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You are correct. I have a friend who teaches 8th grade, and she says the only thing most of these kids can memorize are lines from Bachelor Part 2 or the latest vulgar rap song.

These kids are inundated with cultural trash on a daily basis. A shame that schools would waste a golden opportunity to expose kids to that which is true and good.

A very interesting story from Carl Olsen at Catholic World Report. You need to see the cartoon from the book in question - it appears with the original article here:

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/2328/why_do_some_catholic_schools_require_students_to_read_lousy_vulgar_books.aspx#.UbpdzUnD_IU

So many great Catholic books to read, what a shame. Since Olsen is involved with Ignatius Press and helps make available so many great works, you can certainly understand his outrage.

Has Obama called to congratulate this pervert as well?

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Springsteen, our blue collar, middle class, Obama loving hero. What a joke! Remeber all the heat Romney's wife took for owning a horse. Meanwhile, democratic zombie voters try to "go green," while their hereos fly their horses all over the world in private jets. What a bunch of suckers. We get what we deserve.

Do you think Springsteen will write a song about this?

Flew my daughter and her horse to Paris for the Gucci Paris Masters.

Meanwhile people are homeless in Long Island and the Jersey Shore is destroyed.

Hope Obama taxes people to fix it.

Born in the USA.

I'm a blue collar guy at a horse jumping contest in France.

*Someone make sure Drudge gets this on the Front Page!

I don’t think Bp Jenky did!

http://boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

interesting

Imagine Dan Quayle walking into a Jewish deli and saying, “Hi I’m dan Quaylestein.” The networks would have broke into regularly scheduled programing to call for him to be dropped from the ticket.

“you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
Biden

http://gawker.com/5938784/seal-book-osama-was-killed-unarmed-biden-is-like-a-drunken-uncle

After listening to Obama’s speech and enduring Biden’s “lame jokes that no one got (He seemed like a nice guy, but he reminded me of someone’s drunken uncle at Christmas dinner)” the president invited the team to return to his residence later for a beer.

But Owen writes a few weeks later: “We never got the call to have a beer at the White House.” Joking with a fellow SEAL, “Hey, did you ever hear anything about that beer?” Walt cracks: “ You believed that shit. I bet you voted for change too, sucker.”

Beck, Rush, Levin and Hannity have all been promoting it.

But I thought everyone was boycotting Rush and these guys? Just like Chik-fil-a, these leftist botcotts are really good for business.

There is a lot of money to be made on the right and the potential is just beginning to be tapped!

These guys show real colors on twitter:

Here is Terry Moran from Nightline:

@TerryMoran

Terry Moran is the co-anchor of ABC News Nightline and covers the Supreme Court of the United States for ABC News.

What would be the equivalent of Romney's rank birtherism? If Obama himself--personally--wondered aloud whether Romney's a "real Christian"?

Romney goes full birther. The Party of Trump?

Similar Open Letter to Michael Jordan in last week’s Sports Illustrated over his refusal to help old coach:

A letter to Michael Jordan: Shame on you for refusing to help Pop

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/thomas_lake/08/13/letter-to-michael-jordan/index.html

As we both know, Pop’s life fell apart after you left town. Not his fault. A disease ran in his family, paranoid schizophrenia or some such thing, and he started acting strange, and he lost his job, and his wife, and his daughter, and pretty much everything else. Took to drinking, as you or I might do in similar circumstances.

Did you help him? Not in the past 18 years. He and his friends say the last time you saw him was 1994, and no one from your camp has come forward to dispute this. That was at a celebration of you in Chicago, and you introduced him to your fans as “the first guy to ever cut me,” and they booed.

Were you unaware of his plight? I guess it’s possible, or at least it was until last January, when Sports Illustrated published my story about him. Someone on your staff must have read it. I hoped you would reach out to him then. A visit or a gift or something. But no. It’s been seven months, and Pop and his friends say there’s been no sign of you.

Similar Open Letter to Michael Jordan in last week’s Sports Illustrated over his refusal to help old coach:

A letter to Michael Jordan: Shame on you for refusing to help Pop

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/thomas_lake/08/13/letter-to-michael-jordan/index.html

As we both know, Pop’s life fell apart after you left town. Not his fault. A disease ran in his family, paranoid schizophrenia or some such thing, and he started acting strange, and he lost his job, and his wife, and his daughter, and pretty much everything else. Took to drinking, as you or I might do in similar circumstances.

