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St Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, seen from below on a landscaped hill with a giant cross on the front windows (iStock/Susan Vineyard)
We need Catholic health care to serve the most vulnerable among us. A myopic focus on a few reproductive health procedures ignores broader questions about health care delivery for populations at risk.
Mother Cabrini became America’s first saint. But was she herself a legal U.S. immigrant? And would her story be possible today? 
Chicago has James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan. New Orleans has John Kennedy Toole’s Ignatius J. Reilly. Boston has Edwin O’Connor’s 'Last Hurrah.' And William Kennedy’s Albany Cycle series has “ironweeds” like Billy and Francis Phelan. What, then, is the greatest book ever written about the New York City Irish?
Tom Deignan
Some of Jimmy Breslin’s best work has now been collected and edited by one of Breslin’s true heirs, The New York Times correspondent Dan Barry.
Mary Beth Keane has staked her claim as a creator of subtle but poignant storytelling.
Fewer young people are choosing full-time service after college. How will volunteer organizations adapt?
Sam Sawyer, S.J., editor in chief of America, and Traug Keller, America Media’s president, announced today the selection of three graduating seniors to serve as the 2024-25 Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., Postgraduate Media Fellows.
What could be possible if the gifts of diaconal women were empowered through ordination?
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 7, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Mike Johnson watch. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The words ‘abortion’ or ‘Trump’ weren’t mentioned—but both loomed large.
My sense of dread over the film “Cabrini”? It was replaced by respect, even joy.