Colm Tóibín's new novel, 'Long Island,' is a sequel to perhaps his best-known book, 'Brooklyn.' What was it like to take up the story again two decades later? He tells us in this interview with America.

In 'Ecomartyrdom in the Americas: Living and Dying for Our Common Home,' Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo invites us to look carefully at the lives of modern ecomartyrs as a guide to help us “re-imagine and re-embody the relationship between human beings and the earth.”

Why would you get married? In his new book, 'Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization,' Brad Wilcox argues that civilization itself depends upon convincing more Americans to tie the knot.

One girl told me that the congress ‘has been a sneak peek into heaven.’

Here are five qualities that today’s prophetic voices share with our predecessors.

When public servants when they show us a glimpse of something that points the way toward “more perfect union,” we ought to pay close and grateful attention.

A look back at the Second Vatican Council through the coverage offered by America and Commonweal offers two lessons: First, we should not expect the journey of the church after the Synod on Synodality to be smooth sailing. Second, the church is very much capable of getting through such turmoil, and emerging stronger from it.

In the debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Trump claimed without evidence that members of an Ohio city’s growing Haitian community were “eating cats; they’re eating dogs … they’re eating pets.”

Ms. Harris clearly gained the upper hand in the contest with Mr. Trump, but it was not always clear where they stood on issues like immigration, abortion and climate change.