by Francois Jacob
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…
by Matthew J. Franck
Race and sex play qualitatively different roles in our interactions with each other, making sex rationally relevant to our social and political policies in a way that race is not.
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…
For those of our readers in the Kansas/Missouri area:
MARRIAGE AND CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE. This summer’s “Catholic Healthcare Identity: Medical and Pastoral Strategies” conference at Benedictine College is the NFP Outreach National Summer Institute. The conference, lasting from July 11-16, offers college credit for educators and/or continuing medical education credits for doctors and continuing education units for nurses. Keynote speakers include:
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Categories: Birth Control, Catholic Church, college, contraception, family, Health Care, Marriage Tags: birth control, Catholic Church, college students, contraception, family, gay marriage, Health Care, Marriage, natural family planning
Dr J’s most recent episode of “From the Front Lines of the Culture War” is now up for your listening pleasure. In it, she interviews Bill Duncan, attorney and president of the Marriage Law Foundation, on a wide range of topics. Their discussion includes Prop 8, DoMA, de facto parenting, and more. Check out CatholicRadioOfSanDiego.com for more information on the show.
We also have her interview on Issues, Etc, split into two topical parts. The first deals with the propensity of the Baby Boom generation to solve marital problems–large and small–preferentially with divorce. The second–graphically–explains what passed for an extra-curricular sex ed seminar at Texas A&M and how it’s related to the widespread use of pornography.
Categories: Divorce, Marriage, Podcasts, Pornography Tags: "From the Front Lines of the Culture War", baby boom, Bill Duncan, Catholic Radio of San Diego, college students, DOMA, Marriage, Proposition 8, Texas A&M
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.
Categories: Abortion, college students, Political Correctness, Pro-life Movement, Same Sex Marriage, Sex Radicals Tags: Abortion, college students, gay activism, homosexual agenda, Marriage, Political Correctness, pro-life movement, Same Sex Marriage
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…
February 16th, 2011
Betsy
Pittsburgh Anscombe Society at Pitt claims free speech violation
By Sally Kalson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
John Heller/Post-Gazette
Joseph Petrich, campus president of Pittsburgh Anscombe Society, a pro-chastity group, asks students to sign a chaste weekend pledge Wednesday in Litchfield Towers at the University of Pittsburgh.
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February 16th, 2011
Betsy
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.)
Here is my open letter to young adults world-wide. Below, some extracts:
My challenge to you is this: do you, or do you not, want married love to last a lifetime? Would you be willing to commit yourself to lifelong married love?
No more messing around. No more excuses. No more waiting for the government and the politicians to “do something.” It is time to get serious. It’s time to stop complaining about the sad state of marriage and start doing something about it. Are you willing to take the Reel Love Challenge?
“It is my hope and my wish to get married. When I get married, it is my intention to stay married for the rest of my life. I commit myself to doing all I can for the common good of my marriage and my family.”
If you are already married, take this version of the Reel Love Challenge:
“It is my intention to stay married for a lifetime. I commit myself to doing all I can for the common good of my marriage and my family.”
According to a recent report, “By the time they have reached ages 15 to 17, 55 per cent of teens have parents who have rejected each other, either through non-marriage or separation/divorce.” Young adults: this report is about you. The question is: are you going to do something to break this cycle for your own children?
This is the core of the marriage movement: a personal commitment to lifelong married love, a next generation movement cutting across religion and race, country and class. Take the Reel Love Challenge.
Stuart Schneiderman explains why people are best served by being judgmental.
On hooking up:
Her post yesterday addressed the problem of judging the character of men who maintain friendships with cads, with men who use women for mere sexual pleasure.
No one approves of anyone using anyone else for anything, no less free sexual favors.
And yet, the hookup culture exists, to the point where it appears to have supplanted the dating culture, and the reason is that women allow it to exist. Read more…
One topic we are hearing from college women in our programs: they are under enormous pressure to look a certain way, namely slim and perfect. A friend of mine sent me a link to this video:
Dove Evolution
Please share this video with all the young women you know! they are starving themselves and otherwise driving themselves crazy, trying to live up to an impossible image.
(It says the embedding code has been disabled. If anyone can find the code to put the actual video player up here, that would be great.)
Dr J was in North Carolina this past weekend, where she gave two talks. The first one, “Love & Economics,” was given at the John Locke Foundation; it deals with marriage as the basic unit of a functioning society. The second one, “Retreat from Relationship in the Hook-Up Culture,” was given at Duke University; it discusses the ways sex was designed to be used and the things that go wrong when it is misused.
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