James T. Keane

A reminder to America s readers that we are conducting as part of our upcoming centennial celebration an essay contest on the topic of The Case for God Secular and religious media alike have been abuzz over the past year about the sudden flurry of books by aggressive and polemically-minde

Jesuit scholastic Ryan Duns SJ recently read Anne Rice s new book on the life of Jesus Christ the Lord The Road to Cana and found much to praise in a review on his blog A sequel to Rice s Christ the Lord Out of Egypt it suggests this famous author and recent convert has found Jesus

The disappointing news from Britain in the article linked here is unfortunately just the first in a number of such political compromises we will see in coming months as the world amps up for this summer s Beijing Olympics British athletes going to China CNN reports will have to sign a contr

To accompany America editor Tim Reidy s profile of Brooklyn-based painter Alfonse Borysewicz America is also offering an online slide show in which Borysewicz comments on his own religious art Finding new ways to present the Gospel story may be a rare artistic endeavor today Reidy comments

America has a new online article by Jesuit scholastic Sean Dempsey S J who was recently ordained a deacon and will be ordained a Catholic priest this coming June Dempsey is a pop-culture aficionado extraordinaire a vocation not often found among religious but crucial in my opinion for evang

As I ve been preparing for a new semester of teaching at Fordham a course on Catholic novels I ve been rereading Flannery O Connor s brilliant essay collection Mystery and Manners One of the essays included in that volume edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald was originally published