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Afternoon Roundup - Vigil Mass of the Ascension - Missa 'Vocem Iucunditatis' (Rogation Day) - May 12th, 2010

Beyond These Walls >> A Tough Pill to Swallow: An Introduction to the Health Risks Associated with Oral Contraceptive Use Catholic Hour >> In Defense of Marriage First Thoughts >> Science and the Decline of the Liberal Arts Insight Scoop >> "Did they miss the last fifty years? " (the Pill...) OSV Daily Take >> Cast your vote for Mother Teresa Secondhand Smoke >> Global Warming Hysteria: Science Uses Fake Photo to Defend Warming Scientists (Well, I'm dashed!) SECRET HARBOUR >> Trials: An Effect of God's Mercy The Divine Life >> “You cannot bear it now” and the development of doctrine The Way of the Fathers >> Like MTV for Patristics Nerds Transalpine Redemptorists at home >> Profound need to learn penance again WDTPRS >> SSPX Superior Bp. Fellay interviewed WDTPRS >> Ascension PODCAzTs Whispers in the Loggia >> "Fidelity to Man" in "The Maze of Time and Hist

First Things >> Blog Archive >> One College That’s Getting It Right

Michael Linton posted this story on May 16th on the First Things Blog . As he relates in his piece: Like many of us reading these pages, I was in the middle of that spring migration known as “bringing the kid home from college for the summer break” (and, we hope, the summer job). My daughter and I were having breakfast at the local diner with seven of her friends (who had helped us schlep her gear to the car–always a good idea to reward cheap labor), and I was asking them about their first year in college. What did they like about it? What didn’t they? What were the big surprises, how were the roommates? All those kinds of questions I’ve learned are fairly innocuous ways to get to know 19-year-olds and to pick up a little local flavor and some entertaining gossip. After a couple of sentences complaining about the food, they were ignoring me and talking between themselves. Talking about Aristotle. And Plato. About the nature of virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics and how Verdi captured