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.
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The six models of Cardinal Avery Dulles
“Each of the models brings out certain important and necessary points, but any model used in isolation will lead to distortions because each model exhibits only a particular reality” of the child of God and disciple of Jesus Christ who was Avery Dulles.
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There is no civil war in the Church. Jesus already won.
Who do we mean when we say “the church”?
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Father Matt Malone: Why America magazine called for the withdrawal of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination
We won’t always get it right, but we’d rather lose than lie.
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It’s time for America to find a shared sense of purpose.
We are not the indispensable nation. We never were. But a shared sense of national purpose is indispensable.