America Media

The question is: If Christian language, identity and even nationalism are being reshaped in a largely unmoored digital marketplace that blends masculinity, grievance and politics, how should the Catholic Church respond? Four scholars— and —offer their reflections in the linked articles, which are also listed below. These essays are adapted from a panel conversation organized by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., on Feb. 26, 2026.

A Reflection for the Friday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

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

Some of our recommendations are great beach reads; some are serious history books; and one of them is an old encyclical, because Jesuits gonna Jesuit.

On the season finale of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen and Gerry discuss the hectic weeks before Pope Leo’s summer vacation.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, by William Gualtiere

Pope Leo XIV surprised the College of Cardinals in his opening address to the second extraordinary consistory of his papacy on the morning of June 26 when he told them, “I wish to ask you for your help.”

After the Iran debacle, are U.S. diplomats ready to accept that the path to the geopolitical good, if not to the perfect, lies through diplomacy and compromise, not threats and missile strikes?

The hostility to immigrants enabled by yesterday’s Supreme Court decisions marks a profound moral failure in the American understanding of our national heritage.

Four essays on male grievance and belonging