A Time for Reform: How the Catholic tradition can shape the health care debate
How the Catholic tradition can shape the health care debate
Obama’s Long War
How long is the U.S. prepared to stay in Afghanistan?
Demystifying Medicine: The tensions between faith and science in West Africa
The tensions between faith and science in West Africa
Modern Man: Brilliant and temperamental, the Abbe Lamennais anticipated many of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council
The Abbe Lamennais anticipated many of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
The Controversy at Notre Dame
In the August 31-September 7 issue of America two bishops look back at the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama’s appearance the University of Notre Dame commencement: Bishop John M. D’Arcy, of Fort Wayne-South Bend, and retired Archbishop John R. Quinn. America has published numerous arti
Health Care Round-Up
A selection of America‘s articles on health care reform
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Introducing our new culture editor, sans ascot and monocle
Letters
Letters
Burning Flame Just one question regarding “A Deacon’s Lessons,” by Greg Kandra (7/20): What about those of us who are called to the diaconate but have been given a resounding no for an answer? We are left with a burning flame, placed in the deepest part of our souls by God, which c
Editorials
Teilhard at Vespers
The church seems forever to be embracing those she once held in suspicion.
Faith in Focus
‘I Love You For Hating Me’: A struggling believer encounters the divine.
A struggling believer encounters the divine.
Ideas
Searching for Christ in a comic book culture
It should not surprise us that the superhero genre has shaped our culture’s understanding of Jesus.
Books
‘How Long, O Lord?’
In his poetry Killian McDonnell takes Yahweh to task
A Working Model
The challenge and promise of Catholic schools
Devout Dropout
A journey from the Jesuit seminary to life as poet and husband
Art
Continents Away: African and Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
An exhibit of African and Oceanic art at the Metropolitan Museum rejects the presumption that Western standards are the final arbiters of aesthetic achievement. View slide show.
Film
Screening Priests: From Spencer Tracy to Ewan McGregor
American film culture has maintained something of an ambivalent relationship with the Catholic priesthood.
The Joy of Julia: Nora Ephron’s tribute to the godmother of American cuisine
Biopics in recent years have featured artists and fallen leaders of all sorts, but no one quite like Julia Child.
The Word
Hard Choices
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Aug. 23, 2009
Inner Motives
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Aug. 30, 2009
Columns
Homework for Congress
The importance of getting health care reform right
Current Comment
Current Comment
The Transformation of G.E.; The Return of Lance Armstrong
Faith
Searching for Christ in a comic book culture
It should not surprise us that the superhero genre has shaped our culture’s understanding of Jesus.
Signs Of the Times
The State’s Duty to Protect: Enforcement in Question
Can mass violence in Darfur, Congo and Somalia be stopped? A report from the United Nations General Assembly.
Catholic Leaders Denounce Distortions
Sister Carol Keehan decried reports that Catholic health care leaders are “working at cross-purposes” with the U.S. bishops on the abortion issue.
Topics Identified for Apostolic Visitation
Topics to be addressed inclue governance; vocation promotion, admission and formation policies; and spiritual life and common life.
Pope Deplores Killings in Pakistan
Pope Benedict has urged the minority Christian community not to be deterred by the attack on Christian homes.
News Briefs
The Mexican Catholic bishops’ conference has criticized federal police for bursting into a Mass in the state of Michoaca.
ICE to Revamp Immigrant Detention Amid Complaints
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain families at a much-criticized former medium-security prison in Texas.
Mexican Government Apologizes to Church
A statement from the Secretariat of Public Security apologized for a police raid that interrupted a Mass in Michoaca.
Priest urges Zambian Official to Resign
A Zambian priest said the nation’s information minister should resign for accusing the Catholic Church of complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Orissa Christians Fearful as Anniversary Nears
A Catholic archbishop said only a few people accused in last year’s violence against Christians have been arrested.
News Briefs
Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, was “a woman of ardent faith and generous public service” said the apostolic nuncio to the United States.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts