A lover of fiction sets out to find the truth
Moonglow may be the most entertaining, well-written and truthful memoir you’ve ever read.
Bank Heists and Wiseguys: “Crimetown” is the next true-crime podcast you should listen to
Vincent A. Cianci Jr., better known as “Buddy,” he was a trusted (and Jesuit-educated) champion for his city as well as a convicted felon.
Of Many Things
Alternative facts and the coming constitutional crisis
We more likely face destabilizing, constitutional confusion, than brute authoritarianism.
Your Take
The Letters
Religious education has been a babysitting service for far too long.
How would you rate your experience of parish-based religious education?
We received a wide range of responses to our request to America readers to rate their experiences of parish-based religious education. Some, like Maria Barrera of Brooklyn, N.Y., described religious education as a “wholesome” time for her children that positively affected how her family practiced the faith, thanks to the hard work of her parish…
Editorials
A hasty Obamacare repeal would be ‘devastating’ for the poor
By following through on their promise to repeal “Obamacare” immediately, Republican lawmakers and the new Trump administration are engaging in reckless political theater.
Americans are having fewer kids. Are housing costs to blame?
It is clearly more difficult to raise children in a nurturing environment without housing security.
President Trump’s Dangerous Nationalism
“America First” is a serious threat to the international solidarity that lasting peace and justice require.
Short Take
What Catholics owe their Muslim brothers and sisters
It should not be difficult for Catholics to acknowledge the reality of Islamophobia.
Dispatches
Rule of Law and other ‘Western’ notions are worrying Beijing. Here’s why.
“We must never fall into the trap of erroneous Western thinking and judicial independence.”
A new Jesuit program is bringing education to some of the world’s refugees
Students gather outside the schools before the first day of class, ready to learn new skills or improve their language skills, both of which can be invaluable for making a living in refugee camps.
Getting ready for Trump: Catholic leaders condemn the ‘imperialism’ of free markets
Working for a just wage remains a human and moral imperative, Cardinal Seán O’Malley said.
Ending the death penalty is closer than you think
Just five states, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas, accounted for all U.S. executions in 2016.
Features
What is the Catholic response to the rise of nationalism?
If love of country is a virtue and a moral obligation, the nationalistic impulse itself has no moral identity.
Beyond religious life and marriage: A look at friendship as vocation
How ancient traditions have inspired modern-day Christians to forge new bonds of commitment.
Faith in Focus
How I learned to love and raise the child from my husband’s affair
Like every child, my daughter is a gift. But, at first, her life was a hard gift to accept.
Have you read the most-circulated book in the history of Christianity (after the Bible)?
After St. Ignatius discovered ‘Imitation of Christ,’ he “never wished to read any other devotional book.”
Books
Advice for young Muslims from a wise father
Omar Saif Ghobash, ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia, has written a series of essays to his two teenage sons Saif and Abdullah.
A Mass Murder of Children Everyday
Every day, an average of seven children are shot and killed the United States.
Evelyn Waugh: addicted to alcohol and sex, haunted by God
Waugh was never reconciled to the use of vernacular in the Catholic liturgy, for which he had gained great devotion for 30 years.
Television
Is it easier to see your own sin in outer space?
Why is it easier to explore the gritty reality of racism, sexism or elitism when it’s set in another world?
The Young Pope: The Catholic art that Catholics need (but might not want).
Jude Law gives us a nuanced portrait of a too easily satirized character: the Catholic cleric.
Poetry
Letter to My Son
You are in a country I have never seen.
The Word
The Freedom of the Father’s Children
Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. (Lv 19:2)
God’s Perfect Instructions
Open my eyes, that I may consider the wonders of your law! (Ps 119:18)
Last Take
Social media can revolutionize the church, but only if we use it correctly.
We have to find ways of speaking to those outside our community of agreement not just through new media but in new ways.
Faith
The Freedom of the Father’s Children
Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. (Lv 19:2)
God’s Perfect Instructions
Open my eyes, that I may consider the wonders of your law! (Ps 119:18)
How would you rate your experience of parish-based religious education?
We received a wide range of responses to our request to America readers to rate their experiences of parish-based religious education. Some, like Maria Barrera of Brooklyn, N.Y., described religious education as a “wholesome” time for her children that positively affected how her family practiced the faith, thanks to the hard work of her parish…
Beyond religious life and marriage: A look at friendship as vocation
How ancient traditions have inspired modern-day Christians to forge new bonds of commitment.
A new Jesuit program is bringing education to some of the world’s refugees
Students gather outside the schools before the first day of class, ready to learn new skills or improve their language skills, both of which can be invaluable for making a living in refugee camps.
How I learned to love and raise the child from my husband’s affair
Like every child, my daughter is a gift. But, at first, her life was a hard gift to accept.
Have you read the most-circulated book in the history of Christianity (after the Bible)?
After St. Ignatius discovered ‘Imitation of Christ,’ he “never wished to read any other devotional book.”
Social media can revolutionize the church, but only if we use it correctly.
We have to find ways of speaking to those outside our community of agreement not just through new media but in new ways.
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The Letters
Religious education has been a babysitting service for far too long.
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