The coronavirus pandemic is a shared experience for all inhabitants of the world, but it is not the same experience for all.
Editorials
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The United States should suspend sanctions against Iran to save lives from Covid-19
No country can be safe from the coronavirus as long as any nation is unable to resist it with all the resources it can muster or all the resources that, in mercy, can be shared with it.
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The Editors: Remembering Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J.
Like many other New Yorkers and America readers, we suffered a great loss on Sunday, March 29, with the death of Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., editor in chief of America from 1975 to 1984.
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The coronavirus dilemma isn’t death or economic destruction. It’s prudence or ignorance.
It is a catastrophic failure of imagination and moral responsibility to act as if we are unable to learn what we need to know to make a better decision.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
New Catholics are a sign of hope
On Holy Saturday, thousands of catechumens and candidates in the United States will join the Catholic Church.
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Is justice still a long-way off for Jesuit martyrs in El Salvador?
The State Department’s sanction raised some hope in El Salvador that the perpetrators of the Jesuit murders and more of the era’s worst offenses would finally have to face survivors and family members of their victims in court. Unfortunately, even such small expectations for justice are already imperiled.
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The Editors: How Catholics should respond to the coronavirus
The coronavirus poses a threat that knows no borders. As Catholics, neither does our love and concern for our neighbors.
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Take me out to the (minor league) ballgame
Taking away access to minor-league baseball for many Americans is against our national interest and our longstanding culture.
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Why Catholics should practice almsgiving this Lent (and every Lent)
Perhaps Catholics in the United States might redouble their efforts to give alms this Lent and to reflect in greater depth on the spiritual benefits the practice can bring.
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The Editors: Congress has a duty to protect immigrants
Congress cannot continue to sit idly by while the executive branch continues to demolish our already broken immigration system. This body has been negligent for far too long in its duty to pass a fair and humane immigration reform.