Cambridge MA Many of the early accounts of our new Jesuit general superior Fr Adolfo Nicolas indicate the great influence of his many years in Asia on his understanding of Catholic and Jesuit life and his strong belief that such rich cultures can and should deeply affect Christian intellectu

One of the more interesting findings from the Florida exit polls last week was how poorly John McCain did among those who are frequent church-goers Among those who attend church more than once a week McCain came in third with 24 of the vote behind Mike Huckabee with 40 and Mitt Romney with 26

To accompany America editor Tim Reidy s profile of Brooklyn-based painter Alfonse Borysewicz America is also offering an online slide show in which Borysewicz comments on his own religious art Finding new ways to present the Gospel story may be a rare artistic endeavor today Reidy comments

Many avocations contribute greatly to the well-being of all of us to whatever happiness we might have on this earth Among these avoctions is teaching And a great promoter of teaching us when we first need learning is John Bosco His feast day January 31 recalls the vital significance of teac

Somewhat buried in a response to a post from January 25 on NCR s website John Allen quashes some popular and widespread rumors about the election of Father Nicolas courtesy of the Jesuits s press officer Jose de Vera Here is Allen reporting on de Vera s answer to a question at the pr

All eyes were trained on the stage at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles for the first one-on-one debate between Hillary and Barack After the fireworks at the last debate and the hype the Clinton campaign tried to generate after Edwards dropped out the day before This is the one-on-one match-up we

It is hard to know where Mitt Romney looks for a big victory on Tsunami Tuesday In Georgia and Arkansas conservative states with plenty of wealthy country club Republicans Mitt s base if you will Mike Huckabee stands between Romney and victory Georgia s rich load of delegates will be aw

Commentators have focused ad infinitum on the racial composition of the electorate in South Carolina last week But as noted earlier Obama trounced Clinton among church-goers by 58 to 27 3 points better than he did among all voters Certainly there was a degree of overlap between church-goers an

I spent two years working in Nairobi Kenya during my Jesuit formation During that time I was befriended by Kenyans from a variety of ethnic groups Kikuyu Luo Kamba Samburu Kalenjin Maasai and many others They taught me a select few words in their languages so that in addition to Kis

I went to dinner with three friends last night in Bethesda just outside Washington We began talking about the Democratic primaries and about how disgusted we were with the Clintons campaign tactics especially Bill Clinton s dismissive equation of Obama s South Carolina victory with Jesse J

Florida is practically giddy today over last night s win not for McCain or Clinton but for the sunshine state itself which had its first decisive presidential primary in recent memory A Florida Boost blares the front-page headline of The Miami Herald The state s leading newspaper observed

The best picture nominee has stirred up a lively debate on this question Much of the discussion revolves around why the eponymous character a 16-year-old high school student decides to have her baby when she accidentally becomes pregnant Here s a quick roundup In Slate Ann Hubert suggests t

John McCain s victory in Florida gives him an almost priceless amount of momentum heading into next week s Tsunami Tuesday when 21 states hold GOP primaries The almost comes from the fact that McCain is facing the one candidate Mitt Romney who can dip into his personal fortune and spend 50

Tonight I gave a presentation to a group of students and staff at Santa Clara regarding recent research on the relationship between spiritual practice and sexual decision-making in the lives of college students No one who works with the current generation of college students will be surprised t

Readers of America magazine are already familiar whether they know it or not with the work of Don Doll the award-winning Jesuit photographer who teaches at Creighton University His gorgeous photos have been part of our magazine for several years Over the past several weeks his photos of th

Here s a link to the complete text of Father Adolfo Nicolas s freewheeling meeting with the press on Jan 25 in which he says among other things that he s neither Father Kolvenbach Father Arrupe or even Elvis Some journalists say that I am like Arrupe or like Kolvenbach half and

While the commentariat has covered the religious aspects of the GOP primary extensively few are looking at how religion may affect the Democratic race They should eight of the 22 states that vote next Tuesday have populations that are more than 30 Roman Catholic including the biggest prizes of

There are so many passages in the Bible that lend themselves to the development of an ecojustice perspective Such a section is found in the Wisdom of Solomon a relatively little known and even less frequently cited source of ancient Israelite wisdom It is a reinterpretation of an earlier traditio

Listening to Juan Williams on Fox News cite Hillary Clinton s continued lead in national polls as evidence that the race was still hers to lose two words came to mind Rudy Giuliani If anyone ever wondered about the value of a national poll the ever-shrinking candidacy of Giuliani should persua