America Staff

Opportunity Missed As a religion teacher and a head coach at a Jesuit high school (and an amateur athlete myself), I was excited to receive the Oct. 20 issue with the cover photo and headline “The Soul of Sports.” Unfor-tunately, I was disappointed by what I found inside. None of the art

Dotcom I was most grateful for the article by George M. Anderson, S.J., about my play and DVD about Dorothy Day, “Fool for Christ” (Of Many Things, 11/3), but there was a misprint that I think needs to be noted.The last part of my Web site address was given incorrectly. It should have re

Hammering Out the Issues In contrast to the sledgehammer approach used by many priests and bishops, the Rev. J. Brian Bransfield (“Conscientious Election,” 10/13) offered a thoughtful and nuanced argument. However, his list of significant moral dilemmas is telling. He writes that “

Historical Precedents In his guest editorial, “Racism and the Election” (10/27), Bishop Blase Cupich was correct to remind us of Archbishop Joseph Rummel, the courageous archbishop of New Orleans who in 1962 publicly excommunicated three Catholics, including a politician, for supporting

Identity Theft Re “Identity Crisis,” by Melanie Morey and John Piderit, S.J. (10/13): “Identity theft” is more like it. What really counts at a Catholic university is who teaches and what they teach. With the attenuation of theology and philosophy requirements at Catholic uni

Au Contraire Thanks to William Thompson-Uberuaga for his insightful look at the very important priest John-Jacques Olier in “Christians Who Can Breathe and Laugh” (9/15). As a priest trained by the Sulpicians, I learned much about Olier’s spirituality and the enormous influence his