57+ min ago  (820+ words) Catholic Movie Club: An atheist's the transformative power of Christ's Passion'America Magazine There is no hard evidence that St. Genesius, the patron saint of actors, actually existed. According to legend, he was an actor in third-century Rome during the reign…...

15+ hour, 28+ 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, 18+ 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, 22+ 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, 18+ 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, 23+ 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, 14+ 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, 14+ 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…...