http://www.ncregister.com/ The latest articles from the National Catholic Register en mhartog@circlemedia.com Copyright 2009 2009-07-2T18:56:37+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/at_the_white_house/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/at_the_white_house/#When:17:56:37Z By Father Owen Kearns, LC | President Obama invited several members of the Catholic press to a conversation at the White House July 2 in preparation for his upcoming visit to Benedict XVI. The Register was represented by yours truly. More details can be found on our blog at NCRegister.com and in the next print edition of the Register. The 45-minute … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T17:56:37+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/letters_07.12.2009/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/letters_07.12.2009/#When:17:48:19Z By The Editors | Colleges and Abortion I am a recent Notre Dame alumna and I would like to express my concern regarding “Ten Catholic Colleges That Promote Abortion” (Register’s Daily Blog, June 16). I am a very conservative Catholic, and I am appalled that the university would recommend an internship with NOW (National Organization for Women). However, I don’t think … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T17:48:19+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/what_universities_do/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/what_universities_do/#When:17:46:49Z By The Editors | Dormitories are empty. Campuses are only partly busy, with summer events and special programs. Faculties are busy preparing for fall — or, truth be told, not so very busy. It’s the off-season at one of the most important places on earth: the university. Not that universities should be self-important about that. They’re among the most important places … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T17:46:49+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/talking_back_softly_to_an_angry_world/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/talking_back_softly_to_an_angry_world/#When:15:28:25Z By Sherry Antonetti | A Mother of Many’s Response | The Octuplet mom has prompted a slew of discussions online, over the airways and in print about the “proper size” of a family. Leaving aside the facts of Nadya Suleman, whom most would argue is a unique case, with multiple moral quandaries involved, the generic commentary about large families has been … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T15:28:25+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/encounters_with_grace/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/encounters_with_grace/#When:15:25:59Z By Mark Shea | Sacraments, Part 2 | Previously, we noted that the Incarnation is not simply an isolated anomaly, but the establishment of an eternal principle: God reveals himself to us sacramentally, first in the body of Jesus Christ and, till he comes again, through the sacraments of holy Church that Christ established. We looked at one basic misunderstanding of … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T15:25:59+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/a_tough_pill_for_parents_to_swallow/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/a_tough_pill_for_parents_to_swallow/#When:15:23:01Z By Carrie O’Connell | Are Pharmaceutical Companies Marketing Birth Control to Teenage Girls? | Imagine a magical pill that can cure acne, improve your style and give you tickets to a happening concert. Sounds like a teenager’s dream come true — or so the makers of Yaz oral contraceptive wanted your daughters to believe. Recently, when your teenage daughter logged online … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T15:23:01+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/sts._cyril_and_methodius/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/sts._cyril_and_methodius/#When:15:20:23Z By The Editors | Perennial Examples of Inculturation | Weekly General Audience June 17, 2009 During his general audience on June 17, Pope Benedict XVI continued his catechesis on the early Christian writers of the Church. He offered his reflections on Sts. Cyril and Methodius, two brothers from Thessalonica who lived in the early ninth century. Cyril and Methodius experienced a … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T15:20:23+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/the_plot_to_kidnap_pius/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/the_plot_to_kidnap_pius/#When:15:19:15Z By EDWARD PENTIN | New Evidence Confirms Hitler Planned to Nab the Pope | Further evidence has come to light confirming that Adolf Hitler planned to kidnap or kill Pope Pius XII, adding to proof that the German führer and the wartime Pope were enemies. According to a report in the Italian bishops’ newspaper L’Avvenire June 16, a secret meeting took … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T15:19:15+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/valle_daosta_beckons_benedict/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/valle_daosta_beckons_benedict/#When:15:17:44Z By EDWARD PENTIN | Pope Returns to Italy’s Alpine Region for R&R | Pope Benedict XVI will be spending his summer vacation this year in the mountainous Valle d’Aosta region in the northwestern Alpine region of Italy. The Holy Father will be staying in a chalet in the hamlet of Les Combes at Introd July 13-29. This is the third time … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T15:17:44+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/catholic_answers_sues_the_irs_in_defense_of_free_speech/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/catholic_answers_sues_the_irs_in_defense_of_free_speech/#When:15:15:16Z By STEVE WEATHERBE | SAN DIEGO — Catholic Answers is challenging a 2008 Internal Revenue Service ruling that it interfered in the 2004 presidential election by recommending Catholic presidential candidate John Kerry be denied Communion. But one expert on free speech at the University of Notre Dame, Lloyd Mayer, associate professor of law, is worried that this may be “the right … July 12-25, 2009 2009-07-2T15:15:16+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/tv_picks_07.05.2009/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/tv_picks_07.05.2009/#When:13:17:00Z By Daniel J. Engler | DAILY Going My Way CATHOLICTV Boston archdiocesan Father Chris Hickey hosts this upbeat show about the priesthood. He sings as well, accompanied on the piano by his onetime seminary mentor, Father Paul Rouse. In each episode, Father Hickey interviews a guest priest. Airs 12:30 p.m. Sundays, 1 p.m. Mondays, 6 a.m. Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 1:30 … June 28-July 11, 2009 2009-06-24T13:17:00+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/hidden_lies_of_the_pill/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/hidden_lies_of_the_pill/#When:17:19:09Z By Elizabeth Yank | Elizabeth Yank recommends Fatherless by Brian Gail. | Fatherless By Brian J. Gail One More Soul, 2008 417 pages, $9.95 fatherlessbook.com (888) 307-7685 In the novel Fatherless, Brian J. Gail explores the controversial and often blatantly denied truths of the birth control pill’s destructive effects on women, families and society. Through the lives of four characters, Gail … June 28-July 11, 2009 2009-06-19T17:19:09+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/vacations_miffed_prophets_and_christ/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/vacations_miffed_prophets_and_christ/#When:17:13:52Z By Tom and April Hoopes | User's Guide to Sunday: Reflections on forthcoming Mass readings by Tom and April Hoopes. | July 5 and July 12 are the 14th and 15th Sundays in Ordinary Time (Year B, Cycle 1). Vacation Pope Benedict will spend two weeks in July vacationing in the Italian Alps at Les Combes, in the same cabin that … June 28-July 11, 2009 2009-06-19T17:13:52+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/tv_picks_06.28.2009/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/tv_picks_06.28.2009/#When:15:38:23Z By Daniel J. Engler | DAILY Family Rosary With Sacred Scripture FAMILYLAND TV “Cling to the Rosary as the creeper clings to the tree — for without Our Lady we cannot stand,” Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta said. At 4 a.m. and noon daily, as well as 7:30 p.m. daily except Sundays and Wednesdays, this show enables families to pray together … June 28-July 11, 2009 2009-06-19T15:38:23+00:00 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/dvd_picks_passes_06.28.2009/ http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/dvd_picks_passes_06.28.2009/#When:15:34:34Z By Steven D. Greydanus | The Swiss Family Robinson (1976) -Pick Blu-ray: Miracle (2004) -Pick Blu-ray: The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) -Pick Not to be confused with the 1960 Disney film by Ken Annakin, “The Swiss Family Robinson,” new this week on DVD in a 3-disc box set from Image Entertainment, is one of the numerous TV series adaptations of … June 28-July 11, 2009 2009-06-19T15:34:34+00:00