Monthly Archives: December 2011

“Deadly Medicine” Holocaust Museum Exhibit Highlights Similar Medical Ethics Issues Today

December 28, 2011 – 12:53 pm

 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s special traveling exhibition, “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race,” is currently being displayed at The University of Dallas until Jan. 15, 2012.  According to the University of Dallas, the display isn’t just of historical interest but it points to issues that are still prevalent today: From 1933 to 1945, Nazi [...]

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A Little Church Bashing For Christmas from Faculty of Jesuit College

December 28, 2011 – 10:30 am

 Two faculty members of the Jesuit University of San Francisco took to the airwaves just prior to the Christmas break to bash the Catholic Church’s teachings on sexuality, one even going so far as to call the Church “homophobic.”  The host of the public radio station KALW “City Vision” series called “Far from Rome: Being [...]

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Dr. Scott Hahn to Teach at John Paul the Great U.

December 27, 2011 – 12:27 pm

Renowned Biblical scholar and author Dr. Scott Hahn will be teaching John Paul the Great University’s Masters in Biblical Theology program this winter. His class, Johannine Literature, will cover the Gospel of John. John Paul’s Master’s in Theology is available both on campus and entirely online, according to the school’s website.  The program offers what they [...]

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Jay-Z 101 at Georgetown

December 27, 2011 – 9:50 am

“What’s the intellectual, theological, philosophical predicate for Jay-Z’s argument?” That’s the question posed by Michael Eric Dyson, the professor of “Sociology of Hip-Hop — Urban Theodicy of Jay-Z” at Georgetown University, according the Washington Post. It’s Monday morning at Georgetown University, and Michael Eric Dyson is on Page 176 of “Decoded,” the memoir of rap superstar [...]

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FOCUS Founder Appointed to Vatican Advisory Board

December 27, 2011 – 9:49 am

Curtis Martin, the founder of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, has been appointed to a Vatican advisory group dedicated to the New Evangelization, the Denver Post reports. Professor Edward Sri said he still remembers the first time he met Curtis Martin in a hallway at graduate school in Kansas almost 20 years ago. “The [...]

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So It’s Not Just Catholics?

December 27, 2011 – 6:31 am

Wait. I thought it was just a Catholic thing. While the media and many in Congress would have you believe that it’s just Catholics who have a problem with it, the HHS mandate requiring contraception (including abortifacients) to be covered by insurance has clearly riled and mobilized Christian organizations across the country. In the past [...]

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Catholic College Reaffirms it’s Catholic. Sorta’

December 23, 2011 – 1:05 pm

Reports of the death of the Catholic University of Louvain have been greatly exaggerated it seems. After more than a year of extensive debate and consultation about its identity, the Catholic University of Louvain has announced they will not drop the name “Catholic” from their name, according to the National Catholic Reporter. The school’s mission [...]

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Christian College Takes Obama Administration to Court

December 22, 2011 – 11:58 am

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty announced that Colorado Christian University (CCU) today became the first interdenominational Christian college to challenge in federal court a new “Affordable Care Act” (aka “Obamacare”) mandate for abortifacients (drugs which induce abortions). Colorado Christian joins the Catholic Belmont Abbey College (which filed suit last month) in pushing back against [...]

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Religious Leaders Unite Against HHS Mandate

December 22, 2011 – 10:21 am

Over sixty leaders of faith-based organizations or who work with faith-based organizations wrote a public letter  in conjunction with the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance to President Barack Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius protesting the very narrow exemption to the health insurance contraceptives mandate and asking that the administration not adopt in its place a [...]

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Patrick Reilly Warns That Notre Dame and Catholic Health Association Undermine Religious Liberty

December 22, 2011 – 9:01 am

Patrick Reilly, the President of the Cardinal Newman Society, took to the pages of The Washington Times today to warn the country that the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic Health Association have suggested a compromise with the Obama administration over the HHS contraceptive mandate that undermines the cause of religious liberty. Amid much [...]

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Catholic College Seeks Liturgically Traditional Chaplain

December 21, 2011 – 12:26 pm

Wyoming Catholic College is seeking a “priest of orthodox faith” to fill the role of Chaplain. Preferably, they say, the priest would have experience with the extraordinary form and Gregorian Chant, according to Shawn Tribe of the New Liturgical Movement. Wyoming reportedly sent the following email to NLM: Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming, seeks [...]

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Is ND’s Chair Unfit to Serve?

December 21, 2011 – 12:25 pm

Wildly succesful businessman and philanthropist Richard C. Notebaert was elected to a three-year term as chair of the University of Notre Dame’s Board of Trustees in 2007. He was elected to a further three-year term in 2010. But Fr. Bill Miscamble, CSC, a professor of history and influential voice at Notre Dame, worries that he may be [...]

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NC Reporter Warns Obama: HHS Mandate is Bad Politics

December 21, 2011 – 9:30 am

Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter warns President Barack Obama in his latest piece that on top of being the wrong thing, pushing a narrow conscience exemption for Catholic and other religious organizations from the contraceptive mandate under the new health care reform law, it’s also bad politics. Winters warned that a narrow [...]

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Cardinal Newman Society Sends Letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

December 21, 2011 – 9:27 am

Notre Dame, CHA Push Dangerous Compromise on Religious Liberty Cardinal Newman Society Sends Letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius The Cardinal Newman Society sent letters yesterday, December 20, to the Obama Administration and leading Catholic bishops, raising serious concerns about a proposal made by the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic Health Association that [...]

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Kreeft: Yes Franciscan, There is a Culture War. And Here’s How to Win It.

December 21, 2011 – 9:24 am

Boston College Professor and author Dr. Peter Kreeft of Boston College told hundreds of students, faculty, and guests at the Franciscan University of Steubenville that yes, there is a culture war. And then he laid out his strategy to win it called “How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society [...]

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