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...opposed to mere anecdotal experience–have suggested that the therapies are effective. The medical school wants to establish a new Center for Evaluation to apply the academic gold standard to medical education techniques. “To ensure that curriculum reform is not a faith-based initiative,” the vignette continues, “the center will take its measuring tape [to assess how well the curriculum meets students’ needs...
...With regard to outsourcing we reaffirm that: Harvard should not use outsourcing to undermine its obligations to be a good employer and to bargain in good faith with its unionized employees. Outsourcing should not be used to lower wages and weaken the unions representing Harvard's employees. Similarly, the University should not inappropriately use casual employees in a manner inconsistent with its stated policies and to get around its collective bargaining obligations...
...write in response to the article “Faith and Reason” (magazine, May 2) about the relationship between science and faith at Harvard...
...German Cardinal's more notable crackdowns - his critique of "liberation theology," the Latin American movement that Ratzinger and John Paul II condemned in the 1980s for mixing Church teachings with Marxism. Speaking to reporters on his plane, Benedict reiterated his warning against "mistaken mixing of Church and politics, of faith and politics," insisting the Church's mission was the "education of personal and social virtues," not direct intervention in the political sphere. And while he spoke positively of the push for sainthood for progressive Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was killed in 1980 while celebrating Mass, Benedict complained that Romero...
...Helping those in need is at the very heart of the Christian faith, and Benedict appears inclined to strongly reiterate that principle. In his 2005 encyclical, he wrote passionately about the need to faith and charity one and the same. "For the Church, charity is not a kind of welfare activity which could equally well be left to others, but is a part of her nature, an indispensable expression of her very being," he writes. "It is time to reaffirm the importance of prayer in the face of the activism and the growing secularism of many Christians engaged in charitable...