As Dorothy Day’s cause for canonization moves forward, her writings continue to offer a prophetic Christian witness to a complacent world.
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America.
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What kind of Catholic are you? How Mary Gordon’s writing tackles the expansiveness of our faith
Mary Gordon is one of America’s greatest Catholic writers—just don’t ask her why she stayed.
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What should the U.S. bishops debate next? Here’s a list of topics that no one asked for
Many topics of great import were discussed at the meeting of the U.S. bishops. But they missed the mark on bingo, confession and whether cats possess prevenient grace.
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Remembering Barry Lopez, lyrical travel writer and ecological prophet
In almost 20 books published over half a century, Barry Lopez always maintained a tight focus on the interconnectedness—and spiritual value—of all life, from the smallest mushroom to the largest forest.
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Willie James Jennings exposes one of academia’s greatest problems: Non-white students don’t feel like they belong.
Willie James Jennings belongs to a guild in which he never felt he belonged. How do we remake the world of theological education when it still holds up what Jennings calls “white self-sufficient masculinity” as the ideal?
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Baseball is a sport of good vs. evil. But this World Series, maybe the Astros and the Braves both deserve to lose?
With the World Series upon us, a look back at some of America’s finest coverage of baseball.
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Which president met the most popes? Who gave the weirdest gift? A brief history of U.S.-Vatican encounters.
When Pope Francis welcomes U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to the Vatican tomorrow, it will mark the 31st meeting between a sitting pope and a sitting U.S. president.
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Catholic veteran Phil Klay writes about forever wars — and he sounds a lot like Pope Francis
Phil Klay is part of a new generation of authors who are putting to rest the overwrought claims about the death of modern Catholic fiction.
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Sally Rooney isn’t just the ‘Snapchat Generation’s’ Catholic novelist (but she is that).
Is Sally Rooney the millennial generation’s great Catholic writer?
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Explainer: Pope Francis is naming St. Irenaeus a ‘Doctor of the Church.’ What does that mean?
Is St. Irenaeus really a doctor, or does he just play one on TV? Does he rush to someone’s aid on an airplane? Might he collaborate with Dr. Dre?