The Catholic Health Association and the U S bishops have parted ways over the final wording of a Department of Health and Human Services exemption and accommodation for religious employers related to its mandate for contraception coverage in new health insurance packages Michael Sean Winters at Nat

When the San Francisco Opera premiered Mark Adamo’s opera, “The Gospel of Mary Magdalene,” on June 19th, there was some nervousness that the treatment would cause a backlash from those concerned about whether or not the production would uphold tradition regarding Christian gospels

Pope Francis 39 quotability average maintained well above 500 today when he spoke of the quot globalization of indifference quot his expression for the worldwide expansion of a kind of anti-solidarity an encroaching acceptance of the suffering of others His offered his latest entry into Bart

Pope Francis rsquo s first encyclical Lumen Fidei concluded that faith is ultimate grounded in love rsquo s knowledge of God in Christ Faith belongs to the order of interpersonal knowledge because God is personal ldquo It is love rdquo I wrote in my initial commentary ldquo that opens the eye

The other day on my public Facebook page I posted a link to Pope Francis 39 s off-the-cuff injunction against quot sadness quot among seminarians and novices nbsp Most of the commenters found it as I did delightfully refreshing but some thought that the Pope was either a belittling mental

The study of 1 Thessalonians offered here is in the form of a traditional commentary although secondary scholarship is engaged more intermittently than would be the case in a commentary published in a regular print series This is the seventh entry in the online commentary on 1 Thessalonians In th

nbsp Cambridge MA Last night I was reading the International Herald Tribune how nostalgic on a flight back from Germany University of Paderborn to Boston Having missed out of much of the news during my busy week in Paderborn and before that in the ldquo other rdquo Cambridge UK for a w

A vote will be held on the canonization of John XXIII, even in the absence of a miracle.

Update The Vatican has announced the canonization date April 27 2014 Today 39 s announcement by Pope Francis of the canonization of Blessed John Paul II was not a surprise From the time of his death in 2005 when crowds shouted quot Santo Subito quot in St Peter 39 s Square to Pope Benedi

It appears that releasing his first encyclical today wasn 39 t enough for Pope Francis According to a Vatican Radio news report Federico Lombardi SJ the Vatican spokesperson and director of the Holy See Press Office called journalists back for a suprise second press conference after the earlie

America asked a selection of writers, theologians and church leaders to respond to Pope Francis' first encyclical, Lumen Fidei. Check this page in the coming days for additional contributions.Knowing The One Whom We LoveBy Drew Christiansen, S. J.“The Light of Faith,” Pope Francis sa

This week two giants of the publishing world joined forces Penguin a subsidiary of Pearson Group has merged with Random House to form what Markus Dohle the chief executive officer of the newly minted Penguin Random House has described as the ldquo first truly global trade book publishing compa

The Mary Tyler Moore Show was ground breaking in so many ways.

The first encylical from Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei, was released today in Rome. The full text can be read here. Here the editors of America offer some notable selections:Faith is born of an encounter with the living God who calls us and reveals his love, a love which pr

Going into the 4th of July weekend I look at the political turmoil taking place in Egypt and feel fortunate to have been born in a country that had its revolution 200 plus years ago and was led by men of such singular ability George Washington Benjamin Franklin John Adams Thomas Jefferson Jame

From July 5, 1913, a tribute to William Corby, C.S.C., a priest memorialized with a monument at Gettysburg

How did this man so profoundly capture the aspiration and passion of an entire nation as he did mine that day in May 1994?

Keeping Space OpenRe “Pursuing the Truth in Love,” by Matt Malone, S.J. (6/3): I have been reading America for over half a century now. While I appreciate fully your need to state the mission for this age as your predecessors did for theirs, reading your article was a little like reading

No one will ever make a Hollywood movie abut my sports career.