Did you help him? Not in the past 18 years. He and his friends say the last time you saw him was 1994, and no one from your camp has come forward to dispute this. That was at a celebration of you in Chicago, and you introduced him to your fans as “the first guy to ever cut me,” and they booed.

Were you unaware of his plight? I guess it’s possible, or at least it was until last January, when Sports Illustrated published my story about him. Someone on your staff must have read it. I hoped you would reach out to him then. A visit or a gift or something. But no. It’s been seven months, and Pop and his friends say there’s been no sign of you.

Newsweek Seeks former Chick-Fil-A Employee “to spill the beans on life (at) antigay company”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2910345/posts

Newsweek Seeks former Chick-Fil-A Employee “to spill the beans on life (at) antigay company”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2910345/posts

Newsweek Seeks former Chick-Fil-A Employee “to spill the beans on life (at) antigay company”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2910345/posts

Newsweek Seeks former Chick-Fil-A Employee “to spill the beans on life (at) antigay company”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2910345/posts

Boy, I hope drudge picks this one up!

Go Ron Go!

Agree. Streep is the worst and is so bad I felt compelled to click on this thread to make sure her name was mentioned. Thanks.

Before even reading the list I can tell you numbers 1-10: Meryl Streep. It is amazing she has stayed as thin as she has with all the scenery she has chewed up over the years. The word “overrated” is underrated for her over the top “acting.”

good post

John Senior is great.

“Buckley would go for the most conservative candidate that is electable.”

Didn’t Buckley himself run for mayor of NYC with no chance of winning? I guess he voted for the other guy...who had a better chance of winning.

Bump for Sanger at KKK rally week!

The bishops’ own charity, Campaign for Human for Development, has been funding abortion for years. Leave Priests for Life alone!

Of, course, this stuff is nuts. But a lot of folks around here legitimize this whole game of branding anyone you disagree with as an anti-Semite by doing it so frequently to others around here.

In point of fact, the USA was merely investigating the availability of Israeli art for acquisition.

Oh, I thought maybe Obama was leaving town for good and wanted to use the Urban Moving Systems Company.

Because while the whole government was trying to deal with the debt crisis, what did Ron Paul do?

C'mon silly. Ron Paul has been the one voice trying to shrink government for years and years and years. And what do you mean "the whole government was trying to deal with the debt crisis"!?! The whole government caused this obscene debt!

Were youreally just kidding? I hope.

I notice that First Things also gave Princeton high marks. Is it really all that different from Harvard or Yale? Or is the fix in?

I don't really know if Princeton is different, but found its inclusion very interesting as well.

And from http://biggovernment.com/kolson/2011/08/10/higher-education-bubble-choosing-the-right-college/#more-312104

The report is titled “Rating America’s Colleges: A Ranking of Academic Excellence and Intellectual Freedom on Campus.” In it, the authors make the case a new approach is needed for assessing the quality of our institutions of higher learning.

They cite a study which finds that corporate leaders are increasingly dissatisfied “with the quality of U.S undergraduate education.” Ninety percent of employers want employees who are skilled in written communication, critical thinking and problem solving, but fewer than 30 percent of applicants meet those expectations.

The authors argue that part of the problem is found in the way the nation’s colleges are evaluated. They take aim at U.S. News and World Report’s popular college rankings, and suggest that schools are evaluated by meaningless criteria such as “peer assessment,” “freshman retention and graduation rates,” and “per-student spending.” Those measurements don’t reveal much about what goes on inside the classroom.

The authors of “Rating America’s Colleges” do something radically different: they assess “how well (or badly) a school does at providing the classic ‘liberal education’ suited to a free citizen and a well-rounded adult.”

The authors ask:

“Are (students) being challenged to stretch their cognitive abilities in different fields, so they’ll be intellectually and professionally versatile adults? Are they learning the basics of core disciplines such as American history, democratic government, English literature, and the market economy? Are they engaging with a wide range of freely expressed opinions on key ethical and political issues they will face as individuals and as citizens? Are they living in safe and sober residences where academic work is encouraged, not inhibited?”

For their report, the authors examined “140 American schools that run the educational gamut” from the Ivy League to small, “Great Books” schools. To determine each school’s ranking, they considered its intellectual and civic discourse, quality of instruction, student life, and real cost.

