In All Things

It would be impossible to do justice to Archbishop Rowan Williams rsquo gracious and deeply moving nbsp remarks upon his reception of the 2009 Campion Award nbsp After nbsp a welcome nbsp by our editor in chief Drew Christiansen S J which will be posted soon the Archbishop of Canterbury dila

Just a few days after Secretary of Defense Bob Gates speaking in Islamabad Pakistan called the Taliban part of Afghanistan s political fabric U S nbsp General Stanley McChrystal the NATO commander in Afghanistan told the Financial Times why he thought the U S troop surge could lead to a ne

I spent last week in New Haven mourning the death of my grandfather and celebrating his long life I was fortunate to be with his wife of 62 years my grandmother and my aunts uncles and cousins during this difficult time My grandfather was the son of German Catholic immigrants and he served in

The Editorial Board of America is proud to announce that The Most Reverend Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury is the 2009 recipient of the Campion Award The award is given on a regular basis to a noted Christian person of letters nbsp It is named after St Edmund Campion S J who is patr

This nbsp comes from CathNews the Australian Catholic news website nbsp The text is from a link to the Broken Bay Institute-University of Newcastle s new program in liturgical studies nbsp Strong words indeed World-renowned expert in liturgical inculturation Fr Anscar Chupungco OSB challen

President Obama rsquo s campaign manager David Plouffe is returning from his brief stint as an author to help the Democrats stop the bleeding after their twin gubernatorial losses last November and last week rsquo s shocker in the special election in Massachusetts Plouffe penned an op-ed for yester

Who knew Our managing editor Robert Collins SJ also directs an adult-initiation program at a nearby Paulist parish St Paul the Apostle nbsp So he s always on the lookout for good catechetical material nbsp The other day he nbsp came upon this truly amazing resource on the USCCB website

Cambridge MA I have never had great sympathy for Pat Robertson and his evangelical slant on the Gospel and Christian life In part it is a matter of cultural differences mdash I am a Jesuit in Cambridge at Harvard after all mdash and also a matter of what seems to be a rather different exp

Pope Benedict XVI s message for today s World Day of Communications nbsp encourages us to nbsp use every means of communications to spread the Gospel nbsp Amen nbsp The spread of multimedia communications and its rich menu of options might make us think it sufficient simply to be present on t

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp ldquo When a person is in extreme necessity he has the right to supply himself with what he needs out the riches of others rdquo nbsp The Church in the Modern World 69 nbsp We hear the word ldquo looting rdquo used to