A Reflection for the Second Wednesday of Advent

The only reaction that matters right now for most of us is spiritual. We need patience. We need to let the votes be counted.

Bishop Barron on talking to atheists, young people and the Black Lives Matter Movement.

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.

“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.

Cyrus Habib is interrupting what had been a rapid political ascent to join the Catholic Church’s largest religious order.

The stories in David Means’s latest collection demand and deserve the reader’s full participation.

We’re relaunching the commenting experience at America.

Hunter Harris tells us. Also: Lady Bird is the greatest Catholic School Movie ever.

Kristen Arnett’s novel is about intimacy and wanting what is forbidden, about childhood and family, about absent parents and absent lovers, and about the secondhand self-destruction that can be wrought by ignoring cries of the heart.