Education

In Defense of Dignity: An African Explains How to Save Africa

by Obianuju Ekeocha December 10, 2012

It is indeed heart-breaking to see the tears of the child in the pangs of hunger. Just as it is soul-wrenching to hear the anguished cry of the child in the pains of disease. To contemplate the day-to-day reality of…

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Gonzaga To Begin Offering Contraceptive Coverage Next Month

by Matthew Archbold December 10, 2012

In a Nov. 20th memo obtained by The Cardinal Newman Society, Gonzaga University President Thayne McCulloh has announced to faculty and staff that in response to the HHS mandate it will begin covering contraceptives starting next month.
While many Catholic…

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Lepanto, 1571: The Battle That Saved Europe

by H. W. Crocker III December 7, 2012

The clash of civilizations is as old as history, and equally as old is the blindness of those who wish such clashes away; but they are the hinges, the turning points of history. In the latter half of the sixteenth…

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Fordham to Host Infanticide-Promoting Peter Singer

by Matthew Archbold November 20, 2012

Just days after Fordham University’s president Fr. Joseph McShane, S.J.  determined that conservative author Ann Coulter was too “hateful and needlessly provocative” to speak on campus, the University will tomorrow host the pro-infanticide ethicist Peter Singer to speak at a…

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Saving Natural Law from Itself

by R.J. Snell November 15, 2012

Naïve proponents and skeptics of the natural law often point to the world “out there” as the source of objective truth (or lack thereof), but the truths of the natural law are to be found through the actions of our…

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The Victims’ Revolution

by Harley J. Sims November 14, 2012

The ideologues have transformed the academy—and, to a remarkable extent, driven out the enemy. They’ve taken over the shop and remade it in their image. And there’s no easy route back. After all, there’s nothing more entrenched than a tenured…

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The Exorcist’s Blatty Horrified by Georgetown’s Crisis of Faith

by The Cardinal Newman Society Staff October 30, 2012

It’s no Halloween tale. Sadly, The Exorcist author William Peter Blatty’s account of Georgetown University’s failings—published in today’s Georgetown campus newspaper, The Hoya—is all too true.
But now the master of suspense has Georgetown officials wondering what’s lurking around the…

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Public and Religious Education: L’État, C’est Tout

by Anthony Esolen October 29, 2012

There is no good reason to be suspicious of people of faith. There is every reason to encourage them and to be grateful for them, because even by worldly standards they make good citizens. But the State does not want…

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Notre Dame Invites President Obama Again

by The Cardinal Newman Society Staff September 27, 2012

Despite Catholic outrage over the University of Notre Dame’s 2009 invitation to President Barack Obama to address its graduates, the University has again invited the President to speak on campus as a candidate for reelection.
From the Notre Dame news…

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NPR Joins Biased Campaign Against Franciscan University

by The Cardinal Newman Society Staff September 17, 2012

The Franciscan University of Steubenville was unfairly slapped Monday with a biased National Public Radio (NPR) report citing complaints from two homosexual alumni who graduated more than a decade ago.
As reported by The Cardinal Newman Society last week, a…

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