Cambridge MA I spent a little time this week reading The Testament of Mary by the Irish novelist Colm T ib n It is a meditation in the voice of Mary the Mother of Jesus in her old age as she looks back on her life I needn rsquo t summarize it here since America has already printed a fine

Polls show Catholics favor stricter gun control laws more than members of any other denomination yet some wonder why it seems church leaders don rsquo t say much about the issue Below are 16 church leaders who have indeed taken a public stand This is by no means an exhaustive list In the comment

nbsp Here is some great news After almost a year of planning and preparation America Press has released today a brand-new Kindle edition of the classic memoir With God in Russia by Servant of God Walter Ciszek SJ whose cause for canonization has just been announced America Press was the orig

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At an event in Washington last night reexamining the race for the White House and looking forward to the next four years hosted by NPR Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page discussed the fractured cultural climate in which we find ourselves citing the hyper-partisan programming on both Fox News

nbsp An intriguing essay in Slate compares two writers who one might be surprised to learn not only lived in the same century but shared the same religion In the corner of the afterlife where they keep the Catholic alcoholic geniuses Jack Kerouac and Evelyn Waugh are having a lovely time togethe