It’s more likely that gala attendees will be taking inspiration from the lavish outfits favored by Pope Benedict than the sartorially understated Pope Francis.
Spirituality
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The spirituality of the Sunday long run
“The Church of the Long Run” has become an important practice for Christians across denominations.
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Canonization process begins for Black Elk, the Native American who merged Lakota and Catholic culture
For 50 years, Nicholas Black Elk led others to Christ, often melding his Lakota culture into his Christian life.
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Black Elk’s journey to Catholicism
This week’s guest is Damian Costello, the author of Black Elk: Colonialism and Lakota Catholicism. Informed by four years of work on the Navajo Reservation, Dr. Costello’s latest piece for America is “Black Elk, the Lakota medicine man turned Catholic teacher, is promoted for sainthood.” Damian Costello describes the iconic biography of Black Elk, a […]
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The dangers of becoming a ‘professional’ Catholic
The saints are passionate; the lukewarm are professional.
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Day of the Dead is not ‘Mexican Halloween’—it’s a day where death is reclaimed.
On the Feast of All Souls, it is to the Day of the Dead altars that the departed ones return, caught almost as if by lure, by the florid colors, the smells and the flavors, of foods they cherished on earth.
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All Saints Day is not Lesser Saints Day
Today in honoring the saints, we recognize that they have built the church.
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Ian Johnson on the state of the Catholic church in China
This week’s guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ian Johnson, an expert on Chinese religious practices based in Beijing. His latest piece for America is a report on the state of Catholicism in modern China titled: “How the top-heavy Catholic Church is losing the ground game in China.” Ian Johnson told America about the history of […]
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A colonoscopy isn’t pleasant—but it’s a clear sign of God’s presence.
I sensed God in the heightened awareness of my own mortality.
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The best evidence that God trusts us? Our newborn babies.
It is astonishing to think that God would choose to enter the world this way: as a fragile newborn who could not even hold up his own head without help.