National Catholic Reporter back issues from September 2001:
INSIDE NCR.(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... This paper goes to press on the eve of Labor Day, an observance that has lost a lot of its political zip since it was first conceived in the late 1800s. One account has workers in 1882, in what is generally considered the first Labor Day Parade, marching up New York's Broadway with signs ...
Gratitude in one hand, expectation in the other.(middle age)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... We celebrated the life and passing of Sophie; one of our most venerable parishioners. I asked if she was cogent until the end. "Oh, yes. Well, she would sometimes walk into a room and forget why she was there, but otherwise ..." We buried Sophie on her 97th birthday, which makes ...
Latino laborers targeted.(tolerance for illegal aliens dropping)
Sep 07, 2001; ... Anti-immigrant group provokes conflict in small Long Island town This bucolic little village a short distance from Long Island's fashionable Hamptons has fast become the latest front in a national debate over immigration. While the Bush administration wrestled over the legal ...
Choice at synod: confront or avoid.
Sep 07, 2001; ... Power of bishops, role of laity, academic freedom on October agenda A synod of bishops, as it's presently constituted, is something like open mike night at the local comedy club. You don't know whether the show's going to be any good until the lights come on. Every ...
Meeting with wife brings end to Milingo saga.(marriage of Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... One of the most bizarre, "Days of Our Lives"-style sagas in recent Vatican history drew to a fittingly tearful close Aug. 29, when Maria Sung ended a 16-day hunger strike after a three-hour meeting with Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo. Milingo had married Sung, a 43-year-old Korean ...
American dream lures Saipan workers.(sweatshops)
Sep 07, 2001; ... But lawsuits describe grim working conditions The label "Made in USA" as drawn greater scrutiny since three lawsuits were filed charging retailers with the abuse and exploitation of garment workers in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the south Pacific. ...
Anti-sweatshop campaign mixes ethics, economics.(Clean Clothes Campaign)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... At first browse, few would size up Michelle Walker's clothing and gift boutique here as a visible bastion of solidarity with the oppressed workers of the world. Yet below the decorative star lamps made of rice paper and among the layered chiffon dresses, her customers might spy a "Worker ...
Boston taxis carry ads for women's ordination.(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... From Aug. 15 to Sept. 15, 20 Boston taxis will carry a new message on their advertising displays: "Ordain Roman Catholic Women." By advertising in that time frame, sponsors expect to maximize their audiences to include the city's summer tourists, returning students and year-round Catholics ...
Jews criticize Lutherans on Middle East resolution.(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... A resolution on Middle East violence passed earlier this month by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was "deplorable" and "counterproductive," the Anti-Defamation League said in a letter to the church's top officer. In a letter to Presiding Bishop H. George Anderson, ...
Church youth worker sentenced for child abuse.(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... One of the largest child abuse cases in Massachusetts history ended Aug. 17 when a judge sentenced a church youth worker to serve at least 40 years behind bars for sexual crimes against 26 boys. Christopher Reardon, 29, could serve as many as 50 years in maximum-security prison ...
Bible scholars protest new translation rules.(Catholic Biblical Association of America)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... Recent Vatican guidelines on liturgical translation are in some parts "sufficiently ill-advised as to be the likely occasion of embarrassment to the church," said board members of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. In a letter sent Aug. 13 to each U.S. bishop, the ...
ADDENDA.(short news items)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... THE JESUIT COMMUNITY at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., has taken initial steps that it expects will lead to lower energy costs and a safer environment. Le Moyne's Loyola Jesuit Residence plans to use geothermal energy as its primary heating and cooling source beginning in 2002. Jesuit ...
Merton biographer dies of Parkinson's.(Edward Rice remembered for work on Thomas Merton)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Sep 07, 2001; ... Edward Rice, author of a 1990 best-selling life of Sir Richard Francis Burton, the 19th-century adventurer, and some 20 other books, including a controversial biography of his Columbia University classmate, godson and longtime friend, Trappist Fr. Thomas Merton, died in Southampton, N.Y., ...
