In All Things
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In a forceful speech at the National Defense University today, President Barack Obama sought to interrupt the possibility of an America trapped in a “perpetual war” footing in its struggle against homegrown and international terrorism. Calling for a comprehensive anti-terror strategy that would reduce the use of military force and protect soft power foreign aid packages, the president sought a better balance between security and civil liberties, including protecting the human rights even of...
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In an hour-long speech Thursday afternoon, President Barack Obama laid out his policies toward global terrorism. He touched on revoking the war powers passed in the wake of 9/11, on drone warfare as a method of defense, on the potentially negative impact of an unending state of war on U.S. civil liberties, and on the need to close the prison for alleged terrorists at Guantanamo.
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America associate editor Kerry Weber recently spoke to a group of young adults on a "Charis retreat" for young adults in New York City. Listen to an actual young adult talk to other actual young adults! It's a great, lively, and spirited talk that involves car chases.
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On Monday May 20th, Secretary of State John Kerry released the annual Religious Freedom Report for 2012. It was grim reading. An Annual report on the state of religious freedom around the world is required by Congress' International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. It follows recommendations submitted to the State Department by the independent United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
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Today the Catholic Book Club begins its discussion of Tenth of December by George Saunders. Thanks to those who have already posted questions on the Catholic Book Club page. Thanks, too, to George Saunders, who graciously answered our questions about his book and about the art of fiction. Here, again, are some...
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The Gosnell trial unmasked the horrific violence of abortion and the terrible exploitation of poor women that often comes with it. It reminded us of what abortion is…the destruction of babies before, and now in some documented cases, after they are born.
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After the Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor (the Franciscans), José Rodriguez Carballo, OFM, was named secretary of the Congregation for Religious, a new Minister General -- the leader of the tens of thousands Franciscan friars worldwide and the successor to St. Francis of Assisi -- needed to be elected to fill out the rest of Carballo's...
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Speaking on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the chairman of the USCCB's Committee on International Justice and Peace said the Obama administration's policy of targeted killings by drones raise “serious moral questions,” including concerns related to discrimination, imminence of threat, proportionality and probability of success. Bishop Richard E.
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No matter how upset an author may be by a review of his or her book, the conventional wisdom is not to write a letter in response. The letter will only draw more attention to the critical review, and the author is likely to come across as petty and defensive.
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Almost two years after its Advent 2011 introduction, the new Missal is still generating unhappiness among U.S. Catholic priests, according to a new survey which found "widespread skepticism" about the litrugy revisions. According to the study, 59 percent of the 1,500 priests surveyed "do not like" the new text. By a nearly identical margin (57 percent to 36 percent), the survey found that priests do not like the more formal style of language, with over one-third (35 percent) strongly...