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CERC WEEKLY UPDATE - November 7, 2008 NEW RESOURCES EDITORIALS OF INTEREST EDUCATION MATTERS Note from the Managing Editor:
Many thanks to Father Thomas Rosica for interviewing me about CERC on Salt & Light TV last May in Toronto. That interview is now available from the front page of the Salt & Light web site here or you can go directly to the interview here. Other than that, I'm out of steam after a long day and have only enough energy left to ask you please to help sustain CERC with a donation. A lot of work goes into bringing you the best writing and thinking available on the Catholic faith and culture front. Please show your approval and appreciation with a donation. I need to raise $15,000 between now and the end of November. Please donate now and, as I mentioned in our last email, please also consider becoming a monthly donor. Tax receipts will be issued to everyone donating from the U.S. or Canada and if you donate $50.00 or more I'll send you a nice Catholic book in the New Year. Please donate here. God bless you. - J. Fraser Field This CERC Weekly Update is also available on our web site here.
Quote of the Week: "The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors." - Charles Peguy
• What an Obama presidency means for Catholics - Our Sunday Visitor • Catholic Students Losing Their Religion - National Catholic Register • This is OK! This isn't ;) - Guardian • Latin, the uppity language - Beliefnet • Teen pregnancy 'higher among those watching sexual TV content' - Telegraph • Nestled in the Lap of Luxury - Wall Street Journal • Election reflection - Gadfly Praying the Hail Mary Like Never Before - Edward P. Sri - Lay Witness Catholics sometimes come across slightly defensive, almost embarrassed, about Mary.
A pro-life free-speech heroine walks free - Nigel Hannaford - Calgary Herald This could be a free speech story, or a pro-life story, or just a story about plain old perseverance. You decide.
Americans are very proud of themselves -- and why not? A black man in the Oval Office is a very big thing.
I am rereading Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson.
What does the Obama victory look like from Rome?
Aleister Crowley was an English witch.
The doctrine of Christ's divinity is the central Christian doctrine, for it is like a skeleton key that opens all the others.
Is Richard Dawkins still evolving? - Melanie Phillips - The Spectator On Tuesday evening I attended the debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox at Oxford's Natural History Museum.
Are Science and Religion Really Enemies? - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. - Making Sense Out of Bioethics One subject I often end up discussing with friends and acquaintances is the apparent conflict between religion and science.
When Life Begins - Robert P. George - National Review Will politics trump science?
What an Obama presidency means for Catholics - Our Sunday Visitor So now it's back to reality.
Voters and Marriage - Wall Street Journal The people have spoken -- again.
Pius XII saw "Miracle of the Sun" - CathNews Pope Pius XII, who declared the dogma of the Assumption, witnessed Fatima like "miracles of the sun" four times, the pontiff's handwritten notes reveal.
Vatican returns Parthenon marbles - CathNews The Vatican returned a fragment of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece yesterday in a move that may increase pressure on the British Museum to return the so called Elgin Marbles. 
Life Didn't Lose -- the GOP Did - National Catholic Register The abortion lobby will be quick to claim that the American people wrote a blank check last night for on-demand abortion. That’s just not so.
Papist Chat w/ Archbishop Chaput - You Tube An exclusive sit-down interview with Archbishop Chaput.
The Pro-Life Case Against Barack Obama . . . and Doug Kmiec - Public Discourse The Obama apologists are at it again, this time attacking Archbishop Charles Chaput for speaking out against their candidate's pro-abortion views. But the latest salvo from Doug Kmiec is a tangled web of falsehoods and fallacies.
Archbishop Chaput eager to see Kmiec deliver a pro-life Obama - CNA Archbishop Chaput noted that Kmiec has a "unique opportunity" to press President-elect Obama to “reconsider his most extreme positions,” such as support for partial-birth abortion, human cloning for stem cell research, and the Freedom of Choice Act.
Backers focused Prop. 8 battle beyond marriage - LA Times Opponents of gay marriage shrewdly targeted the implications for schools, churches and children, analysts say.
Despite all the rage, do not be a sore loser - Chicago Tribune On Wednesday morning, just about half of the country will wake to find that the nation has been taken over by absolute fools.
Doubt and Douthat - National Catholic Register Coming in December to a theater not necessarily near you (it has a limited release) is Doubt, a movie version of the John Patrick Shanley play.
Vatican on Seminaries: The "Gay Ban" Stands - Whispers in the loggia Soon to come from the Congregation for Catholic Education: the final report on the Apostolic Visitation of US seminaries, which was conducted at each of the nation's 229 houses during the 2005-6 academic year.
Meeting of the Minds - Whispers in the loggia Among attendees at the annual plenary of the Pontifical Academy of Science was the celebrated Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, who was named to the international group of scholars by John Paul II in 1986.
Out of hiding, some Kosovars embrace Christianity - Reuters For centuries, some Albanian Muslims were secretly Catholic. Now they are coming back.
How Not to Help the Poor - You Tube What's the best way to assist the poor?
"God Calls Us to Work Together" - Whispers in the loggia This morning, the Pope received the members of the Catholic-Muslim Forum at the close of its inaugural meeting this week.
Winning Proposition - National Review I can hardly believe the campaign for Proposition 8, the California Marriage Amendment, is over and that we won.
Youth Rally with Pope Benedict XVI - Litany of the Saints - You Tube Video of the "Litany of the Saints" at the 2008 Youth Rally celebrated in NY in which Pope Benedict XVI met with the Youth and Seminarians at St. Joseph Seminary.
Catholic Students Losing Their Religion - National Catholic Register Study Says Tuition Doesn’t Fund Faith at Catholic Colleges.
This is OK! This isn't ;) - Guardian The linguistic police should leave exclamation marks alone, and focus their efforts on text-crime.
Latin, the uppity language - Beliefnet Local governments in Great Britain are striking blows for egalitarianism by outlawing the use of Latin phrases as, I kid you not, "discriminatory.
Teen pregnancy 'higher among those watching sexual TV content' - Telegraph Teenagers who watch television programmes with strong sexual content are twice as likely to become or make a partner pregnant than those who do not, a study suggests.
Nestled in the Lap of Luxury - Wall Street Journal In times of economic crisis, with thoughts of austerity and thrift in our minds, it is amusing to come across the hyper-consumerism of only the day before yesterday.
Election reflection - Gadfly How should serious education reformers view the results of Tuesday's election? We find five causes for optimism and an equal number of worries. Subscribe/Unsubscribe |
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