Whenever I teach a seminar on T. S. Eliot’s work, I spend the first day of class on ‘Marina.’

Is it possible to embrace the idea of a special, evenly divinely ordained mission for America without violating Christian ethical principles?

Kerry Weber is an executive editor for America. On May 20, 2025, the Catholic Media Association announced that she was elected president of the organization.

Among the hopeful and fearful seeking their place in an occupied city, the Virgin—Patroness of All the Americas—is a sign that a community with humane borders and greater compassion may be possible.

Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.

What did Papa Francisco see that we need to see? What tools do we have so we can choose correctly? And how do we act following our discernment?