Venite Adoremus! Venite Adoremus!

BY BASIL COLE OP

Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue

JESUS WAS a true baby. He was conceived in a fully supernatural way, but from the time he left his mother's womb, we must suppose he acted like all babies, in every respect. Christmas is the feast of the birth of the Son of God who yawns, burps, cries and even giggles as only a newborn can. It is... READ MORE

Why Evangelization Begins With Personal Conversion

BY Joyce Carr

Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue

Q & A

FATHER CARL Tenhundfeld is president of the National Council for Catholic Evangelization (NCCE), director of the Office of Evangelization for the Diocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas, and pastor of All Saints Church in Houston, a bilingual parish.

The NCCE was established by the U.S. bishops... READ MORE

These Days, Potential Converts Can Access the Virtual Church on the Net, But Real Deal Still Happens

BY Clement Kennedy OSB

Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue

THE INTERNET has been called everything from “the encyclopedia of the now” to “an open sewer.” There's cause for these extremes, but an aspect that receives little attention is the Net's role in evangelization. In the September 1996 issue of This Rock, a Catholic apologetics magazine, a man from... READ MORE

Affirmative Action Returns To Spotlight with Vengeance

BY Michael Barbera

Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue

THIS YEAR'S race for control of Congress and the White House dominated the news for months across the country. But in one state the national election had to share the spotlight with what was perhaps the most closely-watched ballot initiative in American history. When voters went to the polls and... READ MORE

Jesus Seminar, Q Scholars True to Holiday Form

BY Gabriel Meyer

Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue

CATHOLICS HAVE become accustomed by now to seeing Jesus and Mary looking out at them from the glossy covers of Time and Newsweekas they stand in holiday checkout lines at markets and malls.

Any elation at seeing the objects of their faith celebrated in the reigning secular journals is quickly... READ MORE

Money, Stealth Gain Rev. Moon Foothold in Latin America

BY Alejandro Bermudez

Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue

AYEAR-and-a-half ago, authorities in Argentina and Uruguay thought their country's Catholic bishops were overreacting when they issued warnings about the growth in the region of the controversial “Church of the Unification” founded by Korean leader Sun Myung Moon.

Both episcopates had responded to... READ MORE

In Los Angeles, Kentucky and Tijuana, Church Lives the Christmas Spirit

BY David Finnigan

Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue

A trio of Catholic Christmas stories from across the Tijuana, Mexico border, to inner-city Los Angeles and out to northeast Kentucky's coal mountains. Catholics are called to serve the poor, be they black and urban, brown and illegal, or rural and white.

FATHER KEN DEASY can count, among his many... READ MORE

Pro-lifers Still Reading Election Tea Leaves

BY Peter Feuerherd

Dec. 22-28, 1996 Issue

ACCORDING to conventional wisdom, 1996 was the year the prolife cause stopped mattering.

After taking office in 1992, providing proof positive that he was no friend to pro-lifers, President Clinton rescinded a number of anti-abortion executive orders supported by his two Republican predecessors.... READ MORE

Next Sunday at Mass: ‘Nothing Is Impossible for God’

BY Peter John Cameron OP

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

Dec. 22, 1996

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Lk 1, 26-38

ON THE last Sunday before Christmas, the Church focuses on how it all began. One might wonder why this Gospel of the Annunciation wasn't proclaimed the first Sunday of Advent, as a start to the season. We already heard the same Gospel on the... READ MORE

Christendom’s Chief Swears by History, Theology, Affordability

BY John McCormack

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

DR. TIMOTHY OíDONNELL has been president of Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., since 1992. In 1985, he had left his post as assistant professor of theology at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles for Christendom. O'Donnell calls the move “the best decision” he's ever made.

When asked by... READ MORE

Pastor Confronts Ban on Military Personnel’s Political Engagement

BY Molly Mulqueen

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

Like other military personnel, chaplains are employees of the federal government, and as such, are subject to some restrictions on their speech and behavior, especially when it comes to political activity. Chaplains are limited as to when, where and how they can speak out on a moral issue with... READ MORE

Their Ranks Thinning, Chaplains Are All That They Can Be In the Army

BY Molly Mulqueen

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

CATHOLIC SEMINARIANS across the United States are being asked to “be all that they can be” by Armed Forces chaplains recruiters who are as likely to be wearing Roman collars as Major's leaves. In an effort to meet serious shortages in the military chaplain's core, the Army, Navy, Air Force and... READ MORE

Running the World’s Largest Jesuit Region

BY Jonathan Luxmoore

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

Polish visitator faces huge cultural, material odds

Father Stanislaw Opiela, 58, has been Moscow-based Superior of the Independent Russian Region of the Jesuits since August 1992, covering all the former Soviet Union except the Baltic states. Born at Zamosc, Poland, he joined the Jesuits at age 16,... READ MORE

Cardinal’s Nazi Era Anecdote Brings Home Plight of Mentally Ill

BY J. Colina Díez

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

VATICAN CITY—Up to one-fourth of the world population suffers from mental disorders. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers in the West. Some 80 percent of the homeless in New York (30,000-40,000 people) suffer from mental disturbances. More than a quarter of people sent to... READ MORE

Why Euthanasia Is A Hit on Prime Time

BY Nancy Guilfoy Valko

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

A DESPERATELY ILL woman is brought into the emergency room. As the staff rushes to save her, they find that the woman has taken an overdose because of a terminal illness. Later, after she dies, her husband tearfully admits that he reluctantly gave his wife the overdose at her request. The staff... READ MORE

Court to Rule on Clinic Protest Zone

BY William Murray

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

APENDING Supreme Court decision on a lower court's order that requires pro-life demonstrators to remain 15 feet away from women entering and leaving abortion clinics is huge: It could shape the future of protests and sidewalk counseling at facilities around the country, say pro-life activists.

The... READ MORE

Church Eyes Welfare Funds ‘Devolution’ with Concern

BY Michael Barbera

December 15-21, 1996 Issue

WASHINGTON—While Congress reforms a host of federal programs, many experts predict that a number of programs previously funded and administered by the federal government will soon become the province of state and local governments. The process, dubbed “devolution,” could have a major impact on... READ MORE

Next Sunday at Mass

BY Peter John Cameron

Facing the Truth About Ourselves

December 8-14, 1996 Issue

Dec. 15, 1996 Third Sunday of Advent John 1, 6–8, 19–28

THE CHURCH again and again teaches that Christ reveals man to himself and brings to light the human person's exalted vocation. In today's Gospel, the priests and Levites dispatched by the officials in Jerusalem want to know John the Baptizer's... READ MORE

Being Catholic in Utah: A Mixed Blessing

BY Liz Swain

December 8-14, 1996 Issue

MORMONISM IS the religion most often associated with Utah. However, there has been a Catholic presence in the state since shortly after Mormon leader Brigham Young's pioneer company arrived in the Great Salt Lake Basin in 1847. Today, the Diocese of Salt Lake City covers all of Utah. From 1853... READ MORE

Context of Christian Proclamation Sets Parameters of Dialogue

BY Avery Dulles

December 8-14, 1996 Issue

Father Avery Dulles SJ delivered the ninth annual fall Laurence J. McGinley Lecture at Fordham University in New York, Nov. 19. Excerpted:

… On June 29, 1996 the retired Archbishop of San Francisco, John R. Quinn, speaking at Campion Hall, Oxford University, pointedly asked whether the Holy See had... READ MORE

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