In All Things

More European countries are moving toward making it illegal for Muslim women to wear burqas–full Islamic face veils–in public For many of them however burqas are part of their culture Forcing them to abandon them has been termed an act of nbsp ldquo cultural warfare rdquo The bans can incl

Joseph A Califano Jr a longtime contributor to America and a member of the magazine s board of directors sat down for this week s podcast to discuss Criminally Unjust his analysis of America s flawed prison policy in the current issue Mr Califano argues that drug treatment is essential to r

Pope Benedict rsquo s speeches in Portugal were all very fine and worthy of consideration but I wish to call attention to one speech in particular his address on culture in Bel eacute m Normally we try and lift a couple lines from a long quote but I want to call attention to the final paragraph

Can we please put an end to stereotyping celibate men and women nbsp Can we stop lumping them all together as hateful and mean-spirited nbsp Can we stop assuming that nbsp they nbsp are all the same nbsp No apparently we cannot nbsp Here is James Carroll a former priest and the author of C

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I had just finished reading Father Gregory Boyle S J rsquo s penetratingly spiritual truly hope-filled and uplifting book Tattoos on the Heart The Power of Boundless Compassion It had made my own

Normally I do not give a second thought to the rantings of Glenn Beck I have always assumed that the man is an Elmer Gantry-like ranter essentially an actor who could not possibly believe what he says because no intelligent person could believe what he says But he spoke to the National Rifle A

The fourth in a series on Huffington Post Atheists and non-believers probably won t believe this or me but I believe our desire for God comes from God and is one key way that God calls to us Even if you say that these desires are merely biological or psychological phenomena I would say that G

Cambridge MA It is an understatement to notice that we rsquo ve been going through some hard times in the Church and the crises are well documented in In All Things We must all be hoping and praying that the Church ourselves included undergo some renewal and fresh gust of Spirit at Pentecost

I listened to some of the congressional testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday I had to switch the radio because of the badgering idiocy of some of the questioning One Republican congressman kept trying to get Holder to blame radical Islam for terrorism which Holder understandably

The redoubtable Fr Joseph Fessio SJ editor of the Ignatius Press laid into The Tablet recently for its reporting of the Archbishop of Vienna s criticism of the dean of the College of Cardinals Angelo Sodano over his Easter remarks about media reporting of nbsp clerical sex abuse as gossip S