As the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council unfolds over the next four years the struggle over its legacy and meaning will intensify It is a struggle that began almost as soon as the Council concluded in December 1965 In Vatican II The Battle for Meaning Massimo Fa
America Staff
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Numbers Down, But Child Soldiers Remain Global Shame
Thousands of children are forced every day to serve in armed gangs or armies as combatants, spies or in sexual servitude.
Posted inLetters
Letters: Readers respond to Patricia Wittberg’s ‘A Lost Generation?’ (2/20)
Responses to Patricia Wittberg’s ‘A Lost Generation?’
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Religious Liberty at Vatican and Lambeth Palace
The role of religion in society and its protection from a “deeply intolerant” militant secularism were themes in Rome and at Lambeth Palace in Great Britain last month.
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Letters
Allies, Not Enemies Thank you for the reasonable, eloquent argument in “Taking Liberties” (Editorial, 2/13). Countless numbers of progressive Catholics worked long and hard for health care reform all across this country and believed that this delicate little issue would get resolved as p
Posted inIn All Things
Readings: Head off Another War
As this is written according to Barak Ravid rsquo s report in Ha rsquo aretz nbsp Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ldquo publicly harden his line against Iran during a meeting with President Barak Obama in Washington on March 5 rdquo According to Ravid there is ldquo mistrust rd
Posted inOf Many Things
Of Many Things
Running alone helped me pray; running with a companion helped form friendships that endure to today.
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Letters
A Terrible Irony Is Born In “The Ethical Traveler,” by Tim Padgett (1/30), there is a terrible irony. The author’s calls to abstain from condescension are themselves thoroughly condescending. His pedantic assertions fail to reach beyond the same tired narrative that everyone who ha
Posted inCatholic Book Club
February Selection
Nefas literally ldquo unspeakable rdquo is a Latin word for evil It is a heavy word weightier than malum the term for a garden-variety moral wrongdoing It is an offense against the sacred sacrilege in the sense of a ritual violation but even more in the sense of a violation of the divine
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Letters
Getting Rich by Being Good As one who has participated in socially responsible investing for a number of years, I was initially very interested, but ultimately disappointed in Thomas Healey’s “Good Returns” (1/16). While anyone rightly hopes to earn a reasonable return on a financi