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The Holy See’s U.N. Host
BY Sabrina Ferrisi
March 9-15, 2008 Issue 
Archbishop Celestino Migliore came to New York to be the
Vatican’s point man at the United Nations in 2002 — as permanent observer and
apostolic nuncio.
When Pope Benedict XVI comes to New York this April,
Archbishop Migliore will be host to the Holy Father in his residence.
He spoke with... READ MORE
The Church After a Storm
BY Tom McFeely U.S. Bishops’ Head on the Situation That Faces American Catholics
March 2-8, 2008 Issue
PART ONE OF TWO
Cardinal Francis George of Chicago isn’t afraid of tough
questions.
What is the state of the dissent crisis on Catholic
university campuses? When will Catholics hear a new translation of the Mass
that is meant to be more faithful to the official prayers? How long will the
Church... READ MORE
A Conversion Observed — and Followed
BY Edward Pentin
February 24-March 1, 2008 Issue
Kimberly Hahn is a Catholic apologist who has written three
books and regularly gives talks on Catholicism at home and abroad. She is also
the wife of the well-known Catholic theologian and author Scott Hahn.
The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, she was received
into the Church in 1990 after... READ MORE
Fighting Dragons
BY Kimberley Heatherington Catholic College Helped Author Face Crises
February 17-23, 2008 Issue
Regina Doman has returned to writing and publishing after
tragedy forced her to take a year off.
Her third novel for teens and adults, Waking Rose: A Fairy
Tale Retold, was released last summer. But a year earlier, she lost her
4-year-old son, Joshua, in a freak accident near her home in Virginia.... READ MORE
Oscar-Night Deacon
BY Tim Drake
February 10-16, 2008 Issue
Ron Hansen secretly hopes that Casey Affleck wins the Oscar
for his role in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
The film is based on Hansen’s novel. Hansen has written a
number of books, including Mariette in Ecstasy and Atticus, which was nominated
for the National Book... READ MORE
Praying for a Miracle
Giant Super Bowler Wants Life to Have the Final Victory
February 3-9, 2008 Issue
Mark Bavaro was born, raised and still lives in New England
Patriots’ country, but he played most of his nine-year NFL career with the New
York Giants, winning two Super Bowls with them in 1986 and 1990.
The hard-nosed tight end, a 1985 Notre Dame graduate,
finished his career, which included... READ MORE
World Youth Day Year for Australia
BY Tim Drake
January 27- February 2, 2008 Issue
Bishop Anthony Fisher is a youthful-looking bishop.
That may be why he was appointed chief organizer of World
Youth Day (WYD) 2008.
The 47-year-old bishop, a member of the Order of Preachers,
also serves as auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of Sydney, where WYD will
begin July 15.
He spoke with... READ MORE
Hope in the Holy Land
BY Michele Chabin When the President Went to Jerusalem
January 20-26, 2008 Issue
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington
and a global leader in interreligious dialogue and human rights, was in the
Holy Land on a mission of hope.
He was there in early January, during the same week
President Bush was in the Middle East to broker peace.
Cardinal McCarrick... READ MORE
Jesuits Decide Their Future
A spokesman for the Society of Jesus explains what’s happening at the Jesuit General Congregation in Rome.
January 13-19, 2008 Issue
Jesuit spokesman Father Jose Maria de Vera will be fielding
lots of questions this month at the Society of Jesus’ most important gathering
for 25 years.
As well as electing a new general superior to succeed Father
Peter-Hans Kolvenbach (brief, page 2), the 225 delegates are likely to decide
on... READ MORE
Can Christ Return to Iraq?
BY Greg Watts
January 6-12, 2008 Issue
Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo, Syria, has plans for 2008:
the year of St. Paul.
It’s no wonder. St. Paul’s conversion happened on the road
to Damascus, the capital of Bishop Audo’s country.
