The America Magazine Podcast

Barbara E. Reid, O.P. talks about women prophets in the Bible and Elizabeth Johnson talks about the power of the Magnificat.

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John P. Schlegel, S.J., and Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J., both served long tenures as presidents of Jesuit colleges. For our annual Jesuit education issue, they talk about the challenges facing Catholic colleges in a pluralistic society and how the implementation of Ex corde ecclesia affected the way Jesuit schools think about their Catholic identity. Fr. Schlegel, the current president and publisher of America, is the past president of the University of San Francisco and Creighton University. Fr. O'Donovan served as president of Georgetown University.

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When The Other America was published in 1962, Michael Harrington only expected it to sell a few thousand copies. The book, a study of the "invisible" poor in America, went on to become a national bestseller and helped shape the government's War on Poverty. Here Tom Landy of the College of the Holy Cross explains the impact of The Other America, and why we need someone like Harrington today. Holy Cross recently convened a conference on the legacy of Harrington's seminal book. An audio archive of the talks can be found here. This podcast includes excerpts from the remarks delivered by Maurice Isserman, Harrington's biographer.

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James Martin, S.J., joins Tim Reidy for a discussion of Walter Ciszek's With God in Russia, which chronicles the imprisonment of an American Jesuit in the Soviet Union. The Vatican recently gave formal approval for Fr. Ciszek's cause for canonization to proceed. The Pennsylvania-born priest spent five years in the notorious Moscow prison, Lubyanka, and later in Siberian work camps. He developed a deep reliance and belief in the providence of God, and risked his life ministering to his fellow prisoners.

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Cardinal Roger M. Mahony discusses immigration reform at the L. A. Religious Education Congress. Interview by Kerry Weber.

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Thomas J. Scirghi, S.J., talks about his new book, Everything is Sacred: An Introduction to Baptism, on our Easter podcast. Fr. Scirghi explains why baptism is the foundation of the sacramental life of Christians, and addresses controversies surrounding "limbo" and infant baptism.

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Excerpts from America's interview with Jeremy Ben-Ami, founder of the Jewish lobby J Street. Read Fr. Raymond Schroth's article on J Street.

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Producing "An Encounter with Simone Weil" was a deeply personal experience for Julia Haslett, who spent six years on the project. Here she talks with Associate Editor Kerry Weber about her journey and what she discovered about the French activist and writer. Haslett's film premiers on March 23 at Quad Cinema in New York City. It will be released on DVD this summer.

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Associate Editor Kevin Clarke talked to Virginia Farris, a foreign policy adviser to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, shortly after the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Pakistani minister who was fighting the blasphemy laws in his country. Here we provide an excerpt from that interview, and an update on the promotion of Bhatti's cause as a saint and martyr.

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Thomas G. Weiss, the director of the Ralph Bunch Institute for International Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, explains how the international norm known as the "responsibility to protect" helped prevent humanitarian disaster in Libya, and how it might guide the international response to Syria.

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