How to Become Irrelevant In response to Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s “A New Relationship” (9/26): The church has followed for centuries the axiom that theology is fides quaerens intellectum (faith seeking understanding)—faith being the catechetical part, understanding the theologi
America Staff
Posted inIn All Things
Who Will Be Next?
There is something very sad mdash or perhaps I should say obscene mdash about the President of the United States standing before the press corps and personally taking credit for another death It is as if he was bragging about a basketball score after his side had won Worse by rubbing out Anwat-al
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Letters
Just Asking Re the Signs of the Times item “Church Membership Trends Downward” (9/12): Total births from 2000 to 2009 in the United States did not fall, but rose slightly during the first decade of the century to 4,131,019 from 4,058,814. But the statistics are not broken down according
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Letters
” Just Asking Re the Signs of the Times item “Church Membership Trends Downward” (9/12): Total births from 2000 to 2009 in the United States did not fall, but rose slightly during the first decade of the century to 4,131,019 from 4,058,814. But the statistics are not broken down accordin
Posted inLetters
Letters
‘Howdy, Podner’ What a pleasant surprise to find in Of Many Things on Aug. 1, by Drew Christiansen, S.J., two great reviews of westerns. I am a fan of western literature, but I never expected to find an article about it in America. I have already read Doc, one of Father Christiansen’s re
Posted inCatholic Book Club
September Selection
From the popular religious commentator and best-selling author of The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything mdash which was the book club selection for March 2010 mdash comes this new work on the importance of a joy-filled spiritual life As Fr Martin culture editor at America reminds readers the
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Readings: How Much Should the Past Control the Future?
The famous mdash or notorious mdash ldquo Ground Zero Mosque rdquo a proposed Islamic community center two blocks from the former site of the Word Trade Center which so terrified some Manhattanites months ago opened last Wednesday night with no fire bombings or pickets In only a few paragraphs
Posted inSigns Of the Times
News Briefs
Havana’s Ladies in White asked the Catholic Church to mediate on their behalf with Cuba’s President Raul Castro to counter rising political harassment.