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Editor’s Note: The following is a conversation between Ross Douthat, a columnist for The New York Times, and author of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, and James Martin, S.J., editor at large of America and author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage. Their wide-ranging conversation, o

On November 5 America editor in chief Matt Malone, S.J., traveled to Spokane, Washington with Ann Curry and an NBC news team to interview Bishop Blase Cupich, the incoming archbishop of Chicago. Watch the report that aired on Sunday night November 16 on NBC Nightly News. A podcast intervie

AMERICA AND NBC NEWSNBC CORRESPONDENT: ANN CURRYNBC PRODUCERS: JUSTIN BALDING AND NATASHA LEBEDEVAFOR AMERICA: MATT MALONE, S.J.Editor’s Note: The following is an edited transcript of the NBC/America interview with Archbishop-Designate Blase Cupich. It has been edited for clarity, length

Where are we more likely to encounter the divine: in otherworldly apparitions and miracles, or in selfless service to others? In Lourdes, or at the soup kitchen? To secular and religious liberals, the latter answer has vastly greater appeal, not to mention more practical application: We may not agre

America’s editorial on the recently concluded Synod of Bishops on the Family rightly speaks of “a remarkable two-week period” (“Go in Peace,” 11/10). Anyone who followed the synod knows that it was characterized by passionate debate and even, in some instances, disagree

Pride and sport collide in Bennett Miller’s new film ‘Foxcatcher’

‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice,” Karl Marx notes in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852). “He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Entirely too many protagonist

The fact that before the year A.D. 325, synods were held everywhere in the church demonstrates that the bishops realized, as the author Msgr. Michael Magee put it, that “no bishop was entitled to exercise his office in isolation from the common good of all the Churches, or from his brothers in

My host paused with his hand on the lid as we stood before the long wooden box. “Are you ready,” he asked, “to see the ‘shawl’ of Mbah Jarik?” What awaited me in that container was a glimpse of Indonesia’s ancient Muslim traditions—traditions that are

In 1814 John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson that he was unhappy with the Restoration of the Society of Jesus. Read today, the expression is surprising. One of the fruits of the revolution was religious freedom, and the American Catholic Church, concentrated in Maryland and Philadelphia, at that tim