Corrections.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
Sep 07, 2001; ... Fr. Frank Cordaro is an active priest with the Des Moines, Iowa, diocese. An Aug. 24 brief reported on Cordaro's recent arrest in a nuclear weapons protest and carried incorrect information about a previous leave of absence. The Internet address for the Global AIDS Alliance is ...
New law bans bias against untouchables.(Nepal seeks to outlaw caste system)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... NEPAL: The government of Nepal has banned discrimination against members of Hinduism's lowest caste and said it plans to abolish the centuries-old caste system entirely. "Effective from this day the practice of untouchability and any discrimination based on it will be considered ...
DEATH WATCH.(list of those recently executed)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... JEFFREY DOUGHTIE, 39, was executed in Texas Aug. 16. CLIFTON WHITE, 43, was executed in North Carolina. Aug. 24. JAMES ELLEDGE, 58, was executed in Washington Aug. 28. JACK WALKER, 35, was executed in Oklahoma Aug. 28. Walker was the 730th person executed ...
Jews say racism conference may be anti-Semitic.(United Nations conference on racism warned against equating Zionism and racism)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... SOUTH AFRICA: An upcoming U.N. conference on racism and xenophobia could be "hijacked by bigots and anti-democratic extremists" if delegates shift their focus from racism to a rancorous debate about the nature of Zionism, warned the president of one of the nation's largest Jewish advocacy ...
Nuns concerned about bishops' condom statement.(abused women put at risk)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... SOUTH AFRICA: A group of nuns here has expressed concern that a recent bishops' statement condemning the use of condoms seems aimed at happily married people and not those in abusive relationships. Phrases in the bishops' statement such as "the beautiful act of love" and "equal ...
Rights activists, bishops reject FBI report on priest's death.(John Kaiser's death seen as murder, not suicide)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... KENYA: Marking the first anniversary of the death of a Roman Catholic priest from Minnesota, a human rights organization in the east African nation of Kenya where he died demanded a public inquest into the death -- rejecting an American FBI report that concluded the death was a suicide. ...
Vatican to comply with radio emissions rules.(Italy's reports of cancer and leukemia persuasive)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... VATICAN CITY: Ending a bitter war of words that threatened to shut off its worldwide broadcasts, on Aug. 31 Vatican Radio will lower the electromagnetic emissions from its transmitters to comply with Italian law. An agreement reached earlier this month calls for Vatican Radio to ...
Israeli troops invade Lutheran school.(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... OCCUPIED WEST BANK: In a still-unfolding drama, 45 children at a Lutheran church boarding school were trapped inside their compound by Israeli army troops who invaded the Palestinian-controlled village of Belt Jala early Aug. 28 and occupied part of the church premises. The Rev ....
Two California dioceses settle sex abuse case.(Los Angeles archdiocese and Orange diocese)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001 ... As part of a court settlement in a clergy sex abuse case, the Los Angeles archdiocese and the Orange diocese have agreed to abide by a series of policies aimed at preventing further abuses. These include a toll-free telephone number and a Web site to report alleged abuses. Other ...
Theologian links mystics, rape.(Julie Miller, Harvard PhD, investigates relationship between sexual violence in language and practice in early Catholic thinking)(Critical Essay)
Sep 07, 2001; ... Aquinas saw redeeming feature in rape; women mystics wrote of eroticized violence Julie Miller knows when her students at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio are going to get riled up. It's at the point when, discussing rape, one of them asks if the Catholic ...
FOUR FOR FALL.(Review)
Sep 07, 2001; ... Comic book to screen, French farce, Vietnamese siblings and Congo politics Hollywood's attempts to amuse audiences should encourage you to hurry to a well stocked video store. Most of the new movies that offer something more promising are not apt to make it to your local ...
Catholic world was full of magic too.(Catholic schools)(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001; ... So ... er ... when does the movie come out? I was trying to sound diffident. Forty's an age at which one reads brittle novels about European decadence, and not J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter stories. I'd read all four of the Harry Potters though, immersing myself so ...
Pax Christi's inclusivity worth defending.
