Catholic Magazine: Edward Keating, 77, Founder of Ramparts
Edward Keating, who founded the liberal Catholic magazine Ramparts in 1962, died here on April 2. He was 77. The cause was pneumonia, his family said.|Edward Keating, who founded liberal Catholic magazine Ramparts in 1962, dies at age of 77 (S) Mr. Keating, a native of New Jersey, used his family's money to finance Ramparts and to fight what he saw as hypocrisy in the Roman Catholic Church. Ramparts eventually had a circulation of 400,000, and took on other centers of power,...
Catholic Magazine: CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL RECOGNIZE WOMEN`S `PERSONHOOD,` NUN SAYS
Sister Mary Luke Tobin, at age 78, is grateful for the gift of patience. ``We have a patriarchal church that`s old and big, so it won`t change overnight,`` said Sister Mary Luke, a Roman Catholic nun and writer. She underwent a gradual transformation herself, from an unquestioning young novice to one of the nation`s foremost exponents of wider recognition and responsibility for women in the church. Sister Mary Luke, the former president of the Sisters of...
Catholic Magazine: From St. Pascal's to the pope's inner circle
Today at a chapel in the Apostolic Palace in Rome, Chicago's Cardinal Francis George will preach to Pope John Paul II. The opportunity to address the man they call Holy Father about his own spiritual life is one that few priests ever have.And the honor of being chosen by the pope to lead his annual, personal, weeklong lenten retreat is one of the Vatican's strongest endorsements, reinforcing what many have known for years: George is one of the pope's...
Catholic Magazine: U.S. Catholics feeling spotlight of scrutiny
After a busy week in which the Vatican forced out the prominent American editor of a Roman Catholic magazine, then put an American in charge of enforcing church doctrine for the first time, many Catholic intellectuals in the United States are feeling the spotlight of papal scrutiny swinging this way. It is safe to say some of them welcome the attention more than others."Oh, boy," the Rev. Robert F. Drinan, a Georgetown professor and former congressman from...
DARK-SKINNED JESUS WINS CATHOLIC MAGAZINE AWARD
A painting of a dark-skinned Jesus, by an artist who used a woman as a model, has been selected by a Catholic magazine as the winner of its contest to update the image of Christ for the new millennium.The painting, ''Jesus of the People,'' was selected from nearly 1,700 entries for the cover of a special millennium issue being published this week by the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newsweekly and one of the best-known Catholic...