Using those results, “Rating America’s Colleges” determined the nation’s “10 Exceptional Schools,” and the “10 Train Wrecks.” The results are a little surprising.

According to the report, here are the nation’s 10 exceptional schools:

1.Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

2.University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

3.The University of the South (Sewanee, TN)

4.The United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)

5.Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA)

6.Baylor University (Waco, TX)

7.Providence College (Providence, RI)

8.Texas A&M (College Station, TX)

9.Gordon College (Wenham, MA)

10.Christendom College (Front Royal, VA)

The 10 train wrecks include:

1.Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)

2.Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)

3.College of Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)

4.Amherst College (Amherst, MA)

5.Barnard College (New York, NY)

6.University of California at Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)

7.Duke University (Durham, NC)

8.Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)

9.Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)

10.Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)

Despite the provocative language, this is not some hit-and-run report. The authors back up their rankings with plenty of details.

For example, the authors find that at Wesleyan University (the #1 train wreck), “Shakespeare is optional for English majors, as is study of the American founding and Civil War for history majors.” The only thing not optional seems to be the $29,274 of debt with which the average student graduates.

On the other side of the ledger, Princeton (the #1 exceptional school) offers academics that are “rigorous and demanding” without grade inflation, and “the least politicized” atmosphere of all the elite colleges.

The authors conclude that “No college is perfect, and few are entirely worthless.” Even the exceptional schools have a few weaknesses, and the train wrecks may even have one or two worthwhile programs.

Nevertheless, parents and students would be well advised to pick up a copy of “Choosing the Right School” to see just what they are getting themselves into – before they load up the U-Haul and head for the ivory towers.

Straight to the Stormfront rally.

Your comment is straight from the Al Sharpton playbook. Whoever gets the GOP nomination, the Dems will be spewing the same line: "Straight to the Stormfront rally." You just give this type of crap legitmacy. Pathetic!

Good analysis. Go Paul Go!

Holy Cross, Notre Dame, John Carroll....which phony "Catholic" college couold this have been?

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look at this

Ohio ping!

ping!

I exhort you to be courageous now and always,
without becoming bewildered by difficulties, and always trusting in Him
who is your friend and Redeemer,
and watching and praying to keep your faith sound
and your grace lively.”
—Pope John Paul II

throw it out!

fyi

This is interesting, almost needs its own thread - please forward to Cardinal Newman Socity if you know anyone there - thnx:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/vol/2412078929.html

Volunteers Needed for LGBQ Minority Stress Study

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From the past:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1633659/posts

Queer Monologues Premier at John Carroll University
www.carrollnewsonline ^ | April 10, 2006 | Abbey Fox

Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:52:46 AM by Diago

Queer Monologues Premier at John Carroll

Written by Abbey Fox on April 10, 2006

Their message is simple: “It’s okay to be gay. †It’s okay to be straight. †All we ask is that you don’t discriminate!”

Last weekend in the Marinello Little Theatre, the JCU Allies presented “The Queer Monologues,” an entirely student written, produced and directed theatrical production.

Director, sophomore Katie Sedon, says the “The Queer Monologues” is an activist production that engages an audience in the culture and ideologies of the gay community.

Sedon said, “It’s greatest purpose is educational in promoting an awareness of the gay community and culture.”

All accounts were written by JCU students with the exception of one student from Ursuline College.

The cast dressed in a rainbow of colors as a symbol of the Gay Bisexual Lesbian Transgender Movement, showing that many different colors and people can exist in harmony.

Similar in format to the popular play, “The Vagina Monologues,” the actors in the “Queer Monologues” read from scripts.

The show directly confronted many issues dealing with sexuality in all forms.

Many stories celebrated and brought to light the struggles of those within the GBLT community.

The monologues dealt with themes of isolation, confusion, as well as self acceptance and love.

Some were more general, talking about not being ashamed, while others were more specific “coming out” stories.

Some stories were emotionally charged personal testimonies, while others were simply entertaining.

One comedic story was told about a girl coming out to her mother as a bisexual.

Her mother’s response was, “What’s a bisexual?”

The girl said she had not been expecting this answer.

It was evident that these students weren more than just actors, they were advocates for a cause.

They exuded positivity and honesty that made for a great experience for the audience which was evident by the standing ovation.

This was the second year that this show has been performed by Allies.

