Mia Schilling Grogan is an associate professor of English at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. Her poems have most ...

It illustrates the fervent desire that God has to convey mercy and compassion to a suffering humankind, in ways great and small. Having left the small church where St. Faustina once prayed at the foot ...

In this roundup of poetry from the past year, 'America' editors and staff explore worlds of verse and fragments of reality that enchant and unsettle.

Vatican II invited the church to rediscover how the Gospel becomes beautiful when embodied in the life of the Christian community.

We the people” reminds Americans that we are connected to one another in our shared commitment to a fundamental purpose: to promote the general welfare.

Today’s political rhetoric depicts electoral defeat as apocalyptic. If this leads to a rejection of the rule of law, it places the constitutional order itself at great risk.

Col. Christoph Graf, commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, describes the 1527 Sack of Rome as “one of the most defining ...

Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College, in Chestnut Hill, Mass. This piece is adapted from remarks given at ...

Catholics receive the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and the deprivation of these sacraments imposes real and immediate harm on Catholic detainees and priests,” the archdiocese said.

Speaking of the leak in May 2022 of the court’s decision in Dobbs, Justice Alito said that “the thought occurred to me, and I ...

In the beauty of that moment, he discovered that heaven and earth were not separate realities but instead one. My son was changed by that moment. In a world steeped in materialist cynicism, where our ...

Does a priest have to wear this ancient garment? Of course not.... But maybe we should re-evaluate. There’s life in those old clothes.” ...