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National Catholic Reporter
The National Catholic Reporter is a Catholic newsweekly. It was founded in 1964 and is published 44 times a year by National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company Inc.Subjects include religion. The editor is Thomas Roberts.
Articles from Vol. 33, No. 23, April 11
Acceptance of Gays Comes Slowly in This Town
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It was December the last time I came home. In the bell tower of St. Andrew's, stained glass panels glistened like jewels in the darkness. Tiny lights in the shrubbery sparkled along the path to the nativity scene. I genuflected as Jack and I filed...
A Choice to Live in the 'Now' of Children
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At the risk of sounding glib, I have decided that raising children can be compared to the mysterious paradox of the events we recalled during Holy Week. The passionate emotions of the parenting journey with its desperations, sorrows and joys reflect...
As Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Issues Simmer, Look at Holland
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As a race we have always worked harder at making life good than making death happy. Death unsettles us individually and communally. One manifestation of our nervousness is the expanding debate about assisted suicide and euthanasia As the complex...
Bishop Condemns HLI Leader's Remarks
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Inflammatory accusations linking Jews to abortions have prompted Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis to cancel plans to celebrate Mass during mid-April meeting of Human Life International in his archdiocese. In a statement issued...
Few Are Aware Who Operates Cult Awareness Network
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In the wake of the dead 39 members of the Heaven's Gate community in San Diego, here's a living definition of irony. The Cult Awareness Network -- CAN -- may suddenly be inundated with calls from families anxious about kin who are in cults. CAN used...
Leibrecht, Ending Rumor, Says It Just Isn't So
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Bishop John J. Leibrecht of the Missouri diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau -- rumored for weeks to be the chosen successor to the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago -- says it just isn't so. In a brief telephone interview April 1, Leibrecht,...
Listening to People Is Key at This Parish: 'Beehive of Activity' Where Faith Is Also Fun
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UPPER SADDLE RIVER. N.J. -- I have seen the future of American Catholicism. and it is alive and well in -- of all places -- suburban New Jersey. Asked to give the three-night Lenten mission and speak at all of the weekend Masses at the Church...
Low-Intensity War against Liberation Theology
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What are we, the people of God, endowed with intelligence and free will, and confident that divine guidance will never abandon us -- what are we to make of the new forms the Roman Inquisition is taking in our days? A respected theologian -- Tiesa...
No-Nonsense Regime of Salvador's Saenz: Cardinal Puts Brakes on Option for the Poor in Post Romero-Church
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador--San Salvador Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez popped a cassette into the tape deck as his vehicle headed toward the dusty town of Aguilares. Eyeglasses clenched in his teeth to free his hands, Rosa beamed as he read...
Saenz Blames the Media for Salvador's Problems
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle said "a lack of honorable information" is the main source of ongoing misunderstandings about actions he has taken since he assumed leadership of the San Salvador see two years ago. ...
Seeds and a Garden Teach Us about Life and Death
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There is nothing like a garden to teach one about life. And there is nothing like a seed to teach one about death. The garden has its seasons, its times for quiet and composure, for energy and growth, like the patterns of most of our lives. Seeds,...
Sort out the Voices in Contemporary Culture
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The other day at church one of the readings of the Mass was the story of God's call to Samuel in I Samuel 3. Three times the boy, Samuel, heard a voice calling him in the night. Three times he arose and went to the priest, Eli, thinking it was he...
The Lives of Jesus
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There's so much junk on television, including junk that is generated by religious broadcasters, that we should rejoice at the news that two well-established operations -- the British Broadcasting Corporation and ODYSSEY, formerly the well-respected,...
When N. Irish Protestants Stone Catholics, It's Not about Religion
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The scene is an unfriendly crowd of a thousand Protestants milling around a small Catholic church, shouting abuse, jostling the few hundred Massgoers and pounding their cars, throwing firecrackers and generally making an unholy racket to drown out...
