Jesuit School Spotlight
How do you teach high school boys to love?
A Jesuit education invites students to love themselves and the world anew.
Of Many Things
This is Jeopardy!
Welcome back to “America Jeopardy!”, our annual beach-reading homage to the popular game show and everybody’s favorite Catholic magazine.
Editorials
Editorial: How you see the sexual abuse crisis
The Catholic Church still has a trust problem, as shown by the results of a comprehensive survey of U.S. Catholics commissioned by America Media.
The Catholic Church must come clean—completely—about what it did to Native Americans
Forgiveness and healing can begin only after the most difficult part is addressed: confronting the past, speaking the truth, revealing the worst.
Short Take
Pope Francis is not a liberal! (He’s not a conservative either.)
Both political parties keep trying to claim Pope Francis but anyone who pays close attention knows that the pope transcends the ideologies of the moment in the United States.
Dispatches
Three years after the 2018 ‘summer of shame,’ what do American Catholics think about the sex abuse crisis?
America asked the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University to survey Catholics nationwide about their understanding of the sexual abuse crisis, its emotional impact and how it has affected their faith.
What Joe Biden’s DC pastor thinks about the Bishops’ Communion vote
“This is a time to say, ‘Yes, let’s speak about the hunger…for the presence of God.’ This is the moment, and I think the bishops want to do that. But some of our pastoral leaders are making it difficult.”
How involved should priests be in politics? Nigeria is a reminder it’s not just an American question.
The United States is not the only nation struggling with the problem of outspoken priests becoming entangled with the partisan politics of the day.
Pope Francis encourages Jesuit Father James Martin in his L.G.B.T. ministry
On the eve of the Outreach 2021 L.G.B.T. conference, Father Martin received a handwritten personal letter in Spanish from Francis, expressing his support.
A burial site for Indigenous children was found in Canada. Could it happen in the United States?
“The fundamental reality of children dying at these boarding schools is not a new story.”
Features
The church in the West is in decline—and nationalism won’t save it
The church can be a transformative force by standing with the powerless and vulnerable today as it did during the fall of Communism.
Facebook Wants a Monopoly on Human Connection
Is there a way to fight back?
Faith and Reason
Bishops’ meetings won’t heal the U.S. church. We need a Fourth Plenary Council involving all Catholics.
Given all the challenges facing the Catholic Church in our country, we are far overdue for a moment in which the bishops, clergy, religious and lay faithful of our country can discern together how to be the people of God in our time and place.
Faith in Focus
The Temptation of Spiritual Whataboutism
Just because others have it worse than I do doesn’t mean I should avoid my struggles.
Ideas
F*scist is still a bad word. And your political enemy probably isn’t one.
Fascism has proved sufficiently elastic to be used as a term of abuse across the political spectrum.
Books
Review: A climate crisis sci-fi novel that actually offers hope
‘The Ministry for the Future’ offers a vision honest to the scale of the crisis that offers a plausible path to addressing it.
Review: In Patricia Engel’s ‘Infinite Country,’ a family grapples with borders and belonging
The American dream exerts a magnetic pull in Patricia Engel’s new novel.
Review: Reporting on religion can be dark. But we need people on the God Beat more than ever.
The best essays in ‘The God Beat’ are quietly reflective, deeply informed, subjective but not solipsistic.
Review: In Phil Klay’s ‘Missionaries’ God and violence meet in America’s forever-wars
With his debut novel, Phil Klay lays out our country’s new way of waging war, without clear beginnings, middles or ends and without clear moral goods and evils.
Poetry
Cause and Effect
Because Francis demanded poverty, after all
P.O.T.S. Prayer
You, who used to be so accessible, Your number not yet unlisted,
The Word
The choice to commit to Jesus is yours
Today’s readings challenge us to think about how we react to complex and difficult matters.
To live the Gospel, stand for (and with) the vulnerable.
As the world is filled with much suffering, we are called to action.
On the feast of the Assumption of Mary, women of the Bible teach us to pray with joy
Mary’s song offers us a model for how to pray.
Learning to love the way God loves
Treating one another with dignity and respect are conditions of an authentic imitation of God.
Feeling empty? Maybe that’s Jesus calling out to you
When Jesus offered bread and fish to the multitudes, he modeled behavior that we are called to emulate.
Last Take
Anxious about returning to regular life? 6 Jesuit discernment tips for the post-Covid world
We are all emerging from our Covid retreat and encountering sensory overload, writes Debra K. Mooney. The principles of Ignatian retreat and discernment can help us with the re-entry process.
Faith
The choice to commit to Jesus is yours
Today’s readings challenge us to think about how we react to complex and difficult matters.
To live the Gospel, stand for (and with) the vulnerable.
As the world is filled with much suffering, we are called to action.
On the feast of the Assumption of Mary, women of the Bible teach us to pray with joy
Mary’s song offers us a model for how to pray.
Learning to love the way God loves
Treating one another with dignity and respect are conditions of an authentic imitation of God.
Feeling empty? Maybe that’s Jesus calling out to you
When Jesus offered bread and fish to the multitudes, he modeled behavior that we are called to emulate.
How do you teach high school boys to love?
A Jesuit education invites students to love themselves and the world anew.
Three years after the 2018 ‘summer of shame,’ what do American Catholics think about the sex abuse crisis?
America asked the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University to survey Catholics nationwide about their understanding of the sexual abuse crisis, its emotional impact and how it has affected their faith.
Editorial: How you see the sexual abuse crisis
The Catholic Church still has a trust problem, as shown by the results of a comprehensive survey of U.S. Catholics commissioned by America Media.
This is Jeopardy!
Welcome back to “America Jeopardy!”, our annual beach-reading homage to the popular game show and everybody’s favorite Catholic magazine.
Bishops’ meetings won’t heal the U.S. church. We need a Fourth Plenary Council involving all Catholics.
Given all the challenges facing the Catholic Church in our country, we are far overdue for a moment in which the bishops, clergy, religious and lay faithful of our country can discern together how to be the people of God in our time and place.
What Joe Biden’s DC pastor thinks about the Bishops’ Communion vote
“This is a time to say, ‘Yes, let’s speak about the hunger…for the presence of God.’ This is the moment, and I think the bishops want to do that. But some of our pastoral leaders are making it difficult.”
Pope Francis is not a liberal! (He’s not a conservative either.)
Both political parties keep trying to claim Pope Francis but anyone who pays close attention knows that the pope transcends the ideologies of the moment in the United States.
Pope Francis encourages Jesuit Father James Martin in his L.G.B.T. ministry
On the eve of the Outreach 2021 L.G.B.T. conference, Father Martin received a handwritten personal letter in Spanish from Francis, expressing his support.
A burial site for Indigenous children was found in Canada. Could it happen in the United States?
“The fundamental reality of children dying at these boarding schools is not a new story.”
The Temptation of Spiritual Whataboutism
Just because others have it worse than I do doesn’t mean I should avoid my struggles.
Anxious about returning to regular life? 6 Jesuit discernment tips for the post-Covid world
We are all emerging from our Covid retreat and encountering sensory overload, writes Debra K. Mooney. The principles of Ignatian retreat and discernment can help us with the re-entry process.
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