"Russian Doll" is kind of a Jewish "Fleabag" meets time travel, a mind-bending exploration of trauma that reads like an exercise in self-therapy.

When asked if he felt he had changed during his papacy, the pope said he was told by several people “that things that were dormant in my personality came to the surface; that I became more merciful.”

A reflection for the Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jim McDermott, S.J.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle speaks with Sant’Egidio’s Elizabeth Boyle about the lay group’s efforts to foster peace and friendship in South Sudan.

The present age of polarization has unleashed the most ferocious forces, which seem hellbent on creating a narrow unity only through cynical division.

Kaya Oakes offers reflections on what it means to live as a woman today. This meaning grappling with growing older in a society and a church that both continue to prize feminine youth, fecundity and docility above all else.

Readable, well researched and carefully documented, 'Saving Yellowstone' does not get bogged down in minutiae in its history of the park.

In 'The Body Scout,' Lincoln Michel explores the limits of what it means to be human through a future in which companies tempt consumers with upgrades—new arms, organs and more.

In his new 10-story collection, Roddy Doyle tells stories of catastrophes—unemployment, a deadly storm and Covid-19—and their socioeconomic and psychological fallout on Irish families.

Many readers disagreed with the position of the editorial board of America magazine after it voiced its support for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

How do Jesuit teachers talk about God in the classroom? A group of teachers from St. Louis University High School reflect.

Andy Warhol remains an enigma.

I mistake my friend for a gun, and he offers to smuggle me out of harm.

If we can accept that God loves us as we are, that we are worthy of love at any size, is it wrong to also desire to be thinner and to take steps to reach that goal?

I eat sugar cookies for breakfast. I should eat bird seed.

for years I’d be the cranky older son, jealous about the party.

Daily scripture reflections from the Jesuits, lay editors and contributing writers of America.

The danger we face as a church is not so much hostility toward the church and its sacraments, but apathy.

Despite antisemitism, American Judaism is growing and thriving, in part thanks to the largest religious organization in the world making evident that Jews are a beloved part of a larger religious family.

We now live in a “shout your abortion” nation, and a message that crass will never be embraced in more conservative parts of the United States, nor should it be.