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USC bats heat up in 12-10 win over Ole Miss
The win improves Carolina to 22-11 on the year and 6-7 in the SEC while the loss drops Ole Miss to 24-9 and 8-5 in the conference. Game two of the series is scheduled for 5 p.m. ET on Saturday with live audio broadcast available at GamecocksOnline.com and on the Gamecock Radio Network.
Carolina rocked Ole Miss starting pitcher Drew Pomeranz in the first two innings and jumped out to a 9-2 lead on the Rebels. Pomeranz lasted only 1.2 innings and allowed nine runs, four earned, on seven hits with two strikeouts and one walk. He took the loss and is now 3-1 on the year. South Carolina starting pitcher Sam Dyson was effective in 5.2 innings as he allowed just seven runs, five earned, on eight hits with six strikeouts and four walks to pick up the victory. Dyson improves to 5-2 for the season.
The Gamecocks got to Pomeranz early with five runs in the top of the first inning. Merrifield led off the game with a base hit and advanced to second base as DeAngelo Mack reached base on a throwing error by Ole Miss shortstop Kevin Mort. Carolina then loaded the bases as Andrew Crisp laid down a sacrifice bunt with Merrifield beating a throw at third base as Ole Miss attempted to go for a force out. With the bases loaded, Pomeranz tried to work out of the jam as he got Nick Ebert to foul out and struck out Parker Bangs swinging to record two outs. Carolina however was just getting started as Jackie Bradley, Jr. came through in the clutch as he knocked a base hit into left field to score a pair of runs. Justin Dalles then gave Carolina a 5-0 lead as he launched a three-run homer into right center off a 1-2 pitch from Pomeranz. The home run for Dalles was his sixth of the season and his first since the first game of the doubleheader at Kentucky two weeks ago.
Ole Miss answered in the bottom of the first with a pair of runs against Dyson. A leadoff walk to Jordan Henry and a one-out walk to Matt Snyder gave the Rebels a pair of runners. Matt Smith and David Phillips each tallied RBIs with singles against Dyson.
South Carolina came back with the bats in the top of the second to score four more runs and knock Pomeranz from the game in the process. Bobby Haney had a leadoff single and Whit Merrifield doubled down the left field line for runners on second and third with no outs. Haney scored on DeAngelo Mack's RBI sacrifice fly to left field and Merrifield scored on Crisp's RBI double down the left field line. A RBI double by Parker Bangs to score Crisp ended the evening for Pomeranz. Crisp would eventually score as Dalles drove in his fourth run of the game on a RBI single off of reliever Rory McKean.
The Rebels responded again in the bottom half with a pair of unearned runs against Dyson. Henry reached base with two outs on a throwing error by Scott Wingo and scored on a two-run homer by Logan Power to left field. It was Power's fifth home run of the season for the Rebels and cut Carolina's lead to 9-4.
The Gamecocks tagged on a run in the fifth inning as Merrifield reached base on his fourth hit of the game with a leadoff triple down the right field line. He would score on Mack's RBI groundout. Merrifield would give Carolina a 11-4 lead in the sixth inning with his fifth hit of the game, a two-out RBI single up the middle to score Scott Wingo.
Ole Miss struck for three runs in the bottom half of the six. Evan Button had a two-run homer in the inning and Jordan Henry reached base with a one-out double, stole third and scored on Matt Snyder's sacrifice fly to right field. The Rebels cut to within three runs in the bottom of the seventh as Kyle Henson doubled and eventually scored on a wild pitch moving Carolina's lead to 11-8.
Carolina added a run in the top of the eighth as Parker Bangs walked to lead off the inning, was replaced by pinch runner Adam Matthews, who eventually made his way to third base before Bobby Haney drove him in on sacrifice fly to center field.
Ole Miss made things interesting in the ninth inning against Gamecock reliever Alex Farotto. The Rebels looked to mount a rally with two consecutive base hits by Zach Miller and pinch hitter Tim Ferguson and a one-out walk to Kevin Mort to load the bases. Jordan Henry drove in Miller with a RBI fielder's choice and Logan Power singled in a run as the Rebels crept to within 12-10. With the potential winning run at the plate in designated hitter Matt Snyder, Farotto was able to get out of the jam as he struck out Snyder with a 1-2 pitch sealing a Gamecock victory.
South Carolina out-hit Ole Miss 15-12 in the contest. Merrifield's five hits were a career-high and he is the first Gamecock player since James Darnell last season on March 18, 2008, to have five hits in a game. Dalles' four RBI also were a career high. Designated hitter Parker Bangs went 3-for-6 at the plate with a RBI as well. Matt Smith's three hits led the Rebels. Logan Power was 2-for-5 with three RBI with Zach Miller 2-for-4 with two runs scored as well.
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XM Satellite Radio settled the last of the lawsuits brought against it over the company's controversial Inno device. Merlin, an organization representing many independent labels, settled for $3.6 million.
The major labels, which originally brought the suit, settled their lawsuits back in 2007 and 2008.
The Inno, made by partner Pioneer, is a portable MP3 player and satellite radio receiver that allowed users to record songs from the XM feed. The recording themselves were not a problem, as plenty of XM units allow users to save several hours worth of programming. The lawsuits began because XM allowed users to ID and save individual tracks, and place them into playlists along with tracks from users' own MP3 library.
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+ Approaching caregivers of Dementia patients Sofia Georgiadou, Ph.D., LPC Houston Area Community Services
+ Learning Objectives Participants will learn how to assess for signs and symptoms of an overburdened caregiver Participants will become more familiar with the family system dynamics in caregiver-dementia patient dyads. Participants will learn how they can approach caregivers as healthcare providers to address issues like: the caregivers responsibilities and limitations their relationship with the care receiver how to handle the demands of care giving more effectively
+ Exploring burdens of caregiving Families play important roles in the practical and emotional aspects of patient care and in decision making at the end of life. 5 burdens of family caregiving time and logistics physical tasks financial costs emotional burdens and mental health risks physical health risks
+ Signs of burn-out Every behavior communicates a message. Often, caregivers report: Missing physician appointments Ignoring their own health problems Not eating a healthy diet for lack of time/ overeating Overusing tobacco and alcohol when they are stressed Giving up exercise habits for lack of time Sleeping problems Weakened connections with friends for lack of time to socialize Holding in feelings of anger and frustration and then being surprised by outbursts directed at the care recipient, other family members, co-workers and strangers
+ Signs of burn-out cont. Other signs to look for include: Feeling sad, down, depressed or hopeless Loss of energy Lack of interest in things that used to give them pleasure Resenting the older adult in their care Feeling that people ask more of them than they should Feeling like caregiving has negatively affected family relationships Feeling irritated by other family members who don't help and criticize their care Feeling upset by arguments with others about their situation
+ Focusing on the person rather than the disease Behavioral symptoms of dementia are often a way of communicating unmet needs. What are the particular needs of each family patient? They might differ given the caregivers gender and other demographics. Example: caregivers for cognitively demented patients might benefit more from emotional support while caregivers for demented AND frail patients might be concerned with knowledge of nursing skills.
