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The Prime Chosen One of the Human Race
BY Brian Mullady
December 8-14, 1996 Issue 
“IEXULT for joy in the Lord, my soul rejoices in my God; for he has clothed me in the garment of salvation and robed me in the cloak of justice, like a bride adorned with her jewels” (Is 61, 10). This entrance antiphon for the feast of the Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8) is the wedding song of the... READ MORE
John the Baptist, Joseph & the Blessed Virgin Pave the Way for Image Perfection
BY Romanus Cessario
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
In his recent apostolic letter, Tertio Millennio Adveniente, the Holy Father points out the theological significance of the year 2000: “[T]he 2,000 years which have passed since the Birth of Christ (prescinding from the question of its precise chronology) represents an extraordinarily great... READ MORE
Demands of Eros and Morality Clash on Screen
BY John Prizer
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
EROS IS a great mystery. The passions it unleashes sometimes push good people over the brink and destroy otherwise well-ordered lives. When it's over, we may not be able to make sense of what happened. Such is the stuff of which exciting comedy and drama are made. Several of this fall's movie... READ MORE
An Intimate Side of John Paul II
BY J. Colina DÌez New book on his priesthood 'tells all'
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
The 30th anniversary of the conciliar decree Presbyterorum Ordinis was celebrated in the Vatican Oct. 27, 1995. Pope John Paul II joined many priests there in sharing some of his experiences of priestly life. His subsequent Letter to Priests on Holy Thursday last year gave further glimpses into the... READ MORE
Sisters from Spain Deflect Appeal of Connecticut Gangs
BY Peter Farrelly
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Bringing the Word of God to a teenager in the barrio of this coastal town takes patience, prayer and love. Fortunately, the Missionary Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and Mary Immaculate have an abundance of all three.
At the southwest corner of this city, hard hit by economic... READ MORE
Shepherding Colombia’s Capital of Violence
BY Alejandro Bermudez Prelate blames drug consumption, too
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
Q & A
As ordinary of Apartado, the most violent region in Colombia, Bishop Isaias Duarte Cancino, 57, played a crucial role in bringing peace to the now flourishing diocese. In September 1995, Pope John Paul II appointed him as the archbishop of Cali, which is home to drug cartels and one of the... READ MORE
A Cathedral for the Third Millennium
BY Berenice Cocciolillo
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
ROME-One person thought it looked like a nuclear reactor. Another guessed a modern art museum; still another said an avant-garde theater. When residents from Rome's Tor Tre Teste neighborhood were asked to identify the structure shown in the photo, no one imagined that it was a house of God, the... READ MORE
Religious Coalition Targets Unfair Labor Practices
BY Peter Feuerherd
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
MICHAEL EISNER, chairman and CEO of the Disney Corporation, made $14.78 million in 1995. A lesser member of the Disney family, call him Pierre, makes souvenir clothes in Haiti for the Disney theme stores found in many American shopping malls. Pierre makes 28 cents an hour.
A new coalition of... READ MORE
Conversions Aside, Catholics, Mormons Gel
BY Liz Swain
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
WHEN CONSTRUCTION on the 200-foot tall Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in San Diego, Calif., was completed in 1993, the public was invited. More than 720,000 of the curious, including members from an array of Catholic groups—from singles clubs to parish women's groups—got a... READ MORE
‘We Are Church’ Signature Drive Shows Few Gains
BY David Finnigan
December 8-14, 1996 Issue
PROMOTERS OF the lay Catholic-driven “We Are Church” referendum still hope to get 1 million of America's 60 million Catholics to sign a petition for “reform” and present it to the Vatican.
To move them along, organizers took advantage of 5,000 people attending a mid-November Call to Action... READ MORE
Next Sunday at Mass Advent & the Gift of Humility
BY Father Cameron
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
Dec. 8, 1996
Second Sunday of Advent
Mark 1, 1-18
THE EVANGELIST Mark today declares: “Here begins the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” This announcement signals our entrance into the Good News—the life and saving ministry of Jesus Christ. Advent is the time for us to take up that Good News again and... READ MORE
The Reality of Difference and the Mystery of Human Life
BY Archbishop Renato Martino
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
Archbishop Renato Martino, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, Nov. 19 addressed the General Assembly on Item 110(B): “Human Rights Questions: Religious Intolerance.”
Madam Chairperson,
Last year, during this organization's 50th anniversary session, the... READ MORE
Higher Education & Love of TruthóPrivate Faith vs Relationships
BY Bishop John Dougherty
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
The Cardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Higher Education sponsored a national conference Oct. 19 and 20. One of several speakers, Bishop John Dougherty, auxiliary of Scranton, Pa., delivered the following address (excerpted).
When Plato, the man who first institutionalized... READ MORE
St. John Damascene: Holy Pictures to the Rescue!
BY Father Cole
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
ON DEC. 5, the Church celebrates the optional memorial of the great defender of icons, St. John Damascene, who encourages us to keep images at home, in the car and on our person. He once wrote: “[God] deigned to dwell in matter and bring about our salvation through matter.” St. John was the first... READ MORE
Romeo & Juliet in Nightmare Landscape
BY John Prizer
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
FROM A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and Blade Runner to the Arnold Schwarzenegger epics Total Recall and Terminator, the decay of contemporary culture has been dramatized by movies set in the near future in which a stable social order has degenerated into anarchy and violence. Civilization's basic... READ MORE
The Grace of Image Restoration
BY Romanus Cessario, OP
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
JOHN THE BAPTIST announces the theme of Advent: “Reform your lives! The reign of God is at hand” (Mt 3, 2). Gregory the Great explains that John came as a “&lspuo;herald's voice [crying] in the desert,’because he shows to deserted and forlorn Judaea the approaching consolation of her Redeemer.” God... READ MORE
Despite Election Loss, Pro-life Position Helped Dole Effort
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
WASHINGTON—Prolife actitivists can take heart that although the abortion issue faded from the foreground in the final months of the presidential campaign, prolife concerns had a significant impact on voting partterns. Post-election polling and exit-polling indicate that Bob Dole's pro-life position... READ MORE
Nobel-Winning BishopWalks Political, Pastoral Tightrope
BY Anto Akkara
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
WHEN BISHOP Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, the apostolic administrator of East Timor, became the first Catholic prelate to win the Nobel Peace Prize this fall, he used the occasion to focus international attention on his troubled flock.
East Timor, a colony of Portugal until 1975, was invaded and... READ MORE
Pontifical Science Academy Banks on Stellar Cast
BY Gabriel Meyer
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
THE MEDIA FRENZY that greeted Pope John Paul II's recent statement acknowledging that evolutionary “theories” help account for the biological origins of life has drawn attention to the group of experts that advise him on scientific matters—the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
What's more, the Pope... READ MORE
In Promise Reapers, Women Follow Men’s Lead
BY MarÌa Ruiz Scaperlanda
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
IN THE PAST five years, the Promise Keepers men's movement has packed football stadiums across the country. Men gather by the tens of thousands, not to cheer for their favorite sports team, but to commit themselves to their faith and service to their families.
The nation is taking notice. Stories... READ MORE
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