This is just a reminder for those in the greater New York City area who may be interested in attending this Friday s conference at Fordham University Learning to Listen Voices of Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church Due to heavy advance conference registration the conference is nearly full

Another fine profile from associate editor Kerry Weber During September 2001 Michael Armstrong was busy Then 34 years old he was preparing to get married in October He planned to be out of the office at the end of the week of September 11 for his bachelor party On Monday the 10th he attended

There rsquo s a wonderful 1932 now-forgotten film mdash except in film classes mdash called The Phantom President which comes to mind every four years during primaries when things look bleak on either side It rsquo s about party leaders stuck with Theodore Blair a ldquo good rdquo cand

From Mirada Global Father rsquo s day was never one of the happiest days of my childhood I lost my father when I was nine and from that date on the issue was a kind of taboo and everyone tried to make me forget the only pain I had experienced in a life overflowing with love I didn rsquo t have a

The America community readers viewers etc will remember the Rev Michael Ryan s article What if We Just Said Wait which proposed delaying the roll-out of the new English translation of the Roman Missal scheduled for this Advent nbsp The article drew 239 online comments was linked to an

The Irish government spent the last few days pondering the official response from the Vatican on the Cloyne Report and the uproar which ensured upon its publication Basically they offer a thank you for your response but we stand by everything we said to the curia including the remarkably bitter