Toni Morrison’s fiction conveyed much of the pain, sacrifice and trauma that exemplifies so much of the African-American experience—which is why it makes some white readers uncomfortable.
Spirituality
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Remembering Father Albert Nolan, a best-selling theologian who explored the humanity of Christ
Father Nolan sought during his tenure to help white Catholic students find a way of working with their Black colleagues for the common goal of ending apartheid.
Posted inFaith, Features
We traveled to four Catholic parishes across the country to make a documentary. These are their stories.
In the fall of 2021, America Media’s video team hatched an idea: What would it look like if we traveled to four parishes across the United States during the course of one year and assessed their similarities and differences? Here is a snapshot of what we found.
Posted inFaith, Features
The church forbids ‘human composting’ at death. But what about ‘green’ burials?
The movement for natural burial is growing and is slowly becoming more mainstream in the United States, but the practice is as old and widespread as our species.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Meet Father Bill Holt, the Dominican priest who went viral on ‘Humans of New York’
America interviewed Father Holt at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, to learn a little more about his life and journey to the priesthood and his secrets to living a fulfilling and happy life.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Praying with the Genesis creation story after a hurricane
One of the lesser-known facts about the story of the seven days of creation is that it was written in response to a disaster, and its comforts can be applicable even today.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
People, lines and crowds are back from Covid. Here are 3 spiritual tips for keeping your sanity (and sanctity)
I want to savor the beauty that is all around me, to be a witness to whatever this day will offer me, and all the people in it. But it’s hard!
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Keeping Your Faith Alive in College: Advice from Recent Graduates
How do you keep things in perspective and maintain a faith life when you are trying to figure out new friends, new freedom and the location of your classes?
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Remembering Frederick Buechner, an American C.S. Lewis
With the death of Frederick Buechner earlier this month, the nation lost one of its most profound novelists—as well as a spiritual writer of great depth and range.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
A quintessentially American question: How can I find God?
From 1995: James Martin, S.J., asked a number of the leading figures of American Catholicism to answer a short but complicated question: How can I find God?