[StBernard] The Left is Twisting the New Encyclical

[Westley Annis]

Passing this along just because of the article about the University of Chicago.

Westley

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7/22/2009
Three Misreadings of Caritas in Veritate
Deal W. Hudson 
	

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Pope Benedict XVI's latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, was published on July 7. With the appearance of a new papal document, various factions in the Church, as well as some outside, eagerly attempt to score points on their own behalf. This is particularly true of Caritas in Veritate, since both its length and the variety of its content allow plausible misreadings supported by selective citations.


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Magicians Trapped Inside Monkeys | John Zmirak	 

The University of Chicago has just announced that its students are not, in fact, humans, but magicians trapped inside of monkeys. The Windy City dons are not alone in believing this about the bright young things who crowd its halls at the estimated cost of $52,298 per year. Many other equally prestigious and pricey schools adopt the same core principle and enshrine it in their policies.
 
Now, they don't say this in so many words. But that's what U. Chicago meant when it announced that men and women as young as 17 could share the same dorm rooms. The Chicago Sun-Times reported on July 6 that the school is making its dorms bisexual, in order to accommodate "transgender" students who "identify with the opposite sex."
 
One dogma of academic feminism states that "gender" is not determined by the structure of particular organs that reproduce the species. Gender is a "social construction" so complicated that its study requires thousands of scholars grinding out jargon-laden tomes at schools across the country, while graduate students teach their classes.


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Single-Tasking Summer  | Danielle Bean	 

One recent morning I went to Mass by myself. I was glad to have the opportunity and thought I might pray -- actually pray. I know, I know, it's a novel idea to some of us -- to spend an hour or so in church focused on worshipping God instead of fighting a Battle Royale of mother versus toddler.
 
But even without a toddler in tow, praying proved to be difficult. When I closed my eyes... my brain just buzzed. It leapt relentlessly from one thought to the next. 

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Iconoclasm and the Sexual Revolution  | David Carlin	 

Today's lesson is on how to turn Catholics into semi-Catholics and non-Catholics.

If you would like to destroy a prevailing system of beliefs and values, there are two ways of doing it: Persecution is one way, seduction the other. In the century or so following the start of the Protestant Reformation, persecution often proved effective. Catholic regimes persecuted Protestants, Protestant regimes persecuted Catholics, and Protestants of one kind persecuted Protestants of another kind. 


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Anthony Esolen, Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., Mark P. Shea, John Zmirak, Alfred A. Lagan, Deal W. Hudson, Danielle Bean, Daniel Molinaro, H. W. Crocker III, Tom Hoopes, and James Hitchcock.

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