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Arts & CultureTheater
“His story is so triumphal in the sense of what he was eventually able to do,” responding to persecution and oppression with an outpouring of love.
Arts & CultureBooks
Crosby was the most Catholic superstar the United States has ever seen.
Arts & CultureFilm
The oddities of Franco Zeffirelli’s ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ should not be dismissed as defects.
Arts & CultureIdeas
There is no way to explain the success of Catholic school athletes without taking into account a wide range of factors—historical, sociological and, yes, spiritual.
Arts & CultureFeatures
Despite its explicit Catholic attributes, N.H.L. players are not known for wearing religion on their sleeves the way players do in other sports leagues, like the National Football League or the National Basketball Association.
FaithEditorials
America strives to understand and highlight the experiences of those on the margins.
FaithThe Word
Good things happen to bad people because God hopes for their transformation.
Arts & CultureYour Take
When asked if sports build character, 75 percent of respondents said yes and 25 percent said no.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Watching the N.C.A.A. annual college basketball tournament has become a tradition for many Catholics. March Madness is also a huge moneymaker for everyone except the players.
Arts & CultureBooks
California governors Pat and Jerry Brown played pivotal roles in a startling array of events in the state's history.
FaithShort Take
As late as the 1970s, boxing saturated U.S. Catholic culture. It reinforced Catholic ideas about the redemptive value of physical suffering; it also offered a powerful form of assimilation to male Catholic immigrants.
FaithOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J., is traveling abroad. But I also suspect he let me be the pinch-hitter for this column in America’s special sports issue out of pity.
FaithThe Word
In this parable, Luke presents a complex study of the interplay of freedom, duty and love.
Politics & SocietyFaith and Reason
When it comes to improving the public discourse in the United States, is bringing back “civility” enough? Should we instead speak of restoring love to our political debates?
FaithFaith in Focus
A conversation with the celebrity sister of college basketball
Jesuit effort brings food and health care to the margins in East Timor
At the top of a hillside in East Timor, Christina Da Cruz and her colleague Leonora Mendonsa slowly maneuver an aging four-wheel-drive stacked with plates, spoons and a massive pot of soupy stew to a halt by a small, whitewashed church atop the village of Cocoa. Their aim is to provide as much nutrition to as many children as they can during their visit.
FaithFeatures
A new Vatican team supports fitness and the value of being Christian. And they just might make it to the Olympics someday.
Arts & CulturePoetry
It wanted to turn, the stern rocking around
to the front, taking the place of the bow,
the bow to the stern, port to starboard
FaithLast Take
As I approach 90, I am less concerned with outward appearances—things like what I wear, how my hair looks, what others think of me—and more concerned with my inner life and how I relate to the world around me.