This guest blog comes courtesy of Jake Olzen an activist journalist and farmer in Lake City Minn In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and his re-election President Barack Obama will no doubt have his work cut out for him in the next four years Unfortunately to this point Mr Obama has not proved ca

We hope you check America s blog tonight for reporting from our blog contributors as the election results unfold You can also follow our coverage on Twitter where our new editor Matt Malone S J will be tweeting starting at 7 pm His Twitter handle is americaeditor Finally check in tomorrow

Just posted to our site Mark O rsquo Brien contracted polio at the age of 6 and was confined to an iron lung for most of his life Despite this he managed to study at U C -Berkeley navigate campus in an electric gurney and become a working journalist Mark was also a Catholic and a man who longe

Powerful op-ed in today s Times making the case against assisted suicide laws like the one on the ballot in Massachusetts I was born with a congenital neuromuscular weakness called spinal muscular atrophy I rsquo ve never walked or stood or had much use of my hands Roughly half the babies who

In the November 5 issue of America we report on the synod on the new evangelization Here Cardinal Donald Wuerl the archbishop of Washington and the synod s relator offers some answers to basic questions about this effort nbsp What is the Synod for the New Evangelization As the Second Vatic

We are happy to have this report from John W O Malley S J on the recent publication of the diaries of Cardinal Roberto Tucci Over the course of the years I have met Cardinal Tucci a number of times but only briefly and in passing I have always admired him and of course read with great inter

Just posted a special podcast with Costas Panagopoulos who offers advice on reading the presidential polls Professor Panagopoulos is director of Fordham University s Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Podcast Powered By Podbean

These photos comes courtesy of Dan Groody C S C of the University of Notre Dame who recently traveled to Turkey to meet with Syrian refugees You can read his report here nbsp nbsp

We are happy to have this on-the-ground report from Dan Groody C S C of the University of Notre Dame TURKEY--The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that the number of Syrians fleeing their country rsquo s violent conflict could number up to 700 000 by year rsquo s end and 1

We are pleased to announce that America will now feature videos from Catholic News Service along with the weekly videos produced by our staff Check the blog or the video player on our home page for the latest videos We begin with a report from CNS on the opening day of Synod of Bishops on the new