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Most good universities have at least one conservative professor on campus. When, for example, some group at Harvard wants to hold a panel discussion on some political matter, it can bring out the political theorist Harvey Mansfield to hold up the rightward end. At Princeton it's Robert George. At Yale it's Donald Kagan. These dissenters lead interesting lives. But there's one circumstance that causes true anguish: when a bright conservative student comes to them and says he or she is thinking about pursuing an academic career in the humanities or social sciences. "This is one of the most difficult things,"...

If the antiwar protesters had their way, things wouldn't be better. They'd be much, much worse. A HIGH SCHOOL basketball coach I know has a special approach to those who oppose the war in Iraq. "Oh," he says, "you're on the side of rape, torture, and child abuse." Naturally the antiwar people are offended and angrily insist they're for peace and protecting civilian lives and other noble things besides. Still, there's a point behind the coach's rough characterization of the antiwar crowd. And it shouldn't be forgotten as the war in Iraq enters its second week. Yes, many of the...

When Wolves Dress Like Sheep: A Close Look at Voice of the Faithful CRISIS Magazine - e-Letter August 8, 2002 Dear Friend, Lately, we've been hearing a lot about a group called Voice of the Faithful (VOTF). The media's coverage is invariably positive, playing up the group's proactive stance towards renewing the Church and holding bishops accountable for their actions. Now, I tend to be suspicious of any Catholic group the mainstream media supports. And as I began to take a closer look at VOTF, it became pretty clear that it's not as "faithful" as it claims. What it boils...

<p>From contraception to gay rights to the death penalty, Catholics for Free Choice takes a position contrary to the church. The organization denounces the moral teachings of the church, condemns the Vatican and ridicules church leaders on a regular basis.</p>

This is the chirpy little slogan that the lay Catholic group "Voice of the Faithful" have chosen as their motto. What is an honest, believing Roman Catholic to think of this? We have all been dismayed by the horrors of the priestly molestation scandal — priests abusing members of their flocks in sinful homosexual affairs while their bishops obfuscate and move them from parish to parish. This sort of corruption must be rooted out, and every abuse must be punished. But, there is always a universe of difference between an abuse and the thing abused. One must be very...

  We Are One: A Pastoral to the Church in Rochester Nov 16, 1998 by Most Rev. Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Presiding Bishop, United Catholic Church   (Those unfamiliar with what has happened to Corpus Christi parish in Rochester, NY may first want to read the background, then return and read this Pastoral.  Go to Background on Corpus Christi)   I, Bob, by the grace of God a successor to the apostles; to the people of God of Corpus Christi parish in Rochester, New York. Greetings. May the joy and peace and love and grace and blessing of Almighty...

<p>On a quiet city block far from the center of World Youth Day festivities, disaffected Roman Catholics who followed Pope John Paul II to Toronto have been airing their grievances with the church.</p> <p>A woman dressed in priestly garments celebrated Mass. Advocates for victims of clerical sex abuse accused Canadian bishops of cruelty. Activists planned to distribute condoms to World Youth Day pilgrims.</p> <p>They have mounted their protest from inside a church -- an Anglican one, not Catholic, and located several miles from the exhibition hall serving as the center of the official event.</p>

The largest story on the front page of yesterday's Boston Globe was about the lay reform group known as "Voice of the Faithful" which met on Saturday at the Hynes Auditorium with 4,000 people from across the country in attendance.The group started in Wellesley in the basement of St. John the Evangelist Church just five months ago, after the sexual scandals appeared. It was begun by a well known activist, cardiologist James E. Muller, who was a member of a group which won the Nobel peace prize in 1985 for its work against U.S. policy on the nuclear bomb, The...

Group hands condoms to arriving pilgrims Catholic reformists: 'Don't leave it up to your Guardian Angel,' World Youth Day participants advised Odile Nelson National Post Saturday, July 20, 2002 A Catholic youth group distributed condoms to World Youth Day pilgrims at Pearson International Airport yesterday because it was concerned the delegates would not follow the Church's teaching of abstinence during next week's religious gathering."I think abstinence is a great thing for everybody who can manage that. But it doesn't work for everyone. It's not reality," Tobias Raschke, spokesperson for the International Movement We Are Church, said yesterday.The group seeks...