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a hymnal is open at a candlelit church service
“O Come, All Ye Faithful” is a song almost everyone knows. But where did it come from, and why is it so popular?
And why is Pope Francis holding a synod on synodality?
Let’s be honest: We are all cafeteria Catholics. The real question is how we avoid a food fight in the cafeteria.
More pressing than the question of whether women can be ordained to the priesthood is the reality that clericalism and sexism have created and sustained a system in which women are treated as second-class citizens.
I know what you are thinking—a decadent spectacle of wealth, really, that’s what the church needs right now? But hear me out.
From left: Swimmer Katie Ledecky (Rob Schumacher, USA TODAY Sports via Reuters); long-distance runner Molly Seidel (Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports via Reuters); Mariel Zagunis (Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters) and gymnast Simone Biles (Dylan Martinez, Reuters). Illustration by America staff.
As Team U.S.A. heads to Tokyo, keep an eye on these athletes and all of the Olympians whose faith inspires them in competition.
How is it possible that God uses a sinner, a frail and weak person, to do His will? Everything has been prepared in God’s plan.
Renewed interest in the prayer developed in the fall of 2018 in the wake of concerns about church unity and new revelations of the sexual abuse of children by clergy.
Read an excerpt from Fr. James Martin’s new book on prayer
Dr. King and St. Ignatius found themselves needing to turn inward to feel the graces that would inspire their hearts and their pens to share how God was working through them in moments of personal strife.