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The Christmas Conversion of St. Thérèse
BY FATHER DWIGHT LONGENECKER
December 16-22, 2007 Issue
I was an Anglican priest the summer I met St. Thérèse of
Lisieux.I was living in England and had three months free between jobs, so I
decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. I was going to hitchhike and stay in
monasteries and religious houses on the way.
The first leg of my journey took me... READ MORE
The Immaculate Vs. the Proud
BY Mark Shea
December 16-22, 2007 Issue
The Immaculate Vs. the Proud
Pope John Paul II once observed: “Original sin attempts ...
to abolish fatherhood ... leaving man only with a sense of the master/slave
relationship.”
All the 19th-century philosophies of pride, ranging from
Marx to Nietzsche to Freud to Darwin, were founded on the... READ MORE
An Inconvenient Global Carbon Tax
BY Melinda Selmys Global Warming: Part 2
December 9-15, 2007 Issue
Previously, we talked about the effects of alarmism on the
public reaction to global warming.
Of course, if the information presented in Al Gore’s An
Inconvenient Truth is actually true, and in the next 50 years large portions of
the earth will be engulfed in a 20-foot rise in sea levels, then... READ MORE
Stem Cells, Simply
BY DANIEL KUEBLER
December 9-15, 2007 Issue
The rapidly evolving landscape of stem-cell research can
make the field difficult to follow. New technologies crop up on a weekly basis,
complete with novel acronyms and cryptic names that seem more designed to
confuse than to enlighten. As a result, the scientific debate over the
usefulness or... READ MORE
Sterility and Fruitfulness
BY Mark Shea Final Part of Series
December 9-15, 2007 Issue
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” If
Jesus had not said it, I doubt most people in our culture would ever connect
“purity” with “seeing God.” As we saw last time, a huge number of people in our
culture, when the word “purity” is propounded to them in their... READ MORE
Making Advent a Reality
BY Jay Dunlap
December 2-8, 2007 Issue
The seasons are out of whack. And I don’t mean because of
climate change or global warming. The seasons I refer to are liturgical ones,
especially the beginning of the liturgical year: the Advent, followed by the
Christmas Season.
You know that the seasons are out of whack. We’ve all seen
the... READ MORE
Making a Necessity of Virtue
BY Michael Pakaluk
December 2-8, 2007 Issue
The Diocletian persecutions (303-311 A.D.) give an insight
into the devotion of early Christians, which, in turn, raises the question: Do
we live as they did?
Beginning in 303, the Roman Emperor Diocletian initiated a
brutal persecution of Christians throughout the empire through a series of
edicts... READ MORE
A Christian Approach to Purity
BY Mark Shea Part 2 of a series
December 2-8, 2007 Issue
Last week, we looked at the Pharisaic approach to purity and
contrasted it with Jesus’ approach.
As we noted, it is easy to turn the Pharisees into cartoon
villains and not see them as human beings who made pretty much the same
mistakes many of us make today.
They saw “purity” as a matter... READ MORE
Pharisaic Purity
BY Mark Shea Part 1 of a Series
November 25 - December 1, 2007 Issue
We tend to be hard on the Pharisees without seeing the
difficulty they faced.
They were not cartoons. They were men who, like us
sometimes, learned the right lesson but drew the wrong conclusion from the Law
of Moses.
Under the Law, ritual defilement was intended as a kind of
sign or shadow: to... READ MORE
Taken Into Custody By Divorce
BY Jennifer Roback Morse
November 25 - December 1, 2007 Issue
Most Americans have made their peace with no-fault divorce,
believing easy divorce to be an enhancement of individual liberty. But a new
book by Stephen Baskerville argues that permitting unilateral divorce allows an
unprecedented scope for government intrusion into ordinary people’s lives.
Taken... READ MORE
Faith in a Climate of Fear
BY MELINDA SELMYS global warnings: part 1
November 25 - December 1, 2007 Issue
End-of-the-world alarmism has been a perpetual feature of
human existence for as long as we have recorded history.
Generally, it occurs within a religious framework: Whether
it is Apocalypse mania, or a fear that any moment now Ragnarök is going to
erupt in earnest, lavish claims of total world... READ MORE
Egad! Do You See What She’s Doing in Her Car?!
BY John Burger
November 18-24, 2007 Issue
My father was a lifelong smoker and plainspoken New Yorker.
Protests regarding his smoking in the house or the car were often met with a
shrug. After all, he came from an era when smoking was common everywhere —
home, office, you name it.
It was as natural as it is today to talk on your... READ MORE
Turkey Day Apologetics
BY DAVID DEAVEL The Key Is You
November 18-24, 2007 Issue
The problem with being an apologist for the Catholic faith
is that you must be ready for anything and everything.
As G.K. Chesterton wrote, “The Church is a house with a
hundred gates; and no two men enter at exactly the same angle.”
We might add to that that no two will come with the... READ MORE
The Law and The Gospel
BY Mark Shea Part 4 of a Series
November 18-24, 2007 Issue
Why have we been talking for three weeks about the
relationship of the Mosaic Law and the Gospel?
Well, in addition to the fact that it’s good to know what
the Church teaches about our relationship with our Jewish older brothers, it’s
also important if we want to have the foggiest clue of... READ MORE
Our Times
Timeline: 8 Decades in the Life of the Register
November 11-17, 2007 Issue
From the Register, Nov. 8, 1927: "This is the first edition as a national paper. If you like a Catholic paper with snap, vigor and courage, here it is. If you like one that is easy to read, here it is.
If you like one that will always be loyal to the Church, and that has no selfish axe to grind,... READ MORE
Gods and Monsters
BY Melinda Selmys Thrones and Dominions Part 3
November 11-17, 2007 Issue
Previously, we discussed the unhappy lot of angels in the
modern world. Now, we turn our attention to their opposite: the demons.
Like their heavenly counterparts, anti-supernaturalists have
turned the denizens of hell into an absurd laughingstock. Once a terrifying and
formidable foe, the name... READ MORE
An ‘A’ Plan For Plan B
BY Rev. Deacon TOM DAVIS Connecticut’s Cautionary Tale
November 11-17, 2007 Issue
The history of Connecticut’s emergency contraception law
offers lessons that national and state Catholic Conferences would be well
advised to study.
A state law went into effect on Oct. 1 requiring Catholic
hospitals to change their rape treatment protocols and adopt state mandated
provisions... READ MORE
The Law And the Covenant
BY Mark Shea Part 3 of a Series
November 11-17, 2007 Issue
Many Reactionary Dissenters claim that the Church at the
Second Vatican Council reversed itself not merely on prudential or disciplinary
matters but on essential teaching when it comes to the Church’s relationship with
the Jewish people.
The epicenter of this claim is not hard to find. It is,... READ MORE
Narrow World
BY Melinda Selmys Thrones and Dominions Part 2
November 4-10, 2007 Issue
One of the reasons people find it so difficult to believe in
angels, is that our picture of them is puerile.
When an ancient Jew thought of angels he pictured a host of
terrifying beings, tremendous in size, many-winged and many-eyed, brandishing
swords of flame. Such angels were more magnificent... READ MORE
Hollywood’s Year of Joseph
BY TIM DRAKE
November 4-10, 2007 Issue 
The year in film began with one of Hollywood’s strongest
portrayals of Joseph, the foster-father of Christ, in the The Nativity Story.
And, in timing that only God could orchestrate, the year is ending with an artistic
portrayal of a modern-day Joseph in Bella.
Some have questioned whether the... READ MORE
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