President Barack Obama knows how to deliver a speech about as well as anyone since Franklin Delano Roosevelt And like Roosevelt President Obama set out a vision for the coming year that focused on the economy and specifically on the way the government can lay the groundwork for economic growth

nbsp nbsp nbsp What Would Jesus Blog That is the question I tuned into on the car radio on my way home from work today Our very own AMERICA blogger Father Jim Martin was among those interviewed by NPR s All Things Considered regarding the Pope s exhortation to priests to blog on Apparently

NPR takes nbsp Pope Benedict XVI s nbsp latest letter for World Communications Day and asks several bloggers including one from In All Things for advice were the pope to start blogging himself nbsp It s rather tongue in cheek but gets at some interesting points about the blogosphere and religi

Be sure to catch a slide show of images from photographer Clarke Patterson of Monday night s 2009 Campion Award presentation to the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams nbsp The link is here nbsp nbsp The audio in case you haven t heard it yet of Archbishop Williams remarks is on our h

Republicans continue their victory dance on the grave of health care reform I hope they will take a moment to read the letter they received from the USCCB yesterday It calls upon all members of Congress to come together and recommit themselves to enacting genuine health care reform that will prot

Catholics in Vietnam are mobilizing in prayer vigils following the savage beating of a Redemptorist priest amidst escalating violence by the Government against the Church according to the Fides News Service in Rome The Redemptorists have sent a letter to the Hanoi authorities asking them to lift a

A Jan 12 letter posted at the website of the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States requests that U S women major superiors reconsider their response or lack thereof to the recent questionnaire from the office hat tip to Tom Fox at NCR The letter came from M

In ldquo Of Many Things rdquo back on April 20 2009 I wrote about Fran Hezel S J and his Micronesian Seminar Now Fran tells the story his way in a remarkable account of how he was missioned to Micronesia and how he views his mission today His story intersects with shifts the shifts in missi

Congratulations to Francis X Clooney a frequent contributor to In All Things who has just been appointed as the director of Harvard Divinity School s Center for the Study of World Religions nbsp nbsp Fr Clooney joined the HDS faculty in 2005 as the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professo

Bad faith can be found in both the extreme left- and right-wing camps It is most commonly found not among simple people whose prejudices are close to the surface but among intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals people who claim to be one thing but then in an instant they expose their less a

We are grateful to the many friends of America who are joining us this evening and I extend a warm welcome to the friends of Archbishop Williams who are here to celebrate with him nbsp We at America owe nbsp special debt of appreciation as well to our good friends Archbishop Celestino Migliore

It would be impossible to do justice to Archbishop Rowan Williams rsquo gracious and deeply moving nbsp remarks upon his reception of the 2009 Campion Award nbsp After nbsp a welcome nbsp by our editor in chief Drew Christiansen S J which will be posted soon the Archbishop of Canterbury dila

Just a few days after Secretary of Defense Bob Gates speaking in Islamabad Pakistan called the Taliban part of Afghanistan s political fabric U S nbsp General Stanley McChrystal the NATO commander in Afghanistan told the Financial Times why he thought the U S troop surge could lead to a ne

We are coming to the end of our course ldquo The Cradle of Early Christianity rdquo after time spent journeying from Athens to Thessalonica to Philippi to Pergamum modern Bergama nbsp Smyrna modern Izmir Ephesus and Constantinople Istanbul nbsp We have surveyed the ruins of numero

I spent last week in New Haven mourning the death of my grandfather and celebrating his long life I was fortunate to be with his wife of 62 years my grandmother and my aunts uncles and cousins during this difficult time My grandfather was the son of German Catholic immigrants and he served in

The Editorial Board of America is proud to announce that The Most Reverend Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury is the 2009 recipient of the Campion Award The award is given on a regular basis to a noted Christian person of letters nbsp It is named after St Edmund Campion S J who is patr

This nbsp comes from CathNews the Australian Catholic news website nbsp The text is from a link to the Broken Bay Institute-University of Newcastle s new program in liturgical studies nbsp Strong words indeed World-renowned expert in liturgical inculturation Fr Anscar Chupungco OSB challen

President Obama rsquo s campaign manager David Plouffe is returning from his brief stint as an author to help the Democrats stop the bleeding after their twin gubernatorial losses last November and last week rsquo s shocker in the special election in Massachusetts Plouffe penned an op-ed for yester

Who knew Our managing editor Robert Collins SJ also directs an adult-initiation program at a nearby Paulist parish St Paul the Apostle nbsp So he s always on the lookout for good catechetical material nbsp The other day he nbsp came upon this truly amazing resource on the USCCB website