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‘Grab on for Dear Life’
BY Tim Drake The Actors Behind Jesus and Mary at The Stations
July 27-August 9, 2008 Issue
When Alfio Stuto
isn’t portraying Christ, he works in advertising and media production. Marina
Dixon is a beauty therapist. But on July 18, the two set aside their
day jobs to portray Jesus and Mary in Sydney’s World Youth Day Stations of the
Cross. More than 500,000 people watched the Stations... READ MORE
His Vocation Has Taken Missionary Man to Far-Flung Places
BY John Burger
July 20-26, 2008 Issue 
FATHER
Christopher Hartley is still fighting for the rights of workers
in the Dominican Republic, even as he takes on a new mission in East Africa.
The appalling conditions he found on
the sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic, where Haitian immigrants were
treated as little better than... READ MORE
Author Followed Paul’s Footsteps … Literally
BY Tim Drake
July 13-19, 2008 Issue
Steve Ray is celebrating an old friend in
this Year of St. Paul, which began June 29.
The Catholic convert and author has
written a Catholic Scripture Study on the Acts of the Apostles
(CatholicScriptureStudy.com), has produced an adventurous documentary on the
former Saul of Tarsus, and during the... READ MORE
A Fighter’s Faith: Prayer Prepared Him for Battle
BY Tim Drake
July 6-12, 2008 Issue
Harold “Hal” Moore, Jr. (right) has
reason to celebrate the Fourth of July — as anyone can see who has seen his
story in the movie We Were Soldiers.
In
that movie Moore, who commanded a brigade during the Battle of Ia Drang in
Vietnam in November 1965, was portrayed by Mel Gibson. The film... READ MORE
Quebec Awakes
BY John Burger Minor Seminary Will Follow Congress
June 29 - July 5, 2008 Issue
Cardinal Marc Ouellet
faced a daunting task when he became archbishop of Quebec,
Canada, in 2003.
The province of Quebec, once
thoroughly Catholic, with roots in the rich history of French missionaries, had
become thoroughly secularized.
The 49th International Eucharistic
Congress was held in his... READ MORE
The Abuse Of Secrecy
BY John Burger Author Says Church Has Nothing
to Hide
June 22-28, 2008 Issue
Russell Shaw is a longtime Catholic
journalist and former spokesman for the U.S. bishops.
He has been thinking for a long time
about how the abuse of secrecy in the Church has damaged the communion that
should exist among her members. And now he has written a book about it. Nothing
to Hide was... READ MORE
Finding Fatherhood
BY Edward Pentin For Pennsylvania Priest, Best Father’s Day Gift Is Masculine Identity
June 15-21, 2008 Issue
Father Phillip Chavez believes masculine identity is under attack.
It’s threatened by a number of
factors, and it’s leading to marital and family breakdown.
Based in Glen Rock, Pa., Father
Chavez, a priest of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, is
setting up a men’s institute... READ MORE
Bishops’ New Counsel
BY Gail Besse
June 8-14, 2008 Issue
ANTHONY R. PICARELLO JR. will be on hand
for the U.S. bishops meeting in Orlando June 14.
As general counsel of the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops, he directs a 10-person legal staff that advises
the bishops, state Catholic conferences and diocesan attorneys nationwide. His
job calls for... READ MORE
Maestro
BY Robert Rauhut Faith, Family And Music in a Conductor’s Life
June 1-7, 2008 Issue
Manfred Honeck wowed music critics and audiences in Pittsburgh last month. And the Austrian
conductor returns in September as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony
Orchestra.
A
Pittsburgh daily newspaper article last fall went into detail about Honeck’s
home life and his Catholic faith.... READ MORE
A Saint for America
Patron for Priests and Immigration?
May 25-31, 2008 Issue
Father Michael J.
McGivney (1852-1890) is a saint for America today, particularly regarding
immigration and the renewal of the priesthood after the abuse crisis.
