An Urgent Message from Fr. Owen Kearns LC, Publisher

Letters 01.11.2009

January 11-17, 2009 Issue

In “Hot Water Over Communion and Obama” (Nov. 30), Father Dwight Longenecker writes that because of Internal Revenue Service concerns, priests are “not allowed” to “speak out more forcefully before the election” on pro-life issues and that it’s “the role of the laity” to do so.... READ MORE

Vocation Awareness

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

January 11-17, 2009 Issue

Jan. 11 begins Vocation Awareness Week, and at many parishes and schools across the country, priests and religious will be reminding young people that God might be calling them.

Stories from seminarians, consecrated persons and priests show that, for most, a personal invitation was decisive in... READ MORE

Hyde’s 4 Rules for Pro-Lifers

BY The Editors

January 11-17, 2009 Issue

America needs Henry Hyde, now more than ever.

Pro-lifers suffered major defeats in 2008. The human tendency is to reject our opponents in anger. Our job is to do what Hyde did. We must find away to reach out to opponents and save lives when our movement has lost the position of power.

U.S. Rep.... READ MORE

Letters 01.04.2009

January 4-10, 2009 Issue

Unite

As you have pointed out in your “Hope for America” editorials, perhaps the presidential election of 2008 did not turn out the way some of your readers had hoped and prayed it would. Well, maybe we should all follow the example of the Republican candidate, John McCain. That good soldier... READ MORE

Benedict vs. Obama

BY The Editors

January 4-10, 2009 Issue

“What will 2008 be known for?” we asked in February. We said it wouldn’t be known for the baseball scandals or the rise of Barack Obama. It will be known as “the year of Pope Benedict XVI.”

A year later, that sounds counterintuitive. It did then, too. “After all,” we said, “the Holy... READ MORE

New Issues Plan

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

January 4-10, 2009 Issue

It’s a new year, and we have a new strategy for the Register.

Last year, postal rates spiked and forced many publications to cut back year-round or publish online only. But we learned in our last readers’ survey that our readers prefer the printed newspaper, weekly.

We will continue to publish... READ MORE

Letters 12.21.2008

December 21, 2008-January 3, 2009 Issue

Prayers of the Faithful

In response to the election of Barack Obama as president, I suggest the following (or similar) petition to be included in the prayers of the faithful at every Mass from now to Inauguration Day:

“For President-elect Obama, that he be enlightened to recognize the intrinsic... READ MORE

The 12 Ways of Christmas

BY The Editors

December 21, 2008-January 3, 2009 Issue

Christmas is a yearly reality check. The lessons of Christmas are so counterintuitive that even after we have celebrated Christmas in society for centuries, and in our homes our whole lives, when each Christmas comes it’s like we are learning its lessons for the first time.

Here are 12... READ MORE

Our Video

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

December 21, 2008-January 3, 2009 Issue

In time for Christmas, the Register has entered the age of online videos.

NCRegister.com now features my brief message to readers about the Register’s role in the great battle of our time: the battle for the culture of life vs. the culture of death.

The video is meant to defend the Register... READ MORE

Letters 12.14.2008

December 14-20, 2008 Issue

Telling It Like It Is

I have been a subscriber to the National Catholic Register for several years. I am a former Catholic school principal, teacher and parent. My husband and I are strong supporters of the Catholic Church — as Eucharistic ministers, Parish School of Religion (PSR) teachers (for... READ MORE

Rejoice in Hope

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

December 14-20, 2008 Issue

We have received a number of heartfelt and grateful notes from readers over the last few weeks.

It is extremely gratifying to hear from readers who know and love the Register and take the time to send us their words of appreciation for what we do.

Readers appreciate our de--fense of the right to... READ MORE

America, Be Not Afraid

BY The Editors

December 14-20, 2008 Issue

“For religious believers, our times offer a daunting yet exhilarating challenge,” said Pope John Paul II in the year 2000 at the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast. “I would go so far as to say that their task is to save democracy from self-destruction.”

They were bracing, surprising words.

But... READ MORE

Letters 12.07.2008

December 7-13, 2008 Issue

Good Editorial

Thank you for your rational and calm editorial a few weeks back (“Dear Pro-Choice Friends,” Nov. 2). It is only by that kind of rational discourse that you will touch my mind or my heart. Banning people from Communion, making assertions without reasons, or distorting my views... READ MORE

Life Online

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

December 7-13, 2008 Issue

We’re slowly adjusting to life as a daily. Perhaps you were un--aware that we are a daily? In the most significant way, in fact, we aren’t. We still provide you with our own reporting only once a week. These are the stories that double-check the mainstream media and tell you the news they never... READ MORE

Pride Cometh Before a Fall

BY The Editors

December 7-13, 2008 Issue

“Pride cometh before a fall.” It’s an Old Testament proverb, it’s the classic theme of Greek tragedy, and it’s a lesson we observe in our lives again and again. So how come we never seem to learn to avoid it — or exploit it?

What’s more, pride always seems to come before a fall in... READ MORE

Letters 11.30.2008

November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue

Religious Freedom

Why are all the protesters still trying to make gay “marriage” legal? (“Prop 8’s Sore Losers,” Nov. 16). They already have every legal right to form a civil union. Is it so hard to see why their relationship is not the same as a marriage between a man and a woman?

When... READ MORE

Advent Hope

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue

Advent is here again — four weeks the Church gives us to prepare for Christmas by penance, prayer and almsgiving. We are also at the end of a tumultuous year, a year of high gas prices, an economic downturn, a tumultuous presidential race and a pivotal election.

Count on the Register to bridge... READ MORE

New Springtime of the Faith

BY The Editors

Hope for America 3

November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue

The outlook for the Church is not bleak. The world is not descending into a morass of darkness unlike anything we have seen before. Don’t listen to the prophets of... READ MORE

Letters 11.23.2008

November 23-29, 2008 Issue

Thank You, Register

How did Americans, about 70 million of whom are Catholic, elect the most pro-abortion, left-wing, inexperienced senator to the highest office of the greatest nation on earth?

Crisis-pregnancy centers like the one I direct are trembling: Can we continue to reach out to... READ MORE

The Marriage Majority

BY The Editors

Hope for America 2

November 23-29, 2008 Issue

After the 2008 election, in which the nation chose the most pro-abortion president, Catholics need to remember where to find “Hope for America.”

Last week we looked at the... READ MORE

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