The guy I campaigned for didn rsquo t make it but we rsquo ve got a great President hellip and we rsquo ve got a lot of areas where we can work together With these words former Ambassador to the Holy See Thomas Melady during George H W Bush rsquo s presidency kicked off a panel discussion Cat

A half-century of warfare against the split infinitive the misplaced modifier the obfuscation of plain language and even the gratuitous use of a serial comma was recognized earlier this month as various media outlets celebrated the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White the venerable writing guid

The Audit Bureau of Circulations released its spring figures on newspaper circulation for the six months ending March 31 2009 nbsp And they are scary particularly for some of the newspapers that are already in trouble nbsp The Boston Globe daily dropped 13 6 to 302 638 its Sunday decreased

To accompany our America Centennial Mass video which Tim Reidy put together see our homepage video section here s a bit of reporting on the Big Day in case you weren t able to join us nbsp And we really did pray for all of our readers--including you James Martin SJ

Chaz Muth of CNS recently visited our offices for an extensive nbsp piece on the magazine s history just posted on the CNS website nbsp In case nbsp you don t have access here it is America magazine reflects on century of triumphs debates and faith By Chaz Muth Catholic News Service NEW YOR

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that the Vatican has accepted the curing of a Marshfield Mass man who was bent double the result of a severe spinal disorder as a miracle attributable to Cardinal John Henry Newman nbsp The miracle would fulfill the requirement for Newman s beatification whi

Wow Mention I-95 and you get a lot of comments So I will stay on the topic for another day address some of the issues raised in my post last Friday and bring up another idea The current car-train permits Snowbirds to bring their cars from the DC area to Florida where they spend the winter an

In Australia and New Zealand April 25th is Anzac Day a moment in which Australians and New Zealanders remember the sacrifice made by their soldiers in their ultimately failed attempt to overcome the Turks at Gallipoli during World War I It s a day of solemnity in some way similar to our own Vetera

From today s Los Angeles Times a story about a college student who has taped Planned Parenthood employees in various states suggesting she lie about her or her boyfriend s age after she posed as a 13-year-old seeking an abortion Journalists nbsp might note the absurd linguistic hoops the Times cop

Cambridge MA My impression from the Catholic press and the debates that make the news is that many people assume that theology is just a matter of expressing opinions liberal or conservative loyal or dissident about how things should be in the Church Everyone jumps up with opinions theology

A balance of solitude and community makes for a good spiritual place to be I live in a closely-knit family which I treasure but I know that I am not centered if I never spend any time alone with God Conversely I know people who believe that one-on-one time is enough that a thoughtful walk in t

I am posting early because as you read this Friday morning I will be somewhere on that great American nightmare known as I-95 It is still early in the season of course but in another month I-95 will take up its summer job and become a parking lot of stalled traffic all along the Northeast Corri

Just wanted to remind our readers always to be on the lookout at our Books and Culture section for plenty of online only content that we will be posting on a regular basis nbsp We re always limited in terms of page space in the magazine and sometimes it s hard to turn around time-sensitive a

Everywhere I look this week all I hear about is Susan Boyle the British woman who wowed the judges of Britian s Got Talent with her performance of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables nbsp She s got a great voice a nice story and a wonderfully pleasant funny personality nbsp But that s

John Perry a Candian Jesuit who teaches in Liberia sends along this report from Decoration Day in the country s interior The second Wednesday of March is a national holiday in Liberia It is called ldquo Decoration Day rdquo and Liberians spend the day refurbishing the graves of deceased family

Are you wondering whether you can have your Catholic wedding outside nbsp Trying to figure out how to get your special day in the church of your dreams even though you re not registered there and have no desire to go there ever again Are you frustrated that some old priest whose most contempora

What does a priest do in a parish that expects long homilies if he has come from a parish that dislikes them This was my situation when I arrived at the Jesuit-run St Ignatius in Brooklyn with its primarily Caribbean congregation that favors masses running to an hour and a half One Sunday a par

Yesterday members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious met in Rome with Cardinal William Levada and members of the Vatican s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which is investigating the LCWR for doctrinal issues as detailed in my earlier post nbsp nbsp Today the LCWR ha

Last Friday the National Institutes of Health issued new regulations governing embryonic stem cell research They are better than many expected and the anticipated outcry from Catholic circles has not materialized In fact most of the criticism of the guidelines is coming from the research communi