Voices

Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Hopepunk insists there are streams of life-giving water all around us—stories, people and experiences to which we can still turn for inspiration and renewal.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
The conceit of California-as-disaster-movie is ridiculous. But maybe watching our fires and mudslides helps other states consider both their own fragility and their underlying strength.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Though they certainly knew what it was like to find their lives in danger, the Holy Family would find many of the trials undocumented migrants and refugees are asked to endure today incomprehensible.
Arts & CultureTelevision
The very best television is like an Ignatian contemplation: It tells stories that offer us some kind of gift—an insight or encouragement for our lives.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
A new study finds higher literacy rates and income levels in the areas around former Jesuit missions in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
FaithDispatches
How do you create an open, nonjudgmental opportunity for conversation about sexual activity in the context of the Catholic faith?
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
A disaster like this creates so many brutal little ironies.
Arts & CultureIdeas
As wild and wonderful as Marvel Comics characters’ superpowers might be, their back stories are always grounded in reality.
Arts & CultureTelevision
The fact is I can’t help but think of Weiner and his relationship with women as I’m watching his new series for Amazon.
Arts & CultureFilm
On the eve of Romero’s canonization, the film’s actors and writers look back at the seminal biopic