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Christianity in America
Excepert
November 30-December 6, 1997 Issue 
Christianity in America
The Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops opened Sunday Nov. 16, with a Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica. The Holy Father's homily (excerpted below) was based on the readings for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time and on the Synod's... READ MORE
LETTERS
November 23-29,1997 Issue
Educational Deficiencies
The article, “Catholics Get Behind Education Vouchers and Savings Plans” (Nov. 9-16), pointed out the growing support for giving parents an alternative to the failing public school system. While vouchers and savings plans are sorely needed alternatives to public schools, in... READ MORE
Assisted Suicide: A Dark Answer
BY David Liptak
November 23-29,1997 Issue
The term “physician-assisted suicide” is really an absurd description, since collaborating in the act of suicide contradicts a physician's vocation and, in effect, represents a throwback to the dark ages of crude and superstitious paganism. Isn't this why the American Medical Association opposes... READ MORE
Letters
November 16-22, 1997 Issue
‘Green’ Catholics
I would like to make some comments in reference to your article titled “Despite Growing Environmental Threats, ‘Green’ Catholics Remain Few in Number” (Nov. 2-8). This article measures the activism of Catholics against the “environmental justice” movement only. I find this to be... READ MORE
Letters
November 16-22, 1997 Issue
‘Green’ Catholics
I would like to make some comments in reference to your article titled “Despite Growing Environmental Threats, ‘Green’ Catholics Remain Few in Number” (Nov. 2-8). This article measures the activism of Catholics against the “environmental justice” movement only. I find this to be... READ MORE
LETTERS
October 12-18, 1997 Issue
China Watchers
Your article “China Watchers Divided on Religious Freedom Issue” by Tracy Early (Sept. 7-13) will give many readers a wrong impression that the religious persecution in China as debated by the Congress and reported by the media worldwide is “overdone,” does not “correspond with that... READ MORE
Blowin’ in the Wind
Editorial
October 12-18, 1997 Issue
Folk-rock icon Bob Dylan's performance for Pope John Paul II and hundreds of thousands of others at the recent Eucharistic Congress in Bologna, Italy, raised the hackles of some Catholic critics. In making their case against Dylan, some dug into the 56-year-old singer-songwriter's past and took... READ MORE
LETTERS
September 22, 1996 Issue
Shea's Way
Mark Shea's column in the Aug. 25 issue (ldquo;The Strengths and Weaknesses of ‘Called to be Catholic’”) was a blockbuster. Starting from my agreement with him that Chicago's Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's “Common Ground” plan was positive but unworkable, I found myself, after reading it a... READ MORE
Shame on This ‘Nation of Immigrants’
September 22, 1996 Issue
IMMIGRATION has become a hot political issue this election year. And just as politicians wanted to be “tough on crime” in 1992 and 1994, this year they want to be “tough on immigration” to better their chances of success at the polls.
We seem to have entered into one of those spasms of xenophobia... READ MORE
LETTERS
August 24-30, 1997 Issue
“Living Stones”
As the author of a recently published book on the subject of Holy Land pilgrimage, Jerusalem and the Holy Land: The First Ecumenical Pilgrim's Guide, I read your interview with Rabbi David Rosen ("Holy Land Pilgrims, ‘Living’ Judaism and Christian-Jewish Dialogue,” Aug. 3-9) with... READ MORE
Turn Off the Image
EDITORIAL
August 24-30, 1997 Issue
Pundits often lament that in recent years we've become an “entertainment culture” obsessed with celebrity. It seems to be an obsession without limit. As John Prizer writes in his review of Air Force One (see page 7), we have even begun to measure our presidents by their pop celebrity appeal as well... READ MORE
Letter
Letters
August 3-9, 1997 Issue
Disney's Revisionism
When “Catholics Assess [the] Baptist Disney Boycott” (July 20-26), they should keep in mind the success that anti-Christian groups have had in turning the Magic Kingdom into an anti-Christian propaganda machine.
Disney's “adult” productions, such as the movie Priest and TV... READ MORE
LETTERS
April 13-19,1997 Issue
Moving Words
After reading your March 16-22 edition, I wanted to take a moment to respond to the homily section, “Next Sunday at Mass: Passion Sunday,” by Peter John Cameron OP. Two of Father Cameron's statements touched me more deeply than anything I have read for a long time. The lines are as... READ MORE
EDITORIAL
BY Jk
April 13-19,1997 Issue
The Narrow Gate
“IF THEN YOU were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col 3, 1-4). Such was the magnificent reading Easter morning. This... READ MORE
Pro-Choice Thinking
April 06, 1997 Issue
I agree with Robert Brennan (“Shields's Abortion Stand,” Letters, Feb. 15-22) that Mark Shields's allegedly pro-life stance is inconsistent and hollow. I also sympathize with his difficulty in understanding “what a person meant who said he or she was ‘pro-choice’ yet hated abortion.” However, we... READ MORE
Dialogue in the Church
April 06, 1997 Issue
The teachings of the Church are plain from tradition, the documents of the councils, the papal statements and the Catechism. Thus much of what dialogue might accomplish by way of explanation is not an issue. Distinguished editors of “catholic” publications are too well educated to have gaps in... READ MORE
Suicide & Abortion
April 06, 1997 Issue
A recent study published in the prestigious British Medical Journal(Dec. 7, 1996, pp. 1431-34) reports that the suicide rate after pregnancy in Finland from 1987 to 1994 was 6.4 times greater in women who had undergone induced abortions (34.7 per 100,000) than for those who had given birth (5.4 per... READ MORE
Scholar’s Historical Study Does Mary Justice
April 06, 1997 Issue
Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture
(New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1996, 240 pp., $25)
THOUGH NOT QUITE over, the 20th century has already earned many unique epithets— for example, some have called it history's bloodiest century. But the years stretching from... READ MORE
Parents Go it Alone, Fund School that Offers First-Rate Education, Spiritual Heart
Gerald Dean
April 06, 1997 Issue
AN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL in Virginia is striving to produce not only young scholars, but Catholics of deep faith. Annunciation Academy, a K-8 grammar school owned and operated by lay Catholics, opened in the fall of 1993 and has already attracted more than 80 students from the metropolitan Washington,... READ MORE
Letters
March 23-29, 1997 Issue
Election '96 and Beyond
I really enjoyed your Feb. 9–15 issue, especially the ideas expressed by Bishop James McHugh of Camden, N.J., in the news article “Bishop Calls '96 Elections 'Wake Up Call'for Hierarchy.” I was dismayed by the lack of direction and leadership during the '96 elections and... READ MORE
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