Yes you read that right nbsp America has nbsp published--posted--its first article ever in Spanish nbsp Yes a bit late given the predominance of Spanish-speaking Catholics in this country but better late than jam aacute s nbsp The story A few months ago I was invited to speak at this year

According to a 2004 study of the lifetime distribution of health care costs the per-capita lifetime expenditure for women is one-third higher than for men 361 200 and 268 700 respectively And that s for those with insurance The study used data from 3 75 million Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mich

In this week s issue the editors weigh in on the U S bishops conerns about and reactions to the recently passed health care reform bill The great stumbling block to endorsing the bill was the fear that under the terms of the core Senate bill financing might seep out through community health

Two new pieces on the burgeoning sexual abuse crisis are now up on our Web site First a Web-only analysis from Thomas J Reese S J of the Woodstock Theological Center and former editor of America of course on what the European bishops can learn from the U S sexual abuse crisis The biggest m

Yesterday in a post on the response to the New York Times story about the Milwaukee situation I referred to the reply of Father Brundage a central figure in the case nbsp and repeated his claim that he had been misquoted by the Times The Times has now pointed out that he was not quoted at all i

More so than in 2002 when the clerical sex abuse crisis exploded into American newspapers church leaders and prominent Catholics have accused the media of unjustly targeting the church specifically the pope nbsp The reporting on the issue is they say inaccurate unfair and motivated by anti-C