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Taking on Dr. Kevorkian Proved Costly For Prosecuting Attorney: ‘I Enforce the Law’
BY William Murray
January 5, 1997 Issue 
From 1988 through 1996, Richard Thompson served as prosecuting attorney for Oakland County, Mich. He achieved a conviction rate of approximately 98 percent, while major crime in the county of more than 1 million people declined by 32 percent during his tenure. Nevertheless, Thompson lost his bid... READ MORE
Inculturation is the Word for Asian Church
BY Anto Akkara
January 5, 1997 Issue
ZEALOUS MISSIONARIES urging non-Christians to forsake their faith to escape eternal doom are a thing of the past in Asia. These days, inculturation and interreligious dialogue are more typical concerns for the Asian Church. Major Church meetings there tend to end with calls for more harmony with... READ MORE
High Court, 24 Years After Roe, Again Holds Life in the Balance
BY William Murray
January 5, 1997 Issue
TWO CASES—Compassion in Dying v. Washington and Quill v. Vacco—scheduled for oral argument before the Supreme Court on Jan. 8 could result in a landmark ruling on physician assisted suicide, observers say.
“We think this will be the Roe v. Wade of euthanasia,” said Walter Weber, an attorney with... READ MORE
World Council of Churches Chief Counts on Roman Participation
BY Gabriel Meyer
January 5, 1997 Issue
THE CALL for radical structural reform on the heels of financial woes—it's a common scenario these days for the aging international institutions set up in the wake of World War II. The United Nations is in the throes of it. And so, increasingly, is the world's largest ecumenical organization, the... READ MORE
Despite Persistent Racism, Black Catholics ‘Keep Hand on Plow’
BY Dennis Poust Letters
January 5, 1997 Issue
AFTER MORE than 30 years, the incident remains etched in his memory. En route by bus from his hometown of Mallet, La., to the Society of the Divine Word seminary in Techny, Ill., the young man was ready for a meal by the time the travelers stopped around midnight at a station along the way.
He... READ MORE
Next Sunday at Mass
BY Peter John Cameron Op The Mystical Transformation of the Magi
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
Jan. 5, 1997 The Epiphany of the Lord Mt 2, 1-12
THE MYSTERYof the Epiphany-which means “manifestation”-begins by manifesting something about ourselves. Like the “astrologers” in today's Gospel, it is not enough for us merely to know that Jesus is alive and living in the world as a human being.... READ MORE
Musical Joys of the Christmas Season - Bach, Handel, Corelli
BY Mariaagnes Karasig Op
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
OF ALL the seasons and holidays in our Western culture, Christmas has become a source of inspiration for many musical composers and performing artists, both vocal and instrumental, secular and religious. During this festive season celebrating the birth of Christ, the rediscovery and enjoyment of... READ MORE
‘In the Beginning Was the Word’ - the Word of God
BY Servais Pinckaers Op
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
Father Servais Pinckaers OP, professor emeritus of moral theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, delivered a lecture June 20, 1996, on the occasion of his retirement from the institution, where he had taught since 1973. Register readers are familiar with his writing on the Our Father,... READ MORE
Liberal Religion & a Failure of Nerve
BY Russell Shaw
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
Religion and Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy, by Ronald Thiemann. (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1996, 186 pp., $55 cloth, $17.95 paper)
IN Religion and Public Life Ronald Thiemann, dean of the Harvard Divinity School, makes a reasoned, civil case for allowing religion into the... READ MORE
The Perennial American Pastime
BY John Prizer
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
AMERICAN CULTURE is, by temperament, Puritan, even at times like the present when its core values seem detached from religious faith. The way we act out certain kinds of public moral conflicts is deeply influenced by the thinking of our 17th-century Protestant forefathers. Most of us are loath to... READ MORE
Papal Nuncio Meets with Serb President
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
ROME—The Vatican has begun mediation efforts in Serbia aimed at ensuring a peaceful solution to the unrest in the region. Spanish-born Archbishop Santos Abril, the papal ambassador, was received earlier this month in Belgrade by President Slobodan Milosevic to discuss solutions to the country's... READ MORE
Alleged ‘Sacred Relics’ Raise Doubts
BY Kim Lawton and Elaine Fletcher
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
BETHLEHEM—The pitch seems to be everywhere this Christmas season: For as little as $59.95 (plus postage and handling) you, too, can own a piece of the place where Jesus was born.
In reverential tones, actor Ricardo Montalban describes a filigreed cross, centered with a stone that he says... READ MORE
Canada’s Aboriginals Seek Missionary Mea Culpa, Too
BY Art Babych
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
OTTAWA, Canada—The scent of burning sweetgrass drifted through the auditorium as Ovide Mercredi, Canada's top Indian leader, stood before the microphone with tears in his eyes.
Reconciliation does not only involve forgiveness,” he told the hushed crowd of about a thousand natives, Church leaders... READ MORE
African-Americans, Hispanics Move to Bridge Bitter Divide
BY Christopher Martinez
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
FIRES IN the streets of Miami seven years ago prompted Josie Poitier to seek a solution to the ethnic and racial tension corroding Miami's Liberty City neighborhood. “It was very hard. The tension was there. You went through the streets and there were fires everywhere and people who wanted to throw... READ MORE
Poll Reveals Active Catholics Are ‘Highly Committed’
BY David Finnigan
December 29, 1996-January 4, 1997 Issue
WHILE THE MEDIA focuses on women's ordination, a married priesthood, sexual politics and the rifts these issues cause between the Left and the Right in the Church, most American Catholics—at least those regularly found in the pews—are more concerned with making sense of their faith in their daily... READ MORE
‘Holy Family, Blessed Trinity’
BY Peter John Cameron OP Next Sunday at Mass
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
Dec. 29, 1996
Feast of the Holy Family
Lk 2, 22-40
JESUS’ FIRST experience of humanity does not take place in solitude or isolation—like Adam in the garden of Eden. Rather, the New Adam's Incarnate encounter with the world happens within the embrace of his particular human family. The Church honors... READ MORE
‘Common Ground’ as Communion--A Witness for the Defense
BY Robert Imbelli
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
AVERY DULLES SJ, who for 40 years has been one of the Catholic Church's most respected and prolific theologians, recently delivered the McGinley lecture at Fordham University under the title, The Travails of Dialogue. Extensive excerpts from the lecture appeared in the Register (“Context of... READ MORE
On 4,000 Years of Love & War in the Holy City
BY Gabriel Meyer
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, by Karen Armstrong (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, 471 pp., $30)
Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai once wrote that “Jerusalem is a place where everyone remembers that he has forgotten something.” Karen Armstrong's newest work, an encyclopedic romp through 4,000 years... READ MORE
Clearing Advent’s Final Hurdle
BY Romanus Cessario OP
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
The final days of the Advent season put us in the close company of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As we prepare again for the birth of her Only Son, the Virgin Mother of God becomes our special companion, sharing with us her anticipation for the Birth of Christ. Since we join in Mary's expectancy, there... READ MORE
Welcome to Immigrants Captured On Film Aims to Change Minds
BY John Prizer
Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue
The Catholic Church in American was primarily an immigrant Church in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Irish, Italian and Polish newcomers found in their faith and its institutions a safe haven, from which they could build their lives in an often inhospitable land.
In the past two decades America... READ MORE
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