We are pleased to announce that America will now feature videos from Catholic News Service along with the weekly videos produced by our staff Check the blog or the video player on our home page for the latest videos We begin with a report from CNS on the opening day of Synod of Bishops on the new
Two Catholics vying for the vice-presidency will meet on a stage in Kentucky Thursday night for a debate whose stakes are quite high Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan will face each other in the first major political event since last week when Mitt Romney crushed a tired and seemi
Over the course of teaching college for the past dozen years and through my own many missteps I have come to see it as a basic rule of decency that as much as possible people should be called whatever they prefer to be called I have seen this rule of thumb proven helpful in many kinds of convers
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization Here we offer an introduction to the new evangelization from the Archbishop Rino Fisichella the first president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization This article is reproduced with perm
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