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The basic John Kennedy story says his speech on religious tolerance was a great step for Catholics in America. It's a very nice story; too bad it isn't true.“The Catholic Church benefited enormously from the JFK presidency,” pollster Larry Sabato wrote Monday morning. “Prejudice against Catholics declined and millions were exposed to church rituals. Church leaders welcomed the ‘JFK effect.'”“Now at last there is a second Catholic [president],” he continued, “and what do some in the hierarchy do? They ruin it.”“A little more than 60 years [after President John F. Kennedy’s speech on accepting Catholics in American politics], a second...

Every July 4th, citizens of the United States of America everywhere celebrate Independence Day, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and separation from British rule. The Continental Congress had actually voted to approve a resolution of independence on July 2nd and declare the Thirteen Colonies a new nation, the United States of America. However, it would not actually come until two days later that the Declaration of Independence was drawn up, revised by the Continental Congress, and officially signed. Were any signers of the Declaration of Independence Catholic? Of the 56 total signatories of the Declaration of Independence,...

John Carroll: America’s Bishop George J. GallowayWhen President James Madison asked for and received, by a narrow margin, a declaration of war against Great Britain in 1812, there was one man in the new republic who knew exactly what to do: John “Jackie” Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore, an aging shepherd of a small and widely diverse flock, in a fledgling democracy about to enter into war against the greatest sea power on earth, got on his knees and dedicated America to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.This year, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore. For the...

Here is a fun new campaign video in the 2012 GOP Republican U.S. Senate Primary for Hawaii. It was meant as a prelude to the annual 2012 Hawaiian Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner at Hilton Hawaiian Village (thus the quotes from Lincoln in body of the video). Abraham Lincoln, the founder of our party, and the President's Day's festivities were taken into account, but when I showed this to my scrutinizing kids, a 'new life' came about for the video. Enjoy!

MAS' Esam Omeish Seeks Virginia Office Campaign Mum on MAS Ties, Radical Omeish Speeches IPT News May 1, 2009 The last time the public got a good look at Esam Omeish, he was resigning from a Virginia immigration panel, claiming that the posting of videos showing him praising Palestinians who chose "the jihad way" to liberate their land was part of a smear campaign against him. Now Omeish is diving into the deep end of smear campaigns, offering himself as a candidate for a partisan legislative seat in Northern Virginia. Omeish is among four Democrats vying to win their party's...

REGINA BRETT DOES THEOLOGYBy James CsankMichNews.comJun 2, 2006 Regina who? Well might you ask. Here is a clue: (1) Regina Brett is a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and a Catholic.  Here is another clue, which seems to be, but is not, in conflict with the first: (2) The Cleveland Plain Dealer is a liberal, secularist, and anti-Catholic newspaper.  The clues are reconciled in the answer: Brett is the PD’s token Catholic, the kind of Catholic it likes: liberal, feminist, pro-abortion, and pro-gay agenda. She flaunts her Catholicism because it gives her the standing to criticize the Church for not being...

"The Vagina Monologues is congruent with the mission of John Carroll University." THE VAGINA MONOLOGUESFebruary 11, 12, & 13 in the LIttle Marinello Theatre The Vagina Monologues Performances at John Carroll University: Friday, February 11th – 8 p.m. Saturday, February 12th – 8 p.m. Sunday, February 13th –7 p.m. Place: Little Marinello Theater No reservations are necessary.  Tickets are available at the door. The Vagina Monologues are being sponsored by the Departments of Communications, History, Political Science and Sociology and the Office of Developmental Programming. Violence is an epidemic that plagues women in our country and all over the world....

A Jesuit college refers to pro-abortion group A reader writes in to alert us that John Carroll University, a Catholic college in Cleveland is referring students who have been sexually assaulted to a pro-abortion group, according to an official student manual. Counseling: Students who have experienced a sex offense may receive free and confidential counseling at the University Counseling Center (216-397-4283) and/or the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center (216-619-6192). Other John Carroll University members may receive free and confidential referrals at the Counseling Center and confidential counseling at the Rape Crisis Center.The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center is a member of the...

V-Day John Carroll University As part of the 2005 V-Day College Campaign, the students of John Carroll University are proud to present a benefit production of The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for local organizations working to end violence against women and girls. V-Day College Campaign events are independently organized by students and listings on V-Day's web-site do not imply the endorsement or official sanction of any institution. Performances: 11 February 2005 - 8 PM 12 February 2005 - 2 PM 12 February 2005 - 8 PM Venue Info: University Heights Ohio United States More Details: Performance Language:...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2004 www.jcu.edu Contact: Christine Somosi/216-397-4663 Jerry Sheehan/216-397-4565 Edward Glynn, S.J., President of John Carroll University, Announces Resignation University Heights, OHIO --Rev. Edward Glynn, S.J., President of John Carroll University, announced his resignation today at a regularly scheduled meeting of the University’s board of directors. The resignation is to become effective “whenever in the next academic year my successor is able to be in place.” Charles J. (Bud) Koch, Chair of the University’s board of directors, has established a nine-member presidential search committee. The committee is chaired by former Board Chair, Vincent A. Chiarucci. Glynn...

