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A Pioneer of Hate Radio Moved the Masses
BY Gabriel Meyer
Oct 13, 1996 Issue 
Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio, by Donald Warren (New York: Simon&Schuster Free Press, 376 pp., $27.50)
à HE DOMINATED the airwaves for nearly a decade with a volatile mix of populist disaffections, conservative moral values, voodoo economics and virulent antiSemitism.
Ã... READ MORE
‘Father, Let This Chalice Pass From Me’
BY John Vitello
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
GOD USES US in ways we cannot comprehend, and frequently with a purpose beyond ourselves, to teach others. Sorrow and its meaning seem to have a high priority in the pedagogy of God. Few of us escape sorrow; so many need to understand it.
The lucky ones are those whose suffering brings them... READ MORE
The Domestic Church: Communion of Persons
BY Mary Shivanandan
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
THERE IS A section in Pope John Paul II's Letter to Families devoted specifically to the Fourth Command-ment—“Honor your father and your mother"—that is both profound and novel in its interpretation. Akey passage reads: “The family is a community of particularly intense interpersonal relationships:... READ MORE
Confession: ‘Wondrous Reconciliation’ Restores Inner Friendship with God
BY Brian Mullady
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
THE POPULAR IMAGE of the sacrament of Penance is a rather negative one. Television and movie representations of the “confession box" show everything from espionage to cooperation in murder and mayhem happening there. The confessor often gives only glib responses, like the reincarnation of a very... READ MORE
Knights of Malta Makeover Image
BY Peter Feuerherd
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
IT INCLUDES 1,800 of America's most well-connected Catholics, but the American Association of the Order of Malta may be “the best-kept secret in the Church,” says William Flynn, the group's president.
Even where the Knights are known, he admits, they have suffered from an elitist image of being... READ MORE
Pastoral Team to Replace Guadalupe Abbot
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
MEXICO CITY—Archbishop Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City, will officially announce the replacement of Abbot Guillermo Schulemburg, as director of the Guadalupe Basilica on Oct. 30, according to archdiocesean sources.
The abbot, who attracted attention earlier this year for questioning the... READ MORE
Aid Group Helps Local Churches Cope, Rebuild
BY Larry Montali
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
KONIGSTEIN, Germany—Congress late last month passed resolutions condemning “egregious" human rights abuses against Christians around the world. At the same time, across the Atlantic, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), rallied its staff and supporters to help needy Christians in word and deed. While... READ MORE
‘Making the Laity Feel at Home’
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
Archbishop J. Francis Stafford, 64, has been ordinary of Denver since 1986. Previously he was bishop of Memphis, Tenn. (1982-83) and auxiliary bishop of Baltimore (1976-82). Since 1990, he has been a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and of the ad hoc committee of bishops of... READ MORE
In India, Hindus Wary of Christian Rights
BY Anto Akkara
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
NEW DELHI—India's opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a campaign early this month to pressure the United Front government to abandon its promise of granting Christians of low caste origin equal status with their Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist counterparts.
“The Scheduled... READ MORE
‘Catholic & Capable,’ Some Teenagers Have Edge Avoiding Drugs
BY Molly Mulqueen
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
13-YEAR-OLD Shannon Conway is a solid student at Corpus Christi School in Colorado Springs, Colo. She's a good athlete, is close to her parents, and participates in her parish youth group.
Drugs seem little more than a distant threat to her now, but before long, she will leave safe, familiar... READ MORE
Teachers’ Union Fierce Foe of School-Choice
BY Michael Barbera
Oct 13, 1996 Issue
THE KEY battlegrounds in the war for school-choice in America are state capitals across the country. In state after state, the key opponent of school-choice is the same—public school teachers' unions, in most cases the state affiliates of the National Education Association (NEA).
