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A march and a Mass on Sept. 16 were part of the celebration of the memory of former Jesuit James Carney, who disappeared in Honduras on Sept. 16, 1983 (photo: Jeremy Zipple, S.J.).
Politics & Society Dispatches
September 20, 2023
James Carney pledged his life to the cause of destitute campesinos in Honduras, living and working among them as a parish priest and organizing campesino cooperatives to fight for land reform and human rights.
After a 12-hour journey from Belize City, Jesuit Father Sam Wilson begins Palm Sunday Mass with the people of Machakilha, deep in Mayan territory along the Belize border with Guatemala. Screen grab from video taken by Jeremy Zipple, S.J.
Faith Dispatches
April 13, 2022
The prayer of Father Sam Wilson is that more of his brother Jesuits will answer the call to serve in assignments on the peripheries like southern Belize. “It’s where we should be,” he says.
St. Martin de Porres Church in Belize City (photo courtesy of the author)
Faith Faith in Focus
March 09, 2021
Experimenting with virtual liturgies need not be a cause for despair but instead an invitation from the Lord to try something new.
Faith Faith in Focus
November 02, 2020
During my first half-decade as a priest, I buried a total of three people. In the last two years here in Belize, that number is well over a hundred—and it has reminded me of love’s eternalness.
A Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol honor guard folds the retired Mississippi state flag after it was raised over the Capitol grounds one final time in Jackson, Miss., on July 1. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Politics & Society Short Take
July 07, 2020
As Mississippi puts away the Confederate stars-and-bars, native son Jeremy Zipple, S.J., reflects on the heavy silence around racism that prevailed during his childhood.
Arts & Culture Books
February 08, 2019
Through their stories, we too are allowed to cry and hope with these blessed ones.
Faith Faith in Focus
January 10, 2017
I will see two people talking and pray: “Lord, whatever that is please bless that. Don't even know what it is.”
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago
Faith Signs Of the Times
November 23, 2016
"The problem that we have today, not only in society but also in the church, is that we've become too polarized," Cardinal Kevin Farrell, an Irish-born prelate who was bishop of Dallas before taking over a Vatican department on family life earlier this year, told America.
In All Things
February 28, 2016
An interview with the Jesuit-educated director of "Spotlight," this year's winner for Best Picture.
Security wall outside Bethlehem (photo by author)
Faith In All Things
December 25, 2015
The ancient Christian population of Bethlehem is fast disappearing. One of the few remaining Palestinian Christians explains what it feels like to celebrate Christmas there today.