What does a leader do with an unexpected second act?
History
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
What does Psalm 137 have to do with the World Series? Everything.
An exciting new version of Psalm 137 has been discovered, and it gives comfort to a long-suffering people.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: Are the viral ‘pope memes’ sacrilegious?
Twitter users swapped “pope memes” last week using digitally altered images of Pope Francis celebrating the Eucharist. Was it harmless fun or sacrilege?
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: Aaron Sorkin’s new Netflix film ‘Chicago 7’ is like the ‘The Mid-West Wing’
That “Chicago 7” is turning up on Netflix at this precise moment is no accident, the moment being serious.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
A diversity of authority: Church governance throughout history
Different modes of authority and models of governance have existed in the Catholic Church’s history, often in response to the need for church reform.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Who governs the Catholic Church? It’s an open question.
History shows that authority in the church has taken many forms.
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Many Things
Books beyond imagining: an introduction to America’s 2020 Fall literary issue
Twice a year, America publishes special literary issues devoted in their entirety to the world of literature. In Fall Books 2020, a variety of authors and genres are explored, from fiction to poetry to biography and more.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
We need to recover the sense of fun in politics
Sixty years ago this October, a 13-car train pulled out of Union Station in Washington, D.C., headed south. It was the L.B.J. Special, named for its most important passenger, Lyndon B. Johnson, who was that year’s Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Trump said Biden would ‘Hurt God.’ Hamilton said similar things about Jefferson.
The precedent for attacking an opponent on religious grounds is more apt than you might think.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors on Hiroshima: The U.S. should repent of these crimes against God and man
Today we mark 75 years since the United States became the first nation in history to attack an enemy with an atomic bomb, leveling the city of Hiroshima and killing 140,000 people.