Jubilee Year 2025: What you need to know | America Magazine
May 15, 2024 · This week on "Inside the Vatican," hosts Colleen and Gerry discuss Pope Francis’ proclamation of Jubilee Year 2025 and also review a global synod meeting of 200 parish priests held outside Rome ...
Review: ‘Wicked’ challenges what we think about good and evil
Nov 22, 2024 · Glinda hopes to learn sorcery from the imposing Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh), but it’s Elphaba who impresses the professor. Morrible believes that her natural talent for magic could make her ...
Why People Are Rejecting Religion—and How to Draw Them In
Apr 18, 2024 · A church of healing, of mercy and of encounter is a church where the beauty of God and human community can be realized. This community is a place where we experience the beauty of God’s merciful ...
Jesus was not white. Here’s why we should stop pretending he was.
Jun 26, 2020 · Many have asked me in the last few days what I think about the (legitimate) critiques of the ubiquity of White Jesus representations, like the famous painting, “Head of Christ,” by Warner Sallman.
Ernest Hemingway was a brilliant writer and a terrible person.
Apr 9, 2021 · Ernest Hemingway was a terrible person. He was selfish and egomaniacal, a faithless husband and a treacherous friend. He drank too much, he brawled and bragged too much, he was a thankless son and ...
5 signs you are hearing God’s voice (and not your ego) in prayer
Feb 7, 2022 · James Martin, S.J. James Martin, S.J., is editor at large at America.He is the author, most recently, of Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone, now released in paperback, from which this article ...
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Remembering Kris Kristofferson, outlaw and pilgrim
Oct 8, 2024 · Many obituaries for Kris Kristofferson, the singer and movie star who died last week at the age of 88, noted his importance to the “outlaw country” movement of the 1970s.
Abortions hit highest number in over a decade after fall of Roe v.
Mar 22, 2024 · Pro-life demonstrators in Washington celebrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court June 24, 2022, as the court overruled its landmark Roe v. Wade abortion precedent in its Dobbs v.
The Vatican’s Medjugorje decision, explained | America Magazine
Sep 25, 2024 · The Vatican officially recognized Medjugorje as a place of pilgrimage and popular piety, stopping short of confirming the supernatural origin of the apparitions.