National Catholic Register Bloggers feed from Tim Drake

Register Radio: Are Pro-Lifers Winning? & Favorite Films of 2012

2013-01-11

By Tim Drake | Today on Register Radio, moral theologian and cultural analyst Dr. Pia de Solenni tackled Time magazine's pronouncement that the pro-life movement is winning. De Solenni disagreed with the magazine's assertion. “I don’t think...

A Death in the Family - The Difficulty of Saying Goodbye

2013-01-9

By Tim Drake | Saying goodbye to anything we love is difficult, painful and causes grief. Life, though, is like that. It's one long series of encounters and goodbyes. After 13 years, this is my Register "goodbye." I entered Catholic journalism...

Register Radio: Spiritual Direction and G.K. Chesterton

2012-12-21

By Tim Drake | Just in time for Christmas, Friday's Register Radio focuses on two new books – both by Catholic converts – that would make great gifts for someone in your life. In our first half, National Catholic Register executive director Dan...

Catholic Convert Judge Robert Bork Dies

2012-12-19

By Tim Drake | Judge Robert Bork, former circuit judge, U.S. solicitor general and 1987 Supreme Court judicial nominee, has passed on to eternal life. May God welcome him and grant him peace and rest. I was blessed to interview Judge Bork in July...

Finding Light in a World of Darkness

2012-12-17

By Tim Drake | We’ve struggled over the past four days to somehow make sense out of the senseless. How dark our world has become. How do we cope with such unspeakable tragedy? Those of us who are parents wonder how to talk to our children about...

The Infancy Narratives and The Hobbit

2012-12-14

By Tim Drake | Today on Register Radio, Ignatius Press’ president and CEO, Mark Brumley, spoke about Pope Benedict XVI’s third and final installment on the life of Jesus – “Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives,” and the resulting media...

Register Radio: HHS Mandate Update and Chart-topping Advent Music

2012-12-7

By Tim Drake | Today on Register Radio, Emily Hardman, attorney and communications director with The Becket Fund provided a timely update on the various cases filed against the government’s Health and Human Service’s contraceptive mandate. She...

When an Officer Falls & The Power of Confession

2012-12-6

By Tim Drake | Prior to last week, it had been 17 years since a Central Minnesota police officer was last killed in the line of duty. That officer, Brian Klinefelter, just 25, was killed after attempting to apprehend three suspects who had robbed...

Ask the Pope a Question via Twitter

2012-12-3

By Tim Drake | The Vatican revealed Pope Benedict XVI's new Twitter account @Pontifex today. Followers are encouraged to ask the Pope questions via the hashtag #askpontifex or #B16. He will answer one of the questions in his first tweet on Dec....

Register Radio: Putting Out into the Digital Deep & Advent

2012-11-30

By Tim Drake | Today on Register Radio, Cindy Black, director of the Office of Youth, Young Adult & Campus Ministry with the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind. spoke about the launch of their innovative "My Year of Faith" mobile app and...

Share Your Pro-Life Stories of Hope

2012-11-27

By Tim Drake | Today, The Gregorian Institute at Benedictine College launched its "Stories of Hope" project to collect and share moving stories of pro-life conversion. Abortion, according to the Institute's press release on the project, is the...

Diocese Launches Year of Faith App

2012-11-26

By Tim Drake | Demonstrating that it can use New Media for the New Evangelization, the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend has become the first to launch a blog and mobile app to coincide with the Church's "Year of Faith." The Diocese lauched the...

Register Radio: Post-Election Analysis

2012-11-9

By Tim Drake | Today, on a special edition of Register Radio, Thomas Peters, cultural director with the National Organization for Marriage, and Michelle Bauman, Washington, D.C. correspondent with Catholic News Agency/EWTN News joined us for the...

Election Night: Live Blogging

2012-11-7

By Tim Drake | 10:53 p.m. CST With all of that unfortunate news, I await my wife's return home. She served as an election judge. It's nearly 3 hours past when the polls closed here in Minnesota, and she's still not home. I'm ceasing my blogging...

How Barack Obama Betrayed the Civil Rights Movement

2012-11-3

By Tim Drake | When Christian voters enter the voting booth on Tuesday they must realize that by voting against President Barack Obama, they are not rejecting the Civil Rights movement, or Abraham Lincoln, or Martin Luther King, Jr., or Christian...