Letters 12.07.2008

December 7-13, 2008 Issue

Good Editorial

Thank you for your rational and calm editorial a few weeks back (“Dear Pro-Choice Friends,” Nov. 2). It is only by that kind of rational discourse that you will touch my mind or my heart. Banning people from Communion, making assertions without reasons, or distorting my views... READ MORE

Life Online

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

December 7-13, 2008 Issue

We’re slowly adjusting to life as a daily. Perhaps you were un--aware that we are a daily? In the most significant way, in fact, we aren’t. We still provide you with our own reporting only once a week. These are the stories that double-check the mainstream media and tell you the news they never... READ MORE

Pride Cometh Before a Fall

BY The Editors

December 7-13, 2008 Issue

“Pride cometh before a fall.” It’s an Old Testament proverb, it’s the classic theme of Greek tragedy, and it’s a lesson we observe in our lives again and again. So how come we never seem to learn to avoid it — or exploit it?

What’s more, pride always seems to come before a fall in... READ MORE

Letters 11.30.2008

November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue

Religious Freedom

Why are all the protesters still trying to make gay “marriage” legal? (“Prop 8’s Sore Losers,” Nov. 16). They already have every legal right to form a civil union. Is it so hard to see why their relationship is not the same as a marriage between a man and a woman?

When... READ MORE

Advent Hope

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue

Advent is here again — four weeks the Church gives us to prepare for Christmas by penance, prayer and almsgiving. We are also at the end of a tumultuous year, a year of high gas prices, an economic downturn, a tumultuous presidential race and a pivotal election.

Count on the Register to bridge... READ MORE

New Springtime of the Faith

BY The Editors

Hope for America 3

November 30-December 6, 2008 Issue

The outlook for the Church is not bleak. The world is not descending into a morass of darkness unlike anything we have seen before. Don’t listen to the prophets of... READ MORE

Letters 11.23.2008

November 23-29, 2008 Issue

Thank You, Register

How did Americans, about 70 million of whom are Catholic, elect the most pro-abortion, left-wing, inexperienced senator to the highest office of the greatest nation on earth?

Crisis-pregnancy centers like the one I direct are trembling: Can we continue to reach out to... READ MORE

The Marriage Majority

BY The Editors

Hope for America 2

November 23-29, 2008 Issue

After the 2008 election, in which the nation chose the most pro-abortion president, Catholics need to remember where to find “Hope for America.”

Last week we looked at the... READ MORE

Thanksgiving 2008

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

November 23-29, 2008 Issue

This week we celebrate Thanksgiving Day, a day which takes on special meaning after an election. This year, as Americans battle in the political arena over the right to life, it’s helpful to remember a time when America was battling — literally — over the right to liberty.

In those days,... READ MORE

Letters 11.16.2008

November 16-22, 2008 Issue

Bear the Cross

I received peace in knowing that our next president may not champion Judeo-Christian values when I recalled the Scripture “You will be persecuted” (Matthew 5:11 and John 15:20). As Catholics, we are called to heaven, not to earth.

Our grandparents’ generation had the privilege... READ MORE

The Pro-Life Majority

BY the Editors

Hope for America 1

November 16-22, 2008 Issue

It may seem silly to talk about hope for a culture of life in the wake of the 2008 election. After all, the Register, along with the Catholic bishops, was adamant about the... READ MORE

Vote for the Register

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

November 16-22, 2008 Issue

There was a lot of evidence that the mainstream media was very much in favor of one candidate in the last election.

• A Project in Excellence in Journalism study found that media coverage of John McCain was “heavily unfavorable” — more than three times as negative as the portrayal of... READ MORE

Letters 11.09.2008

November 9-15, 2008 Issue

Benedict, James and Trig

The Oct. 12 column “Down, Hero Dad and Palin” reminded me of Pope Benedict’s visit last April.

Before Pope Benedict came to America to celebrate Mass in New York and Washington, it was revealed that as a young boy in Germany he had a cousin with Down syndrome. One... READ MORE

America, the New Rome

BY The Editors

November 9-15, 2008 Issue

We thought we would be at a bit of a disadvantage for this issue of the Register, since we had to send it to the printer the day before Election Day. That meant we needed to finish the entire issue without knowing the winner of the election — or if there is a winner by Nov. 9 at all.

Four years... READ MORE

Big News Week

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

November 9-15, 2008 Issue

This is usually a tough week for the Register — the biggest week for the secular news every four years is the slowest news week for us. That’s because we go to press on Monday night, and polls open on Tuesday morning for Election Day.

But this year is different for two reasons. First, because... READ MORE

Letters 11.02.2008

November 2-8, 2008 Issue

‘45 Million-Plus Issues’

“What Voter Are You?” was posed in your Oct. 26 editorial. I know what kind I am. When I visited the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ website, I came across pro-life quotes from Pope Benedict XVI, including this one: “God’s love does not... READ MORE

Election Day at Last

November 2-8, 2008 Issue

If you’re like me, you’re grateful Election Day is here, above all, because we will finally be done with the political season.

Our coverage of the presidential race began in the first issue of 2007, when Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., a Catholic convert, announced his candidacy in our pages.... READ MORE

Dear Pro-Choice Friends,

BY The Editors

November 2-8, 2008 Issue

If you’re reading this at all, thank you. So many mass e-mails are unfair, unkind, uninformed or all three. If the subject has anything to do with politics, the right response is often to hit “delete.”

Thank you for not hitting “delete” — so far. Let me reassure you that the rest is... READ MORE

Letters 10.26.2008

October 26-November 1, 2008 Issue

Better Catholic Heroes

Relevant to the letter to the editor “Catholic Hero? Not to Me” (Oct. 5): I completely agree with the author of the letter! There are much better Catholic heroes than Hellboy. 

More importantly, I am not a big fan of the comic book and video game reviews. As far as video... READ MORE

What Kind of Voter Are You?

BY The Editors

October 26-November 1, 2008 Issue

The time approaches when we must vote again. That means that pro-lifers are once again receiving two pointed criticisms: “You shouldn’t be a single-issue voter” and “What’s the point in voting pro-life when neither party is going to change the legality of abortion, anyway?”

They are... READ MORE

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