Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
Voices
Drew Christiansen, S.J., served as the editor in chief of America from 2005 to 2012. He was a Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development at Georgetown University and a senior fellow with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He was co-editor with Carole Sargent of A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown, 2020).
People line up to receive hot food in an improvised bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Drew Christiansen
Does the “responsibility to protect” doctrine call for Western action in Ukraine? Perhaps not through military intervention, but certainly in efforts toward recovery, reconstruction and reconciliation.
(iStock/Gerasimov174)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Drew Christiansen
The nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) was written for a Cold War standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It can only be effective now if it includes new nuclear powers like Israel.
In this Dec. 16. 2000 file photo, President-elect Bush smiles as he introduces retired Gen. Colin Powell, left, as his nominee to be secretary of state during a ceremony in Crawford, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Drew Christiansen
Colin Powell’s great misfortune was to serve as secretary of state among “the Vulcans,” the Republican policy-makers who subverted Mr. Powell’s more moderate initiatives.
Arts & CultureBooks
Drew Christiansen
The decades since the Second Vatican Council and the declaration "Nostra Aetate" have seen much fruit in the form of Jewish-Christian collaboration and dialogue.
Pope Francis greets then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the Vatican in this April 29, 2016, file photo. Church and diplomatic experts are assessing how U.S.-Vatican diplomacy will change with Biden, as U.S. president. He is the second Catholic elected to the nation's highest office in U.S. history. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Drew Christiansen
There is much on which a Biden administration and the Holy See can collaborate.
(Chris Hardy/Unsplash)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Drew Christiansen
The American myth today faces existential challenges that no longer only come from the fringes.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, an official in the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, speaks Jan. 30, 2020, at The Catholic University of America in Washington. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
FaithNews
Drew Christiansen
It was with his colleagues in disarmament dialogues that he found the signature issue of his last years in diplomatic service, nuclear weapons abolition.
FaithFaith and Reason
Vincent J. MillerKate WardDrew ChristiansenKevin AhernC. Vanessa White
As part of our larger coverage of “Fratelli Tutti,” the latest encyclical letter from Pope Francis, America asked a number of theologians and church experts to contribute a brief response, including their perspectives on its potential impact and its particular areas of import.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Drew Christiansen
75 years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, writes Drew Christiansen, S.J., the danger of nuclear war is as high as ever. Our “deterrence” strategy needs to be reconsidered.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Drew Christiansen
Critics warned Secretary Pompeo’s religious freedom agenda would reverse 200 years of progress on human rights. But his commission has issued a consensus document.