+ Exploring emotional aspects of caregiving role Process caregivers feelings about becoming a caregiver and meanings they attach to that role: Taking responsibility (faithfulness; paying back) generally perceived as rewarding In some cases it can be more of a matter of duty with elements of guilt and obligation. Isolation due to distorted or no communication with a spouse or parent who is no longer able to communicate Having no other relatives left in life/ the role-reversal (i.e., to parent your own parent). Grief in anticipation of loss of care recipient
+ Exploring existential aspects of caregiving role Reframing can play a more important role than problem- solving or seeking social support. How has this process changed the caregivers philosophy of life? What good can they make out of it? Increased awareness of the shortness of life, which may make them live more intensely in the present. Identify meaning in the past (memories), present (daily routines, positive aspects of responsibility) and future (to pass on the patient's lifework).
+ Behavioral Management Family caregivers need more intensive interventions that include skills training and assistance with problem solving. Caregivers who are firm and directive tend to have less depression. Encourage the caregiver to engage the family member in activities. For example, the caregiver can be asked, Does your husband help with household tasks? In this case, the caregiver should be encouraged to involve her husband in simple tasks such as folding the laundry.
+ Family Dynamics Family issues often surface when discussing the specifics of respite care. The primary caregiver may have difficulty accepting other family members' support while at the same time resenting a perceived lack of support. Feelings towards care recipient fluctuate over the course of care.
+ Tackling Stress As a caregiver, what are your strategies for stress relief? If the caregiver cannot readily provide an answer to this question, this is an area of concern. Coping strategies: emotion-focused: worrying and self-accusation problem-focused: confronting issues and seeking information Caregivers who use problem-focused strategies have less burnout. When something goes wrong with your brother's care, for instance, if he loses control of his bladder, how would you react? Emotion- focused responses are I'd cry or I'd put him in a home. A problem- focused response is, I'd call the doctor and find out what's happening. A tendency to use emotion-focused responses should alert the healthcare provider to an increased risk of burnout in the caregiver.
+ Supporting caregivers Disclosing diagnoses – Discussing preferences of disclosure with patients and caregivers Caregivers, the hidden patients Counseling – Family meetings with caregivers Education about disease Support groups for caregivers Addressing inflexibility and resistance to change in the family system Helping caregivers acknowledge their limits
+ Support Groups for caregivers For many caregivers, much of their burden is related to feelings of loneliness or isolation. Specific groups, such as the Breakaway program, are designed to supplement traditional support groups by providing informal recreational and social activities with a peer group of caregivers who are experiencing similar stresses. Adult day services are an excellent source of respite for the caregiver and provide engaging activities for persons with dementia. The local Area Agency on Aging can provide the caregiver with a list of nearby facilities.
+ Transition to bereavement Caregivers who feel more burdened in the caregiving role tend to have more difficulty with the bereavement process. After identifying caregivers with higher levels of burden, healthcare providers should help prepare these patients for the emotional challenges ahead.
+ Discussing hospice In discussing hospice with AD caregivers, clinicians may want to emphasize selected features of hospice that are particularly important to caregivers: continued follow-up evaluation by the patient's primary care provider hospice's emphasis on helping patients to avoid hospital admission.
+ 5 areas of opportunity Promoting excellent communication with family Encouraging appropriate advance care planning and decision making Supporting home care Demonstrating empathy for family emotions and relationships Attending to family grief and bereavement.
+ Final Thoughts Dementia is not a one-person problem; Its systemic family Issue Victims, troopers, helpers, or supermen/women? What language do we as healthcare providers use to describe the situation of a dementia patient caregiver? Who is the caregiver of the caregiver? Put the oxygen mask on yourself first Empowering the caregiver – Acknowledging their ability to carry on so many responsibilities (sandwiched younger generation of caregivers) Addressing the limits of caregivers – Explain signs of burn-out to them so they know when to ask for help and why realistically they cant do everything on their own Keeping in mind the resistance of the family system to reorganize itself and change
+ Closing Comments In caring well for family caregivers at the end of life, physicians may not only improve the experiences of patients and family but also find greater meaning in their own work. Thoughts? Questions?
+ Resources about Caregiving Alzheimer's Association : http://www.alz.orghttp://www.alz.org Telephone: 800-272-3900 Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center, National Institute on Aging (This Web site includes information about ongoing studies.)http://www.alzheimers.orghttp://www.alzheimers.org National Information Center of the U.S. Administration on Aging Telephone: 202-619-7501 Administration on Aging: http://www.aoa.dhhs.govhttp://www.aoa.dhhs.gov American Association of Retired Persons; a free caregiver resource kit is available (No. D15267) Telephone: 800-424-3410 National Counsel on the Aging Telephone: 202-479-1200 Children of Aging Parents: http://www.careguide.cgi/caps/capshome.htm Telephone: 800-227-7294 Telephone: 215-945-6900
+ Resources about Caregiving National Family Caregivers Association: http://www.nfcacares.orghttp://www.nfcacares.org Telephone: 800-896-3650 The Well Spouse Foundation: http://www.wellspouse.orghttp://www.wellspouse.org Telephone: 800-838-0879 Telephone: 202-685-8815 National Hotline for Physician Reporting of Elder Abuse and Neglect Telephone: 800-490-8505 Eldercare Locator (A nationwide service for locating area agencies on aging) Telephone: 800-677-1116 Caregiving Online (Online support service through a caregiving newsletter) Web address: http://www.caregiving.comhttp://www.caregiving.com CareGuide.com (A personal caregiving resource) Web address: http://www.careguide.nethttp://www.careguide.net Caregiverzone.com (A web site for family persons) Web address: http://www.caregiverzone.comhttp://www.caregiverzone.com
+ Bibliography Albinsson, L. & Strang, P. (2003, April). Existential concerns of families of late- stage dementia patients: Questions of freedom, choices, Isolation, death, and meaning. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 6(2): 225-235. doi:10.1089/109662103764978470. Casarett, D., Takesaka, J., Karlawish, J., Hirschman, K., & Clark, C. (2002, April- June). How should clinicians discuss hospice for patients with dementia? Anticipating caregivers preconceptions and meeting their Information needs. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 16(2), 116-122. Fiori, D. E. (2002). Clinical Update: Caring for the Elderly. Family Therapy magazine, 1(4), 36-42. Forde O.T. &Pearlman S. (1999). Breakaway: A social supplement to caregivers' support groups. American Journal of Alzheimer Disease, 14, 120–124. Houlihan, J. P. (1987). Families caring for frail and demented elderly: A review of selected findings. Family Systems Medicine, 5(3), 1987, 344-356. doi: 10.1037/h0089730 10.1037/h0089730 Lawton M.P., Brody E.M., & Saperstein A.R. (1989). A controlled study of respite service for caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. Gerontologist, 29(8), 16- 26.
