Pope Francis will be spending a few precious hours at the Basilica of Knock while he is in Ireland this weekend.
Joseph McAuley
Joseph McAuley is an assistant editor of America.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Remembering when Reagan set aside politics to honor Bobby Kennedy
An unlikely kinship between two political foes.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Remembering R.F.K, 50 Years Later
Chris Matthews’s cri de coeur for a time and a spirit that is hard to imagine now.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
What we can learn from the silence of Christmas
Christmas is a wonderful and joyful mystery and we humans can never, ever really understand it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Looking back on a revolutionary year: 1968
Larger-than-life figures, social mayhem, political chaos and a foreign war.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Cremations overtake burials, and the church adapts
Catholics are following the general public in a broader acceptance of cremation.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Chasing the story was Jimmy Breslin’s reason for being
Breslin, the legendary New York reporter and columnist, died last week at 88.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A small land with an outsized role
While it has long been a gleam in the Russian eye, it has been a thorn for Western diplomacy.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
The man behind the dinner: Alfred E. Smith
Smith was a man who believed that faith in God was not incompatible with faith in the people.
Posted inIn All Things, Magazine
Meeting Father Dennis Linehan in the library of America House
Father Linehan was intellectually gifted, socially aware and ever curious.