Faith, News Analysis

2018 Catholic Church Sex Abuse Crisis: What you need to know

by America Staff September 6, 2018

A summary of news and analysis on the sex abuse crisis facing the Catholic Church.

Faith, News Analysis

Sexual abuse and the culture of clericalism

by Jason Blakely August 23, 2018

Clericalism poses the question: How are all Catholics complicit in a culture in which abuse is rampant?

Pro-life advocates celebrate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 9 after lawmakers voted against a bill that would have legalized abortion. The Senate voted against the bill, dashing the hopes of supporters of legal abortion in the predominantly Catholic country, homeland of Pope Francis. (CNS photo/Agustin Marcarian, Reuters)

Faith, News Analysis

The abortion debate in Argentina vs. Ireland: what made the difference?

by Charles C. Camosy August 10, 2018

A diversity of views on abortion made for an actual debate among those who have power in Argentina.

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, is pictured in a 2017 photo (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Faith, News Analysis

Cardinal McCarrick, seminarians and abuse: how could this happen?

by James Martin, S.J. July 16, 2018

The case shows the mystifying complexity of the human person—or at least this human person.

News Analysis, Politics & Society

Devastating fire in Kensington changed the way Britain views Muslims

by Religion News Service June 13, 2018

Though they haven’t escaped all stigma lingering from Islamic terror attacks on British soil, Muslims’ response to the Grenfell Tower fire has highlighted their social and charitable engagement.

A truck travels along a dirt road near a grain farm in Hesper Township, Iowa. The 2018 farm bill was defeated on the floor of the House May 18. It could back for a second vote in late June, but Catholic and other rural life advocates see a need for improvements in the measure before then. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

News Analysis, Politics & Society

Millions could lose food stamps under new Farm Bill

by Kevin Clarke June 6, 2018

House Republicans will be returning to a fight over raising work requirements for the nation’s 43 million recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after a previous effort to pass the farm bill flamed out last month.

Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded youth who was shot by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel on April 13. Palestinians streamed to tent camps on Gaza's border with Israel for a third mass protest. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

News Analysis, Politics & Society

It’s bodies against bullets at the Gaza border

by Drew Christiansen April 13, 2018

Hamas, it seems, has taken Israeli contempt for Palestinian life as a cultural and political weakness that Gazans can turn against the oppressor state.

News Analysis, Politics & Society

When can a doctor conscientiously object?

by Bernard G. Prusak April 11, 2018

A proposed bill in the United Kingdom seeks “to clarify the extent to which a medical practitioner with a conscientious objection may refrain from participating in certain medical activities.”