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Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Trump administration should reconsider its shortsighted and inhuman restrictions on refugee resettlement
Politics & SocietyVantage Point
Long before Pope Francis earned the nickname, St. John Paul II was known as “the people’s pope.” St. John Paul II recognized the value of modern travel and mass media in spreading the Gospel and a global message of good will.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
It is impossible to ignore the bleak economic and social realities that many African-Americans and members of other racial minority groups still face.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The foundational flaw with the proposed reform is the stripping away of choice, and the dignity that comes with it, from low-income Americans.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
More and more public policy is being decided at the state level but trustworthy sources of information about state capitals are fast disappearing.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
This year, an ancient symbol saw its significance magnified all the more on a tragic Ash Wednesday.
Arts & Culture
While at least one the nominees for Best Picture has an obvious Catholic angle, the other nominees touch on themes that will resonate with Catholics and other believers: love, reconciliation, brokenness and our human longing to be known.
FaithEditorials
We now mark five years of Francis’ pontificate. The editors of America wish him many more.
FaithVantage Point
‘Lent may once again don its public mask’: America's editors from 1978 on an American Lent.