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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Notes: Wednesday, February 13-Tuesday, March 26, 2013 (part 2 of 2)

10. A couple of recent items regarding 'established religion'

10.1 Mr. Rudd on how State agnosticism in Australia promotes multiculturalism, foreign relations, and the 'health' of society
"When people come to this country, I am all for people doing whatever they want to preserve the cultural inheritances they brought to this country."

This was assisted by Australia not having an established state religion, he said.

"We are all equal under the law and on questions of faith there is no preference of one against the other . . . and we have been an extraordinarily healthy society as a result," Mr Rudd said.

He said the diversity of faiths within modern Australia facilitated engagement with the Asia-Pacific, which "relatively monocultural" European countries found more difficult.
[ellipsis in the original,
"Nation's strength is its embrace of diversity, says Kevin Rudd", by Sarah Martin, dated March 7, 2013, downloaded from (behind the paywall at) The Australian's website:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/nations-strength-is-its-embrace-of-diversity-says-kevin-rudd/story-fn9hm1gu-1226591936801]
Labels: Confessional State, multiculturalism

10.2 When the Colony of New South Wales had an 'established religion'

On Saturday, March 9, 2013, I read an interesting item in the "ON THIS DAY" section of the "HISTORY" page of the Sydney Daily Telegraph for that day (presumably Vol. 1, No. 2792, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd.). Unfortunately, I forgot to rip it out and keep it, so I reproduce it here to the best of my knowledge:
1826 Letters Patent found the Church and Schools Corporation, privileging the Church of England and placing New South Wales government schools under its control, giving it the status of an established religion in the colony.
I could not find the text of that item online, and nor could I find via the "Advanced Search" page of The London Gazette website the text of the Letters Patent in question, but here are some related webpages which I found via Google, listed roughly in, from my point of view, descending order of utility:

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/scott-thomas-hobbes-2645

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/broughton-william-grant-1832

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/therry-john-joseph-2722

http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=945875

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bathurst-henry-1751

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21634192?q=Corporation+of+the+Trustees+of+Church+and+School+Lands&c=book&versionId=25962366

http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?itemID=971395&acmsid=0

Labels: Anglicans, colonialism, N.S.W.

11. "In the evening[ of Friday, March 15, 2013], the Governor[ of New South Wales], accompanied by Dr Helen Crane, opened the “Consluencias” art exhibition at the Museum of Freemasonry, as part of celebrations marking the 125th Anniversary of Freemasons NSW & ACT, at The Masonic Centre, Sydney."

The quotation in that headline, including its italics, comes from the webpage titled "Friday, 15 March 2013", downloaded from the "Diary of Engagements" section of the official website of The Governor of New South Wales:

http://www.governor.nsw.gov.au/news/diary-of-engagements/friday-15-march-2013/

(That engagement came to my attention via the Vice-Regal notices on p. 31 in the classifieds section of the "Weekend Business" supplement of The Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition, March 16-17, 2013, No. 54738, ISSN 0312-6315.)

Labels: Freemasons, Marie Bashir

12. Mr. Salt on family size in Australia

See the article "Big family loses out to work-life balance", by Bernard Salt, dated March 21, 2013, downloaded from (behind the paywall at) The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/big-family-loses-out-to-work-life-balance/story-e6frg9jx-1226601970873

See also the article "Mainstream mums: 40, with two children", by Rick Morton, dated March 21, 2013, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/mainstream-mums-40-with-two-children/story-e6frg6nf-1226601981073

Labels: demography, families, social trends

13. What Proud Schools events look like

See the article "Colourful day of celebration", by Mel Smith ("a Country Organiser and the Officer attached to GLBTI issues" for the New South Wales Teachers Federation), on p. 13 of EDuCATiON, the Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, March 11, 2013, Vol. 94, No. 2:

http://www.nswtf.org.au/journal/education-94-02/index.html

(That article came to my attention via Mr. Muehlenberg's blog post "A Minute To Midnight: Sexual Suicide in the West ", dated March 13, 2013:

http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2013/03/13/a-minute-to-midnight-sexual-suicide-in-the-west/)

Labels: education, G.L.B.T., Proud Schools

14. More from Prof. Feser on Prof. Krauss's A Universe from Nothing

See Prof. Feser's blog post "Forgetting nothing, learning nothing", dated Wednesday, February 27, 2013:

http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/forgetting-nothing-learning-nothing.html

