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Some Question Panel’s Ability to Tackle Religious Persecution
BY Liz Swain
January 19-25, 1997 Issue 
IN JANUARY 1996, Pope John Paul II called religious persecution “an intolerable and unjustifiable violation … of the most fundamental human freedom, that of practicing one's faith openly, which for human beings is their reason for living.”
A year later, religious leaders, human rights activists and... READ MORE
Handicapped to Court: ‘We Want to Live’
BY Mary Meehan
January 19-25, 1997 Issue
WASHINGTON, D.C.—With signs and banners and much shouted advice, people with disabilities told the Supreme Court Jan. 6 that “We're not dead yet!” and “We want to live!”
While the court heard oral arguments in two cases that could lead to approval of physician-assisted suicide, protesters outside... READ MORE
Next Sunday at Mass
BY Peter John Cameron Seeing is Believing
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
Jan. 19, 1997 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Jn 1, 35-42
THE THEME of “looking” dominates today's Gospel in three distinct ways. We see it first in the actions of John the Baptizer, whose entire life was dedicated to disposing others to receive Jesus. We witness the depths of his devotion and... READ MORE
At Magdalen, a Mission to Save Youth
BY John McCormack To educate means to empower the laity
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
John Daniel Meehan, 61, has been president of Magdalen College in Warner, N.H., for the past 19 years. An educator and author, Meehan also serves as president of the Pope Paul VI Catechetical Institute. He holds a master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. One of Magdalen's... READ MORE
Ever Vigilant, Egypt’s Copts Find New Life
BY Cornelis Hulsman
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
“THE FIRST responsibility of the Church is teaching,” Pope Shenouda III, the Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and North Africa, told the Register on the occasion of his silver jubilee late last fall. The 73-year-old Church leader teaches spirituality every Wednesday in the main cathedral in... READ MORE
When It Comes to Evolution, Church Has Few Worries
BY Mark Brumley
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
NEWSPAPERS IGNORANT of history, to paraphrase Santayana, are condemned to reprint it. That maxim could explain a recent headline declaring, “Pope Says Evolution Compatible with Faith.”
Go back half-a-century and Pope Pius XII said the same thing. “The Teaching Authority of the Church,” he declared... READ MORE
On Civil Disobedience, Or Giving the Temporal Order a Helping Hand
BY Russell Hittinger
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
IN NOVEMBER, the ecumenical journal First Things published a symposium entitled “The End of Democracy?” The editor, Father Richard John Neuhaus, with five contributors (Robert Bork, Hadley Arkes, Robert George, Charles Colson, and I), raised the problem of whether the federal courts have usurped... READ MORE
Confident & Discreet, Peruvian Prelate Plays Key Role in Hostage Crisis
BY Alejandro Bermudez
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
LIMA, Peru—The more than 500 international journalists waiting outside the besieged house of Japanese Ambassador Morihisha Aoki here on Christmas Day were surprised when a thin figure in a black cassock and sash walked quickly through security lines. He quickly disappeared into the mansion where,... READ MORE
Neo-Catechumenate Runs Afoul of British Critics
BY Ben Kobus
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
LONDON—“What has the Neo-Catechumenate done for you and your parish?” That question, posed to parishioners at three English parishes where the Neo-Catechumenal Way has established communities, has led to a report sharply criticizing the 33-year-old lay movement.
Issued late last year by a panel... READ MORE
For Parents, Cyberporn too High a Price for Free Speech
BY Michael Barbera
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
AS THE world of high-technology moves from the boardroom to the living room, more and more American families have personal computers at home. Parents and their children use computers for everything from budgeting to term papers, as computer software and compact discs make information available at... READ MORE
Indictment of Courts Has Conservatives Divided
BY Peter Feuerherd Respected Journal Sparks Controversy
January 12-18, 1997 Issue
IN THE THINK tanks and scholarly magazine offices along the Washington-New York axis a bitter conflagration has erupted, featuring charges of anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism.
It all began, simply enough, with a series of magazine articles that appeared last year in a... READ MORE
On the Mean Streets of Las Vegas, Making a Living Can Be Moral Liability
BY William Murray
January 5, 1997 Issue
LAS VEGAS—It's an age-old story. Immigrant comes to the big city in search of a job. He finds one, but only after a great deal of struggle. It's less noble than the work he had in mind.
It's a story that describes the situation of tens of thousands of Latin American immigrants who come to the... READ MORE
Next Sunday at Mass
BY Father Cameron
January 5, 1997 Issue
Take Me to the River
by PETER JOHN CAMERON OP
Jan. 12, 1997
The Baptism of the Lord
Mk 1, 7-11
WHEN THE evangelist goes out of his way to give us special details in the lean Gospel of Mark, we do well to pay attention. The shortness of Mark's Gospel can be deceiving. Its brevity might tempt us to... READ MORE
A Pilgrim’s Journal
BY Jay Schwarz
January 5, 1997 Issue
THE OLDEST cathedral in the New World is located in the heart of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. It offers daily Mass at 5:00 p.m. I attended it twice during a recent trip to the island country. The same six people were there both times.
In Iguey, the most religious region in... READ MORE
The Ins and Outs of Hospital Mergers, or: How Canon Law Watches Over Vital Interests
BY Bishop John Meyers
January 5, 1997 Issue
By BISHOP JOHN MEYERS
Bishop John Meyers of Peoria, Ill., Delivered the following address Nov. 9 at a meeting of the Catholic Medical Association in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Excerpted)
MY FIRST area of concern is perhaps the largest and the one most in need of urgent attention: the on-going evolution of... READ MORE
Restoring the Queen of Sciences to a Place of Honor
BY Father Stravinskas
January 5, 1997 Issue
By PETER STRAVINSKAS
Father Peter Stravinskas addressed the Cardinal Newman Society's conference on “John Paul II and Catholic Higher Education,” Oct. 19, 1996, in Arlington, Va. (Excerpted)
From the Enlightenment forward, one of the problems theology has had to face is a warped understanding of... READ MORE
Wise Men Still Seek Him
BY Father Mullady
January 5, 1997 Issue
By BRIAN MULLADYOP
WISE MEN still seek him. Aristotle says that men first began to seek wisdom in philosophy after being wonder-struck at the world experienced with their senses. Man has a natural desire to know the truth.
This desire for knowledge can only be stilled in the direct vision of God in... READ MORE
Change of Heart Still Needs Spiritual Sustenance
BY John Prizer
January 5, 1997 Issue
EVERYONE HAS a conscience, but if you don't use it, you'd lose it—at least, that's the assumption behind the romantic comedy hit Jerry Maguire. Jerry (Tom Cruise) is a hyperactive, hot-shot agent at Sports Management International (SMI), fielding 264 phone calls a day as he represents 73 big-bucks... READ MORE
The Pope’s Week
January 5, 1997 Issue
Dec. 18 - Dec. 22
UNITED TO CHRIST IN SUFFERING
At Wednesday's general audience, John Paul II said that in the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, the prophet Simeon announces to Mary her sharing in Jesus'suffering, that “will lead the Blessed Virgin to understand more deeply the mystery of her... READ MORE
Taking on Dr. Kevorkian Proved Costly For Prosecuting Attorney: ‘I Enforce the Law’
BY William Murray
January 5, 1997 Issue
From 1988 through 1996, Richard Thompson served as prosecuting attorney for Oakland County, Mich. He achieved a conviction rate of approximately 98 percent, while major crime in the county of more than 1 million people declined by 32 percent during his tenure. Nevertheless, Thompson lost his bid... READ MORE
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