Vantage Point 1964: The editors celebrate passage of the historic piece of legislation.

Bishop calls on the U.S. to urge Iraqi political leaders to form an inclusive government.

Love and TruthThere is much to commend in “Simply Loving,” by James Martin, S.J. (5/26). There is no doubt that “loving the sinner, while hating the sin” is easier for God than for man. We imperfect and fallen humans tend to either love both or hate both. It is hard to get it

The pope is not blaming the crony capitalists of the third world. He’s blaming us.

Meriam Ibrahim had been sentenced to death by hanging for marrying a Christian.

In a report released June 23 the Associated Press expanded on the corrections it issued on June 20 after America asked an AP media representative to respond to apparent inaccuracies in its reporting on the scandal swirling around the dispostion of deceased residents of a mothers and babies home in

As the World Cup continues to draw international attention, we might stop to ponder how God works for our good in all things, even sports.

What influences men to enter the priesthood How does college impact this decision Thanks to a new report issued by Boston College h t Tim Muldoon we now have a lot of data on this question nbsp Boston College has issued its summary report of the 2013 Summit on Vocations to the Priesthood Thi

Matt Emerson invites readers to join an informal book club on the Ignatian Educator this week to discuss Jennifer Senior's 'All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.'

Charlotte, N.C. (June 20, 2014) – Father Matt Malone, S.J., editor in chief of America is pleased to announce that the Jesuit-sponsored journal has garnered a record-breaking 27 awards for journalistic excellence from the Catholic Press Association, the most awards won by America in a sin

After our June 18 report nbsp on baptismal certificates recorded in Tuam I queried the Associated Press regarding their stories on the Tuam Mothers and Babies Home Today AP issued the following correction Ireland-Children rsquo s Mass Graves storyDUBLIN AP mdash In stories published June 3 and

Moral questions are at the heart of the push for a higher federal minimum wage.

Fleeing the Syrian civil war, refugees struggle to put their lives together in Jordan.

Not long ago astronomers made a huge claim about evidence verifying the quot Big Bang quot Scientists connected with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced they had detected gravitational waves from the earliest moments of the universe when it was only fractions of a second o

It was heartbreaking on June 12 to hear Mohammed Al Dulaimy an Iraqi reporter for McClatchy Newspapers speak on ldquo Democracy Now rdquo nbsp As Mosul a city of two million falls to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS and Iraqi soldiers drop their arms and flee we hear that the mi

Rev. Terrance Klein reflects on what the specter of dementia reveals about the nature of the human body and spirit.

How would the culture be different if we emphasized art as much as we do math?

In the first entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on Galatians I discussed introductory matters concerning the founding of the churches to the Galatians the situation when Paul wrote to them when the letter might have been written and the type of letters which Paul wrote based on the com

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“Don’t forget the three P’s: prayer, peace and poverty,” Pope Francis, speaking in English, told the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as he bade him farewell after their 40 minute meeting in the Vatican on June 16. “We must walk together!” he added.It was t