We must see new technologies as opportunities for evangelization and solidarity rather than scary, bewildering forces that can only pull us apart.

We are launching a new segment in Dispatches, our traditional section for news. It’s called, appropriately enough, GoodNews, and will feature stories that I hope will give you some sense of the almost miraculous things that countless people of faith do every day around the world.

As is our annual custom, we republish excerpts from these texts here as an expression of our solidarity with the women and men who will march this month in the nation’s capital.

Each year, America’s editor in chief (yours truly in the present instance) will take an in-depth look at a public figure whose Catholic faith plays a meaningful role in his or her life and work.

John Bel Edwards is bringing “common sense and compassion” to the governor's office in Louisiana. Is the pro-life Democrat a model for how his party can win Catholic voters nationwide?

We are either human beings, created in the image and likeness of God and endowed with moral agency and free will, or we are merely machines, programmed through laws and regulations, mere code written by the programmers.

We received donations from over 175 people across 27 states and three countries, including Palau, Guam and Saipan.

Today’s the day to give to two great Jesuit ministries!

No single person can be trusted to wield power; therefore, power must be shared among many and policed by a legal system of checks and balances.