In this episode of “Preach” we continue our Easter series on preaching the hope of the resurrection in a broken world. Our guest Tom Weston, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, counsellor and man in long-term recovery, who has devoted most of his priestly life to working alongside people battling addiction—leading 12-step based retreats, offering counseling and spiritual accompaniment, and lecturing internationally.
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Reactions: President Trump lashes out at Pope Leo XIV
In a special America Media editors’ roundtable, Sam Sawyer, S.J., Ashley McKinless and Colleen Dulle break down President Trump’s unprecedented attack on Pope Leo XIV.
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Poetry and spirituality with Pádraig Ó Tuama
Our guest on this week’s episode of “The Spiritual Life” podcast is a man who looks at the world through the eyes of not only a poet but a believer. But Pádraig Ó Tuama’s life is even more varied than that.
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Podcast: Pope Leo denounces Trump’s Iran threats
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen and Gerry recap a packed two weeks of Vatican news, covering Pope Leo’s first Holy Week celebrations and his comments on President Trump’s threat to wipe out ‘an entire civilization.’
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Pope Leo’s first Holy Week and Easter in a world at war
This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Sebastian discuss Leo’s first Holy Week and Easter as pope and his calls for peace amid war in the Middle East.
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Why St. Augustine’s words on desire are some of the greatest spiritual insights ever written
Over my 25 years as a spiritual director, I don’t think I have quoted any line (apart from verses from the Gospels) more than St. Augustine’s dictum, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
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A Scripture scholar breaks down the first witnesses of the risen Christ
What does it mean to preach resurrection into a broken world? In this first episode of our 2026 Easter series, host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and New Scripture scholar Alberto Solano open up the post-resurrection appearances in John’s Gospel.
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Roundtable: Catholic women react to the Vatican’s report on women’s leadership
In March 2026, the Vatican’s doctrine office released its final report on women’s participation in the life and leadership of the Catholic Church. The report brings to a close the two-year work of Study Group 5, which, as part of the Synod on Synodality, was tasked with studying women’s ministries and leadership. In this special roundtable conversation, editors at America magazine discuss the report’s content and proposals, and ask if the document changes the status quo for women in the Catholic Church.
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Catholic and Anarchist: The spiritual wisdom of Dorothy Day
For the longest time, perhaps over a decade, I’ve been encouraging my good friend Robert Ellsberg, the publisher of Orbis Books, to write a book about the time he spent with Dorothy Day when he was a young college student.
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The inside story of Pope Leo XIV’s election
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle is joined by guest host Ashley McKinless for an interview with Gerard O’Connell and his wife and journalist Elisabetta Piqué about their new book, “The Election of Pope Leo XIV: The Last Surprise of Pope Francis.” They discuss pre-conclave maneuvering, including organized resistance to Pope Francis’s reforms, as well as their decision to report conclave details despite Cardinals taking oaths of secrecy.