Realpolitik I am a Venezuelan missionary priest working in the United States, and I make frequent visits to my home country because of my ministry. I deeply agree with your editorial on Venezuela (“A Future With Mr. Chávez,” 3/16). I would like your readers to focus their attentio

A new PBS documentary looks at the many faces of Jerusalem.

Mary Ann Glendon (left), former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will receive the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal on May 17.

Twenty-five years after his death, Rahner's works still illuminate.

In the wake of Cardinal Walter Kasper's call for a clarification of the doctrine on indulgences, John O'Malley, S.J., offers this short history.

Prelates in several Latin American countries have spoken about the problem of drug trafficking in recent months.

Like everything else, the structures we create age, diminish and eventually die.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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