‘The Bear’ depicts how institutions, despite their sundry flaws, can foster revolutions in moral feeling and valuing.
Catholic Identity
Posted inMusic
Fifty years later, Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born To Run’ still speaks to young people
When Bruce Springsteen wrote ‘Born to Run,’ he was only in his 20s, and at a major crossroads in his life.
Posted inFaith in Focus
From Spectacle to Sacrament: How Burning Man led me into the Catholic Church
For years, Burning Man felt like my spiritual homeland. But then something shifted. The illusion of unbridled freedom began to crack. A question broke through: Is this all there is?
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Father James Martin and Anthea Butler on the problem with the prosperity gospel
If we imagine ourselves as satisfying a God who will “give us” things only if we do the “right things,” then our relationship with God becomes less a friendship and more a chore.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Father sleuths best: Why priest-detectives make for good fiction
The genre of the crime-solving priest or religious might be a niche one, but it’s been around on the page and the screen for more than a century.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Bridging the Catholic gap
In ‘Cultural Catholics,’ Maureen K. Day works to answer the question of who “cultural Catholics” really are—and how to connect with them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
‘The Great Gatsby’ got a bad review in America. A century later, how do we see F. Scott Fitzgerald?
F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a favorite of America’s editors for many years, but they all read ‘Gatsby.’ Everyone reads ‘Gatsby.’
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Catholic Charities USA Head: ‘We don’t have a choice to ignore the Gospel’
How is Catholic Charities navigating political opposition to their work with migrants?
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Remembering Flannery O’Connor (and her contributions to America magazine) on her 100th birthday
Perhaps no author’s name has appeared in ‘America’ more often than Flannery O’Connor’s over the years, from a 1956 editorial through to a story just last week.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
March Madness 2025: A guide to all the Catholic teams in the tournament
Who will win it all? Probably not a Catholic school, but hope springs eternal.