Perhaps no thinker influenced Catholic theology in the 20th century more than Yves Congar, O.P.
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The antiwar activists who were accused of plotting to kidnap Kissinger
An overlooked moment in obituaries of Henry Kissinger is the trial of the Harrisburg Seven: activists, many of whom were priests and women religious, who were accused of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger in 1970.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
When the Vatican investigated Margaret Farley for her book on Catholic sexual ethics
In 2012, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared that ‘Just Love,’ by Margaret Farley, R.S.M., could not be used in Catholic classrooms. It was a different era in the church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Thanksgiving: America magazine’s favorite secular holiday
Thanksgiving may not be a religious holiday, strictly speaking, but in the pages of ‘America’ it has always been recognized as a holy day.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Very few of us are called to be martyrs. But we all have a role to play in the Kingdom of God.
A Reflection for Thursday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
What African theologians will mean to the future of the Catholic Church
African theologians have emerged over the last few decades as leading voices in ethics, liberation theology, ecological theology, ecclesiology and more—and their contributions are changing the worldwide church.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Friends and colleagues remember Richard Gaillardetz, theologian, mentor and witness
Friends and colleagues remembered Richard Gaillardetz, who died on Tuesday, as a perceptive theologian, mining in his talks, articles and books the ecclesiology of Vatican II and Pope Francis’ vision for the church. They also noted the powerful witness of his reflections on his final months of life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Alice McDermott’s place in the canon of great Catholic novelists
Alice McDermott is back with her ninth novel, joining the elite Catholic company of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Supernatural or superstitious? Looking back at ‘The Exorcist’
Five decades ago, ‘The Exorcist’ proved to be a box office juggernaut—and caused America’s editors to devote a special issue to the film.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
James Dickey, America’s ‘bare-chested bard’
James Dickey’s public persona of fighter pilot, champion athlete and hard-drinking woodsman who wrote of “country surrealism” gave him an everyman appeal, even as he was perhaps the nation’s greatest poetic talent.