Sep 07, 2001; ... Leader says peace, justice not served by narrowing constituency As one who was closely involved with the decision regarding the cancellation of the Pax Christi USA national assembly when the University where we were scheduled to meet objected to our keynote speaker, I feel it is ...
Peace banner displayed during gunfire.(peace activists in Middle East)
Sep 07, 2001; ... Not everyone in the conflict in despair Bethlehem, Palestine On the morning of Aug. 14, we were awakened at 5:30 by gunfire. From the balcony of our rooms at the Paradise Hotel in Bethlehem, we could see the bright streaks of bullets and shells flying on the nearby ...
LETTERS.
Sep 07, 2001 ... Pitched too high * Thanks for the articles on church music (NCR, Aug. 24). One issue that I fail to see addressed is the pitch used in every church I have attended over the years since we initiated vernacular liturgy. At times I have stopped singing to listen to the ...
Payback time in Washington -- for a few.(Brief Article)
Sep 07, 2001 ... This is what's going on in Washington. President George W. Bush has three dominant constituents. They are, first, the richest people in the country -- corporate and otherwise. Second, the energy industry. And last but never least, the military-industrial complex. ...
Excellent parishes, small communities work out future.(eucharistic communities)
Sep 07, 2001; ... The two women sat across the table in a big cafeteria at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md. It was a strange place to be talking about church, but most of the people attending the conference in mid-May are used to setting up church in strange places. In the ...
All mixed up: the good, the bad and radi.(Stephen Behrens narrative)(Brief Article)(Column)
Sep 14, 2001; ... One of the more difficult things in life is learning the art of discerning the bad from the good. How to separate one from the other? No one need be persuaded that both exist. Many things seem a blend of both -- and I know that when I look into myself, the separation of the two into easily ...
IMF, World Bank are targets again.(International Monetary Fund, conference and demonstrations)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Religious groups plan nonviolent protests of Washington meeting The upcoming International Monetary Fund-World Bank meeting in Washington is prompting sweeping security measures that include the proposed erection of 9-foot-high concrete and metal barricades in key sections of ...
Putting sanctions on the table.(United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Prelate `determined' to seek bishops' action on Iraq at fall meeting Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton said Aug. 29 that he would insist on getting attention for the issue of Iraq sanctions at the general meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops this ...
Vatican supports migrant rights at Conference Against Racism.(United Nations World Conference against Racism, 2001)
Sep 14, 2001 ... Participants in the World Conference Against Racism -- including the Vatican -- affirmed the rights of ethnic minorities, migrants and other vulnerable groups. However, U.S. and Israeli withdrawal from the conference over language in draft documents almost derailed the ...
Judge upholds Florida ban on gay adoption.(James Lawrence King)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... A federal judge in Florida Aug. 30 upheld the state law banning gays from adopting children, reaffirming one of only three state laws in the country that ban gay adoption. U.S. Judge James Lawrence King ruled against Steven Lofton and Douglas Houghton, who wanted to adopt the ...
Teens show support for gay marriage.(public opinion survey)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Two-thirds of recent high school graduates support the right of gays and lesbians to marry, including 80 percent of Catholics and 46 percent of Protestants who do not describe themselves as "born again." Those findings were released as part of a sweeping survey of high school ...
Parishes in Oregon prepare for life with no priests on site.(deacons or lay pastoral administrators)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Some Oregon Catholic parishes are preparing for life without priests who live on site. A handful of parishes already have lay or deacon pastoral administrators handling day-to-day decisions. The leaders are appointed by bishops as part of a team supervised by an off-site priest called the ...
Vatican accepts U.S. bishops' decision on confirmation age.(Joseph A. Fiorenza, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... The Vatican has accepted the U.S. bishops' decision to set the normal age range for conferring confirmation "between the age of discretion and about 16 years of age." Within that range, each bishop can set a more specific policy in his own diocese. The age of discretion is ...
Pro-life ad campaign prompts controversy in Philadelphia.(United States Conference of Catholic Bishops refused advertising right)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... As this paper went to press at the end of the first week of September, the city of Philadelphia was refusing to allow a scheduled display of bus shelter advertisements for a new "second look" campaign about abortion. The Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference ...