+ Bibliography Rabow M.W., Hauser J.M., & Adams J. (2004). Supporting family caregivers at the end of life: "They don't know what they don't know". JAMA. 291(4), 483-491. doi:10.1001/jama.291.4.483. Saad K., Hartman J., Ballard C., Kurian M., Graham C., & Wilcock G. (1995). Coping by the carers of dementia sufferers. Age Aging, 24, 495–8. Smith, M. & Buckwalter, K. (2005, July). A new look at the behaviors associated with dementia: Whether resisting care or exhibiting apathy, an older adult with dementia is attempting communication. Nurses and other caregivers must learn to hear this language. American Journal of Nursing, 105(7), 40-52. Yaffe M.J., Orzeck P., & Barylak L. (2008). Family physicians perspectives on care of dementia patients and family caregivers. Canadian Family Physician, 54, 1008-15.
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"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
I was lucky enough to spend my year with two huge international companies, both in extremely different sectors and both have extremely different ways of working. For those of you who have read older posts on my blog, you'll know I had the choice between BBC Worldwide and L'Oreal at the beginning of my placement. I went against my childhood dream and chose BBC Worldwide.
I spent six months working with the Global Brands team on brands such as Top Gear, Dancing with the Stars, Doctor Who and BBC Earth. It's busy, it's fast-paced, it has a huge turnover of staff and you work with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
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If you don't know what kind of PR you want to go into, spending your time with more than one company could be a huge advantage. If you'd like to split your time between two or more, it'd be easier to arrange both before you start! (Have you ever tried to job-hunt and attend interviews when you're already in full-time work? It's so hard!)
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As Fleurie Forbes-Martin emphasises in her interview, you should be asking them questions too. It is far too easy to get swept up in the name, in the brand, in the company or even just the fact a company want you and that will end your placement search.
I've heard of a few different situations arising throughout the placements:
- Redundancy
- Bullying
Unfortunately this does go on in workplaces, especially with interns. Many professionals do hold the view that you are affectively their "bitch" and they can say and do what they like to you. This is not the case, just as in a playground, you do have to stand up for yourself and you should get someone more senior involved as soon as possible before the situation escalates.
- Illness
In this instance, as well as the university, your manager and HR being aware, you may want to consider help from Occupational Health.
- Firing
We've all heard the rumours of he leaked this information, she slept with her boss, he was just crap at his job etc etc. The reality is, this probably isn't the truth. To get fired you would have to be doing something completely awful (not saying the above isn't awful) but I personally have not met anyone who has been fired from their placement year! But, should this happen, don't give up. Let the university help you through it and learn from your mistakes.
- Not enjoying work
This I have heard a lot about and this can only be helped by pushing through anyway and hopefully you and your manager can find more enjoyable work for you. The university can again help you through this and can advise you on how best to continue.
If any of these do occur and you do feel you have to move on for whatever reason above or if you have arranged a second placement. Ensure you leave the company in the best spirits. Work as long a notice period as you can, leave a full and complete handover for your successor. Remain working to your highest level of your capability each day. And keep in contact, most bosses will love to hear from you and how you are getting on now. It doesn't hurt to send a Christmas card with a quick update in! The PR industry is after all, all about who you know, not what you know.
If any of these problems or others occur, the only thing I can suggest is try to deal with it internally in the first instance, whether you use HR, your manager or other methods, fixing problems internally is the best step forward and you should act on this quickly. After graduating there are no guarantees these won't come up again and there will be no university advisor to back you up then.
If internally doesn't work, call in your university, and again - do it quickly. Do not bury your head in the sand and hope it will go away because in many instances, it can only get worse. Your university are there to help and support you and don't forget they have seen it all already!
So onwards and upwards to dissertations and the grad scheme/graduate career hunt with the hindsight and memories that occurred across all our placements this year.
"Experience: That most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
A couple of quick tips:
- Always take a break away from your computer. I am notoriously bad at this. I get far too wrapped up in what I am doing and, luckily I have very good friends who drag me away for coffees and lunch but make sure you do. You only ever go back to your screen in a better mood, revitalised and refreshed – a much better working condition.
- During the interview, ask questions. Ask about the team, the workload, the average day, the PR they do (digitally and offline), ask if you can meet the team or take a look at the office. This will not disadvantage you in anyway, it shows you're interested and you have your head screwed on. They don't want to hire a misfit anymore than you want to work for one.
- Tell the university everything as soon as possible. Whether the problem be big or small, that is what they are there for. If you leave things unsaid, they will only build up and possibly reach an unfixable point.
- Remember every member of your team can teach you something about the industry – even if it's not book-learning, you may learn how to deal with a difficult team member. Remember you are there to help them all out and work together as a team.
- PR is a notoriously bitchy and stressful industry - it's not personal.
- Do not let it become your life, again something else I am extremely bad at. When you start working twelve hour days as an intern, you need to sit down with your manager and sort it out. You need to work to live rather than live to work. If you become all about your job, you will lose yourself and it can become very hard to stay motivated and relaxed when that happens.


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Posted on: Tuesday, January 17, 2017
by Ben Johnson
This article was first published August 3, 2016, at LifeSiteNews.
Think Millennials are the most sexually active generation in history? Think again, say the authors of a new study released on Monday.
The number of young adults born in the 1990s who report they are not having sex is more than twice as high as it was for the Baby Boomer generation, a sign they have learned from the fallout of the sexual revolution, experts tell LifeSiteNews.
The study found that 15 percent of Millenials aged 20-24 said they had not had sex since age 18, more than those born in the late 1960s (six percent), 1970s (11 percent) or 1980s (12 percent). That is lower than their fellow Millennials born in the previous decade.
The definition of "sex" is left up to the respondent to define. However, the number of women who were sexually abstinent as young adults tripled since the 1960s, while the number of men doubled, according to the study, which appeared in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
"I think a lot of them are watching the adults around them and concluding that sex without limits is not making people happy," particularly "parents with multiple marriages and divorces," Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of The Ruth Institute told LifeSiteNews.
The study concludes that "the new sexual revolution has apparently left behind a larger segment of the generation than first thought."
"The idea that these kids are 'left behind' by the sexual revolution is quite strange, as if they've somehow been sealed in a bomb shelter and never knew it happened," Rebecca Oas, Ph.D., the associate director of research for the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), told LifeSiteNews. "More likely, they've seen that experiment running its course and decided they'd rather learn from someone else's mistakes instead of their own."
The finding dovetails with CDC figures that show a majority of teenagers are choosing not to have sex. Only 41 percent of high school students reported sexual activity, a 13-point drop since 1991. Millennials also have a lower average number of sexual partners (eight) than either Baby Boomers (11) and Generation X (10).
Valerie Huber, the president of Ascend, told LifeSiteNews that her group – formerly the National Abstinence Education Association - "commissioned the Barna Group to survey 18 and 19 year olds and found similar results. The majority did not like the idea of 'hooking up,' and most of those who were not sexually experienced were waiting for a committed relationship."
Some do not know what to make of the results. The Washington Post wrote, "Delaying sex is not necessarily bad, experts say."
Numerous studies show having sex at a younger-than-average age leads to negative results, while delaying sexual activity and reducing the number of partners has positive outcomes.
