What’s Learning For? : Hermann Hesse and Jesuit higher education
Hermann Hesse and Jesuit higher education
The Missing Link: Can Catholic schools connect scholarly research and poor communities?
Can Catholic schools connect scholarly research and poor communities?
Preambles for Faith: Effective way to nurture belief among skeptical students
Effective way to nurture belief among skeptical students
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
John W. Donohue, S.J., was the last associate editor who worked exclusively on a typewriter.
Letters
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Sing Alleluia!In this season of Alleluias, the April 8 issue of America deserves a robust chorus.From the historical analysis of the continuing influence of “Pacem in Terris” (“A Vision of Peace”), by Drew Christiansen, S.J., to the thoughtful, irenic suggestions for responsi
Editorials
Glaring Inequalities
Over the long term, wealth inequality is an imbalance that threatens the common good.
Faith in Focus
Child of God: A foster parent finds grace in letting go
For days we knew that our little one would be leaving us forever.
Books
The Scarlet Fretter
This new literary biography mdash rdquo not a formal biography but more than a work of literary criticism rdquo in the words of its author Robert Milder professor of English at Washington University in St Louis mdash contends that Nathaniel Hawthorne was a man divided be-tween his realist perc
A Criminal Injustice System
Blacks and Hispanics make up almost 60 percent of the prison population.
The Battle Before the War
John Burt analyzes in detail the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.
The Word
Reborn in the Spirit
The Jewish feast of Pentecost also known as the Feast of Weeks originally celebrated the spring harvest It was a pilgrimage festival that took place 50 days after the end of Passover By the time of Jesus Pentecost was also celebrated as a joyous remembrance of the giving of the law at Sinai See
Columns
The Walking Cure
I honestly cannot remember a time when I was angry on the sidewalk.
Schools for Hire?
To treat students and teachers like objects to be measured is unjust and unhelpful.
Current Comment
Current Comment
Copts Under Seige; Who’s Minding the Children? Eyes Wide Shut
Signs Of the Times
India: 50,000 Children Sexually Assaulted
“The whole country is in shock,” a spokesman for the country’s bishops said.
Oscar Romero’s Sainthood Cause to Move Forward
The process to beatify and eventually canonize the slain archbishop has been “unblocked.”
Nigeria: New Fighting as Amnesty Plan for Boko Haram Provokes Outrage
President Goodluck Jonathan has promised an investigation after heavy fighting in Baga.
Three Counts Dropped Against Abortionist
A Philadelphia judge dismissed three of eight murder charges on April 23 in the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist accused of killing infants who had been born alive at his abortion clinic. Gosnell was arrested in January 2011 and charged with seven counts of infanticide and one
Steady Progress On Abuse in Ireland
A national board reported “progress in developing robust safeguarding structures.”
News Briefs
A Vatican-convoked commission of doctors concluded that a healing attributed to Blessed John Paul II had no natural explanation, a finding that could clear the way for the canonization of the pope. • U.S. Army Chaplain Stephen McDermott was awarded the Bronze Star in April for his service in Af
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Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts