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Monday May 17, 2010 Marquette Prof: Why was Lesbian Sociologist Offered Job in the First Place? By James Tillman MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, May 17, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Marquette University has seen much controversy erupt over its retraction of a job offer last week to sociologist Jodi O'Brien over her sexually explicit writings. But according to Christopher Wolfe, emeritus professor at Marquette University and director of Thomas International Center, the uproar has been over the wrong thing. "The question that should be asked is not why Marquette President Father Robert A. Wild backed off the hiring," Wolfe writes, "but how in...

Funeral Rightsby Leon J. Suprenant, Jr.Originally published by National Catholic Register, June 8-14, 2003One of the pivotal virtues for Christian living is hope, by which we trust that God in His infinite mercy will one day welcome us into His eternal Kingdom. We realize we’re not there yet, and that we need to persevere to the end. One of the sins against hope is presumption (Catechism, no. 2092), which takes many forms. One form of presumption, commonly witnessed at funerals, is the attitude that in the end God will forgive us irrespective of our cooperation with grace. According to this...