Dana Haynie of Ohio State University found that early sexual activity increased delinquency by 20 percent. Experts have warned that earlier sexual activity can increase anxiety and negative psychological reactions, such as feeling used, especially for girls. A study in Pediatrics last year concluded that troubled children were more likely to begin having sex earlier in life, reinforcing the vicious circle.
Those who had sex later than average had higher incomes, educational achievement, and satisfaction in marriage, according to a 2012 report from Dr. Paige Harden of the University of Texas.
A 2014 report found that having multiple sexual partners and cohabitation before marriage decreased marital happiness after couples eventually tied the knot.
"We know that early sexual behavior tends to set a pattern for later behavior. The fact that more and more emerging adults are avoiding sex suggests they recognize that casual sex can compromise their life goals," Huber told LifeSiteNews.
One young person told The Washington Post that, having seen so much sex depicted in pornography, "there really isn't anything magical about it" anymore.
Those who attend religious services are more likely to be abstinent, as well. "There was a significant increase in sexual inactivity among those who attend religious services once a week or more compared with those who do not," Oas noted.
Huber said the most common reasons young people reported to Ascend for delaying sex were personal values and a focus on attaining their goals. She encouraged schools to teach Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) education - as opposed to Sexual Risk Reducation (SRR) or Comprehensive Sex Education, which present teen sexual activity as more normative.
The study notes, "abstinence-only sex education and virginity pledges became more popular (and federally funded) after the 1980s, especially between 1996 and 2009, when abstinence-only programs received large amounts of federal and state funding." Studies have found that abstinence-based education reduces the overall teen sex rate.
"This new research suggests that our students have caught a positive and healthy vision for their futures," she said. "It also means that we must, as a society, be more intentional on reinforcing this same healthy behavior for young, single adults."
Posted on: Saturday, October 01, 2016
by Jennifer Roback Morse
This article was first published at The Blaze on September 29, 2016.
I got into the conservative movement as a 19-year-old economics undergraduate at Ohio State University.
My OSU professors were all recent graduates of the University of Chicago and were true believers in the free market. The theory was elegant, simple and humane. I was instinctively suspicious of anyone to the left of Milton Friedman. But recent developments have persuaded me to reconsider at least part of that elegant equation. Never in my wildest dreams, did I expect to feel as much resentment toward the wealth of certain people as I do today. Let me explain.
As a young free marketeer, I developed a sensibility that I should not automatically be suspicious of wealthy people, (even though I didn't actually know any.) An honest person could do well in an economy like ours. "Do well by doing good." Serve large numbers of consumers. Give the consumers what they want, at the lowest possible cost.
I developed unbridled contempt for people who used the coercive power of the State to enrich themselves. Bilking the taxpayer, bullying competitors through regulations, generating artificial demand for your product by government fiat: this kind of thing made me angry. It still does.
I couldn't care less how a person spends his or her own money. Ostentatious conspicuous consumption. Keeping up with the Jones'. Their shallowness was their problem, not mine. As long as they came by their wealth honestly, I hold them no ill will. The gap between their income and mine, the gap between their income and the person who cleans their house: that still doesn't much bother me. The wealthier person provides employment for others, without harming their dignity.
But now, I have come to see that some rich people are doing something I really do resent. They are using their wealth to manipulate the political system. They are trying to change the rules for everyone to remake the world in their own image.
I first noticed it in my area of social conservatism. I saw people like Paul Singer passing out money to get "marriage equality" enacted in New York State. People like George Soros form organizations to manipulate public opinion and lobby the government. (See the Tax Form 990 for the Open Society Institute for 2014, Part XV, Line 3, here.) Rob Reiner and his Hollywood friends formed an organization to overturn Proposition 8, which had been duly elected by the largest grass roots campaign in history.
Warren Buffett has spent over a billion dollars promoting abortion, "comprehensive sexual education," and "peer counseling," (read: propaganda) for promoting the early sexualization of children. This same handful of rich people financed the research that overturned the Texas abortion clinic regulations, which were duly enacted by the duly elected representatives of the people.
This weekend I went with my husband to the Gun Rights Policy Conference, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation. Guess what I learned? They are dealing with the same problem. In their case, Michael Bloomberg is the Sugar Daddy of the campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens. I heard speaker after speaker describing "astro-turf" (that is, fake grass roots) organizations lobbying the legislature.
Different issue, same problem. Rich people figure they are entitled to throw their money around to enact the laws that will bring their fantasy ideology into being. They spend their money to promote massive publicity campaigns to manipulate public opinion, so people will go along with it, and maybe even come to believe it.
The fantasy ideology of gun control is: "If we only had enough new gun laws, criminals would all obey those laws and firearm violence would disappear."
This fantasy requires a lot of propaganda. "If we never run a news story in which an armed and trained citizen interrupts a crime, no one will ever notice that a good guy with a gun actually can stop a bad guy with a gun. We will make a "documentary" that we edit to make supporters of citizen self-defense appear foolish. Those dopes in fly-over country will never notice."
The fantasy ideology in my line of work is: "Kids don't really need their own parents." This fantasy also needs a lot of propaganda. "If we just "educate" everyone early enough and often enough, kids won't miss their missing parents. We can change the story line slightly to accommodate the fact that some kids lost contact with their parents through divorce, single parenthood, or third party reproduction. But it is the same story: kids don't really need their own parents. If we never mention in a news story the connection between fatherless boys and violence, or fatherless girls and early sexual activity, or mothers' boyfriends and child abuse, maybe no one will ever notice."
What does this have to do with the free market, and my personal regrets? When my friends and I were promoting the free market, we were thinking of small businesses, minding their own businesses. We were thinking of Dave Ramsey-style, living within your means, ordinary folk taking personal responsibility for themselves and those around them. We thought that by speaking out against crony capitalism, we had done our duty. We were not taking seriously the ways that highly concentrated wealth could be used to manipulate the whole political system.
Perhaps some of you agree with "marriage equality." Maybe you agree with abortion on demand and sexually explicit sex education in the schools. Maybe you agree with highly regulated guns and highly unregulated abortion clinics. But do you really want to be manipulated by a handful of unelected, unaccountable wealthy people? I sure don't.
I am now wondering whether some of the people I considered Leftist adopted those beliefs because they were worried about these very things. I still can't' imagine myself going full bore down the left-side of the spectrum. But still, maybe some of these people have more to say than I gave them credit for. If you are suspicious of the rich, or of the free market, for these reasons, allow me to apologize. I should have listened sooner. I still don't know what to do about it.
But, maybe we should talk.
Posted on: Friday, August 05, 2016
by Ryan C. MacPherson, a Ruth Circle of Experts member
Book Review: On the Meaning of Sex, J. Budziszewski
ISI Books, 2011; 145 pages, $27.95
Reprinted with permission from the author from The Family in America.
