Attorney General Lynn Fitch argued in an Oct. 23 statement, “The Biden administration attempted to import its radical theories on gender identity into ObamaCare, forcing healthcare providers to perform surgeries or prescribe drugs even if it violated their best medical judgment.” The post Federal judge strikes Biden-era rule including gender identity in sex discrimination prohibition appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Though 'The Documents of Vatican II' remains Walter Abbott’s signature achievement in the eyes of many Catholics, the publication was just one moment in a lifetime of notable work on behalf of the church and the world in fields ranging from Scripture, ecumenism, racial justice and spirituality. The post An editor’s editor: Walter Abbott, S.J., and the documents of Vatican II appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Catherine Connolly won the most votes of any candidate in the history of the Republic, but the election was marked by low turnout and a campaign to spoil votes, raising questions about whether Ireland is as stable a democracy as most presume. The post Spoiled votes and celebrity campaigns: Ireland’s presidential election reveals exhausted state of its democracy appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
There will be no surviving a nuclear war. “Nuclear war,” said Pope Benedict XVI, “will have no victors—only victims.” The post Archbishop Etienne: the ‘simple yet demanding’ work of peacebuilding in a nuclear-armed world appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
This week, on “The Spiritual Life,” Father James Martin talks with Brené Brown about looking at Jesus as he is, rather than as he is presented to us. The post Brené Brown on Jesus and vulnerable spirituality appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
“I call upon all educational institutions to inaugurate a new season that speaks to the hearts of the younger generations, reuniting knowledge and meaning, competence and responsibility, faith and life,” Leo wrote in an apostolic letter.| America Magazine
Auxiliary Bishop Adam Parker of Baltimore has confirmed more than 10,000 young people—and he wants his brother bishops to know what a gift the sacrament is for all. The post This bishop has confirmed 10,000 teens—here’s his advice on preaching for confirmation appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
“The presence of warships and the disruption of marine livelihoods within our Caribbean waters represent real and immediate threats to regional stability and to the welfare of our nations,” the region’s bishops said. The post Caribbean bishops raise concern over Trump’s military buildup in the region appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for the Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time, by Michael O’Loughlin The post Accuse yourself of hypocrisy appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Commemorating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and its Creed, as well as reaffirming hopes for peace in the Middle East, Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon Nov. 27-Dec. 2. The post Pope Leo in Turkey and Lebanon: What to expect from his first international trip appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
In his first major document, “Dilexi Te,” Pope Leo does not talk about the creation of wealth—which is essential to any work of charity. The post The Catholic Church needs a healthy economy to serve the poor appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
In the presence of hundreds of priests and with lay faithful packed into the pews and standing along the walls, U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke celebrated the traditional Latin Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica. The post Cardinal Burke celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Acting as doctors within borders, the Thompsons are at the forefront of the health care crisis in the United States, helping the walking wounded who arrive on their doorstep. The post The ‘unapologetically Catholic’ couple bringing prayer and health care to Texas’s uninsured appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
“If we deny our part in history, we deepen the harm,” wrote Bishop Bullock and the Jesuit priests in their message. “We cannot lie about the past without perpetuating injustice and moral blindness.”| America Magazine
"No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate." The post Read: Pope Leo’s homily on what it means to be a synodal church appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Bishops, nuns and lay activists came together in an act of solidarity with the migrants currently enduring the Trump administration’s immigration roundup. The post Catholics witness ‘man-made’ disaster for migrants at ICE detention center in Newark appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
