In our current issue Archbishop Timothy M Dolan calls upon all Catholics to recommit themselves to the mission of Catholic education The truth is that the entire parish the whole diocese and the universal church benefit from Catholic schools in ways that keep communities strong Archbishop Dola

John W Martens an associate professor of theology at St Thomas University is well known to readers of The God Word In our latest podcast Prof Martens reflects on the question what is the Bible The answer depends on whether you are Jewish Catholic Orthodox or Protestant Even among Englis

Two items of note for you Anglophiles out there The BBC has collected its interviews with British authors in this amazing online archive Listen to conversations with Virginia Woolf P G Wodehouse Kingsley Amis Hilary Mantel V S Naipaul the list goes on Alas I can t locate any Graham Gree

As part of our ongoing partnership with CARA we will be regularly calling attention to their recent findings on In All Things Here you can read about the changing attitudes of Catholic students in the 20 years since the promulgation of the papal encyclical Ex corde ecclesiae Among other things

This week s cover story from Fr Leo Donovan reviews the Matisse exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art Here we offer a slideshow of images from the exhibit The debate on the search for the historical Jesus continues this week as two scholars respond to Luke Timothy Johnson s article The Jesus Cont

W Malcolm Byrnes report on the prolife promise of induced pluripotent stem cells is a lucid presentation of a complex scientific and moral question To hear more from Professor Byrnes check out this week s podcast Our In These Pages selection this week looks at the thorny problem of immigration r

Last week we announced our formal partnership with Mirada Global nbsp an online magazine that brings together material from Jesuit publications in North and South America As part of this collaboration we will be featuring weekly links to articles from MG Here is our latest offering a nbsp refl

Regular readers of this blog are familiar with the wisdom of Francis X Clooney S J Now Fr Clooney has been recognized for his outstanding work in comparative theology by the British Academy which has elected him a corresponding fellow Corresponding Fellows are scholars nbsp outside the UK who

America is pleased to announce our formal partnership with Mirada Global a multilingual Web site that brings together articles from Jesuit publications in North and South America Like America Mirada Global is for the general reader not academics and covers a variety of subjects from religion a

This week in conjunction with his article on The Jesus Controversy we are pleased to feature a conversation with renowned Bibilcal scholar Luke Timothy Johnson on our podcast Johnson argues that historical scholarship alone cannot find the living Jesus Though the study of history can help Chri