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The Princess and the Pope

BY Edward Pentin

January 11-17, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

Princess Alessandra Borghese is a descendent of one of Italy’s best known aristocratic families, famous for its popes, cardinals and a glorious villa and park in the center of Rome.

But despite her family’s rich Catholic history, she hasn’t always been a devout Catholic. She returned to... READ MORE


Who’s to Blame for the 2008 Crash?

BY Edward Pentin

A Moral Vision for the Economic Crisis

January 4-10, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

Lord Brian Griffiths of Fforestfach is an especially good candidate for the Register’s 2008 year-in-review issue. The member of the British House of Lords was one of the few to predict the year’s current financial crisis. He saw it coming in 2005 when he chaired a commission on the issue of... READ MORE


TV Faith

BY Edward Pentin

Texas Ranger Is Now Nevada Professor

December 21, 2008-January 3, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

Clarence Gilyard is known to television viewers as Ranger Jimmy Trivette in the TV series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” which through the miracle of cable TV is still available in most places in reruns.

But now Gilyard has taken on a different role: to bring the faith to his colleagues in the... READ MORE


The Family Business

BY Stephen Vincent

Eric Scheidler Continues His Father’s Pro-Life Tradition

December 14-20, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Eric Scheidler is leading a new effort to defund and shut down Planned Parenthood facilities with the formation of the National Coalition to Stop Planned Parenthood, composed of nine established pro-life organizations. Scheidler, communications director for the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago,... READ MORE


The Fastest Growing Christian Market

BY Tom McDonald

December 7-13, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Fifteen years ago Alan Napleton was president of CCC of America, a company specializing in animated films for children, with a focus on the lives of saints.

He learned firsthand about the unique challenges faced when marketing a product with religious content and saw just how far behind the curve... READ MORE


Faith, Love and Football

BY Father Matthew T. Gamber, SJ

Chicago Bears Owner Hopes for More Than Winning

November 23-29, 2008 Issue

Patrick McCaskey is a co-owner of the Chicago Bears professional football team.

He has recently started an organization called Sports Faith International to highlight the important connection between sports and religion. A Chicago native and the grandson of one of the founders of the National... READ MORE


Swan Song or New Beginning?

BY Robert Kumpel

Faith-Based Initiatives Faces Uncertain Future

November 16-22, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Jedd Medefind is the director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

One of the questions facing the Obama administration is: What will he do with the faith-based initiatives office? Interviewed just before the presidential election, Medefind declined to speculate on... READ MORE


The Way We Are and Why

BY Tim Drake

Melancholic Wife? Phlegmatic Husband? Here’s Help

November 9-15, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Art and Laraine Bennett know a thing or two about temperaments.

Art is a family therapist. Laraine is a freelance writer with a master’s degree in philosophy. Together they authored the popular book The Temperament God Gave You, and their latest, The Temperament God Gave Your Spouse.

They... READ MORE


‘Privacy Rights’ Election

BY Nicole Callahan

What’s Behind ‘Roe’ … And What’s Ahead

November 2-8, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Janet Smith holds the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and is professor of moral theology at the seminary.

Her new book from Ignatius Press, The Right to Privacy, provides a critical examination of “the right to privacy” as used by the... READ MORE


Occultist to Evangelist

BY Matthew Rarey

Halloween Is Holy Again

October 26-November 1, 2008 Issue

Moira Noonan left the Catholic faith in the early 1970s and became a leader in the New Age movement. She mastered occult practices and belief systems that have passed from the fringe into the cultural mainstream, infiltrating even the Church.

Following a powerful conversion recounted in her... READ MORE


He Finds God Funny

BY Robert Rauhut

German Psychiatrist Answers Atheists in New Book

October 19-25, 2008 Issue

Dr. Manfred Lütz’s book God: A Small History of the Greatest was a best seller in Germany for months. It’s an answer to atheists, an offer for those seeking God, and a help to the faithful.

Lütz, a psychotherapist and physician, theologian and philosopher, is a pugnacious, humorous speaker... READ MORE


Boston Tough

BY Tim Drake

Military Chaplain Is ‘Vocations Director To the World’

October 12-18, 2008 Issue

Father John McLaughlin became the first vocations director for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, in June.

Although he hasn’t served in the military, Father McLaughlin has faced both danger and death. Formerly with the Archdiocese of Boston, Father McLaughlin is now promoting... READ MORE


Meeting God in Outer Space

BY Tim Drake

October 5-11, 2008 Issue

Thomas Jones is an award-winning pilot, scientist and astronaut, who spoke to us to help the Register commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Between 1994 and 2001, Jones went on four space shuttle missions. He has spent 53 days working and living in... READ MORE


Courage and Homosexuality

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BY Gail Besse

September 28-October 4, 2008 Issue

Father Paul Check is the incoming director of the apostolate Courage.

Courage embraces Church teaching that same-sex attraction is not in itself sinful, but that homosexual acts are. The program aims to provide spiritual, moral and fraternal support to men and women who are attracted to members of... READ MORE


U.S. Politics, Seen From Rome

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BY Edward Pentin

September 21-27, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Archbishop Raymond Burke has arrived in Rome to take up his position as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Church’s highest court.

The former Archbishop of St. Louis is no stranger to Rome or his new position. He studied at the Pontifical North American College in the early 1970s, trained... READ MORE


Mike Huckabee on John McCain

BY Tim Drake

Pro-lifer Assesses The Man Who Beat Him

September 14-20, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Mike Huckabee was a McCain rival.

The former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, emphasizing family values and health-care reform in his campaign. He won caucuses and primaries in Iowa, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee,... READ MORE


Iraq Christians Better Off

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BY Greg Watts

September 7-13, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Bishop Andreas Abouna is a Chaldean auxiliary bishop in Baghdad.

He was ordained a priest in 1966 and ordained a bishop by Pope John Paul II in 2003.

In 2005, along with other bishops, he expressed concern about parts of a draft constitution that might lead to discrimination against non-Muslims... READ MORE


Thomas More of California

BY Robert Kumpel

August 31- September 6, 2008 Issue

Charles LiMandri was introduced to St. Thomas More’s thought in an unexpected way as a young man.

Now he’s in the thick of California’s homosexual “marriage” battle, serving as general counsel for the National Organization for Marriage, one of the key groups supporting Proposition 8, a... READ MORE


Soccer Star to Seminary

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BY Eddie O’Neill

Athlete Heads Toward New Goal

August 24-30, 2008 Issue For Subscribers Only

Chase Hilgenbrinck had it made — at least in the eyes of the world.

Named a high school All-American in 2000 and having played professionally both for Major League Soccer here in the United States and on the international level in Chile, the 26-year-old certainly had a promising future ahead of... READ MORE


Expert: OLYMPIAD MADE CHINA WORSE

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BY Edward Pentin

August 10-16, 2008 Issue

As the world looks forward to the Olympic Games in Beijing, little is known about the human cost of staging the event.

That’s why Father Bernardo Cervellera, the director of Asia News and a veteran expert on China, has published a book in Italian on just that subject. Called The Flipside of the... READ MORE


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