From Pekin (IL) Daily Times columnist Dave Simpson (brother of Oak Parker Ray).
Author: Jim Bowman
Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.
Georgetown vs. the bishops
Founded in 1789 by John Carroll, a Jesuit priest, Georgetown University has, historically speaking, religious roots. So, too, do Harvard, Princeton and Brown. Over time, though, as has happened with these Ivy League institutions, Georgetown has undergone a secularization, due in no small part to the fact that much of its leadership and faculty find their inspiration in sources other than the Gospel and Catholic teaching. Many are quite clear that they reflect the values of the secular culture of our age. Thus the selection of Secretary Sebelius for special recognition, while disappointing, is not surprising.
And thiis:
With all of the people struggling so hard to preserve freedom of religion, and with all that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has said in defense of this important value, Georgetowns choice of the architect of the radical challenge of such freedom for special recognition can only be seen as a statement of where the university stands certainly not with the Catholic bishop
American Catholic picked the quotes, adding this:
The editorial is not mincing words. It is plainly stating that Georgetown is, for all intents and purposes, no longer a Catholic university. As Msgr. Pope notes, these words come from the Archdioceses official newspaper, and therefore had to be signed off on by the Cardinals senior staff.
The invite is indeed a stunning declaration by the Jesuits, a throwing down of the gauntlet.
Newsies with a heart? Harden it.
We need journalists to get at the truth and to keep watch against abuses of power. They have a hard enough time getting that right. So lets absolve them of the responsibility of charity or iconoclasm. If journalists want to comfort the afflicted, they should send money to the Red Cross.
Get it straight, please.
Legislation moving right along to forbid trying to help people change who want to change. If Orwell did not foretell this, he might have.
Approached by a young woman at a reception and told she had bet she could get three words out of him, President Coolidge replied, “You lose.”
As mayor of Northampton MA, he bucked the trends and went out of his way for the Irish.
And how’s this for wisdom that lasts?
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
And:
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.
Look out, Chicago, look out, Illinois
It’s your pension funds, stupid. Chapter 9 could be coming their way, and yours.
Silent Cal on film — a Yankee friend to Catholics
Approached by a young woman at a reception and told she had bet she could get three words out of him, President Coolidge replied, “You lose.”
As mayor of Northampton MA, he bucked the trends and went out of his way for the Irish.
And how’s this for wisdom that lasts?
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
And:
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.
Fast stepping by Jesuit institution
Fast stepping by Jesuit institution
This is a very tangled web being spun at Georgetown, where HHS Secy. Sebelius, of mandate fame, has been invited to give a commencement talk . . . no, a talk at a commencement time event . . . no, a talk at a “tropaia” gathering, where trophies are given . . . no . . . oh, forget it.
Georgetown is coming up with new versions of this speaking appearance of the Catholic who would make Catholic universities and hospitals offer contraceptive and morning-after abortifacient pills insurance. It’s one accommodation after another. That place is acting, dare we suggest it, you might say . . . jesuitical.
When the president makes a list . . .
. . . bad things happen to high-profile participants in the political process.
What did Obama say in the 2008 primary campaign in Pennsylvania, To a knife fight, bring a gun? With a Pepsodent smile, too.
Civility, anyone?
North Carolina is nice, but Hollywood has more money
$15 million is not a bad night’s work, right?
Which is to say, boosting gay pseudo-marriage helps at the Clooney house, even if it hurts in NC, where they vote against it.
And there’s more where that came from. Gosh, it seems every time you watch a movie, you contribute to Obama.