The Jesuit bishop has responsibility for Syria’s Chaldean
Catholics, whose numbers have increased... READ MORE
Religious Life Is Worth Living
BY Barbara Middleton
Dec. 23, 2007 - Jan. 5, 2008 Issue
SISTER AUGUSTINE MARIE of the Holy Face of Jesus knows
Mother Angelica well.
Having spent the first eight years of religious life at Our
Lady of the Angels Monastery with Mother Angelica, she recently transferred to
the new foundation of Poor Clares in Phoenix, Arizona (desertnuns.com).
A Poor... READ MORE
This Compass Steers Kids Off Course
BY Anthony Flott
December 16-22, 2007 Issue
Pete Vere thought reviews for the book The Golden Compass
looked good, but he had a “sense that something was wrong here.”
“I went home and looked it up on the Internet and found out,
‘Oh my gosh. This is not good,’” he recalled. “From there I went to the library
and borrowed the... READ MORE
Midwestern Voice of the Church
BY Barbara Middleton
December 9-15, 2007 Issue
Archbishop Raymond Burke recently summoned some newly
“ordained” women into his office.
They weren’t actually ordained, of course. But Archbishop
Burke has taken steps to respond to the actions of “Roman Catholic Womenpriests,”
whose latest “ordinations” took place in his archdiocese,... READ MORE
A Cardinal for Iraq
BY Fady Noun
December 2-8, 2007 Issue
Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly, head of the Chaldean Church in
Iraq, is one of 23 cardinals created in the Nov. 24 consistory. The decision
has been understood to be a way to attract the attention of the world as well
as to Christians of the fate of the Chaldean Church, which is undergoing
terrible... READ MORE
Missionary of The Street
BY Victor Gaetan
November 25 - December 1, 2007 Issue
Sister Eugenia Bonetti is known as a “Missionary of the
Street.”
That’s for her extensive advocacy, in more than 25
countries, on behalf of victims of human trafficking and prostitution,
especially women and children. The 69-year-old Consolata Missionary Sister has
served as national... READ MORE
Africa’s Catholic Explosion
BY Greg Watts
November 18-24, 2007 Issue
Cardinal Peter Turkson, archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana, is
one of the leading voices of the Church in Africa.
There are now nearly 150 million Catholics in Africa, 14% of
the global Church population. The 59-year-old Scripture scholar, who speaks
eight languages, is the first cardinal from Ghana.... READ MORE
The Secret Novelist
BY Judy Roberts
November 11-17, 2007 Issue
TOM GRACE has penned a thriller, The Secret Cardinal
(Vanguard Press), which revolves around the state of the Church in the People’s
Republic of China, China’s relationship with the Vatican, and an imprisoned
bishop who has been declared a cardinal in pectore (in secret).
Grace, a 45-year-old... READ MORE
Street Preacher
BY Eddie O’Neill
November 4-10, 2007 Issue
RICHARD LANE was handing out Bibles on the streets of St.
Louis one Saturday morning.
It was not the first time he had done this work, but this
particular morning he felt that he was being led to say something, to share the
Good News to those passing by. So he swallowed his pride, said a Hail Mary... READ MORE
Bishops’ Pro-Life Helmsman
BY Tim Drake
October 28 - November 3, 2007 Issue
Tom Grenchik is
an architect, but he isn’t building houses.
Rather Grenchik, who studied architecture at the University
of Maryland, is designing a national blueprint to fight assaults on the
sanctity of life. Since January, he has served as the executive director of the
Secretariat for Pro-Life... READ MORE
Living La Vida Bella on Oct. 26
In Person
October 21-27, 2007 Issue
He’s known as the “Brad Pitt of Mexico.” But after the
crucial Oct. 26 opening weekend of his new movie, Eduardo Verástegui (left) may
be regarded as Mexico’s “Jim Caviezel.” He’s an actor as excited about his faith
as his acting.
Once a notorious playboy, the singer, actor, model... READ MORE
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