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Why Evangelization Begins With Personal Conversion
BY Joyce Carr
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue 
Q & A
FATHER CARL Tenhundfeld is president of the National Council for Catholic Evangelization (NCCE), director of the Office of Evangelization for the Diocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas, and pastor of All Saints Church in Houston, a bilingual parish.
The NCCE was established by the U.S. bishops... READ MORE
These Days, Potential Converts Can Access the Virtual Church on the Net, But Real Deal Still Happens
BY Clement Kennedy OSB
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
THE INTERNET has been called everything from “the encyclopedia of the now” to “an open sewer.” There's cause for these extremes, but an aspect that receives little attention is the Net's role in evangelization. In the September 1996 issue of This Rock, a Catholic apologetics magazine, a man from... READ MORE
Affirmative Action Returns To Spotlight with Vengeance
BY Michael Barbera
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
THIS YEAR'S race for control of Congress and the White House dominated the news for months across the country. But in one state the national election had to share the spotlight with what was perhaps the most closely-watched ballot initiative in American history. When voters went to the polls and... READ MORE
Jesus Seminar, Q Scholars True to Holiday Form
BY Gabriel Meyer
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
CATHOLICS HAVE become accustomed by now to seeing Jesus and Mary looking out at them from the glossy covers of Time and Newsweekas they stand in holiday checkout lines at markets and malls.
Any elation at seeing the objects of their faith celebrated in the reigning secular journals is quickly... READ MORE
Money, Stealth Gain Rev. Moon Foothold in Latin America
BY Alejandro Bermudez
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
AYEAR-and-a-half ago, authorities in Argentina and Uruguay thought their country's Catholic bishops were overreacting when they issued warnings about the growth in the region of the controversial “Church of the Unification” founded by Korean leader Sun Myung Moon.
Both episcopates had responded to... READ MORE
In Los Angeles, Kentucky and Tijuana, Church Lives the Christmas Spirit
BY David Finnigan
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
A trio of Catholic Christmas stories from across the Tijuana, Mexico border, to inner-city Los Angeles and out to northeast Kentucky's coal mountains. Catholics are called to serve the poor, be they black and urban, brown and illegal, or rural and white.
FATHER KEN DEASY can count, among his many... READ MORE
Pro-lifers Still Reading Election Tea Leaves
BY Peter Feuerherd
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
ACCORDING to conventional wisdom, 1996 was the year the prolife cause stopped mattering.
After taking office in 1992, providing proof positive that he was no friend to pro-lifers, President Clinton rescinded a number of anti-abortion executive orders supported by his two Republican predecessors.... READ MORE
Next Sunday at Mass: ‘Nothing Is Impossible for God’
BY Peter John Cameron OP
December 15-21, 1996 Issue
Dec. 22, 1996
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Lk 1, 26-38
ON THE last Sunday before Christmas, the Church focuses on how it all began. One might wonder why this Gospel of the Annunciation wasn't proclaimed the first Sunday of Advent, as a start to the season. We already heard the same Gospel on the... READ MORE
Christendom’s Chief Swears by History, Theology, Affordability
BY John McCormack
December 15-21, 1996 Issue
DR. TIMOTHY OíDONNELL has been president of Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., since 1992. In 1985, he had left his post as assistant professor of theology at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles for Christendom. O'Donnell calls the move “the best decision” he's ever made.
When asked by... READ MORE
Pastor Confronts Ban on Military Personnel’s Political Engagement
BY Molly Mulqueen
December 15-21, 1996 Issue
Like other military personnel, chaplains are employees of the federal government, and as such, are subject to some restrictions on their speech and behavior, especially when it comes to political activity. Chaplains are limited as to when, where and how they can speak out on a moral issue with... READ MORE
Their Ranks Thinning, Chaplains Are All That They Can Be In the Army
BY Molly Mulqueen
December 15-21, 1996 Issue
CATHOLIC SEMINARIANS across the United States are being asked to “be all that they can be” by Armed Forces chaplains recruiters who are as likely to be wearing Roman collars as Major's leaves. In an effort to meet serious shortages in the military chaplain's core, the Army, Navy, Air Force and... READ MORE
Running the World’s Largest Jesuit Region
BY Jonathan Luxmoore
December 15-21, 1996 Issue
Polish visitator faces huge cultural, material odds
Father Stanislaw Opiela, 58, has been Moscow-based Superior of the Independent Russian Region of the Jesuits since August 1992, covering all the former Soviet Union except the Baltic states. Born at Zamosc, Poland, he joined the Jesuits at age 16,... READ MORE
Cardinal’s Nazi Era Anecdote Brings Home Plight of Mentally Ill
BY J. Colina Díez
December 15-21, 1996 Issue
VATICAN CITY—Up to one-fourth of the world population suffers from mental disorders. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers in the West. Some 80 percent of the homeless in New York (30,000-40,000 people) suffer from mental disturbances. More than a quarter of people sent to... READ MORE
Why Euthanasia Is A Hit on Prime Time
BY Nancy Guilfoy Valko
December 15-21, 1996 Issue
A DESPERATELY ILL woman is brought into the emergency room. As the staff rushes to save her, they find that the woman has taken an overdose because of a terminal illness. Later, after she dies, her husband tearfully admits that he reluctantly gave his wife the overdose at her request. The staff... READ MORE
Court to Rule on Clinic Protest Zone
BY William Murray
December 15-21, 1996 Issue
APENDING Supreme Court decision on a lower court's order that requires pro-life demonstrators to remain 15 feet away from women entering and leaving abortion clinics is huge: It could shape the future of protests and sidewalk counseling at facilities around the country, say pro-life activists.
The... READ MORE
Church Eyes Welfare Funds ‘Devolution’ with Concern
BY Michael Barbera
December 15-21, 1996 Issue
WASHINGTON—While Congress reforms a host of federal programs, many experts predict that a number of programs previously funded and administered by the federal government will soon become the province of state and local governments. The process, dubbed “devolution,” could have a major impact on... READ MORE
Next Sunday at Mass
BY Peter John Cameron Facing the Truth About Ourselves
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
Dec. 15, 1996 Third Sunday of Advent John 1, 6–8, 19–28
THE CHURCH again and again teaches that Christ reveals man to himself and brings to light the human person's exalted vocation. In today's Gospel, the priests and Levites dispatched by the officials in Jerusalem want to know John the Baptizer's... READ MORE
Being Catholic in Utah: A Mixed Blessing
BY Liz Swain
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
MORMONISM IS the religion most often associated with Utah. However, there has been a Catholic presence in the state since shortly after Mormon leader Brigham Young's pioneer company arrived in the Great Salt Lake Basin in 1847. Today, the Diocese of Salt Lake City covers all of Utah. From 1853... READ MORE
Context of Christian Proclamation Sets Parameters of Dialogue
BY Avery Dulles
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
Father Avery Dulles SJ delivered the ninth annual fall Laurence J. McGinley Lecture at Fordham University in New York, Nov. 19. Excerpted:
… On June 29, 1996 the retired Archbishop of San Francisco, John R. Quinn, speaking at Campion Hall, Oxford University, pointedly asked whether the Holy See had... READ MORE
Spiritual Ramifications Of Mary's Motherhood
BY Charles Mangan
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
A WEEK of weeks. Not only is the ever-virgin Mother of God honored this week under the title of the Immaculate Conception (Dec. 9), but she is also hailed as our Lady of Guadalupe (Dec. 12).
It is fitting that Mary receives due attention during Advent. After all, her fiat changed the course of... READ MORE
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