If you re in the Bronx tonight join us for Cardinal Avery Dulles final McGinley lecture at Fordham University Fr Robert Imbelli of Boston College will be giving a response The event is free and open to the public Tim Reidy

When I was a boy I laughed when my parents would talk about their all-time favorite April Fool s joke the famous BBC spaghetti harvest TV spot which fooled millions of viewers a la The War of the Worlds Even their fading memories of the spot made them laugh Well here it is from 195

Catholic voters certainly came to look at the Democratic Party differently in the wake of Roe but the breaking apart of the New Deal Coalition had begun earlier The turmoil of the late 1960s the counter-culture the anti-Vietnam War protests the emergence of radical feminism Stonewall etc

As you may have discerned from Matt Malone s posts a few of us at America are besotted with John Adams the second president that is not the composer Last night I watched an advance copy of the final episode of HBO s stupendous series John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linne

In most of the NT materials excluding the letters though the narrated events are set in the 30s of the first century C E the accounts themselves were produced decades later fruit of long and diverse reflection by the young Church on its experience of Jesus Think analogously if after many

John McCain is sitting pretty right now While the Hillary and Barack slug it out McCain can begin to frame the November election and to position himself as the candidate best able to attract crucial swing voters And no voters have more swing in them than ethnic Catholics concentrated as they are

Medicaid, the health insurance program for poor people, is again under assault. Created in 1965 through Title XIX of the Social Security Act, it has been instrumental in providing low-income Americans with needed medical care for more than four decades, serving as a crucial component of the nations

Values and Priorities Regarding Curbing Medical Costs, by Daniel Callahan (3/10): We already have medical care rationing, and it is determined by who has the money. Countries that have a universal health care system address the rationing issue in a basically ethical way. They do not let market force

Yet you do not blink.

The pope visits Yankee Stadium, and other sacred moments in secular spaces.

Peacemaking is not an optional commitment. It is a requirement of our faith. We are called to be peacemakers, not by some movement of the moment, but by our Lord Jesus. The content and context of our peacemaking is set not by some political agenda or ideological program, but by the teaching of his C

Founder of Focolare Movement Dies at 88 Chiara Lubich, the 88-year-old founder and perpetually smiling symbol of the Focolare movement, died early March 14 after what Pope Benedict XVI said was “a long and fruitful life” marked by her love for Jesus. Lubich died in her room near the Foc

A father's reflections on his battle with cancer

The Trillion-Dollar War From the beginning, the Bush administration has refused to give an accurate and responsible reckoning of the costs of the Iraq war. From underestimating budgets to requesting funding through special supplemental appropriations, to cutting taxes for the wealthy that resulted i

Tales of ultimate disaster caused by global warming fill today’s media, alongside accounts of impressive new technologies for clean, green, carbon-free, earth-saving energy. New energy corporations are drawing investment capital in steady streams, hoping for a portion of the financial bonanza

The modernist crisis and the death of a magazine.

A survey of new books on the Bible

My students and I at Fordham have been reading Shushaku Endo s Silence this week as part of a class on Catholic novels Translated by William Johnston S J whose long and distinguished career includes a recent essay published in America the novel treats the struggles of Christian missionari