Magazines like America are not really the first draft of history. But from time to time, when the publishing planets align, we break news as well as analyze it.
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When Father Malone is away, guest columnist James T. Keane will play ball.
Matt Malone, S.J., is traveling abroad. But I also suspect he let me be the pinch-hitter for this column in America’s special sports issue out of pity.
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Why America magazine is global in spirit and content
In 1909, the editors relied on the telegraph to stay connected to their international network. Today, even the editor in chief can use his iPhone to file a column from a bus en route to Bethlehem.
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New technologies are a conduit for evangelization
We must see new technologies as opportunities for evangelization and solidarity rather than scary, bewildering forces that can only pull us apart.
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Matt Malone, S.J., responds to the release of names of accused Jesuits by the Northeast Province
The past few months have not been easy for the editorial team at America. No one here became a Catholic journalist because they wanted to write about ecclesial scandals day after day. That the staff have done so with such devotion and care is a great testament to the depth of their commitment to our […]
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The Good News is breaking news
We are launching a new segment in Dispatches, our traditional section for news. It’s called, appropriately enough, GoodNews, and will feature stories that I hope will give you some sense of the almost miraculous things that countless people of faith do every day around the world.
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Protecting the least among us: The unborn
As is our annual custom, we republish excerpts from these texts here as an expression of our solidarity with the women and men who will march this month in the nation’s capital.
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Introducing the 2018 America Profile
Each year, America’s editor in chief (yours truly in the present instance) will take an in-depth look at a public figure whose Catholic faith plays a meaningful role in his or her life and work.
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Law without conscience ignores our humanity
We are either human beings, created in the image and likeness of God and endowed with moral agency and free will, or we are merely machines, programmed through laws and regulations, mere code written by the programmers.
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We must build our public square on civil dialogue
No single person can be trusted to wield power; therefore, power must be shared among many and policed by a legal system of checks and balances.