ADDENDA.(brief items)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Sep 14, 2001; ... THEIR LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORS THEIR LOS ANGELES NEIGHBORS never liked Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity Brothers welcoming the homeless to their Westlake residential district mansion for a shower, sandwich and a place to be out of the sun. It took a year, but for that long ...
Trial of Christian aid workers begins.(in Afghanistan)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... AFGHANISTAN: The trial of eight non-Afghan aid workers accused of promoting Christianity in Afghanistan began Sept. 4, according to the chief justice of the Taliban, the country's rulers. "The trial proceedings started today, but we can't say how long it will take as it depends ...
DEATH WATCH.(execution of Ronald Frye)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... RONALD FRYE, 42, was executed in North Carolina Aug. 31. Frye was the 731st person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. We ask prayers for the victims of the crimes that ...
Delegation meets minister over attacks on Christians.(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... INDIA: A church delegation met the Indian home minister Aug. 29 following four attacks on Christians just one week after the Catholic bishops held discussions with leaders of a Hindu group. Home Minister L.K. Advani "gave us a patient hearing and said such incidents should not ...
Bishop sentenced for covering up sex abuse.(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... FRANCE: A Catholic bishop is facing a three-month suspended sentence after being convicted Sept. 4 of not revealing that a priest in his charge was sexually abusing children. The court ruled that Pierre Pican, 66, bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux in Normandy, failed to report the ...
Muslims, Catholics pack funeral Mass of missionary.(Rufus Halley)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... PHILIPPINES: More than 1,000 Muslims and Catholics packed the funeral Mass of an Irish missionary shot dead in the Philippines, an outpouring that one church official said showed the "fruit of his work." Irish Columban Fr. Rufus Halley "accomplished in death what we have been ...
Vatican denies complicity with priest arrested in U.S.(Emilio Colagiovanni)
Sep 14, 2001; ... VATICAN CITY: The Vatican said it has no connection to alleged wrongdoing by an Italian priest arrested in the United States on charges related to a $200 million insurance fraud case. Msgr. Emilio Colagiovanni, 81, was arrested in Cleveland Aug. 30 as he prepared to celebrate a ...
Archbishop denies exorcism performed on Mother Teresa.(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... INDIA: Archbishop Henry D'Souza of Calcutta says he asked for special prayers for Mother Teresa's troubled spirit five years ago, but denied she underwent a "real exorcism," as some news groups have reported. D'Souza said Sept. 6 that he shared the "exorcism incident" when an ...
Cardinal says Christianity is almost vanquished.(Cormac Murphy-O'Connor )(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... ENGLAND: Christianity has nearly been vanquished in Britain, Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said in an unscripted speech to about 100 clergy at the National Conference of Priests in Leeds Sept. 5. "It does seem in our countries in Britain today, especially in ...
Gramick leaves order to join Loretto sisters.(Jeannine Gramick)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001 ... Sr, Jeannine Gramick, whose writings on homosexuality brought her two silencing orders, one from the Vatican and one from her religious community, has left the Baltimore-based School Sisters of Notre Dame. She is instead joining the Sisters of Loretto, based in Denver. ...
Religious groups appeal for end to violence in Nepal.(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Interreligious forum offers to mediate talks between government, insurgents With the Nepalese government and Maoist insurgents preparing to begin peace talks for the first time, religious groups in the Himalayan kingdom have called on both sides to stop the violence that has ...
On Viewing the "Madonna of the Rosary" By Tiepolo.(Poem)
Sep 14, 2001; ... <Pre>Tiepolo's red Virginstrides out into themilling crowd at theMetropolitan Museum. A cherub holdsback her veilas she breaks througha curtain of heavybrocade. Her hip is thrustaway from thehaplessChildwho on a ...
Pentecost.(Poem)
Sep 14, 2001; ... <Pre>In the upper roomPentecostal windswirled like a tornado of graceand fiery tonguesburned language into stutterers. O Spirit,stir our passion again!Light wildfiresand spin them pastour tame intentions. Huff and puff till you ...
