Saint Augustine still captures our imaginations 16 centuries after he lived. What is it about this theologian, philosopher, preacher and memoirist that makes him such a perennial favorite?
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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Going back to school this week? Here’s some advice from generations of America writers.
The dog days of August are also the first week of school for millions of students, parents and teachers. Want some advice on how to handle it? Generations of America contributors have had thoughts on the subject.
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Remember where you came from, and remember who brought you here
A Reflection for Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane
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The Catholic woman who mastered the art of a brutal movie review
Over 27 years beginning in 1947, Moira Walsh wrote over 750 movie reviews for America—each one possessed of an invincible authorial voice and informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of film history.
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The America editor who ruined nuclear fallout shelters forever
Why don’t we have fallout shelters anymore? It’s a long story, but an editor at America had something to do with it.
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Catholic Book Club: The interstellar Jesuit spirituality of Mary Doria Russell’s ‘The Sparrow’
With ‘The Sparrow,’ Mary Doria Russell imagines an alien world in intimate and fascinating detail—and then sends along some humans with deep questions about faith, God and the universe.
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What the editors of America magazine are reading this summer
America’s editors on some books that might catch our readers’ fancy in these final weeks of summer.
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‘The destroyer of worlds’: 75 years of ‘America’ on Oppenheimer
A new movie treats the life of Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”—and someone whose exploits and commentaries received much treatment in ‘America’ over the years.
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Moses, the burning bush and a Jesuit fire extinguisher
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane
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Why so many Jesuit characters in sci-fi? Because the genre deals with God and the problem of evil.
When we think of science fiction, lasers and aliens might come to mind first—but it is also a genre in which religious imagination plays a role.