A Reflection for the Nativity of the Lord, Christmas Mass at Dawn, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Sam Sawyer, S.J., is the editor in chief of America Media.
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Why President Trump is treating illegal immigration as sacrilege
Illegal immigration is being treated as a sacrilege because it seems to violate something that has been made into an idol: the status and the security of being American.
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Answering the call of the (real) king
Can we—in the middle of our current political crisis—still imagine how power ought to be used in service?
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Pope Leo’s message for the American church
Pope Leo’s responses to questions from Elise Ann Allen demonstrated a realistic understanding of the American church.
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Pro-choice politicians, Catholic teaching and the lessons we still can’t learn
The church had a fight over an award. But did anyone learn anything?
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Who is being served by making Charlie Kirk a saint: God or Caesar?
The powers of this world came to Charlie Kirk’s funeral, and some of them spoke the words of the Gospel. But they also spoke the words of Caesar.
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The aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination: If we have to look at violence, let’s do it the right way.
Perhaps we, enslaved as we are to the logic of violence, are looking at the image of violence and trying to solve it or even to turn it into a solution. Perhaps we are still trying to overcome it by force.
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After Annunciation: School shootings are not only a political problem. They’re a spiritual sickness.
If it were only a matter of writing a better law, our regulation of guns would have been strengthened rather than weakened after Sandy Hook. Something else, something deeper, is broken.
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New Website, Same Mission
A.I. was helpful with parts of this process, but it did not and could not have replaced the human contributions.
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How to tell the stories of the times we’ve failed
A Reflection for the Feast of St. James, Apostle, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.