http://www.ncregister.com/ Breaking News and Analysis from the National Catholic Register en matt@fallibleblogma.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-19T15:40:29+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/catholics_in_new_media_one_billion_stories/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/catholics_in_new_media_one_billion_stories/#When:15:40:29Z By Matthew Warner | This is one of the sweetest ideas I’ve come across in a little while. The project is called OneBillionStories.com. The concept is simple. Seth DeMoor is riding his bike from Florida to Colorado. Only this is no ordinary bike ride. This is a pilgrimage. And this is no ordinary pilgrimage. Seth is using new media to do … 2010-03-19T15:40:29+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/holy_sepulcher_virtual_tour/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/holy_sepulcher_virtual_tour/#When:15:27:45Z By Edward Pentin | Easter is fast approaching and one of the best places to celebrate Our Lord’s Resurrection is, of course, the Holy Land with a pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to make such a trip, but thanks to a Turkish multimedia company, it’s now possible to make a … 2010-03-19T15:27:45+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/joseph-of-nazareth/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/joseph-of-nazareth/#When:11:59:25Z By Steven D. Greydanus | I don’t often discover a new angle on a biblical text from a Bible movie, but Joseph of Nazareth: The Man Closest to Christ (available on DVD from Ignatius Press) suggests an attractive approach I had never before considered to a deceptively knotty passage in St. Matthew’s Gospel, namely, the passage in Matthew 1 in which … 2010-03-19T11:59:25+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/reconciliation_confession_contrition_satisfaction/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/reconciliation_confession_contrition_satisfaction/#When:05:13:35Z By Mark Shea | In John 20:22-23 we find the record of the origins of the sacrament of Reconciliation: And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” When Jesus empowered his … 2010-03-19T05:13:35+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/catechism_vs._health_care_reform/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/catechism_vs._health_care_reform/#When:15:20:06Z By Tom Hoopes | If you’re a Catholic and you believe the Catechism implicitly then you believe that health care is a right and you’re inclined to support a bill that expands access to health care. You are inclined to hate the skyrocketing costs fueled by lawsuits. You see the scandal of the uninsured as one of the great injustices of … 2010-03-18T15:20:06+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/it_is_we_who_must_be_present_-_not_just_our_stuff/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/it_is_we_who_must_be_present_-_not_just_our_stuff/#When:15:12:47Z By Matthew Warner | Every Thursday I’ve been taking a different quote from something the Church teaches about social communication or new media and trying to apply it. This week’s comes from an address Pope Benedict made to the Roman Curia last year: “God’s loving care for all people in Christ must be expressed in the digital world not simply as … 2010-03-18T15:12:47+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/nun_of_the_above/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/nun_of_the_above/#When:13:00:02Z By Matthew Archbold | Great damage was done to the pro-life movement yesterday with the endorsement of the Senate healthcare plan by nearly 60 Catholic sisters. With the future of the healthcare bill in question, in rode the habit-less cavalry of sisters to the rescue. The damage done is difficult to gauge but the endorsement has been trumpeted by news sources … 2010-03-18T13:00:02+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/wrong_number_is_right_for_a_needy_mom/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/wrong_number_is_right_for_a_needy_mom/#When:02:42:15Z By Danielle Bean | Have you ever volunteered to do pro-life work or pray in front of an abortion clinic? Have you ever wondered if it’s all just a waste of time? Perhaps you should ask “Erin,” a young Indiana mom of four who was pregnant with her fifth and had an appointment for an abortion scheduled at a local Planned … 2010-03-18T02:42:15+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/your_predictions_for_new_medjugorje_commission/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/your_predictions_for_new_medjugorje_commission/#When:19:13:31Z By Jimmy Akin | It’s official. The Holy See has announced the creation of a new commission, under the auspices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and led by retired archbishop Camillo Ruini, to investigate the reported apparitions associated with Medjugorje. Here’s a translation of the announcement, provided by Catholic News Agency: Under the auspices of the Congregation … 2010-03-17T19:13:31+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/end_of_princesses/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/end_of_princesses/#When:17:32:58Z By Steven D. Greydanus | Yesterday I wrote about the possible effects of the box-office success of Alice in Wonderland on fairy-tale revisionism in family films to come. The flip side is the box-office disappointment of Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, which hit DVD shelves yesterday. It looks like concern over The Princess and the Frog‘s poor performance is translating … 2010-03-17T17:32:58+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/making_saints_in_the_information_age/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/making_saints_in_the_information_age/#When:15:47:13Z By Matthew Warner | Right now, this very moment, you are being shaped. In fact, having read that last sentence, you will never be the same person again. Oh, look there, I did it again. I am molding you with my every key stroke. (BWAHAHAHAHAHA). Of course this is true for every piece of information your senses take in. You are … 2010-03-17T15:47:13+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/questioning_the_medias_timing_on_abuse_stories/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/questioning_the_medias_timing_on_abuse_stories/#When:20:27:43Z By Tim Drake | Call me distrustful, but isn’t the media’s timing regarding the European sexual abuse allegations suspect? Haven’t we been through all of this before? As a journalist, I can’t help but wonder, why didn’t we hear about all of these allegations - in Ireland and Germany and Austria - back in 2001 when the Boston Globe and so … 2010-03-16T20:27:43+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/archbishop_dolans_rockin_little_book/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/archbishop_dolans_rockin_little_book/#When:20:01:09Z By Danielle Bean | My day job requires un-knotting soggy shoelaces and retrieving sippy cups from beneath the sofa cushions. I might have been in some other lifetime, but these days I am absolutely not what anyone would call a “heavy reader.” Give me blogs. Give me magazines. Give me bite-sized daily readings and prayers. Imagine my delight, then, when I … 2010-03-16T20:01:09+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/throwing_the_bathwater_out_with_the_baby/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/throwing_the_bathwater_out_with_the_baby/#When:19:00:35Z By Pat Archbold | In all the discussion about whip counts it is easy to lose sight of what really counts and what the health care debate is really all about.  It should come as little surprise that this is all about abortion, or more specifically about the federal funding of abortion. However, conversely to what the media would have you … 2010-03-16T19:00:35+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/coming_at_you/ http://www.ncregister.com/blog/coming_at_you/#When:12:13:41Z By Steven D. Greydanus | It’s a straw in the wind: As the recently restored 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz comes out on Blu-ray today, Warner Bros is giving renewed attention to a pair of new Oz projects in early development, now likelier than ever to come to fruition. The reason: Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Avatar’s monster box-office performance … 2010-03-16T12:13:41+00:00