Faith, Faith in Focus

A Theology of Taylor Swift

by Stephen Bullivant May 25, 2016

No topic is out of bounds for the theologian.

"The Last Judgment" by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccar, in the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy.

Faith, Faith in Focus

Why we need purgatory

by Quang D. Tran March 28, 2016

Pastoral care re-imagined in light of purgatory can bring our world much needed healing and communion.

Faith, The Good Word

Why do we pray to a God that allows the evil of the Holocaust?

by Terrance Klein March 4, 2016

If God does not exist, we waste our time, confessing our sins. If God does exist, our understanding of evil and our role in it is so small, so limited as to be worthy of contempt. But that’s not who God is.

Arts & Culture, Catholic Book Club

Catholic Book Club Archives

by The Editors January 30, 2015

From 1928 to 2003, the Catholic Book Club worked as a subscription service where America partnered with publishers to mail books to CBC readers. A (more or less) comprehensive list of 75 years worth of selections can be found here.

Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., and Father Paul Mueller, S.J. at the Vatican Observatory coffee machine. (photo provided)

Faith, In All Things

‘Would you baptize an alien?’ and other questions you’d want to ask Vatican astronomers

by Sean Salai July 23, 2014

Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., and Father Paul Mueller, S.J., are planetary scientists for the Vatican Observatory based at the pope’s summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy.

COLOR LINES. This wall, pictured in 2005, was built in the 1940s to enforce residential segregation in Detroit. The wall still stands, even though neighborhoods on both sides are now uniformly African-American.

Faith

Black theology and a legacy of oppression

by M. Shawn Copeland June 24, 2014

After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., James H. Cone denounced the lukewarm responses of mainline Protestant and Catholic Christians to the plight of black Americans.

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Faith, Faith and Reason

Joseph Ratzinger: The local church and the universal church

by Joseph Ratzinger January 6, 2014

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger responds to a 2001 America article by Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.