President Trump’s visit to the St. John Paul II National Shrine continues a pattern of using sacred sites for political stunts, writes America associate editor Zac Davis. This is over the line of what the church should tolerate.
Zac Davis
Zac Davis is an associate editor and the senior director for digital strategy for America. He also co-hosts the podcast, Jesuitical.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Michael Jordan and the problem (and necessity) of hagiography
“The Last Dance” is not documentary but hagiography. Many commentators mean this as a criticism, but here is the thing: Hagiographies are important—and compelling.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Washington Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib will not seek re-election in order to join the Jesuits
Cyrus Habib is interrupting what had been a rapid political ascent to join the Catholic Church’s largest religious order.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Short stories and the scandal of particular grace
The stories in David Means’s latest collection demand and deserve the reader’s full participation.
Posted inCommunity, Your Take
Comment sections are not beyond redemption, including this one.
We’re relaunching the commenting experience at America.
Posted inArts & Culture, Jesuitical
What makes Catholic School Movies so great?
Hunter Harris tells us. Also: Lady Bird is the greatest Catholic School Movie ever.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What dead animals (and novels) can teach us about live humans
Kristen Arnett’s novel is about intimacy and wanting what is forbidden, about childhood and family, about absent parents and absent lovers, and about the secondhand self-destruction that can be wrought by ignoring cries of the heart.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
When Millennials move in with Nuns
Nuns and Nones, an organization that brings these two groups—both spiritually seeking, both distinctly committed to justice—together for conversation, relationship and even shared housing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Jesuitical
This Catholic high schooler painted a mural of black saints to help fight racism
Chloe Becker was upset when she realized she could not name a single African or African-American saint.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Georgetown Jesuits enslaved her ancestors. Now she’s working for justice.
Onita Estes-Hicks has been Catholic her entire life. But her relationship with her faith was forever changed in 2004.