Life in a multicultural parish is like a marriage: It can only work if people are listening to each other.
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Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’m a Catholic teenager who wanted to know what my friends thought about the church. Here’s what they said.
Church leaders need to reckon with the fact that many people my age don’t feel that they need the institutional church to help them live happy, spiritually fulfilling lives.
Posted inFaith, News
Should the U.S. be a ‘Christian nation’? White and Hispanic Catholics disagree on the answer.
New data offers insight into the beliefs of U.S. Catholics ahead of the midterm elections, with differences among white and Hispanic Catholics .
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Living in hell: A Jesuit superior describes dire conditions in Haiti
“Haitian people are living in what may be easily compared to hell,” Jean Denis Saint Félix, S.J., says. “No electricity, no running water, no transportation because there is no fuel. Unhealthy conditions everywhere.”
Posted inFaith and Reason, Politics & Society
A better way to think about the debate about church, state and integralism
Christ brought about a separation, rather than integration, of the spiritual and political.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Deep dive: The ‘Synod on Synodality’ — What’s done and what comes next?
For our latest “Inside the Vatican” deep dive, we interviewed top officials in the Vatican’s synod office and ordinary Catholics holding listening sessions around the world—including someone who is more critical of the synod.
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, Short Take
Did Vatican II fail? Are we allowed to ask the question?
To act like there are no open questions about the council’s relationship to the state of the church is an act of denialism and pearl-clutching.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
As Hurricane Ian recovery begins, lessons from a Florida Catholic Church that had to rebuild after Hurricane Michael
Four years later, Father Nixon and the St. Dominic’s community are still picking up the pieces after Hurricane Michael.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The U.S. bishops’ president race is wide open. Here’s who’s in the running.
When the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meets this November to elect a new president, it will be the first time in several decades that the race is wide open.