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Every week In These Pages will feature an article, editorial or book review from America's archives. Scroll through the links below to view selections from the magazine's 100 year history. We also invite you to read one of America's most popular articles, on Opus Dei In the United States.
Also now available, an online archive of articles by Cardinal Avery Dulles.
Will Christians Come Together?
From February 28, 1959
The Surrender on Sex
From December 1, 1934
Will This Prophet Be Heard?
From April 20, 1968
Ten Reasons To Oppose the Death Penalty
From November 20, 1982
'Godspell' as Medieval Drama
From December 23, 1972
Catholic Schools in 'America'
An archive of select articles
Letter to an Agnostic
From August 4, 1934
Can the Bishops Lead the Church?
From December 4, 1971
The Passing of John Paul I
From October 14, 1978
Christian Family Movement, 1960
From May 7, 1960
Does Prohibition Prohibit?
From June 21, 1930
Meeting Graham Greene
From July 24, 1948
Madonna's Challenge to Her Church
From May 13, 1989
The Story of Catholic Health Care
An 'America' archive
Praying Before Voting
From October 18, 1952
The Charles Curran Case
From March 29, 1986
Remembering James E. Walsh
From August 15-22, 1981
Reporting on the CTSA
From February 2, 1991
The New Roman Missal
A selection of America's coverage
Notes on Jesuit Education
From October 26, 1985
Playing in Wall Street
From April 13, 1929
Honor in Israel
From March 26, 1949
Remembering Teilhard
From March 28, 2005
The Grace of Pleasing
From October 23, 1982
Of Many Things
From December 12, 1987
The Legacy of Robert F. Drinan
A selection of the late congressman's writings for 'America'
Cities Much the Same
From February 18, 1967
America's Theologian
An archive of articles by John Courtney Murray
The 2011 Matteo Ricci Award
Honoring Daniel and Sidney Callahan
Travels with 'America'
A selection of writings from around the world
'True Grit,' Reviewed
From July 19, 1969
Theology In Europe
From the spring of 1992
Confronting the New Atheism
From May 5, 2008
The Church, Condoms and the Spread of AIDS
From September 23, 2000
The Dulles Legacy
A selection of the late cardinal's writings for America
Church and State
A selection of our coverage
Catholics in Politics
From February 17, 2003
Greene in Haiti
From February 6, 1993
Middle East Chronicle
A selection of our coverage of the Holy Land
The Sermons of Cardinal Newman
From December 18, 1909
The Jesus of History
An archive of America's coverage
It Starts in Mexico
From October 15, 2007
Questions of Bioethics
A selection of our coverage
God in the Tangled Sheets
From July 1-8, 2002
Addressing Urban Sprawl
From November 4, 2002
The Politics of Get-Off-My-Back
From April 22, 1995
Dragen, Here is Your Letter
From October 27, 2008
'America' on Nuclear Arms Control
A selection of our coverage
Ricci's Lesson to a Modern Missionary
From August 17-24, 1996
Toward a Civilization of Work
From March 7, 1987
'America' on the Abuse Crisis
A selection of our coverage
Spires or Tombs?
From August 18, 1945
Easter's Beginning
From March 28, 2005
The Fall of Vietnam
From the spring of 1975
The Monk and The Cripple
From March 15, 1980
Whither the Just War?
From March 24, 2003
Honduran Assassinations
From March 5, 1988
Interview with Pere Aristide
From October 12, 1991
Why Catholics Fast
From February 25, 2002
Prelude to the Making of a Saint
From March 11, 1989
Medicine and Social Justice
From July 15, 1995
What Happened at Vatican II?
From February 24, 2003
An Evangelical Moment?
From May 5, 2008
A Nigerian Roman Catholic 'Something'
From November 2, 1996
The Metaphysics of Baseball
From April 4, 1992
The Seamy Side of Charity
From January 21, 1967
Christian Witness in Rwanda
From April 23, 1994
Knocking on the Papal Door
From April 24, 1993
The Church and the Shoah
From April 4, 1998
The People's Republic at 50
From October 9, 1999
Justice in Executive Compensation
From May 19, 2003
What Should Be Done?
From October 8, 2001
Women in the Church Since Vatican II
From November 1, 1986
An American Bishop
From September 21, 1985
Damien of Molokai
From May 21, 1994
Teenage Spirituality
From April 29, 1989
The Temptation of the New Breed
From May 22, 1965
The Church and the Council
From October 19, 1963
The New Breed
From May 23, 1964
Pope Paul's Strictures on Capitalism
From April 22, 1967
The Language of Encyclicals
From April 22, 1967
Enter the Deacon
From October 19, 1968
The Historical Mary
From December 19, 2005
Ten Building Blocks
of Catholic Social Teaching
A Kiss is Never Just a Kiss
From April 15, 1995
Mary of Nazareth
From June 17, 2000
Catholics and Racial Justice
From September 21, 1940
A Report from Romero's Funeral
From April 26, 1980
Mercy Appears
From December 20, 1980
The Waters of Life
From 2003: a bishop on the spiritual power of rivers
The Infallibity Debate
From July 7, 1973
America's First Issue
Scroll through the pages of our inaugural edition.
