Religious, cultural, political news: 6/30/08
(1) Happy Birthday, Archbishop Burke. Ad Multos Annos!
(2) A local nun looks back on imprisonment in a WWII camp:
“On Chinese New Year the sisters’ hearts skipped a beat when they were told they had been summoned to the office of the camp’s commander.
“We were told to come to the Japanese headquarters and we wondered what in the world was going to happen,” Sister Mathews said. “So we marched, I think it was a mile and a half. We had a soldier behind each one of us and two soldiers at the tail end (of the group). We wondered what in the world would happen when we got there…..”
(3) The Pope does not wear Prada.
(4) Bad tenured teachers are hard to fire:
MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) — Few people know better than school superintendent Allan Gerstenlauer that disciplining a tenured teacher can be a long and expensive process.
An English teacher in his…
