A Reflection for Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Jill Rice

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael SImone, S.J.

A Reflection for the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, by Delaney Coyne

Do Catholic hospitals have to choose between mission and the market?

I would argue for two axioms. First, Christian mission induces migration, and, conversely, migration fulfills Christian mission. Second, there is a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship between Christian mission and migration.

Of the many things that the history of eugenics should teach modern society, two stand out in this discussion. First, not all questions are good questions. Second, statistics can be warped to tell you pretty much anything you want.

“The arts are crucial to Jesuit education. Our arts programs are a home for students at Creighton Prep, but they also inspire the expansion of heart and imagination—elements that are indispensable to Ignatian practice.”

Books about World War II are ubiquitous in the nonfiction section, but "Hitler's American Gamble" is the rare recent work with a genuinely new contribution to make, not just to our understanding of the past but also to our understanding of the present.

Lauren Groff's new novel inverts Defoe’s "Robinson Crusoe" by casting a girl—and only briefly, much later on in the novel, the woman—as its heroine.

In "All the Kingdoms of the World¸" Kevin Vallier engages with Catholic integralists, but he opens a bigger question: Is there such a thing as a Catholic politics?

An account of “what it meant to be a Roman emperor,” Mary Beard's new book is also a sustained exploration of tradition embodied by an individual ruler.

The examen carved a space between me and the compulsion, just enough to breathe, to think and to make a deliberate choice.

What surviving cancer—for now—taught me about life.

No just law can stop solidarity at the arbitrary line of a border, nor can a just government require the church to condition the works of mercy on the immigration status of those in need.

WIthout free and fair elections because we cannot effectively address any of the issues mentioned in “Faithful Citizenship,” from protecting the unborn to creating a more just economy.

If we could see the invisible saints watching over houses, whether imagined or not

Poems like these at the very least deserve more eyes on them, and we are more than happy to make that happen.

“If you are not challenged somewhere in your own moral thinking by reading [“Dignitas Infinita”], then you most likely have not read it thoroughly enough,” wrote Sam Sawyer, S.J., America’s editor in chief, in his Of Many Things column last month.