Noah Webster was no intellectual slouch. Proficient in the languages of the ancient Near East as well as of modern Europe, he painstakingly compiled the etymology, orthography, and signification of 70,000 words for the great American Dictionary of the English Language published in 1828. A product of his times, but also a product of one of the best intellectual traditions humanity has mustered in all of time, Webster did not hesitate to follow the guidance of natural law when defining terms that refer to humanity in its personal, social, and political manifestations. Webster defined sex as "the distinction between male and female," male as "pertaining to the sex that procreates young," and female as "noting the sex which produces young." And marriage? "The act of uniting a man and a woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and a woman for life . . . for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of sexes, for promoting domestic felicity, and for securing the maintenance and education of children."
Two centuries removed from Webster, many people now reject his definitions as being too morally restrictive, too narrowly traditional, too out of step with the hodgepodge of Facebook status updates, YouTube videos, and MP3 downloads that shape personal identities today. Indeed, for college students such as "Harris," the question no longer is whether Webster got the definition of "sex" right, but whether "sex" has any meaning at all.
Harris is certain that sex is meaningless. And yet, Harris is just as certain that the factories for human reproduction depicted in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World are appalling. In the opinion of Harris's philosophy professor, J. Budziszewski, Harris must be confused. How can the student say that sex has no meaning and nevertheless find it appalling that procreation has been separated from sexual intimacy and performed by a factory in the absence of parents? With this puzzle Budziszewski begins a book of philosophical inquiry, entitled On the Meaning of Sex.
Although Budziszewski does not turn to Webster's Dictionary (he does not even cite it once), the conclusions he draws align with such wisdom from the past. Making such conclusions palatable to a postmodern audience is, however, a formidable challenge. Professor Budziszewski might be one of the last people on earth crazy enough to attempt just that—and with a fair amount of success.
For starters, the account of Harris demonstrates that "sex means something to us even if we don't admit to ourselves that it does." From this modest foundation—to which even the Harrises of the world find themselves assenting, however reluctantly—the good professor proceeds to build a case for three other claims: meaning is not arbitrary, human nature is not an oppressive construct but the "deep structure of what we really are," and "human will isn't something separate from human nature." The course is thereby charted to discover what human nature is, to discern how human nature relates to the meaning of sex, and to conclude how the human will ought rationally to approach the topic of sex.
Of course, an author must first ask whether anyone else cares—for whom would it be worth writing on such topics? Budziszweski has three audiences in mind. He writes first for his own generation, the sexual revolutionaries of the 1960s, with the hope that "perhaps we can do better with our children's children than most of us did with our own." He also writes for the current generation coming into power, which has begun to recognize, for example, that divorce and cohabitation put children at risk, whereas lifelong marital fidelity provides children with the best upbringing as gauged by a variety of statistical measures. Finally, Budziszewski hopes to alleviate the burdens that his own generation has placed upon today's young people. His philosophical style, however, makes the book accessible especially to broadly read individuals who have a grasp of the liberal arts, sufficient at least to appreciate his allusions to Aristotle, Dante, and Freud. Readers who shy away from such erudition will at least appreciate some cameo appearances by Katharine Hepburn, Mother Teresa, and Naomi Wolf—a diverse crowd to be sure.
In two simple sentences, Budziszewski conveys his straightforward thesis: "we aren't designed for hooking up. Our hearts and bodies are designed to work together." Or, more positively stated: only in celibate singleness and faithful marriage do the heart and body truly maintain integrity. Budziszewski defends his appeal to the natural design of human sexuality with an analogy from medicine:
Consider the young glue-sniffer again. How should we advise him? Is the purpose of his lungs irrelevant? Should we say to him, "Sniff all you want, because an is does not imply an ought"? Of course not; we should advise him to kick the habit. We ought to respect the is of our design. Nothing in us should be put into action in a way that flouts its inbuilt meanings and purposes.
What, then, are the inbuilt meanings and purposes of sexual union? The Harrises of this world, once they come around to admitting that sex has meaning after all, generally settle upon pleasure. Budziszewski disagrees. "Sex is pleasurable," he acknowledges, "but there is nothing distinctive about that." What, then, distinguishes sexual intercourse from other pleasurable experiences? Objectively, sexual intercourse unites two persons as one and has the potential to generate a third person, their child. Therefore, the inbuilt meanings and purposes of sexual intercourse are unity and procreation. And if this is the case, then traditional sexual mores serve as rational, and preservative, commentaries on human nature: "Honor your parents. Care for your children. Save sex for marriage. Make marriage fruitful. Be faithful to your spouse."
Budziszewski goes a step further. Not only does he find a rational basis for the traditional values of chastity and fidelity that maintain a tight connection between marriage, sex, and childbearing, but he also claims a natural rationality for the distinctions between men and women that were taken for granted in times past but now are everywhere denied. Summarizing physiological research conducted over the past few decades, he concludes that men and women differ in far more than just their genitals. "Our brains are even more different than the rest of our bodies," accounting for cognitive and emotional distinctions that enable an individual man and an individual woman to form a complementary pair. As for the old nature-nurture debate, Budziszewski sides strongly with nature, while acknowledging that each culture adds nuances to how men and women live out their gender differences.
Regrettably, Budziszewski says next to nothing about homosexuality, potentially rendering his argument out-of-date amid the rapid accommodation to same-sex "marriage" that several state legislatures and public officials have made during the two years since On the Meaning of Sex was published. On the other hand, what the book does discuss has relevance to the controversy over the public status of same-sex relations. For example, a chapter on love articulates the connections among objective meaning, human nature, and human will rehearsed earlier by noting that "although we are more than bodies, we are never less than bodies [and] . . . the distinctive thing about sexual love is that it desires the joining of polar, corresponding bodies." Only one man and one woman can truly unite as one flesh, and only such a union has the potential for procreation. The unitive and procreative dimensions of sexual love thus have a specifically heterosexual orientation.
Recognizing that love may (and often does) involve strong feelings, Budziszewski finds a particular exercise of the will even more intrinsic to love, namely, "Marriage rests on a . . . radical assumption: that promises can be kept." Marital love is "a permanent commitment of the will to the true good of the other person." That commitment manifests itself in the bodily union of a man and woman as one flesh and in their mutual fidelity, which protects not only each other as spouses but also the children whom they thereby might conceive. Indeed, the commitments of individuals to remain celibate while single and of married couples to remain faithful to each other protect the entire society from a host of emotional and immunological traumas while also providing the best possible foundation for the maturation of children.
So far, Noah Webster would have agreed. Why, then, does Budziszewski seem to be among such a minority today? (By his own admission, he could lose his university job for teaching in the classroom what he has published in this book.) The final chapter suggests that as a culture becomes farther removed from Christian theology, it loses its understanding of human nature and the meaning of sex. "Human love," concludes Budziszewski, "makes sense only in light of divine love." The imperfections of human sexual love suggest a more perfect model toward which we fumbling mortals strive. More particularly, the existence of love itself testifies something of God's nature: if God's love is eternal, and love is relational among persons, then God must eternally exist as a plurality of Persons, namely, the Holy Trinity confessed by Christians.
