Stephanie Block
A Little Catholic “Education” History: Getting Alinsky into the Catholic Parish
Recently, while preparing an article on Common Core national standards, someone suggested that I might be interested in the “open letters” written by a group called Catholics for Truth in Education operating in Illinois from 1974 into the 90s. Interestingly enough, a set of these “open letters” just happened to have been sitting on my…
Explaining Common Core: And why you don’t want this in your schools
Since 1965, states have been given over 118 BILLION dollars (in addition to those supplied at the state/county level) through ESEA [the Elementary and Secondary Education Act] has supported a system in which 1 in 7 adults are functionally illiterate. Are the Marxists pushing new stuff into education (again)? Catholics wouldn’t go along with that, would they? Read Stephanie Block’s exposition.
There is a rather extensive list of “dangers” she sees in Common Core, including the denial of “absolute truth in God,” “making all truth relative and determined by group consensus,AND MORE!
Standing on Two Feet? Does the USCCB get Social Justice?
For years, Catholic educators have used the visual of two footprints to explain the difference between two kinds of charitable works, that is, the traditional “works of mercy” and what is, in some places, called “social justice.” This latter work is explained in different ways, depending on the degree of fidelity given material has to…
A Book That Tells the Tales of Immigrants, Traditions, and the Help of the Blessed Mother
Using antique statues of the Blessed Mother as windows into the eras of their creation, Nancy Murray has written a compelling history of the beautiful, historic city of St Augustine. The delicate, classically crafted Nuestra Señora de La Leche y Buen Parto (Our Lady of the Milk and Happy Delivery) midwifed the city’s founding under…
A Commentary on the U.S. Catholic Conference
A Commentary on the U.S. Catholic Conference I. IntroductionII. National Religious Partnership for the EnvironmentA. NRPE BackgroundB. NRPE PartnersC. NRPE WorkIII. Environmental Activities Directly Produced by USCCA. USCC Department of Social Justice and World PeaceB. Environmental Justice ProgramIV Environmental Activities and Programs Supported Indirectly through USCC-Associated OrganizationsA. CCHDB. Other Educational MaterialsV Conclusions Part IThe EnvironmentBy…
The Underground Call to Action
Forum Focus: Winter 1999 (Vol. XII, No. 1) Stephanie Block If internal heresy were likened to a disease, how might one image its progressive assault against the Body of Christ? Its errors embed themselves within the members of diocesan staff and in parish leadership, from where they spread through polluted catechesis, workshops, and homilies. The…
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