I especially liked this paragraph:
So, “nothing,” Krauss finally acknowledges, is “the absence of something.” So far so good. He’s acquired some knowledge of English over the last few months. Unfortunately, he still hasn’t taken that remedial logic course. For we are also told that nothing is a “physical quantity” which can be studied through “empirical” means. All of which entails that the absence of something is a physical quantity which can be studied through empirical means. Wrap your mind around that. Your couch has length, width, depth, mass, etc. and can be seen and touched. And it turns out that the absence of your couch has length, width, depth, mass, etc. and can be seen and touched. Does the absence of a couch look different from the absence of a cat? Do they weigh the same? And how many absences can you fit in one room? Don’t scoff! It’s sciiieeeeence!
[italics in the original]
Labels: philosophy

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Tuesday in Holy Week, A.D. 2013
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Notes: Tuesday, October 9-Monday, December 31, 2012 (part 1 of 2)

1. A couple of recent items regarding the death penalty

1.1 "The secular power can, without mortal sin, exercise judgment of blood, provided that it punishes with justice, not out of hatred, with prudence, not precipitation."

The quotation in that headline is an alternative translation to the one found in Denzinger (see the Systematic Index). My proximate source for it is this B.B.C. web-page (which came to my attention via the September 22, 2012 9:54 PM comment by Papalinton in the combox at this blog post by Prof. Feser):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/capitalpunishment_1.shtml

and its ultimate source, at least on-line, seems to be Cardinal Dulles's April 2001 First Things article "Catholicism & Capital Punishment":

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/08/catholicism-amp-capital-punishment-21

Labels: death penalty

1.2 "The Mosaic Law specifies 36 offences which carry the death penalty with provision for execution by a variety of means: stoning, burning, decapitation and strangulation."

The quotation in that headline comes from the paper "Reflections on the death penalty on the tenth anniversary of the Bali Bombings", by The Rev. Fr. Frank Brennan S.J. A.O.:

http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/preview.aspx?aeid=33646

Interestingly, Fr. Brennan goes on to mention something which Catholic opponents of the death penalty tend to fail to take into account:
Jesus accepted that the State may impose capital punishment; he himself was subject to such penalty, without his questioning the right of the State to impose such punishment.
(That paper came to my attention via this Catholica thread-starter.)

Labels: death penalty

2. Victoria's abortion laws "are classed as the second worst in the world after China's one baby per family policy."

The quotation in that headline comes from the letter printed under the heading "Abortion", by Robert Bom, on p. 8 (the "Editorial and Letters" page) of the Sydney Catholic Weekly, October 7, 2012, Vol. 71, No. 4642, published by The Catholic Press Newspaper Company Pty. Ltd., available on-line here:

http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/article.php?classID=2&subclassID=5&articleID=10908&class=Comment&subclass=Letters

Labels: abortion, Victoria

3. Fr. Flader on, among other things, Paul VI.'s Apostolic Exhortation Petrum et Paulum Apostolos of February 22, 1967:

http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/article.php?classID=3&subclassID=59&articleID=10892&class=Features&subclass=Question Time

(That article came to my attention via its printing on p. 10, same column, same headline, same author, the Sydney Catholic Weekly, October 7, 2012, Vol. 71, No. 4642, published by The Catholic Press Newspaper Company Pty. Ltd.)

Labels: Paul VI. Montini

4. "The results of the research of recent years, and of the conference, "will be a preliminary inventory of the Council Fathers' archives. This will be fed into an online database which may be consulted free of charge on the website of the Pontifical Council"."

http://www.news.va/en/news/studying-vatican-council-ii-from-the-archives

Labels: Vatican II

5. "THE Bodleian Library has put more than 300,000 rare books online"

Find them here:

http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&fromLogin=true&dstmp=1349937982316&vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&fromLogin=true

(The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Precious Bodleian manuscripts now just a click away", by Nicola Woolcock, dated October 10, 2012, downloaded from (behind the paywall at) The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/precious-bodleian-manuscripts-now-just-a-click-away/story-fnb64oi6-1226492687379)

