As can be seen from the news items below, things are
starting to move in the right direction.
As can be seen from the number of articles that are getting accepted, we
are getting more effective at spreading the word about the Just Third Way. That being the case, we won’t waste your time
with news about Wall Street and other fantasy lands, but get straight to the
news —
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• Jean-Marie Bukuru has been having a
series of very good meetings in regards to his quest for political asylum and
to advance experimentation into new crops for underdeveloped areas, such as
kenaf and duckweed. Kenaf in particular
holds great promise. It was grown as a
food source in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago, but also has many other
potential applications, including ways to clean polluted soil.
• Yesterday Homiletic and Pastoral Review accepted an article prepared by the
CESJ core group Justice University team on “Pope Francis and the Just Third Way” for publication later
this month. The editor of the magazine,
one of the oldest in the U.S. that shifted to an online format in 2012,
suggested the article in response to certain misleading statements about CESJ
made by a prominent Catholic intellectual.
In response to CESJ’s original communication to the editor, which was
copied to the critic, the critic immediately removed dozens of other misleading
and incorrect statements pertaining to CESJ from the internet.
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| Leo XIII: More misunderstood than Francis. |
• Another article on “Putting Pope Francis in Perspective”
from Justice University's ongoing publication program has been submitted to “Catholic365,” an internet publishing hub focusing on
articles primarily of interest to Catholics.
The article points out that the negative things some people are saying
about Pope Francis are really nothing new.
Another pope who served in the office during a period of great social
upheaval was criticized even more harshly than Francis: Pope Leo XIII, whom
some called senile and others claimed he was under the control of the Jesuits
as well as both the modernist and traditionalist factions in the Catholic
Church. Today, of course, most Catholics
view Leo XIII as a pillar of orthodoxy.
All that Francis needs is a viable solution to the problems with which
he is confronted, and we believe that he will be as revered as any of his
predecessors. This we believe can be
found in the three principles of economic justice and the four pillars of a
just market economy.
• CESJ’s Director of
Research, Michael D. Greaney, was cited prominently in an article for small
business solutions, “25
Top Business Plan Tips from the Pros.”
The “tip” was to look into the Business
Plans for Dummies book before deciding whether to hire a professional to
prepare your business plan for you. (We
should mention that a member of the CESJ Board of Counselors, Father John
Trigilio, is the author of a number of the “Dummies” books, including Catholicism
for Dummies. CESJ has a first
edition.)
• Earlier today the
CESJ core group discussed the 2003 “Master Plan” for the city of East
Cleveland. While the approach is
conventional, CESJ was able to see a number of parallels with East St. Louis,
and the proposal for a city in Illinois could easily be adapted for a similar
situation in Ohio.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 50 different countries and 45 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, and Australia. The
most popular postings this past week were “Halloween Horror Special XIII: Mean
Green Mother from Outer Space,” “Thomas Hobbes on Private Property,” “Crisis of
Reason, III: Symptoms of Irrationality,” “Religion v. Science? Or Faith AND
Reason?” and “Crisis of Reason, II: The Source of the Problem.”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least those that
we know about. If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next
“issue.” If you have a short (250-400
word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog —
do not send them to us to post for you.
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