A group of prominent Catholic theologians has posted on the Catholic Moral Theology website a petition against the death penalty in the wake of the execution of two men in Georgia and in Texas nbsp Their statement discusses the unfair application of the death penalty Studies have shown that bl

New York Sept 23 2011 America Press Inc the Jesuit-sponsored magazine and web site today announced the appointment of Father John P Schlegel S J as publisher and president Father Schlegel who recently completed 11 years as president of Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska will assume

Anthony Ruff OSB at PrayTell has an analysis of Bishop Olmsted s decision to restrict the reception nbsp among laypeople of wine the Precious Blood at Communion nbsp The diocese is admitting that the bishop nbsp could have nbsp allowed priests to continue giving Communion under both forms at

Just as interesting as nbsp Andrew J Garavel s nbsp review of the new play Temporal Powers is the story of its recovery and the unfairly forgotten Irish playwright Teresa Deevy nbsp Fr Garavel a Jesuit priest and assistant professor of English at Santa Clara is also something of a special

Interviewed by Our Sunday Visitor in their latest issue nbsp Love the cover OSV You wrote that humor should be seen as a requirement in a Church leader Why do you think it rsquo s such an important attribute nbsp Father Martin First it rsquo s important to have a sense of humility and pover

The America community readers viewers etc will remember the Rev Michael Ryan s article What if We Just Said Wait which proposed delaying the roll-out of the new English translation of the Roman Missal scheduled for this Advent nbsp The article drew 239 online comments was linked to an

While the nbsp topic shouldn t overshadow the magnitude of the memorial services I agree with the much of the criticism over the exclusion of clergy from the official 9 11 ceremony in New York City nbsp An article in the New York Times Omitting Clergy at 9 11 Ceremony Prompts Protest nbsp by

From America s issue of Oct 1 2001 On Sept 13 two days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center I made my way to one of the emergency trauma centers in Manhattan It had been hastily set up in a cavernous sports facility called Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River I had been there ea

Talking with Vatican Radio on 9 11 and the spiritual legacy of Ground Zero

The nbsp inspiring story of the New England Jesuits who founded and ran Baghdad College that city s premier high school for several decades is well known to Jesuits nbsp The Society was summarily kicked out of the country when the Baath party came to power nbsp nbsp The school s nbsp alumni