So said Msgr. Robert Sarno, an official at the Congregation
for the Causes of Saints. This spring, Pope Benedict XVI approved a... READ MORE
Media Engineer
University Combines Media, Business and Faith
May 18-24, 2008 Issue
Derry Connolly is celebrating media month. The Vatican
kicked it off with Communications Day on May 4, and the U.S. bishops follow
with Catholic Communications Day on May 18.
Connolly, the founder and president of John Paul the Great
Catholic University, launched an ambitious endeavor to create a... READ MORE
Europe’s Soul
BY Robert Rauhut Otto von Habsburg And the Christian West
May 11-17, 2008 Issue
Otto von Habsburg is 95, but what’s that compared to the
nine-century history of his family, the Habsburg dynasty?
Otto, Crown Prince of Austria, was born in 1912, the eldest
son of Bl. Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria and last King of Hungary, and
his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, the last... READ MORE
Nancy and the Pope
Photographing the U.S. Visit
May 4-10, 2008 Issue
From the time Pope Benedict XVI came off the plane in
Washington, D.C., until he departed from JFK, Catholic News Service
photographer Nancy Wiechec was at his side. During the duration of the Pope’s
trip to America she took nearly 8,000 photographs. The CNS visual media manager
spoke recently to... READ MORE
America Meets Benedict
BY Robyn Lee and Tim Drake
April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue
Pilgrims came from each of America’s 195 archdioceses and
dioceses to meet Pope Benedict during his six-day visit to Washington, D.C. and
New York City. Here, they share their thoughts of seeing the Pope up close.
Cyndi Smith from
Steubenville, Ohio, had an amazing story to tell.
She’s here... READ MORE
When Your Little Brother Is the Pope
BY Robert Rauhut Part I of our exclusive interview with the Holy Father’s sole remaining sibling
April 20-26, 2008 Issue
Msgr. Georg Ratzinger
remembers someone once asking him about his brother Joseph, three years his
junior, “You are Ratzinger’s brother, aren’t you?”
“Ratzinger?” he said,
“That’s me!”
Nowadays, he is “Pope Benedict XVI’s brother,” and can look
back at an eventful and very... READ MORE
U.S. Bishops Await the Universal Pastor
BY Tom McFeely
April 13-19, 2008 Issue
Cardinal Francis George’s term as head of the U.S. bishops
began in November, and so it falls to him to welcome Pope Benedict XVI to the
United States on behalf of the nation’s dioceses.
He spoke with Register contributing editor Tom McFeely about
what bishops expect from the Pope — and what... READ MORE
EWTN Girds For Coverage
BY Tim Drake
April 6-12, 2008 Issue
Raymond Arroyo has hosted EWTN’s “The World Over” from
Birmingham, Ala., for 12 years.
Beginning the week before Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15 visit
to the United States, Arroyo will begin hosting the program from the Pope John
Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., in front of a live... READ MORE
Spokesman’s Career Spans 2 Decades
March 30-April 5, 2008 Issue
Joseph Zwilling is in the middle of a media storm
surrounding the visit of Pope Benedict XVI.
Fortunately, Zwilling, director of communications for the
New York Archdiocese, has the necessary experience, having served 26 years as a
spokesman for the archdiocese. Zwilling is also publisher of the... READ MORE
Chaplain Returning, Again, to Iraq
BY Laura Nelson
March 23-29, 2008 Issue
Father Steven Vanden Boogard has one piece of unfinished
business he has to attend to before he retires: a third deployment to Iraq. As
of March 19, U.S. troops will have been in Iraq for five years.
Considering the fact that the Humvee he was traveling in
blew up during his last deployment, this a... READ MORE
Holy Father’s First Host
BY Wayne Laugesen
March 16-22, 2008 Issue
Archbishop Donald Wuerl will be the first host of Pope
Benedict XVI when he visits the Archdiocese of Washington next month.
It will be the first papal visit to the U.S. capital since
1979. It’s Pope Benedict’s first visit to the United States since becoming
Pope. Tens of thousands are expected... READ MORE
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