It has been 56 years since humankind went to the moon—but it’s still on our minds.
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The atomic nightmare turns 80: How Catholics reacted to the arrival of nuclear bombs
July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever since.
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Anne Carr, the ‘founding mother’ of Catholic feminism in academia
A leading figure in academic Catholic feminism after the Second Vatican Council, Anne E. Carr was also a renowned scholar and an inspiration to generations of theologians.
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Mission and vision: Stephen Bevans and Catholic theology
Among those recognized at two theology conferences in June was Stephen Bevans, S.V.D., to whom the Catholic Theological Society of America gave its highest honor, the John Courtney Murray Award.
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A relic of America magazine’s Jesuit patron, Edmund Campion
The patron saint of ‘America’ is Edmund Campion, S.J.—for several different reasons.
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Walter Brueggemann: A scholar of the prophets—and a prophetic voice
Walter Brueggemann’s influence in the academy reached across denominations and traditions.
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David Tracy was more than a theologian
The Rev. David Tracy, who died on April 29, was a monumental figure in American Catholicism, renowned as a teacher, scholar, writer and mentor to thousands of theologians.
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Father sleuths best: Why priest-detectives make for good fiction
The genre of the crime-solving priest or religious might be a niche one, but it’s been around on the page and the screen for more than a century.
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Riley Hughes, an unsung literary jack of all trades
It is not an exaggeration to say that between 1940 and 1980, the author and critic Riley Hughes reviewed well over 1,000 books for different Catholic magazines.
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The history (and future) of covering conclaves
‘America’ is covering its 10th papal conclave this week—and while the technology has changed, the content remains much the same.