Of Many Things
Welcome to the new America
This is the new America, a fresh approach to the smart, Catholic take on faith and culture that has been our hallmark since 1909.
Your Take
Your Take: Trump’s first 100 days
We asked our readers what issues should President-Elect Donald J. Trump focus on in his first 100 days as president.
Editorials
The United States must end its exceptional tolerance of landmines
Today thousands of civilians worldwide are maimed or killed each year by these indiscriminate weapons of war.
Religious education is broken. It’s time to fix our Sunday school culture.
When choosing to believe is more and more a revolutionary act, religious education must do much more than hand on the basic tenets of the faith.
Features
Beyond the Wall: Stories from the other side of the immigration crisis
President Donald Trump’s journey to the White House began with a simple promise: “I will build a great, great wall.”
How Pope Francis is changing the Catholic Church
A confident pope sets a new example for governing the church. For Francis, tension is a sign of life.
Faith in Focus
Meet the Jesuit chaplain who prays for Congress. He could use your help.
I will see two people talking and pray: “Lord, whatever that is please bless that. Don’t even know what it is.”
Vantage Point
Celebrating 109 years of America’s mission
Support our first-ever #AmericaAnniversary challenge and help us celebrate 109 years!
Books
A small land with an outsized role
While it has long been a gleam in the Russian eye, it has been a thorn for Western diplomacy.
‘Sin Bravely’ inadvertently shows the value of a good spiritual director
“Sin bravely so that you may know the forgiveness of God.”
The Native American Holy Man who did not surrender all to the Jesuits
What Black Elk taught his people was to depend instead on something harder to take away than guns, the trust that prayers in their own language, delivered in their own way, would reach the god they addressed as Tunkashila.
Film
Andrew Garfield played a Jesuit in Silence, but he didn’t expect to fall in love with Jesus.
There were so many things in the Exercises that changed me and transformed me, that showed me who I was…and where I believe God wants me to be.
Poetry
Poem Ending With a Sentence from Jacques Maritain
It was the flash of black among/the yellow billion.
The Word
Salted with love to transform the world
Everyone will be salted with fire. (Mk 9:49)
What beatitudes does our world need to hear today?
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the one bringing good news! (Is 52:7)
Last Take
Women hold the keys to making Washington work again.
Do not expect a return to the days when comity could be coaxed with a little (or a lot) of bourbon and branch.
Culture
Can Obama’s policies survive a Trump regime?
After decades of books that described presidential campaigns as thrill rides, political scientists have begun to push back.
Can “Planet Earth II” help us love the ugly animals too?
The second installment of the BBC series treats animals like movie stars.
Faith
Salted with love to transform the world
Everyone will be salted with fire. (Mk 9:49)
What beatitudes does our world need to hear today?
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the one bringing good news! (Is 52:7)
How Pope Francis is changing the Catholic Church
A confident pope sets a new example for governing the church. For Francis, tension is a sign of life.
Meet the Jesuit chaplain who prays for Congress. He could use your help.
I will see two people talking and pray: “Lord, whatever that is please bless that. Don’t even know what it is.”
Religious education is broken. It’s time to fix our Sunday school culture.
When choosing to believe is more and more a revolutionary act, religious education must do much more than hand on the basic tenets of the faith.
Magazine
Celebrating 109 years of America’s mission
Support our first-ever #AmericaAnniversary challenge and help us celebrate 109 years!
Welcome to the new America
This is the new America, a fresh approach to the smart, Catholic take on faith and culture that has been our hallmark since 1909.
Opinion
The politics of abortion will get more complicated in 2017
Activists do not yet seem to have developed plans for engaging voters on the opposing side.
Signs Of the Times
U.S. bishops support legislative bridge for ‘Dreamers’
Under current law many so-called Dreamers are technically subject to deportation to home countries.
2016 Surge in Chicago Gun Violence
Chicago experienced a level of gun violence unseen in nearly two decades in 2016.
Gas Hike Fuels Disorder Around Mexico
Social unrest swept across Mexico in early January as protests over a hike in gasoline prices escalated into acts of looting, riots and blockades of highways.
Catholics have peak clout in the new U.S. Congress
The pro-life movement may be one of the biggest beneficiaries as the Republicans take control of both the White House and Congress.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts