SITE-Seeing, Etc. – January 17, 2008

Armchair education, anyone? Tune in to Boston College’s “Front Row” opportunities. These are video and audio recordings of 479 discussions, lectures, readings, and performances that have taken place at Boston College. Some viewers have formed discussion groups around the various subjects raised. See what you think when you visit http://frontrow.bc.edu/.

Many VOTF members applauded a recent commentary (“Slow healing in the Catholic church”) by Robert C. Bordone, Thaddeus R. Beal Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, and Rev. Robert J. Bowers, consultant for Outreach and Reconciliation at the Paulist Center of Boston. Click here to note a comment on the op-ed.

U.S. Catholic magazine’s Reader’s Survey on “Inspirational Women” is on the stands and on line. “The issue seems to be not whether there are female role models, but how well these strong women are promoted within the church. ‘They are all over the place,’ a website visitor says. ‘We just need to be pointing our young women toward them.’”

Have you heard? Voice of the Faithful is registered with Goodsearch, a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you would any search engine, and it’s powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results. Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Voice of the Faithful as the charity you want to support.  Just 500 of us searching four times a day will raise about $7,300 in a year without anyone spending a dime! And, be sure to spread the word!

Fr. Robert Pelton, peritus on Cardinal Suenens' team at Vatican II and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and long-time VOTF champion, has produced a five-DVD series on Vatican II's teaching about the laity. Click here for more information and the order form.