Voices
Zac Davis is an associate editor and the senior director for digital strategy for America. He also co-hosts the podcast, Jesuitical.
FaithShort Take
Lord, I don’t know what it actually means for a year to go to hell. But if hell is hot, let 2020 burn.
FaithAdvent Reflections
A Reflection for the Second Wednesday of Advent
FaithFaith in Focus
The only reaction that matters right now for most of us is spiritual. We need patience. We need to let the votes be counted.
FaithInterviews
Bishop Barron on talking to atheists, young people and the Black Lives Matter Movement.
FaithShort Take
President Trump’s visit to the St. John Paul II National Shrine continues a pattern of using sacred sites for political stunts, writes America associate editor Zac Davis. This is over the line of what the church should tolerate.
Arts & CultureTelevision
“The Last Dance” is not documentary but hagiography. Many commentators mean this as a criticism, but here is the thing: Hagiographies are important—and compelling.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Cyrus Habib is interrupting what had been a rapid political ascent to join the Catholic Church’s largest religious order.
Arts & CultureBooks
The stories in David Means’s latest collection demand and deserve the reader’s full participation.
CommunityYour Take
We’re relaunching the commenting experience at America.
Arts & CultureJesuitical
Hunter Harris tells us. Also: Lady Bird is the greatest Catholic School Movie ever.