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The synod process is complex and messy, but it isn’t rigged

by Matt Malone, S.J. October 14, 2015

The synod process is complex and messy, but it isn’t rigged

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Catholic justices begin new SCOTUS term with Red Mass

by Matt Malone, S.J. October 7, 2015

Catholic justices begin new SCOTUS term with Red Mass

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by Matt Malone, S.J. September 29, 2015

Will the pope’s visit encourage Catholic elected officials to speak more freely about faith?

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by Kerry Weber September 22, 2015

In the end, the story of Francis’ visit is, at its heart, a story of community.

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The cablization of America’s political marketplace

by Matt Malone, S.J. September 16, 2015

Like today’s cable news anchor, politicians are not talking to most of us, but to the relatively few of us they need in order to win.

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by Matt Malone, S.J. September 8, 2015

Iraqi sister testifies before Foreign Affairs Committee on plight of Middle East Christians

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by Matt Malone, S.J. September 2, 2015

Mr. Bush was onto something: While government has a role to play in the pursuit of the common good, our charitable and voluntary associations are similarly indispensable, and those who have a religious worldview have historically led the way.

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On hearing about Jimmy Carter’s cancer diagnosis

by Matt Malone, S.J. August 18, 2015

For 30 years as our most popular former president, Carter has functioned as the nation’s conscience, mainly because, like Pope Francis, he’s the real deal: a leader who says what he does and does what he says.

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by Matt Malone, S.J. August 6, 2015

On my desk at America Media headquarters sits a sealed glass bowl containing some dark, hardened soil from the tract of land my family tilled for more than two centuries in County Galway, Ireland. This is unsurprising, I suppose. When I try to count back through my 13 predecessors as editor in chief