They produce this original show, with a new script, every other year.

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Faculty Forum: Ordination Of Gay Priests (A Satire)

Written by Prof. Sheila McGinn on February 10, 2006

SATIRE

The Vatican recently reaffirmed and clarified the policy of refusing ordination to men with “deeply seated homosexual tendencies.” Unless they can show that they have gone without presenting these tendencies for the three years during their seminary training, gay men would not be ordained. Thank God we finally are seeing a return to traditional moral values. But Rome has stopped too soon. There is yet another grave moral threat that is even more insidious: left-handedness.

For years, we have stood silently by while individuals with deeply-seated left-handed tendencies take over the church and the world. Everywhere we turn, we are subjected to left-handed culture: there are left-handed desks in our classrooms, left-handed scissors and ladles. We can hardly go anywhere for meals without lefthanders grabbing the first seats at the table, or knocking into our elbows when we try to eat. Even the main doors to our campus buildings open to the left, favoring “lefties” over decent, right-handed people.

The ubiquity of this problem makes it seem as if a putative “left-handed orientation” is equally as moral as right-handed behavior. But this only reveals the utter depravity of contemporary culture. Nature itself shows that left-handedness is aberrant. Ninety percent of people are right-handed and have no trouble resisting the temptation to use their left hands for social behaviors like eating and writing.

Traditional cultures all over the world recognize that the left hand should only be used for unclean activities (like toileting), and they rigorously enforce this restriction. But “modern” societies have become lax in this regard. Just as with other moral issues, they would rather be “politically correct” than uphold traditional family values. We must reverse this pattern before it is too late.

It is no accident that the Latin word for “left hand” is “sinistra.” From ancient times, Christians have affirmed that Jesus sits “at the right hand of the Father,” not the left. The true “Sign of the Cross” can only be made with the right hand. The same goes for other types of blessings. When the Gospel of Matthew speaks of the Last Judgment, the Lord Jesus separates the just from the unjust by putting the sinners on his left, and then consigning them to eternal punishment.

Such is the destiny of those who persist in acting out this left-handedness, and all those who support a culture of left-handedness. We must make certain there are no left-handed priests to tempt good Catholics to succumb to such a fate. We must stop ordaining people with deeply-seated left-handed tendencies—unless they can demonstrate that they have refrained from using their left hands for the previous three years.

Spiritual directors should challenge those priest candidates who have been living left-handed lives to repent and return to the right-handed fold. How can priests teach true morality if they themselves are living in sin? God’s mercy is great, and God will forgive those who convert to right-handedness. Even those who may have some residual temptation to left-handedness should be assured that this in itself is no sin; it is left-handed behavior that is sinful. Pastors must remind their flocks that God loves the sinner, but hates the sin.

They might even consider starting support groups for parents whose children are having “handedness” issues. Appropriate pastoral care is critically important to ensure that those who repudiate their left-handed ways are assisted in staying on the straight path. But the priests who are preaching this message and offering such pastoral care must themselves live model, right-handed lives. So, for the love of God, we must stop ordaining “lefties.”

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http://catholic-mom.blogspot.com/2006/05/oh-it-is-one-of-those-kinds-of.html
Oh! It is one of those kinds of Catholic Universities

Last week my daughter received a brochure for John Carroll University in the mail. I really didn’t know much about the school so I didn’t pay attention to it. My daughter is at that stage in her high school career where our mailbox is cluttered with all kinds of “fan mail” asking her to consider one college or another. My husband sure noticed it. He picked up the brochure from the kitchen counter and exclaimed, “You would want your daughter to go to this school?” Taking a closer look at the brochure, I realized their cover girl student was dressed in low-slung jeans, midriff baring top, and striking a sexy pose. No, I don’t think I want my daughter there. The brochure went straight into the trash.

Today, I read Dom’s blog, with its comments about John Carroll University.

Finally, they also want to know what he will do about John Carroll University, which according to the Cardinal Newman Society, refers students to a pro-abortion counseling center, which sanctioned a performance of the “Queer Monologues,” and whose Gay/Straight Alliance supports all kinds of extremist gay activism in direct defiance of Catholic teaching.

Now I know. That provocative brochure cover was no accident. This is another one of those school’s whose idea of being a Catholic university differs substantially from my own.
posted by Catholic Mom | 1:50 PM