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CERC BI-WEEKLY UPDATE - April 29, 2008

NEW RESOURCES    EDITORIALS OF INTEREST    EDUCATION MATTERS

Note from the Managing Editor:

The first rate Salt & Light TV is overseen by Father Thomas Rosica, C.S.B.

In his "Witness" series, Father interviews many eminences of the Catholic Church, though his program isn't always restricted to eminences. In fact, I'm flying to Toronto tomorrow to tape a show with Father Rosica on Thursday.

That's a round about way of explaining why you have your update early this week.

Below there are a good number of articles about the Holy Father's recent triumphant visit to the United States. Some may think the Pope's visit old news, but such a flood of grace, love, and wisdom should hardly be restricted to the news cycle. - J. Fraser Field

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New Resources:

Flock feeling his "charisma of sincerity' - Peggy Noonan - Wall Street Journal
Catholic website drawing thousands back to faith - Catholic News Agency
How Benedict XVI Will Make History - George Weigel - Newsweek
Go Wichita - William J. Bennett - National Review
A land of martyrs - Father Raymond J. de Souza - National Post
What has that thrush got to sing about, asked Mr Hardy - Paul Johnson - The Spectator
Pope Benedict among Americans - Russell Shaw - Washington Times
Benedict kept ahead of sexual-abuse issue - Father Raymond J. de Souza - National Post
Christianity's Reluctant Convert - Michael Coren - National Post
Freedom is not opting out, Pope says - Father Raymond J. de Souza - National Post
Pope's Russia TV triumph - John Pontifex - Aid to the Church in Need
Nietzsche’s Deeper Truth - R.R. Reno - First Things
Tough Questions for Islam - Charles Colson - Breakpoint
Drawn to the Light - Charles Colson - Breakpoint
Tampon in a teacup - Stefan Beck - New Criterion

Editorials of Interest:

When Your Little Brother Is the Pope - National Catholic Register
Padre Pio, Pope Benedict: Soul Mates? - Time
Pope says music can bring hope to wounded world - CNS
Benedict and Beauty - First Things Blog
Benedict and the Scandal - Inside Catholic
The Pope's Music - Inside Catholic
The Church's Doctors, Old and New - Whispers in the loggia
Take a chance on faith - Tony Rossi blog
Valedictory to Pope Benedict XVI - Godspy TV
Warming to the Pope - Waterbury Republican American
Gender-based abortions gaining ground in U.S., say experts - Catholic News Agency
He Apologized... He Understood - Whispers in the Loggia
The Indispensable Church - Washington Post
The Pontiff's Counterculture - Real Clear Politics
Intelligent Critique - National Review
Constantine’s Sword - Decent Films
Victims' families find comfort at WTC ceremony - USA Today
Pontiff's personality shines through in NYC - USA Today
Farewell... and Thank You - Whispers in the loggia
Reason, wonder and Pope Benedict XVI - Et Tu?: The diary of a former atheist
The Papal Week That Was - First Things blog
The Pope and the President - Wall Street Journal
Cardinal recalls emotional meeting with pope - Boston Globe
Newman set for Vatican blessing - Birminghammail.net
Victims of abuse recall meeting with pope - St. Louis Platform
Italian Doctors Refuse to Perform Abortions - Catholic Online
On the Banality of Abortion as Art - First Things Blog
Brazilian priest missing - You Tube
Food shortages: how will we feed the world? - The Telegraph
A Fading Signal - Slate
Iraqi Christians Struggle With Fear After Slayings - Washington Post
ACLU opposes Christian license plates - Catholic League
‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’ - The Atlantic
SSPX rejects “signing an agreement with Rome” - CNA
Finding Shakespeare and reclaiming the classics - Ignatius Insight

Education Matters:

Higher Standards - National Review
Save the Schools - National Review
Catholic-School Rescue - National Review
A split in UD's soul - Dallas News
Yale: Student's artwork purporting to show abortion a hoax - AP
A surprising Cat-holic bestseller! - Ignatius Insight
No dialogue bad choice - Boston Herald
Too Catholic, Even for Many Monks - Inside Higher Education
Parents to purchase New Hampshire Catholic school from religious order - CNA
Legal Challenge Brought Against Erotic Courses for 8th and 10th Graders - Thomas More Law Center


NEW RESOURCES:

Flock feeling his 'charisma of sincerity' - Peggy Noonan - New York Post

It was beautiful. If you didn't get choked up, you weren't alive.

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Catholic website drawing thousands back to faith - Catholic News Agency

In less than three weeks, 3,000 Catholics returned to the Church in the Diocese of Phoenix due to the effort of a new lay apostolate, CatholicsComeHome.org.

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How Benedict XVI Will Make History
- George Weigel - Newsweek

According to a title first used by Gregory the Great (590-604), the Bishop of Rome is the "Servant of the Servants of God."

