We’d best pay attention to what’s really at the root of this violence and anarchy. It’s not just about Britain.
But that’s where the symptoms of social decay are vividly manifest at the moment. This article says a police shooting sparked the riots, just about everyone now blames a larger ‘system’. They’re just competing visions of which systems are culpable for the breakdown. Read more…
by Joanna Bogle
Will the mayhem in British cities this week finally convince doubters that family structure matters?
No structure to life, no moral values, no father, little or no ability to read and write, a passion for consumer goods fuelled by an upbringing focused on the fulfilment of immediate needs – all this plus physical strength, ferocious anger, and commitment to a strong gang – it all makes rioting a good way to spend a summer evening. Read more…
By Maggie Gallagher, Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage
John Garvey, the new President of Catholic University, announced last week that the university will return to single sex dorms. Many feathers were ruffled. It is a measure of the unisex madness in which we have become enmeshed that a Catholic university’s decision to house unmarried young men and women in separate dorms could be described as “controversial.” Read more…
The UN wants young people to change the world. In Madrid the Pope will ask them to change themselves.
Today, a thousand or so youth activists from around the world gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a high level meeting on the theme of “dialogue and mutual understanding”. The two-day UN youth summitmarks the culmination of an international Year of Youth that began last August and ends on the annual UN World Youth Day, August 12th. Read more…
After one year as president of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., John Garvey took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to announce a change in his university’s policy for housing students on campus: a return to all-male and all-female residence halls, and the gradual elimination of mixed-sex buildings. According to the Washington Post, Catholic University first changed to “co-ed” housing over two decades ago and currently houses both sexes in eleven of its seventeen residence halls—though men and women remain in separate floors or wings, unlike the latest fashion of shared suites, bathrooms, and even sleeping quarters at some universities. Read more…
The Catholic University of America generated much press last week when its president announced that, beginning next year, it would transition to single-sex only housing. Considering that such a move was previously unheard-of, the attention wasn’t shocking. Read more…
The ASCSM Student Senate held a meeting on Monday, April 18 proposing the impeachment of Associated Student Body President, Vivian Abellana. …
The fliers were spread in response to Abellana’s veto to proposals for funding two events: the AB-540 Teach-In event held by Latinos Unidos and a comedy show held by the Gay-Straight Alliance. Read more…
Remember when our universities were places where civil discourse was sacred?
Take a look at this video. Read the article while you’re at it.
And yet the advocates of same-sex ‘marriage’ keep assuring us that nobody’s civil rights will have to be abridged for them to have their way.
The popular stereotype of college campuses as a hive of same-sex experimentation for young women may be all wrong.
To the surprise of many researchers and sex experts, the National Survey on Family Growth found that women with bachelor’s degrees were actually less likely to have had a same-sex experience than those who did not finish high school. Read more…
Interesting survey. (Readers caution: different categories of “activity” are discussed–be advised.)
ATLANTA – Fewer teens and young adults are having sex, a government survey shows, and theories abound for why they’re doing it less. Experts say this generation may be more cautious than their predecessors, more aware of sexually spread diseases. Or perhaps emphasis on abstinence in the past decade has had some influence.
Or maybe they’re just too busy.
“It’s not even on my radar,” said 17-year-old Abbey King of Hinsdale, Ill., a competitive swimmer who starts her day at 5 a.m. and falls into bed at 10:30 p.m. after swimming, school, weight lifting, running, more swimming, homework and a volunteer gig working with service dogs for the disabled. Read more…
By Patrick Fagan
DEPENDING on how the Board of the University of Dallas votes tonight I (proud father of five UD alumni children) may well be telling folk: “Don’t send your kids to UD. It used to be great but now is a danger to their faith.” At issue is the introduction of a curriculum of the School of Ministry for undergraduates.
In a newly released promotional video for the University of Dallas, the new president Thomas Keefe states unequivocally, “There isn’t an institution that compares to the University of Dallas in its fidelity to the Church and its academic rigor.” How brave he is in keeping it so will be clear tonight at the Board meeting. Read more…
You have to see this. (Be sure to watch the video.)
The question at the end of LifeNews.com’s article says it all: “Which side has more joy?”
(For the storm troopers who besieged NOM’s Summer for Marriage Tour at every stop last July and August: This is how to do a counter demonstration people! Don’t intimidate, be non-threatening, don’t charge the opposing rally’s stage, stand off and respect the other assembly’s right to free speech, and above all else, do it with joy – not hatred.)
