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Voices
Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
Director Joss Whedon and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Much of “Ultron” is explicitly dedicated to saving ordinary people.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
That “$35” ticket for going 75 mph in a 65 on a California highway will actually cost you $234.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Activists in L.A. say high fees aren't about parking issues but shoring up the budget.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Today we can respond to any email that we've been delaying in shame, without apology.
NEW VOICES. Pope Francis leads a consistory at which he created 20 new cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 14.
Jim McDermott
In February Pope Francis installed 20 new cardinals. In keeping with the pope’s interest in moving the church “to the peripheries,” these new cardinals hail from all over the world, many from places we rarely hear mentioned in the U.S. press. Most are pastors who have worked with p
RALLYING THE FAITHFUL. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco speaks to a crowd gathered for the fourth annual rosary rally last October. 
Signs Of the Times
Jim McDermott
National attention was drawn to the Archdiocese of San Francisco in mid-April after a group of about 100 area Catholics placed a full-page advertisement in The San Francisco Chronicle criticizing the leadership of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and asking Pope Francis to remove him.Among those w
Myuran Sukumaran's final painting, of the Indonesian flag bleeding
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
Shortly after midnight Wednesday morning local time the Indonesian government put eight men to death by firing squad It was the first implementation of the death penalty since new President Joko Widodo came to office late last year nbsp Two of the eight were Australian citizens In April of 2005
Large crowd processes through streets of San Francisco during annual rosary rally, Oct. 11, 2014.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
A week ago today 100 Catholics in San Francisco placed a full-page advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle criticizing the leadership of Archbishop Salvatore J Cordileone and asking Pope Francis to remove him as local ordinary nbsp As one might expect reactions to this move have been all ov
TOUCH UP. On location for “Zero Dark Thirty”
Film
Jim McDermott
What biopics get right
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco addresses several hundred supporters of traditional marriage during the second annual March for Marriage on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington, June 19, 2014.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
A divided archdiocese calls for mercy and imagination, not digging in and building bunkers.