Cardinal Wuerl: Ordinariate in the US is Imminent

From the Catholic Herald (UK)
By Liz Leydon

 

Cardinal Wuerl yesterday received an Episcopalian parish into the Catholic Church in anticipation of the ordinariate (Photo: CNS)

An ordinariate is close to being established in America, Cardinal Donald Wuerl said during his visit to Scotland last week.

As Vatican delegate for the US ordinariate Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, said he had been watching developments in Britain with great interest and was confident that the establishment of the US ordinariate was imminent this autumn.

The Lay Reform of Church and World

From First Things

By George Weigel

 

Two volumes recently published by Encounter Books address key issues in the New Evangelization.

The first, Marcello Pera’s Why We Must Call Ourselves Christians, is another effort by a distinguished public intellectual to call our civilization back to its foundational senses. Pera, a philosopher of science, is also an Italian legislator who served for several years as president of the Italian Senate. During his tenure as Italy’s third-ranking public official, he co-authored a book with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Without Roots, in which Pera, the secular philosopher, and Ratzinger, the Church’s principal theologian, found a remarkable degree of agreement on the causes of Europe’s current malaise, which both men traced to a profound hostility to Christian faith and a deep skepticism about moral truth.

Santorum: NH (and SC) Has To Make The Right Choice

Former Senator takes questions from Concord Christian Academy students; voters.

From BedfordPatch

By Tony Schinella

In front of about 60 people, including students from Concord Christian Academy, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum was peppered with a number of questions about his presidential campaign on Oct. 10.

For nearly two hours, Santorum spoke about his plans to revitalize manufacturing and grow the economy, his plan to keep taxes low, to repeal “Obamacare,” a pledge of support for Israel, and keep the government out of people’s lives while at the same time, preserving life and defunding Planned Parenthood.

Father John Hardon on Christopher Columbus

The following is the transcript of a talk given by Father John A. Hardon, S.J. in  1992

First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, after the painting by Discoro Téofilo de la Puebla

We are addressing ourselves to the subject of The Catholic Discovery of America. This year is the five-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. It is also the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Christianity in the Western world. It is, finally, the five-hundredth anniversary of the beginnings of the Catholic Church in North and South America.

The Failure of American Public Education

Published in The Freeman, February 1993

By John Hood

Many American critics believe that the major problem with public education today is a lack of focus on results. Students aren’t expected to meet high standards, the argument goes, and the process of education takes precedence over analyzing education results in policy-making circles.

This is a valid argument (as far as it goes). Indeed, it can be taken one important step further. We not only fail to hold individual students accountable for poor performance, we have also failed to hold the entire government-controlled school system accountable for its performance since at least World War II. Public education is itself a failure. Why shouldn’t individual students follow its example?

Not a Single Christian Church Left in Afghanistan, Says State Department

Ten years after the US invasion of this country we still ask, what are we fighting for here, and is Afghanistan worth the life of a single American soldier?   We have bankrupted the United States fighting these pointless and endless wars; better to let their hateful ideology consume them and not us.

From CNSNews.com 

By Edwin Mora

There is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State Department.

This reflects the state of religious freedom in that country ten years after the United States first invaded it and overthrew its Islamist Taliban regime.

Read the rest of this entry at CNSNews.com

"The State" of the Mainstream Media

As our readers will recall, last Thursday we broke a story about yet another out-of-state trip by Governor Nikki Haley to raise personal and/or campaign cash.  That story was echoed that same day by two other South Carolina blogs to whom we sent the post -- SC Hotline and FITSNews.  We appreciate their posts, E-mail blasts and the links they provided back to us.

Two days later, not one, but two reporters with The State newspaper published our news story as their own, without attribution.  That story was then echoed by radio and TV news outlets around South Carolina.  We're pleased to help a once-great MSM relic in its death throes, but the least they could do is provide attribution to their news sources.  As we stated in a comment on their website, "This is the reason blogs like mine will soon be posting The State's obit."

Friends, forget yesterday's media and get the news while it's still news.