The editors of 'America' (attempt to) reflect on the Advent season. Mistakes were made.

At Ascension Church in New York City, the demand for an evening Mass lead to a unique liturgy using jazz music. Produced by Matthew Moll.

At Ford Hall at Columbia University, living in community helps Catholic students cultivate their religious identity.

St. Stanislaus Kostka gets the comic book treatment in an intriguing new work of art from a young Polish Jesuit.

Ladislas Orsy, S.J., talks with about the vision of Vatican II and how Catholics can help implement it today.

James T. Fisher, author of On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, The Movie and the Soul of the Port of New York, reports from the banks of the Hudson River on Budd Schulberg and the Jesuit labor priests who inspired the award-winning film, On the Waterfront.