|
Money Can’t Buy Me Love - Only Chores
BY Susan Baxter
September 16-22, 2001 Issue 
We always felt we were giving our kids plenty of “power”—the kind of power that comes from taking responsibility for your actions.
That, we thought, was real power. Spoiling kids only makes them dependent and power-less. Everybody knows that. Don't they?
Apparently not.
Recently, we agreed to... READ MORE
Called to the Confessional
September 16-22, 2001 Issue
I read with interest your article on Cardinal Francis George's work with his clergy on General Absolution ("Cardinal George Grapples With General Absolution,” Aug. 29-Sept. 1). I too can feel the pinch of time with my parishioners. Things seem to whittle away at my days and, before I know it, the... READ MORE
How Not to Spend Summer Vacation
Vatican
September 16-22, 2001 Issue
At summer's end comes the World Day of Tourism ó Sept. 27. Pope John Paul II has spoken eloquently of the value of vacations during his own down time during recent summers.
He took the opportunity of the World Day of Tourism to weigh in on a problem common in our day: The moral laxity that often... READ MORE
An Aging ‘Apostle’ Shows How Not to Preach the Gospel
BY Karl Keating
August 26 - September 1, 2001 Issue
Some things improve with age. Fundamentalist pastor and controversialist Peter Ruckman is not one of them.
I debated Ruckman — now 79 and living in Pensacola, Fla. — in 1987 and have not seen him since. The debate was held at a Baptist church in Long Beach, Calif. I forget the topic, but I remember... READ MORE
One Bread, One Body, One Lifebuoy From the Bishops
August 26 - September 1, 2001 Issue
I was on the beat. Steve was looking to sell some ad space. Industry conventions bring together odd travel mates.
We met at the airport, Steve and I, two of a sizable contingent our publisher was sending to this particular conference. The company had asked us to fly together and share a room at the... READ MORE
The Incredible Shrinking Household
BY J.R. Morse
August 26 - September 1, 2001 Issue
I was saddened by recent news stories confirming that the number of cohabitating couples continues to rise.
Many young people who have survived their parents' divorces are longing for life-long love, but have no idea how to make it work. Many of these young people see cohabitation as a way of... READ MORE
Where the U.S. Military Should, and Shouldn’t, Get Involved
BY Robert L. Maginnis
August 19-25, 2001 Issue
During a recent visit with our troops in Kosovo, President Bush agreed with Pope John Paul II's call for “humanitarian interference.”
Meanwhile, he also announced that the U.S. will seek to shift more peace-keeping responsibilities to other nations.
Such a shift is critical because the United... READ MORE
Did Abortion Reduce Crime?
BY Eve Tushnet
August 19-25, 2001 Issue
In the mid-1990s, reports began to trickle in that crime rates were finally on the decline — and Henry Morgentaler said he knew why.
“When the crime statistics first came out, I thought, ‘that's because of abortion becoming legal,’” said the medical director of the Morgentaler Clinics and one of... READ MORE
The Physician, The Judge and The Journalist
BY Tim Drake
August 19-25, 2001 Issue
When my wife and I first went house-shopping, one of our prayers was that we would find a place with good, Catholic neighbors.
God answered our prayer, but as only God can. Across the street lives a physician and his family. A Wanderer and New Oxford Review reader, he frequently passes along his... READ MORE
Liturgical License?
BY MARK L. WILLE Phoenix
August 19-25, 2001 Issue
If you'll permit another letter on Father Kavanaugh's June 10-16 letter on liturgical translation, I believe his premise that “Every act of translation is also an act of transculturation,” is mistaken.
The translations of the texts of the Mass are, or should be, occurring across languages but... READ MORE
The Register Is Not ‘Conservative,’ I Told the Bishop …
BY Owen Kearns, Lc Being a publisher sometimes means explaining what your newspaper is not.
August 12-18, 2001 Issue
That's what I did in a recent conversation with a bishop who had been told the Register was “conservative.”
“Bishop, the Register is not conservative,” I said.
“So,” he replied, “you're saying it has no agenda?”
“Not an agenda — a mission,” I explained. “The Register exists to promote the New... READ MORE
Crime and Punishment - For Kids?
BY Michael P. Orsi
August 12-18, 2001 Issue
Recently, a number of shocking crimes committed by children have so frightened the public that prosecutors have sought to try youthful offenders as adults.
Many people think that these exceptions to the rule are justified and necessary for society to defend itself. History, however, will attest... READ MORE
St. Thérèse, World Traveler, En Route to Canada
BY Joe Woodard
August 12-18, 2001 Issue
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — On Sept. 16, the reliquary of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus — the Little Flower — will fly into Vancouver for the start of a three-month tour of Canada. After visiting 41 of Canada's 63 Catholic dioceses, it will fly out of Halifax on Dec. 15, returning the saint to... READ MORE
Milly Needs to Be Saved From Misplaced Compassion
BY David Andrusko
August 05-11, 2001 Issue
Can a day go by when the controversy over harvesting stem cells from human embryos fails to grow more complicated, more intense?
In just the past few weeks many of the “givens” that had governed the debate have fallen by the wayside, including the idea that these “master cells” are uniquely... READ MORE
Child of Suicides, Father of Death
BY Donald Demarco Wilhelm Reich, true father of the sexual revolution
August 05-11, 2001 Issue
In 1957, in a federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., a man passed away who had done more than anyone else to earn the title “father of the sexual revolution.” His revolution was intended to liberate people from sexual repression. But it had no provision for personal love. Inevitably, it led to its... READ MORE
Armies, Navies, Police Forces … And the Pope
BY James Schall SJ
August 05-11, 2001 Issue
John Paul II gave a Jubilee address to police officers and members of armed services from around the world last November 19.
The talk was somewhat reminiscent of the rather affectionate way that Christ often spoke with centurions in the Roman army. What else would we expect from this Pope?
The... READ MORE
Hold Stem Cells Until Summer Feeding Frenzy Subsides
BY Kathryn Jean Lopez
July 22 - 28, 2001 Issue
President Bush is not to be envied. The life-and-death issue of federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell research is not a winnable one, in public-relations terms, for the president.
Plus recent and upcoming events only make matters worse for him, in some respects.
Earlier this month, he spent his... READ MORE
Human Rights…
BY Tom Harmon
July 22 - 28, 2001 Issue
The current hit movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence is stunning cinema—just what a moviegoer would expect from two of the silver screen's greatest architects, Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick.
The acting is also first-rate, particularly the performances by child prodigy Haley Joel Osment as the... READ MORE
Better to Light One Votive Candle Than to Curse the Rolling Blackout
BY Karl Keating
July 22 - 28, 2001 Issue
Some people look at a dark cloud and then try to find the silver lining.
Others see the lining first and pretty much put the cloud out of their minds. I know it may be more responsible to adopt the first attitude, but often enough I find myself taking the second.
Nowadays, as everyone else bemoans... READ MORE
The ‘Abortion Ship’ Sails Straight Into Oblivion
BY David Quinn
July 1-7,2001 Issue
The visit of a Dutch abortion ship to Ireland generated more interest abroad than it did in Ireland.
The day the boat arrived, June 14, the country was crawling with news teams from Holland, Germany, Britain, America and Canada.
What in the world were they expecting? Violence? Mass protests?... READ MORE
Page 50 of 58 pages « First < 48 49 50 51 52 > Last »
|
