Organizations as old as America rarely do anything completely unprecedented. For every “new” idea, there’s a pretty good chance that it’s been done before, in one way or another, during the course of 104 years of weekly publishing. This issue of America, however, is truly a f

America 39 s editorial about the events of September 11 2001 published September 23 2001 Shock denial anger and depression swept the country on Sept 11 as the nation watched thousands of civilians and military people viciously murdered by terrorists Not since Pearl Harbor has the United Stat

Father John Courtney Murray’s work is lucid, imaginative, even daring.

In 1963 John LaFarge, S.J., witnessed the culmination of his efforts for racial reconciliation.

Wellfleet’s outer beach is just about an hour’s drive from my boyhood home on Cape Cod. The spot is well known for a steep, 50-foot sand cliff that rises behind it, topped by a gently sloping upland that affords a graceful vista of the Atlantic, exactly the sort of spot that prompted Hen

My Brothers and Sisters in Christ On this Feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola founder of the Society of Jesus we give thanks for the many gifts that God has bestowed on the Society of Jesus and our colleagues and friends throughout the world Here at America we offer a special prayer of thanksgivin

Contrary to Barry Manilow’s decades-old assertion, the Copacabana is apparently the hottest spot south of Havana. At least it was for seven days in July when Pope Francis visited Brazil for World Youth Day. To be fair, Mr. Manilow’s 1978 disco power ballad refers to the famed Manhattan n

The United States seemed unperturbed by the return of mobocratic rule to Cairo.

The bell tolled last month for Francois Mourad, a Franciscan priest and hermit, who died on June 23 after soldiers linked to a jihadist group attacked the monastery near Ghassanieh, Syria where he had taken refuge. The Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Hassake-Nisibi told Fides news agency that Father M

nbsp VATICAN CITY CNS -- The director and deputy director of the Vatican bank which is being investigated by a special papal commission resigned July 1 A statement from the Vatican press office said Director Paolo Cipriani and Deputy director Massimo Tulli offered their resignations quot in t