The editors and staff of America and the U.S. Jesuit Conference Board invite you to celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving for the 100th Anniversary of America Magazine. Saturday April 18, 2009 2:00 p.m. Saint Ignatius Loyola Church 980 Park Avenue New York, N.Y. 10028 Celebrating the Mass will be Archbis

Thomas Friedman has done it again The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist has taken a global situation this time climate change and set out to educate the public about how we got there and what we can do about it In his explanation however the self-described ldquo somber optimist

"This is a step in the right direction," said Father Jose Espino, a priest of the Miami Archdiocese and a Cuban native.

First of all, I want to say, as speakers on great occasions always say, how honored I am to be here. For me it is very true. I have great and personal reasons for saying this. I first discovered America as Columbus was wont to say, back in the 1950's when a newly named editor invited me to come for

Tom McCluskey, vice president of FRC Action, the legislative arm of the Washington-based Family Research Council, said the effort to ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution may provide a better analogy for state-by-state campaigns to restrict abortion than efforts to abolish the death penalty. Bu

A new report says that after growing rapidly between 1990 and 2006, the population of undocumented immigrants has stabilized.

Jerry Filteau of the The National Catholic Reporter reports on a recent statement by the Committee on Doctrine of the US Catholic Bishops characterizing Reiki as superstition and as not compatible with either Christian teaching or scientific evidence The document titled Guidelines for Evaluat

I wish I could be present at the celebration of America Magazine rsquo s 100th Anniversary tomorrow in New York nbsp It was about two years ago that I was invited to participate in the blog ldquo The Good Word rdquo and I have enjoyed the opportunity that I was given by Tim Reidy and the magazi

I have now watched the video of Archbishop Timothy Dolan rsquo s sermon at his Installation Mass on Wednesday What to say Rarely have words and the moment met so perfectly Not since Sean O rsquo Malley took the pulpit at Holy Cross Cathedral at his installation in 2003 has the American Church exp

Today marks the hundredth anniversary of America s first issue on April 17 1909 nbsp To celebrate a century of weekly Catholic journalism the editors and staff of America are inviting all friends of the magazine I suppose foes are invited too to a special Mass of Thanksgiving to be held

Doubtless there will be some readers who will find this an inappropriate topic for nbsp the blog of a Catholic magazine nbsp And who will no doubt roll nbsp their eyes nbsp It is hardly a recondite topic nbsp But I have to ask Have you seen the video of the woman called Susan Boyle singing o

ldquo Ruined rdquo a play by the award-winning playwright and MacArthur grant winner Lynn Nottage showing Jan ndash May 10 off Broadway at the New York City Center has received many rave reviews since its debut in Chicago and its opening in January in New York Perhaps more importantly in te

Nothing demonstrated the pathetic state of contemporary conservatism as yesterday rsquo s teabag protests Held in various cities groups of conservatives gathered to protest their high taxes and the President rsquo s budget priorities They dumped teabags in public places to vent their outrage in a

Archived coverage of the installation of Timothy Dolan as Archbishop of New York is available here on NY1 nbsp America associate editor Matt Malone S J was part of the broadcasting team for the mass in St Patrick s Cathedral America associate editor Joseph O Hare S J nbsp also offered

I sat riveted to my seat for two plus hours watching the prize-winning film by Matteo Garrone Gomorra At times I squirmed nervously viewing some violence or murders in the film The film which won the Grand Pris at Cannes in 2008 and the European film prize the same year inexplicably was overlo

The President of the United States came to Georgetown University yesterday to deliver a speech. The sky did not fall.

The controversy surrounding the University of Notre Dame rsquo s invitation to President Barack Obama has shifted in recent days as cooler heads appear to be prevailing Cardinal Francis George said he was misquoted if people thought he was urging that there be protests at the university itself H

The bishop-turned-president of Paraguay Fernando Lugo has joined a long line of Latin-American presidents in confessing to having fathered a child out of wedlock He admitted Monday to being the father of a two-year-old boy conceived while he was still Bishop of San Pedro He ceased his active mi