The ongoing political crisis is the persistent failure of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood to settle the abortion question and the failure of the Supreme Court to offer any sign that these cases ever will.
The Editors
Posted inEditorials, Faith
The Editors: Love, not fear, should guide our conversations on religious freedom and L.G.B.T discrimination
Religious Americans inhabit an increasingly secular culture. But we must not let legitimate concerns about our ability to live out our faith in public life blind us to the fears of our fellow citizens who feel their civil rights are up for debate.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
The threat of a climate catastrophe is here. Will U.S. Catholics heed the call?
Will U.S. Catholics heed the call to take global action immediately? Or will our children and grandchildren live in a world drastically changed and terribly broken?
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Border security will not solve the immigration crisis
The notion that asylum seekers are traveling thousands of miles to exploit a so-called loophole is absurd.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Mueller Report’s most pressing question: Who will hold Trump accountable?
If begun, impeachment could succeed in the House, but conviction and removal from office would almost certainly fail in the Senate along partisan lines.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
The Editors: Pope Francis’ new exhortation is a gift to the church
On April 2, the Vatican released “Christ Lives,” the third apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: At its core, the death penalty is indefensible
The U.S. Supreme Court is bedeviled by never-ending questions about capital punishment that underscore the practice’s capriciousness and cruelty.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
The editors on Marian Anderson’s exclusion from Constitution Hall
In 1939, the editors spoke out against the Daughters of the American Revolution when the group tried to prevent Marian Anderson from performing in Constitution Hall. Anderson performed instead at the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of 75,000.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Timeline: 110 years of statistics in America magazine
Over the past 110 years, the U.S. Catholic population has grown from 14.3 million to 68.5 million. There have been plenty of historical firsts and statistics of note along the way; here is a selection from the archives of America magazine.
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When Father Walter Ciszek celebrated Easter in Soviet Russia
From 1964: It was Easter that made up the core of the “good news” preached by the apostles.