Furthering the vision of Cardinal Bernardin with an Integral Ethic of Solidarity

You Are a Child of God British A. Robinson is the director for public-private partnerships in the Office of U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State and the former director of social and international ministries for the Jesuit Conference in the United States.   In his inaug

Pope Francis touched on some major issues during a fifty minute press conference on the six hour flight from Colombo the capital of Sri Lanka to Manila the capital of the Philippines on January 15 Among the most significant issues that he touched on was the limits of freedom of expression and th

The church helped me heal after my miscarriage. That’s what every grieving mother deserves.

An exclusive conversation with Father James Martin, Gerard O’Connell, Colleen Dulle and Sebastian Gomes about the future of synodality in the U.S. church

Going through old files, America's editors found a few interesting submissions (and rejections).

The pope will create 20 new cardinals on Aug. 27. Sixteen of them are eligible to vote in a papal conclave, and 11 are from or based in countries outside Europe and North America.

America has received a large number of responses to our historic interview with Pope Francis. We will continue to post these responses here in the coming days. Readers are invited to post their own comments below or on our papal interview page.From the Editors"Working at Mercy": Pope

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.

Editor’s note: The historic interview with Pope Francis (Am. 9/30) has generated a great deal of dialogue in the church and in society at large. We asked several writers to offer their reactions to the pope’s words. Selections from these responses are printed below. The full versions of