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Letters
Unfortunate WordingAs the father of a gay daughter, I read Of Many Things (4/22) with great interest. Matt Malone, S.J., asks all of us “to listen to how the church can be more supportive of gay and lesbian people while remaining faithful to its tradition.”Perhaps one place where dogma a
Signs Of the Times
School-choice initiatives were given a big boost in late March by the Indiana Supreme Court.
FaithThe Good Word
No less a theologian than Saint Thomas Aquinas lamented that when it comes to understanding the Holy Spirit our problems begin with the name Summa Theologiae I 36 1 Think of all things that can be called holy or how often one might speak of a spirit Even with the two words conjoined the min
In All Things
The Holy See issued the following statement this morning on the dispostion of Scotland 39 s Cardinal Keith O 39 Brien who retired abruptly after admitting in March that nbsp his quot sexual conduct quot had quot fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest archbishop and cardinal quo
In All Things
Responding to the announcement of a breakthrough in human cloning technology Boston 39 s Cardinal Se n O rsquo Malley OFM Cap in his role as nbsp chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops wote that human cloning for any purpose is inconsistent
In All Things
I am been thinking about Pope Francis rsquo canonization of the 800 martyrs of Otranto Italy on Sunday the 800 people killed when they refused to convert when confronted by an Ottoman Turkish invader I am not a historian of this material by any means so for the moment Wikipedia may be allowed
In All Things
Georgetown adjunct faculty recently made news, voting to join SEIU Local 500, the labor union that already represents adjunct faculty at George Washington University and American University.
Arts & CultureTheater
In These Pages: From 1961 and 1966
In All Things
Kermit Gosnell found guilty on three out of four counts of first degree murder making him death penalty eligible and mutiple other counts in his 200 count criminal indictment Here is JD Mullane News Columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times and The Intelligencer and his blow by blow account
In All Things
From Francis X Rocca at CNS VATICAN CITY CNS -- Pope Francis warned against quot gentrification of the heart quot as a consequence of comfortable living and called on the faithful to quot touch the flesh of Christ quot by caring for the needy The pope 39 s words came in a homily during Mas
The editors of America are pleased to honor Daniel Callahan and Sidney de Shazo Callahan with the Matteo Ricci, S.J., Award for their distinguished contribution to culture. They have contributed to the world of ideas, to letters, bioethics, moral philosophy and theology, psychology, spirituality and journalism. For a half-century they have lived a creative partnership rich in ideas and in values. Through their writing, research and lectures, they have taught both church and society how to think deeply about public problems, to explore our humanity and cultivate its deepest gifts in a potentially disorienting time of technological change. They have gathered round them in conversation circles of scholars and friends who with them cultivate the high form of friendship in which ideas and values are exchanged for the sake of the common good.
In All Things
From May 11, 1963: 'Fr. Kung very definitely wants changes in the church.'
The Good Word
In the first installment I set out the traditional Greco-Roman letter format and looked at the ldquo Judases rdquo and ldquo Jameses rdquo in the New Testament nbsp In the second installment I weighed the arguments on authorship and decided the best evidence points in the direction of the Ju
In All Things
Today rsquo s technology can do amazing things phones take photos cars park themselves Yet researchers still have not developed a device that can definitively pin down the origins of a famous image on a piece of cloth The Shroud of Turin continues to puzzle many believers and scientists alike
In the May 20, 2013 issue of America Archbishop Diarmuid Martin surveys the landscape of Ireland in wake of the church's sexual abuse crisis and the country's economic downturn. The archbishop's article is adapted from an address presented as the Russo Family Lecture at the Fordham Cente
The Good Word
As I drive home on the 35E from St Paul to my home I am greeted by a huge Billboard from local station My Talk 107 1 which has a picture of Lindsay Lohan and the caption ldquo The Radio Home of Train Wrecks rdquo I ldquo know rdquo Lindsay Lohan in a passing way as I have seen Mean Girls an
In All Things
The De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco has a formidable ethnological collection Especially notable is the justly world famous Jolika collection of New Guinea art and a strong collection of Meso-American murals Currently on exhibtion are some fifty items from the Vatican Ethnolog
FaithThe Good Word
Here rsquo s a passage to ponder It rsquo s from My Beloved World 2013 the memoir of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sottomayor As a young child she didn rsquo t feel particularly close to her mother a working nurse raising two children while struggling with her husband rsquo s alcoholism Then