News report: A private foundation must spend 5% of its endowment on its mission–colleges don’t have to. Record return on those endowments is leading to some in Congress to ask why colleges are letting tuition rise while their investment income skyrockets at an even higher rate. If they were required to meet the same 5% [...]
A new church has been dedicated at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. It commemorates the alleged apparitions of Mary reported by three children in 1917 (see Wikipedia article for basics).
In these apparitions there is emphasis on such things as: the unity of the hearts of Jesus and Mary, offering sacrifices for [...]
These are strange times. Ronald Reagan was not afraid to call the Armenian genocide by its right name, but Jimmy Carter, the patron saint of human rights, doesn’t think we should do so. Meanwhile, the House measure goes forward to a vote.
Earlier post.
Reports say that the anti-religious themes will be softened in the film version of Philip Pullman’s “The Golden Compass.” Some of Pullman’s supporters are not happy.
Pullman himself expects the film to remain ‘faithful’ to the books he wrote, but the National Secular Society - of which Pullman is an honorary associate - has reacted against [...]
Msgr. Tommaso Stenico, of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, says he was only pretending to be gay while doing research. He was suspended after doing a television interview in which he opined that he didn’t think he was sinning by having gay sex. His face and voice were altered for the interview, but his [...]
Phil Lawler of Catholic World News can’t accept Archbishop Niederauer’s apology for communing two “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” at a recent mass in San Francisco.
New York Times editorial, 1892. Shouldn’t be hard to draw some contemporary parallels!
Effects of military service in WW II on the Franco-American community of New England.
I was up in Aggieland for the weekend, for an area ACF gathering sponsored by the Texas Conference. Lane Campbell spoke Friday night; I spoke Sabbath morning and at vespers yesterday evening. Janice reports.
Andrew and I took the canoe out for the first time today. I heard many good reviews of Armand Bayou, on the SE side of Houston (near NASA). We put in at the canoe launch at Bay Area Park (here–click on the Satellite tab) and paddled north about 1 1/4 miles. We forgot to take [...]
Dr. William Gray calls Gore’s views “ridiculous,” and says in 10-15 years everyone will feel very silly about all this hype about manmade global warming. He doesn’t call it this, but based on his comments, I’d suggest it is analogous to the Y2K hype.
Meanwhile, the Manchester, NH, Union Leader opines:
Five Norwegians gave a prize to [...]
