Pew explains, “just one-third of U.S. Catholics (31 percent) say they believe that ‘during Catholic Mass, the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Jesus.’”
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A statue of George Washington in London reminds us that all empires fall
This statue, which was permitted by an excess of imperial pride, now serves as a symbol of the humbling inflicted by the vicissitudes of history, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
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Why we published an essay sympathetic to communism
You should not assume that America’s editorial position on communism has changed very much. It has not, Matt Malone, S.J. writes. What has also not changed is our willingness to hear views with which we may disagree but that we nonetheless think are worth hearing.
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The Answers, er, Questions to ‘America Jeopardy’ 2019
Did you frame your responses in the form of a question?
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It’s time for America Jeopardy! 2019! How well will you fare?
Welcome back to “America Jeopardy!”, our annual beach-reading homage to America’s most popular game show and everybody’s favorite Catholic magazine.
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What our legislators need to do to break the pattern of mass shootings
Again, the bullet. Again, the agony. We are repeating the day over and over, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
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Health care isn’t about statistics or abstractions. It’s about people.
The subject of every public policy question is a person, created and redeemed through love, writes Matt Malone, S.J.
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Social media reinforces clean divisions, but reality is messy.
Social media, in other words, often deepens existing ideological and partisan divisions by reinforcing only those viewpoints with which we are already most inclined to agree, writes Matt Malone, SJ, in his latest column.
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Ideological bias cannot taint our approach to sexual abuse
Ideological bias structures much of the public discourse. But we cannot allow it to structure our ecclesial conversation.
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Reading for fun: introducing our Spring Books 2019 issue
Books for every kind of reader are featured in our Spring Books special literary issue.