Here’s a preview of the Obama 2012 campaign:
The Road We’ve Traveled Official Trailer
SUN Shines for Kerouac’s 90th Birthday
Kerouac in Boston Magazine—A Good Word
“Questioning Authority, Keeping the Faith” in the Boston College Magazine
The Winter 2012 edition of the Boston College Magazine arrived in the mail today. As always it is chock full of interesting and enlightening articles. One such article “Questioning Authority, Keeping the Faith” has some very interesting statistics about American Catholics. The article was based on the opening remarks at a November 2 conference on the American Catholic laity held in Gasson given by Tom Roberts of the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) and author of The Emerging Church: A Community’s Search for Itself (2011) and conference speakers who conducted a recently released study “Catholics in America: Persistence and Change.” Here are some highlights.:
- Pre-Vatican II – “Pray, pay and obey” Catholics – those born before 1940 make up 10% of the American Catholic population – are dying out.
- 45% of Millennial Catholics – born between 1979 and 1993 – are apt to “become the first generation of American Catholics of which Hispanics are the majority.”
- More than two-thirds of respondents say they “cannot imagine being anything but Catholic.”
- Punditry that says Republicans are “more religious, or friendlier to religion” than Democrats is apparently not true among Catholics.
- Catholic Democrats were more likely than their Republican coreligionists (72 versus 61 percent) to see ”helping the poor” as very important.
You can read the full article here in the Boston College Magazine on-line: http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/winter_2012/c21_notes/questioning-authority-keeping-the-faith.html
Presidential Primary Results
It may come as news to many, but there was an election held here in Massachusetts two days ago. It was the Presidential Primary but similar races in other states grabbed what spotlight there was. By my count, just under 4000 people made it to the polls in Lowell which, if we assume a total registered electorate of 53,000, means the turnout was about 7.5%. Statewide in the Republican Primary, Mitt Romney won with 72% of the vote, Rick Santorum received 12%, Ron Paul got 9.5%, and Newt Gingrich 4.6%. On the Democratic side, Barack Obama was unopposed.
Here are the results from Lowell:
Mitt Romney – 1983
Ron Paul – 316
Rick Santorum – 297
Newt Gingrich – 121
Jon Huntsman – 16
Rick Perry – 7
Michele Bachmann – 6
President Obama received 1006 votes.
Skippy Roberge, Lowell Major-Leaguer
Here’s the Wikipedia entry on Joseph Albert “Skippy” Roberge of Lowell, who played several years for the Boston Braves. He also played for several minor league clubs, including Toronto (see below).
Here’s an extended description of his life and sports career from Baseball in Wartime on the web.
Get Your Hockey @ the Tsongas–River Hawks v. Prov. Tonight
Our friends at leftinlowell.com posted lively about the Hockey East playoffs starting tonight at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell with the River Hawks taking on Providence College. Click here for all the details.










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