The gift and challenge of discernment in Pope Francis’ ‘The Joy of Love’
The great question is this: How do we form consciences?
David Miliband: Today’s refugee crisis demands an aid revolution.
The refugee crisis demands better aid, not just more aid.
After Scalia: how the Supreme Court fared without its most vocal justice
How the Supreme Court fared without its most vocal justice
Of Many Things
Three ways America Media is reaching a new generation of Catholics
We could not do all we do without your support. Nor would we want to.
Letters
Reply All: America’s readers respond
America’s readers respond: Join the conversation.
Editorials
Healing the wounds of racism begins with crossing the street.
To love one’s neighbors is to seek to understand their experience.
Faith in Focus
On fatherhood, selective service and a space for nonviolence
On fatherhood, selective service and a space for nonviolence
When Elie Wiesel met François Mauriac
By doing justice to the “other half of the story,” we Christians honor our moral obligation to the Jewish people.
Books
Bonds Broken By War
‘Hystopia,’ by David Means
Pip’s Progress
‘Purity,’ by Jonathan Franzen
Capital Crimes
’13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty,’ by Mario Marazziti
Film
75 years later, what can “Citizen Kane” tell us about the presidential race?
“In short, it is the story of a media manipulator who strove to turn his celebrity into elective office. Draw what parallels you may.”
Poetry
THE MOTH
A flicker in the woodsyet enduring as those trees.This twice-spawned leafmakes you believe youcan almost catch lightin your hands. Whatever rootit takes depends on what footbecomes a flower. Brief bliss, whose moth life holdsclose to the flame, this little wormwith wings, so that time may showu
The Word
The Little Flock
“Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”
Out of the Mire
“I waited patiently for the Lord; he heard my cry”
Columns
Why bother with the humanities?
Economic advantage is not the only goal of higher education.
Current Comment
Why Venezuela’s president needs to swallow nationalist pride and accept humanitarian aid
Conditions in Venezuela appear to be reaching a complete breakdown.
Why San Francisco officials are wrong to pass the buck to voters
Residents of San Francisco will need to budget plenty of time for voting this fall.
Athletes aren’t the only winners and losers of Brazil’s Olympic games
The pressure to “clean up” the city for its moment in the global spotlight may lead to further victimization.
Philosopher's Notebook
How a new school named after G.K. Chesterton is changing Catholic education
The faith is more than cult and code.
Signs Of the Times
How do we fix L.A.’s traffic? Invest in cars, not busses.
Los Angeles ‘grew up around the automobile.’ Ready access to transportation was assumed.
Police Shootings and Apparent Reprisal Attacks Shock the Nation
The deaths of two African-American men last month at the hands of police in Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Heights, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul, provoked soul-searching and demonstrations against police brutality and institutional racism around the country. In a jolt to the entire nation, the killings
News Briefs
Msgr. Owen Campion of Nashville, Tenn., retired on June 30 after a long career in the Catholic press as an editor and associate publisher. • A few months after Donald J. Trump’s clash with Pope Francis over immigration policy, a new poll finds that most U.S. Catholics support Hillary Clin
Calling All Pro-Life Democrats?
Democrats for Life may have lost the battle, but they’re hoping to win the war, as they see the party’s future inextricably linked to how well it carves out room for individuals opposed to abortion.Democratic Party leaders meeting in Orlando, Fla., on July 10 advanced a draft of its 2016
Need for ‘Crisis Architecture’
Tighter Western security measures and immigration controls are two likely outcomes of a truck attack in France on July 14, but a closer appraisal of “crisis architecture” may be another response to the unprecedented attack.“I think that, sadly, we’re at a place where—no
Vatican Dispatch
How this new Vatican department is giving lay people a seat at the table
‘We need laypeople with a vision of the future.’
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