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CERC WEEKLY UPDATE - June 26, 2009 NEW RESOURCES EDITORIALS OF INTEREST EDUCATION MATTERS Note from the Managing Editor:
The homilies, encyclicals, and other public pronouncements of the Popes have an obvious importance, but what is conveyed in private by Peter's successors can also have a great potency. Shortly after being made a bishop in 1969, Edouard Cardinal Gagnon was in conversation with Pope Paul VI who told his new bishop:
Cardinal Gagnon writes:
It's a message for our time. - J Fraser Field This CERC Weekly Update is also available on our web site here.
Quote of the Week: "To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living, but existing." - Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
• Pope Benedict explains why he created Year for Priests - CNA • Only Catholic College in Georgia Graduates First Class - NCRegister • Internet, the thief of family time - Family Edge • A List of Great Movies about Fathers - The Ruth Institute • Throwing oil on the blaze of teenage sex -Family Edge • Team of Researchers Blames Children's Films for Perpetuating "Heteronormativity" - LifeSiteNews • High Tech's Great Leap Backward - WSJ Beauty and Desecration - Roger Scruton - City Journal At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked an educated person to describe the goal of poetry, art, or music, "beauty" would have been the answer.
The Shifting Middle - Father James V. Schall, S.J. - The Catholic Thing In the Aristotelian tradition, virtue stands in the middle, between two extremes, a too much and a too little.
In an interview five years ago with the Weekly Standard magazine, former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky described the “brilliant moment” when he and his fellow prisoners in Siberia learned of Ronald Reagan's “Evil Empire” speech.
Did you notice this past Father's Day and the week before stories with these bogus memes.
I'll never forget the instructor's last words: "And if you happen to fall out of your kayak, don't try to stand up in the river."
The excruciatingly public marital troubles between Jon and Kate Gosselin reached their predictable denouement Monday when the reality television stars announced their impeding divorce before an audience of 10.6 million.
Learning to love bravely - Doug McManaman - Life Issues My friend's attitude towards policing is an accurate image of what our attitude in the spiritual life ought to be.
Thinking About Moral Absolutes - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk - Making Sense Out of Bioethics When Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States in April of 2008, I had the chance to attend the opening ceremony at the White House South Lawn.
Stanley Jaki and the Saviour of Science - Father George W. Rutler - Weekly Column On this day of the Summer Solstice, I think of how much I enjoy the calendar published by the Vatican Observatory, with beautiful photographs of the planets taken with its telescopes at its headquarters on the grounds of the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.
Pope Benedict explains why he created Year for Priests - CNA During Wednesday's general audience address to 30,000 people in St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI focused his remarks on why he initiated the Year for Priests and what it means to be a priest.
Some Quick Thoughts on Michael Jackson - National Review I must say I find the media's instinctive rush to sanctify Michael Jackson disgusting. If anything, Michael Jackson's life, not his death, was tragic.  The God choice - USA Today A few years ago, I witnessed two great British scientists in a showdown.
President Obama Discusses the Importance of Fathers - You Tube President Obama and his guest at the White House, Chief Petty Officer John Lehnen (2009 Military Fatherhood Award recipient), discuss the vital role fathers play in our nation's communities and families.
Those Medieval Monks Could Draw - New York Times When you think of medieval art, drawing may not spring instantly to mind.
Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X -Salt & Light TV During a visit to Canada, the head of the controversial movement founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre grants a rare interview to Fr. Thomas Rosica.
Freeing Yourself with Forgiveness - The Washington Times There's evidence, good evidence, that forgiveness actually works.
This is your brain on religion - USA Today Believing in God helps a lot, research shows, but which God you believe in matters too.
For 'Modern Gals,' Religion as Off-the-Rack Therapy - The New York Times For some people, religion is a cheap -- too cheap -- form of therapy.
Africa with Dambisa Moyo: Chapter 1 of 5 - Uncommon Knowledge Dambisa Moyo says $1 trillion in foreign aid to Africa has not helped the continent.
The Rome Experience: American seminarians come to Rome - Rome Reports Its hard to miss the breath of Catholicism that permeates the city of Rome.
Sarkozy says burqas are 'not welcome' in France - AP President Nicholas Sarkozy of France declares the garment that completely covers women a sign of "debasement."
Blogging the Bible - Christianity Today A Harvard-educated reformed Jew grapples with the Old Testament.
Daredevil - The Atlantic Hour by hour, day by day, Bill Buckley was just an exciting person to be around.
A Call for American Boldness in Iran - Daniel Pipes In a striking coincidence, two very different expressions of Iranian dissent took place exactly simultaneously on two continents on Saturday, June 20. Between them, the Islamic Republic of Iran faces an unprecedented challenge.
A Latte to Warm the Heart - Washington Post I remain convinced that equating animal rights and human rights does nothing to serve either cause.
PBS Limits Shut-In Masses - Zenit The U.S. Public Broadcasting Service, consisting of 354 member television stations, is banning all new religious programming.
The Unpardonable Sin of Hypocrisy -First Thoughts Mark Sanford is repeatedly being refereed to as a hypocrite for the wrong reasons by people who are apparently ignorant about what hypocrisy is.
The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia - You Tube The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation began with the establishment in 1860 of a girls' academy in Nashville, Tennessee.
No Choice but Democracy -Washington Post In early 2005, the advance of freedom in the Middle East had an air of inevitability.
Athenians and Visigoths: Neil Postman's Graduation Speech - First Thoughts Although he had been forced to sit through dozen of commencement speeches, the late communications theorist Neil Postman was never invited to provide a commencement address. He did prepare some remarks, though, that he planned to use if ever given the opportunity.
Only Catholic College in Georgia Graduates First Class -NCRegister The first and only Catholic college in the state of Georgia celebrated its first commencement exercise May 16.
Internet, the thief of family time - Family Edge If anybody doubted it, research by one of America's leading journalism institutes confirms that the Internet is making inroads into family time.
A List of Great Movies about Fathers - The Ruth Institute Best Father movies for the whole family. (scroll down)
Throwing oil on the blaze of teenage sex -Family Edge From the country that brought you the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe -- television ads for condoms and abortion. Will the British government never get it? The more “harm reduction” they go in for, the worse the problem gets.
Team of Researchers Blames Children's Films for Perpetuating "Heteronormativity" - LifeSiteNews Researchers at the University of Michigan have concluded that the love stories told in classic Disney and other G-rated children's films - such as the Little Mermaid - are partially to blame for the pervasiveness of what they label "heteronormativity."
High Tech's Great Leap Backward - WSJ Will the world's computer makers kowtow to the Thought Police in Beijing?
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