By the way: Did you notice how young the overwhelming majority of the Pro-Life demonstrators were? They are the future, my friends.
You can watch additional videos here.
Ignacio Ibarzábal
For LA NACION
Zygmunt Bauman, a Polish sociologist, has achieved great editorial success describing our “liquid” society. On his book “Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds”, he captures the postmodern outlook regarding relationships: In these days, bonds among people are fragile, weak, almost ethereal.
Liquid love is the legacy we inherited from the sexual revolution. And while adults may believe that young people comfortably swim in its waters, many of us are filled with dissatisfaction. In fact, a reaction is about to start. Read more…
St. Augustine famously said: “Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.” University of Pittsburgh student Joseph Petrich wanted to advocate for chastity now, only to be told by university officialdom that he and his group had to leave.
Maybe he and his friends needed the help of St. Jude Thaddeus, patron saint of lost causes. As it was, they were rebuffed by a bureaucratic display of illiberal liberalism, the sort that is a stickler for rules but not a stickler for free speech.
Whatever one thinks about the practicality or even desirability of chastity, it is a brave act to stand up for sexual purity in a sex-soaked culture, especially on any college campus, ground zero for raging young hormones ready to hook up. It invites ridicule to swim against that tide. Read more…
The Anscombe Society at the University of Pittsburgh has created quite a stir. In response to the university health center’s week-long event “SEXPO: Featuring Pop the Cherry”, Anscombe students distributed over 400 hand-made white tissue paper carnations with a message reading “Coach, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Love….Which do you prefer, real or counterfeit?” Students also handed out pamphlets extolling the benefits of premarital sexual abstinence and debunking commonly held myths regarding abstinence and those committed to it. Upon being asked to stop distributing these items, the students voiced their disagreement with the request, explaining that they were acting within university code and should be allowed to continue peacefully demonstrating. After issuing a press release about their activities, the students were able to sit down with university administrators and begin constructive dialogue regarding the role and contribution the students in the Anscombe Society can make to the university community, and to university sexual health services in particular. (Read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article and editorial here.)
Editor’s note: This is an adaption of Dr J’s An open letter to emerging adults, worldwide, from Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse and the Ruth Institute, originally published on Mercator Net, an Australian-based webzine that serves the entire English-speaking world. You can read that full article here.
My dear young friends,
We at the Ruth Institute created the Reel Love Challenge to inspire a conversation about lifelong married love among you, the next generation of young adults. I know from many conversations that you want to get married and stay married. Many of you have doubts about love and marriage because of your own experiences of loss and pain resulting from your parents’ divorces, infidelities and other problems. Read more…
Calling all Millennials: “Be part of the marriage solution”
by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
A friend of MercatorNet begins a conversation about love and marriage with the up-and-coming generation.
My dear young friends,
I know from many conversations with you that you want to get married and stay married. I know that many of you have fears about love and marriage, because of your own experiences of loss and pain resulting from their parents’ divorces, infidelities and other problems. I know that for many of you, these fears are overwhelming, even paralyzing. Read more…
Friend of Ruth, Steve Hicks, sends this report from the March for Life in DC.
Cute Girls from the Archdiocese of Omaha
Jan 24 2011 – Wash DC
It may have well been called the “youth march” for life! I don’t know what the numbers were yet, but I stood and listened to the youth bagpipe band playing on the curb of Constitution Avenue while I watched 4 lanes of mostly teens and young adults pass by for at least a half hour. It was staggering. A tsunami of pro-life youth.
Earlier that morning the VERIZON Center (capacity for basketball game is around 20,000, JRM) was full and 10000 more we at the US Armory attending the morning Youth Mass.
The night before saw The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception packed into the side aisles with youth for a heavenly polyphonic sung Mass, with an endless line of seminarians and priests in a procession that seemed to last forever.
(Buy the DVD on EWTN.com to find out how long for sure!) Then the Crypt of the Basilica hosted an all night vigil for life.
Wow. My bones needed to sleep.
No wonder there was so much young energy on display in defense of the unborn. All manner of chants and high school cheers were shouted with sheer joy.
One group that looked like a hundred kids on the steps alongside Constitution Ave. cheering:
Who do we want!? Babies!?
How do we want them!? Alive!
What do we need to do?! Save their lives!
How are we gonna do it?! Thru prayer and sacrifice!!!
Amen AMDG Steve
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