Emmanuel Macron not only wants to “reform” France but to “transform” it.
Joseph McAuley
Joseph McAuley is an assistant editor of America.
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Archbishop Chaput says successor is ‘exactly the man our church needs’
The outgoing archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, has high praise for his successor, Bishop Nelson J. Perez of Cleveland.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘The Two Popes’: What’s fact and what’s fiction?
‘The Two Popes’ tells a detailed story of the relationship between Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. But does it have all the facts right?
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Review: The Greatest Showman on Earth
In ‘Barnum: An American Life,’ Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, shows how P. T. Barnum morphed into (as he styled himself) “The Children’s Friend.”
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Indigenous woman brings message from her elders to Pope Francis as church elder
Anitalia Pijachi, an indigenous woman from the Amazonian town of Leticia, Colombia, came to the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon bringing a message from the elders of her people to Pope Francis, an elder of the Catholic Church.
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Churches are arming and training congregants in the wake of mass shootings
Due to the increasing incidents of mass shootings, some churches are beginning to arm themselves in an effort to prevent such tragedies occurring in their congregations.
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Review: One giant leap for mankind
The lunar landing was the seminal event of a decade that began with promise and ended with sorrow.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
An open letter to the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, as he became known, was a firm believer of religious liberty and an American Catholic pioneer, but his toleration of slavery was a failure of the greatest magnitude.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
John F. Kennedy’s Irish trip that almost wasn’t
“That’s what I want, a pleasure trip to Ireland,” said the president. It proved to be the stop Kennedy needed after tense, Cold War–era conferences in other European capitals.
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Review: One giant leap for mankind
The culmination of President John F. Kennedy’s vision, the lunar landing was the seminal event of a decade that began with promise and ended with sorrow, including assassinations, wars and social upheaval.