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Signs Of the Times
Mauricio Funes (left), a journalist and proponent of liberation theology, was elected president of El Salvador on March 15.
Art
Gerrit van Honthorst's painting The Mocking of Christ is a painful reminder of the cruel, sardonic mocking of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez on reducing extreme poverty
Signs Of the Times
The archbishop said Randall Terry told him the videotaped interview would be used to encourage pro-life workers in their cause.
Luis Arriage Valenzuela, S.J., is the director of Centro de Derechos Humanos Prodh, a Mexican human rights center begun in 1987 as a response to increasingly repressive policies by the Mexican government. Centro Prodh’s goal is to defend, promote and advocate for human rights through legal assistance. I spoke to Fr. Valenzulea about the current situation of human rights in Mexico earlier this month.
What are you seeing on the ground in Mexico today?
Signs Of the Times
The Notre Dame president called President Obama's upcoming visit "a basis for further positive engagement.
In All Things
There are rumours on a German traditionalist blog that Fr Federico Lombardi the Pope s communications chief will stand down after the Pope s Holy Land trip in May I have no idea if they are true But I do know that whatever the Jesuit s limitations the Pope s communications problem is n
In All Things
At the risk of trying readers patience I would like to raise a question about the Obama Dame controversy Why is this news I believe it was Richard Gaillardetz who wrote several years ago about the tendency on the Internet toward the online establishment of an ad hoc magisterium preoccupied wi
In All Things
Yes this may be an off-week for the print edition of America magazine but that hardly means we ve taken a week off We are busily preparing our 92 page centennial issue featuring articles by Timothy Radcliffe Helen Prejean and Elizabeth Johnson among others Look for it online next Friday
The Good Word
In the days when Christ Jesus was in the flesh he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his reverence Son though he was he learned obedience from what he suffered and when he was made perfect he bec
The Good Word
Father Jim Martin has kindly shared his homily for this Sunday with the readers of The Good Word Enjoy Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains just a grain of wheat but if it dies it produces much fruit nbsp John 12 20-33 Now what does that mean exactly nbsp W
In All Things
There has been some distress in leftie circles over the news that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will be received into the Catholic Church this nbsp weekend at St Joseph s Church Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl will preside at the ceremony I say Welcome Newt It is as I never
In All Things
With all the swirling controversy about the University of Notre Dame and the interview with and apology from Archbishop Burke it has been difficult to focus on anything else But going from the ridiculous to well not really the sublime Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said something very impo
In All Things
Cambridge MA It has been a pleasure to write this occasional blog for America but perhaps never more than today when I have the opportunity to celebrate in this small way the birthday of my father James J Clooney who turns 90 on March 30th nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Born in Jersey City in 191
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Archbishop Raymond Burke Prefect nbsp of the Apostolic Signatura has issued a statement regarding the interview he gave to Randall Terry about which I blogged yesterday The text of Archbishop Burke s statement is posted at Rocco s site Whispers in the Loggia As you will see the Archbishop d
In All Things
Later today Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will announce new regulations for the financial services sector The regulations are important in themselves but also because they represent the third nail in the coffin of Reaganomics Whatever else you may think about President Barack Obama and the
In All Things
At a press conference this morning at the Nation Press Club Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry released a video of an interview he had earlier this month with Archbishop Raymond Burke Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura The transcript is available here The interview took place while Terry and
In All Things
The British online journal Thinking Faith has published a provocative article by the Jesuit Michael Czerny defending the pope s criticism of condom use in the fight against AIDS Here are the key paragraphs On the second issue of a strategy for whole populations there is widespread belief that c
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Bishop John D rsquo Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend announced yesterday that he will not be attending graduation exercises at the University of Notre Dame this year His statement was not one with which I could entirely agree but its measured tone was a welcome change from the histrionics that have b
In All Things
Since the election of Barack Obama as president many people are asking Has the United States moved beyond race Couched within the question is a hope that if we can move past race in the way we see each other we might move beyond racism as well The question shows up in the media in the blogosph