George Dunne, S.J., never backed down from a fight or a perceived injustice in a long career as a priest, academic and activist.
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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C. S. Lewis wasn’t a writer of fantasy. He was a teller of hard truths.
C. S. Lewis was gifted with an expansive imagination—but much of his spiritual writing doesn’t flinch from the hard realities of life.
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There are lots of interesting Jesuits in America magazine’s history. C. J. McNaspy might take the cake.
Was there ever a scholar of more varied interests and fields of expertise than C. J. McNaspy, S.J.?
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Mary Karr and the art of the spiritual memoir
Though Mary Karr might not consider herself a conventional writer of spiritual autobiography, her three memoirs have made this poet and professor a standard-bearer in the genre.
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What John the Baptist knew: The truth is attractive
A Reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent, by James T. Keane
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Yves Congar, Vatican II’s greatest theologian
Perhaps no thinker influenced Catholic theology in the 20th century more than Yves Congar, O.P.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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