Yes Virginia there is a Republican candidate Amidst all the press coverage of Barack Obama s crazy pastor and Hillary Clinton s craven gas tax holiday you can be forgiven for forgetting that John McCain is running for president too But his campaign is taking shape and doing so in ways that

Bishops Urge Bill to Protect Farm Workers Expressing “deep concern for the men and women” who labor in the fields of southwestern Arizona and northern Mexico, the bishops of Tucson, Ariz., and Mexicali, Mexico, have issued a joint statement calling for legislation to end “exploitat

The late Thomas Clarke SJ once suggested to me that one of the most important questions we should ask in our quest for understanding is What time is it I ve been thinking about Tom s comment as Pope Benedict XVI begins his first visit as pontiff to the United States and remembering the fir

I told you so but I did Back in the third week of January http americamagazine org blog entry cfm blog id 2 id 9D26AE9A-3048-887F-8F45813D8C1D5293 I urged Barack Obama to introduce a family friendly approach to immigration reform This would perfectly illustrate the kind of transformative lea

Undocumented immigrants victimized by human traffickers are among the most vulnerable of the people affected by U.S. immigration policy. Many of them embark on their journey as hopeful migrants but run up against limits on legal migration and jobs. For the promise of honest work and earnings to shar

Last Monday the Democratic National Committee approved Puerto Rico s plan to change from a June 7 caucus to a June 1 primary After North Carolina and Indiana vote on May 6 Puerto Rico s 55 delegates will be the largest prize left News accounts and early analysis claim that Hillary Clinton

At first blush Pope Benedict s visit to the U S the week before the Pennsylvania primary should be bad news for Sen Clinton He will denounce abortion and she is backed by the most vocal pro-abortion groups in America He will denounce the Iraq War and coverage will recall that his predecessor

A religious seeker who found her home in the Catholic Church, Flannery OConnor once noted that stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements, and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by t

Time has accomplished what a U.S.-supported invasion, a crushing economic embargo, the collapse of the Soviet Union and any number of external and internal catastrophes could not: the removal of Fidel Castro from direct control over the people of Cuba. Suffering from failing health, Castro has final

Let’s call her María. She was illegally brought into the United States at the age of 2. Now 27, she is a vital member of her parish and has three young children. María was recently deported to Ciudad Juárez, where, in the last 15 years, 600 young women have been kidnapped, raped