‘Everyone’s Entitled to Dignity’: A conversation with Joseph R. Biden Jr.
On Sept. 17, 2015, Matt Malone, S.J., president and editor in chief of America Media, spoke with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the office of the vice president in Washington, D.C., about his faith, his family and his public life. A complete video recording can be found at
The First Canon: Mercy: Pope Francis and the canon lawyers
Many canon lawyers may be in an ecclesiastical funk since the election of Pope Francis. Not one to “wield canons” at miscreants violating ecclesiastical norms, this pontiff seems more prone to mediation, conciliation and mercy, while upholding the important values of communion within the
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Will the pope’s visit encourage Catholic elected officials to speak more freely about faith?
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Conversion in CubaRe “A Tale of Two Countries,” by Miguel Díaz (9/21): It is beautiful and appropriate to wax poetic about mercy. We should all abide by these timeless truths. Yet the call of Christ is conversion. To simply plead for mercy in Cuba while not demanding conversion of the C
Faith in Focus
A Writer’s Dream: The story of a novel
For decades, I have admired Ron Hansen, the gifted author of many novels, including one of my favorites, Mariette in Ecstasy, about the religious experiences of a young nun in upstate New York. “Luminous” is how one reviewer described the book, and I think of that adjective every time I
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Following an Order
‘The Jesuits,’ by John W. O’Malley, S.J.; ‘Keeping Company with Saint Ignatius,’ by Luke J. Larson
Help My Belief
‘A God That Could Be Real,’ by Nancy Ellen Abrams
War Without End?
‘Redeployment,’ by Phil Klay; ‘Green on Blue,’ by Elliot Ackerman; ‘The Corpse Exhibition,’ by Hasan Blasim
Testing the Truths
‘The Coup at the Catholic University,’ by Peter M. Mitchell
Tribal Combat
‘An Unlikely Union,’ by Paul Moses
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Fruits of the Earth: Koki Ruiz and an altar of corn for the pope
Koki Ruiz and an altar of corn for the pope
Poetry
As Eddie Fisher Catches Fire: For Elizabeth Taylor
As Eddie Fisher catches fire, diamonds draw flame;Scotch tumbles over rims like water in wellsPrecious stones ring; like each pearl string, eight grooms hung bells.Bows on blue-boxed Tiffany tongues thank your name;Mere mortals, fans all, clamor and glamour becomes one same:Celebrity, fashion, light
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Today’s Gospel: the suffering servant
“Whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all.” (Mk 10:44)
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Basic Justice
The idea of basic income has been catching on in tech culture lately.
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Where Were You?
On March 13, 2013, when Francis was elected pope.
Signs Of the Times
Pope Calls Congress to Task
Francis, the first pope ever to address the United States Congress, provoked sustained applause by his very first words, expressing his gratitude for the invitation to address this joint session of Congress in “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”Many veteran politicians, inc
‘Go Out to Others; Share the Good News’
Pope Francis urged the hundreds of thousands of people gathered for the closing Mass of the World Meeting of Families on Sept. 27 to serve and care for each other as freely as God loves the human family.The pope called upon the faithful to embrace signs that the Holy Spirit can work through everyone
Accused in Peoria
There is no standard procedure, no moral road map, for those left behind.
A Visit of Papal Firsts; Francis Comes to America
As the end of a memorable and historic visit with the neighboring people of the United States and Cuba, Pope Francis closed out the 2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia on Sept. 27 with a Mass along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway that was attended by hundreds of thousands.It had been a
The Pope of the Peripheries
‘We can find no social or moral justification, no justification whatsoever, for lack of housing,” Pope Francis told hundreds of homeless people in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24. He met them in the 220-year-old Church of Saint Patrick and told them, “There are many unjust situations
Francis: ‘How to End Exclusion?’
Whether they are dealing with war, development, the economy or environmental concerns, bureaucrats and diplomats must always remember that the lives of real children, women and men are at stake, Pope Francis told the United Nations. Helping to celebrate the organization’s 70th anniversary, Pop
Synod on the Family
Doctrine extends a helping hand, not a wagging finger
If this October is anything like last year’s, the press covering the Synod of Bishops will focus almost exclusively on homosexuality and the possibility of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receiving Holy Communion. That emphasis is understandable, since there is certainly division amon
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