H T to my friend and former colleague Kevin Canfield for calling my attention to today s release of the latest album from the Hold Steady Heaven is Whenever Such an occasion should not go unnoticed so here is the early review from the Washington Post The spirituality inherent in the concert ex

This week s cover story looks at Matteo Ricci the Jesuit missionary to China in honor of the 400th anniversary of his death In conjunction with that article we have reprinted Matteo Ricci s Lesson to a Modern Missionary from 1996 Mark White a Jesuit novice at the time reflected on Ricci s l

Just posted to our site along with the May 10 issue is this essay from Bishop Blase Cupich chair of the U S bishops Committee for Child and Youth Protection Twelve Things the Bishops Have Learned From the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis A few highlights 8 Bishops need to be mutually accountabl

Here s an early peak at next week s podcast an interview with Stanley Hauerwas the Duke University scholar who was named America s best theologian by Times magazine in 2001 Best Hauerwas demurred is not a theological category Hauerwas discusses his new memoir Hannah s Child which dea

In his Web-only article for America Cul-de-Sac Catholicism Nicholas P Cafardi asked why the U S bishops conference fought health care reform to the end even when the president signed an executive order pledging that the new bill would not utlitize public funds to pay for abortions Now three

In light of the charged debate surrounding the troubling new immigration law in Arizona it is worth revisiting John J Savant s article from October 26 Imagining the Immigrant Savant s prescient insight was that the nation s anti-immigrant fervor is fundamentally a failure of imagination The A

I ve already blogged about Matt Malone s article on the upcoming U K elections but allow me to plug our podcast on the same subject Matt helped coordinate America s coverage of the U S elections in 2008 so his take on the elections in Britain are particularly interesting The British media for

Last week I posted excerpts of Father Robert Beloin s homily on the sexual abuse crisis in hopes that the resources of Scripture could be a fruitful resource for reflecting on the church s problems today This week we offer another homily for your reflection this one from Father Michael Ryan of th

If you haven t done so already take a few minutes 12 to be exact to watch this trailer from the upcoming documentary Monse ntilde or The Last Days of Oscar Romero Having worked at two Catholic magazines I ve read a lot about the martyred archbishop but nothing compares to seeing this foot

As the May 6 election in Britain nears Matt Malone S J reports from London on the ever tightening race to control the next parliament Not long ago the Conservative leader David Cameron was the favorite to lead his party to victory but the recent surge of the Liberal Democrats and Nick Clegg