As regular readers of America will know the magazine has provided thoughtful and balanced commentary on the sexual abuse crisis since the reports of scandal first surfaced in the Boston Globe in 2002 Here we provide an archive of of our coverage featuring articles from Thomas Reese Cardinal Aver

Why did the U S bishops fight the health care bill until the end even when President Obama signed an executive order prohibiting the use of federal funds for abortion The bill may now be law but questions still linger In this Web-only article Nicholas P Cafardi of Duquesne University School o

When we launched The Good Word a few years ago we hoped it would be a place to meditate on events in the news in light of Scripture For Catholics the news these days focuses largely on the church itself so it seems fitting to take up the issue of the sexual abuse crisis on this blog as John W

I ve blogged about this once before but just a reminder that we have set up a special page for teachers featuring selected articles on subjects such as sacraments and liturgy the saints and Catholics and politics We ve also just uploaded our monthly teacher newsletters to the page so you can no

This week begins America s Easter break hiatus but we will still be posting new content online including this interview with Scott Korb author of Life in Year One What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine What did people eat where did they work and worship and what was their relation

Two new pieces on the burgeoning sexual abuse crisis are now up on our Web site First a Web-only analysis from Thomas J Reese S J of the Woodstock Theological Center and former editor of America of course on what the European bishops can learn from the U S sexual abuse crisis The biggest m

Two weeks ago I traveled to Anaheim California with three members of our staff for the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress Many friends of the magazine were there including Richard Gaillardetz from the University of Toledo who gave a talk provocatively titled Do We Need a Vatican

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By now I hope you have read Andrew Bacevich s excellent article on the U S campaign in Afghanistan from the current issue To hear from Professor Bacevich a widely respected military historian listen to this week s podcast Also in the March 29th issue George Anderson S J nbsp leads a conver

Lisa Miller s new book on Heaven comes out in two weeks and were happy to have one of the first interviews with the author Thanks to assistant editor Kerry Weber for leading this discussion of God and the afterlife with Miller the religion editor at Newsweek Listen to Kerry s interview with Lisa