The Rockford Diocese shuts down its services after a new Illinois law requires placement with same-sex or cohabitating couples.
America Staff
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Assisted Suicide Among Topics for Bishops
The U.S. bishops’ spring general assembly consider of a new document on physician-assisted suicide.
Posted inLetters
Letters
Blessed Franklin and Eleanor Constance M. McGovern’s review of Hazel Rowley’s book Franklin and Eleanor, An Extraordinary Marriage (5/16) reminds me that at the beginning of his presidency Franklin Roosevelt told one of the women in his professional life, Frances Perkins, a fellow Episc
Posted inIn All Things
Readings: Good News from Israel
For purposes of discussion let us define ldquo love rdquo not in sense of romance but in the more philosophical definition of nbsp ldquo wishing the other well rdquo In this way of thinking to love Israel is to feel a moral commitment to its future and then to advise it mdash as we would ad
Posted inSigns Of the Times
John Jay Report Depicts Progress But Cannot Isolate Causes
Bishop Blase J. Cupich says the report offers an explanation, but not an excuse for the abuse scandal that engulfed the United States.
Posted inCatholic Book Club
May Selection
This is a substantially revised and expanded edition of Love Is the Measure originally published 15 years ago Paulist Press 166p Founder of the Catholic Worker movement Dorothy Day is one of this century rsquo s most prophetic voices and has recently been proposed as a candidate for sainthood
Posted inLetters
Letters
Count on Canon 212 Re the editorial “Paths of Conscience” (5/2): The scriptural arguments of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concerning the ordination of women have been expressed in two documents, Inter Signiores (1976) and a commentary that treats the arguments in an ecu
Posted inIn All Things
Readings: What Has Happened to Libya?
This is part of a series of blog posts called Readings As a subscriber to 15 periodicals I will share what I discover and maybe introduce you to a new author nbsp Inevitably the way news cycles operate while we were looking the other way for several weeks obsessed with the killing of Osama
Posted inLetters
Letters
‘Small’ Sacrifices Count Too I thank America for its reflection on the homely (as the Irish mean it) spirituality of fatherhood depicted in Of Many Things (5/2), in which Kevin Clarke writes about his choice between a nice car and a larger family. These reflections on the father’s
Posted inIn All Things
Readings: The Other Legacy of John Paul II
During a canon law class in 1965 I noticed that the professor rsquo s notes listed publications that were either ldquo forbidden rdquo or which we should approach with caution On the list was The Nation Somewhere I had also read that America had been founded over 100 years ago to offset the