When in ‘Rome,’ Do as the Roman Christians Did

BY Father Michael E. Giesler

September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue

When people think of the early Christians, they often picture doomed individuals thrown onto the floor of the Colosseum to face starving lions. Or they may think of small congregations huddled in dark underground catacombs. While such popular depictions are certainly based in historical facts, the... READ MORE

Childlike Faith Is Its Own Reward

BY Donald DeMarco

September 20-26, 2009 Issue

Seamus O’Malley was down on his luck. He decided to play his last card and write a letter to God, asking him for $100 to tide him over. He folded the letter and placed it in an envelope on which he wrote but a single word: “God.”

The missive, naturally, went directly to the dead-letter... READ MORE

I Will Not Apologize for My Post-Abortive Faith

BY Theresa Bonopartis

September 20-26, 2009 Issue

If only the Church would leave women alone, there would be no guilt after abortion. Men, too, could send their babies to their deaths and not give it a second thought. All would be well in Abortionland.

Or so pro-abortion activists would have us believe. Are they right? Of course... READ MORE

The Center Cannot Hold

BY Melinda Selmys

Postmodernism in Focus, Part 1

September 20-26, 2009 Issue

Modernism has failed. This is the foundation upon which all postmodern thought, experience, art and action is based.

Modernism: the hope that humanity would be able to pull herself up by her own bootstraps, through the power of her natural dignity and by the fixed laws established by a... READ MORE

Prophet, Priest and King

BY Mark Shea

Baptism, Part 4

September 13-19, 2009 Issue

Most of us don’t wake up in the morning thinking of ourselves as The Fulfillment of Prophecy. Still and all, we are. Oh, not because we are any great shakes ourselves, of course. Left to our own devices apart from grace we’d only be the fulfillment of somebody’s worst nightmare. But, when we... READ MORE

The Vow of Celibacy Is a Sign of Eternal Life

BY Christopher Menzhuber

September 13-19, 2009 Issue

During holiday dinner conversations, I often have to field this question: “Do you think the Church will start ordaining married men to the priesthood?” There was a time when I would respond by explaining how, in certain Eastern Catholic rites, there are married clergy — and that, even within... READ MORE

St. Benedict and the Wood-Chopping Way

BY Father Dwight Longenecker

September 13-19, 2009 Issue

My younger brother Daryl was living with me in the parish when, one day, I came home a bit exasperated from trying to help an old woman named Gertrude. She was neurotic and overanxious about life. My brother listened to my grumbles and said, “What Gerty needs is wood-chopping... READ MORE

To Tax Churches Is to Muzzle Religion

BY Gerald J. Russello

September 6-12, 2009 Issue

While it is tempting to focus on the raging health-care debate or the Supreme Court now that Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been added to the bench, those concerned about religious liberty need to pay as much attention to what happens in the depths of the administrative state as to the decisions... READ MORE

Appalled by ‘The’ Psychological Association

BY Father Benedict Groeschel

September 6-12, 2009 Issue

As a member of the American Psychological Association for 36 years, I am filled with indignation at the recent statement of the APA that deems it “inappropriate” for therapists to treat homosexual clients.

Such therapy is called reparative therapy and has as its goal the establishment of a... READ MORE

Bailing Out Abortionists?

BY Edward Scott Lloyd

September 6-12, 2009 Issue

During the debate over the economic stimulus bill earlier this year, congressional Republicans and the American people rebuffed congressional Democrats for adding a $350 million provision for contraceptives. The provision was eventually struck from the bill, but it resurfaced in both the House and... READ MORE

Think Baby Positive, Not Pregnancy Negative

BY Deacon Lewis T. Ferris

August 23-September 5, 2009 Issue

I recently attended a very good lecture on natural family planning. True enough, it was designed to be a clinical talk by a medical doctor to a roomful of permanent deacons. However, halfway through the presentation, I realized that the whole discussion surrounding natural family planning often... READ MORE

Bioethical Tearjerker Misses the Story

BY Joan Frawley Desmond

August 23-September 5, 2009 Issue

When Hollywood takes up a social issue, hard data and clarity can be elusive. My Sister’s Keeper, a drama in theaters this summer, provides a handy example of Tinseltown’s tendency to let tears trump truth.

Told through a series of flashbacks, the plot is set in motion by a medical... READ MORE

Our Needs vs. God’s Needs: Baptism, Part 3

BY Mark Shea

August 23-September 5, 2009 Issue

A common question bedeviling the whole discussion of baptism is the issue of what the Church means by the “necessity of baptism.” Extremes can be found on both sides.

Some Catholics will insist that all that “necessity of baptism” jazz went out with Vatican II and nobody really believes... READ MORE

Bush Quietly Saved a Million African Lives

BY Paul Kengor

August 9-22, 2009 Issue

What if a president, on his own initiative, under no demands from staff or from supporters or opponents, set out to spend an unprecedented amount of money on AIDS in Africa, literally billions of dollars, at a time when the nation could not afford it, citing his faith as a primary motivation and,... READ MORE

The Register and Me

BY Tom Hoopes

August 9-22, 2009 Issue

I have been writing for the Register for 20 years — and hope to make it 30 or 40 before I’m done. I will continue to write for the Register. Not, however, as its executive editor.

I have been offered, and have accepted, a position at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. I will be the director... READ MORE

Baptismal Complexes

BY Mark Shea

The Sacrament of Baptism, Part 2

August 9-22, 2009 Issue

It seems to be a basic rule of the universe that whenever something is simple the devil tries to complexificate it and whenever something is complex the devil is always insisting that it should be simple.

So it is only in keeping with this pattern that something as simple as baptism should have... READ MORE

Baptism, Part 1: Fountain of Youth

BY Mark Shea

July 26-August 8, 2009 Issue

Ponce De León trooped around the New World looking for the legendary Fountain of Youth. If he’d been as good a Catholic as he was a soldier and explorer, he’d have known that the Fountain of Youth was right there in his local parish back in Spain.

The power unleashed in any baptism “dispels... READ MORE

His Name in Vain

BY Robert Brennan

The Second Commandment in the 21st Century

July 26-August 8, 2009 Issue

Speaking on the Catholic Church’s World Communications Day this spring, Pope Benedict decried the sad state of popular entertainment when he said, “In order to attract listeners and increase the size of audiences, it does not hesitate at times to have recourse to vulgarity and violence and to... READ MORE

The Bishops Who Defied the Nazis

BY Ulrich L. Lehner

July 26-August 8, 2009 Issue

Another anniversary has come and gone that should not be forgotten. More than 65 years ago, a group of courageous bishops did what hardly anybody else in the Catholic Church did so frankly: They protested against the deportation of Jews to concentration camps.

On July 11, 1942, the Dutch bishops,... READ MORE

A Tough Pill for Parents to Swallow

BY Carrie O’Connell

Are Pharmaceutical Companies Marketing Birth Control to Teenage Girls?

July 12-25, 2009 Issue

Imagine a magical pill that can cure acne, improve your style and give you tickets to a happening concert. Sounds like a teenager’s dream come true — or so the makers of Yaz oral contraceptive wanted your daughters to believe. Recently, when your teenage daughter logged online to check her... READ MORE

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