COREnotes Issue 003
The second issue of the Office for Catechesis‘ newsletter, COREnotes, has been released! You can sign up to receive COREnotes in your inbox at...
Read MoreRespect has no substitute
Respect has no substitute; neither assistance nor obedience nor love can supply it or take its place It may happen that children are no longer obliged to help their parents; they may be justified in not obeying them; the circumstances may be such that they no longer have love or affection for them; but respect can never be wanting without serious guilt. The reason is simple: because it is due in justice, because it is founded on natural rights that can never be forfeited, even when parents themselves lose the sense of their own dignity. - Rev. John H. Stapelton, Explanation of Catholic...
Read MoreTweeting Institutionally
A few weeks back a colleague in NCCL asked about how I make decisions regarding social networking on behalf of NCCL and my diocese. This was my off-the-cuff reply: Some quick background: My criteria for making these decisions when acting in an institutional capacity is different than my criteria for my personal accounts, especially re: Twitter; for my personal account I’m pretty indiscriminate about who I follow, since I believe the value of Twitter is in making connections and self-limiting those connections diminishes that value. Twitter My decisions about whom to follow via the NCCL...
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