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CERC WEEKLY UPDATE - November 12, 2009 NEW RESOURCES EDITORIALS OF INTEREST EDUCATION MATTERS Note from the Managing Editor:
The miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe has inspired millions, but I wonder if ever the story, in all it's richness and import, has been told as well as in Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love by Carl Anderson and Msgr. Eduardo Chávez Sánchez. The message and meaning of this great event are very much in the details, and those details are wonderfully conveyed in this compelling account. Thanks to Random House and the authors you can read the first chapter below. - J. Fraser Field This CERC Weekly Update is also available on our web site here.
Quote of the Week: "If I don't go into the desert, to meet God, then I have nothing to say when I go into the market-place." - Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster
• Dear Congressman Kennedy - Bishop Thomas J. Tobin - Rhode Island Catholic • Our Father unknown - Telegraph • Christopher Klicka: Warrior for Educational and Religious Freedom - Catholic Exchange • Ed schools, hallowed no more - Education Gadfly • This American Life - YouTube • Parents unite to transform your schools! (just kidding. . . ) - Parent Revolution • L.A. Gives Parents 'Trigger' to Restructure Schools - Education Week • Abortion linked with mental health problems - Family Edge • Parental notification allowed - New York Times/AP An Apparition of Reconciliation and Hope - Carl A. Anderson & Msgr. Eduardo Chávez Sánchez - ch. 1 in Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a hostile colonial government and Native Americans wary of conversion, the newly-appointed bishop-elect of Mexico wrote to tell the King of Spain that, unless there was a miracle, the continent would be lost. Between December 9 and December 12, 1531, that miracle happened, and it forever changed the future of the continent.
The Man Who Made Pelosi Cry 'Uncle' - William McGurn - Wall Street Journal Not many folks in Washington have made Nancy Pelosi cry "uncle." Bart Stupak is one of the few.
Many Catholic converts speak of coming home. Not me. For years, I felt I had left home and cast my lot with strange, argumentative folks.
What was once venerated is now, in many ways, dismissed and even despised.
World-famous as a capital of fashion and design, Milan, Italy's second city, has a more modest reputation for cultural heritage.
One assumes that The New York Times would have been glad to receive an Op-Ed article from the new Archbishop of New York.
Today, the Pope Pius V University in Rome will be the setting for a day-long conference with the arresting title, "The Scientific Impossibility of Evolution."
Cultural suicide - George Jonas - National Post Political correctness will be the death of Western civilization because unlike our earlier forms of pluralistic tolerance, PC is wilfully blind to the lack of reciprocal tolerance in other cultures.
The Ethics of "Correcting" Mitochondrial Disease - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk - Making Sense Out of Bioethics Mitochondria are small, elongated structures in a cell that produce energy.
Fort Hood - David Warren - Ottawa Citizen For a person with old-fashioned values, and an old-fashioned sense of English word meanings, the reports of the Fort Hood massacre were almost as provoking as what happened there.
Dear Congressman Kennedy - Bishop Thomas J. Tobin - Rhode Island Catholic Since our recent correspondence has been rather public, I hope you don't mind if I share a few reflections about your practice of the faith in this public forum.
Voice of Love, Hand of Repression - Hadley Arkes - The Catholic Thing Something momentous was taking place in Maine. By a margin of 53-47 percent, the voters in this now most liberal of states, would overturn a law passed by the legislature to authorize same-sex marriage.  Anglican Province Accepts Pope's Offer - NCRegister The Traditional Anglican Communion's province in Great Britain has become the first to accept Pope Benedict XVI's Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans.
Vatican discounts rumors on quick beatification of John Paul II - Catholic Culture Vatican officials have moved quickly to deflate a report, published in the Italian daily La Repubblica, that Pope John Paul II will be beatified early next year.
Internet truth - and charity - CNS The Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the Vatican's office of media studies, speaks out on the growing incivility by Catholics on the Internet.
Life After the End of History - New York Times The possibility of dissolution lends a moral shape to history.
Security Chief for the Vatican Was 'Guardian Angel' to Pope - Wall Street Journal For almost 60 years, Camillo Cibin was the silent shadow of six popes, a broad-shouldered but discreet presence as their chief bodyguard and the Vatican's head of security.