Labels: books

6. Ms Devine on the Proud Schools programme

See
  • the article "HETEROSEXIST HIGH[: ]Schoolkids told straight isn't 'norm'", by Miranda Devine, on the front page of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, October 17, 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2671, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd., apparently not available on-line
Related material:
  • the Warren (Brown) cartoon, p. 25, ibid.
  • the letters "Foster tolerance not differences", "A valuable program to prevent school thugs", "Time for a reminder to departmental heads", and "We need a broader approach to bullies", p. 56, ibid., and two S.M.S.s in the "TXTTHEEDITOR" column, p. 57, ibid.; neither the letters nor the S.M.S.s are available on-line
  • the letters "Proud Schools goes a step too far for some", "A sense of pride in controversial program", and one in the "SHORTANDSHARP" section with no heading of its own, pp. 104-5, the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Friday, October 19, 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2673, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd., not available on-line
The following links lead to web-pages which I found using Google:

http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/11380

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/children-to-be-taught-39heterosexuality-not-the-norm39-in-australian-school/

http://catefaehrmann.org/2012/10/devines-fear-mongering-out-of-touch-greens/

http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/national/9200-proud-schools-trial-here-to-stay.html

http://www.samesame.com.au/news/local/9044/Fear-mongering-over-not-so-straight-school-program.htm

Labels: education, G.L.B.T., Proud Schools

7. "On the Security Council we'll be working for the rights of women and girls - to education, training and jobs, and to maternal and reproductive healthcare. Its what we're already doing in Myanmar, Indonesia and elsewhere in the Asia Pacific."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Our rightful place at the table of world powers", by Sen. The Hon. Bob Carr, dated October 22, 2012, downloaded from the Sydney Daily Telegraph's website:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/our-rightful-place-at-the-table-of-world-powers/story-e6frezz0-1226500165396

(That article came to my attention via its printing with the same headline and author on p. 13 of the Sydney Daily Telegraph of Monday, October 22, 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2675, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd.)

Labels: abortion, contraception, feminism

8. Some recent items regarding the G.L.B.T. proportion of the population

8.1 "Massive study finds only 3.4% of American adults identify as LGBT"

The quotation in that headline is the headline of an article by Andrew Malcolm, dated October 18, 2012, published at INVESTORS.com:

http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/101812-629809-tiny-fraction-of-americans-publicly-identify-as-lesbian-gay-bisexual-or-transgender-lgbt.htm#ixzz29lG9hrAI

(That article came to my attention via the blog post "Study shows self-identifying homosexuals are actually a very small percent of US population", by The Rev. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, downloaded from his blog:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/10/study-shows-self-identifying-homosexuals-are-actually-a-very-small-percent-of-population/)

Labels: demography, G.L.B.T.

8.2 "One in 66 Britons is gay or bisexual - NOT one in ten, as previously thought"

The quotation in that headline is the headline of an article by Steve Doughty, dated September 29, 2012, downloaded from the British Daily Mail's website:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210310/One-66-Britons-gay-bisexual--NOT-previously-thought.html#ixzz283ZfWAIw

and brought to my attention by this True Catholic post:

http://members7.boardhost.com/TrueCatholic/msg/1350435583.html

Labels: demography, G.L.B.T.

9. Some recent items regarding economics and families

9.1 "ABOUT 87,000 families a year will receive a baby bonus worth $3000 instead of $5000 for their second or subsequent children, prompting warnings from welfare groups that the poor would suffer and criticism from the Coalition that it was an attack on larger families. "

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "'Mean, nasty' cut an attack on poor and bigger families", by Patricia Karvelas, dated October 23, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/treasury/mean-nasty-cut-an-attack-on-poor-and-bigger-families/story-fn59nsif-1226501034300

Labels: economics, families

9.2 Mrs. Shanahan on the Federal Government's agenda to "[f]orce more women into the workforce by skewing all family benefits to working women who put their children in institutional childcare"

See the opinion piece "Baby bonus cut a slap at stay-at-home mums", by Angela Shanahan, dated October 27, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/baby-bonus-cut-a-slap-at-stay-at-home-mums/story-e6frg6zo-1226504051315

(That came to my attention via the version printed under the same headline, by the same author, on p. 18, "INQUIRER" section, The Weekend Australian, October 27-28, 2012, Second Edition, No. 14949, ISSN 1038-8761, published by Nationwide News Pty. Limited.)

Labels: economics, families

9.3 "ALMOST half of all mothers in two-parent families are back at work before their youngest child turns one"

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Social revolution at work: mums go back to their jobs as reality hits home", by George Megalogenis and Sophie Gosper, dated October 31, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/social-revolution-at-work-mums-go-back-to-their-jobs-as-reality-hits-home/story-fnegj121-1226507043793

See also Mr. Megalogenis's opinion piece "Howard-era baby payments failed to do the job intended", dated November 3, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/howard-era-baby-payments-failed-to-do-the-job-intended/story-e6frg7ex-1226509430778

(That came to my attention via the version printed under the same headline, by the same author, on p. 24 of the "INQUIRER" section of The Weekend Australian, November 3-4, 2012, First Edition, No. 14955, ISSN 1038-8761, published by Nationwide News Pty. Limited.)

