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Alice Ann Grayson Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 15, 1942, Alice Ann McLaughlin Grayson received her Bachelor's degree from Newton College of the Sacred Heart in 1964, and her Masters in Education from Tufts University in 1965. She worked in the Boston Public School system as both a first grade teacher and guidance counselor. She and her husband, Edward Davis Grayson, have four children and two grandchildren. In 1973 she founded the greater Boston Chapter of Birthright International. In 1979 she founded Pregnancy Help. Mrs. Grayson also helped to establish a chapter of an outreach ministry to struggling marriages called Retrouvaille. Both of these are currently programs of the Archdiocese of Boston. By the mid-eighties, Alice Ann Grayson became alarmed at the increasing number of sex education programs instituted in both public and private schools. Adopting Doctors Dietrich and Alice von Hildebrand as her mentors, Mrs. Grayson became a parents' advocate - educating parents and working to eliminate the invasive school programs. Preaching the need for reverence when approaching the sexual sphere, in 1992-93, Alice Ann Grayson authored a series of letters to Cardinal Law of Boston, called Catholic Classroom Sex Education is an Oxymoron. In 1995, she founded a parents' group called Veil of Innocence. Veil of Innocence has recently established a web site: veil-of-innocence.org. It offers excellent Catholic resources, as well as practical help for parents. Alice Ann Grayson is the recipient of the Boston College Alumni's Award of Excellence in Public Service in 1977. She also received the Pope Pius XI Award from National Coalition of Clergy and Laity in 1997. She is a Lady of The Equestrian Order of The Holy Sepulchre and also serves as acting president of the St. Sharbel Icon Foundation.
Dietrich von Hildebrand Hitler feared him and ordered his death; Pope Pius XII called him a 20th century Doctor of the Church. A brilliant teacher and prolific author, Dietrich von Hildebrand is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of modern times. Son of a noted German sculptor, von Hildebrand was born in Florence, in 1889, into a close-knit family of freethinking artists. That profound and animated love of truth, beauty, and virtue which characterizes his work developed in his early years Von Hildebrand's passionate concern with the nature and dignity of the human person, the interior affective life, and the loving majesty of God led him to Catholicism in 1914. (He later became a Benedictine Oblate.) Being a persistent and vociferous opponent of Nazism, von Hildebrand was driven from his teaching position at the University of Munich when Hitler came to power in 1933. He fled to Vienna, where he established the prominent anti-Nazi journal Christliche Standestaat. Consequently, the Nazis condemned him to death. Fleeing from Austria, von Hildebrand was pursued through many countries arriving penniless in New York in 1940. Von Hildebrand was a Professor of philosophy at Fordham University and taught until his retirement. Many of his best works were written during this period and after his retirement. Having spent a lifetime illuminating and defending humanity's most precious values, Dietrich von Hildebrand died at 87 in New Rochelle, New York, surrounded by family and friends and praying the Te Deum laudamus, the ancient Christian prayer of thanksgiving to god.
James Likoudis James Likoudis is a former college Instructor in History and Government. He has over twenty years experience in private and public education, including teaching in a Catholic college and Catholic minor seminary. Mr. Likoudis is president emeritus of Catholics United for the Faith (CUF), and serves as a Board member of this international lay association. He has published numerous articles and books, including, The Pope, the Council, and the Mass and Ending the Byzantine Greek Schism. Mr. Likoudis is regarded as a leading authority on religious education, sex education, and Parental Rights, lecturing extensively on those subjects in the United States, Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand. He and his wife Ruth reside in Montour Falls, N.Y. and have six children and 32 grandchildren.
Dr. William A. Marra Dr. William A. Marra was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on February 20, 1928 of Italian immigrant parents. He grew up in Jersey City, but attended the Jesuit-run Regis High School in New York City. He went to college at the University of Detroit School of Engineering also run by the Jesuits. After college he attended graduate school at Fordham University. After his release from the military, in 1952, he began a teaching career at Fordham University that spanned nearly four decades. At Fordham he met the man he would later call the greatest influence on my life - Dietrich von Hildebrand. Prompted by concerns over the emerging practice of sex-education in both public and parochial schools, in 1968-69, he began a second career as a lecturer. He initially spoke to groups dedicated to fighting abuses in local schools. He also founded alternative private schools, the most notable being the Holy Innocents schools, a small chain of parent-managed primary schools. Dr. Marra served as vice-president of Catholics United for the Faith. He founded the Roman Forum Lecture Series which often featured his friend von Hildebrand as its speaker. In addition, Dr. Marra often lectured on such varied topics as evolution, liturgy, philosophy, and seminary education. In later years Dr. Marra expanded his lectures to include various topics related to the condition of the Catholic Church with a special emphasis on home schooling and parental rights. He authored and co-authored numerous articles, as well as published a work in philosophy, Happiness and Christian Hope. Dr. Marra appeared on Mother Angelica's EWTN Network, and spoke to numerous groups of religious and clergy, including Mother Angelica's own order. He was returning from a series of seminars given in Alabama when he became ill and died from a stroke on December 12, 1998.
National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds The Catholic Medical Association, formerly the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds, was formed in 1932 and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1964. Its purpose is to uphold the principles of the Catholic faith and morality relating to the science and practice of medicine, to communicate Catholic medical ethics to the medical profession and the community at large, to assist physicians in working together with deeper mutual support and understanding. The CMA publishes the Linacre Quarterly, an outstanding journal of medical ethics. The LQ has been published since 1932 by the CMA as the premier journal on the philosophy and ethics of medical practice. It is read by physicians, dentists, psychologists, priests nuns, hospital administrators, lawyers, theologians, nurses...anyone interested or involved in complex medical-moral issues of our day. The CMA supports the activities of local diocesan chapters (Guilds), organizes annual meetings, assists charitable organizations in the care of the sick and the poor, and provides assistance and volunteers for medical missions. The CMA fosters the formation of Catholic medical student groups, supports Pro-Life activity, and provides advice and counsel on medical-moral issues to the clergy, the medical profession, and the lay community through the Linacre Institute.
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