Voices

Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
Signs Of the Times
In many ways the success of In-N-Out Burgers in Los Angeles is mystifying.
In All Things
As reported in America rsquo s Sept 29th Current Comment ldquo Protecting Human Dignity rdquo nbsp California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law the country rsquo s first ldquo affirmative consent rdquo bill mandating that sexual partners on state college campuses must give ldquo affir
In All Things
If you happened to pull yourself away from all the Cupich-to-Chicago news this weekend last night someone in my community called his appointment the most important moment in the American Church since quot Humane Vitae quot so I rsquo m going to say he didn rsquo t you might have seen reference
In All Things
While in my Jesuit training I spent three years teaching high school at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota You 39 ve probably heard of Pine Ridge the New York Times and Washington Post love to send reporters out for week-long jaunts after which
In All Things
Americans looking for a signal as to the kind of men Pope Francis hopes to put in leadership in dioceses like Chicago might turn their attention to Sydney where Bishop Anthony Fisher O P 54 was just announced as the next archbishop of Australia rsquo s only cardinalatial seat nbsp Bishop Fishe
News
Whooping cough is back because more and more parents are refusing vaccination.
Signs Of the Times
The State of California’s Corrections Department will end its policy of isolating mentally ill inmates for up to 23 hours a day and instead move them into specialized housing, where they will receive more humane treatment.The move, announced on Aug. 29, comes after U.S. District Court Judge La
News
In a policy shift with enormous implications the state of California rsquo s Department of Managed Health Care has ruled that Anthem Blue Cross and Kaiser Permanente cannot offer Catholic institutions health insurance plans that ask members to pay their own premiums for abortion procedures The mov
In All Things
Nobel laureate brought new discoveries of physics to the people
Television
When HBO first announced that it had greenlit a television series about the Rapture, one would have been forgiven for assuming we were in for yet another twist on Hollywood’s seemingly endless obsession with the post-apocalyptic. Given the popularity of recent “scripturally inspired&rdqu