This week’s guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ian Johnson, an expert on Chinese religious practices based in Beijing. His latest piece for America is a report on the state of Catholicism in modern China titled: “How the top-heavy Catholic Church is losing the ground game in China.” Ian Johnson told America about the history of […]
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Pope Francis calls outer space
Pope Francis called six astronauts on the International Space Station yesterday and decided to ask them some of life’s biggest questions.
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Seeking the Spirit in a secular age
From the open arms of “Who am I to judge?” to the strict boundaries of the Benedict Option, the question of how to be a church community is a prominent one for Christians in our secular age. The knot caused by the two kinds of answers commonly given to this question lies at the heart […]
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Sister Simone Campbell on Paul Ryan, religious life, and the political issues driving her crazy right now
This week, we talk with celebrity nun, Sister Simone Campbell of Nuns on the Bus.
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Sister Simone Campbell on Paul Ryan, religious life, and the political issues driving her crazy right now
This week, we talk with celebrity nun, Sister Simone Campbell. Sister Simone is the leader of the Nuns on the Bus and executive director of the NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice. We talk balancing spirituality with fame, women religious, Catholic feminism, Paul Ryan and more. In Signs of the Times, next week is Halloween, […]
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Pope Francis takes questions from children in hurricane-hit Texas, Puerto Rico
“When these misfortunes happen to us, we cannot forget that the father loves us.”
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The life of Catholic foundress Cornelia Connelly was ruled by men. Was her obedience to them holy?
To reflect upon Cornelia’s life today is inevitably to lament it.
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Even with so many dead in the Civil War, what Lincoln teaches us about the value of human life.
We love our definitions, our categories and our ability to transform most anything in the world into an equation.
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Pope Francis calls space, takes small step for Vatican-Russian ties
“You Russians have in your blood, in your humanistic and religious tradition” an understanding of love, Francis said to Russian cosmonauts.
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‘America’ in Rome, Day 3: The Vatican
Pilgrim Sharon Carpenter reflects on an “amazing journey.”