Educating for a Living Faith: What does it mean to go for the gold?
What does it mean to go for the gold?
Forgiveness Unbound: Reconciliation education is helping Rwanda to heal.
Reconciliation education is helping Rwanda to heal.
Giving Back: An Interview With Jane Martinez Dowling
A year ago, Ms. Dowling was named president of the Academy of Mount St. Ursula in the Bronx, the oldest continuous Catholic school for girls in New York State, founded by the Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union in 1855. , an associate editor of America , talked with her about her experiences of
Woman of Peace: The radical witness of Anne Montgomery
Whatever you do, do quickly.” Spoken two decades ago, these words of Anne Montgomery’s provincial superior to her were both a sign of support and an acknowledgment of advancing age. Now 80 years old, 60 of them lived as a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, Sister Montgomery has
The Faculty Problem: How can Catholic identity be preserved?
Can Catholic identity be preserved at Notre Dame?
Open House Ends
Sadly our summer open house has come to an end. But you can still sign up for our special $12 offer. And we hope you will. In the future, a selection of articles from America will be available to all those who register with the site. (Remember, registration is quick and FREE.) But to view…
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Being from Chicago, I have a weakness, a flaw really, for casting aspersions upon the Green Bay Packers, a football team from rural Wisconsin whose quarterback is so old they may need to provide him with a walker and an oxygen tent. Some-times I don’t even realize I’m doing it. I
Letters
Letters
Integrity Requires Candor Americas Current Comment Conversion/Covenant (8/13) seems to me to stress unduly the difference between the prayer for conversion of the Jews in the 1962 Missal, and the prayer in the 1970 Missal for the Jewish people, the first to hear the Word of God, that they may contin
Editorials
Keeping Children Healthy
Sick children are a nightmare for any family. But if the presidents 2008 budget is accepted without substantially increased funding for the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, or S-chip, millions of children will lack needed medical care when illness strikes. Created 10 years ago as a federal-
Faith in Focus
Praying in the Wild: Amid bears, grief and danger, a man finds peace.
While camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota last fall, which I regularly do, I had my first encounter with a bear. Black bears are shy, but a dry summer had left few berries, and previous messy campers had advertised the area as a promising place to stave off a
Books
Jihadi Journalist, American Patriot
Why is a 14-year veteran U S Marine officer a Texan working for Al Jazeera the so-called terrorist network Jazeera is not the mouthpiece of Al Qaeda as U S propaganda claims It is the only nongovernmental 24-hour news network to reach the Arab world and its cutting-edge technology allows it
Loving the World
A review of essays by Anne Fadiman
Top Priority: Addiction
Joseph A Califano was Lyndon Baines Johnsons chief domestic aide in the mid-1960s and 10 years later the last secretary of health education and welfare until July 1979 after President Jimmy Carters famous malaise speech In his acknowledgement for this new book he mentions his Jesuit formatio
Poetry
In the Event of a Fire
All of them. Broken-bottle kids from Butte
The Word
Lost Souls
A ldquo lost soul rdquo is someone who seems adrift morally spiritually intellectually and emotionally Such a person may be lost to drugs alcohol ambition greed gambling sexual promiscuity or the ldquo pragmatic rdquo mentality that shows no respect for human life and measures everything
Catholic Book Club
Summer Selection
The face of the Catholic Church in America has changed–and will likely continue changing–in the wake of Vatican II historic events scandals a new papacy and an increasingly pro-active laity Based on almost two decades of Gallup surveys from 1987 to 2005 American Catholics Today has been uni
Columns
Less Is More: ‘When you go down into the depths of the canyon at dawn, you can meet the creator at work.’
The plane touched down in Las Vegas. Neither my friend nor I had much of a clue about camping; so along with the tent, the sleeping bags and the backpacks, we had with us all kinds of things that might come in useful. We could hardly move beyond the carousel. In fact that Hercules transporter…
Current Comment
Current Comment
Who Lost Iraq? As Congress and the White House prepare for the assessment due on Sept. 15 of the situation in Iraq, an article in the current issue of Foreign Affairs merits their attention. James Dobbins, a former assistant secretary of state, asks, Who Lost Iraq? Mr. Dobbins argues that responsibi
News
Signs of the Times
New Book Illustrates Mother Teresas StrengthVatican officials said a new book that recounts in detail Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcuttas long crisis of faith illustrates her spiritual strength in the face of doubt. This is a figure who had moments of uncertainty and discouragement, experiencing the
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Culture
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Scripture
Podcasts