This is odd…
Posted by Terry Nelson on Oct 11th, 2007
Catholic News Service has nothing on the recent Archbishop Niederauer or Bishop Todd Brown scandals. Isn’t that weird?
Colleen Perfect is at it again!
Posted by Terry Nelson on Oct 11th, 2007
Standing up for the truth.
Colleen Perfect of Catholic Parents Online doesn’t let anything get by her. This wonderful Catholic woman is once again leading the fight locally to keep our Catholic schools and universities Catholic. LifeSite News has a report on her current efforts:
Catholic parents of students at a Catholic college in Minneapolis are outraged that their children will be forced to read the sexually explicit and anti-Christian novel, A Handmaid’s Tale by Canadian author and far-left feminist Margaret Atwood. The English Department’s faculty at the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minneapolis, has voted to use the book in all sections of freshman English as this year’s “common text”.
Colleen Perfect, president of Catholic Parents Online, told Catholic journalist Matt C. Abbot, that a group of concerned parents has informed the university of their objections and been ignored. The group has formed to convince the university administration to drop the “sexually offensive” book and reform its English curriculum in favour of more serious literature. - LifeSite News
A year or two ago, Colleen had been in the forefront of opposing inappropriate sex education materials used in our local Catholic schools. She keeps a sharp eye out for anything that could erode the sound doctrine of our Catholic faith, affecting children and families in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis. What follows is a synopsis of the book CPO wants eliminated from the required reading list at St. Thomas.
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
The story of A Handmaid’s Tale revolves around an oppressive right-wing Christian totalitarian state in which women are forbidden to be educated, work, hold property or vote. They are separated, according to their fertility and social status, into three classes: wives, domestic servants and “handmaids” who are used as breeding stock for the ruling class of white Christian men. The story follows the adventures of “Offred” a handmaid who is given as a state benefit to a member of the elite and ritualistically raped to produce a male heir. Handmaids who attempt to resist or escape are publicly executed as enemies of the state along with abortionists and homosexuals. - LifeSite News
President of the University of St. Thomas, Fr. Dennis Dease said he would not intervene in the matter.
UPDATE 10/14: Thank God Fr. Zuhlsdorf agrees that the book is not appropriate. Read his take on it here.
Blessed John XXIII
Posted by Terry Nelson on Oct 11th, 2007
Though Blessed John XXIII died on June 3, 1962, his liturgical feast is October 11, the same date as the opening of the first session of the Second Vatican Council, which began in 1962. Pope John had been elected to the Throne of St. Peter on October 28, 1958, just nineteen days after the death of Pius XII.
