How does the future of Catholicism in America appear to be shaping? Let us look at the facts. Immigration, the constant source hitherto of Catholic increase, has been cut down from the wide torrential river which it was before the Great War to an insignificant trickle. Mere numerical increase of the

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If I were ever inclined to become a conservative Republican I would only have to read the latest press release from Bill Donohue s Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights to be dissuaded Donohue has called for Obama s Catholic Advisory Board to resign en masse because none of them sta

Paraguayans Elect Retired Bishop Lugo as President Retired Bishop Fernando Lugo was elected president of Paraguay April 20, ending the six-decade rule of the Colorado Party. Bishop Lugo took an early lead in the pre-election polls despite official disapproval from the Vatican and, initially, from th

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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