U.S Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a traditional Latin Mass for pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, Oct. 25, with Pope Leo XIV’s permission. The pilgrim group, which makes annual trips to the Vatican, did not receive permission to celebrate the pre-Vatican II rite in St. Peter’s during its 2023 or 2024 pilgrimages. The […] The post Analysis: Why is Pope Leo letting Cardinal Burke say the Latin Mass at the Vatican? appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac talk to Brendan Curran, O.P., a Dominican priest on the frontlines of Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago. The post How (and why) the Catholic Church is fighting ICE raids and deportations appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Pope Leo addressed the major superiors of the Jesuits in the Synod Hall on Friday, Oct. 24, discussing the major frontiers of synodality, reconciliation and technology. The post Pope Leo’s address to the Jesuits: ‘The church needs you at the frontiers.’ appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The World Series this year features the Toronto Blue Jays against the Los Angeles Dodgers. America executive editor Sebastian Gomes and senior editor James T. Keane share their thoughts on this year’s matchup. The post It’s 1812 all over again: The Blue Jays meet the Dodgers in the World Series tonight. appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
“Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted—even celebrated politically—that treat these ‘undesirables’ as if they were garbage and not human beings,” he said during an address to popular movements. The post Pope Leo decries opioid crisis, gambling, cruelty toward migrants in major speech on new social ills appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell talk with Elise Allen, who sat down with Pope Leo XIV in July for his first full-length interview. The post Podcast: Elise Allen takes us inside her interview with Pope Leo appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
When Pope Leo shook our hands, he looked into our faces—brown, weary, hopeful—overcome with tears of joy and hope; he saw the church that walks with the poor, the church that refuses to be silent. His kind gesture lifted the U.S. Latino community when we needed it most. The post We brought the fears of migrants in the U.S. to Pope Leo—and returned home with renewed hope. appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The new movie “Blue Moon,” named for one of Rodgers & Hart’s most enduring tunes, is set at the pivot between these two eras—from Jazz Age sass and Depression-era gloom to post-World War II patriotism and conformity. The post In ‘Blue Moon,’ Ethan Hawke surprises as a melancholy Broadway legend appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
For the first time in history, a British monarch and a pope prayed together in the Sistine Chapel in an event of great ecumenical significance. The post Pope Leo and King Charles make history with first-ever joint prayer service in Sistine Chapel appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The same coach who believed in finding God in all people became the first to regularly draft Black players in the NFL draft’s first round. The post How NFL legend Vince Lombardi’s Catholic faith inspired him to fight racism appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Julian Navarro The post For deliverance, just look up appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The bishops have a full agenda of both temporal and spiritual matters—including votes for key leadership roles as well as discussions on migration, health care directives, artificial intelligence, Eucharistic devotion and liturgical texts. The post Migration, AI and key leadership votes on US bishops’ fall meeting agenda appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Pope Leo's predecessors took markedly different approaches to liturgical reform. Leo must chart a course between them while settling on which is fundamentally the correct path. The post Pope Leo’s Latin Mass Problem appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Homily for the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein The post Does God play favorites in prayer? appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Chicago-area priest is on a mission to highlight the plight of families upended by the current mass deportation efforts in the United States by making a 50-day pilgrimage—on foot—from Chicago to New York. The post A priest is walking from Pope Leo’s childhood home to Ellis Island to highlight plight of migrants appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
October 26, 2025, Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Not only does humility place us in a correct relationship with God, but by living humbly, we also follow Jesus’ example. The post Two final teachings from Jesus on prayer appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), October 19, 2025: Prayer, as petition or worship, is practiced in as many forms as the human imagination allows. This Sunday’s readings demonstrate the role of resistance and persistence at the core of the experience we call prayer. The post Prayer as resistance and persistence appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Almost two-thirds of humanity—more than five billion people—live in countries where serious violations of religious freedom are taking place, according to the 2025 “Religious Freedom in the World Report.” The post Pope Leo says religious freedom is ‘not optional but essential’ as new report documents global persecution appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
In the standard rock star narrative, ambitious but otherwise unremarkable young men toil mightily in obscurity for success and eventually triumph to become rock gods. “Springsteen” flips that script. The post In new biopic ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,’ a rock god becomes a man appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
St. Newman, whom Pope Leo will declare a “doctor of the church” on Nov. 1, will join the current patron of Catholic education, St. Thomas Aquinas. The post Pope Leo names St. John Henry Newman co-patron of Catholic education in new document appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