Benedict's ongoing battle against secularism - NCR Much has been made lately of Pope Benedict XVI's apparent lenience for "cafeteria Catholicism" on the right.
It's unanimous - Washington Times Every time and everywhere gay marriage is voted upon, it loses.
It never ends - Telegraph Gay "activists" call their blasphemy free speech but describe protests against them as "provocative."
Blair on board - Daily Mail The Holy Father invites the former British P.M. and other leaders to Rome to discuss the erosion of Christian values in politics.
Not Optional - Breakpoint Many were shocked last February when Secretary of State Clinton said that pressing China about its human rights abuses "can't interfere" with more important things -- like -- the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis.
The powerful new EU: a setback for democracy - Catholic Culture If France suddenly ceased to exist as an independent state, would that qualify as big news-- a story that belonged on the top of the headlines? Well in a sense that's what happened this week.
Superheroes - Deseret News Remembering the faith and courage that brought down the Berlin Wall.
House Passes Health-Care Bill, So What's a Catholic to Do? - NCRegister After Saturday's passage in the U.S. House of the health-care reform bill, highlighted by the amendment prohibiting federal funding for abortion, what's a Catholic to do?
Catholics fear a good idea gone bad - Denver Post With more than 620 Catholic hospitals serving the public around the United States, health-care reform is a familiar issue for Catholics.
Anglo-Romans - Telegraph There is a sense in which Rome is recognizing, for the first time, that you can be Anglican and Roman Catholic.
Abortion Amendment Finds Its Way Into Reform Bill - Carl Anderson - Zenit With an abortion-friendly political majority solidly in control of the U.S. government, an abortion-mandating health care bill seemed to many a "fait accompli." People didn't count on the power of a "creative minority."
The Rush to Therapy - New York Times Give Major Nidal Malik Hasan the freedom to be a bad man, not a sick one.
Islam can't justify killing - Washington Times Barack Obama tells 15,000 mourners at Fort Hood that no religious faith may justify the murderous attack by a Muslim U.S. Army officer on fellow soldiers last week, the president's first acknowledgment that fanatical Islam may have motivated the shooting.
Who Deserves Credit for the Berlin Wall's Fall? - NCRegister "The truth is that 50% of the fall of the wall belongs to John Paul II, 30% to Solidarity and Lech Walesa and only 20% to the rest of the world. That was the truth then and is the truth now," said Walesa.
Parents lose right over sex education - Telegraph UK's school children will be given sex education from the age of five, and although parents can keep their kids out of the classes on moral and religious grounds, this right to opt out ends when their children turn 15.
Our Father unknown - Telegraph A report from Britain on the state of basic religious knowledge.
Christopher Klicka: Warrior for Educational and Religious Freedom - Catholic Exchange In the early 1980s, Pennsylvania was called by HSLDA one of the "worst states" in the country for home schoolers. By the end of the 1980s, the climate changed due, in no small measure, to the perseverance and tenacity of Chris Klicka and HSLDA.
Ed schools, hallowed no more - Education Gadfly Education schools are under attack -- yet again. But don't yawn and assume that this, too, shall pass. For unlike innumerable previous assaults, which these institutions withstood with awesome obstinacy, this one may actually crack their fortified walls.
This American Life - YouTube How being news reporters changed our elementary school.
Parents unite to transform your schools! (just kidding. . . ) - Parent Revolution When the LAUSD passed the Public School Choice Resolution last summer, the hope was that this time it would be different -- that in this historic moment, the leadership of the LAUSD would put special interests aside and make this all about kids.
L.A. Gives Parents 'Trigger' to Restructure Schools - Education Week New rules will give parents of children in struggling schools the power to make changes.
Abortion linked with mental health problems - Family Edge The battle over the mental health effects of abortion continues, the latest shot being fired by a New Zealand researcher who says that abortion does lead to "significant distress" in some women.
Parental notification allowed - New York Times/AP Illinois is finally able to enforce a parental notification law -- after a decade of legal challenges. Subscribe/Unsubscribe |
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