Cambridge MA I am just returned from Loyola University in Chicago where I was graciously hosted for two days by Mark Bosco SJ Director of the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage I met with doctoral students for a long lunch that had to do with a range of topics in

Bishop Blase Cupich the newly appointed archbishop of Chicago is a longtime contributor to America nbsp Readers of the magazine and our website will know him for his many pastoral thoughtful and forthright articles that have appeared over the years nbsp Here a few from recent years with some

While in my Jesuit training I spent three years teaching high school at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota You 39 ve probably heard of Pine Ridge the New York Times and Washington Post love to send reporters out for week-long jaunts after which

Pope Francis is going to Albania on Sunday Sept 21 It is his first visit to a European country and he has chosen to go to the only majority Muslim country on the periphery of the old continent where Christians and Muslims who suffered under communism now live together in harmony and have formed

Americans looking for a signal as to the kind of men Pope Francis hopes to put in leadership in dioceses like Chicago might turn their attention to Sydney where Bishop Anthony Fisher O P 54 was just announced as the next archbishop of Australia rsquo s only cardinalatial seat nbsp Bishop Fishe

Mark P Shea is a Washington-based Catholic writer blogger and speaker Raised as an agnostic pagan he became a non-denominational Protestant Evangelical in 1979 before converting to Catholicism in 1987 In addition to a number of books and regular articles in Catholic periodicals Mr Shea is au