As we prepared to go to press, the sad news came that John Keating, bishop of Arlington, Virginia, had died suddenly in Rome on the day following an ad limina visit with the Holy Father. Few bishops of the modern era brought to their duties such a felicitous combination of practical skill and personal piety. … Read more
Publisher Steve Forbes is emerging as a leading contender among potential presidential candidates for the pro-life vote. His recent endorsement of the Republican National Committee resolution denying funds to Republican candidates supporting partial birth abortion was the culmination of a months-long effort to solicit support among social conservatives. Forbes’s well-received address to the Christian Coalition … Read more
On Tuesday, January 6, 1998, CRISISÂ magazine co-sponsored, with the Wethersfield Institute, the Third Annual Wodehouse Awards Dinner at the Racquet Club in New York City. The awards dinner takes its name from renowned author, P. G. Wodehouse, who passed away in 1975. The Jeeves Awards, named for the author’s best-known character, honor individuals who have … Read more
Laws That Enacted National Standards for Schools, A National Workforce, and National Health Care 1989 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act Subsidized health care payments became available to minors under this Act. They now qualify for Medicaid between ages eleven and twenty. Payments may be provided to students through schools, including transportation to health clinics where family … Read more
The University of Dallas is considered to be one of the great Catholic institutions of higher education in this country. What kind of general plans do you have for the development of the University of Dallas? Well, I think I could divide the general plan for our university into external and internal. The external program … Read more
As a Southerner, I view movies set in the South with fear and trembling. Whatever else the South is, it ain’t New York or California, and this is a problem for filmmakers with those mindsets. Hollywood schizophrenics see the South as either the sinister homeland of tobacco-chewing Kluxers or a lawsamercy wonderland of delicious mystery, … Read more
Lumen Gentium teaches us that there are times when lay Catholics are “obliged to express [their] opinion on things which concern the good of the Church.” We believe this is just such an occasion. The Marriage and Family Committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has just issued a statement entitled Always Our Children … Read more
The Most Reverend John R. Keating, Bishop of Arlington Last August in Paris, as I watched Pope John Paul II interact so vibrantly with hundreds of thousands of young people at the World Youth Day events, the thought that kept flooding my mind was: what an indomitable spirit! Grit and determination keep driving this “gift … Read more
Compiled by Del Torkelson, a journalist in El Dorado, Kansas. 1982 The first issue of Catholicism in Crisis is published at the University of Notre Dame by Ralph Mclnerny and Michael Novak. Ralph McInerny announces the mission of Catholicism in Crisis: A Journal of Lay Catholic Opinion: Catholicism in Crisis will provide evidence of the … Read more
Lowndes had found the note in a volume he had picked up in a used bookstore and brought it to the attention of the Knight brothers. Philip settled for Lowndes account of the note’s message but Roger was still studying it with undisguised interest. “It is what a dealer might list under curiosa, Roger.” “I … Read more
Contemporary composers are increasingly unafraid to write attractive, even beautiful music. Further evidence of this proposition, which I have advanced in other columns, comes from the lands of northern lights in the works of Latvian composer Peteris Vasks and Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. Vasks writes traditional tonal music of soulful beauty that both laments the … Read more
In March, we ran a column by contributing editor, Michael M. Uhlmann, entitled “The Bishop Blinks” about the San Francisco ordinance extending marriage benefits to gay couples. The city also had demanded that any business or institution receiving city funds do likewise. Catholic Charities, a longtime recipient of tax dollars in San Francisco and elsewhere, … Read more
Nation A nationwide poll of Catholic opinion has demolished the notion that American Catholics demand new gender-adjusted translations of liturgical texts. A survey of a thousand Catholics, conducted by the Roper Center, shows that 69 percent reject the notion that new translations of the Bible and liturgical texts should the use the gender-adjusted approach; only … Read more
Nation Bishops from the Philippines, Latin America, and the Caribbean sent a letter to the U.S. Congress in which they angrily called the release of $385 million allocated to contraception programs in third-world nations “unjust, offensive, and criminal.” The money would support organizations that offer abortions and support contraception. The House later approved a Clinton … Read more
Congratulations to Bernard Nathanson, MD, who joined the Catholic Church on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Best known as “the abortionist who changed his mind,” Nathanson was baptized privately by John Cardinal O’Connor in a chapel below the main altar of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on December 9, 1996. Preceding the … Read more
A Baker’s Dozen of Twentieth-Century Masses Maurice Durufle, Messe Cum Jubilo. Naxos 8 553196/7, Michel Piquemal Vocal Ensemble and the Orchestre de la Cite, M. Piquemal (with the Requiem and other works). “Like the delicate tracery in a Gothic stained-glass window.” Herbert Howells, An English Mass. Hyperion CDA66488, the Royal Liverpool Choir, V. Handley (with … Read more
Crisis editors and writers put their heads together to share their favorite books, movies, and CDs of the past year. Ralph Mclnerny Literature has been defined as anything you will read again. I read War & Peace for the third time this summer and hope to read it again. Dombey and Son, on the other … Read more
National Despite prayer vigils and vehement opposition from the Catholic hierarchy and faithful, the U.S. Senate voted to sustain President Clinton’s veto of a bill that would have banned partial-birth abortions. The House voted to override the veto, but after a vigorous floor debate about the procedure, the Senate voted 57 to 41, ten votes … Read more
Thee Wethersfield Institute is pleased to announce the winners of the Ronald Knox Prize, a competition it sponsored for fine translations of elements of the Mass, namely, the prayers of the first ten weeks of the liturgical year and Canons II and III. The First Prize, in the amount of $10,000, was awarded to Dr. … Read more
National Church Watch, a newsletter published by Call To Action, reports that a strong catalyst for Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz’s excommunication decree was a “sarcastic and misleading article” on the 1995 CTA National Conference in Crisis (February 1996)—”the ultra-conservative monthly whose publishers are Michael Novak and Ralph McInerny.” Mary Jo Anderson’s eye-opening article is available on … Read more