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FaithScripture Reflections
Sam Sawyer, S.J.
A Reflection for Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.
FaithScripture Reflections
Kerry Weber
A Reflection for Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber
FaithScripture Reflections
Jill Rice
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Jill Rice
FaithScripture Reflections
Michael Simone, S.J.
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael SImone, S.J.
FaithScripture Reflections
Delaney Coyne
A Reflection for the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, by Delaney Coyne
A graphic illustration of a hospital bed with a cross on the wall
FaithFeatures
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Do Catholic hospitals have to choose between mission and the market?
An image of people walking in a straight line with a sunset in the background and a flock of birds in the air
FaithFaith and Reason
Peter C. Phan
I would argue for two axioms. First, Christian mission induces migration, and, conversely, migration fulfills Christian mission. Second, there is a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship between Christian mission and migration.
A marker in Indianapolis describes the history of a 1907 Indiana eugenics law
Arts & CultureIdeas
John P. Slattery
Of the many things that the history of eugenics should teach modern society, two stand out. First, not all questions are good questions. Second, statistics can be warped to tell you pretty much anything you want.
Jeremy Caniglia, an art teacher at Creighton Preparatory School, instructs Michael Bope on a painting of Pedro Arrupe, S.J.
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
Ricardo da Silva, S.J.
“The arts are crucial to Jesuit education. Our arts programs are a home for students at Creighton Prep, but they also inspire the expansion of heart and imagination—elements that are indispensable to Ignatian practice.”
Arts & CultureBooks
Books about World War II are ubiquitous in the nonfiction section, but "Hitler's American Gamble" is the rare recent work with a genuinely new contribution to make, not just to our understanding of the past but also to our understanding of the present.
Arts & CultureBooks
Joseph Peschel
Lauren Groff's new novel inverts Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe" by casting a girl—and only briefly, much later on in the novel, the woman—as its heroine.
Arts & CultureBooks
In "All the Kingdoms of the World¸" Kevin Vallier engages with Catholic integralists, but he opens a bigger question: Is there such a thing as a Catholic politics?
Arts & CultureBooks
An account of “what it meant to be a Roman emperor,” Mary Beard's new book is also a sustained exploration of tradition embodied by an individual ruler.
FaithFaith in Focus
Joshua Gray
The examen carved a space between me and the compulsion, just enough to breathe, to think and to make a deliberate choice.
FaithFaith in Focus
Barbara Mahany
What surviving cancer—for now—taught me about life.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
No just law can stop solidarity at the arbitrary line of a border, nor can a just government require the church to condition the works of mercy on the immigration status of those in need.
Election poll worker Indira Barrios, 17, loans a pen to a voter at the La Quinta de Guadalupe retreat and conference center in San Diego on Nov. 4, 2008. (CNS photo/David Maung)
Politics & SocietyLast Take
Chris Crawford
WIthout free and fair elections because we cannot effectively address any of the issues mentioned in “Faithful Citizenship,” from protecting the unborn to creating a more just economy.
Arts & CulturePoetry
James Davis May
If we could see the invisible saints watching over houses, whether imagined or not
Arts & CulturePoetry
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Poems like these at the very least deserve more eyes on them, and we are more than happy to make that happen.
FaithYour Take
Our readers
“If you are not challenged somewhere in your own moral thinking by reading [“Dignitas Infinita”], then you most likely have not read it thoroughly enough,” wrote Sam Sawyer, S.J., America’s editor in chief, in his Of Many Things column last month.