Labels: economics, families

9.4 "The majority of pregnant women take at least two months sick leave from work, according to a new study."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Pregnant women take 'at least two months sick leave' from work, says controversial study", no byline, dated November 7, 2012, downloaded from the Mail Online website:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2228829/Pregnant-women-months-sick-leave-work-says-controversial-study.html

See also the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' press release "BJOG release: New study finds majority of pregnant women require an average of two months additional sick leave from work", published by Caitlin Walsh, dated November 7, 2012:

http://www.rcog.org.uk/news/bjog-release-new-study-finds-majority-pregnant-women-require-average-two-months-additional-sick

and also the British National Health Service article "Pregnant women 'take two months sick leave'":

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/11November/Pages/Pregnant-women-take-two-months-sick-leave.aspx

(That research came to my attention via an article, apparently not available on-line, in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Saturday, November 10, 2012, presumably Vol. 1, No. 2692, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd.)

Labels: economics, families, pregnancy

9.5 "Fisher imagined a country in which "every person honestly able and willing to work should be able to earn sufficient to enable him to keep his wife and family in comfort"."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Labor defines itself through the voices of its statesmen", Nick Cater's review of For the True Believers: Great Labor Speeches that Shaped History, dated October 8, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/labor-defines-itself-through-the-voices-of-its-statesmen/story-fn9n8gph-1226531416233

(That came to my attention via the version printed under the same headline, by the same author, on p. 25 in the "BOOKS" section of the "review" supplement of The Weekend Australian, December 8-9, 2012, First Edition, No. 14985, ISSN 1038-8761, published by Nationwide News Pty. Limited.)

Labels: economics, families

9.6 "WOMEN are being discouraged from returning to work after having children, as tax, childcare costs, and lost government benefits leave some earning as little as 20¢ for every dollar they earn."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Mothers penalised for working", by Stephanie Peatling, dated November 25, 2012, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/mothers-penalised-for-working-20121124-2a00y.html?skin=text-only

Labels: economics, families

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Monday in the Octave of Christmas, A.D. 2012
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Monday, January 24, 2011

Notes: Thursday-Monday, January 20-24, 2011

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/01/catholic-institutions-are-failing-because-of-failing-catholic-identity/#comment-248843
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/01/catholic-institutions-are-failing-because-of-failing-catholic-identity/#comment-248899

Labels: Catholic schools, education

3. "Program to take on homophobia in schools"

I wonder whether, amid moves against "homophobia" and, so to speak, "Holocaust"ophobia, we could see some action against the kind of Catholicophobia which motivated the two anti-Catholic letters published, under the respective headlines of "Vatican bluster" and "Saintly hiatus", in the Herald on the same day as this story was:

[...] The Education Minister, Verity Firth, has announced a $250,000 program to tackle homophobia in schools. The program, ''Proud Schools'', will be trialled at 12 high schools in Sydney and the Hunter and on the Central Coast.

[...] The program will include teacher training and workshops with students and parents.

[...] The 12 schools to trial the program this year will be announced after consultation with school communities.

The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society is preparing a paper that will identify how schools can improve support for young gay people.

A committee comprising government and non-government agencies will monitor the program and report back to Ms Firth's office.

A spokesman for Ms Firth said while strategies to tackle homophobia were embedded in welfare programs, this was the first homophobia-specific initiative to be developed.
[http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/program-to-take-on-homophobia-in-schools-20110120-19y3r.html?skin=text-only]

(Today Mr. Muehlenberg has published a blog post dealing with similar recent developments, though apparently he is not aware of the "Proud Schools" programme.)

Labels: education, G.L.B.T., Proud Schools

4. (Part of) Mr. Coyne's curriculum vitæ

http://www.catholica.com.au/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=65550
(in the paragraph which begins with the words "My own involvement")

Labels: Brian Coyne, Catholic schools, education

5. "A Lesson in "Globalism""

http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2011/01/lesson-in-globalism.html

Labels: globalism, multiculturalism

6. An amusing letter on areas of workplace inequality which feminists tend to overlook

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/more-equal-than-others/story-fn558imw-1225993286421

Labels: feminism, work

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Feast of St. Timothy, Bishop, Martyr, A.D. 2011
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