Media

Two alumni who regularly promote and defend the faith in the public square have new offerings:

Theologian / ethicist / cultural commentator Dr. Pia de Solenni (’93) has a new column in Headline Bistro about the “strange, weird, and … largely unregulated world of assisted reproductive technologies.” In it she makes an important distinction between “having a child and being a parent,” noting:

Book Review
A Little Way of Homeschooling, by Suzie (Zeiter ’87 ) Andres
Reviewed by: Becky (Loop’96) Mohun

A few years ago, when I was reading every book I could find on education and homeschooling, I ran into a definition of virtue in a very fat book on homeschooling written by some Calvinists. They claimed that virtue is doing the right thing when you really don’t want to. The corollary was that in education our job as parents is to force compliance with a predetermined learning schedule, and this will make our children virtuous.

On Sunday night, Rev. Joseph Lee, F.S.S.P (’00), and Vanessa Brink (’04) appeared on EWTN’s Life on the Rock. The two spoke about Juventutem, a lay association founded in response to Pope John Paul II’s 2004 invitation to aid young Catholics who want want to participate in the extraordinary form of the Mass. You can watch the episode here: 

Greg Pfundstein (’05), who wrote an article a few weeks back about the Obama Administration’s contraceptive-coverage mandate, has a new story in Public Discourse. Writes Mr. Pfundstein:

What if we don’t want our daughters cataloguing the condom inventory of the local drug store or visiting an abortion clinic for homework? What about our freedom of choice, our right to privacy? Keep your mandates off our children’s innocence.