The MacArthur Foundation recently announced the annual recipients of its so-called genius awards Twenty-three people received grants of half a million dollars each to use in any way they wished One early winner whom I personally know was Ellen Stewart founder and director of La MaMa E T C Expe

Discussion about art or beauty often regresses to a familiar conversation stopper ldquo Beauty rdquo someone inevitably will say ldquo is in the eye of the beholder rdquo End of discussion Many of the parishoners of Our Lady of Guadeloupe in Denver are living this frustrating stalemate An

ROME Last night standing outside the Jesuit Curia -- an obvious meeting-place for an America correspondent at the Vatican -- waiting for a colleague I watched the entrance to the Rome HQ just opposite of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre The cars had been cleared from that part of the Borgo San

With all the hoopla over the upcoming canonization of Mother Mary MacKillop the first Australian saint nbsp it would be nbsp terrible nbsp to forget another important canonization coming up nbsp this weekend on nbsp Oct 17 the amazing Andre Bessette the Holy Cross brother of Canada 1845-1937

New York Magazine has a fun feature on its last page called the Approval Matrix which critiques cultural trends nbsp Along the nbsp vertical axis is the spectrum Highbrow to Lowbrow nbsp Along the horizontal axis is Brilliant to Despicable nbsp nbsp Here is this week s in case nbsp my

Chile s political dynamics were largely unknown to the American public prior to this week s dramatic rescue of 33 miners And now we generally only hear about how the episode will affect President Sebasitian Pinera s chances for reelection The Jesuit-edited Mensaje magazine is a valuable source of