Politics and the Pulpit: Are some bishops putting the church’s tax exempt status at risk?
Are some bishops putting the church’s tax exempt status at risk?
Resources on Vatican II: A collection of our essays and our first e-book
E BookOn the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, America is proud to republish a classic work of the Council as an e-book.The Documents of Vatican II, edited by Walter Abbott, S.J., and with comments from Protestant and Orthodox authorities, is now available on the Kindle, Nook and iPad.
Life with the Lakota: A Jesuit mission on the rez
If you are looking for hope in South Dakota, you do not look at numbers and percents and totals. Among the native Lakota people, social issues like alcohol, drug abuse and teen suicide rack up some depressing figures. The way down is fast and easy; climbing back up takes drive and help. If you are…
Saving Subsidiarity: Why it is not about small government
Why it is not about small government
Heart and Soul: The role of spiritual conversation in pastoral care
The role of spiritual conversation in pastoral care
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
What is the spiritual meaning of America?
Letters
Letters
Labor’s Love Lost? As the editors note in “Union Sunset?” (Editorial, 7/2), there are reasons for concern about the future of organized labor, the failed recall of Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin being an important one. That will fuel an anti-union movement already under way that ig
Editorials
After the Fortnight
The immediate impact of the Fortnight for Freedom remains unclear.
Faith in Focus
No Place Like It: A new mom makes a case for moving back home.
A new mom makes a case for moving back home.
Ideas
A Crisis of Faith: What I discovered at the World Science Festival
What I discovered at the World Science Festival
Books
Drop Everything and Read
Marilynne Robinson’s new book of essays offers a rare combination of wisdom and beauty.
Seeing with Feeling
Twelve essays on faith and academic life
Out of Many, One
A searing tale about racial profiling following the 9/11 terrorist attacks
Film
In Search of Solid Ground: Benh Zeitlin’s ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’
‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ finds buried links between morality and a threatened ecosystem.
Poetry
Falling
It is no matter that you were carrying the heirloom platter
The Word
Communion and the Cross
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Aug. 12, 2012
It’s All About Jesus
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Aug. 5, 2012
Columns
An Imperfect Pilgrim
Grace seeps through the cracks in our defenses.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Small Victories; Jobs, Jobs, Jobs; Saying We’re Sorry
Signs Of the Times
Lost Confidence
Forty-four percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in “the church or organized religion” today.
Abuse Policies
More than half of the bishops’ conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia complied with a Vatican mandate to draw up anti-abuse guidelines by a May deadline.
Prayer Interpreter Out
A priest who was removed from his parish for improvising prayers during the celebration of Mass has now been suspended from all other priestly duties.
News Briefs
In Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on July 11, the 17th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Serb forces at Srebrenica, the bodies of 520 recently identified victims were buried.
Church Awaits State OK to Respond to Ethnic Clash
India’s Catholic Bishops are “deeply pained” by the “mindless violence” that has engulfed several districts in a northeastern Indian state.
HHS Contraceptive Mandate Blocked for One Catholic-run Business
A Colorado federal justice rules that the HHS requirement that even objecting employers must provide contraceptives free of charge to their employees has potential for violating religious freedom.
Opposing a Culture of ‘Criminality and Violence’
Vatican official says a new arms trade treaty “must establish mechanisms to curtail irresponsible and destabilizing arms transfers.”
Syrian Opposition Meet in Rome, Appeal for Cease-fire
A call for reform and an end to violence on both sides.
‘Balkanization’ of the Congo Protested
“We have only one land, and we must protect her. So, we will march to say no to the balkanization of the country.”
Tensions Persist Between Beijing And Rome on Bishop Ordinations
During his ordination ceremony Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin renounced his role in the government-approved Catholic Patriotic Association.
Ethnic Cleansing in South Kordofan?
The government of Sudan has continued a campaign of indiscriminate bombing, harassment and starvation against the Nuba people in South Kordofan Province.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts