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Editor's Note: On Nov. 22, 2022, five representatives of America Media interviewed Pope Francis at his residence at Santa Marta at the Vatican. Matt Malone, S.J., the departing editor in [...]

A littke after 9 a.m. on Oct 1, 2012, my first day as editor in chief of America, I entered my new office at our old headquarters on 56th Street [...]

'Nothing puzzles me more than time and space,' the English essayist Charles Lamb wrote, 'and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.' That's true as far [...]

Dear Friends: As a sophomore in college, I watched Los Angeles burn on a black-and-white television in my dorm room. The verdict in the Rodney King trial had been rendered. [...]

Life at the State Capitol this morning has that unhurried pace for which Louisianans are known: Something is definitely happening, but nothing definite is happening quickly.This is the opposite of [...]

Patrick E. Kelly is the 14th supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. He took office on March 1, 2021, after serving as [...]

A thousand feet in the air and a quarter-mile ahead, a distended, gray Israeli surveillance balloon is the first sign that we are approaching the Erez Crossing, the official point [...]

In the course of my 10 years as editor in chief of America, I have sat on many a stage in order to address this or that pressing issue at [...]

Standing before the majestic backdrop of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. addressed the nation on Sept. 1, saying that 'Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent [...]

Of the many changes we have made here at America in the last decade, among my favorites is the travel and pilgrimage program we launched for our readers, listeners and [...]

Dear Friends, With your help, America is leading the conversation about faith and culture in the contemporary church. These are heady days: a dynamic papacy, an ongoing digital revolution, a [...]

Queen Elizabeth II reached yet another unprecedented milestone this year when she became the first British monarch to reign for 70 years. The official celebrations of what was dubbed Her [...]

In the summer of 1869, a 27-year-old Buffalo businessman and veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg boarded a steamship and set out on a weeks-long tour of the shoreline of [...]

In the summer of 1997 or thereabouts, while I was studying contemporary British politics at the University of Oxford, I had the occasion to undertake a private tour of the [...]

Pope Francis caused a Category 5 brouhaha on Jan. 6 during what was an otherwise thoroughly ordinary general audience at the Vatican. During the pope's catechesis that day, which was [...]

Hundreds of our fellow Americans gathered in Dallas, Tex., in early November to witness the second coming of John F. Kennedy Jr. Members of the QAnon conspiracy cult, who believe [...]

In the late winter of 1995 Peter Hans Kolvenbach, superior general of the Society of Jesus, convened a general congregation--the global governing body of the Jesuits. Usually a general congregation [...]

Let's set the record straight: Pope Francis did not 'ban the use of Latin in the Roman Catholic Church,' as one person recently put it to me. He didn't even [...]

Welcome backto 'America Jeopardy!', our annual beach-reading homage to the popular game show and everybody's favorite Catholic magazine. The game is played like the real 'Jeopardy!' except that you'll have [...]

The article presents an interview with Pope Francis. He refers to not being able to walk on the street with the people as one of the most difficult things of being a pope. He describes how the church could respond to polarization in society. He asserts that the relationship between the bishop and his people is the grace of Jesus Christ.

The British government announced in May a new initiative aimed at protecting free speech on university campuses, a move that follows several high-profile instances of de-platforming and cancellation of controversial [...]

'Sometime around 1700,' the late Kenneth Minogue observed, 'a lot of people, particularly the intelligentsia, abandoned the [traditional, Christian] belief that we live in a fallen world and adopted the [...]

As I write this column, the U.S. House of Representatives is on the verge of impeaching President Donald J. Trump for his role in instigating the riotous insurrection of Jan. [...]

The author reflects on his journey of searching for truth and relaying it to the public as part of his work together with his editorial team at "America." Topics discussed include his goal as the magazine's editor in chief, improvements in the magazine under his leadership, the challenge facing the magazine as a Catholic media ministry in the U.S., and the effects of ideological partisanship on everyday life.

Scientists on television's medical forensic dramas can solve crime in less than an hour. With a few gadgets and some very intuitive thinking, CSI's Gil Grissom puts the whole story [...]

Almost as soon as we knew for certain that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had been elected the 46th president of the United States, the 44th president came roaring back into [...]

No doubt, the president and the U.S. Senate should have waited. No one denies that the president enjoys the constitutional prerogative to nominate someone for a vacancy on the U.S. [...]

Sixty years ago this October, a 13-car train pulled out of Union Station in Washington, D.C., headed south. It was the L.B.J. Special, named for its most important passenger, Lyndon [...]

My late philosophy professor, W. Norris Clarke, S.J., was always telling me to 'interrogate the premise' of an argument. He believed that, generally speaking, most conclusions follow logically from their [...]

As hard as it may be to believe, this autumn will mark the eighth anniversary of my editorship of this review. On Oct. 1, 2012, Twitter was only 6 years [...]

As of this morning, May 26, our British cousins are considering the fate of Dominic Cummings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's surly advisor-enforcer and architect of last year's successful Brexit campaign. [...]

One of the few upsides of being in a prolonged quarantine is a free hour or two in each day, which would ordinarily be used for dressing or commuting or [...]

For the hour or so each day that I get out for a walk, I sometimes find it hard to believe that New York City is the center of the [...]

Earlier this month, for the first time in 111 years, America Media produced and shipped America magazine while all of our staff were working remotely. This was possible because we [...]

I am writing this column from my bedroom in New York on the seventh day of my self-quarantine. Last month I had the honor to co-lead America Media's pilgrimage to [...]

On Feb. 8, 2020, Sgt. First Class Javier Gutierrez, of San Antonio, Tex., and Sgt. First Class Antonio Rodriguez, of Las Cruces, N.M., became the latest U.S. soldiers to die [...]