On Sept. 26, 1957, America mailed a check for $50 to Room 362 of the Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The check was made out to “Senator John F. Kennedy” and represented payment in full for an article he had written about the ongoing crisis in Algeria (10/5/57). There is no evi

On World AIDS Day, Matt Malone, S.J., reflects on the United States' sluggish response to the epidemic, "a mortal social sin, one for which our country has yet to fully atone."

1963 marked the passing of three great men, each of whom was beloved in these pages.

For my grandmother, “The President” was always understood to mean John F. Kennedy.

Thanks be to God, this has been an autumn of firsts for America. In September we published a groundbreaking interview with Pope Francis; in October, our 56-page special issue on women in the life of the church marked the first time that we published an issue written entirely by women—except fo

I am a "stranger in a strange land," a Bosox fan living in New York countless Yankee fans.

Recent events suggest we are experiencing a kairos moment in the life of the church.

The Society of Jesus and China have a long and complicated history, one that goes back to the very beginnings of the order. One of the co-founders of the Jesuits, the great St. Francis Xavier, died during his attempt to reach the Chinese mainland. Thirty years later, in 1582, Matteo Ricci, S.J., suc

Some say it all started with Bill Clinton’s feel-your-pain politics, others with Oprah’s daily pseudo-psychology. Still others say it began with MTV’s “The Real World,” the first in that ingeniously banal and now omnipresent genre called reality television.Whenever it s

Pope Francis speaks to us as our brother; his we actually means “we,” not “I.”