Blogs
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Elizabeth Tenety, Former Washington Post Editor, Named Engagement and Community Editor for 'America'
New York, N.Y. (August 27, 2014) – Father Matt Malone, S.J., editor in chief of America, announced today the appointment of Elizabeth Tenety as Engagement and Community Editor for America. Elizabeth is an award-winning religion editor and writer and the former editor of On Faith, then the popular blog about religion and politics at the The Washington Post.
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At The New York Times Book Review, Anthony Grafton reviews Excellent Sheep, the new book by William Deresiewicz, which is not impressed with the nation's elite academic institutions:
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I had worked in the factory alongside a lighthearted and funny family man about ten years my senior for perhaps three or four months before the topic came up. As a young man, he’d been part of a gang, and he and some peers were arrested after a fight. Some of them were armed, and they all ended up spending a few years in the state prison. He came out convinced that he didn’t want to go back and determined to straighten out his life.
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An earlier post explored the economic landscape of Ferguson, Missouri, and other cities with high poverty rates. Economics, in turn, helps to shape municipal politics in places like Ferguson.
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One of the recurring questions in Catholic schools, especially when it comes to sustaining a strong Catholic identity, is the integration and presence of non-Catholic faculty. In the context of a university setting, John Langan, S.J., professor at Georgetown University, once framed the central inquiries as follows:
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The Vatican has clarified the current legal situation of its former nuncio to the Dominican Republic, Josef Wesolowski, and has denied allegations made in the U.S. and other media that it acted in an improper way that prevents him being subjected to judicial process in the Latin American state or in Poland (where he is a citizen).
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To celebrate the 50 anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Subcommittee on African American Affairs will release a series of resources to highlight the achievements of the Civil Rights era and its connections to the Catholic Church. Over the next 12 months, resources will highlight the Mississippi Freedom Summer (June to August 1964); the Civil Rights Act (July 1964); the March from Selma to Montgomery (March 1965); and the 50 anniversary...
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Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, Chair of the U.S.C.C.B. Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, has issued this year’s Labor Day Statement on behalf of the bishops' conference. As always, the statement is a powerful call to live out our faith, and gives us “the chance to see how work in America matches up to the lofty ideals of our Catholic tradition...
In the first entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on Galatians, I discussed introductory matters concerning the founding of the churches to the Galatians, the situation when Paul wrote to them, when the letter might have been written and the type of letters which Paul wrote, based on the common Greco-Roman letters of his day.
Dear Don Albino,