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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
Talking Back Softly to an Angry World
BY Sherry Antonetti A Mother of Many’s Response
July 12-25, 2009 Issue
The Octuplet
mom has prompted a slew of discussions online, over the airways and in print
about the “proper size” of a family. Leaving aside the facts of Nadya Suleman,
whom most would argue is a unique case, with multiple moral quandaries
involved, the generic commentary about large families... READ MORE
Encounters With Grace
BY Mark Shea Sacraments, Part 2
July 12-25, 2009 Issue
Previously,
we noted that the Incarnation is not simply an isolated anomaly, but the
establishment of an eternal principle: God reveals himself to us sacramentally,
first in the body of Jesus Christ and, till he comes again, through the
sacraments of holy Church that Christ established.
We looked... READ MORE
Bodies, Minds, Protestants and Sacraments
BY Mark Shea Part I of a Series
June 28-July 11, 2009 Issue
Evangelical Protestants, like all
orthodox Christians, vigorously affirm the doctrine of the Incarnation — the
faith of all Christians that God the Son, the second person of the blessed
Trinity, was conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary and
became man.
Evangelical... READ MORE
The Fourth of July and the Pursuit of Happiness
BY Donald DeMarco
June 28-July 11, 2009 Issue
“We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
So reads the second paragraph of the
Declaration of Independence, which the... READ MORE
John Adams at Mass
BY Dominick D. Hankle
June 28-July 11, 2009 Issue
If you have
not had the opportunity to see the HBO production of John
Adams, you missed a very good account of an interesting period in
American history.
David McCullough did an excellent
job presenting one of America’s founding fathers in his book John
Adams, and HBO did an excellent job... READ MORE
Marian Diversity
BY David Mills
June 21-27, 2009 Issue
Spaced evenly
in front of the floor-to-ceiling shelves lining three sides of the large room,
the four shop clerks were watching . . . three shirts, in one pile on a
waist-high shelf on the right-hand wall. This was a store in Moscow, in the
then Soviet Union about 30 years ago, and it was a typical... READ MORE
Tiller and the Logic of ‘Choice’
BY Donald DeMarco
June 21-27, 2009 Issue
The recent
murder of Wichita, Kan., abortionist George Tiller has sparked
responses from pro-lifers and reactions from pro-abortionists. The pro-life
responses have been immediate and uniform, condemning a violent action which is
contrary to the meaning and purpose of the pro-life movement. The... READ MORE
God Lovers and People Lovers at Mass
BY Father Dwight Longenecker
June 21-27, 2009 Issue
When Jesus
was asked which of the commandments was most important, he replied that we
should love God and love our neighbor. He added that on these two commandments
hang all the Law and the prophets. He might have added that on these two things
hang everything that matters to everyone... READ MORE
How Sin Takes Over
BY Mark Shea
June 14-20, 2009 Issue
Sin blinds as
it kills. The more depraved a culture is, the less it can see its depravity.
That is why a culture like ours can reach a state where a professor entrusted
with passing on the riches of the Western philosophical tradition can instead
be hired by a major university in order to persuade... READ MORE
Sonia Sotomayor, Catholicism and the Court
BY Gerald Russello
June 14-20, 2009 Issue
Talk about a
majority. If Sonia Sotomayor, recently nominated by President Obama to succeed
departing Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, is confirmed, she will
join five other Roman Catholics on the court, a number unprecedented in
Su--preme Court history.
Sotomayor, currently a judge on... READ MORE
‘I Am … Therefore I Think’
BY Donald DeMarco The Universal Nature of the Human Being: A Program for Ending Discrimination
June 14-20, 2009 Issue
John Paul II, in Crossing the Threshold of Hope, refers to “the great anthropocentric shift in philosophy,” in which Descartes redefines the human being in
terms of consciousness. Referring to St. Thomas Aquinas, John Paul reiterates
that “it is not thought
which determines existence, but... READ MORE
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