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Go Wichita
- William J. Bennett - National Review

Save the Catholic schools.

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A land of martyrs
- Father Raymond J. de Souza - National Post

For decades, Beijing has spilled the blood of China’s religious believers.

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What has that thrush got to sing about, asked Mr Hardy
- Paul Johnson - The Spectator

Nature likes to shock us, occasionally, and make us think.

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Pope Benedict among Americans - Russell Shaw - Washington Times

Has the Catholic Church in the United States really done enough about the scandal of child sex abuse by priests?

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Benedict kept ahead of sexual-abuse issue - Father Raymond J. de Souza - National Post

Pope Benedict XVI concluded his visit to the United States with visits at New York City landmarks on the weekend — St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Ground Zero and Yankee Stadium.

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Christianity's Reluctant Convert - Michael Coren - National Post

As Prince Caspian rides onto the big screen this May there is a genuine danger that his creator, C.S. Lewis, might be left behind in a trail of over-priced popcorn.

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Freedom is not opting out, Pope says - Father Raymond J. de Souza - National Post

‘It can never be attained by turning from God’

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Pope's Russia TV triumph - John Pontifex - Aid to the Church in Need

A broadcast by Pope Benedict XVI on Russian state television has been hailed as a landmark in Orthodox-Catholic relations.

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Nietzsche’s Deeper Truth - R.R. Reno - First Things

At the outset of On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche reports that his polemical book of pseudo-history, pseudo-anthropology, and pseudo-psychology is an exercise in knowing ourselves.

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Tough Questions for Islam - Charles Colson - Breakpoint

Zakaria Botros is a conservative television star with a huge audience.

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Drawn to the Light - Charles Colson - Breakpoint

Why Muslims convert to Christianity.

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Tampon in a teacup - Stefan Beck - New Criterion

Anyone seeking a little comic relief in the wake of Yale University’s alternately sickening and embarrassing “abortion as art” scandal need look no further than Terry Zwigoff’s 2006 comedy Art School Confidential.

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EDITORIALS OF INTEREST:
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When Your Little Brother Is the Pope - National Catholic Register

Part I of our exclusive interview with the Holy Father’s sole remaining sibling.

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Padre Pio, Pope Benedict: Soul Mates? - Time

In 1947, a young Polish priest named Karol Wojtyla made the pilgrimage to a small town in Puglia to have his confession heard by Padre Pio, the mysterious Italian monk with the Christ-like stigmata wounds on his hands.

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Pope says music can bring hope to wounded world - CNS

Music can bring hope to a wounded humanity, Pope Benedict XVI said.

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Benedict and Beauty - First Things Blog

In my commentary here and in my coverage of the papal visit with Raymond Arroyo on EWTN, I had occasion to make somewhat critical remarks about the way the Mass was celebrated at Nationals Park in Washington.

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Benedict and the Scandal - Inside Catholic

Now that Benedict has come and gone we are in the thick of media analysis of the meaning of it all.

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The Pope's Music - Inside Catholic

This month I must reflect on a phone call I received from an old and discerning friend who was extremely upset over the music used at the papal Mass in Washington on April 17, and on a note another friend sent saying, "It was as if the Washington, D.C., crowd were pleasing themselves and not their guest."

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The Church's Doctors, Old and New - Whispers in the loggia

Today's the feast of one of the most popular "modern saints" canonized in the pontificate of John Paul II: Gianna Beretta Molla, a Milanese pediatrician who died at 40 to save the life of her fourth child....

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Take a chance on faith - Tony Rossi blog

Jim Caviezel’s adoption of two older, ill children from China.

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Valedictory to Pope Benedict XVI - Godspy TV

Godspy TV talks to people on the street of New York about faith, life and hope during Pope Benedict's visit to America.

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Warming to the Pope - Waterbury Republican American

Minutes after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope in April 2005, I got an e-mail from my Catholic friend.

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Gender-based abortions gaining ground in U.S., say experts - Catholic News Agency

The practice of sex-selective abortions that has unbalanced the male-female ratio in many Asian and Muslim countries is now believed to be happening among immigrant communities in the United States.

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He Apologized... He Understood - Whispers in the Loggia

Already known as the "Boston Five," members of the group of victim-survivors who met with Pope Benedict earlier today have given extended interviews to both CNN and NPR.

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The Indispensable Church - Washington Post

The occasion of a papal visit is a chance to take stock of the health of the Roman Catholic Church in America.

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The Pontiff's Counterculture - Real Clear Politics

The most jarring word that Pope Benedict XVI is using during his visit to the United States is "countercultural."

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Intelligent Critique - National Review

Expelled adroitly addresses the dogmaticism of Darwinian theory in the scientific world.

