The Latest from CARA
For decades the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University has been an invaluable resource for data on the American Catholic community. Founded in 1964, CARA’s mission–to increase the church’s self understanding–neatly dovetails with that of America, and we have
Complications: A Catholic hospital, a pregnant mother and a questionable excommunication
A Catholic hospital, a pregnant mother and a questionable excommunication
The Jesus Controversy: Why historical scholarship cannot find the living Jesus
Why historical scholarship cannot find the living Jesus
Mirada Global
America is pleased to announce our formal partnership with Mirada Global, a multilingual Web site that brings together articles from Jesuit publications in North and South America. With the publication of each issue of America we will link to one article from Mirada Global.
Here is our latest offering, an…
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
A new book examines what it takes to build a lasting peace.
Letters
Letters
Zero Programs Re “Justice for Juniors” (Editorial, 7/15): Here in Maryland we have an incompetent Department of Juvenile Justice “functioning” in an outmoded statutory framework. It provides some services at the lower end of the seriousness scale. For youth who approach age 1
Editorials
Guns and the Court
In the wake of a recent ruling, gun groups are intent on challenging a host of restrictive laws.
Faith in Focus
Point Guards and Purpose: Why I still root for Bobby Hurley
Why I still root for Bobby Hurley
Books
Bricklayer’s Son
A memoir from ‘America’s Best Theologian’
Market Maven
The banker who saved London
Displaced
Was Christianity complicit in the sin of slavery?
Film
Confessions of a Heartland Hermit: Robert Duvall channels Tolstoy in ‘Get Low’
The new film “Get Low” contemplates the moral psychology of coming clean.
Television
Something Out of Nothing: A look at the sitcom post-Seinfeld
NBC’s “Community” is one example of the complicated situation that is situation comedy.
The Word
Obedient Faith
Freeing the heart from attachment to anything but God’s love and God’s realm is the next step in obedience.
Bodily Spirituality
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (C), Aug. 15, 2010
Columns
Faith, Hope and Humpty
I ask myself: ‘Is the egg really smashed, or is it hatching?’
Current Comment
Current Comment
Total Soccer; The Future of Farm Workers; Death on the High Seas
Faith
Obedient Faith
Freeing the heart from attachment to anything but God’s love and God’s realm is the next step in obedience.
Signs Of the Times
Faith, Hope and Humpty
“Funny,” she said, “How much right-side-up can come from upside down.” This hopeful message greets me every morning when I sit down at my desk and reread the card a very understanding friend sent to me during my recent upheavals. The picture accompanying the caption shows someone b
New Benchmarks for a Just and Stable Economy
New laws may help keep Wall Street in line, but what’s next?
Nonviolence Becomes Palestinian Protest Strategy
Palestinians learn nonviolence to resist Israeli occupation.
Venezuelan Cardinal Defends his Criticism of Chavez Government
Venezuela’s Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino butts heads—again—with President Hugo Chavez.
Young Catholics Resist Land-Grab for Bio-fuel
Catholic activists in India push back against land-use conversions from food to bio-fuels.
Chilean President Rejects Pardon, Orders Prison Review
Sebastian Pinera rejects bishop’s call for a pardon that may include Chilean military and instead orders a review of Chile prison conditions for all inmates.
Newsbriefs
Paulist Father Lawrence Boadt, a leading Catholic biblical scholar and former CEO and president of Paulist Press, died at his residence in Mahwah, N.J., July 24 after a long battle with cancer. He was 67. ♦ In the wake of an undercover video and news report documenting priests in Rom
Supreme Court Ruling Threatens Work of Peace
In June, the court voted to uphold a federal law that makes it a crime knowingly to provide “material support” to organizations designated as foreign terrorist groups.
Musicians Prepare for Coming Changes in Mass Text
“All of the musical settings need to be rewritten,” said Annette Wright, a director of music from Ray Township, Mich.
Common Ground on Immigration
In a statement dated July 12, Cardinal Roger Mahony cited five areas of commonality.
AIDS Study Supports Faith Leaders’ Work
A new UN study sponsored lends credibility to faith leaders who have long argued that behavioral change is key to combating the spread of AIDS.
Professor Defends Muslim Center
The campaign to prevent the construction of a Muslim community center near the site of the World Trade Center attacks is emblematic of an “Islamophobia,” John L. Esposito said.
News Briefs
Two weeks after the government of Peru threatened to expel Paul McAuley, a La Salle brother and British missionary known for his environmental defense work, the president of the Peruvian bishops’ conference expressed his “full support for the…[country’s] missionaries in their work of evangelization.”
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