President Donald Trump speaks in Indianapolis on Sept. 27. Trump called the current tax system a "relic" and a "colossal barrier" that's standing in the way of the nation's economic comeback. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

How does Trump’s tax plan line up with Catholic social teaching?

by Kevin Clarke October 5, 2017

According to Catholic social tradition, paying taxes is part of the way Catholic citizens contribute to the common good.

Magazine, Of Many Things

5 years in, what I’ve learned as the editor of America

by Matt Malone, S.J. October 5, 2017

Looking back on the last five years at America and forward to changes to come

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston ordains seminarian Mark Mleziva of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., as a transitional deacon during an ordination Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sept. 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Faith, Faith in Focus

I became a priest 50 years ago. Here’s how the perception of priesthood has changed

by Roger Haight, S.J. October 3, 2017

We have seen an epochal change in the image of a Catholic priest in North America.

Features, Politics & Society

What would Thomas Merton make of Trump, climate change and Twitter?

by Andrew Lenoir October 3, 2017

In his position, others might have begun to hate the world. Instead, Thomas Merton found he could not leave it alone.

Features, Politics & Society

If St. Louis is the “new Selma,” what role will Catholics play in racial reconciliation?

by Colleen Dulle October 3, 2017

Last month, Jason Stockley, the white police officer who killed Anthony Lamar Smith, a 24-year-old black man, was acquitted. How did the city of St. Louis respond?

In this March 29, 2011, file photo, Barbara Blaine, President of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), displays childhood photographs of adults who say they were sexually abused, during a news conference in Philadelphia. Barbara Blaine, the founder and former president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, has died. The organization known as SNAP announced on its Facebook page that Blaine died Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017, following a recent cardiac event. She was 61. (AP Photo/Matt

News, Politics & Society

Barbara Blaine, founder of abuse victims group SNAP, dies

by Associated Press September 26, 2017

Blaine founded SNAP in 1988, years after she was abused as an 8th grader by a Toledo, Ohio, priest who taught at the Catholic school she attended, according to the organization’s website. Her pleas for help to Toledo’s bishop were ignored. The group gained prominence in 2002 after the Boston Globe’s stories on the priest sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York smiles as he delivers the homily during the opening Mass of the "Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America" on July 1 in Orlando, Fla. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Faith, News

Cardinal Dolan: Honesty about church’s flaws might win back fallen-away members

by Peter Finney Jr. - Catholic News Service September 25, 2017

The cardinal said while the world is “ever ready to headline the flaws of the church,” the dynamic changes when “her loyal members are more than willing to own up to them.”