Education reform... READ MORE
THIS SUNDAY AT MASS
BY PETER JOHN CAMERON
September 1, 1996 Issue
Twenty-second Sunday In Ordinary Time Jer 20, 7-9 Ps 63, 2-6; 8-9 Rom 12, 1-2 Mt 16, 21-27
THE PSALMIST prays: “Your kindness is a greater good then life.” In other words, the tender compassion, solicitude, and generosity of God who calls life into existence surpasses the value even of that great... READ MORE
The Good Word on America’s Railways
BY JEAN GUARINO Before WWI, priests evangelized in mission territory riding chapel cars named after saints
September 1, 1996 Issue
AROUND THE TURN of the century, salesmen reached far-off customers by train. Priests used the same mode of transportation to spread the faith in rural areas in the northwest and south.
Chapel cars were attached to the back of trains traveling through these regions. From 1909 to 1917 they introduced... READ MORE
After Plunging from Civility to Law of the Jungle, Liberia Struggles to Find Peace
BY TOM GAROFALO
September 1, 1996 Issue
LESS THAN ONE year ago, The Washington Post cautiously hailed a Liberian peace accord as a hopeful example of West African cooperation for peace. Today, the only law that remains in Liberia is the law of the jungle. How could such a change have happened so fast?
For all the violence we Americans... READ MORE
Journalism Trumps Scholarship in this Biblical Mystery
BY PIUS MURRAY Eyewitness to Jesus: Amazing New Manuscript Evidence About the Origin of the Gospels, by Carsten Peter Thiede, and Matthew D'Ancona (New York: Doubleday, 1996, 206 pp., $23.95)
September 1, 1996 Issue
THE CENTRAL PREMISE of Carsten Thiede's and Matthew D'Ancona's Eyewitness to Jesus—that three small papyri fragments from the twenty-sixth chapter of Matthew's Gospel at Magdalen College in England can be redated to the period A.D. 66- 70—has caused quite a stir.
According to the authors, the... READ MORE
America’s Liberal Democracy Under the Microscope
BY RUSSELL SHAW Soul of the World: Notes on the Future of Public Catholicism, by George Weigel (Grand Rapids, Mich.:Wm.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996, 206 pp. $18)
September 1, 1996 Issue
GEORGE WEIGEL explains in this collection of essays why the United States and other liberal democracies need the Church: to be decent and humane societies, grounded in moral principle and thus able to avoid the extremes of individualism and coerced conformity. The Church is willing. But are the... READ MORE
AConvert’s Case for the Catholic Church
BY MARK BRUMLEY Born Fundamentalist, Born-Again Catholic, by David Currie (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1996, 211 pp., $11.95)
September 1, 1996 Issue
DAVID CURRIE has done both Evangelicals and Catholics a great service. His Born Fundamentalist, Born-Again Catholic explains Catholicism in terms readily accessible, if not entirely acceptable, to the typical Evangelical. Meanwhile, he offers a glimpse into the Evangelical mind, helping Catholics... READ MORE
Grace-filled Moments: The Hermit Encounters Loneliness
BY BASIL COLE
September 1, 1996 Issue
LONELINESS MIGHT be described as a feeling of emptiness combined with sadness and sometimes powerlessness that overwhelms men or women when they feel isolated from loved ones and even from self. Any kind of failure, real or imagined, whether to sustain a business, a marriage, raising a family, or... READ MORE
Colombian Church Reluctant Player in Drug Crop Substitution Program
BY RICARDO OLVERA History of corruption hampers reform of Mexican government
September 1, 1996 Issue
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA—As more than 50,000 peasants protest against the Colombian Government's efforts to wipe out cocaine fields in Guaviare and Putumayo, the Church has agreed to collaborate in the crop-substitution programs.
PLANTE, as the program has been dubbed, seeks to stop the cultivation of... READ MORE
Mexico: Light at the End of A Long, Dark Tunnel?
September 1, 1996 Issue
FROM 1988-1994, the brother and friends of former President Carlos Salinas amassed some of the largest fortunes in the world, in a country where most of the population lives in poverty.
This was done through the selling of public property to private buyers (“privatization”), a tactic that mirrored... READ MORE
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