We need a “dangerous memory” of the church’s sin to unearth a Jubilee that heals the church and, through it, wider society. The post The Jubilee year should be dangerous appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
60 years ago next week, “Nostra Aetate” was promulgated, marking a definitive change in the church’s approach toward the Jewish people and its own history. The post An ongoing reckoning with anti-Semitism: 60 years since ‘Nostra Aetate’ appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
”You are loved, warts and all.” Bishop Emeritus Patrick McGrath of San Jose said it at every confirmation—and liturgist Diana Macalintal never tired of hearing it. The post At Confirmation: Preach goodness and mission, not guilt and sin appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Archbishop Timothy Broglio said the cancellation of all religious support contracts for Army chapels, “including those for religious educators, administrators, and musicians," placed on Catholics “an insurmountable restriction on the free exercise of religion.” The post U.S. Army says religious support contracts to be ‘reexamined’ after Archbishop Broglio objects to their cancellation appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Whether you’re looking for a solo, couple or group option, these ideas will put you, we hope, in the running for “best costume” at your parish’s Halloween party. The post This year’s best Catholic Halloween costumes: White Sox Pope Leo, Conclave Seagull, Luce and more appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Sacred art is not defined by appearances or even an artist’s intention. It is holy when it awakens us to God, ourselves and the space in between the two. The post When is art sacred? A Jesuit artist on what makes the absurd, the abstract and the ordinary holy appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
"For those who attend Mass, visit chapel offices, or participate in faith formation on a U.S. Army installation, you likely noticed, that beginning on Sunday, 5 October 2025, contract services and contractor offices were dark and music was absent during Mass," the archbishop said in a letter addressed to members of the military archdiocese, which he said will also be sent to all members of Congress. The post Archbishop Broglio: Army’s cancellation of religious support contracts harms Catho...| America Magazine
St. Teresa of Ávila famously said that if she had to choose between someone who was wise and holy, she would pick holy. But when it comes to spiritual direction, wisdom—knowledge plus experience—is important. The post How do you find a good spiritual director? appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Members said Leo acknowledged the significance of meeting with an activist organization. Popes Francis and Benedict XVI met with individual victims but had kept advocacy groups at arm's length. The post Pope Leo meets with board of global organization of clergy sexual abuse victims to talk zero-tolerance appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Therapy is a professional practice with standards of care. To reframe it as a matter of “free speech” is to miss the point entirely. The post Catholics and conversion therapy bans: The problem with free speech objections appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Pope Leo XIV spoke about the central importance of faith in today’s world as he declared that the Catholic Church has seven new saints—two from Venezuela, one from Papua New Guinea, one Armenian and three from Italy—on Sunday, Oct. 19. The post Pope Leo declares seven new saints, including first from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Winter shelters and clean water will be top priorities for Catholic Relief Services as massive humanitarian effort begins in Gaza. The post Catholic Relief Services is on the ground in Gaza as humanitarian surge begins appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The editors of America have been critical of the actions of President Trump regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since he retook office in January, but last week’s accord is a moment where credit should be given where credit is due. The post Trump’s pressure on Israel made the Gaza peace plan possible. He’ll need to keep it up for a lasting peace. appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Pope Leo faces criticism from some U.S. Catholics over his consistent pro-life ethic and advocacy for migrants. The post Has Pope Leo’s honeymoon ended? U.S. Catholics push back. appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Pope Leo XIV will receive King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a private audience on Oct. 23 and, afterward, for the first time, a British monarch and a pope will pray together in the Sistine Chapel. The post King Charles to visit Pope Leo: here’s what to expect appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The people of Los Angeles have continued to resist the ICE raids and the Trump administration with seemingly ordinary moments. This is because for the oppressed, every moment of life is an act of resistance. The post As ICE terrorizes my community, living with joy is an act of resistance appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Zac sit down with Colleen Dulle, America’s Vatican correspondent and host of the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, to speak about her new book, “Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter.” The post When the church fails: How to balance being critical and Catholic appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
