Jesuit School Spotlight
At Loyola Blakefield in Maryland, Black alumni pave the way for future students
Kenneth Montague became the first African-American student at Loyola in 1956. He “opened the door for others to follow.”
Interviews
Building a brotherhood: A conversation with the leader of the Knights of Columbus
Patrick E. Kelly is the 14th supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization. He took office on March 1, 2021.
Of Many Things
The Catholic Church belongs to all of us. It’s time to #OwnYourFaith.
America is launching a groundbreaking national marketing campaign. We’re calling it #OwnYourFaith.
Your Take
Can ‘traditional’ Catholics support Pope Francis? Our readers weigh in.
America’s readers respond to an article by Terence Sweeney’s in which he says that supporting Pope Francis is fully compatible with being a “traditional” Catholic.
Editorials
Like the disciples, we search for Easter hope in the wake of Good Friday suffering
The promise of eternal life must lead to greater forgiveness and reconciliation, not passivity in the face of injustice. Such reconciliation can come about only when judgment is left in the hands of God.
Short Take
Paul Farmer was my friend. He should be made a saint—and a doctor of the church.
Dr. Paul Farmer was world-renowned for his medical achievements, but he also had a profound impact on friends and colleagues who saw him as a person of great holiness.
Dispatches
A California bishop invited community organizers to help with the synod. So far, it’s working.
When it comes to the “Synod on Synodality” initiated by Pope Francis, Bishop Daniel E. Garcia says we don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Most young Catholics say they are spiritual or religious. That doesn’t mean you’ll find them at Mass.
The vast majority of young, self-identified Catholics describe themselves as at least slightly spiritual and religious—but they practice their faith in ways that might not be familiar to older believers.
Arizona priest who invalidly baptized thousands defended by former parishioners in Brazil
Members of one of his former communities said they doubt that he used incorrect formulas for sacraments while he worked there, and many of them recall him fondly as one of the most important priests in their lives.
It’s not easy being green: Ireland is failing to respond to the climate crisis
Movies set in Ireland rarely omit the trope of the aerial shot of rolling green fields. After all, it is the Emerald Isle. Or is it?
Features
We Need to Talk About Race: Lessons from ‘The Gloria Purvis Podcast’
We need to use the minds that God gave us to break down this injustice.
Greg Boyle, S.J.: What Rodney King and racial unrest in Los Angeles taught me about policing and community
It was after this moment, 30 years ago, that chiefs of police, beginning in Los Angeles and spreading everywhere, started to say, “We cannot arrest our way out” of this.
What’s Religious About Being Woke?
The church’s passion for justice arises not only from its moral certainty, but even more from its solidarity with those who are suffering.
What happens when social movements are at odds with Catholic teaching?
It is difficult for a thoughtful Catholic to separate the wheat from the chaff in assessing secular social movements and causes. But we owe it to each other to try.
Faith and Reason
The ‘Great Resignation’ and the spirituality of work
Since the spring of 2021, millions of Americans have left the workforce, and many may not intend to return. Humanity’s complex relationship with work is worth revisiting in light of today’s so-called Great Resignation.
Faith in Focus
You will never regret going to the funeral
No one wants to be at a funeral. It means that a loss has occurred, hearts broken. But there are few other instances in which doing something we dread so deeply can mean so much.
Books
Review: Finding our way back to the farm
Half memoir of farm life, half manifesto against modern agricultural practices, James Rebanks’s ‘Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey’ urges us to return to our agrarian roots.
Review: How to live a scholarly life with gratitude and grace
In his new memoir, John W. O’Malley reflects on a life of priestly ministry and teaching, and offers lessons on how to live a scholarly life.
Review: It’s good to be king. It’s better to be Caesar.
In ‘Twelve Caesars,’ Mary Beard analyzes the reception and adaptation of ancient Roman imperial portraits in Western European and American art from the 15th century to the present.
Review: What can the writers of the Christian left tell us about the future?
If contemplation and criticism can lead to imitation, then writing about the literary Christian left of the last century might help establish a literary Christian left for this century.
Film
Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ is the nostalgic film we need 2 years into the Covid-19 pandemic
Perhaps this is why Wes Anderson’s work resounds so strongly: We all long for homes to which we cannot return.
Poetry
Corpus Christi Honeymoon
two coals burning incense clouds to the heavens, abandoned pretty much to the harmony of us
Christ Sighting: Lazarus
Tiny Lazarus. Your story bigger than you and us.
Last Take
A vocation with purpose: The new reality for religious sisters
A younger religious sister knows she can’t recreate the community of the 1950s, but she has deep gratitude for her own formation, and excitement for what is to come.
Faith
A vocation with purpose: The new reality for religious sisters
A younger religious sister knows she can’t recreate the community of the 1950s, but she has deep gratitude for her own formation, and excitement for what is to come.
At Loyola Blakefield in Maryland, Black alumni pave the way for future students
Kenneth Montague became the first African-American student at Loyola in 1956. He “opened the door for others to follow.”
Building a brotherhood: A conversation with the leader of the Knights of Columbus
Patrick E. Kelly is the 14th supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization. He took office on March 1, 2021.
The ‘Great Resignation’ and the spirituality of work
Since the spring of 2021, millions of Americans have left the workforce, and many may not intend to return. Humanity’s complex relationship with work is worth revisiting in light of today’s so-called Great Resignation.
Can ‘traditional’ Catholics support Pope Francis? Our readers weigh in.
America’s readers respond to an article by Terence Sweeney’s in which he says that supporting Pope Francis is fully compatible with being a “traditional” Catholic.
The Catholic Church belongs to all of us. It’s time to #OwnYourFaith.
America is launching a groundbreaking national marketing campaign. We’re calling it #OwnYourFaith.
A California bishop invited community organizers to help with the synod. So far, it’s working.
When it comes to the “Synod on Synodality” initiated by Pope Francis, Bishop Daniel E. Garcia says we don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
Most young Catholics say they are spiritual or religious. That doesn’t mean you’ll find them at Mass.
The vast majority of young, self-identified Catholics describe themselves as at least slightly spiritual and religious—but they practice their faith in ways that might not be familiar to older believers.
Paul Farmer was my friend. He should be made a saint—and a doctor of the church.
Dr. Paul Farmer was world-renowned for his medical achievements, but he also had a profound impact on friends and colleagues who saw him as a person of great holiness.
Arizona priest who invalidly baptized thousands defended by former parishioners in Brazil
Members of one of his former communities said they doubt that he used incorrect formulas for sacraments while he worked there, and many of them recall him fondly as one of the most important priests in their lives.
You will never regret going to the funeral
No one wants to be at a funeral. It means that a loss has occurred, hearts broken. But there are few other instances in which doing something we dread so deeply can mean so much.
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