More than a few people struggled with uncharitable feelings about the president’s illness. How should Christians deal with schadenfreude?
October 2020
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The American ‘way of life’ is unsustainable for so many. Is it time to build radical forms of community?
As a reporter, it is my job to follow along as individuals and communities try to figure out who they want to be and how they want to live.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Voting Catholic: How can Catholics help alleviate poverty in the United States?
A perennial social crisis affecting many other issues, Pope Francis has called for a poor church for the poor. What does poverty in America look like in 2020? And will the political parties finally tackle the issue plaguing tens of millions of Americans?
Posted inArts & Culture, Jesuitical
Podcast: Pádraig Ó Tuama on the sacramentality of language
A conversation with Irish poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama on faith, poetry, peace and reconciliation.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
In ‘Fratelli Tutti,’ Pope Francis identifies the paradox of populism
Dr. Anna Rowlands told America that Pope Francis ““gets populism. He gets what is the drive toward it and he rescues the notion of what it means to be ‘a people’ from the hands of the populists.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Nicaraguan Catholic leaders decry government’s repressive measures
The church has faced repression—including attacks on clergy and places of worship and constant surveillance from police outside parishes—as it has tried to pay a mediating role, but has come to be seen by the regime as an opponent.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Finance measures meant to expel ‘merchants’ from the temple, pope says
Pope Francis, who enacted new transparency laws in June covering contracts for the purchase of goods, property and services for both the Roman Curia and Vatican City State offices, welcomed the experts and said their work “is particularly dear to my heart.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
COVID-19, abortion and Supreme Court, race top issues for Pence, Harris
The health care issue looming over the debate was the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It was illustrated by the 12 feet between the seated debaters and the panels of protective plexiglass barriers installed next to them.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Archbishop pleads for help to end conflict between Armenia, Azerbaijan
Since 1988 Armenia and Azerbaijan have had an undeclared war over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan, but has an ethnic Armenian majority.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Five theologians on the biggest takeaways from ‘Fratelli Tutti’
As part of our larger coverage of “Fratelli Tutti,” the latest encyclical letter from Pope Francis, America asked a number of theologians and church experts to contribute a brief response, including their perspectives on its potential impact and its particular areas of import.