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Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Jim McDermott
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.
Michael Osborne, a film director, documents the damage from a mud slide next to his home in Los Angeles on Jan. 18, after three days of heavy rain. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
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.
A Honduran man carries his 3-year-old son as his daughter and other son follow to a transport vehicle after being detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents in San Luis, Ariz., on July 18. Federal judges in California have challenged more of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
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
Jim McDermott
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.
The ruins of São Miguel das Missões, a 17th-century Jesuit mission in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, now preserved as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations. (iStock/Thiago Santos)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Jim McDermott
A new study finds higher literacy rates and income levels in the areas around former Jesuit missions in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
Photo courtesy of LMU CARES
FaithDispatches
Jim McDermott
How do you create an open, nonjudgmental opportunity for conversation about sexual activity in the context of the Catholic faith?
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Jim McDermott
A disaster like this creates so many brutal little ironies.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Jim McDermott
As wild and wonderful as Marvel Comics characters’ superpowers might be, their back stories are always grounded in reality.
Kerry Bishé in ‘The Romanoffs’ (Jan Thijs/Amazon Studios via AP)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
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
Jim McDermott
On the eve of Romero’s canonization, the film’s actors and writers look back at the seminal biopic