Please forgive the shameless plug but because I rsquo ve written in America magazine on popular media culture and theology many times over the last decade and since I rsquo ve even let slip a few rock and roll meditations in a mystagogical register on this very blog I thought there would be no ha

Today Pope Benedict offered nbsp an explanation of why he sought a rapprochement with the four excommunicated Lefebvrite bishops members of the Society of St Pius X nbsp His remarks are summarized by CNS below nbsp H t to David Gibson at Dotcommonweal nbsp At the same time the chief rabbi

The GOP has a GOM Grand Old Mess on its hands Apologies to Gladstone nbsp The election for a new party chairman is exposing the fact that the party has no idea how to proceed after two straight election losses George W Bush had become the boogeyman for the GOP It was all his fault This lin

Actor Matt Damon drew attention a couple months ago with a scathing tirade about Sarah Palin The thought of her as president he argued was like a really bad Disney movie The hockey mom you know Oh I m just a hockey mom from Alaska and she s the president and she s facing down Vlad

This just in from John Allen at NCR nbsp nbsp Bishop Fellay of the Society of St Pius X has released this statement in response to the controversy over Bishop Williamson s recent remarks We have become aware of an interview released by Bishop Richard Williamson a member of our Fraternity

John Updike one of the great nbsp American writers has died at the age of 76 nbsp Besides two Pulitzer Prizes and countless other awards Mr Updike also received the St Edmund Campion Award from America rsquo s editorial board for achievement in Christian letters in 1997 One of my fondest