Voices
Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
In All Things
Last week Australian news program ldquo The 7 30 Report rdquo had an extensive interview with Australian counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen Kilcullen has been an important advisor to both the Bush and Obama administrations on military policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and is considered one
Of Many Things
Like everything else, the structures we create age, diminish and eventually die.
Television
From the creator of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' a new show with much to say about the inviolability of human dignity.
Luis Arriage Valenzuela, S.J., is the director of Centro de Derechos Humanos Prodh, a Mexican human rights center begun in 1987 as a response to increasingly repressive policies by the Mexican government. Centro Prodh’s goal is to defend, promote and advocate for human rights through legal assistance. I spoke to Fr. Valenzulea about the current situation of human rights in Mexico earlier this month.
What are you seeing on the ground in Mexico today?
In All Things
nbsp In our own pages Fr Michael Czerny S J director of the African Jesuits AIDS Network has spoken in similar terms about the crisis of AIDS in Africa nbsp We learn as we go along that AIDS is very complex H I V is a virus that reduces and destroys the immune system But it rsquo s al
In All Things
Yesterday in a conversation with the press the Pope was widely cited as having said that the distribution of condoms would increase the problem of AIDS nbsp This has met with expected backlash agencies ranging from the World Health Organization and the New York Times to the French government
In All Things
1 St Patrick was not Irish Patrick was actually a Welshman who was abducted as a child by Irish brigands He was a slave for six years before he escaped After his conversion experience and years of study he returned to Ireland to convert the Irish 2 nbsp nbsp It s very unlikely that St Pa
Politics & Society
The truth behind Robert C. Hartnett, S.J.'s ongoing battle with McCarthy is that in an era when attacking McCarthy was professional suicide, Hartnett did so repeatedly.
In All Things
nbsp nbsp As the convention slowly came to a close on this unexpectedly brilliant warm day what stood out to me were the little things that are easily overlooked in such a loud crowded space The creators who didn rsquo t have long lines of people waiting to get autographs like penciller K