The Deficit’s Real Cause Wow! I am glad someone said it, and I am not surprised that it was your editorial, “The New Americanism” (8/1). I have noticed the disturbing presence of Catholics lining up on the side of privilege entrenchment—that is what this whole manufactured &l
America Staff
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Immigration Advocates: ‘Secure Communities’ Brings Fear, Not Trust
More than 126,000 people have been deported through the program since it began in 2008.
Posted inCatholic Book Club
August Selection
Published in time for the 10th anniversary observances of the Sept 11 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center Pennsylvania and the Pentagon this book shows the common ground and quest for peace shared by Christians and Muslims in America Based on 30 interviews with abbots nuns and mon
Posted inLetters
Letters
Vietnam and Afghanistan I could not agree more with your editorial, “Out of Afghanistan” (8/15). A Vietnam veteran, I graduated from eight years of Jesuit high school and college and spent three years on active duty. While in Vietnam I had a clear conscience about our involvement in that
Posted inIn All Things
Readings: September 11–How it Changed Us
Ten years ago I was preparing class in my room at Saint Peter rsquo s College in Jersey City when the phone rang It was my friend Bryan Kelly a recent Fordham grad and member of the swimming team calling from Tokyo where he was studying for an MBA A few weeks before we had met in New York
Posted inIn All Things
Readings: What Will Happen to Fairness?
It is amazing how as history rushes by American culture fixated on the ldquo now rdquo can be cut off from its roots nbsp Just as college professors meet recent generations who can not tell World War I from World War II more and more can not tell Franklin D Roosevelt from Franklin Pierce
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Bishops Seek Broader Exemption From Controversial Requirements
“As it stands, the language is not broad enough to protect our Catholic health providers,” the Catholic Health Association complained in a statement.
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Letters
Taking Part in the Body Cynthia Reville Peabody’s article, “Staying Power” (7/18), found me asking myself once again, why do I stay in the Catholic Church? My answer to this question is, quite simply, the Eucharist. Coming together as the body of Christ, we women in the pews give t
Posted inIn All Things
Readings: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Last week I threw out my files on Osama Bin Laden rsquo s death mdash which I am more prone to call a murder or an assassination mdash because new and perhaps bigger questions keep leaping up at us and I have to make room in both my head and in my files and desk space for new problems But Nic
Posted inIn All Things
Readings: The Killing of Osama Bin laden
Last week I threw out my files on Osama Bin Laden rsquo s death mdash which I am more prone to call a murder or an assassination mdash because new and perhaps bigger questions keep leaping up at us and I have to make room in both my head and in my files and desk space for new problems