[WASHINGTONTIMES] An independent Catholic school in San Anselmo, California, has sparked the ire of some parents after officials removed and relocated a large number of religious statues, reportedly including those of Jesus and Mary, in order not to alienate children of other faiths.
Amy Skewes-Cox, who heads San Domenico School’s board of trustees, said at least 18 of the 180 religious icons still remain at the school as part of a plan approved unanimously by the board last year, the Marin Independent Journal reported.
Ms. Skewes-Cox said the timing of the statues’ removals and the national statue debate spurring from the unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, is an unfortunate coincidence and have “absolutely no connection other than it is change, and people have a hard time with change.”
“If you walk on the campus and the first thing you confront is three or four statues of St. Dominic or St. Francis, it could be alienating for that other religion, and we didn’t want to further that feeling,” she said.
Sister Maureen McInerney, prioress general of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, said the plan is to make the K-12 school more inviting to students of all faiths.
“San Domenico is a Catholic school; it also welcomes people of all faiths,” she told the Marin Independent Journal. “It is making an effort to be inclusive of all faiths.”
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San Domenico iswas a Catholic school;
FIFY
I'm not catholic but if I were to enter a Catholic School I would expect to see statues of saints, Jesus, and Mary at a Catholic School.
Its kind of like Islamic Schools without explosives....
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And he said unto them, Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Making sure, however, that you do not offend anyone in the process.
Mark 16:15, modified for use in California.
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“If you walk on the campus and the first thing you confront is three or four statues of St. Dominic or St. Francis, it could be alienating for that other religion, and we didn’t want to further that feeling,” she said.
So what's the "other" religion that might be alienated? It's not mentioned in the article.
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Local bishops are ultimately in charge of things like this. The school is in San Marin county, which is part of the San Francisco Archdiocese. The bishop should either convince the board to change their minds, or declare that the school is no longer allowed to call itself Catholic.
Of course, Archbishop Cordileone is the archbishop of San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi is one of his flock, and he has not excommunicated her for her open and vocal support of abortion. So, I really doubt he is going to do anything about the San Domenico school.
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I'm not sure the local bishop has any say in the matter. According to this, it sounds like independent schools are privately funded rather than parochial, despite the fact that this one was founded by Dominican sisters in the 19th century. Given the paucity of non-elderly nuns nowadays, I suspect the number of actual Catholics on staff, let alone proper nuns, is a small percentage of the whole.
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tw, according to the accompanying article: "Sister Maureen McInerney, prioress general of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, said the plan is to make the K-12 school more inviting to students of all faiths."
So, there are Dominican nuns involved. I don't know how old they are. I do know that our local CATHOLIC high school, they have a number of Dominican nuns on the faculty. The few that I've met do not appear to be elderly.
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At least they're not Jesuits. They gave us Jerry Brown
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Frank - and Bill Clinton (Georgetown)
There's an old joke about the similarities and differences between Jesuits and Dominicans. Similarities: both were founded to fight heresies - the Dominicans to fight the Albigensians; the Jesuits to fight the Protestant Reformation. Both orders have strong missionary and education traditions, sending missionaries around the world, and founding schools and universities as well.
There is one key difference: You don't hear much about Albigensians these days, do you?
Full disclosure: I am a novice in the Third Order Dominicans.
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Good catch, Rambler. And congratulations on being a novice -- I've somehow acquired a collection of lay Dominicans, which was never my intention, but all are delightful.
[PJ] WASHINGTON -- The State Department confirmed today that at least 16 U.S. Embassy employees in Cuba suffered symptoms from an attack with a sonic device.
Press secretary Heather Nauert told reporters that all of the U.S. government employees "have been provided medical treatment in the United States as well as in Cuba."
"We take this situation extremely seriously," she said. "We are trying to provide them the help, the medical care, the treatment, and the support that they need and the support that they deserve."
Nauert said "the incidents are no longer occurring." Please move along. Nothing to be seen... or not heard here any longer.
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Press secretary Heather Nauert told reporters that all of the U.S. government employees "have been provided medical treatment in the United States as well as in Cuba."
The treatment in Cuba was free of course. Crappy and substandard, but free.
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Cuba healthcare: "Can you hear me now?"
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Democrat officals scattered, but left filled-in Voter Registration cards on the ground.
