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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 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

Kerry Weber

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

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Vatican Dispatch

Pope Leo calls for a stop to ‘the thunderous sound of bombs’ in the Middle East

Pope Leo XIV again called for a stop to “the thunderous sound of bombs” in Iran and the Middle East, for the guns to “fall silent” and for the opening of “a space for dialogue” to find a way out of this latest conflict in the region.

by Gerard O’Connell March 8, 2026March 8, 2026

Vatican Dispatch

Pope Leo appoints Archbishop Caccia as nuncio to the United States

Archbishop Caccia’s appointment comes at a turbulent time in world affairs, as the United States and Israel wage war against Iran—a conflict now in its eighth day that appears to be expanding.

by Gerard O’Connell March 7, 2026March 7, 2026

The Weekly Dispatch

A Catholic guide to understanding the war with Iran

The church’s just war tradition has been challenged by contemporary theologians as insufficient and outdated, yet it remains a worthy filter through which to judge the moral defensibility of a turn to war-making.

by Kevin Clarke March 6, 2026March 7, 2026

Scripture Reflections

Does God play favorites?

A Reflection for Monday of the Third Week of Lent, by James T. Keane

by James T. Keane March 6, 2026March 6, 2026

Faith in Focus

Rediscovering the fiery and forgotten women of the Old Testament

As the class explored the stories of the fiery, intelligent, brave women of the Old Testament, I saw the hand of God in these stories of bold women and individuals on the margins.

by Alli Bobzien March 6, 2026March 6, 2026

Faith in Focus

The Lenten practice that transformed my life

Was I, indeed, being selfish by spending so much time contemplating why I couldn’t do something that God might want me to do, rather than actually doing it?

by Deborah Johnson March 6, 2026March 6, 2026

Podcasts

Why Pope Leo was ‘relatively restrained’ on Iran war

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerard O’Connell explains why he saw Leo’s comments on Iran as relatively restrained compared to John Paul II’s at the beginning of the Iraq War.

by Inside the Vatican March 6, 2026March 6, 2026

Ideas

Dylan Thomas was a difficult person. But ‘Fern Hill’ is a perfect poem.

To understand this poem, you don’t need biography. Your own personal understanding of the loss of innocence and the pain of mortality serve just as well as Thomas’s disastrous attempts at adulting.

by Jayme Stayer, S.J. March 6, 2026March 7, 2026

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