The U.S.-British relationship enters a new era.

Please Package and Post Please package the two editorials (“Pilgrim People, Part I” and “Pilgrim People, Part II,” 5/10 and 5/17) and circulate them everywhere. We who work for reform in the church have been working for these structural changes for almost 30 years. I am so pl

The Catholic Media Convention in New Orleans last week featured some great music including jazz trios and street performers But my personal favorite came from Veronica Downs-Dorsey and the Voices of Peter Claver a Catholic choir from the city s St Peter Claver Church These men and women provide

Lisa Miller religion editor of Newsweek mixes it up with Stephen Colbert nbsp on the topic of heaven the subject of her new book called well Heaven nbsp Enjoy nbsp The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11 30pm 10 30c Lisa Miller www colbertnation com Colbert Report Ful

This photo courtesy of The New York Post of Justice Sotomayor at the parish school in the Bronx nbsp where she was a student After speaking she danced on stage with the choir of her alma mater Cardinal Spellman HS Sotomayor also visited her nearby elementary school Blessed Sacrament where c

It all seemed to be going so well The itinerary was agreed following a Vatican delegation in January the costs were estimated and the fundraising got underway But now according to a blistering article in the Spectator and reports in the Daily Telegraph Pope Benedict XVI s 16-18 September visit

Saturday June 5 is World Environment Day a day first celebrated in 1973 and intended by the UN to stimulate awareness of the environment and enhance political attention and public action nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp The pictures of flamingoes and geese with

Here s another look at conditions at Grand Isle and Grande Terre Louisiana as the effort to contain the worst of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico goes into high gear Kevin Clarke nbsp

Perhaps you rsquo ve read about the third edition of the Roman Missal in the pages of America on our Web site or on the U S C C B site but those interested in learning more about the new translation soon will be able to read about the changes on the Missal rsquo s upcoming official Facebook fan

An article by Michelle Andrews in the New York Times May 31 reported that many employers are unwilling to extend health coverage up to age 26 for the adult children of their employee rsquo s until January 2011 when the federal law requires it Insurers eager to sell the add-on had led customers

As I mentioned a few weeks ago Jim McDermott S J former associate editor and current film studies student knows a great deal about comic-book culture nbsp And I d bet he d know whether saying comic-book culture or comic culture is the nbsp de rigueur His review of Kick-Ass was publis

Watching the young men working on the beach of Grande Terre a barrier island near Louisiana pleasure boat paradise Grand Isle you can almost feel the futility hanging in the air We scrape it up and five miniutes later the beach is covered again one worker says Still Ian Guidry is willing to

From Catholic News Service a surprising story La Civilta Cattolica the semi-official Vatican publication run by the Jesuits but whose contents are vetted by the Secretariat of State has praised the recently passed U S health care reform nbsp legislation nbsp The article by Andrea Vicini SJ

Cathy Grossman over at Faith amp Reason has highlighted a new poll that suggests that 53 of American Catholics should speak nbsp out publicly on matters concerning the church and society nbsp Other findings 53 say Women religious should follow their consciences and make public statements co

The Tablet of London not Brooklyn arrived late this week due to Memorial Day and I arrived late to reading it because of the extra research having lost a day of work to the holiday If you do not read the Tablet you should go online now and subscribe and not only because I happen to have the co

Regular readers will know of the high regard in which I hold Father David O rsquo Connell CM the President of the Catholic University of America for the past 12 years Evidently my opinion is shared by Pope Benedict XVI who named O rsquo Connell this morning as the Coadjutor Bishop of Trenton Ne

Those of you with somewhat long memories might remember the Jesuit mission bands groups nbsp of Jesuits who would nbsp visit a parish for a few days to offer a mission a kind of preached retreat usually in the evening designed for the men and women of a particular parish nbsp Busy lay men

As Kerry Weber reported from New Orleans today Catholic Charities and other humanitarian agencies are assisting the vast population of fishermen whose livelihoods are in serious jeopardy after the BP oil spill in the Gulf The U S Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly pursuing a full invest

Though we are now on a biweekly print schedule we will continue to post items weekly to the Web site This week in conjunction with the announcement of our 2010 Foley Poetry prize winner we are featuring an online archive of past Foley winners Check it out here We are also grateful to the Archd

Today is the Feast of Charles Lwanga and companions or the African martyrs or in Uganda the Ugandan martyrs nbsp I have a great devotion to the Ugandan martyrs having spent two years in East Africa where many Christian communities organizations and churches are dedicated to them nbsp B