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CERC WEEKLY UPDATE - November 21, 2008 NEW RESOURCES EDITORIALS OF INTEREST EDUCATION MATTERS Note from the Managing Editor:
Thomas Lickona is as wise as anyone I've read in matters of educational practice. (He's also a friend and a great booster and supporter of CERC.) Tom is a faithful Catholic who understands that nothing is more important in education than the cultivation of virtue, the development of character in the child. Read Tom below on how to make classroom discipline character-based. And let me also point you in the direction of Father George Rutler, who is frequently surpassing in his insights. You'll find him just that way in "Unprepared for spiritual battle".
On another matter, I'm looking for a volunteer to manage a small data base for us. If you have some competence and are interested in helping out, please write me here.
Finally, please make a donation to CERC if you find our service of value. We need your support if we are to continue. You can 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 dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosophy. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men; my heart goes out to them."- G.K. Chesterton
• if a hate crime takes place in a forest, and nobody hears it,... - Off the Record • A Tribute to My First Grade Teacher - Rhode Island Catholic • St. Olaf Wrestles With Milton's Angel, and Prevails - Chronicle of Higher Education • Anti-Porn Filters Work - National Catholic Register • Love in the Time of Darwinism - City Journal • Feminists for Life Rolling Out College Pro-Life Videos - National Catholic Register • Disturbing development - Gadfly Unprepared for spiritual battle - Father George William Rutler - Weekly Column In February of 1943, the ill-prepared United States Army II Corps valiantly fought against the German-Italian Panzer Army at the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia but had to retreat.
Practice Character-Based Discipline - Thomas Lickona - chapter 7 from Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues To discipline is to teach. Properly understood, discipline is not crowd control but character education, with self-discipline as its ultimate aim. No aspect of character education is more basic to creating a school of character.
One of the deepest mysteries of life is that of happiness.
Among the many new "rights" being conjured out of thin air, a new one seems to be a "right" to win.
On June 17, 2008, the Boston Celtics broke their huddle with the chant, "ubuntu", just as they had before every game in their grueling 116-game season.
Fr. Newman’s parishioners came to Mass in large numbers this weekend and applauded so long when he began his homily that they only quieted down when he turned and knelt to the Blessed Sacrament.
What could possibly be more unwanted at this particular intense and critical political moment than a thumb-sucking reflection on -- of all things -- the Deadly Sin known as Sloth?
The Christian Story and the World's Story - George Weigel - The Catholic Difference In A Short World History of Christianity, Robert Bruce Mullin offers us, not a theological interpretation of history but a concise narrative of the Church's life in the world -- the Church's life between "Redemption" and "the Kingdom of God."
Troubled American teen girls mar women's progress - Colleen Carroll Campbell - St. Louis Post-Dispatch It seems that while American women are making great strides in public life, our daughters are enduring agonizing struggles in private.
if a hate crime takes place in a forest, and nobody hears it,.. - Off the Record In San Francisco's Castro district, a handful of homosexual activists were peacefully chanting slogans when they were set upon by a mob of angry fundamentalist Christians, who surrounded and hounded them, shouting obscenities and threatening to kill them.
"Gethsemane" in Context - Whispers in the loggia Last week's comments by the major penitentiary of the church Cardinal James Francis Stafford have circulated far and wide since the Baltimore-born prelate offered his impressions on the incoming administration in a lecture at DC's Catholic University of America late last week. 
Newman in the Lion's Den - Inside Catholic Last week, we at St. Mary's Church in Greenville, South Carolina, found ourselves in the midst of a perfect media storm.
Requiem for Susan - Washington Times When I landed at Washington Dulles International Airport the afternoon of Feb. 17, 2007, after flying 7,000 miles with my newly adopted daughter, only one person met me to drive me home.
Einstein's God - You Tube Einstein biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the famous scientist's views on God and religion.
No More Bretton Woods - Public Discourse While this weekend's conference threatens to repeat the failures of Bretton Woods, the work of economist Wilhelm Röpke may recommend a more successful approach.
Italian Nuns Refuse to Kill Eluana Englaro - LifeSiteNews.com The nuns who run the hospice in which Eluana Englaro has been living for 14 years have refused to carry out the court order to remove her food and hydration tube.
