“Dei Verbum” doesn’t usually get the press of the more famous documents of Vatican II, but it had a profound effect on the way Catholics studied, interpreted and read the Bible.
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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R.I.P. Paul Tagliabue: the commissioner who brought Catholic values to the NFL
While Paul Tagliabue, who died on Sunday, is remembered for his long and successful tenure as commissioner of the NFL, he was also a devoted philanthropist whose causes included Jesuit education and L.G.B.T.Q. ministry in the church.
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Reverence for nature—and for the God who created it
A Reflection for Friday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane
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Michael Harrington, the ‘pious apostate’ who championed socialism in America
Michael Harrington was America’s much-needed conscience on issues of poverty in the 1960s and later.
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Remembering Phyllis Trible, who challenged our image of God as male or female
“The God of scripture is beyond sexuality, neither male nor female, nor a combination of the two,” the renowned scholar Phyllis Trible said in a 1989 interview.
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An editor’s editor: Walter Abbott, S.J., and the documents of Vatican II
Though ‘The Documents of Vatican II’ remains Walter Abbott’s signature achievement in the eyes of many Catholics, the publication was just one moment in a lifetime of notable work on behalf of the church and the world in fields ranging from Scripture, ecumenism, racial justice and spirituality.
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It’s 1812 all over again: The Blue Jays meet the Dodgers in the World Series tonight.
The World Series this year features the Toronto Blue Jays against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
America executive editor Sebastian Gomes and senior editor James T. Keane share their thoughts on this year’s matchup.
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An ongoing reckoning with anti-Semitism: 60 years since ‘Nostra Aetate’
60 years ago next week, “Nostra Aetate” was promulgated, marking a definitive change in the church’s approach toward the Jewish people and its own history.
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The patron saint of undergraduate philosophers: Frederick Copleston
The books of Frederick Copleston, S.J., continue to grace the bookshelves of philosophers, seminarians, college students and many others as an invaluable resource of clear-headed, insightful explication of the entire history of Western philosophy.
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Purity isn’t the point
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane