John Hope Franklin wrote of the African American struggle for justice for seven decades. At his death, he was called “the first great American historian to reckon the price owed in violence, autocracy and militarism.”
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Looking for Lenten reading? America had some suggestions over the years.
What book will you pick up this Lent? America editors have never been shy about making recommendations on this topic, and over the years, various contributors have also given suggestions on everything from Scripture to novels to devotional reading and more.
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Review: A Jesuit cardinal in Roman high society
A new collective tribute by a baker’s dozen of erudite specialists adds up to an erudite, if in some parts abstruse, overview of the remarkable life and ecclesiastic career of Cardinal Sforza Pallavicino.
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Review: James Lee Burke on a paradise lost
In ‘Another Kind of Eden,’ James Lee Burke offers literary speculations on the presence of evil in a fallen world—a post-Eden existence that nonetheless makes occasional stabs at goodness and light.
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Review: From paradise to inferno in a world of spectacle
With his new novel, Randy Boyagoda has added a witty, rambunctious and occasionally touching entry to the list of authors inspired by Dante.
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Review: Sister Jean, everyone’s favorite courtside nun
Sister Jean, the beloved chaplain of Loyola Chicago’s men’s basketball team, has 103 years worth of stories to tell in her new memoir.
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How America magazine learned to love Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day has not historically been the favorite holiday of America writers, but reflections on love have always found a home in these pages.
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Review: God doesn’t make us sick or well. So what is faith’s role in the face of illness?
To face potential mortal illness with wry humor and a taste for the ironic takes a delicate touch, but that is what the United Church of Christ pastor and writer Molly Baskette does in her new book.
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Former Jesuit, failed Senate candidate and Nixon speechwriter: the colorful life of John McLaughlin
Richard Nixon called McLaughlin one of the only good Jesuits among “all-out, barn-burning radicals” in a conversation with Billy Graham.
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‘Sin is the failure to bother to love’: A history of Catholic ethics and morality
In ‘A History of Catholic Theological Ethics,’ James Keenan, S.J., offers intellectual history with flesh and bones and a soul.