James T. Keane

A half-century of warfare against the split infinitive the misplaced modifier the obfuscation of plain language and even the gratuitous use of a serial comma was recognized earlier this month as various media outlets celebrated the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White the venerable writing guid

From today s Los Angeles Times a story about a college student who has taped Planned Parenthood employees in various states suggesting she lie about her or her boyfriend s age after she posed as a 13-year-old seeking an abortion Journalists nbsp might note the absurd linguistic hoops the Times cop

While today we celebrate our own planetary home with Earth Day the Philadelphia Inquirer s Faye Flam nbsp reports from a nbsp meeting in England that scientists have discovered the most Earth-like world yet orbiting a star 21 light-years away nbsp Previous discoveries or inferences since de

Today marks the hundredth anniversary of America s first issue on April 17 1909 nbsp To celebrate a century of weekly Catholic journalism the editors and staff of America are inviting all friends of the magazine I suppose foes are invited too to a special Mass of Thanksgiving to be held

Archived coverage of the installation of Timothy Dolan as Archbishop of New York is available here on NY1 nbsp America associate editor Matt Malone S J was part of the broadcasting team for the mass in St Patrick s Cathedral America associate editor Joseph O Hare S J nbsp also offered

The bishop of Lincoln Nebraska Fabian W Bruskewitz nbsp weighed in last week on the controversy over the University of Notre Dame inviting the President to speak at this year s commencement ceremony nbsp Why is he writing nbsp Because Fr Jenkins CSC the president of Notre Dame has som

In anticipation of Bob Dylan s new album Together Through Life out at the end of the month author Bill Flanagan interviewed him for Times Online nbsp The interview covers everything under the sun and Dylan s as weird as ever but the nbsp chat is fascinating for its glimpses of how the

Playa del Rey trying to make it back to the glory days This story in today s Los Angeles Times is an interesting look at the neighborhood in Los Angeles which was developed in large part by Fritz B Burns about whom prepare for unfortunate self-promotion I wrote a book before I entered the Soc

First the NYPost has some photos up of this morning s U2 concert at Fordham University s Rose Hill campus nbsp You can see the slideshow here nbsp I have posted some other photos nbsp on the America fan page on Facebook Other observations 1 nbsp Bono s frontman skills remain undiminis