Your Excellency, Your Grace, Reverend Fathers, brothers and sisters: to be here today is for me an enormous delight and a quite unexpected honor; and my first task is simply to say, from my heart, a very warmest thank you to America magazine, to the Jesuits, to you who have welcomed me here today. Thank you for this act of ecumenical generosity and fellowship. 

After watching "Avatar," our critic was grateful for the 25-minute walk home and a chance to calm down.

A representative of Caritas Internationalis urged participants at the World Economic Forum not to neglect "the old, chronic problems of the world.”

While the members say they understand the threats posed to Israel by Hamas, they argue against the "de facto collective punishment" of the Palestinian residents of Gaza.

“Extraordinary Measures” illustrates the deep divide between rhetoric and reality for families caring for children with special needs.

"As a theologian and apologist, the archbishop has heightened readers’ receptivity to transcendence and opened their minds to revelation,” Father Drew Christiansen said.

After a year of public clashes between bishops and some Catholic colleges, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick urged university presidents to forge stronger relationships with their local bishops.