America Magazine - America Connects
In the Steps of Saint Paul
John Endres, S.J., author of "In His Shoes," leads the viewer on a tour of Pauline pilgrimage sites in Turkey. View slideshow here.
November 10 Podcast - One Church Celebrates the Pauline Year
A Sit Down with St. Paul - America Video
Dissecting 'A Man for All Seasons' - America Video
Reviewing 'A Man for All Seasons'
1961 Theater Production
While the Broadway theatre generally is mediocre at best,and too often meretricious or nauseous, it occasionally rises to maturity. Suchoccasions were last season's Becket, The Devil's Advocate and Emmanuel, thebeautiful Nativity play at the Gate. So far, the present season has given usGideon, a biblical drama, and a portrait of St. Thomas More in A Man for AllSeasons (at the Anta).
Sir Thomas More was one of the outstanding men of Christendom—scholar,author, lawyer, member of Parliament, judge and Lord Chancellor. His sovereignwas Henry VIII, who hoped his chancellor
October 27 Podcast - America's Colorful History
A Guide for the Perplexed Voter
In Robert Bolt’s play, A Man for All Seasons, the aging Cardinal Wolsey admonishes Sir Thomas More: “You’re a constant regret to me, Thomas. If you could just see the facts flat on, without that horrible moral squint; with just a little common sense, you could have been a statesman.” Wolsey’s heirs are quick to upbraid our latter-day Mores for their sentimental “moral squint” at public policy. Yet even statesmen of Wolsey’s stripe seldom see the “facts” flat on. Invariably, our perceptions betray our moral squints and prejudices.
Beginning with Leo XIII’s magisterial encyclical on the rights of worker
J. F. Powers, R.I.P.
Many of us, entering the St. John's Abbey church forthe funeral Mass of J. F. Powers, whodied on June 12, were surprised to find him absent. He had been buried earlierat a graveside service in the St. John's cemetery. But why were we surprised? JimPowers, whose peerless first novel, Morted'Urban, won the National Book Award in 1963, was the most elusive man weknew. Since the death eleven years ago of his wife, Betty, he seemed like a manadrift, a solitary soul who cared nothing for convention and seemed to careeven less for public opinion.
Had he cared for public opinion, would he have dawdled overhis writing as he did? Would he have let 25 yearsgo
November 3 Podcast - John W. O'Malley, S.J., on Vatican II
A Classroom of the Heart
Is there a more powerful symbol of summertime in America than the frisbee? One’s disk remains tucked in a closet or atop a shelf for months on end during the cold, and its very appearance on a beach or in a park means the weather has turned and one’s thoughts must turn to idle play. This past summer (my first in New York City, where the sun never sets over the sea and hot asphalt burns the toes even more efficiently than sand), anxious of the need for outdoor entertainment and bolstered by the encouragement of new friends, I signed up for a venture almost completely unknown to me: a Manhattan Ultimate Frisbee league.
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