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Ministering to Mumbai

Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:18 AM

New Delhi nun at a vigil for Mumbai's terror victims. (CNS/Reuters)

This article by the Union of Catholic Asian News reports on the efforts of Catholic priests to help Mumbai come to terms with last week’s terrorist attacks.

Auxiliary Bishop Bosco Penha of Mumbai, who is temporarily overseeing the archdiocese while Cardinal Oswald Garcias recovers from cancer surgery, told UCAN that at Sunday Masses Nov. 30, archdiocesan priests sought to “make sense of the... READ MORE


Jeb Bush Eyes Senate Seat

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:14 PM

Jeb Bush meets the Pope in April 2005. (CNS/L'Osservatore Romano)

Republican Saxby Chambliss won yesterday’s U.S. Senate run-off election in Georgia, denying the Democratic Party an opportunity of securing a 60-seat Senate “supermajority.”

But any additional Republican losses in 2010 could tip the Senate into a filibuster-proof Democratic chamber that would have free rein to pass anti-life legislation such as the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).

That’s... READ MORE


A Regensburg Convert

Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:07 AM

Muslims in Kashmir protest Regensburg speech. (CNS/Reuters)

Here’s more evidence that Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks about Islam in 2006 at Regensburg, Bavaria, were the exact opposite of a “mistake.”

Magdi Cristiano Allam, the Italian-Egyptian journalist who was baptized by the Pope last Easter, recently explained publicly that the Regensburg speech was directly linked to his conversion.

He said that Benedict’s emphasis on the integration of... READ MORE

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Readers Defend the Register

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:55 AM

Thanks for the kind words so many readers have sent to me after I published my e-mail address.

Wrote one woman, on behalf of her family:

“The Register is an oasis of truth in a desert of lies. I too hope readers will drink deeply and respond in life giving ways. Our family has great respect and gratitude for the clear voice of the Register, which helped us maintain sanity through this last... READ MORE


The Mickey Mouse Mentality

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:22 AM

Disney has been singled out as a primary promoter of the consumerist corruption of contemporary culture.

That’s the judgment of Benedictine Father Christopher Jamison, the abbot of England’s Worth Abbey.

Father Jamison, who earned national fame in Britain in the hit BBC series “The Monastery,” says in a guide he has published about how people can find authentic happiness that corporations... READ MORE


Georgia Senate Vote

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:40 AM

National Right to Life poster for the U.S. Senate election in Georgia.

Voters are now going to the polls in today’s U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia.

With a Democratic victory by challenger Jim Martin over incumbent Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss possibly resulting in a filibuster-proof Senate majority for the Dems, the runoff election has major national implications.

The Daily Blog reported on those implications here.

Associated Press reports that... READ MORE


Vatican Bioethics Document

Monday, December 01, 2008 2:08 PM

“It’s what you’d expect, mostly a reiteration. We’re happy with it, but of course the world’s going to hate it.”

That’s what a Vatican official told Register correspondent Edward Pentin about the new Vatican instruction on bioethics that will be released Dec. 12.

The Vatican official was predicting the likely reaction of much of the secular world to the upcoming document from... READ MORE


Advent Jewish Solidarity

Monday, December 01, 2008 1:22 PM

Benedict stands beneath Pius XII statue in Rome. (CNS/Reuters)

On the very first Christmas, a baby was born to an impoverished Jewish family in a stable in Bethlehem.

Yesterday, at the start of this year’s Advent — the penitential season during which Christians prepare themselves spiritually for their annual celebration of the birth of that Jewish baby boy — Pope Benedict XVI greeted pilgrims while standing beneath a statue of Pope Pius XII at Rome’s... READ MORE


Pro-Obama Register?

Monday, December 01, 2008 10:34 AM

If you are here because you read elsewhere that we are a scandalous newspaper (or that I am a scandalous newspaper editor) who has traded our Catholic heritage away in order to support Obama, there are a few things you should know.

1. It’s not true. (Links follow below) I have updated the original link to try to clarify it.

The very idea that the National Catholic Register would be pro-Obama... READ MORE


Repenting an Obama Vote

Monday, December 01, 2008 10:06 AM

Father Joseph Illo

Another pastor has recommended that some Catholics who voted for President-elect Barack Obama should go to confession before receiving Communion.

In a homily to parishioners and in a follow-up letter, Father Joseph Illo, pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Modesto, Calif., suggested that voting for pro-abortion politicians with a clear understanding of their pro-abortion stance... READ MORE


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