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Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
“Meet Me in St. Louis” asks: How do you have hope when the future holds so many unknowns?
Photo of Jean Charlot, ca. 1923, by Tina Modotti; woodcut of “Rich People in Hell” by Jean Charlot (Copyright the Jean Charlot Estate LLC. With permission)
Arts & CultureArt
Lawrence Downes
Jean Charlot was the friend and peer of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and other now-renowned Mexican muralists. But in one important way, he was not one of them.
FaithFaith in Focus
Leilani Fuentes
Although there are many ways to donate during the Christmas season, the giving trees may be the most meaningful to me. This format for giving provides an intimacy not always present through other forms of donating.
FaithPodcasts
Jesuitical
On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley interview bestselling Irish author John Connell on how embracing the farm life preserved by his family for generations brought him closer to God and greater inner peace.
Jonathan Roumie as Jesus in a scene from the Sermon on the Mount from the television show “The Chosen” (photo Angel Studios/OSV)
Arts & CultureTelevision
America Staff
“The Chosen” television series tells some of the well-known biblical stories about Christ and his disciples—and weaves into them fictional stories about the life of Christ and his disciples.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Richard Schiffman
Who am I to prune the surging crown?
Arts & CulturePoetry
Gretchen Tessmer
just ordinary sunlight shimmering through a drizzling, autumn rain
Arts & CultureBooks
Amirah Orozco
Can you be a Catholic and a feminist? Julie Hanlon Rubio gives her answer in the introduction of her new book—in the form of a confident “yes.”
Arts & CultureBooks
Nick Ripatrazone
Joyelle McSweeney's 'Death Styles'—her 10th book across creative and critical genres—rewards our attention.
Arts & CultureBooks
Jacqui Oesterblad
With his new biography, 'The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon,' Adam Shatz seeks to give us Fanon the person, and not just his most famous soundbites.
Arts & CultureBooks
Eamon Duffy
Peter Ackroyd declares at the outset of 'The English Soul: Faith of a Nation' that Christianity has been “the reflection, perhaps the embodiment of the English soul.” But his book is not about Christianity so much as it is about some notable figures in Protestant England.
FaithFaith in Focus
Catherine Kirwan-Avila
I hoped my final vows would be an occasion of encounter with the goodness of God for each person present
FaithFaith and Reason
Kristin E. Heyer
Donald Trump's second term as U.S. President will surely raise significant questions about the ethics of migration policies. How might we resist extremism and polarization while retaining a commitment to the church's teaching on the dignity of all peoples?
Arts & CultureYour Take
Our readers
Readers react to a papal election on the big screen.
FaithFaith and Reason
James F. Keenan, S.J.
Five matters have been on my mind in the weeks since Donald Trump won the 2024 U.S. presidential election, each of them connected to my work as a moral theologian.
FaithFaith in Focus
Leilani Fuentes
In the face of fear and threats to our community, Latinos from around the city gathered in a public veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe––seeking comfort in her and in each other.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis has called on all nations to eliminate the death penalty, to divert a fixed percentage of arms spending to a global fund to fight hunger and climate change, and to cancel the international debt of developing nations.
FaithNews
OSV News
Catholic Extension Society’s 2024 Spirit of Francis Award was given to Kerry Alys Robinson, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA.
Politics & SocietyNews
Connor Hartigan
“The idea of schadenfreude, taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others, is rejected by Jesus in the Gospels,” Daniel Daly said of those celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Brian Thompson.
New York Governor Mario Cuomo speaks at a rally in June 1991 against the closing of Plattsburgh Air Force Base. (Sgt. Tracy Santee, U.S.A.F., via Wikimedia Commons)
FaithShort Take
Paul James Macrae
He might not have intended to, but Mario Cuomo paved the way for the Pilate-like indifference of so many Catholic politicians to abortion today.