Budziszewski's final claim in favor of Trinitarian Christianity risks alienating other partners in the broad Judeo-Christian and natural law traditions. But self-alienation, argues Budziszewski, is precisely what the Harrises of this world already have, for they lack a genuine knowledge of their own nature as sexual beings. If the unitive and procreative nature of human sexuality points not only to marriage but also to God, then let it be so, says Professor Budziszewski.
Ryan C. MacPherson, Ph.D., is author of Rediscovering the American Republic (2 vols.) and Senior Editor of The Family in America. He serves as chair of the History Department at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. This article is republished with permission from The Family in America, the Journal of the Howard Centre for Family, Religion & Society.
Posted on: Wednesday, August 03, 2016
by Jennifer Roback Morse
This article was first published July 23, 2016, at The Blaze.
Earlier this week, the Ruth Institute sent a letter of commendation and 24 white roses to Charles Chaput, the Archbishop of Philadelphia.
Our letter thanked him for "his clear teaching on marriage, family and human sexuality in the Pastoral Guidelines for Implementing Amoris Laetitia in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia."
With all the excitement of the political conventions, why would we spend our time sending flowers to an archbishop? We want to shine the spotlight on the positive things people are doing to build up society.
The archbishop's guidelines restate the Ancient Teachings of Christianity regarding marriage, family and human sexuality. These teachings are obscured today. No less a theological heavy weight than the mayor of Philadelphia castigated the archbishop, saying the Guidelines were un-Christian!
To be fair to Mayor Jim Kenny, we have to admit that the publication of Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, has caused worldwide confusion over Catholic teaching on marriage. Yelling at the pope has become a new cottage industry among tradition-minded Catholic writers. Pulling his words into a sexually indulgent direction has become a cottage industry among progressives of all faiths. And trying to parse out what he really meant has been a full employment guarantee for everyone.
Rather than getting involved in all that, we want to call attention to people who are implementing the unbroken teaching of the Church in a vibrant manner. Focus on what we know to be true and good. Archbishop Chaput's Guidelines provide a clear and practical statement of ancient Catholic teaching, in the spirit of genuine mercy, incorporating language from Amoris Laetitia.
I believe that these teachings are correct, good and humane. I founded the Ruth Institute for the purpose of promoting those teachings to the widest audience possible. I don't believe these things because I am a Catholic. On the contrary. It is precisely because I came to believe in these teachings that I returned to the practice of the Catholic faith after a 12-year lapse.
Let me discuss just one issue that has caused a lot of hand-wringing in the past 2 years. Jesus told us very clearly that remarriage after divorce is not possible. If attempted, it amounts to adultery. Why? According to Jesus, Moses only permitted a man to issue a bill of divorce because of "the hardness of your hearts." (This is the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 19, in case you were wondering.)
At that point, he could have said, "So, I'm going to eliminate this appalling male privilege and allow women to divorce their husbands, exactly like Moses allowed men to divorce their wives." However, he did no such thing. He didn't extend the male privilege. He eliminated it entirely. "From the beginning it was not so," referring back to God's original plan for creation. "I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery." One of the "hard sayings" of Jesus, no doubt. But pretty darn clear.
(And please: don't trouble me with that so-called loophole, ok? The real innovation in modern no-fault divorce law is that it allows an adulterer to get a divorce against the wishes of the innocent party. No sane person can argue that Jesus provided that "loophole" to allow the guilty party to validly remarry.)
The Church teaches that civilly divorced and remarried Catholics cannot receive communion because she is trying to implement this teaching of Jesus. A civilly divorced and remarried person is living with, and presumably having sex with someone, while still validly married to someone else. If the first marriage is still valid, the second attempted marriage is not valid, and is in fact, adulterous. What is so hard to understand about that?
You know who really understands this concept, who intuitively "gets it?" Children of divorce. Kids look into their parents' bedroom and see someone who doesn't belong there. "Who is this guy in bed with my mom: my dad is supposed to be there." Or, "who is this woman in bed with my dad? My mom is supposed to be there."
At the Ruth Institute, we know there are situations in which married couples must separate for the safety of the family. But we also know that those cases are by far not the majority of cases. No-fault divorce says a person can get divorced for any reason or no reason, and the government will take sides with the party who wants the marriage the least. The government will permit that person to remarry, against the wishes of their spouse and children.
This is an obvious injustice that no one in our society will talk about. The children of divorce are socially invisible. In fact, I bet some of them felt like crying when they read my paragraph above quoting with approval, what might have gone through their little minds. Many of them have never heard an adult affirm their feelings that something dreadfully wrong and unjust took place in their families.
Jesus knew. Jesus was trying to keep us from hurting ourselves and each other. And the Catholic Church has been trying to implement Jesus' teaching. You may say the Church has been imperfect in her attempts and I won't argue with you. But I will say that no one else is even seriously trying.
Political campaigns come and go. Political parties come and go. In fact, nations themselves come and go. But the teachings of Jesus are forever. What we do about marriage and children and love reveals what and whom we truly love.
That is why we congratulate Archbishop Charles Chaput for his guidelines. We wish the Archdiocese all the very best. Make Marriage Great Again.
Posted on: Tuesday, June 21, 2016
by Jennifer Roback Morse
This article was first posted at The Blaze on June 1, 2016.
The image from the Huffington Post staff meeting created an immediate backlash for editor Liz Heron's rhetorical question: "Notice anything about this Huffington Post editors' meeting?"
Unlike many of the internet commentators, I am not interested in the ethnic diversity or ideological hypocrisy of the Huffington Post. All these editors appear to be twenty-somethings, thirty-somethings at most, with the possible exception of Heron herself. To me, this photo illustrates the most poignant sociological fact of our time: Delayed child-bearing is the price of entry into the professional classes.
Look at these eager young faces. These young ladies have high hopes for their lives.
An editors' meeting at Huffington Post. Editor Liz Heron tweeted: "Notice anything about this Huffington Post editors' meeting?" (Twitter)
They believe that by landing this great job, they are set. Once they are established in their careers, then and only then, can they think seriously about marriage and motherhood. They do not realize that they are giving themselves over to careers during their peak fertility years, with the expectation that somehow, someday, they can "have it all."
They are being sold a cynical lie.
Here is the bargain we professional women have been making: "We want to participate in higher education and the professions. As the price of doing so, we agree to chemically neuter ourselves during our peak child-bearing years with various types of birth control. Then, when we are finally financially and socially ready for motherhood, we agree to subject ourselves to invasive, degrading and possibly dangerous fertility treatments."
I am no longer willing to accept this bargain. These arrangements are not pro-woman. They are simply anti-fertility. Any woman who wants to be a mother, including giving birth to her own children, taking care of her own children, and loving their father, needs a better way. Until now, we have been adapting our bodies to the university and the market. I say, we should respect our bodies enough to demand that the university and the market adapt to us and our bodies.
We cannot expect much help from establishment publications like Huff Po, establishment institutions like the Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools, and certainly not from the government.
Huffington Post is a consistent cheerleader for the sexual revolution. They have a whole page devoted to divorce. They have a regular Friday feature called "Blended Family Friday," in which "we spotlight a stepfamily to learn how they've worked to bring their two families together. Our hope is that by telling their stories, we'll bring you closer to blended family bliss in your own life!" And they are enlisting twenty-somethings to sell their propaganda.
