I rsquo m nbsp happy that my friend Thomas J Fitzpatrick S J who told me this nbsp wonderful story a few years ago about the late Cardinal Carlo Martini S J has allowed me to share it with you nbsp It rsquo s edited only slightly from what he sent me today nbsp It s funny provocative and

With election season now in full swing Catholics are again immersing themselves into the political dialogue Though dialogue and voter education is encouraged the US Bishops have issued guidelines as to what kinds of political activities Catholic parishes dioceses and nonprofits may and may not

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini SJ A great Jesuit nbsp a renowned Biblical scholar a former archbishop of Milan a widely read spiritual master a popular retreat master and a one-time possible pope has died at age 85 nbsp nbsp Cardinal Martini had been battling Parkinson s disease for many yea

I rsquo ve been a subscriber to Entertainment Weekly longer than I rsquo ve been a subscriber to America nbsp And a confession sometimes I enjoy their articles more than I do our own nbsp They rsquo ve got a terrific stable of writers which now includes the priceless Libby Gelman-Waxner nbs

The Archdiocese of N Y has issued a statement condemning the comments of Franciscan Father Benedict Groeschel If you missed his observations in an interview with the National Catholic Register that s no surprise The entire interview was scrubbed last night ftom NCR s website after Father Groesche

Deuteronomy 4 1-2 6-8 James 1 17-18 21b -22 27 Mark 7 1-8 14-15 21-23 Little Jerry Siegel was born in 1914 into a large poor family living in gritty Jewish neighborhood of Cleveland He would remain a runt the object of his classmates rsquo taunts As he recalled decades later ldquo I

News from the Society of the Sacred Heart comes to us nbsp of the death of Anne Montgomery RSCJ at the age of 85 nbsp Last year she marked her 60th anniversary as a Religious of the Sacred Heart nbsp How blessed are the peacemakers Prominent peace activist Anne Montgomery RSCJ died Monday

The latest BLS unemployment figures indicate that nearly 10 of post-9 11 veterans 25 and over are unemployed compared to 7 6 of civilians in that age group In researching an America story on this phenomenon The Next Battle one thing that struck me was the extent to which employment prospects f

The Archdiocese of New York confirmed today that Cardinal Timothy Dolan has accepted an invitation to offer the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention thus confirming roles for the head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops at both political conventions Some on the right have decl

Two prominent Catholics have now been invited to pray and speak at the Republican and Democratic national conventions Cardinal Timothy Dolan the archbishop of New York and the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Sister Simone Campbell S S S director of Network

Thanks to historian David O Brien for sending us this reflection on the life of Joe Cunneen who passed away in July Joe Cunneen passed away July 29 at the age of 89 For almost fifty years from his family s famously crowded basement with his wife Sally and his friend Bill Birmingham Joe produce

Just posted to our Web site a report on the status of Coptic Christians in Egypt from David Pinault of Santa Clara University My sharpest memory from Cairo is what my driver said al-Masih biygarribna ldquo Christ is testing us rdquo I rsquo d hired Sami to drive me around the city As soon as

Cardinal Dolan s decision to help close the G O P convention assuming Hurrican Isaac doesn t beat him to it has been the source of some controversy You may have heard Anyways this is naturally not the first time that a prominent Catholic has stepped into the U S political fray during a hotl

One of the subthemes of reportage on Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan is the extent to which he embodies what he is supposed to embody as the first Generation X candidate Some commentators have seen in Ryan s politics a reflection of the pragmatic post-utopian do-it-yourself su

We were sad to learn today of the death of Joshua Casteel a veteran of the Iraq War who sought early discharge as a conscientious objector Pax Christi USA has posted reflections on Josh which you can read here And here is an excerpt from the nbsp documentary Soldiers of Conscience in which J

The Responsibility to Protect seems tailor-made for the current civil war in Syria.

The Jewish Annotated New Testament should leave a mark on all Christian preaching.