Prince: No Same-Sex Marriage - National Catholic Register Many of the leading lights of the entertainment industry have campaigned passionately for legal recognition of same-sex "marriage." But some are against it.
Pfizer's Stem-Cell Push to Target Ailments of Aging - Bloomberg.com Doctors may someday slow or reverse the aging process with drugs that stimulate the body to repair itself as a result of research undertaken by Pfizer Inc.
Faith, Love and Football - National Catholic Register Chicago Bears Owner Hopes for More Than Winning.
Bishops of Congo appeal for help from international community to achieve peace - CNA The Bishops' Conference of Congo issued a dramatic and urgent message calling for an end to the violence in the country and urging the international community to intervene to stop the "silent genocide" that is afflicting the nation, especially in the northern region of Kivu.
Pope: Church must strengthen efforts to educate Catholics in politics - CNS The Catholic Church must strengthen its efforts to educate and assist lay Catholics involved in politics so that the positions they hold and the policies they promote reflect the values of the faith they profess, Pope Benedict XVI said.
Toward a Meeting, the Drumbeat Begins... - Whispers in the loggia TIME's impeccably well-sourced Rome hand, Jeff Israely, reports that a Benedict-Barack Summit could take place "perhaps [by] early July.
Online Catholic TV programs - Salt & Light A list of the series and programs available online from Salt & Light.
Catholic Charities USA Named Top Provider of Social Services - Market Watch In 2007 Catholic Charities provided services to 7,736,855 people nationwide. In all, 171 main Catholic Charities agenciesprovided food, clothing, counseling, disaster relief, financial assistance and an array of vital community-based services 13,919,070 times last year.
Bush Abortion Proposal Raises Ire of Health Groups - Wall Street Journal Opposition is building to a Bush administration proposal that would give health providers more leverage to refuse to participate in abortions or other treatments they oppose on religious or moral grounds.
The Formerly Middle Class - New York Times Recessions are about more than material deprivation. They're also about fear and diminished expectations. The cultural consequences of recessions are rarely uplifting.
Birth defects linked with assisted reproduction - Chicago Tribune Babies born to couples who rely on medical technology to become pregnant have much higher rates of certain birth defects.
Requiem at Oxford - Upside down blogspot My friend Fra Lawrence Lew OP takes splendid photographs of the various events of Catholic renewal of the liturgy that take place in Oxford.
State Supreme Court rejoins Prop. 8 battle - SFGate The state Supreme Court plunged back into the same-sex marriage wars Wednesday, agreeing to decide the legality of a ballot measure that repealed the right of gay and lesbian couples to wed in California.
Benedict's Bookstore - National Catholic Register After he was elected Pope in 2005, renovations were undertaken to the papal residence to accommodate his personal library of 20,000 books.
Pope explains St. Paul's approach to justification by faith - Catholic Culture Pope Benedict XVI continued his series of Wednesday talks on the influence of St. Paul at his general audience on November 19, concentrating on the Apostle's approach to the question of justification.
EDUCATION MATTERS: In Gotham, "Schools in Crisis" - Whispers in the loggia Warning of an "alarming trend," this morning's New York Post reports that enrollment is "plummeting" in the Big Apple's Catholic schools:
A Tribute to My First Grade Teacher - Rhode Island Catholic I received word recently that my first grade teacher, Sister Claudia Kunzler, OSB, passed away. Sr. Claudia died at the age of 79 and in the 61st year of religious life.
St. Olaf Wrestles With Milton's Angel, and Prevails - Chronicle of Higher Education When Richard J. DuRocher, a professor of English at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minn., told one of his classes that he was running a marathon, everybody cheered. Then he told them what kind of marathon: a straight-through, out-loud reading of John Milton's Paradise Lost -- all 12 books of it, from Satan's fall to Adam and Eve's eviction from the Garden of Eden.
Anti-Porn Filters Work - National Catholic Register Opponents of government-mandated Internet content filters to restrict access to pornography often argue that they don’t work.
Love in the Time of Darwinism - City Journal A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive.
Feminists for Life Rolling Out College Pro-Life Videos - National Catholic Register The first in a series of new pro-life videos aimed at college students features a young, dark-haired woman addressing an audience at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Disturbing development - Gadfly New York Times columnist David Brooks began his June 13th piece with a question: "Is Barack Obama really a force for change, or is he just a traditional Democrat with a patina of postpartisan rhetoric?"
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