Dancing with Cranes.(Poem)
Sep 14, 2001; ... <Pre>There is no tenderness in their courtship,Scrabbling for footing on snowed stubblefields:Their gawky leaps of the ungainly legs,The gawky wings hitched upward in a species-Specificcode of amorousness with no chosenLove-match as object, all the scattered ...
Who holds us together?(Poem)
Sep 14, 2001; ... <Pre>A sacred tradition has itthat at all times and all agesthere exists a minimum of ten souls, scattered and unknowneven to one another,who with their hungers and thirsts,their prayers and deeds,hold ...
Prayer For a Once and Future Planet.(Poem)
Sep 14, 2001; ... <Pre>For every god's-child:sun on a bright dayclear water on the mountainand sleep in a sheltering place </Pre> --Anne Heutte Washington Poems should be previously unpublished and limited to about 50 lines and preferably typed. Please send poems to NCR ...
He executed justice.(papal execution Giovanni Battista Bugatti's life and work)
Sep 14, 2001; ... With ax, noose, guillotine, Mastro Titta served the pope One of the most extraordinary artifacts of papal Rome is not to be found in the Vatican Museums or in St. Peter's Basilica, or, for that matter, in any ecclesiastical venue. It is tucked away on an obscure side street, in ...
Obsessed with military might.(U.S. militarism criticized)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Congress unable even to control handguns; no peace caucus in sight Why is the United States so addicted to the idea that the proliferation of arms will bring peace? Recent developments suggest that America's obsession with military power has reached a new high. Since ...
Looking for more than more money.(religion in the workplace)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... `The system' shows little interest in Jesus' radical rule of love The cover story of the July 9 issue of Fortune magazine was titled "God and Business" and predictably had a picture of the sun breaking through clouds. (How else would you have God depicted in the workplace?) ...
Corbett offered sanctuary to refugees.(Jim Corbett )(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Movement not civil disobedience, he said, but `civil initiative' To the Central Americans whose lives he saved, Jim Corbett was a saint. To the U.S. government, he was a dangerous subversive. To those who knew him, he was a thoughtful, quiet, unassuming man. And to a world ...
He banished `lazy Christianity'.(Robert McAfee Brown)(Obituary)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Robert McAfee Brown waded deeply into the struggles for peace, justice Robert McAfee Brown, pastor, teacher, ecumenist and activist, who responded to God's call to care for the poor, died Sept. 4, in Massachusetts where he and his wife, Sydney, kept a summer home. "I ...
Rape used as control in U.S. prisons.(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Many prisoners are targeted for sexual exploitation the minute they enter a penal facility; their age, looks, sexual preference and other characteristics mark them as candidates for maltreatment. In a new groundbreaking report, Human Rights Watch documents the widespread ...
LETTERS.
Sep 14, 2001 ... Warming up the assembly * In response to the cover article on church music (NCR, Aug. 24) and other articles in recent issues of Catholic magazines and newspapers and my own observations, I felt compelled to add my two cents regarding why Catholics don't sing in church. In my ...
As nukes go, let's leave Cold War in the past.(ballistic missile defenses)(Brief Article)
Sep 14, 2001 ... The recent to-and-fro over China and its nuclear weapons program may have been intended to send up trial balloons. Or it may have been the work of leaking bureaucrats out to undermine opponents' positions. Whatever the case, the important point is that either President Bush is ...
Arns is a symbol of human rights in Latin America.(Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns)
Sep 14, 2001; ... Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, retired cardinal archbishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil, celebrates his 80th birthday Sept. 14. With this milestone the Holy Spirit loses an important voice in the next conclave, which will choose Pope John Paul II's successor. Church law prohibits cardinals who have ...
INSIDE NCR.(National Catholic Reporter)
Sep 21, 2001; ... It was just minutes before the start of our daily morning meeting when someone called from the outside and told us to check CNN. A plane had just hit the World Trade Center in New York. By the time we got to the TV, the second plane had hit. I could feel the chill on my spine ...