A violent assault on a famous author revives an ugly history: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
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.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Unpacking Jesus’ economic analogies
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
We live in the age of anti-heroes. But few can top John Kennedy Toole’s Ignatius J. Reilly.
John Kennedy Toole’s only novel was published after his death—but quickly became a classic of American comic fiction.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Alice McDermott and the Brooklyn Irish Catholic community that inspired her writing
In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Lessons from a Twitter hoax that claimed Pope Benedict had died
No, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not dead. No, Pope Francis is not resigning. And no, the Vatican is not hiding a secret time machine.