The Catholic World articles from January 1 1996

The Catholic World archives from January 1 1996

Apocalyptic Spirituality: Approaching the Third Millennium
January 1, 1996... Not all Christians have put much faith in the attitude of living in the shadow of the Second Coming enjoined in these words. Pope Boniface VIII, beleaguered by the attacks on his papacy by the Spiritual Franciscans in the name of an imminent end...

Millennium Legend
January 1, 1996... The central idea of the millennium legend is that the Earth will be transformed into what it was in the beginning: a place of perfect harmony and justice, free from all suffering and strife. Often this involves the return of a hero, who...

The Church's Celebration of the Jubilee Year 2000
January 1, 1996... Q: Your Excellency's appointment to chair the church's celebration of the Jubilee in the year 2000 is an enormous task. As I understand it, you are responsible for coordinating multiple commissions and celebrations, each concerned with a different...

Pope John Paul II's plan for celebrating the Jubilee Year.
January 1, 1996... Since the publication o; the very first document of my Pontificate, I have spoken explicitly of the Great JubiIee suggesting that the time leading up to it be lived as "a new advent." . . . In fact, preparing for the Year 2000 has become as it...

The Media and the Millennium
January 1, 1996... At midnight on December 31, 1999 the church will begin to celebrate the third millennium of Christ's Incarnation, the third millennium that will dawn on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. It is entirely possible, however, that most of the...

The Year 2000: Promise of a Common Hope?
January 1, 1996... As the year 2000 approaches, the media will be offering us every imaginable interpretation of the millennium. Like seeds whose future blossoms will fall on all of us at the midnight hour of January 1, 2000, these emerging notions of the exciting...

The Millennium in Light of Christian Faith
January 1, 1996... As the year 1000 of the Christian era approached, so the records of that time tell us, there was a state of suppressed excitement and in many cases a sense of impending doom. Many in Christendom expected the end of the world to come. For many...

The Millennium Meme
January 1, 1996... The evolutionist Richard Dawkins coined the word meme--the mental counterpoint to gene. Memes are ideas that, virus-like, replicate in cultures; like genes, they have compelling power over human behavior. The Apocalypse and the Millennium are...

A Profile of the Baptized Catholic Christian at the Beginning of the Third Millenium
January 1, 1996... In the view of some Roman Catholic Christians, including those who are either in clerical ministries or in lay ministries, the bishops at Vatican II did indeed set solid goals. However, these men and women feel that many people have attempted to...

Evangelization 2000
January 1, 1996... Throughout John Paul II's papacy the call to evangelize is being heard loud and clear and often. Crisscrossing the world, Pope John Paul II is constantly challenging the Church--laypeople and priests alike--to take to heart Christ's call to spread...

Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century.
January 1, 1996... By Harvey Cox Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley 1995, 346 pp., $24.00 Pentecostalism is spreading like wildfire across the globe. It is said that Latin America is becoming Protestant more rapidly than Central Europe did in the sixteenth century....

Refounding the Church: Dissent for Leadership.
January 1, 1996... By Gerald A. Arbuckle Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books 1993, 288 pp., $18.95 Gerald Arbuckle utilizes the issue of dissent as the engine to drive the refounding of the church. Dissent, he tells us, expands our imagination. It gives people...

Jesus and the Evangelists: The Ministry of Jesus and Its Portrayal in the Synoptic Gospels.
January 1, 1996... By Philip A. Cunningham Lanham: University Press of America 1993, 250 pp., $21.50 Most of us can remember the shock of the teenage realization that, if the biology we had been taught was correct, our parents must have engaged in sexual...

Oxcart Catholicism on Fifth Avenue: The Impact of the Puerto Rican Migration Upon the Archdiocese of New York.
January 1, 1996... By Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana 1993 255 pp., $34.95 Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens' study on the impact of Puerto Rican immigration on the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is a scholarly,...