America Voices
Writers reflecting on faith, politics, and culture
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Sam Sawyer, S.J., is the editor in chief of America Media. More by Sam Sawyer, S.J.
Colleen Dulle
Colleen Dulle is the Vatican Correspondent at America and co-hosts the “Inside the Vatican” podcast. She is the author of Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter (Image, 2025). More by Colleen Dulle
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985. More by Gerard O’Connell
James Martin, S.J.
The Rev. James Martin, S.J., is a Jesuit priest, author, editor at large at America and founder of Outreach.
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Kevin Clarke
Kevin Clarke is America’s chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press). More by Kevin Clarke
James T. Keane
James T. Keane is a Senior Editor at America. More by James T. Keane
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
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Victor Cancino, S.J.
Victor M. Cancino, S.J., lives on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana and is the pastor of St. Ignatius Mission. He received his licentiate in sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
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Molly Cahill
Molly Cahill is an associate editor at America. She was a 2020-2021 O’Hare Fellow. More by Molly Cahill
Ashley McKinless
Ashley McKinless is an executive editor at America and co-host of the ‘Jesuitical’ podcast. More by Ashley McKinless
John Dougherty
John Dougherty is the director of mission and ministry at St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia, Pa.
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Sebastian Gomes
Sebastian Gomes is America‘s executive editor of audio and video.
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Valerie Schultz
Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and the author of Till the Moon Be No More: The Grit and Grace of Growing Older. She lives on the Oregon Coast.
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Simcha Fisher
Simcha Fisher is a speaker, freelance writer, regular contributor to The Catholic Weekly and author of The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and 10 children. More by Simcha Fisher
THE LATEST FROM OUR VOICES
Dioceses, parishes take up Pope Leo’s call to pray for peace, plan vigils for April 11
Parishes and dioceses throughout the nation are taking up Pope Leo XIV’s call to pray for peace, holding April 11 vigils coinciding with the pope’s own at St. Peter’s Basilica.
The gift of seeing Sister Edith Prendergast in action
If Sister Edith’s spiritual gifts first attracted me to a life in ministry, it was her human warmth that said it’s O.K. for you to be here, in fact, you’re welcome to stay a while.
Catholics hope Pope Leo’s Africa trip will uplift countries suffering from U.S. aid cuts
As Pope Leo XIV visits, Africa’s often interrelated crises of armed conflict, poverty and displacement have been worsened by the withdrawal of development and humanitarian aid by the United States and other donor nations.
Pope Leo’s first Holy Week and Easter in a world at war
This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Sebastian discuss Leo’s first Holy Week and Easter as pope and his calls for peace amid war in the Middle East.
Diving head first to meet the Lord
A Reflection for Friday in the Octave of Easter, by Brigid McCabe
Pentagon disputes report senior officials lectured Vatican diplomat about Pope Leo
The top Vatican diplomat in the U.S. was brought to the Pentagon in January for a “bitter lecture” about comments from Pope Leo XIV that some senior U.S. defense officials perceived as criticism of the Trump administration, The Free Press reported April 6.
Every sinful, unreliable and cowardly Catholic is called to be an evangelizer
A Reflection for Thursday in the Octave of Easter, by Sebastian Gomes
Faith as evidence of things not seen
April 12, 2026, Second Sunday of Easter: Our Church sets forth a two-thousand-year testimony of the lives of men and women, the great communion of saints, as well as those perhaps in our own time whose lives of faith “bear evidence of things not seen.”
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