This Week

BY FATHER OWEN KEARNS, LC

May 25-31, 2008 Issue

This week was filled with upheavals. In Myanmar after the cyclone, the government sought to bar aid workers, and the pressure prevented our reporter from publishing his name. In China after the earthquake, China’s government accepted foreign aid for the first time since the 1940s.

In California,... READ MORE

Letters

May 25-31, 2008 Issue

Thanks for Your Support

Enclosed please find a check for $100. I am grateful for your excellent coverage of the Pope’s visit last week. Congratulations on a great job!

 Margaret Pickard, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Casey’s Betrayal

Regarding “Hook, Line and Sinker” (May 4):

I was shocked that... READ MORE

Editorial

May 25-31, 2008 Issue

Out of compassion and a desire for fairness, many Americans want to give homosexual couples the ability to marry. The California Supreme Court’s decision to override voters doesn’t seem so bad to many people. After all, some homosexual couples care for each other in long-term commitments.... READ MORE

Letters 05.18.2008

May 18-24, 2008 Issue

Regarding “The Pope’s ‘Mandatum’” (April 27): I was happy to see positive reaction of the educators from Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, Thomas Aquinas College and The Catholic University of America, to the Holy Father’s address to Catholic college and... READ MORE

Obama vs. The Right to Life

BY The Editors

May 18-24, 2008 Issue

It’s important for Americans to know exactly where Barack Obama stands on abortion, because abortion is more than just a "Catholic issue." It's one of the fundamental issues Americans should be most concerned about.

The United States was founded on the rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit... READ MORE

Web Extras

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

May 18-24, 2008 Issue

This week, we’re offering content online that never appeared in the pages of the Register.

In one case, it’s the full version of the interview Robert Rauhut conducted with Otto von Habsburg, crown prince of Austria and European Union veteran.

Online, there are no such space restrictions, so... READ MORE

Letters May 11, 2008

May 11-17, 2008 Issue

Regarding the letter “Not a McCain Fan” (April 15), John McCain did not say, or even intimate, that he wants to continue war for the next 20 years in the Middle East. He merely recognized, as any thoughtful person should, that it may be expedient to maintain a presence... READ MORE

Pentecost Program For America

BY The Editors

May 11-17, 2008 Issue

The Church in the United States celebrated Pentecost early this year. The Mass Pope Benedict XVI said at Nationals Stadium in Washington, D.C., was identical to the Mass the Church celebrates on Pentecost Sunday, except that the second reading was changed.

It was as if the Holy Father was so eager... READ MORE

Politics Returns

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

May 11-17, 2008 Issue

One nice thing about the Pope’s visit to the United States was that the excessive coverage of politics slowed down for a little while. But now the Pope is back in Rome, and politics has returned even to headlines — and the front pages of the Register.

This week, Charlie Spiering reports from... READ MORE

Letters 05.04.2008

May 4-10, 2008 Issue

In response to the letter from Sister Simone Campbell, “Serious Questions” (April 6) regarding her apparent opposition to John McCain, I would agree that Catholics should not be single-issue voters.

First of all, I thank you for the generosity of acting on the gift of your... READ MORE

Benedict’s Own Five Issues

BY The Editors

May 4-10, 2008 Issue

Before Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States, we identified five key issues in his pontificate that we should watch for. The list was a good guess — but the man we once called the “Pope of Surprises” didn’t stick to our script.

With the benefit of a little hindsight, here is a... READ MORE

The Afterglow

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

May 4-10, 2008 Issue

Now that the Holy Father has returned to Rome, we return to our regular coverage of the news. But we return transformed, we hope.

In many ways, we’re still basking in the glow of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit. He said and did so much while he was here that we will need time to take it all in and... READ MORE

Letters 04.27.2008

April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue

Your recent article, “Hijacked?” (3/2-8/2008 issue), makes spurious and fallacious allegations about the 800-SUICIDE hotline, misrepresenting facts that are readily available to the public. 

First, the notion that callers to this number are routed to the Mental Health... READ MORE

The World Meets Benedict

BY The Editors

April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue

Months ago, when we planned to go all out for the U.S. papal visit and World Youth Day, we dubbed our coverage “The World Meets Benedict.” But before long, that started to seem a little presumptuous. After all, the Pope himself dubbed his visit “Christ Our Hope.”

As we launched... READ MORE

The Coverage Continues

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

April 27-May 3, 2008 Issue

What a glorious week it was!

Everyone has his own story of the events. I was blessed to be able to travel to Washington, D.C., for the National Prayer Breakfast, and to New York to join the young people and the seminarians at the “happening” with Benedict and to distribute Communion at Yankee... READ MORE

Letters 04.20.2008

April 20-26, 2008 Issue

Regarding “Easter Identity Crisis” (March 30):

In the section headed “Hiring Targets,” it says it is now difficult to achieve a 50% Catholic hiring goal for professors at the university. It is Father Jenkins’ policy to permit these performances at Notre Dame that... READ MORE

Benedict’s Backpack

BY The Editors

April 20-26, 2008 Issue

The Pope is Bavarian, and Bavarians are known by their cities in a way that isn’t seen in America apart from New Yorkers or Bostonians. But Pope Benedict XVI began his life as a man with no hometown — and he remains the same today.

So says Brennan Pursell in his book Benedict of... READ MORE

A Pause

BY Father Owen Kearns, LC

April 20-26, 2008 Issue

This issue of the Register is another case where we, as the producers of the newspaper, are at a distinct disadvantage compared to you, the readers of it. We send this issue to the printer on April 14 — the day before Pope Benedict XVI arrives at Andrews Airforce Base.

We have no knowledge of... READ MORE

Letters April 13, 2008

April 13-19, 2008 Issue

I am just reading Brian Burch’s article “Can McCain Take Up the ‘Catholic’ Mantle?” (March 9):

Well, your “Catholic President” just vetoed the bill on banning “waterboarding.”

Burch is touting a man who wants to continue war for the next 20 years in the Middle... READ MORE

5 Key Issues of Benedict the Rock

BY The Editors

April 13-19, 2008 Issue

Pope Benedict XVI is the successor to Peter, a name that means rock. As in bedrock. Jesus’ prayer for Peter could just as easily be for Benedict: “I have prayed that your own faith may not fail,” he said, in order to “strengthen your brothers.”

As preparation for his visit to America, we... READ MORE

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