Wheeling Jesuit U. can’t find enough candidates for the president’s job and is regrouping. “They need time,” said a spokeswoman. The search committee had its first meeting Aug. 31 (to replace Rev. Julio Giulietti SJ, who’d been fired Aug. 5 after two years on the job). The board chairman, William Fisher, had predicted finding someone [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
It’s an investment
The news from New Jersey: New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine (D) has personally furnished $22.6 million of the total of $24.1 million existing in his re-election campaign’s coffers — more than 90% of the total — according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger. Which is what I call putting your mouth where your money is. (HT: Instapundit) [...]
Ascension Democrats in Oak Park
Oak Parker Susan Jordan describes “a bizarre round of communications” after she discovered that Democrat Party operatives were behind a health care forum at Ascension Catholic Church. She called the Archdiocesan Respect Life Office to make sure she had church policy right as regards “issue advocacy” on church property, then called the Ascension parishioner friend, [...]
Catholics and ACORN in Chicago
Can’t we Catholics all get along? Or get things straight? In the October 23, 2009 issue of the Catholic New World, there is an article entitled: “Local CCHD [Catholic Campaign for Human Development] effort address concerns over ACORN,” a statement was made that the leaders of Catholic Citizens of Illinois have said they will not [...]
Wheeling Jesuit alum raises the NASA issue
A Wheeling Jesuit U. alum has posted an open letter to the Towson MD-based Maryland provincial, Rev. James Shea, SJ, complaining about “the myopic arrogance of the oligarchy temporarily occupying the president’s office and permanently occupying the dual boards” of the university. Their arrogance “has caused these scandals to explode throughout the blogosphere, newspapers, television, [...]
Hope sprang yesterday
Yesterday was bad-news day at Chi Trib, as noted. But it was good-news day in pulpits throughout the world, wherever the so-called common lectionary is followed. Link is to RC bishops’ site. Vanderbilt Divinity Library has it too, if organized less for worship than for study. It was definitely feel-good time in Christian churches — [...]
Don’t slam the door, leave the lights on
Sun-Times front-pager, dominating it, is about former heavyweight champ Ernie Terrell bailing out of Roseland. “You can’t live here and be safe anymore,” Terrell said. “Me and my wife, I guess we gotta get outta here.” Terrell: Case of black flight succeeding the much more publicized white variety of 40 years ago. Leave it to [...]
How newspapers do so well
Opened my Chi Trib on this Sunday morning, feast of Christ the King, being the last Sunday in October (apparently no more: bishops’s site calls it only “Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time in ordinary time,” making it prosaic as all get-out), and found another sad, sad story about people for whom THINGS ARE NOT WORKING [...]
In union there is no showing the door
This fellow got a public service award from Harvard, his alma mater, and this is how he talks at that citadel of progressivism: Extended school days and mandatory summer classes are required if the achievement gap is going to close, said [Geoffrey Canada]. Teachers need to be paid top salaries, and the ones who don’t perform [...]
