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Letters

Our readers

May 13, 2000

Secret BlessingThe article by John O’Malley, S.J., (4/8) gives rise to the hope that our best kept secretthat the church is an institution that lives in history and has changed - will finally be appreciated. What a blessing a dedicated church historian is.Thomas A. ShannonWorcester, Mass.None

News

Signs of the Times

From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

April 01, 2000

Vermont Bishop Decries Passage of Civil Unions’ BillBishop Kenneth A. Angell of Burlington said a bill approved by the Vermont House allowing civil unions between homosexuals is simply same-sex marriage under another name. The bishop said the 76-to-69 vote made him feel the way he supposed a m

FaithFeatures

Is Anti-Catholicism The Last Acceptable Prejudice?

James Martin, S.J.

March 25, 2000

From 2000: In a "multicultural" society shouldn’t anti-Catholicism be a dead issue?

Editorials

Send the Boy Home to Cuba

The Editors

March 11, 2000

Located 80 miles east of Havana on Cuba’s northern coast, the city of Cárdenas, from which young Elián Gonzalez comes, is a relatively poor but bustling and friendly town of some 40,000one of those places where you instantly sense that everyone knows everyone else. It’s a place of huma

Of Many Things

George M. Anderson

January 15, 2000

It was barely after 6 a.m. on a Thursday, but already lines had formed at the Greyhound gates on the lower level of the Port Authority bus terminal in New York City. On the longest linefor the 7 a.m. bus to Washingtona baby was crying in its mother’s arms. I was in a nearby line for the bus to

Immigrants in Detention

George M. Anderson

January 15, 2000

"End detention as we know it": This was the goal presented at the beginning of the third annual Detention Watch Network conference on Nov. 25-28 in Baltimore, Md. Using the phrase in satiric imitation of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign promise to restructure welfare, James Haggerty, an

Columns

Life in the 90's

Terry Golway

January 01, 2000

There are times, I must confess, when I am tempted to indulge in a bit of merriment at the expense of those who have presided over our high-tech revolution. They are smart, no doubt about it, but how could they not have anticipated the Y2K bug? We liberal arts types, we who speak a language devoid o

Politics & SocietyVantage Point

Dr. Paul Farmer: Medicine and liberation theology

Paul Farmer

July 15, 1995

How would a health intervention inspired by liberation theology be different from those with more conventional underpinnings?

Immigration's Dark History: From February 18, 1995

Peter A. Quinn

February 18, 1995

From 1987, Peter A. Quinn on America's immigration traumas

Vantage Point

Vantage Point presents revealing and timely articles from America's archives. Scroll through the links below to view selections from the magazine's 100 year history.

"The Marathon"

The editors on the Boston marathon bombings: "A victim of senseless violence as surely as those on Boylston Street, Jesus is with us in our suffering, not only because he loves us, but because he has suffered too."

Remembering Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.

Tributes to and selections from the work of the Biblical scholar and longtime America contributor

'America' on Religious Liberty

An archive spanning 70 years

Humane Vitae 25 Years Later

From July 17, 1993

Richard A. McCormick, S.J., on the anniversary of Pope Paul VI's controversial encyclical

'America' on Immigration

Select articles on immigrants and immigration reform

Remembering John F. Kavanaugh

Select articles from one of America's most talked about columnists

Gettysburg's Catholic Memories