Br. Joseph Hoover, S.J. reflects on this year’s Foley Poetry Contest.
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J., is America’s poetry editor and producer of a new film, “The Allegory.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Nebraska highlights the Catholic Church’s struggle with the death penalty
The fight against the death penalty lays bare the strengths and weaknesses of the Catholic approach to pro-life issues.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Donald Trump is my neighbor. How did that become normal?
The headquarters of America sit just one block from Trump Tower.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
The patron of ‘America’ was the archetype of the radical underground priest.
The Jesuits at the magazine saw themselves as ministering in a country hostile to the Catholic faith and so chose Edmund Campion as their patron.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Onward Christian Soldier
It was a dark night and a bleak next morning. And then grace came.
Posted inTheater
The church has profound truths to speak about sexuality. Why is no one listening?
There are radiant truths within these Catholic documents. And then, it seems, the darker shroud of Rome is thrown down and ruins it all.
Posted inIn All Things
‘To Kill A Mockingbird.’ All too timely.
The best of art is never distant—it hits us across the face.
Posted inPoetry
Daring Words: The 2016 Foley Poetry Contest
Between Jan. 1 and March 31 over 1,000 poems were sent in for America’s annual Foley contest.
Posted inPoetry
Looking for justice in poetry: America’s spring poetry review
Social movements need great art.
Posted inIn All Things
Taking back ‘New York Values’
The moneyed, socially-liberal elite Mr. Trump turned Ted Cruz’s insult on its head.