Monthly Archives: June 1997

For some reason, there is apparently great interest in mocking the Last Supper. There have been pictures, posters and T-shirts galore showing Hollywood stars, and others, superimposed as apostles sitting with Christ at the Last Supper. While none of what we’ve seen is vulgar, it is also true that all of the depictions make light of [...]

In a significant ruling, a federal judge struck down Pentagon orders prohibiting military chaplains from urging parishioners to write to the Congress expressing their desire to see the President’s veto of the partial-birth abortion bill overturned. At stake was the constitutional right to freedom of speech. The whole controversy erupted last June when Rev. Msgr. Aloysius [...]