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Signs Of the Times
Discussing or promoting military options [in Iran] at this time is unwise and may be counterproductive,” said Bishop Richard E. Pates.
Current Comment
Minutes to Midnight; Afghanistan Burning; A Masterpiece of Translation
The case for a united front on crimes against humanity
Letters
Religious Liberty Chair Responds The March 5th America editorial (“Policy, Not Liberty”) takes the United States bishops to task for entering too deeply into the finer points of health care policy as they ponder what the slightly revised Obama administration mandate might mean for the Ca
Art
The paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner provide naturalistic interpretations of the Bible.
Signs Of the Times
Progress was unexpectedly made in January and February in reducing tensions with a charter member of the “axis of evil.”
Signs Of the Times
As many as 30 people have been killed in violence related to the Koran burnings.
Editorials
The U.S. public has a right to understand what is being done in the name of its security.
Signs Of the Times
The unregulated sale and transfer of weapons harms the poor and threatens peace and security around the world, said the Vatican's UN representative.
Signs Of the Times
The Mayan human rights activist Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez of Guatemala is the winner of Japan’s Niwano Peace Prize.
Catholic Book Club
As the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council unfolds over the next four years the struggle over its legacy and meaning will intensify It is a struggle that began almost as soon as the Council concluded in December 1965 In Vatican II The Battle for Meaning Massimo Fa
In All Things
In his social encyclical Caritas in Veritate Pope Benedict XVI observed The repeated calls issued within the Church s social doctrine beginning with Rerum Novarum 1891 for the promotion of workers associations that can defend their rights must therefore be honoured today even more than in th
In All Things
Cambridge MA Many readers of this blog will think of me as a progressive on interfaith matters one of those Jesuit liberals You may not know however that I am also with some regularity pilloried in the conservative Hindu blogosphere by journalists concerned about Christian aggression agains
In All Things
America Contributor Tom Deignan visits the original St Patrick s Cathedral in the latest of our New York pilgrimages Happy St Patrck s Day to all Tim Reidy
The Good Word
There rsquo s reason to believe that the primitive Church at least some congregations valued ministers who could make baptism into a near-death experience They held the head of the person being baptized under water long enough to induce loss of consciousness but not so long as to produce death i