Tim Reidy

We feature two online conversations this week the first is with Clayton Sinyai a member of the Catholic Labor Network and the director of strategic campaigns for the Amalgamated Transit Union Speaking at a conference on Caritas in Veritate held at Princeton University Clayton explored what the p

A little more than a week after Gov Jan Brewer signed Arizona s controversial new immigration law Cardinal Roger M Mahony spoke on the moral imperative of immigration reform last night at Fordham University The event was sponsored by America and Fordham s Center on Religion and Culture At the

H T to my friend and former colleague Kevin Canfield for calling my attention to today s release of the latest album from the Hold Steady Heaven is Whenever Such an occasion should not go unnoticed so here is the early review from the Washington Post The spirituality inherent in the concert ex

This week s cover story looks at Matteo Ricci the Jesuit missionary to China in honor of the 400th anniversary of his death In conjunction with that article we have reprinted Matteo Ricci s Lesson to a Modern Missionary from 1996 Mark White a Jesuit novice at the time reflected on Ricci s l

Just posted to our site along with the May 10 issue is this essay from Bishop Blase Cupich chair of the U S bishops Committee for Child and Youth Protection Twelve Things the Bishops Have Learned From the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis A few highlights 8 Bishops need to be mutually accountabl

Here s an early peak at next week s podcast an interview with Stanley Hauerwas the Duke University scholar who was named America s best theologian by Times magazine in 2001 Best Hauerwas demurred is not a theological category Hauerwas discusses his new memoir Hannah s Child which dea

In his Web-only article for America Cul-de-Sac Catholicism Nicholas P Cafardi asked why the U S bishops conference fought health care reform to the end even when the president signed an executive order pledging that the new bill would not utlitize public funds to pay for abortions Now three

In light of the charged debate surrounding the troubling new immigration law in Arizona it is worth revisiting John J Savant s article from October 26 Imagining the Immigrant Savant s prescient insight was that the nation s anti-immigrant fervor is fundamentally a failure of imagination The A

I ve already blogged about Matt Malone s article on the upcoming U K elections but allow me to plug our podcast on the same subject Matt helped coordinate America s coverage of the U S elections in 2008 so his take on the elections in Britain are particularly interesting The British media for