I wonder how many of the young ladies seated at that Huff Po editors meeting have ever heard of abortion regret or considered the topic worthy of their attention? I wonder how many of them believe that hooking up is harmless, as long as you use a condom. I wonder how many of them have ever heard that hormonal contraception – especially implants and vaginal rings – increase the risk of strokes and heart attacks.
I wonder if any of them wish for a guy who would dote on them, and act like he really truly cares. I wonder if they have ever chided themselves for being too clingy when a relationship ended, without realizing that bonding to your sex partner is perfectly normal.
I wonder how many of them realize how unlikely childbirth after 40 really is? A recent study of IVF in Australia looked at the chance of a live birth for initiated cycles. Don't look at the bogus "pregnancy rate:" IVF pregnancies are 4-5 times more likely to end in stillbirth. And don't be taken in by the "pregnancy per embryo transfer." Plenty of women initiate cycles but do not successfully make it to the embryo transfer stage.
The average Australian woman aged 41-42 years old had a 5.8 percent chance of having a live birth per initiated cycle. And women over 45 have a 1.1 per cent chance of having a live birth per initiated cycle — which is almost a 99 percent chance of failure every time.
Yes, Huffington Post is an opinion-making and opinion-leading organization. And yes, it is not right for a bunch of white, privileged childless
twenty-something women to be having such an outsized influence on public opinion. But for now, let's give a thought to these young ladies themselves.
They are being sold a bill of goods. It is up to us, as adults, to warn them.
Posted on: Monday, June 20, 2016
For those who may not remember, Gomer Pyle, USMC was a sitcom featuring Jim Nabors as a dumb but loveable Marine private. One of his most famous lines was "Suuprize, Suuprize, Suuprize." He would utter these words when he was about to do something to irritate the Sargent or say something obvious.
I've decided to use this phrase when I encounter a study that tells us something obvious that we should have known all along.
Today's edition comes from my friend Valerie Huber of the Ascend organization, which among other things, "represents and equips the Sexual Risk Avoidance field."
She put together a press release showing that the Obama Administration's favorite Sex Ed program is not working:
No Suuprizes here!
Sex ed is government-funded propaganda for the Sexual Revolution. Get the kids hooked on sex before they are old enough to have mature judgment. Convince them that self-command is impossible, and possibly unhealthy. The kids become participants in and supporters of the Sexual Revolution.
Parents of school-aged kids: get them out of sex-ed programs. Grandparents, get yourselves organized to get these programs out of the schools in your community.
Posted on: Tuesday, May 31, 2016
today's "trans movement"... takes us back to a time when women were valued based on their appearance, and whether they fit someone else's preconceived notion of femininity. In essence, all it takes to be a woman today are [fake] breasts and good hair.
As a culture, we are telling women that the feelings and sentiments of a particular group of men – in this case, men who regard themselves as women – matter more than they do. That's patriarchy by definition, even if women happen to agree to it.Thank you Pia de Solenni. We agree. A bunch of men telling us what it means to be a woman is not pro-woman! Thus does the Sexual Revolution devour its own young.
Posted on: Monday, May 30, 2016
Leave it to pro-choice political operatives to make a blackmail threat against a pro-life politician and his family. And leave it to the King of Kings to bring light out of darkness and to write straight with crooked lines.
It seems that "an unnamed source" told Michigan State Rep. Lee Chatfield, a pro-life Republican, that they planned to make public information about his wife's abortion years ago. I suppose this was supposed to embarrass Rep Chatfield and his wife Stephanie that they would, do what, exactly? That he would stop calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood? That he would withdraw his sponsorship of a bill to ban abortions that dismember the child?
In any case, Mrs. Chatfield made her own decision to not allow herself and her husband to be manipulated by her past. She beat them to the punch and told her own story of her high school abortion. She told the story on her own terms: a story of rape, abortion, regret, forgiveness and healing.
When I read her story, I could not help but think how clueless the person who threatened must really be. Or maybe she/he/ze did not know the full story. The young Stephanie, a high school student, was obviously a victim of rape, the very sort of person the Sexual Revolutionary feminist claims to be trying to help. Stephanie did just what the feminist/sexual revolutionary playbook called for: she had an abortion. But the abortion did not solve her problem, as advertised.
I made a decision that I've thought about and regretted nearly every day since. It's haunted me. It's made me weep. It's made it difficult to look in the mirror at times. I knew that what I did was wrong at the time, but I never imagined the weight and guilt that I would carry as a consequence.
I give Stephanie Chatfield a lot of credit for how she is handling herself. This is exactly what the Ruth Institute hopes more people will do: tell the truth about what happened to you. Reveal the lies of the Sexual Revolution. You will take the sting out of them. You will heal yourself, and heal others. As Mrs. Chatfield said:
No matter the intentions of anybody wishing to see this story go public, this I am certain of: God meant it for good and will glorify Himself through this....And to everybody reading this, remember what I had forgotten – that God is greater than our sin. I am confident that God can continue to use an imperfect person like me to bring Himself glory. And while the life vs. choice debate will continue to wage on, this I know for certain: I made the wrong choice. Yet, I plan to use my story to help girls, love others and serve as a living testimony of God's grace and forgiveness.
This is the real, Christ-like solution to the problems of the Sexual Revolution. As I have said many times in my talks, if it is not Christ-like, I'm not the slightest bit interested in it. And if it is not Christ-like, it won't last anyway.
Share your story with us. We may include it on the Tell Ruth the Truth blog. You have no idea who may benefit from your experience.
Posted on: Wednesday, May 11, 2016
by Jennifer Roback Morse
This article was first published May 11, 2016, at The Blaze.
Many Christians are distraught over our political situation. We are trying to chart an honorable course through an increasingly unreasonable moral minefield. I think the solution is at once simpler, and more difficult, than it seems. We need to tell the truth, in season and out of season, and let the chips fall where they may. Easy to state. Tough to do.
In his masterful book on the Catholic martyrs of the 20th century, Robert Royal observed that the Catholic Church simply had no good options during World War II. The Church's position so materially weak compared to its opponents, that it was beyond the power of the Vatican to affect the outcome. There was objectively no policy they could have adopted, that would have prevented the disasters of the 20th century, or even protected the Church's legitimate interests.
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Christians in the United States today are in a similar position. Media, academia, the legal system, the politician and big business are united in their support of the sexual revolution. The rich and powerful want what alpha males have always wanted: sex on their own terms. They consider it the government's duty to minimize the inconvenience they experience from their sexual behavior.
The Church has always told the rich and powerful that they are not entitled to have whatever they want. The moral law of God applies to the rich as well as the poor, the powerful as well as the weak. And the cultural elites have resented the Church for this, all the way back to Apostolic times.
Our situation is more like the French resistance, rather than the U.S. Army.
I draw three conclusions from this.
