Why was Giordano Bruno burned at the stake?
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Promoting the Faith: An Interview With William J. Levada
The Office of the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is reached by staircase or elevator up one level from the inner courtyard at Piazza del Sant’Uffizio, 11, near the end of the colonnade that wraps around the Piazza San Pietro. The dome of St Peter’s Basilica, designed six centuries ago by Michelangelo, is in partial view from all the office windows.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
How Consumerism is Destroying Christmas
We might think the battle for Christmas is over words. But the struggle is waged at a far deeper level of our lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
The Call of the King: ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’
Whether we love or hate the “Lord of the Rings” films, we have to admire them: they are a monumental cinematic achievement. Shot over 274 days for $281 million and lasting 558 minutes, these films have, at the time of writing and in the United States alone, grossed over $897 million.
Posted inFaith in Focus
Why I Still Want to Be a Priest
In the week before my ordination 35 years ago, America published an article I had written entitled “Why I Want to Be a Priest” (6/8/68). I recall the circumstances in which I wrote it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A Writer’s Writer Remembers
Seven years ago in ‘Acts A Writer: Reflections on the Church, Writing and His Own Life,’ novelist Larry Woiwode interleaved his idiosyncratic meditations on Luke’s narrative of the first Apostles with his own story of giving up an English professor’s job in upstate New York.
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The Infallibility Debate: From July 7, 1973
When Hans Küng’s Infallible? An Inquiry appeared in 1971, it drew ample praise and blame, including sharp criticisms by his theological colleague, Karl Rahner, S.J.. AMERICA carried discussions of the book’s theological and philosophical aspects by