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Constantine’s Sword - Decent Films

“The cross of Christ as the sign of God’s all-embracing love” is not one shared by Carroll.

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Victims' families find comfort at WTC ceremony - USA Today

Pope Benedict XVI's prayer at Ground Zero on Sunday elevated the site where 2,750 people lost their lives to a "real place of reverence" and brought a measure of closure to families and a city deeply scarred by the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

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Pontiff's personality shines through in NYC - USA Today

"For years, I've been telling people about Benedict's depth, warmth, humor and humility. Now I can say, 'See!' " exulted Scott Hahn, professor of theology at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio.

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Farewell... and Thank You - Whispers in the loggia

The time has come for me to bid farewell to your country.

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Reason, wonder and Pope Benedict XVI - Et Tu?: The diary of a former atheist

Yesterday afternoon I found myself sitting on the edge of a foot stool in my living room, transfixed as the television showed the faint lights of a plane coming in across the Atlantic from Rome.

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The Papal Week That Was - First Things blog

Triumphalism, as we all know, is a very bad thing. On the other hand, defeatism is worse. In any event, I am persuaded that the apostolic visit just completed was a triumph.

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The Pope and the President - Wall Street Journal

He came. He spoke. He confounded.

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Cardinal recalls emotional meeting with pope - Boston Globe

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley became emotional yesterday as he recounted to reporters the dramatic and unprecedented meeting earlier this week between Pope Benedict XVI and five people from Boston who had been sexually abused by priests.

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Newman set for Vatican blessing - Birminghammail.net

Birmingham cleric Cardinal John Newman, who left the Church of England to become a Roman Catholic, has taken a step closer to becoming a saint.

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Victims of abuse recall meeting with pope - St. Louis Platform

Olan Horne, 48, a survivor of clerical sex abuse, believes that Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States marks a turning point in the way victims of sexual abuse are treated in the Catholic Church.

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Italian Doctors Refuse to Perform Abortions - Catholic Online

70 percent of Italian gynecologists refuse to perform abortions on moral grounds.

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On the Banality of Abortion as Art - First Things Blog

Yale senior Aliza Shvarts has gone too far — or maybe she hasn’t.

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Brazilian priest missing - You Tube

Priest goes missing after sailing into the air in over 1000 helium filled balloons.

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Food shortages: how will we feed the world? - The Telegraph

A global food shortage threatens the lives of millions. Charles Clover reports on the possible solutions to the crisis.

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A Fading Signal - Slate

Radio Free Europe still exists — and it's more important than ever.

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Iraqi Christians Struggle With Fear After Slayings - Washington Post

Recent Priest Killings Follow Years of Violence, Leaders Say.

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ACLU opposes Christian license plates - Catholic League

Florida lawmakers are now debating whether to adopt a specialty license plate with the inscription “I Believe”; the design includes a Christian cross and a stained-glass window.

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‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’ - The Atlantic

The former TV dad's crusade for strong families and personal responsibility in a renewed black culture.

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SSPX rejects “signing an agreement with Rome” - CNA

Bernard Fellay, the leader of the Society of St. Pius X, has rejected the idea of reaching an agreement with Rome.

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Finding Shakespeare and reclaiming the classics - Ignatius Insight

An interview with Joseph Pearce.

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EDUCATION MATTERS:

Higher Standards - National Review

Benedict pushes back against an unCatholic tide.

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Save the Schools - National Review

The new civil-rights movement.

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Catholic-School Rescue - National Review

What Pope Benedict might do to save urban Catholic education.

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A split in UD's soul - Dallas News

In February, the art faculty at the University of Dallas hung an astonishing image: a print of the Virgin Mary, as the iconic Our Lady of Guadalupe. Except this Mother of God was clothed as – wait for it – a stripper.

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Yale: Student's artwork purporting to show abortion a hoax - AP

A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false, school officials said after her account was published in the student newspaper.

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A surprising Cat-holic bestseller! - Ignatius Insight

I'm referring to Joseph and Chico: The Life of Pope Benedict XVI as Told by a Cat, recently published by Ignatius Press and sitting at #141 on Amazon.com.

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No dialogue bad choice - Boston Herald

On campus, voices of dissent silenced.

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Too Catholic, Even for Many Monks - Inside Higher Education

Whining and grumbling is frowned on at Benedictine institutions like Saint Vincent College.

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Parents to purchase New Hampshire Catholic school from religious order - CNA

A Catholic religious order has announced that it will sell one of its New Hampshire primary schools to a group of parents to ensure continuing support for Catholic education, the Union Leader reports.

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Legal Challenge Brought Against Erotic Courses for 8th and 10th Graders - Thomas More Law Center

Thus, the six year battle boils down to two questions posed by Bolling in this latest court skirmish.

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"The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth."

- St. Augustine