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Christmas story says bodies matter, even microscopic ones By Colleen Carroll Campbell

In 10 Colleen Carroll Campbell on 2011/12/30 at 9:11 AM
The Vatican made headlines with its release of Dignitatis Personae (Latin for “The Dignity of the Person”), which updated Catholic teachings on bioethics and reaffirmed opposition to the cloning, killing and manipulating of human embryos.

Critics have blasted the document as proof of the church’s inexplicable fixation on embryos. They ask: Why devote such energy to defending the rights of a microscopic dot? Why throw up roadblocks to the Brave New World of biotech advances — including the detection and destruction of genetically flawed embryos in pursuit of so-called designer babies — to save infinitesimal entities no one will miss? What’s with the embryo obsession?

Read more: http://www.colleen-campbell.com/P-D_Columns/PD081225Body.htm

Colleen Carroll Campbell is a St. Louis-based author, former presidential speechwriter and television and radio host of “Faith & Culture” on EWTN. Her website is www.colleen-campbell.com.

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Benedict and the Young By Colleen Carroll Campbell

In 10 Colleen Carroll Campbell on 2011/09/21 at 6:00 PM

The seeds Pope John Paul II  planted  have produced a crop of dedicated, holy and scholarly young priests, particularly in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina.  Blog administrators comment on this article.

It happens every time the pope encounters a young crowd, and it is happening again at the papal youth rally in Yonkers: Young Catholics will turn out in droves to give Pope Benedict a warm, rock-star welcome. And many of their elders will watch and wonder: What do they see in him?

He’s the pope, of course, which still counts for something among even the most poorly catechized young Catholics. And a certain contagious enthusiasm always permeates youth gatherings. Then there is the cult-of-personality explanation favored by journalists who puzzled over Pope John Paul II’s rapport with young people for decades. But that rationale lost steam after 1 million effusive young pilgrims showed up to cheer the shy and retiring Benedict at his first World Youth Day gathering in 2005, which pundits had expected to be a flop without the charismatic John Paul.

Read more: http://www.colleen-campbell.com/Misc_Columns/080419PapalBlogFive.htm

Colleen Carroll Campbell is a St. Louis-based author, former presidential speechwriter and television and radio host of “Faith & Culture” on EWTN. Her website is www.colleen-campbell.com.

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Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion

In 10 Colleen Carroll Campbell on 2011/07/30 at 7:03 AM

National Catholic Reporter
February 4, 2000
Book review: SPIRITUAL MARKETPLACE: BABY BOOMERS AND THE REMAKING OF AMERICAN RELIGION By Wade Clark Roof
Princeton University Press, 384 pages, $24.95
By Colleen Carroll

In his newest book, religious commentator Wade Clark Roof examines America’s religious landscape and details the ways Baby Boomers have changed it. He credits the post-World War II generation for everything from America’s growing tolerance of religious diversity to its growing distrust of external religious authority, and his take on those changes is overwhelmingly optimistic.

Roof, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara who traces his own religious beliefs to the unrest of the 1960s, argues against the stereotype of the self-centered Boomer and declares, “There is now greater spiritual maturity on the part of Boomer Americans.”

Read more: http://www.colleen-campbell.com./articles/020400NCR.htm

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The Cult of Busyness Finding God in All Things By Colleen Carroll Campbell

In 10 Colleen Carroll Campbell on 2011/07/13 at 11:21 PM

Pope Benedict XVI recently gave an Angelus address on topic that might seem surprising to those familiar with the legendary German work ethic. Speaking to several thousand pilgrims who had gathered outside his vacation home in August, the Bavarian-born Pope advised them to take a cue from a 12th-century Cistercian monk, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and learn to take a break.

“It is necessary to pay attention to the dangers of excessive activity,” said Benedict, who quoted St. Bernard in warning that “numerous occupations often lead to ‘hardness of heart,’ ‘they are no more than suffering for the spirit, loss of intelligence, and dispersion of grace.’”

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Colleen Carroll Campbell is a St. Louis-based author, former presidential speechwriter and television and radio host of “Faith & Culture” on EWTN. Her website is www.colleen-campbell.com.


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“The Pope on Pick-and-Choose Catholics” by Colleen Carroll Campbell

In 10 Colleen Carroll Campbell on 2011/06/02 at 10:05 PM

The Pope on Pick-and-Choose Catholics

By Colleen Carroll Campbell

Commentators seeking a shorthand way to characterize Pope Benedict frequently have resorted to depicting him as an ecclesiastical version of Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde. The “good” Benedict recognizes the longings of our spiritually hungry age and calls for compassion for immigrants and the poor. The “bad” Benedict emphasizes the importance of fidelity to Catholic moral teachings on such controversies as abortion and same-sex marriage while promoting the revival of traditional Catholic devotions.

The real Benedict is more interesting than the media caricature. And he proved it again in his address to U.S. bishops on Wednesday night, as he deftly wove together his concerns for answering the spiritual hunger and material needs of our society with his conviction that the best way Catholics can do that is by allowing their lives to be guided by Catholic moral teachings and grounded in the sacramental life of Catholic worship.

Read more: http://www.colleen-campbell.com/Misc_Columns/080417PapalBlogThree.htm  from her website: www.colleen-campbell.com.

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“Benedict’s Better Plan” by Colleen Carroll Campbell

In 10 Colleen Carroll Campbell on 2011/05/22 at 12:00 AM

 History Proves That the Church Thrives When It Is Challenging the Culture, Not Imitating It

Critics of the Catholic Church have found much to fret about since the election of Pope Benedict XVI.  Though he has exhibited a deep understanding of our postmodern culture and an intense concern for evangelizing the secular West, many American pundits have dismissed the new Pope as a cranky conservative whose defense of traditional Catholic teachings will lead the Church into inevitable decline.

If he continues to hold the line on such issues as artificial birth control, abortion, homosexuality and women’s ordination, they argue, the pews will empty out and the Catholic Church will forfeit its influence on American public life.

Read more:  http://www.colleen-campbell.com./Misc_Columns/060505OSVChurch.htm

Colleen Carroll Campbell is a St. Louis-based author, former presidential speechwriter and television and radio host of “Faith & Culture” on EWTN. Her website is www.colleen-campbell.com.



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“Dangers of Religious Ignorance” by Colleen Carroll Campbell

In 10 Colleen Carroll Campbell on 2011/05/09 at 9:50 PM

If you can name the four Gospels, the religion of the Dalai Lama or the day that the Jewish Sabbath begins, you know more about religion — or at least, you know more religious facts — than most Americans. Bonus points if you know that most Indonesians are Muslim or that Jonathan Edwards, not Billy Graham, preached during the First Great Awakening. And if you can identify Maimonides as Jewish, count yourself among the elites: Fewer than one in 10 Americans recently queried by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life could do the same.

Since its release last week, the Pew survey on American religious literacy has generated a flurry of commentary about our collective ignorance in matters of religion. Protestant and Catholic pastors in our overwhelmingly Christian nation found particular reason to lament the results of this multiple-choice test. More than half of Protestants cannot identify Martin Luther as the leader of the Reformation and 45 percent of Catholics do not know that their church teaches that Jesus Christ is truly present, not merely symbolized, in the Eucharist.

Jews outperformed Christians on the religious knowledge quiz, but fewer than half can identify medieval philosopher and physician Maimonides as Jewish or Job as the figure in the Hebrew Scriptures most closely associated with obedience to God amid suffering. Read the rest of this entry »