Editorials
A Time to Mourn
"No young man believes he shall ever die,” said William Hazlitt, the 19th-century British essayist. That shrewd observation is contradicted in times of war.
Articles
Adults Left Behind
Ever since President George W.
The Truly Catholic University
Catholic Universities are not “really” Catholic. So, at least, charges Burton Bollag, writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education in April.
The Mystery of Lonergan
Bernard Lonergans writings are notoriously difficult.
Relying on Providence
Dozens of manumission papers, documents that testify to the freeing of a slave, lay strewn on the table in the archives at the Baltimore motherhouse of the Oblate Sisters of Providence.
Priestless Liturgies
During the Lent-Easter season this year, America published a series of articles under the heading Good Liturgy.
Books and Culture
Books
Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago must have been thinking of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis when he wrote this, his latest novel
Books
Imagine this: Your teenage son has been tortured to death under the regime of a Latin American military dictator.
Books
Czeslaw Milosz’s last collection of poems is a thoroughly typical series of lyric exercises, deepening and enriching the concerns that pr
Books
“Those who live for a time in Rome experience the church’s age, but also its youth.
Books
Charles Dahm, a Dominican priest, is more than qualified to write about parish-based Hispanic ministry. Like many U.S.