“Mr. Scorsese,” the new five-episode “film portrait” on Apple TV+, examines the many contradictory facets of director Martin Scorsese’s artistic persona. The post ‘Mr. Scorsese’ on Apple TV+: portrait of a Catholic paradox appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
In “Keeping Up Appearances,” Patricia Routledge served as a mirror to middle-class society and its petty preoccupations and mores. The post Patricia Routledge of ‘Keeping Up Appearances’ taught us how to age assertively appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A new revival of ‘Ragtime’ plays like a dead-serious fable. The post In ‘Ragtime,’ the idea of a just, multiracial America is tragically incomplete appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Georgetown University's board of directors unanimously voted to name Eduardo M. Peñalver, president of Seattle University, as the 49th president of Georgetown University in Washington, the Jesuit school announced Oct. 15. The post Georgetown University names Eduardo Peñalver as next president appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
In a forceful speech on Oct. 16 to the general assembly of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Pope Leo XIV called out the failure of the international community to eliminate hunger in today’s world and strongly denounced “the use of hunger as a weapon of war.” The post Pope Leo says global hunger is a sign of ‘soulless economy’ and a ‘collective failure’ appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The Vatican’s child protection board said Thursday the Catholic Church has a moral obligation to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal. The post Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Monday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill The post Never count the cost appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for the Solemnity of All Saints, by Valerie Schultz The post All the angels and saints appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jackson Goodman The post The privilege of relationship appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time, by John Consolie The post Life is changed, not ended appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for the Feast of Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles, by Alessandra Rose The post Trying to live synodality appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Robert Buckland The post Bearing fruit through faithful witness appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J. The post Where divisions get real for Christians appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber The post If we desire a peaceful world, there is much work to be done appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Molly Cahill The post Where God’s love and a parent’s care meet appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by William Gualtiere The post Feeling rich—without wealth appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist, by Jill Rice The post Living the Gospel as Luke did appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr, by Tim Reidy The post A lesson from the saints: Start praying with the psalms appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Eric Gregory The post Inviting Jesus over for dinner appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Homily for the Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein The post A glimpse of heaven from a childhood tree house appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Will the upcoming canonizations of José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros and Mother María Carmen Rendiles Martínez, the first saints born in Venezuela, encourage a renewed effort toward the common good in the South American nation? The post Can canonizations in Rome help free political prisoners in Venezuela? appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
At his Wednesday morning general audience, Pope Leo's face lit up with an unusually bright smile receiving a unique donation: Proton, a purebred Arabian horse from a prestigious Polish stable. The post Pope Leo ‘very happy’ to be gifted a horse from prestigious Polish stable appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Today’s appointment is seen in Rome as a sign of the esteem that Pope Leo has for the cardinal archbishop of Chicago, who recently came under fire from a number of U.S. bishops for giving a lifetime achievement award to Illinois’s Senator Dick Durbin. The post Pope Leo appoints Cardinal Cupich to commission for Vatican City State appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Preach host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., talks with Cameron Bellm on how Russian literary wisdom can make familiar Bible parables feel fresh. The post Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shklovsky: Preaching lessons from Russian literature appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The books of Frederick Copleston, S.J., continue to grace the bookshelves of philosophers, seminarians, college students and many others as an invaluable resource of clear-headed, insightful explication of the entire history of Western philosophy. The post The patron saint of undergraduate philosophers: Frederick Copleston appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Holy water is a pretty regular feature at Catholic churches, so why were some commentators on social media in an uproar over Pope Leo's blessing of ice removed from a Greenland glacier? The post Pope Leo ice blessing sets off social media meltdown appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Teresa of Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church, by Colleen Dulle The post God loves to see us at rest appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Catholics, Leo suggests, should neither attempt to dominate the political sphere nor separate themselves from it. The post Pope Leo praised ‘healthy secularism.’ What might that mean for U.S. Catholics? appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
