September 2025

September 2025 / Vol. 233 / No. 2

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How often should a Catholic receive Communion?

It depends what century it is.

by John Rziha

“Americans detained when overheard speaking Spanish”

by Rosa Lia Gilbert

The Ten Commandments in classrooms: Our readers reflect

Richard J. Clifford, S.J., argued that posting the commandments in public school classrooms would also violate the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.

by Our readers

Review: A bridge between Christian and Hindu mysticism

In ‘Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar,’ the Rev. Francis X. Clooney tells the story of his lifelong engagement in dialogue with the Hindu tradition—as a Jesuit priest.

by Adam Bucko

Review: Jocks for Jesus

In ‘The Spirit of the Game,’ Paul Emory Putz offers insights into the synergy between sports and Christianity in the United States.

by Clayton Trutor

Review: In and out of the Bible

In his new book, Michael Peppard suggests that Catholics “encounter” the Bible not just in the text but through worship, prayer, art, song and literature. This represents a uniquely Catholic way of internalizing and living out the sacred Word.

by Catherine Petrany

The INES program at Loyola School brings Jesuit values to middle school girls

“It’s important to amplify women’s voices in Jesuit education, and so that’s why the program, I think, philosophically exists.”

by Grace Copps

Congressman Tom Suozzi: How to let our better impulses drive American politics

When anyone gets hit, their natural inclination is to punch back, and in Washington these days, that instinct dominates the culture.

by Tom Suozzi

Review: Jamie Quatro and the end of the world

In her second novel, Jamie Quatro considers the destruction of worlds—both on a macro and on a personal scale.

by Mary Grace Mangano

Trump’s first six months and the crisis of presidential power

Americans who are alarmed about Donald Trump’s assaults on democratic norms need to recognize that the courts alone are not a sufficient bulwark for the rule of law.

by The Editors

New Website, Same Mission

A.I. was helpful with parts of this process, but it did not and could not have replaced the human contributions.

by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

Questioning A.I.

A.I. is killing the skill of asking meaningful questions. We shouldn’t let it.

by Nathan Schneider

Rekindling my Catholic faith in the ‘fourth quarter’ of life

Perhaps it is the hard-won wisdom that comes with age, but the Catholic rituals and practices I once scorned are the same rituals and practices that now usher me into God’s presence, time and time again.

by Maribeth Boelts

America Media begins new initiatives with $5 million Lilly Endowment grant

Kerry Weber: “The Lilly grant is going to give us the opportunity to tell our stories in a more in-depth way and tell new stories that we may not have had the resources to tell otherwise.”

by J.D. Long García

Review: With God at Walden Pond

In ‘Thoreau’s God,’ Richard Higgins takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Thoreau’s extensive work, looking at the ways the philosopher thought about the divine and the human relation to the divine.

by Greta Gaffin