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A Leading Pro-Life Congressman Receives a Rude Awakening
BY Bill Murray
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue 
HISPANIC VOTERS in California's Orange County recently gave Congressman Robert Dornan (R-Calif.) notice of their increased political clout.
The nine-term legislator—a leading pro-life advocate in Congress— was unseated by Loretta Sanchez, a Hispanic who ran as a Democrat. Dornan, a former Air Force... READ MORE
Growing U.S. Latino Population Serves Notice to the Church
BY William Murray
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
BY ALL ACCOUNTS, the country's growing Latino population will have a far reaching political and religious impact. Republicans, for one, felt the sting of Hispanic voters&spos; rejection. As the numbers swell, Catholic groups are encouraging Hispanics to assert their political rights, as well as to... READ MORE
Beyond Rhetoric, Action on Welfare Reform Comes Slow
BY Michael Barbera
Dec. 1-7, 1996 Issue
AS REPUBLICANS and Democrats begin to organize themselves for the 105th Congress, Catholic organizations are setting priorities for the upcoming 1997-1998 legislative session. And concern about welfare reform tops the agenda.
The U.S. Catholic Conference (USCC), is poised to call for changes to the... READ MORE
Next Sunday at Mass
BY Father Cameron
November 24, 1996 Issue
The Holy Season of Advent
by PETER JOHN CAMERON, O.P.
Dec. 1, 1996
First Sunday of Advent
Mk 13, 33-37
AS WE AWAIT His coming at Christmas, this first Sunday of Advent, Jesus recounts a story about a man leaving home to travel abroad, leaving his servants behind, unsure when he'll return. In our... READ MORE
The Consummate Conciliar Cardinal
BY Philip Murnion
November 24, 1996 Issue
JOSEPH BERNARDIN was the very embodiment of Vatican II. Just as we can best understand spirituality as it is lived by a saint, anyone exercising leadership in the Church need only look to Cardinal Bernardin's life for an authentic interpretation of the Council's fundamental ecclesiology. Commitment... READ MORE
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: 1928 - 1996
BY William Stetson The Truth Makes Us Free
November 24, 1996 Issue
A NOBLE SOUL and towering figure of the Catholic Church locally, nationally and worldwide has passed from the scene. He did not think of himself that way. To himself and towards others he was simply Joseph Bernardin. He was my friend. While I pray for the repose of his soul, confident that God has... READ MORE
With the Elections Over, Immigrants Should Find Respite
BY Cardinal John O'Connor
November 24, 1996 Issue
FEW CLASSES of immigrants to these shores except those who arrived aboard the Mayflower have escaped contempt. Who doesn't know the labels given in the past to Italians, Slovaks, Poles, Germans, Irish, Jews, Filipinos, Hispanics, Chinese, Japanese and countless others, each in turn. Even a passing... READ MORE
The Word of God Sparks Lively Conversation
BY John Prizer
November 24, 1996 Issue
MOST OF US study the Bible to deepen our faith. Bill Moyers's 10-part series, Genesis: A Living Conversation, has a different agenda. The text is examined primarily for its meaning and relevance to our cultural heritage, not as sacred truth—a perspective that owes more to the mythological studies... READ MORE
The Excitement, Romance of Orthodoxy
BY Russell Shaw Flawed Expectations: The Reception of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, by Msgr. Michael Wrenn and Kenneth Whitehead (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1996, 418 pp. $17.95)
November 24, 1996 Issue
WHAT's THE problem with religious education? Consider this. Writing recently in The Tablet of London, David Toverell angrily rebuffed critics of a new religion text who complained that it calls into question the bodily Resurrection of Christ. Denouncing the criticism as “unfair,” Toverell, a senior... READ MORE
Neglecting the Moral Order
BY George Neumayr Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, by Robert Bork (Regan Books, 1996, 382 pp., $25)
November 24, 1996 Issue
IT SHOULD come as no surprise to observers of recent American political muggings that the target of Robert Bork's Slouching Towards Gomorrah is modern liberalism. In 1987, a constellation of liberal forces—NOW activists, ACLU libertarians, NAACP enthusiasts, Hollywood celebrities, etc.—handily... READ MORE
‘You’re Pregnant Again?’
