Here is a selection of writing from Americas Web site. Currently, the site features two group blogs: The Good Word, on Scripture and preaching, and In All Things, both featuring daily commentary. Plus, you can find articles from the archive each week (under the banner In These Pages) and discussions

Commentators have focused ad infinitum on the racial composition of the electorate in South Carolina last week But as noted earlier Obama trounced Clinton among church-goers by 58 to 27 3 points better than he did among all voters Certainly there was a degree of overlap between church-goers an

Faithful Citizens “A Future Without Parish Schools,” by Terry Golway, (12/10) raises a crucially important issue for the future of catechesis in the Catholic Church in the United States. Catholic parish schools have been an extremely important factor in providing for the catechesis of Ca

A reflection on the Feast of the Epiphany

It poured rain the entire day that Christmas in Georgia, but we never let it dampen our spirits. I was visiting close neighbors, Sam and Beth and their young son. The three of us had prepared a vegetarian feast of succulent grain dishes, vegetable medleys, fruits, nuts, goat cheese and breads, not t

It is sometimes hard to believe that dirty-faced shepherds were Jesus' first royal retinue.

How overwhelming the first Christmas must have been for Mary and Joseph.

The social worker and I belonged to the same parish, but we were merely acquaintances. So I was surprised when she called to ask whether anyone at our farm might be willing to take in a mother who had given birth during the night. There were perhaps 50 committed adults living at Koinonia Partners In

Cambridge Ma -- Advent and Christmas perhaps even more than other religious holidays are at first a bit awkward at Harvard even at the Divinity School where I teach While custom and the academic calendar combine to maintain the sense that December is a festive time there is little room for

These last seven days of Advent are a special time of the Church year among my favorites on the liturgical calendar nbsp Not only do the readings for the daily Masses just before Christmas include the beginnings of the Gospel infancy narratives Matthew 1 on Dec 17-18 Luke 1 on Dec 19-24 but