Author - Kevin Clarke

Kevin Clarke is the chief correspondent for America magazine and author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press).

Whitewash or renewal?

In year two of the sex-abuse scandal, it it time for the laity to brush up on their leadership skills? About 200 laypeople from some 50 Chicago-area parishes...

Working for the common grid

Reducing our collective carbon footprint can be as easy as plugging in. In the old days all the cool guys and gals who wanted to show up “the man” devoted a...

Go outside and play

If you want peace, cultivate creation,” Pope Benedict XVI said in his 2010 World Day of Peace reflection, arguably a message not just for the new year...

More out of Africa

A deal that sounds too good to be true probably is-especially for subsistence farmers. Africa’s savannahs and plains, even its smoldering desert dunes...