As one brother recovers in a prison hospital from wounds he received briefly eluding capture the remains of the other Tsarnaev brother linger in limbo His now quasi- and unhappily famous uncle Ruslan Tsami is trying to arrange his burial with the assistance of Peter Stefan a funeral home director

Barack Obama has changed About six years ago I stood two feet away from him in the St Peter rsquo s College Jersey City Gym which he had rented for a campaign rally and watched him deal one by one with the crowd that squeezed around him and told myself that maybe this was the one we had been wa

In the May 4 1963 issue of America the editors surveyed the impact of John XXIII 39 s encyclical on war and peace Initial reactions to Pope John 39 s encyclical Pacem in Terris quickly revealed areas in which its practical impact can be expected to make itself felt When the London Sunday Times ha

In the midst of Ernest Hemingway rsquo s novel The Sun Also Rises a successful novelist Bill Gorton demands that his friend Jake Barnes mdash the novel rsquo s narrator mdash give him ldquo irony and pity rdquo one morning in a friendly repartee Jake Barnes has been trying to write fiction

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

When I visited the detention camps in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, I was shown a television room with shackles welded into the concrete floor. It was a stomach-turning sight, yet even then, a friendly guard said, “The detainees like coming in here because they are shackled by their ankles only. No h

In the midst of Ernest Hemingway rsquo s novel The Sun Also Rises a successful novelist Bill Gorton demands that his friend Jake Barnes mdash the novel rsquo s narrator mdash give him ldquo irony and pity rdquo one morning in a friendly repartee Jake Barnes has been trying to write fiction

Thirty years ago today May 3 1983 the Catholic bishops in the United States published their landmark pastoral letter ldquo The Challenge of Peace God rsquo s Promise and Our Response rdquo a political and moral analysis of U S nuclear policies during the cold war Writing as ldquo pastors

Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope But he is not the first Jesuit cardinal archbishop or bishop How many Jesuit cardinals archbishops and bishops have there been in Jesuit history and how many are there now Today we learned that Michael Charles Barber S J was appointed bishop of Oakland

From the USCCB POPE NAMES JESUIT TO HEAD DIOCESE OF OAKLAND CALIFORNIAWASHINGTON mdash Pope Francis has named nbsp Jesuit Father Michael Barber nbsp 58 a member of the Jesuit Province of California and director of spiritual formation at St John rsquo s Seminary Brighton Boston Massachusetts

Cell phones texts Tweets emails uploaded photos and videos Skype Facebook pages and blogs Communication technology doesn rsquo t only permeate modern life its melds with our humanity itself A young person today might not emerge from the womb with a smart phone but there aren rsquo t many

May is the month in which the church honors Mary by happy coincidence it is also the month when secular culture honors mothers According to the Bible Mary rsquo s role in salvation history is small but mighty Through the agency of the Holy Spirit she conceives the Messiah gives birth to Jesus

On May Day there were riots in Greece in protest of the ruinous austerity imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund Eurostat the official European statistics agency announced Tuesday that unemployment had hit a new high of 19 million Youth unemployment on a continent-wide

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised an investigation after heavy fighting in Baga.

Sing Alleluia!In this season of Alleluias, the April 8 issue of America deserves a robust chorus.From the historical analysis of the continuing influence of “Pacem in Terris” (“A Vision of Peace”), by Drew Christiansen, S.J., to the thoughtful, irenic suggestions for responsi

A Vatican-convoked commission of doctors concluded that a healing attributed to Blessed John Paul II had no natural explanation, a finding that could clear the way for the canonization of the pope. • U.S. Army Chaplain Stephen McDermott was awarded the Bronze Star in April for his service in Af

“The whole country is in shock," a spokesman for the country's bishops said.

Over the long term, wealth inequality is an imbalance that threatens the common good.

Copts Under Seige; Who's Minding the Children? Eyes Wide Shut