A Novel without Direction
From 1957, Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged,' reviewed
The Death of Gandhi
From 1948: In Gandhi's death, memories of Abraham Lincoln's tragedy
A Tragedy Remembered
From May 14, 1977: America on the Frost/Nixon TV interviews
America on Lectio Divina
An ancient practice made new
Barry Levinson's 'Diner'
From May 8, 1982
America Authors
William J. O'Malley, S.J.
Mary and the Feminist Movement
From December 18, 1993
A Disconcerting Thing
From October 4, 1997
Our Readers on Joe McCarthy
From April 17, 1954
The Laghi Legacy
From June 23, 1990
Vatican II: Early Appraisal
From March 9, 1963
The Partition of India
From Summer 1947
Yet There Is Movement
From September 21, 1996
Ten Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching
From October 31, 1998
The Birth of a Christmas Classic
From December 28, 1929
The First Catholic School
From December 21, 1929
Sister Thea Bowman (1937-1990)
From April 28, 1990
America on the U.N. & Human Rights
From 1948
Germany’s Race Religion
From September 29, 1934
A Glimpse of the New Feminism
From July 6, 1996
Reviewing 'A Man for All Seasons'
America on the original play and the 1966 film
'America' and the Sacred Heart
From May 26,1956
J. F. Powers, R.I.P.
From July 17, 1999
Abortion & Politics
From October 25, 2004
The Myths of Drug Legalization
From March 16, 1996
A Ring Requiem
From April 21, 1962
Pigskin and Parchment
From October 12, 1929
Immigration's Dark History
From February 18, 1995
What Theology Is and Is Not
From June 8, 1996
The Council and The Word
From February 26, 1966
The Catholic Imagination of Bruce Springsteen
From February 6, 1988
Religion and Science in Dialogue
From February 7, 2005
Religious Oppression in Mexico
From December 4, 1915
An Interview with Miguel d'Escoto
From November 16, 1985
Shrouded in Mystery
From July 5, 2004
'Humanae Vitae' 25 Years Later
From July 17, 1993
Caring for PVS Patients
Two ethicists consider the church's teaching
The Diabolical Plot
From April 19, 1933
Raising Money for the Pope
From February 27, 1988
Young Adult Catholics
From March 27, 1999
Biblical Scholarship 50 years After Divino Afflante Spiritu
From September 18, 1993
A Moment for Peacemaking
From May 21, 1983
On Religious Liberty
From November 30, 1963
The Jesuits of Baghdad
From May 26, 2003
Mass Without the Consecration?
From May 12, 2003
A Christian Community: Toward a Third Millennium
From May 2, 1998
America on Darwin
From April 1909 & January 1910
The Enduring Problems of Religious Liberty
From November 30, 1985
Return from Russia
From March 28, 1964
John Tracy Ellis and Catholic Intellectual Life
From June 3, 1995
Paul VI's Populorum Progressio
From April 1967
A Meditation on Death and Life
From November 28, 1987
Five Minutes With the Pope
From September 19, 1987
Caring for the Elderly
From January 30, 2006
Understanding Reconciliation
From March 7, 1992
The Lesson of Lourdes
From January 18, 1958
Culture Shock on Returning to America
From June 29, 1991
The Legacy of the Schiavo Case
From June 6, 2005
Khmer Rouge: Bleak Utopia
From August 2, 1975
On Loving Lent
From March 30, 1985
The Jesuits' Congregation: A Historical View
From November 19, 1983
Hitler and the Jesuits
From November 4, 1944
The Draft: An Occasion of Sin?
From August 9, 1980
The Church and the Fiction Writer
From March 30. 1957
Kennedy on the Campaign Trail
From May 21, 1960
Carl Sagan's Gospel of Scientism
From February 7, 1981
The Clintons & Health Care
From November 27, 1993
The Election of Father Kolvenbach
From October 8, 1983
Catholic Fundraising
From December 23, 2000
Don Pedro in History
From February 16, 1991
On Dying Well
From July 29, 2000
Catholics and Politics
From election season 2004
Perspectives of an Indian Convert
From July 31, 1993
Healing after the Sexual Abuse Crisis
From April 22, 2002
A Look at Postwar Japan
From Spring 1947
Victory of the Auto Workers
From November 28, 1970
The Alternative in Iran
From December 23, 1978
The Jews and Vatican II
From November 30, 1963
The Mystery of Bernard Lonergan
From October 11, 2004
On Mother Teresa and Lady Di
From October 4, 1997
The Imagination of Jesus
From December 20, 1975
Little Gray Cells
From May 30, 2005
The Contemporary Person & the Church
From July 30, 2001
Alarm Bells in the East
From September 11, 2006
Fathering an Adolescent Boy
From June 4, 1988
Religion in the Emerald Tiger
From March 12, 2001
The American Laity: Memory, Meaning and Mission
From March 7, 1987
Remembering Heschel
From March 10, 1973
Only Higher Education, Mr. President?
From March 11, 1961
Of Many Things
From July 4, 1976
Holy Terrors
From May 13, 1995
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