nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I heard Cardinal Waltar Kaspar deliver on Feb 21 the 31st annual Paul Wattson Lecture sponsored by the Friars of the Atonement and the University of San Francisco His topic was Hope for the Future of Ecumenism Kaspar recently retired as the long-time Pre

Sergeant Jeremy Mendenhall of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is really mad He is the president of The Ohio Troopers rsquo Association and is busy working to defeat Republican-sponsored legislation that he says would gut Ohio rsquo s collective bargaining arrangements and seriously enfeeble the po

The Rev George W Hunt, S.J., editor in chief of America magazine from 1984-1998, died this morning at the Fordham University Jesuit community in New York.

From Ciudad Nueva via Mirada Global a report on crime in Brazils infamous favelas and what can be done about them The successful experience of the Police Pacifying Units UPP in Portuguese confirm the need to invest in training The results achieved in the favelas where they have been plac

A contemporary religious film lavishly praised by America magazine our reviewer John Anderson called it vaguely miraculous and The New York Times nbsp which today called it beatiful somber and rigorously intelligent nbsp Need you any more encouragement to see the award-winning Of Gods and

Imagine a hard-working college history professor John Brayne alone in his study at home late at night He is hunched over his desk pushing his way through a pile of sophomore three-page papers on the Civil War depressed because five out of the 20 failed to hand their papers in and three tr