Voices
Current Comment
Proliferation of prenatal screening presents an ethical challenge to health care providers.
Editorials
Ever-thinner women and toned men are held up in the media to devastating effect.
Editorials
A majority of students in the nation’s public schools are now growing up in poverty.
Current Comment
The late Rev. Richard McBrien said he didn't "hold things back.” We are richer for it.
Arts & CultureCatholic Book Club
From 1928 to 2003, the Catholic Book Club worked as a subscription service where America partnered with publishers to mail books to CBC readers. A (more or less) comprehensive list of 75 years worth of selections can be found here.
Current Comment
What we can learn from the complicated legacy and canonization of Junípero Serra
Vantage Point
Time has accomplished what a U.S.-supported invasion, a crushing economic embargo, the collapse of the Soviet Union and any number of external and internal catastrophes could not: the removal of Fidel Castro from direct control over the people of Cuba. Suffering from failing health, Castro has final
Current Comment
In 2014 state legislatures and courts made record reforms to solitary confinement.