First, we need to be gentle with each other. We gain nothing from attacking one another. "None of this would have happened, if only the church had done, X, Y or Z," some say. There is no "X, Y or Z" that can truthfully fill in that blank. Even if there were one grand cause of all our present ills, there is no one grand path forward that will solve all our problems.
Second, we must pace ourselves for the long haul. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Think of your most messed up loved-one. In your heart, you know there is no quick fix for that soul. Only our long-run commitment to their salvation will suffice. Our culture needs no less. We must not sacrifice the long term ultimate good for the sake of short term, lesser goods, including, if need be, the outcome of any particular election.
Finally, we need to tell the truth. That means the whole truth: nothing tempered for the sake of political correctness, nothing omitted for fear of giving offense. Yes, we can speak gently and sensitively, but we must tell the truth.
And one of the inconvenient truths is this: The churches have allowed far too much of the sexual revolution to go by with only token resistance. To our credit, we immediately recognized the evil of abortion and closed ranks against it. But we have allowed divorce and remarriage, cohabitation, sexual promiscuity, the pornification of our culture, the early sexualization of children and much more, to go by unchallenged.
We fought gay marriage, yes. But we tried to do it without ever taking on the larger questions of what the "gay" label actually means, whether people really are, "born that way," the obligations of adult society to children, the dubious claim that sexual activity is the key to human fulfillment and many other cultural sacred cows.
I am well aware of the magnitude of our task. I am also aware of the benefits of specialization: an individual or organization usually can't fight effectively on multiple fronts. But I do insist that we support one another on every front where our people are telling the truth.
Above all, we must, quoting St. Paul, "put on the Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 13:14). And, "put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony" (Colossians 3:14).
The behavior of the European churches during WWII and the Cold War is a mixed bag. Some tried to accommodate themselves to the evil regimes in which they found themselves. Others, sometimes within the very same churches, resisted nobly. We now look at the accommodations with more disgust than sympathy. As Winston Churchill said, "Let us therefore, brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth should last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'this was their finest hour.'"
Let this be our finest hour.
Posted on: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
by Jennifer Roback Morse
This article was first published at The Blaze on April 12, 2016.
Non-Catholics may be wondering why Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation, "Amoris Laetitia" or "The Joy of Love," has Catholics in an uproar. Has the Pope changed Catholic doctrine? Has he left the doctrine officially intact, but changed pastoral practice so much that the doctrine is annulled? Now that I have taken the weekend to read it, I am convinced that Amoris Laetitia is a gift to the Church and the world.
What the Catholic Church does is important to everyone, no matter their faith. The Catholic Church is the largest institution still standing against the ideological fraud known as the sexual revolution. Everyone who is trying to deal with the fallout from this massive social upheaval has a stake in what the Catholic Church says and does. If Pope Francis were to change Catholic teaching, the purveyors of the revolution would be dancing in the streets.
And meaning no disrespect, but speaking bluntly: If the revolutionaries take down the Catholic Church, they will squash the rest of you like bugs.
Pope Francis is hugged by a girl after his weekly general audience in St Peter's Square at the Vatican on May 15, 2013. (Photo: VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images)
So let me assure you: There is no change in official Catholic doctrine in Amoris Laetitia.
As for pastoral practice, Pope Francis is encouraging pastors to treat the lost, the wounded, the confused with as much sensitivity as possible. He intends it as an open invitation to the millions of souls who have been harmed by sexual sin, whether Catholic or not, to come home to the Catholic Church and draw closer to Jesus.
I can relate to the need for something like this document. Let me share a bit of Catholic "inside baseball." I am what we call a "revert." I was raised Catholic but left the Church for a period of time, and came back. So, I can't be called either a "convert" or a "cradle Catholic."
When I returned the Church after my prodigal period, my canonical situation was pretty simple. (By "canonical," I mean what "canon law" or church law, would say about my situation. More inside baseball.) I was only on a second marriage.
But I had a whole pile of sexual sins. Like the Prodigal Son, by the time I finally came to my senses, I was desperate. I confessed having an abortion to Fr. Bob Cilinski, the chaplain of the campus ministry program at George Mason University at that time. (By the way, priests are not permitted to tell what we say to them in confession. But we can say anything we want! Let me say, how grateful I am to Fr. Bob and all the other confessors I've had.)
Fr. Bob was the first person who understood why I was upset about having an abortion. I had spoken to numerous therapists. Not one of them even considered the possibility that abortion was related to my emotional distress.
During that first confession in 12 years, Fr. Bob did not go down a checklist of possible sins. "Now, I cannot give you absolution unless you are sorry for all these sins." I shudder to think what would have happened if he had. I would have freaked out and run out of there, more upset than before. And I certainly was in no position to have a theological discussion about each and every aspect of Church teaching.
I didn't ask. He didn't ask. He gave me absolution for the big sin I came in to confess.
He did tell me I should come to Mass, but not receive communion. He helped me seek an annulment. But I could not go to Communion, unless and until I received a declaration of nullity. (A declaration of nullity is an official finding by a church tribunal that my first attempted marriage had never been a valid marriage.)
In other words, he did not move the goalposts to make it easier and more "pastoral" for me. He stood by the Church's teaching in every particular way and he set me on the path to a closer encounter with Jesus. Along that path, I eventually came to see that the Church was correct about premarital sex, cohabitation and contraception too. I confessed those sins too, in due course.
By the way, this confession took place in 1988, during the pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II. According to the sexual revolutionaries, those were the dark days of doctrinal rigidity and all-around Catholic meanness. The fact is, Catholic priests have been quietly accompanying people in a pastoral manner for quite some time. Priests know better than anyone the wreckage left in the wake of the sexual revolution. Even the ones who don't preach about it as much as I would like are still guiding people toward Jesus.
While I do wish Pope Francis had been more clear on some points, I consider Amoris Laetitia a gift to the Church and the world. No matter your faith tradition, I urge you to read the document. Start with chapters 4 and 5.
You will find Pope Francis to be like a wise grandfather or great-uncle sitting across the kitchen table. You can imagine him sharing a cup of coffee or bouncing a baby on his knees. He invites all of us to love one another, and teaches us how. That is gift enough.
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Posted Oct 27, 2016 on Hotels
Room was not the best. About 2.5 city blocks from the elevator. Had a ground view of a garden and actually noticed workers could see into my room. As usual, the staff was great. And the location, stellar, next to St Isaac's Cathedral and Hermitage...
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from US, NY City
Good & clean hotel, friendly staff, key locationPosted Oct 22, 2016
Pros: Our room was fantastic, with a balcony facing Saint Isaac's Cathedral, very nice and clean. All members of the hotel's staff speak English very well, were extra friendly, ready to put their best foot forward in order to make sure that our staying would be as pleasant as possible: Julia - the concierge, Katerina - member of the reception team - nice, clean cut smart youngsters, pleasure to deal with. The Hotel is located in so called city's historical center with walking distance to all the attractions sach as Hermitage and other landmarks. No problem finding various restaurants and bars near by, as well as shopping.
Cons: The bathroom could be a bit larger, but again - this is one of the city's historical buildings, means to change room's layout were most likely limited.
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