February 17-23, 2008 Issue |
Posted 2/12/08 at 12:57 PM
We’re grateful for some excellent work from our writers this
week. In our day and age, we too often see the private pain of individuals made
a public spectacle, but two writers in this issue have done a marvelous job of
making their personal painful experiences helpful to others.
One is Keith Cobb, who writes about his own association with
the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. We told him we wanted a story that respected what is
attractive about Transcendental Meditation while mincing no words about what is
dangerous about it, too. He gave us that, using his experience to help others.
We also have an interview with Regina Doman in which she
touches on a personal episode we hesitated to bring up. But we’re grateful that
she did, and that in the context of Lent it can help others who face tragic
loss.
Finally, I wanted to bring your attention to a special
project under way here. About 450 men will be ordained priests this
sum--mer. Given the difficulty and
in some cases, the impossibility of finding the ad--dresses of the new priests,
the Register wants to send a personal copy to each deacon at his seminary.
The entire project will cost us $11,670. We will need help
to make it happen. A gift of $129 will provide the National Catholic Register
to five soon-to-be-priests. Help us out during Lent, if you can.
Contributions that come in no later than March 16, Palm
Sunday, will be in time for us to arrange to have the Register accompany the
new priests as they grapple with the challenge of their first assignments.
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