Pope for only 33 days, John Paul I is known both as “The Smiling Pope” and “The Forgotten Pope.” On Sept. 4, he will be beatified. What were his life and papacy like?
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Remembering Frederick Buechner, an American C.S. Lewis
With the death of Frederick Buechner earlier this month, the nation lost one of its most profound novelists—as well as a spiritual writer of great depth and range.
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Father Carl Kabat & the Plowshares Eight: What do we risk to speak the truth?
Father Kabat, who called himself “a fool for Christ,” spent more than 17 of his 88 years in prison for his activism against the U.S. nuclear weapons program. He died on Aug. 4.
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How does a book reading turn into an attempted murder? The threat against Salman Rushdie has been decades in the making
A violent assault on a famous author revives an ugly history: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Pope Francis, Margaret Farley and the church’s teaching on divorce
A Reflection for Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane
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Look back: America magazine’s love affair with J.F.K.
America’s editors shy away from endorsing political candidates—but J.F.K. proved a hard case, both during his life and in the decades since.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Remembering Vin Scully: Legendary Dodgers announcer, occasional philosopher and devout Catholic
Where have you gone, Vin Scully? A nation turns its lonely ear to you.
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Parish priest, sociologist, novelist: The many imaginations of Father Andrew Greeley
The Rev. Andrew Greeley had an enormous impact on the American Catholic Church—including through his many contributions to this magazine.
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Unpacking Jesus’ economic analogies
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Joan Didion, Wendell Berry, Sally Rooney: Summer review for the Catholic Book Club
A very sunburned literary editor looks back on some Catholic Book Club columns of yore.