Podcasts

Joan S. Dawber, S.C. is the Executive Director of LifeWay Network, Inc. Lifeway Network is a non-profit organization that works as part of a coalition in New York City to combat human trafficking through the provision of safe housing and education. She lives in community with survivors of human trafficking and with women religious from other […]

Bishop Robert W. McElroy talks about his article in America, "A Church for the Poor," which argues for a change in the Catholic political conversation in the United States.

Tom Leopold is a comedy writer who has written and produced for classic shows including "Seinfeld" and "Cheers," as well as for the shows honoring Tina Fey and Will Ferrell for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Three years ago Leopold converted from Judaism to Catholicism. He chronicled that spiritual journey in a one-man […]

David Cortright of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame talks about UN week in New York and small steps toward peace in Syria in Iran. In 1965, Pope Paul VI called for an end to war in a landmark speech to the United Nations. You can read Professor's Cortright […]

Brother Joe Hoover, S.J., talks about his vision for America's poetry pages under his editorship. Brother Hoover is a playwright, actor and teacher living in New York City.

Matt Malone, S.J., talks about the first in the history of America: an interview with the pope.

James McCann, S.J., talks about the work of the Pontifical Oriental Institute and how the school's students have been affected by the turmoil in the Middle East. This interview was recorded in May 2013.

Kevin Spinale, S.J., the moderator of the Catholic Book Club, discusses Francis of Assisi: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint, with Rev. Michael Cusato, the book's English translator. Francis of Assisi is the Catholic Book Club selection for July and August, 2013.

J.P. speaks about why her family moved from South Korea to the United States, the challenges she faced as an undocumented immigrant and how gaining temporary legal status changed her life. She also discusses immigration reform legislation, the subject of this week's editorial in America.

Andrea Vicini, S.J., of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry discusses the ethics of the National Insitute of Health's BRAIN Initiative. The initiative promises the possibility for medical breakthroughs in the field of neuroscience, but who will benefit from these technologies? And could they be put to questionable purposes?