BY Tracy Moran The Large Family, A Blessing and a Challenge, by Eugene Diamond, M.D. (Ignatius Press, 1996, 165 pp., $9.95)
November 24, 1996 Issue
ROSEMARY DIAMOND must have heard it repeatedly: “You're pregnant again?” She and her pediatrician husband Eugene raised 13 children, now grown with youngsters of their own. So, how did they manage? From a practical perspective, small families may wonder just how does a large household function.... READ MORE
Fin de Pontificat Jousting Produces a Strange Mixture of Truth & Fiction
BY Clement Kennedy Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, by Stephen Jay Gould, (New York: Harmony Books, 1996, 244 pp., $25)
November 24, 1996 Issue
GOING BY Stephen Jay Gould's own statement of intent, Full House is an attempt to rectify a wayward conceptual habit of Western man. It is a scientist's venture into the realm of philosophy.
Gould, a gifted professor of zoology and geology at Harvard, argues that Plato's philosophy encouraged... READ MORE
Vatican-Israeli Accord at Three
BY Michael Barbera
November 24, 1996 Issue
WHEN THE VATICAN and the State of Israel established formal diplomatic relations in December 1993, the accord was hailed as an important first step toward warmer relations between the Holy See and Israel. Three years later, both sides agree that relations have improved considerably—even though much... READ MORE
Denver Archdiocese Finds Internet Is an Equal Opportunity Media Outlet
BY Greg Kail
November 24, 1996 Issue
by GREG KAIL
ON THE ever-expanding worldwide web, even a mediocre site garners all the interest of a seesaw in a high-tech amusement park.
So when the Archdiocese of Denver began designing a home page (http://www.archden.org/archden) in early 1996, the page creators vowed to ensure more than a... READ MORE
Getting into Icon Business Proves Boon for Monks
BY Patrick Slattery
November 24, 1996 Issue
A SECLUDED VALLEY road in rural southwestern Wisconsin's Crawford County is the unlikely base for North America's largest icon factory and distributorship. Last year, St. Isaac of Syria Skete sold and shipped some 43,000 icons. This year the goal is to sell 50,000, and 70,000 next year. The “skete”... READ MORE
Archbishop Tutu on ‘Troublemakers’ List
November 24, 1996 Issue
QUEZON CITY, Philippines—The leader of the Anglican Church in the Philippines has protested against the government's inclusion of Archbishop Desmond Tutu on a list of “potential troublemakers.”
The Philippines government put Archbishop Tutu's name on the list as part of security preparations for... READ MORE
Assisted-Suicide Advocates Have High Hopes in Court
BY Greg Chesmore
November 24, 1996 Issue
CONFIDENT OF A positive ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court next year and predicting total victory by the end of the century, advocates of assisted suicide gathered in Denver, Colo. last month for the ninth national conference of the Hemlock Society.
Approximately 250 activists, representing 30... READ MORE
Ex-Seminarians Get a Closer Look the Second Time Around
BY Peter Feuerherd
November 24, 1996 Issue
National Affairs Correspondent
A VATICAN document urging the world's bishops to take a careful look at their seminary candidates who have a record of attending other seminaries has opened discussion of a little-noticed phenomenon in Church circles.
The practice of “seminary shopping”—with... READ MORE
Government Revokes Rebuke of Mexican Prelate
BY Ricardo Olvera
November 24, 1996 Issue
MEXICO CITY—Banner Headline: The Church “not only can, but should” participate in politics, Archbishop Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City said in a recent Sunday homily at the Mexican capital's Metropolitan Cathedral. “When public authority abandons the legal framework from which it can and... READ MORE
U.S. Hierarchy Wants to Be Heard
BY Joop Koopman Communications, young adults, higher education and economic policy top agenda at annual meeting
November 24, 1996 Issue
A Register News Analysis
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Some cried foul, saying the hierarchy should have put up more of a fight. But when Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadelphia got up to address the U.S. bishops Nov. 13 and expressed his support for new guidelines to implement the Pope's directives for... READ MORE
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