Podcasts

John P. Schlegel, S.J., and Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., both served long tenures as presidents of Jesuit colleges. For our annual Jesuit education issue, they talk about the challenges facing Catholic colleges in a pluralistic society and how the implementation of Ex corde ecclesia affected the way Jesuit schools think about their Catholic identity. Fr. […]

When The Other America was published in 1962, Michael Harrington only expected it to sell a few thousand copies. The book, a study of the “invisible” poor in America, went on to become a national bestseller and helped shape the government’s War on Poverty. Here Thomas Landy of the College of the Holy Cross explains […]

At a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the Maryknoll sisters, the theologian Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., spoke on “Mary of the Magnificat: A Heart on Fire.” Associate Editor Kerry Weber spoke to Sister Johnson after her talk.

James Martin, S.J., joins Tim Reidy for a discussion of Walter Ciszek’s With God in Russia, which chronicles the imprisonment of an American Jesuit in the Soviet Union. The Vatican recently gave formal approval for Fr. Ciszek’s cause for canonization to proceed. The Pennsylvania-born priest spent five years in the notorious Moscow prison, Lubyanka, and […]

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony discusses immigration reform at the L. A. Religious Education Congress. Interview by Kerry Weber.

Thomas J. Scirghi, S.J., talks about his new book, Everything is Sacred: An Introduction to Baptism, on our Easter podcast. Fr. Scirghi explains why baptism is the foundation of the sacramental life of Christians, and addresses controversies surrounding “limbo” and infant baptism.

Excerpts from America‘s interview with Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of the Jewish lobby J Street. Read Fr. Raymond Schroth’s article on J Street.

Producing “An Encounter with Simone Weil” was a deeply personal experience for Julia Haslett, who spent six years on the project. Here she talks with Associate Editor Kerry Weber about her journey and what she discovered about the French activist and writer. Haslett’s film premiers on March 23 at Quad Cinema in New York City. […]

Associate Editor Kevin Clarke talked to Virginia Farris, a foreign policy adviser to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, shortly after the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Pakistani minister who was fighting the blasphemy laws in his country. Here we provide an excerpt from that interview, and an update on the promotion of Bhatti’s cause […]

Thomas G. Weiss, the director of the Ralph Bunch Institute for International Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, explains how the international norm known as the “responsibility to protect” helped prevent humanitarian disaster in Libya, and how it might guide the international response to Syria.