America Magazine

October 2026

The gleams of rain that pool in withered leaves; The blackened lump of stone amid the ashes.

Review: Memory-keepers, death and grief in ‘Brother Epistles’

We think of letters as a two-way form of communication: They go to and fro in the world, from one writer to the reader, who becomes the writer o…

Our readers: What would Fulton Sheen make of modern politics?

“Sheen was a rock star who made being Catholic singular. No one lifted me up as much as Fulton during my teens.”

Marko Rupnik mosaics at Lourdes to be covered before Pope Leo’s visit and remain masked indefinitely, bishop says

A former Jesuit, Father Marko Rupnik, 71, is accused of abusing more than two dozen women over several decades.

Two books on Pope Leo paint a picture of a potentially transformative leader

With experience at every level of church governance and familiarity with how to build and use power, Leo XIV has the potential to be profoundly…

A.I., Dostoevsky and the very human fear of freedom

The danger is not that A.I. will ever “replace” human intelligence but that we will welcome its rule.

A Jesuit Pilgrimage to Poland and Prague

Join America Media on a transformative pilgrimage in the footsteps of Sts. Faustina Kowalska, Maximilian Kolbe, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a…

Mary is with us in troubling times

A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Kerry Weber

The lament and hope of remembering Zion

A Reflection for the Friday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, by Father Sam Sawyer

Why my Dominican grandfather makes me proud to be an American

My Dominican grandfather was as American as McDonald’s apple pie.

Pope Leo XIV: One Year of an American Pope

A look back at the top moments from Pope Leo’s first year.

Review: Confronting the Christian classics

Rebecca Bratten Weiss’s 'The Books That Made Us' asks: What are we to do when we realize the art that formed us is, perhaps, problematic?

A war between the U.S. government and the Catholic Church? Our readers weigh in

“Mr. Schneider’s pitting of the U.S. government against the Catholic Church only serves to weaponize these two institutions.”

Pope Leo says ICE should allow ‘pastoral workers’ to bring detained migrants Communion

Leaving Castel Gandolfo this evening, Nov. 4, Pope Leo XIV told reporters that he “would certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral work…

November 2025

In this year’s poetry roundup, some of the poets whose collections we discuss are Catholic, some are not. But regardless of their religious comm…

Ruddy Pascall

In this year’s poetry roundup, some of the poets whose collections we discuss are Catholic, some are not. But regardless of their religious comm…

Review: Ross Douthat on why everyone should be religious

Ross Douthat addresses weighty topics in his new book, but his reasons for belief are often puzzling.

My son became a priest. I still felt conflicted about God and religion.

I’m still not what you would think of as the typical mother of a priest. But Patrick and I have come to better understand and better love each o…