. Therese of Lisieux - Rome Reports About 7 million people have visited the Notre Dame Cathedral to see this exhibit on St. Therese of Lisieux.  Pew: Religious Restrictions on Rise in U.S. - First Thoughts The Pew Forum's annual report on religious freedom is out, and for the first time in its four-year history, it reports a rising tide of religious restrictions in the United States.
Restrictions on religion rise around the world - Reuters Legal limits and social pressures against religion have risen to the point where three-quarters of the world's population live in states where practicing their faith is restricted in some way, a new study said on Thursday.
40 Days for Life - 40 Days The next 40 Days for Life campaign starts exactly one week from today — and it's going to be a record-breaker!
Pondering a 'rising tide' of threats to religious freedom - NCR Beyond any doubt, religious freedom has emerged as the premier social and political concern of the Catholic church in the early 21st century.
A Doctor's Ministry, Bridging Science and Spirit - New York Times Forty years ago, long before the recent afternoon when Dr. Joseph Dutkowsky knelt at the warped feet of his 4-year-old patient, he was a small-town teenager approaching his Catholic confirmation and needing to select a patron saint.
Africa's Christians now outnumber Muslims -Vatican Insider At a conference in Morocco, Italian sociologist, Massimo Introvigne, revealed that African practicing Catholics outnumber their European counterparts.
The Republican and Democratic Conventions - Father Robert Barron - Youtube A commentary by Fr. Barron.
Speaking Out -National Review Online Catholic women answer Sandra Fluke.
San Gennaro 'miracle' repeated - ANSA Liquefaction of saint's blood a good omen for city.
Hippocrates' last stand - National Review Online It's come to this: Preventing the Roe v. Wade of doctor-prescribed suicide.
Denver theologians weigh in on meaning of "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" - Denver Post The 3-inch-long piece of papyrus translated by a Harvard scholar as "Jesus" talking about "my wife" doesn't prove he was married, but it raises the question, "What if?"
Chick-fil-A's stance on marriage remains unchanged - CNA Despite false news reports, Chik-fil-A has not given in to pressure and changed its stance on marriage.
McGurn: The Chick-fil-A War Is Back On - Wall Street Journal Welcome to the new intolerance.
Catholics and Campaign 2012 - National Review Online The Catholic Left doesn't have a monopoly on the Church's social teaching.
My Uncle, Fulton Sheen - Catholic World Report Joan Sheen Cunningham remembers life with her uncle, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who was the face of the American Catholic Church for decades.
Pew survey: Catholics favor Obama by 15-point margin - Catholic Culture President Barack Obama holds a 54%-39% advantage over Mitt Romney among Catholics, according to the latest voter survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
What do Beethoven, Justin Bieber and Tim Tebow have in common? - LifeSiteNews A professor in a college ethics class presented his students with a problem.
Cardinal Dolan Talks Catholicism, Humor With Stephen Colbert at Fordham - NCRegister G.K. Chesterton famously said, “It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." The archbishop and the television comedian put that saying into practice at Fordham University.
Nation's Top 50 Catholic High Schools Announced - Campus Notes Today, September 20, 2012, the winners of the 2012-2013 Catholic High School Honor Roll competition were announced by The Cardinal Newman Society.
Catholic Schools and The Sacrament of Reconciliation - A Bridge Too Far? - Being Catholic Best I can tell there are only two ways to make alpha male students cry.
Kids and chores: start young - Family Edge The amount of time children spend helping around the home has been dropping for decades.
The Curriculum Reformation - City Journal New national standards prod schools to return to content-based education.
Music and baby talk - Family Edge Music's legendary charms don't just soothe the savage breast; they also stimulate the language centres in the brain.
All girls schools have the edge - Family Edge Research comparing the behaviour of women who went to single-sex versus mixed-sex schools has found that women from all-girl schools are as competitive as men, while those educated alongside boys are less so.
Campus tour invites college students to vote pro-life first - CNA A new nationwide initiative is asking young American voters to remember the importance of life when they cast their ballots this November.
Color, Size and Smoking Affect Tattoo Removal - Wall Street Journal As growing numbers of people rue the tattoos they got in their youth, a new study has found that tattoo removal is less likely to succeed if the person is a smoker, the design contains colors such as blue or yellow and is larger than 12 inches.
How to Stymie the Teachers Unions - Defining Ideas Want to prevent another Chicago? Let charter schools flourish.
HHS mandate allows minors free contraception, sterilization - CNA Minor children on their parents' health care plans will have free coverage of sterilization and contraception, including abortion-causing drugs, under the controversial HHS mandate – and depending on the state, they can obtain access without parental consent. Subscribe/Unsubscribe |
