A slideshow from the Catholic chaplaincy at San Quentin State Prison.
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Sam Sawyer, S.J., is the editor in chief of America Media.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: Why Pope Francis’ comments on women’s ordination are both business as usual and a big deal
Why Pope Francis’ comments are both business as usual and something worth talking about.
Posted inIn All Things
Is Pope Francis a failure? Not so fast.
There is more than one way to measure the strength of the church.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Who became a neighbor? Reading Black Lives Matter through the Good Samaritan
There are many roads to Jericho in the world today, but our country keeps winding up on this one.
Posted inIn All Things
The feature already in your iPhone that makes the F.B.I.-Apple fight a moot point
Unbreakable encryption is fact of modern life—because of math, not politics. We need to decide how to live with it.
Posted inIn All Things
One year after the Planned Parenthood video story: some “what if’s” to consider
What if we admitted that what the Planned Parenthood videos revealed was legal, and then asked why?
Posted inIn All Things
Is the U.S. taking Herod’s side in planning to deport families fleeing violence?
Preparations are beginning to deport families fleeing violence in Central America. Here are some suggestions about how to respond.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Martin Shkreli’s fraud did not occur in a vacuum.
When we enjoy our outrage and savor Martin Shkreli’s defeat, we might not notice that such outrage is, in this case, the voice of conscience.
Posted inIn All Things
Abortion clinic violence isn’t the biggest issue in the Colorado tragedy: mass shooting violence is.
No one is served by rhetoric that suggests that pro-lifers have “incited” this violence.
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Watching ‘Spotlight’: what a priest who discerned his vocation during the Boston scandals learned
It was all the more gut-wrenching for being so good a film and for telling its story so carefully and fairly.