If we can treat others and their ideas with such humility and gratitude, the only thing we will ever want to cancel will be our pride.

Are the voices of women being heard at the highest levels of the church? Do they feel empowered—or limited by the “stain-glassed ceiling”?

On their last two albums, the Killers continue to circle around faith and eventually grasp it—if not in completely solid form.

Twice a year we publish an extra issue of America dedicated to books and all things literary; one in planting season and one at harvest time.

I have spent my entire career attempting to pay homage to (and in a deeper sense, to keep alive) all the incredible characters of my Catholic-kid-in-Las Vegas life.

This man, this woman are the city

To hear what sirens was Jesus Christ nailed to a tree, unable to move?

Angel Garcia tells the story of the Rev. Neil Connolly, a priest with a deep faith in his parishioners, who carried their faith from the mountains of Puerto Rico to the streets of the Bronx.

In his portrait of a once ultra-devout country undergoing rapid spiritual decline, Derek Scally paints a vivid picture of Irish indifference toward the church.

In his new book, British novelist David Mitchell affirms the irreducible and vivifying goods of the human soul.

To understand the life and work of Edgar Allan Poe demands close attention to his engagements with scientific thought and discoveries.

Mark Carney’s new book makes a succinct argument: We can either continue on the current path of what some argue is amoral wealth generation in a dehumanizing market society, or we can build new systems, grounded in common values, that encourage growth while stewarding resources for future generations.

Why do most people stop reading children’s books they loved once they come of age? Books from our childhood can still do so much good work for us.

The relationship between dominant and marginalized characters throughout O’Connor’s body of work offers a theology of displacement—that is, a means of experiencing God in the midst of upheaval, geographic and otherwise.

In more than two dozen novels, memoirs, travelogues and other writings, the Massachusetts writer Roland Merullo has proved to be an astute observer of the human condition.

A profoundly Russian author, Olga Sedakova offers insights into Christian living for a worldwide audience.

Though a small state in terms of geographic size and population, Mississippi occupies an outsized place in the world of American letters. Why? How has “a little state that rests alongside the banks of a great and mighty river” made so many significant contributions to American literature?

The two most recent selections for the Catholic Book Club were novels that originally began as short stories.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco is asking “all Catholics and others of goodwill” to join a prayer and fasting campaign for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic Democrat who supports legal abortion.

There’s no such thing as the “perfect” Bible translation. Still, some might be better for Catholic readers than others.