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Walking with the risen Jesus

2 days ago | americamagazine.org | Robert Buckland

A Reflection for Wednesday in the Octave of EasterFind today’s readings here. “I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you.” In today’s first reading, Peter and John, now fully invested as Jesus’s disciples, are easily able to heal a crippled man. They have seen and engaged with the risen Christ, they believe, and now they are boldly carrying out his mission. By contrast, in the Gospel reading we see two unnamed disciples who have heard that Christ is risen but they have not seen.
Pope Francis never stopped being a Jesuit

3 days ago | americamagazine.org | James Martin

Father Adolfo Nicolas, superior general of the Society of Jesus, and Pope Francis, also a Jesuit, are seen together before celebrating Mass at the Church of the Gesu in Rome in this Jan. 3, 2014, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) In 2005, a few days before the conclave that elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope, I was having breakfast in my Jesuit community. At the table was a Jesuit who had retired after working in Rome for many years.
What do you do with Good News?

5 days ago | americamagazine.org | Kerry Weber

A Reflection for Monday in the Octave of EasterFind today’s readings here. And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. It seems counterintuitive, but when something good happens in our lives, we may sometimes feel a combination of both joy and fear. We may be grateful but also wonder: Am I worthy of this? What happens next? Especially if the news marks a big life change—perhaps a birth or an engagement, a promotion or a move—sharing that news can make it feel more real.
JD Vance announces trip to Rome, meeting at Vatican without Pope Francis—for now | America Magazine

1 week ago | americamagazine.org

The Vatican press office has said that it has no information to share about Vance’s trip, but if the vice president were to participate in one of the liturgies, it would let people know.
El Salvador president says he won’t return erroneously deported and imprisoned man to US

1 week ago | americamagazine.org | Kate Scanlon

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Trump administration officials and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on April 14 dismissed arguments that an erroneously deported Maryland man should be returned to the United States from a prison where he is being held in El Salvador. The case has prompted concern from Catholic immigration advocates, who argued that the man was never charged or convicted of a crime before his deportation or imprisonment.
‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ gives us a ‘Crucible’ for a post-#MeToo world

1 week ago | americamagazine.org | Rob Weinert-Kendt

Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription options“John Proctor Is the Villain” depicts a quintet of teenage girls with remarkable acuity and clear-eyed sympathy. (Photo courtesy of DKC O&M). The #MeToo movement that burst into wide public currency in 2017 gave a name, and a hashtag, to the old and pervasive crimes of sexual assault and harassment, particularly of women and girls by men in positions of social power.
Breaking through the ‘attention economy’ on Holy Thursday

1 week ago | americamagazine.org | Maurice Timothy Reidy

Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription optionsPope Francis washes the feet of an inmate at the Rebibbia women's prison on the outskirts of Rome as he celebrates the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper March 28, 2024. The pontiff washed the feet of 12 inmates at the prison. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)A Reflection for Holy Thursday, Evening Mass of the Lord’s SupperFind today’s readings here.
‘The White Lotus’ finale, sin and discernment: How (and why) do we make big life choices?

2 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | James Martin

Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription options (Photograph by Fabio Lovino, Stefano Delia/HBO)This essay contains spoilers for Season 3 of “The White Lotus.”The riveting season finale of “The White Lotus,” a series that focuses on the travails of wealthy people vacationing at a luxury hotel chain, was notable for its gimlet-eyed focus on the importance of choices in life.
Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick dies at 94

2 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Maria Wiering

(OSV News) -- The disgraced former cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, removed from the clerical state in 2019 after revelations of credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors and misconduct against adults, has died in Missouri. He was 94.
‘Unreconciled’: A clergy sex abuse survivor’s attempt to find healing through theater

2 weeks ago | americamagazine.org | Elise Ryan

In 2018, Jay Sefton was writing the story of his life in op-eds and legal documents. A survivor of sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Sefton advocated for a bill stalled in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives that would allow a “lookback window” on abuse cases that had passed the statute of limitations so that alleged perpetrators could be tried in a court of law.