[SanDiegoUnionTribune] Border Patrol agents found a cross-border tunnel in Otay Mesa early Saturday after dozens of people emerged from it, federal authorities said.
Agents caught seven Mexicans and 23 Chinese nationals who apparently had just been smuggled into the United States through the tunnel, Customs and Border Protection spokesman Ralph DeSio said.
The agents were in the area of the border and Britannia Boulevard about 1:30 a.m. when they saw a large number of people on the street. The people started running when agents approached them, Border Patrol Agent Eduardo Olmos said.
Some of the people tried to get back to the tunnel, leading agents to discover its existence, Olmos said. He did not know if some people succeeded in getting back to Mexico.
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[DAWN] Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday that calls to replace or modify statues of English colonialists, including explorer Captain James Cook, were tantamount to a "Stalinist" rewrite of history.
Hear, hear!
Pressure has grown in the wake of the furore over Confederate monuments in the United States to reconsider statues in Australia that some deem offensive to the country’s indigenous people.
Sydney, Australia’s largest city, is deciding whether to alter a monument erected in Hyde Park, 1879, to commemorate Cook, who charted Australia’s east coast for the first time.
At issue is the engraving on the base of the statue, which says "Discovered this territory, 1770". Aboriginal people had lived on the continent for an estimated 60,000 years before Cook dropped anchor in Botany Bay. Sydney City Council has referred the issue, along with a second statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the administrator who turned the British penal colony into a free settlement, to an indigenous advisory board.
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Well, yes. That's why they're doing it.
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[Free Beacon] Welfare reform implemented in Kansas caused individuals to reenter the labor force while earning higher incomes, according to a report from the Foundation for Government Accountability.
Kansas Republican Gov. Sam Brownback took office in 2011 and began to implement welfare reform after the previous governor, Kathleen Sebelius, had relaxed requirements for those on welfare to work or search for employment.
From 2000 to 2011, the number of able-bodied adults on cash welfare was increasing by 42 percent in Kansas, while nationally the number on welfare had dropped by a third.
Brownback first began reforming welfare by strengthening sanctions for those who received cash assistance by implementing a three-month ban on those who refused to meet work requirements. If an individual failed to meet the requirement for a second or third time, the ban was prolonged for six months to a year.
[Wash Times] A local lawmaker in Galway County, Ireland is lobbying for the removal of a monument honoring a native son who fought for the Confederacy as similar tributes continue to come down across the pond in the old South and beyond.
Councillor Shaun Cunniffe this week said he’ll use an upcoming municipal meeting in the town of Taum to discuss the future of a plaque commemorating Richard 'Dick' Dowling, Ireland’s only Confederate memorial, according to The Irish Post.
Dowling was born near Tuam in 1837 but fled to the U.S. as a kid when his family emigrated during the Great Famine. He eventually settled in Houston, Texas, and a plaque currently inside Tuam Town Hall recognizes him as a "business and civic leader" credited with starting the Lone Star State’s first-ever oil company.
The monument only hints as Dowling’s involvement as a Confederate lieutenant, however, and Mr. Cunniffe said he wants it gone given the current controversy unfolding in the U.S. surrounding similar monuments.
"Having thought about it, I think it’s fair to say that even though he was a great businessman and civic leader, [he was] a successful Confederate in the army. The whole point of the Confederate war was to support slavery in the South," Mr. Cunniffetold The Journal, a Dublin-based news site.
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Probably just as well it was quietly taken down and move to a museum or gallery. The LAST thing these people need is another controversial topic to fight over.
I recommend the removal be culminated with an Irish Wake.
[DAWN] HYDERABAD: A criminal carrying Rs500,000 head money was killed in an encounter with police near Jurial Shah graveyard within the limits of the Phulelli cop shoppe on Friday morning.
Phulelli cop shoppe SHO Inspector Rana Pervez Akhtar said that police received a tip-off about some armed robbers planning to deprive livestock traders and customers of sacrificial animals of their money.
When police reached the spot, around three criminals started exchanging fire with them. When police retaliated, a criminal was killed while two others fled, he said.
The body was shifted to the Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) Hyderabad where he was identified as Naveed Panhwar, 30, son of Mohammad Yaqoob Panhwar.
He said the criminal was involved in more than 25 heinous crimes, including murder, attempt to murder, armed robberies, attacks on police and others in Hyderabad district and elsewhere. He said the Sindh government had announced a Rs500,000 reward for him. He said police seized one pistol with nine live bullets from his possession. He was resident of Panhwar Goth, SITE area, Hyderabad.
