Tim Reidy

America is pleased to announce our formal partnership with Mirada Global a multilingual Web site that brings together articles from Jesuit publications in North and South America Like America Mirada Global is for the general reader not academics and covers a variety of subjects from religion a

This week in conjunction with his article on The Jesus Controversy we are pleased to feature a conversation with renowned Bibilcal scholar Luke Timothy Johnson on our podcast Johnson argues that historical scholarship alone cannot find the living Jesus Though the study of history can help Chri

Fr Jim Martin is on retreat this week but you can still check out his latest online offering over at the Huffington Post where today he launched the site s first Scripture commentary series Here is the editors introduction The series will bring together leading voices from different religiou

This New York cover story is worth a read if you didn t catch it earlier this month Jennifer Senior sets out to explore the various reasons why in study after study young American parents have been shown to be unhappy with their lives As a new happy parent I was puzzled by this idea but I al

In his article for our special issue on Religion and International Affairs Thomas F Farr argues that the United States must be more vigorous in its promotion of religious liberty abroad In the interest of continuing the conversation we asked Prof Farr to respond to a few questions sparked by th

We are very pleased to feature Fr Virgilio Elizondo on this week s podcast A professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame who still does pastoral work in his home diocese of San Antonio Fr Elizondo has just published his selected spiritual writings with Orbis Books On the podcast he d

In mid-June 2010 violence broke out in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan Many homes like those pictured below were burned people were killed and thousands fled to the Uzbekistan border Our friend Laura Sheahen at Catholic Relief Services is in Kyrgyzstan and sent us this on-the-ground r

Susan Dominus column in Friday s New York Times raises some interesting questions about the relationship between abortion clinics and nbsp adoption agencies Traditionally abortion clinics offered little more than pamplets about adoption but the staff had limited knowledge of how adoption has ev

This week we are happy to feature numerous online exclusives Two are worth special mention Douglas W Kmiec writes movingly about his father s death in the June 21-28 issue of America On this week s podcast he reflects on the pope s trip to Malta where Kmiec serves as U S ambassador Listen to

Just posted to our Web site an assessment of the controversial excommunication of Sister Margaret Mary McBride from the respected Dominican ethicist Kevin O Rourke As both a Catholic ethicist and an expert on Canon Law Father O Rourke offers a unique perspective Yet questions remain Did the bis