The day President John F. Kennedy was murdered, a Divine Word seminarian walked up the hill to our family’s apartment in Rome to tell my wife Sally and me the terrible news. Seeking wisdom, I wrote Dorothy Day.
History
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
From 1964: A New Breed: There aren’t very many of them, but they’re important just the same.
A classic article on the next generation of Catholics—including priests and men and women religious—from the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
How To Read an Encyclical: From May 18, 1963
A poem for ‘Mater et Magistra’
Posted inFaith
America’s Theologian: An archive of articles by John Courtney Murray
An archive of articles by the Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Oops! Now and then America got it wrong
There is a surefire cure for pride, however, and it is as simple as a reminder of some of the moments when we got things just a little wrong. Or a lot wrong.
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Many Things
Salman Rushdie, Giordano Bruno and religious intolerance
May we hope that all faiths can forever put behind them the use of censorship or violence against writers in the defense of religion.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
His Universe Was Infinite
Why was Giordano Bruno burned at the stake?
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
John Adams and the Jesuits
As you may have discerned from Matt Malone s posts a few of us at America are besotted with John Adams the second president that is not the composer Last night I watched an advance copy of the final episode of HBO s stupendous series John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linne
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Peter Faber: A Jesuit Saint Too Little Known
Peter Faber may best have exemplified what a missionary to the church of the Reformation era needed.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
(Re)Making History
In his 90th year, the indefatigable historian John Hope Franklin has written his life story. More than any other scholar, Franklin has made African-American history an essential part of American history.