When I was a boy I laughed when my parents would talk about their all-time favorite April Fool s joke the famous BBC spaghetti harvest TV spot which fooled millions of viewers a la The War of the Worlds Even their fading memories of the spot made them laugh Well here it is from 195

Catholic voters certainly came to look at the Democratic Party differently in the wake of Roe but the breaking apart of the New Deal Coalition had begun earlier The turmoil of the late 1960s the counter-culture the anti-Vietnam War protests the emergence of radical feminism Stonewall etc

As you may have discerned from Matt Malone s posts a few of us at America are besotted with John Adams the second president that is not the composer Last night I watched an advance copy of the final episode of HBO s stupendous series John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linne

John McCain is sitting pretty right now While the Hillary and Barack slug it out McCain can begin to frame the November election and to position himself as the candidate best able to attract crucial swing voters And no voters have more swing in them than ethnic Catholics concentrated as they are

My students and I at Fordham have been reading Shushaku Endo s Silence this week as part of a class on Catholic novels Translated by William Johnston S J whose long and distinguished career includes a recent essay published in America the novel treats the struggles of Christian missionari

A few years ago a Catholic friend who lives in a large northeastern city told me of visiting a church that had been closed for some time It was a grand and great old church where we had both been parishioners The diocese had started to auction off various pieces of art in the church to the highe