A 50-year-old woman suffering from a form of motor neurone disease who has been wheelchair-bound since 2005 now walks again after bathing in Lourdes -- and her doctor is stunned The Italian press is carrying the story -- eg Corriere here -- and there s Spanish coverage here As usual such stories

nbsp We ve gotten thousands of hits and a boatload of letters on this week s two nbsp cover stories by Bishop John D Arcy and John Quinn on the Notre Dame affair nbsp Some you can already read at the close of each of the articles others we will publish in later editions of the magazine nbsp F

ldquo hellip the difficult yet noble art of politics rdquo nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp This phrase from Vatican II Gaudium et Spes No 75 nbsp comes to mind as we remember Senator Ted Kennedy nbsp nbsp The Council encourages those with ta

The five obstacles to health care reform named in the America editorial of Aug 31-Sept 7 is hardly an exhaustive list Other obstacles keep getting in the way I rsquo ve identified five more below 1 Distrust of government Andrew Kohut president of the PEW Research Center asked rhetorically w

Senator Edward M Kennedy was far from the perfect man nbsp In fact his infamous actions at Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 which led to the death of the young Mary Jo Kopechne he called at the time ldquo indefensible rdquo I agree Less remarked-upon nbsp over the last few days nbsp has been

We may still be on a biweekly schedule but we continue to update the Web site every week with new material Father Jim Martin has been keeping our blog readers up to speed on our many online culture offerings And yesterday we posted two new articles on our home page The first deals with the neura