14+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1104+ words) On Jan. 19, the Indiana University football team, after decades of losing and causing heartbreak for fans, won the national championship. It was a remarkable turnaround, an experience of communal joy and catharsis like I have seldom known and a testament…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (670+ words) America Media interprets the church for the world and the world for the church. We are a forum for discussion of religion, society, politics and culture from a Catholic perspective. The Ignatian traditions of "finding God in all things" and…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (948+ words) America Media interprets the church for the world and the world for the church. We are a forum for discussion of religion, society, politics and culture from a Catholic perspective. The Ignatian traditions of "finding God in all things" and…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (247+ words) He also learned from those disciplines, engaging in dialogue with the world's leading intellects, including the future Pope Benedict XVI, in a 2004 discussion in Bavaria on the role of religion in modern society and democracy." While completing my own graduate…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (612+ words) House of David" is hot. Not Heated Rivalry" hot, but the biblical series has been a surprise hit for Amazon MGM Studios. Season 1 reportedly drew 22 million viewers in the first 17 days; Season 2 begins airing on Amazon this weekend." The last…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (490+ words) This will not be a typical sports book," he declares in the book's introduction. This is not a book about greatness, nor baseball. It's about the New York Mets." At the same time, it is also inevitably a book about…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (758+ words) Separating the art from the artist? Broadway's "Giant' wrestles with Roald Dahl's antisemitism'America Magazine "My scandalous book review!" Dahl exclaims. Indeed: This is the infamous 1983 article in which Dahl, reviewing a book detailing the casualties of Israel's siege of Lebanon…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (186+ words) It was 90 degrees, full sun, the first day of cross country practice. I had been an athlete, but never a runner, and my body and mind weren't conditioned to push past the initial discomfort, shortness of breath, heaviness of limbs,…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago  (1143+ words) That being said, let's get to our Catholic hopefuls. It's a down year for the papists at first look, to be honest. Some traditional powerhouses are missing, and some of the Cinderellas'well, there's no slipper in the world that will…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1039+ words) If you're a college basketball fan, you will, over the next couple weeks, pay a lot of attention to Gonzaga University, a small Jesuit liberal arts university of a little over 5,000 undergrads in eastern Washington State. On Selection Sunday, the…...