Pedro Arrupe, S.J., is well on the path to sainthood. So who was he? And why do people have such strong opinions about him?
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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The cross is a troubling image. Today, we can’t look away.
A Reflection for Good Friday, by James T. Keane
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‘There goes the jugular’: Wilfrid Sheed and the art of literary criticism
Wilfrid Sheed’s books are a delight to read, but his reviews and essays are his true masterpieces.
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Robert Giroux: the Catholic bookman who edited Merton (and Flannery and Percy and Kerouac)
Robert Giroux edited some of the 20th century’s leading writers, including some prominent Catholic voices like Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy and Thomas Merton.
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The ‘Catholic agnostic’ novelist: How Graham Greene questioned his way to God
Graham Greene crafted some of English-language literature’s finest works, part of a fascinating life marked by bouts of uncertainty and the certainty of doubt.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
Walter Ciszek, the Soviet gulag and American freedoms
The death yesterday in a Russian penal colony of Alexei Navalny might naturally bring to mind the story of Walter Ciszek, S.J., the famed American Jesuit who spent 23 years in Soviet captivity.
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Ron Hansen’s liturgical novels make great Lenten reads
Throughout a long career as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, poet and screenwriter, Ron Hansen has regularly explored questions of faith and religious belonging.
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The danger of reducing miracles
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Scholastica, virgin, by James T. Keane
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Langston Hughes: Communist, Christian—or both?
Langston Hughes, the great Black poet, playwright, journalist and author, had a nuanced and not easily categorized religious life.
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This liberation theologian was once silenced by the Vatican. In the Laudato Si’ era, he’s getting a second look.
After the publication of “Laudato Si’,” rumors circulated that Pope Francis had personally asked Leonardo Boff for his input on the writing of the encyclical. It marked an ironic turn in the theologian’s long career.