Intellectuals today lack a depth of dedication to the poor
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On April 4, 1968, just hours before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tenn., Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign made a stop in Muncie, Ind. He wanted to talk to the 9,000 students who had assembled in the gymnasium at Ball State University about the meaning of life. “W
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The Information Age has been eclipsed by instantaneous infotainment
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A move from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and getting to know a new parish
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Faith and obedience, Pope Benedict XVI reminded Americans, are not easy words to speak nowadays.
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Awaiting a spring that is coming slowly to the Big Apple, I fast-forward my thoughts and summon the words of the 18th-century poet James Thomson: “…who can paint/ like Nature? Can imagination boast,/ amid its gay creation, hues like hers?” Signs and wonders will soon abound in all
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With this issue America begins its 100th year of publication, rounding out a century of service to Catholic intellectual life in the United States. Writing in the inaugural issue, dated April 17, 1909, the magazine’s founding editor, John J. Wynne, S.J., wrote that “the object, sc
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The pope visits Yankee Stadium, and other sacred moments in secular spaces.
