America more or less atoned over the years for its initial dismissal of Catcher in the Rye.
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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Remembering Peter Henriot, a Jesuit scholar who helped put Catholic social teaching on the map
While U.S. Catholics might remember Peter Henriot, S.J., best for his social justice advocacy, he was better known in the minds of many for his decades of service to the church in Africa.
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Annie Dillard: Our 20th-century Thoreau, nature writer and theologian
Annie Dillard on converting to Catholicism: “You go to a Catholic church, and there are people of all different colors and ages, and babies squalling. You’re taking a stand with these people. You’re saying: ‘Here I am. One of the people who love God.’”
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Loyola Blakefield tackles the all-school Mass problem, dedicating a new altar
How does a Catholic school offer reverential liturgies for its students when the congregation is 1,000 kids in a gym? At Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Md., a new altar is part of the plan.
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Rules can be helpful—if we know what they’re for
A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and evangelist, by James T. Keane
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Sigrid Undset: Scholar, storyteller—and future saint?
Sigrid Undset’s writings were admired by everyone from Willa Cather to Dorothy Day. Her life is being studied by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. Who was this Norwegian teller of truths?
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Enough books to fill the entire world
Can we afford to stop reading when our sacred texts seem at times like the only thing we share?
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The Nothing Men
A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane
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‘Ordinary People’ turns 50: a story of family and loss beloved by many—including Pope Leo
A book that feels as if it were published last week has now unlocked a host of exclusive offers from A.A.R.P.
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Why you should study the classics but not kill anyone: Lessons from Donna Tartt’s fiction
Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’ is an engrossing read. But is it also a powerful expression of our human efforts to understand eternal truths?