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Stolen Balkan Religious Artifacts Reported ‘On Sale’ in Britain
July 7, 1996 Issue 
THOUSANDS OF VALUABLE sacred objects stolen from ransacked churches in the former Yugoslavia are being sold illegally in Britain to foreign collectors and art-dealers, according to a London newspaper. The Sunday Times said items on sale, including crosses, icons, candlesticks and furnishings,... READ MORE
Holy Land Churches Eye Religious Parties with Concern
BY Lisapevtzow
July 7, 1996 Issue
JERUSALEM—As his last official act as religious affairs minister of Israel, Shimon Shetreet, a member of the ousted Labor Party, spent his final day in office paying a farewell visit to all the Christian Churches in Galilee.
The day before, said Uri Mor, director of the Christian Communities... READ MORE
Adoption Bill is a Safe Bet for All
BY Peter Feuerherd
July 7, 1996 Issue
LOOKING FOR A family value issue nearly everyone agrees upon in this presidential campaign year? Try adoption.
Politicians are stepping over themselves to support a bill in Congress which provides a $5,000 tax credit for adoptive parents and puts an end to enforcing a stipulation that... READ MORE
Pro-life Democrats Make Noise, Too, Though not in Public
BY Michaelbarbera
July 7, 1996 Issue
WHILE THE Republicans are going through a high-profile fight over the pro-life abortion language in their party platform, Democrats are having a much quieter debate on their side of the aisle. A group of pro-life Democratic congressmen are having behind-closed door discussions with party leaders... READ MORE
Bishops Preview Elections, Focus on Life Issues
BY David Finnigan
July 7, 1996 Issue
CURRENT EVENTS and election-year issues such as church burnings and White House support for partial birth abortions occupied the U.S. bishops during their annual spring meeting late last month in Portland, Ore.
Auxiliary Bishop John Ricard of Baltimore, Md. called this year's rash of church arsons... READ MORE
Religious Hatred is Factor in Church Burnings
July 7, 1996 Issue
PASTOR ALFRED BALDWIN describes his 200-member church community as multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial. And since the June 13th pre-dawn blaze that destroyed their “L” shaped wood-and-brick First Missionary Baptist Church in Enid, Okla., the congregation has also become more ecumenical.
“All... READ MORE
Dedication, Orthodoxy Help Priest to Save School
BY Patrick Slattery
June 30, 1996 Issue
CANBY, Minn.—Five years ago, a young priest, Father Paul van de Crommert, arrived in this little town on the prairie's edge for his first pastorate. He was determined not to allow St. Peter's Grade School to die.
Defying all odds, the school and parish are now flourishing. For Father van de... READ MORE
This Sunday at Mass
BY Father Peter John Cameron,O.P.
June 30, 1996 Issue
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 Kgs 4, 8-11; 14-16a
Ps 89, 2-3; 16-19
Rom 6, 3-4; 8-11
Mt 10, 37-42
WHILE HE commands our absolute love, it is precisely Jesus' justifying love that makes it possible for us to love others selflessly. The more we love Jesus, the freer we are to love others... READ MORE
Spirituality
BY Father Charles Mangan Sts. Peter and Paul: Apostles for All Time
June 30, 1996 Issue
THE IMPACT of Saints Peter and Paul— whose Solemnity was celebrated June 29—on the Mystical Body of Christ is considerable. By virtue of their heroic faith and heavenly intercession, they are an abiding presence among the disciples of Jesus Christ.
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, St.... READ MORE
The Evil That Is Racism
BY Donald Wuerl
June 30, 1996 Issue
The following are excerpts from a recent statement published by Donald Wuerl, Bishop of Pittsburg.
…AMONG CHRISTIANS the call to unity is greater because it is rooted in grace and, therefore, racism merits even stronger condemnation. Every one who is baptized into Christ Jesus is called to new life... READ MORE
Father McBrien: Martyr or Dissenter?
BY Mark Brumley
June 30, 1996 Issue
“STOKE THE FIRES and oil the rack, let everyone know the Inquisition's back,” chant the defenders of Father Richard McBrien. Merely raising the question of whether Father McBrien's brand of Catholicism may violate truth-in-labeling laws has the apparatus of theological dissent up in arms.
We've... READ MORE
A Declaration of Dependence
BY Father Basil Cole, O.P.
June 30, 1996 Issue
EVERY JULY 4, we Americans celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence when the founding fathers declared our freedom from the British. At the heart of our fledgling country was the belief that the citizenry could not live in harmony unless there was a strong religious element in the... READ MORE
Opus Dei, In Its Own Words
BY Brother Clement Kennedy, O.S.B.
June 30, 1996 Issue
Opus Dei: Who? How? Why? by Giuseppe Romano. Translated by Edmund C. Lane, S.S.P., (Alba House, New York, 1995, 197 pp., $9.95)
A Gift of God: Blessed Josemaria Escriva (videotape produced and distributed by REYMAX, White Plains, N.Y., 1994, 57 minutes)
EVEN A CASUAL knowledge of its ideals shows... READ MORE
The Trouble with ‘Welfare Replacement’
BY Russell Shaw
June 30, 1996 Issue
Renewing American Compassion, by Marvin Olasky (New York: The Free Press, 1996, 201 pp., $21)
I HAVE TO BEGIN this review of Marvin Olasky's Renewing American Compassion—a spirited argument for radical change in America's way of delivering social services to the needy—with a disclaimer. My son is a... READ MORE
True Happiness in an Unhappy World
BY George Sim Johnston
June 30, 1996 Issue
Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction, by Deal Hudson (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, 218 pp., $21.95)
EVER SINCE a visit to Disney World, a question has nipped at the edge of my thoughts. It is one of those questions which, in Eric Voegelin's words, “is not permitted” in an affluent capitalist... READ MORE
European Birth-Rate Remains Precariously Low
BY Diana Geddes France no exception despite support for 'family values'
June 30, 1996 Issue
Special to the Register
FRENCH PRESIDENT Jacques Chirac's 33-year-old daughter, Claude, who works at the Elysée Palace as the president's communications adviser, gave birth to a boy last March. The baby, the president's first grandchild, was born out of wedlock. The father is a former French... READ MORE
Hidden Lessons of Centesimus Annus
BY Edward Mulholland
June 30, 1996 Issue
AMONG U.S. scholars who embrace Catholic social teaching, there are two basic positions regarding the applicability of that teaching in the United States. Some, such as David Schindler, editor of the North American edition of Communio, argue that structural flaws in the U.S. system make it... READ MORE
THE POPE’s WEEK
June 30, 1996 Issue
June 15 - 21
SATURDAY
John Paul II met this morning with the fourth group of prelates of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, who have just completed their “ad limina” visit, and encouraged them to “take on with audacity and generosity” the mission of “proclaiming Christ the Redeemer of man.”
The... READ MORE
India’s New Leader to End Discrimination
BY Anto Akkara
June 30, 1996 Issue
AFTER DECADES of waiting, India's 21 million member Christian community has been assured by the country's new coalition government that one of their long-standing demands will be met.
Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda told a delegation from All India Christian People's Forum (AICPF) June 14 that... READ MORE
THE CUBAN BISHOPS CONFERENCE
BY Alejandro Bermudez
June 30, 1996 Issue
THE CUBAN BISHOPS CONFERENCE are concerned about a new sex education campaign to be launched by the Ministry of Education.
The ministry announced its plans June 16 for a massive sex education program aimed at 6- to 25-year-olds as the incidence of Cuban youth with sexually transmitted diseases... READ MORE
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