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[DAWN] LARKANA: The English department chairman and a peon of the Sindh University, Larkana campus, were maimed when stray bullets hit them during a clash between activists of two rival student organizations on Friday.
Neither the organizations involved nor the university administration or police appeared ready to share the reason behind the sudden flare-up leading to the armed clash.
The student wings of the Pakistain Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) and Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz were continuing their activities on the campus as usual when some petty matters led to heated arguments between their activists. The situation grew tense when some of the rival activists resorted to firing into the air. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Professor Aamir Magsi, who heads the English department, and a peon, Abdul Karim Leghari, were hit by stray bullets, according to Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Noor Mohammed Jamali.
Heavy contingents of the Waleed police and Sindh Rangers rushed to the spot to contain the situation.
Speaking to Dawn Prof Jamali said that Prof Magsi, who had sustained bullet wounds in the chest, and Mr Leghari were rushed to the Chandka Medical College Hospital, where they were being provided treatment.
Later, it was gathered that the law-enforcers picked up three students -- Naeemullah Qazi, Tariq Korai and Sadam Jatoi -- from the campus and took them to the Waleed cop shoppe for interrogation. Sources said that the pistol allegedly used during the clash was recovered from Tariq Korai.
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[DAWN] CHAKWAL: A woman was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on Thursday for being an accomplice in the murder of her 12-year-old son.
The body of Ehtesham Siddique, a resident of Mehro Village, was found on Aug 5 on the bank of a dam. He had gone missing on July 30.
According to Sub-inspector Ali Abbas, the in-charge of the Homicide Investigation Unit, Ehtesham had seen his mother with a 25-year-old resident of the same village on July 30 and that the woman had asked the accused to kill her son due to fear that he will tell the family about their relationship.
SI Abbas said the accused took the boy to a nearby jungle, strangled him and dumped his body in a drain. He later also participated in the hunt for the boy.
In August, the accused saw that wild animals had dug out Ehtesham’s body. He tried to dispose of it again by throwing it in the nearby dam but was seen by a local shepherd which led to his arrest.
The victim’s mother was arrested when during preliminary investigations conducted by SI Abbas, the arrested man said he was in a relationship with the woman. The woman has since confessed to the crime.
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[IsraelTimes] Pacifist Moslem sect, which operates freely in Israel, is accused by Algerian government minister of working with Israel to destabilize country
The Baha'i, another persecuted heretical Moslim sect, also worship freely in Israel, and in fact their world headquarters is there. They're supposed to make pilgrimage there at least once in their lifetime, like a haj without the stoning and stampedes.
Accused of heresy by Islamist holy warriors and targeted by the authorities, members of Algeria’s tiny Ahmadi community say they have been forced to go underground to worship.
Abderahmane, a 42-year-old trader from Kabylie in northern Algeria, joined the reformist Islamic movement after years as an ultra-conservative Salafist.
h/t Instapundit
The Social Justice warriors in their heroic black capes took a break from smoking their weed in mom’s basement and descended upon University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) this past week. In a newsletter entitled The Social Justice Collective Weekly, an essay appeared on a common bulletin board suggesting military veterans be banned from attending four-year universities.
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Time well past time that the only federal dollars for 'higher education' should be that of the GI Bill. No studies, no grants, no student loans. Watch the swamp dry up.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] An independent Catholic school in San Anselmo, California, has sparked the ire of some parents after officials removed and relocated a large number of religious statues, reportedly including those of Jesus and Mary, in order not to alienate children of other faiths.
[DAWN] Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday that calls to replace or modify statues of English colonialists, including explorer Captain James Cook, were tantamount to a "Stalinist" rewrite of history.
[Free Beacon] Welfare reform implemented in Kansas caused individuals to reenter the labor force while earning higher incomes, according to a report from the Foundation for Government Accountability.
[DAWN] KOHAT: A man killed his wife and her alleged paramour in Cheechana Ghunda area here in the name of honour, police said on Friday.
[DAWN] HYDERABAD: A criminal carrying Rs500,000 head money was killed in an encounter with police near Jurial Shah graveyard within the limits of the Phulelli 
[DAWN] LARKANA: The English department chairman and a peon of the Sindh University, Larkana campus, were 
[DAWN] CHAKWAL: A woman was 
