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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 [...]

Matt Malone, S.J.: It's well known that at least two of your predecessors as vice president, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, were not big fans of the Jesuits. A mere [...]

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.

This article examines the Canadian federal government’s proposed Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (CCSPA), compares it with existing and proposed cybersecurity legal requirements in the European Union (EU), and sets out recommendations to address shortcomings of the proposed Canadian legislation. One of the cornerstone components of Bill C‑26, the CCSPA seeks to regulate critical cyber systems in federally regulated private sectors. It represents a significant overhaul of Canadian cybersecurity regulation. However, the current proposed legislation exhibits many flaws, including a commitment to, and entrenchment of, a patchwork approach to regulation that focuses on formal registration; a lack of oversight of its confidentiality provisions; a weak penalty scheme that focuses solely on compliance, not deterrence; and diluted conduct, reporting, and mitigation obligations. To repair these flaws, this article reviews the provisions of the proposed law and compares them with the EU’s Directive Concerning Measures for a High Common Level of Security of Network and Information Systems Across the Union, the first EU-wide cybersecurity legislation, as well as its proposed successor, the NIS2 Directive. Where relevant, various other cybersecurity regulations in peer states are discussed. Specific recommendations are put forward.

The mission of America, wrote its first editor in chief, is not only to 'chronicle events of the day and the progress of the church' but also to 'stimulate effort [...]

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.