Voices
Drew Christiansen, S.J., served as the editor in chief of America from 2005 to 2012. He was a Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development at Georgetown University and a senior fellow with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He was co-editor with Carole Sargent of A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown, 2020).
Of Many Things
Catholic attachment to Holy Land differences from that of the Jews, but it is a special place all the same.
Of Many Things
In the United States, Focolare seeks to channel what they call America's grace.
Of Many Things
In sub-Saharan Africa there seems to be no workable alternative to despotism--yet.
Of Many Things
What is unifying for religious people is not some theological framework but their experience of holiness.
Hymn to Matter” may be one of the oddest-seeming prayers ever penned by a priest. Christians pray to God, to the saints, to the angels perhaps, and sometimes to deceased loved ones. But a hymn to matter? To atoms and rocks, gases and plasma, minerals and stardust? It sounds like idolatry, and
