Do you know how much we owe Who owns it How about how the debt was acquired though presidential markers The New York Times and the Boston Globe nbsp recently created a chart to help clarify the numbers of the debt crisis The graphic link is here nbsp Enjoy nbsp Michael L Avery nbsp nbsp

A brand-new reviewer for our online Culture section Bryan McCarthy a DPhil candidate in theology at Oxford University writes about the touching new movie Terri where McCarthy and the characters found grace nbsp Fundamentally the new film nbsp Terri directed by Azazel Jacob is about grac

I am reading a recent book by Biblical theologian Gary A Anderson on the changing ideas of sin in Judaism and early Christianity nbsp He analyzes scriptural texts using many detailed scholarly sources nbsp His intriguing nbsp findings are that the concept of sin in Judaism changed from earlier

The editors and staff of America wish all of our readers viewers and friends a happy Feast of St Ignatius Loyola nbsp Be sure to read the reflection by John Coleman S J in the post below nbsp Here is Ignatius s famous Take Lord Receive or Suscipe prayer to mark the day nbsp May you

I finished this past week leading sixteen Jesuit tertians--from around the world and this country-- men making what Ignatius mandated as a kind of intense nbsp school of the heart before taking eventually their final vows in the Society in a week-long sapiential or prayerful reading of T

As many America readers know in the Catholic tradition the Litany of the Saints is a sung prayer of appeal to God and the saints I am most familiar with it as a chant with the cantor intoning the saint and the assembled responding hear our prayer as you can see in this video of such a litan