Of Many Things
10 things Catholics can do to make Twitter a less toxic place
For Christians, the ministry of social communications does not exist for the sake of mere speech but for the one who is himself the Word.
Your Take
How do you ground your Christmas celebrations in your faith?
We asked our readers how they ground Christmas celebrations in their faith during a season that can be hectic and distracting.
The Letters
I agree that the Catholic Church’s handling of its sex abuse scandal offers powerful lessons to other institutions.
Editorials
Merry Christmas from the Editors of America
We at America Media are profoundly grateful to our readers, donors and supporters for sharing your gifts with us.
The Editors: The decline of data under Trump is hurting Puerto Rico
Future historians may have no idea how many people perished in one of the worst storms in U.S. history.
The Editors: The G.O.P. tax plan is deliberately designed to collapse
For poor and lower middle-class taxpayers, the bill will mean regressive tax hikes after a few years.
Short Take
A Catholic’s immigration wish list
The Trump administration has made clear its principles on immigration; Catholics should answer with a list of ways to reform the system with fairness and humanity.
Dispatches
The Top Catholic Web Stories of 2017: Pope Francis, ‘Silence’ and Steve Bannon
Besides Pope Francis, there was an impressively wide range of topics that got readers’ attention, including reflections on capitalism and philanthropy, and evaluations of the music of U2 and Beyoncé.
A Yuletide treat recalls Venezuela’s Christmas past
Hallacas are unique among the other tamales popular in Latin America.
These Iraqi Christians returned home after surviving ISIS. Now they face a new threat.
After surviving ISIS, Christian communities in Nineveh face a new threat as Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi government troops backed by Shiite militias square off across the province.
D.C. archdiocese sues transit agency over rejection of Christmas season ads
The Washington Metro cited its guidelines against religious ads in preventing the image of a group of shepherds from running on city buses.
Features
The urgent, lonely, relevant, humbling, joyful, experience of being a newly ordained priest
I never wanted to be a priest. But here I am. Newly minted Father Brendan, and still wondering how I got here.
The Catholic Church used to be like Silicon Valley. Can it be again?
The church was once the world’s greatest engine of innovation…and should be again.
Faith in Focus
Feast of the Holy Innocents: 2,000 years later we still remember the pain their mothers felt
Thirty-four years ago I held my child, my 22-month-old son, cradling him in my arms as I watched the last flicker of his life ebb away.
Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas—but they are cousins.
Christmas and Hanukkah share much more than the giving of gifts.
Books
Joe Biden suffered a father’s greatest loss, yet he still has hope.
Joe Biden’s deep love for his son is evident on every page of ‘Promise Me.’
Is Philip Pullman the anti-C.S.Lewis?
In a roundabout way, Pullman does Christians a service by writing his anti-Christian books.
Was the English Reformation inevitable?
As a movement directed at unity and uniformity (Henry’s vision), the English Reformation was a high-stakes failure.
Hipster Catholics get a handbook
When it comes to defining what makes Catholicism hipster, a new book argues that being Catholic is hipster in itself.
Art
A new Met exhibit on the genius of Michelangelo provides a ‘spiritual experience’
The Met spent eight years securing 133 drawings plus paintings, sculptures and architectural models from 50 different institutions and individuals in Europe and the United States.
Film
Sick of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’? Try these other Christmas films
Five movies to watch this holiday season: some familiar, some unexpected.
Television
Review: Jon Snow leads a Catholic revolt in ‘Gunpowder’
The series tells the story of the Gunpowder Plot, when a group of Catholics plotted to blow up Parliament.
Poetry
The Christmas Spectacular
What does it mean to follow Christ?
The Word
Catching Sight of Grace
Today’s feast reminds us to seek God’s love anew through our loved ones.
Catching Sight of Grace
Family life in the Bible is both difficult and grace-filled.
The message of Epiphany: Rise up; Your light has come!
Today’s feast commemorates the “physical” revelation of Christ, the moment when Gentiles recognized the incarnate Messiah.
Last Take
Patricia Heaton: ‘Iceland isn’t eliminating Down syndrome—they are just killing everyone who has it.’
Close to 100 percent of unborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in Iceland are aborted.
Faith
Catching Sight of Grace
Today’s feast reminds us to seek God’s love anew through our loved ones.
How do you ground your Christmas celebrations in your faith?
We asked our readers how they ground Christmas celebrations in their faith during a season that can be hectic and distracting.
Feast of the Holy Innocents: 2,000 years later we still remember the pain their mothers felt
Thirty-four years ago I held my child, my 22-month-old son, cradling him in my arms as I watched the last flicker of his life ebb away.
Merry Christmas from the Editors of America
We at America Media are profoundly grateful to our readers, donors and supporters for sharing your gifts with us.
Catching Sight of Grace
Family life in the Bible is both difficult and grace-filled.
The message of Epiphany: Rise up; Your light has come!
Today’s feast commemorates the “physical” revelation of Christ, the moment when Gentiles recognized the incarnate Messiah.
The urgent, lonely, relevant, humbling, joyful, experience of being a newly ordained priest
I never wanted to be a priest. But here I am. Newly minted Father Brendan, and still wondering how I got here.
Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas—but they are cousins.
Christmas and Hanukkah share much more than the giving of gifts.
Magazine
The Letters
I agree that the Catholic Church’s handling of its sex abuse scandal offers powerful lessons to other institutions.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts