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Bridget Everett and Jeff Hiller in “Somebody Somewhere” (HBO Max)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
“Somebody Somewhere” is not a show about religion, but it is in its own way an exploration of what a truly religious community offers—namely, a space of radical acceptance.
FaithThe Word
Jaime L. Waters
May 1, 2022, the Third Sunday of Easter: By encountering the risen Jesus, the disciples strengthen their relationship with him and prepare for their own missionary work in light of the resurrection.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
In this episode of "Inside the Vatican," host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell examine what diplomatic and religious relationships the Vatican has to keep in mind as it weighs its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“I am ready to do everything to stop the war,” the pope said in an interview with La Nación. “Everything!”
Politics & SocietyPodcasts
Jesuitical
This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley ask two young Catholics how they hope to get more members of the U.S. church, including priests and bishops, to make the climate a priority.
Norberto Hernandez, Braylon Howard, Christian Mendoza and Adan Clemente, students at Verbum Dei High School in Los Angeles (photo courtesy Verbum Dei High School).
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
J.D. Long García
Students at Verbum Dei spend four days a week in school and one day a week in a corporate work-study program.
Arts & CultureBooks
Boreta Singleton
The reader can see God in all areas of Toni Morrison’s characters’ circumstances—in the “magic,” in the pain and suffering, and in the call to healing and wholeness that leads to life.
Arts & CultureBooks
Bill McCormick, S.J.
If Catholics wanted to be tolerated in the early years of the Maryland Colony, they had to prove their loyalty—first to the Stuarts, then to Parliament, then the House of Hanover and then the fledgling American republic.
Arts & CultureBooks
Franklin Freeman
Neeli Cherkovski's expanded edition of his biography of Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a book by “a poet who set out to celebrate another poet.”
Arts & CultureBooks
Sam Rocha
Alejandro Nava begins his formal analysis by situating hip-hop as something that “recovers the oral, rhythmic, and melodic nature of ancient scriptural transmission.”
Arts & CulturePoetry
Stephen Mead
Thank you for never complaining about being in a cage.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Thomas Plank
My defense is these:
HBO's “And Just Like That,” like "Sex and the City" before it, is an exaggerated funhouse mirror of its viewers’ world (photo: HBO Max).
Arts & CultureTelevision
Elizabeth Grace Matthew
HBO's “And Just Like That,” like "Sex and the City" before it, is an exaggerated funhouse mirror of its viewers’ world.
iStock
FaithFaith in Focus
Neil Fulton
The practice of sitting in the front pew has helped to focus my own wandering mind.
A voter in New York City fills out a ballot at Hudson Yards during early voting on Oct. 24, 2021. (CNS photo/Bryan R Smith, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Sarah Vincent
Notre Dame researchers are exploring a surprisingly complex aspect of Catholic life: how Catholics vote. The report focused on the unique pressures and behaviors of “seamless garment” Catholics in making electoral decisions.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
Readers respond to story about the future of women in the church in light of a new constitution for the Roman Curia.
FaithOf Many Things
America Staff
In Memoriam | Drew Christiansen, S.J. | February 20, 1945—April 6, 2022 | 13th Editor in Chief, 2005 to 2012
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
A new book describes the current state of Vatican affairs not so much through the lens of Pope Francis’ nine-year papacy, but via Benedict’s nine-year retirement.
FaithNews
Phyllis Zagano
If the main duty of a cardinal is to be an adviser to the pope, and there is no ordination required, it could make sense to restart the tradition of lay cardinals—and include women in the mix.
FaithFeatures
Nathan Schneider
Catholics, that is to say, have not necessarily been praying the Our Father wrongly, but too often we have not been praying it fully, either. While we are busy trying to get it right, we neglect to make it our own and discover its vast permutations.