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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A few weeks before All Souls’ Day, I found myself at Sunday Mass with my daughter. Earlier that week, I had been told that our retired but still beloved parish priest, Father Boleslaw Zadora—the man ...

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.” ...

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

Studies show that the more religious you are, the more likely you are to hold negative views toward migration. This is a challenge to the Catholic Church—but also an opportunity to use church teaching ...