Five Myths About Nuclear Energy
Why atomic power isn’t the answer
The New Nuclear Threat: Twenty years after the end of the cold war, the arms race intensifies.
Twenty years after the cold war, the arms race intensifies.
Courting the Latino Vote: It’s about more than immigration.
It's about more than immigration.
On Religious Liberty
The issue of religious liberty is of the highest interest to me both as a theologian and as an American. It is, as it were, the American issue at the Council. The American episcopate is greatly pleased that the issue has finally appeared on the agenda of the Council, notwithstanding many efforts to
End of a Partnership: Catholic human rights groups part ways with Amnesty International.
Catholic human rights groups part ways with Amnesty International.
Which Latinos Elected Bush in 2004?
George W. Bush’s victory in 2004 has been credited to Latino voters. Some political commentators have even claimed that a majority of Latinos elected Bush in the 2004 presidential election. The statistics disprove the latter claim. Yet Latino votes in certain swing states did lead to a Bush wi
We Meet Again, Dr. Jones
The latest Indiana Jones film provides comfort food for the imagination
What Does the Church Say?
Though neither the Vatican nor the U.S. bishops have made a statement on nuclear power, the church has outlined the ethical case for renewable energy. In Centesimus Annus Pope John Paul II wrote that just as Pope Leo XIII in 1891 had to confront “primitive capitalism” in order to defend
Q&A with Jennifer Fulwiler: Responding to readers’ questions
Live-blogging starts at 1 p.m.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Memories of Dorothy Day, and the Catholic Worker houses in New York
Letters
Letters
Reformulating Reform In my review of Bishop Geoffrey Robinson’s book Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church (3/10), I professed a profound sympathy for much of Bishop Robinson’s analysis of the clerical sexual abuse scandal. Indeed, I believe that his analysis of much of what a
Editorials
A Small Light in Prison Darkness
The Second Chance Act is an important first step to prison reform.
Faith in Focus
Britain’s Brave New World: A new hybrid embryo bill ignores ethical concerns.
A new hybrid embryo bill ignores ethical concerns.
My Brother and Lazarus: ‘If you had been here, my brother would not have died.’
John was a victim of a Nebraska shooting spree.
Gems From the Web
Here is a selection of writing from the America Web site. Our site features two group blogs, “The Good Word” and “In All Things,” as well as weekly archive articles (under the banner In These Pages). Plus, you can find podcasts, video clips, slide shows and reviews of notable
Fidelity and Fecundity: A farmer explores a ‘vocation of location.’
Fidelity to a particular place or person means saying no to a number of other opportunities
Books
A Broader Religious Vision
A review of E.J. Dionne’s ‘Souled Out’
Passion for Thought…and Feeling
The poetry of Robert Creeley 1926-2005 is less a poetry of song and narrative than an artistry of language and thought syntax and consciousness syllable and word Benjamin Friedlander rsquo s edition the first ldquo selected rdquo poems since Creeley rsquo s death brings together verse from
Strings on Skid Row
The Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez was heading back to his office one day when he came upon a homeless African-American man playing Beethoven on a battered violin at a busy street corner Lopez learned that the man Nathaniel Ayers had once been a promising student at the famed Juilliard S
The Word
The Wisest Teacher
Never in history has so much information been accessible one need simply turn on a computer and connect to the Web Yet information is not the same as wisdom Information demands a context or intellectual framework it requires interpretation and calls out for practical action or implementation Th
The Pauline Year
This year the feast of the great apostles Peter and Paul supersedes the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time The readings for the Masses during the day and the vigil stress the complementarity between the two apostles The passage from Acts 12 shows how much Peter and others suffered for their fidelity t
Columns
Pulpits and Politics: ‘The preacher is a problem for himself.’
'The preacher is a problem for himself.'
Current Comment
Current Comment
Political excommunication and partisan priests
News
Signs of the Times
Few Iraqi Refugees Resettled in U.S. More than 1,000 refugees from Iraq arrived in the United States in May, the most in recent months, bringing the fiscal-year total to 4,742 so far, the State Department reported June 3. But with just four months left in the fiscal year, the administration’s
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts