a son hot from the womb but cold to his kiss

One world more than our wounds have earned.

Jane Austen’s literary genius lies in the fact that she crafts stories that impart the most pressing of human concerns in what seem at first the most mundane of experiences. It makes her a valuable guide to life.

The absolute refusal to accept handed-down truths—whether in politics, science, religion or art—was a constant in Kurt Vonnegut’s life and work.

Modern Catholic Pilgrim, the company organizing these pilgrimages, aims to reform the culture of the American Church—and even secular society—through the spiritual practices of hospitality and pilgrimage.

In the fall of 2021, America Media’s video team hatched an idea: What would it look like if we traveled to four parishes across the United States during the course of one year and assessed their similarities and differences? Here is a snapshot of what we found.

While it is immensely helpful, even necessary, one does not need to have a specifically Christian hope in order to find any hope in politics. We need only look to our national history.

While welcoming Mr. Biden’s message, Matt Malone, S.J., argued that it did little to sway Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2020. Here are readers' responses.

We should not be surprised when any notion of the church as a perfect society is not embraced by people who have real wounds and struggles.

U.S. municipal water and wastewater systems are buckling after decades of neglect.

The movement for natural burial is growing and is slowly becoming more mainstream in the United States, but the practice is as old and widespread as our species.

This summer, amid a growing debate about gender identity in the United States, America asked two professors of theology to revisit the 2019 Vatican document on “‘gender theory in education.”

These (very) short essays about unexpectedly experiencing God in the world today include feelings of joy, sadness, laughter, anger and anything in between.

Barbara F. Walter offers a handy guide for predicting where political instability is most likely to occur—and it is usually when that country is moving away from democracy.

“The Good Fight” is ending its run by ramping up the surrealism—and the idea that we are all living in a very real political nightmare.

Throughout 23 years of Russian confinement—he was finally released on Oct. 12, 1963—Walter turned to God in prayer in every crisis.

Americans across the political spectrum can agree that both parties have dumbed down democracy, but only the Republican Party is rapidly moving toward the idea of simply refusing to accept election losses.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane

Our prayers would be immeasurably improved if we truly believed that we were indeed talking to someone.

To act like there are no open questions about the council’s relationship to the state of the church is an act of denialism and pearl-clutching.