On any given Sunday, the pews of St. Michael’s in Axtell, Kan., are filled with more than half the town’s population.
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Posted inMagazine, Vantage Point
Celebrating 109 years of America’s mission
Support our first-ever #AmericaAnniversary challenge and help us celebrate 109 years!
Posted inMagazine, Of Many Things
Welcome to the new America
This is the new America, a fresh approach to the smart, Catholic take on faith and culture that has been our hallmark since 1909.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Getting ready for Trump: Catholic leaders condemn the ‘imperialism’ of free markets
Working for a just wage remains a human and moral imperative, Cardinal Seán O’Malley said.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Cardinal Tobin calls on Catholics to move away from ‘hot button’ issues
Cardinal Tobin said that Christians must be marked by their willingness to show “kindness to all: to the searching young and the forgotten elderly, to the stranger and the voiceless, to the powerful and the cynical.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Catholic bishops: Remember when you were immigrants, too
“Let us remind ourselves of those moments when our loved ones were forced to seek the mercy of others in a new land.”
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Why one city is backing a different kind of family values: housing co-ops
Early Wednesday morning, the city council passed a measure that enables housing cooperatives to form in Boulder’s neighborhoods.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Five Stories You May Have Missed in 2016
Here are a few pieces America editors wish had made it on to those top-ten lists but didn’t:
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
U.S. Bishops urge legislation to protect ‘Dreamers’ from deportation
Bishop Vásquez points out that there are more than 740,000 young people who have received and benefitted from DACA.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
Every church tells a story. (Even those with brutalist architecture.)
We become aware there is a much bigger story at work.