In Pope Leo's exhortation "Dilexi Te,' we hear the voice of a patient teacher reminding us of an inescapable truth at the very heart of Christianity: Christ’s radical love for and identification with the poor. The post Pope Leo in ‘Dilexi Te’: We cannot love God unless we identify with the poor appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
What happens when the person who’s been yearning for the whole nine yards finally gets everything she wanted? The post Taylor Swift has run out of things to say appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill. The post Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Palestinians have returned to see only mostly rubble in Gaza City as hundreds of aid trucks slowly made their way out of a gigantic Rafah crossing queue on Oct. 12. The post Amid historic deal, Gaza pastor says little is left after ‘tsunami’ of destruction appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
As ceasefire in Gaza holds, Pope Leo XIV urges a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land and the ’disarming’ of our hearts. The post Pope Leo pleads for a just peace as cease-fire in Gaza holds appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane The post Purity isn’t the point appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Ricardo da Silva, S.J. The post The poor: the sign from God we often miss appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A roundtable discussion on Pope Leo's first major teaching document, "Dilexi Te," its continuity with Pope Francis and the challenges and encouragement that it offers Christians. The post Roundtable: Pope Francis began ‘Dilexi Te.’ Pope Leo completed it. appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
In 'Dilexi Te,' Pope Leo draws our attention to the fundamental link between the Gospel and love for the poor. The post Analysis: Pope Leo’s theological vision of a church for the poor in ‘Dilexi Te’ appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless The post Listening and acting on the word of God appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Newman Centers and other Catholic campus ministries are great places for students to receive spiritual formation, but Jesuits have been seeking ways to bring “rigorous, Catholic academic formation” into non-Catholic spaces like the University of Texas at Austin. The post Saint Louis University’s Catholic Studies program collaborates with U.T. Austin appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
The first time I joined the Peckville virtual congregation, and my cousin Andy was livestreamed into our living room, I felt something akin to what relatives of Hollywood celebrities must feel. The post How my priest cousin helped me become a more engaged Catholic appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
“KPop Demon Hunters” is a quirky kids’ movie that has resonated with viewers of all ages around the world. It also happens to be great content for teaching theology. The post ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is a hit—on the screen and in my theology class. appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Ethel Kennedy's approach to human rights was rooted not in rhetoric but in relationships. She believed in the dignity of every person, and she lived that belief in ways that transcended politics. The post What Ethel Kennedy taught us about facilitating real change appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
New this month: Valerie Sayers on Muriel Spark, Ross Douthat on belief and Rob Weinert-Kendt on Lin-Manuel Miranda The post Four books we recommend this month—plus poetry for fall appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
“Well done, my good and faithful servant. Go Ramblers.” The post Sister Jean’s legacy: A life of faith, service and basketball appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
We were held captive, were being sorted. Most of us were given a choice: some indistinct camp or Great Lavra: an ancient monastery, a remote steppe. I knew that was the place, though winter was beginning. We might be able to scavenge for food (they said), for kindling. As we arrived, a late and weak sun shone […] The post Dream appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
Our prayers of narrow hope unfurlLike sudden petals. Captive to a tab of groundThe body opens itself, givesItself in supplication, Delicate, SpecificTo reprieve.Why bees crawl blindly back and forthWithin the cellIgnoring the inflorescence, The window ledge Furring with agonies of thirst,When they could fly awayCould floutThe iron bars, Aggrieves us, troubles our pleasFor freedom As unfettered movementAs the choice to come and […] The post The Pardon appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
In this year’s poetry roundup, some of the poets whose collections we discuss are Catholic, some are not. But regardless of their religious commitments, wonder shows up in these poets’ work again and again. The post Poetry review: Lyric wonder, again and again appeared first on America Magazine.| America Magazine
