Dear Governor Quinn:
I am writing today on behalf of our diocese’s 11,323 school children to urge that you propose funding for the Illinois Textbook Loan Program in your 2011 budget.
The Textbook Loan Program has provided secular textbooks, learning materials and instructional computer software to public and nonpublic school students since 1975. Although most of the [...]
Catholic Relief Services has launched a major aid operation to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. CRS has been working in Haiti since 1954. The CRS team in Haiti is in place to distribute emergency relief. Donations can be made online at www.crs.org or sent directly to them at:
228 W. Lexington
Baltimore, MD 21201-3413.
Prayers, [...]
It seems to me that, in the cacophony of debate surrounding health care reform and the so-called “death panels,” that a simple foundational reality has eluded some people: Death panels would be immeasurably useful in modern American society.
Which is to say, they are useful in a society that has largely abandoned the traditional family and [...]
An interesting new study out of England blames the break-up of families — and the cooresponding damage inflicted on children — on the “enlightened” self-interest of parents:
The wellbeing of millions of children across Britain is being damaged by adults’ aggressive pursuit of personal success, a three-year inquiry by the Children’s Society concluded today.
The society – [...]
This is not a political blog (and don’t look for that to change any time soon), but two interesting posts on President Obama’s approach to the so-called culture wars popped up today that are too interesting to pass up. First, a post by Peter Beinart on Obama and the negating of culture issues:
[Obama] seems to [...]
I had given up, after wrestling for a better part of the day, articulating my own thoughts about the juncture between today’s inauguration and Thursday’s March for Life. Then Matthew Warner summed it up better than I ever could:
In Barack Obama’s lifetime our nation has struggled in accepting African-Americans and treating them as equals. Finally, [...]
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus passed into eternal life this morning, reminding us once again that death is the fate of all men:
We are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we are born toward death, and in each of our lives the work of dying is already underway. [...]