Catholic prof and the Christian Taliban A professor at John Carroll University, a Catholic institution by the by, has had his bias revealed when an email he wrote to fellow faculty and administrators got out. In it, he called members of the Republican Party "Christian Taliban" and said that professors have to start indoctrinating their students in their liberal political views. (Start?)We need to tell our students that Bush is a liar and that many in the Republican party are essentially the Christian version of the Taliban,” he wrote. “Bush won Ohio and much of the rest of the...

“We need to tell our students that Bush is a liar and that many in the Republican party are essentially the Christian version of the Taliban” http://www.carrollnewsonline.com/index.php?id=135 From the John Carroll University Student Newspaper Meetings are being held to discuss politics in the classroom after a professor apologized for an e-mail in which he vented his frustrations over the result of the presidential election.The controversial e-mail was written by Paul Lauritzen, director of the Applied Ethics Program and professor of Religious Studies, to 32 faculty and administrators.The e-mail, which was sent on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 10:31 a.m., somehow made...

UPDATE ON INCIDENTS AT JOHN CARROLL - December 2004 FROM PATRICK ROMBALSKI VP Student AffairsOn Wednesday, December 1, I sent out an e-mail to the campus community to make everyone aware of our current investigation into sexual assaults on our campus. Since that time, I have received many concerned phone calls and e-mails from students, parents, alumni and alumnae, the media and the campus community at large, looking for clarification and more information about these sexual assaults. The purpose of this letter is to clarify some of the information and to assure you that the university is aggressively pursuing...

On May 6, 2004, Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll gave a hilariously self-serving speech about "the rise of pseudo-journalism in America" at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. It was properly and widely derided at the time, mostly because of its pathetic attempt to defend the Los Anegles Times against the proper and widely held view that the paper has fallen on very hard times quality-wise as ideology has taken over its newsroom, a condition most obvious in the paper's "coverage" of the California recall campaign of 2003, when Carroll and his troops did everything they...

If liberals won't move on from the prison abuse photos calculated to incite hatred toward the very troops liberals loudly claim to "support," I'm not moving on from the fact that the editor of the Los Angeles Times, John Carroll, is instructing journalists on ethics. The editor of the Los Angeles Times telling reporters how to behave ethically is a complete contradiction, like ... oh, I don't know ... giving Yasser Arafat a Nobel Peace Prize or something. You know, just patently silly. This is the same L.A. Times that engaged in desperate, 11th-hour attempts to sabotage Arnold Schwarzenegger during...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version May 19, 2004, 10:35 a.m. Carroll and CriticsThe L.A. Times editor's unreflective bias. Los Angeles Times editor-in-chief John Carroll has again slammed critics of the paper's California recall coverage — coverage that even many liberals considered remarkably biased against Arnold Schwarzenegger — this time in a May 16 op-ed adapted from a University of Oregon speech on newspaper ethics he gave recently. This isn't the first time Carroll has attacked his attackers. A few days after Schwarzenegger's election in October, he wrote a much-discussed op-ed...

In reaction to the society’s actions, Flannery said, “I think the Cardinal Newman Society is the closest organization in the Catholic Church to the Taliban. [The Cardinal Newman Society] has used harassment and terrorist tactics to shut down the president’s computer system and to do harm to my department’s office,” Flannery said. Despite concerns, show goes on Over 1,000 e-mails poured into University President Rev. Edward Glynn’s inbox last weekend, and they weren’t all valentine greetings.  These e-mails came from people all over the nation, expressing fierce opposition to last weekend’s production of “The Vagina Monologues.” According to Glynn and...

The Guerilla Girls on Tour have visited our campus, and it has caused quite an uproar in the community. The Guerilla Girls On Tour is a theater group, started in 2001, that utilizes humor and wit to enlighten the audience about social issues like racism and sexism through workshops and dramatic performances. Each performer assumes the name of a deceased female artist and wears a mask to conceal her true identity. In a recent interview, one of the performers explained, “We don’t want to lecture or hit our audiences over the head with the dreadful stats that exist about the...

When The Los Angeles Times published articles just days before the California recall election detailing reports of inappropriate sexual behavior by Arnold Schwarzenegger, its editor steadfastly defended the timing. "It is a paper's job to disclose anything it knows that bears on a candidate's fitness for office — before Election Day, not after," the editor, John Carroll, said. But Republicans on talk radio, the Internet and some cable television talk shows accused the newspaper of shilling for Gov. Gray Davis. And many voters agreed. "This is a Davis ploy — he's the king of dirty tricks," one Schwarzenegger voter said,...

<p>The Los Angeles Times editor behind the controversial revelations about Arnold Schwarzenegger's groping exploits said the governor-elect was fair game, and the paper has no regrets about an exposé that came late in the campaign.</p> <p>John S. Carroll, the L.A. Times' top editor, said the decision to go after the gubernatorial candidate was made early in the campaign, without the help of Democratic operatives or Gov. Gray Davis, whom voters decided last week to replace with the Hollywood action hero.</p>