After Dorothy Day’s death in 1980, her biographer William Miller wrote her obituary for America, noting that “the amazing thing about her life was the improbability of it all.”
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Interview: Andrew Sullivan on being openly gay and Catholic
In 1993, America executive editor Thomas H. Stahel, S.J., interviewed the prominent political pundit Andrew Sullivan on, among other issues, homosexuality and the Catholic Church.
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From 1962: America’s editors on the Cuban Missile Crisis
After a tense standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States over the presence of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, the editors of America weigh the outcome and the consequences.
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From 1962: The Opening of the Second Vatican Council
As good theologians, those in attendance at the council will be impelled to get to the heart of the principal problems bothering Catholics and non-Catholics alike in the modern world.
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A portrait of Evelyn Waugh, Christian wayfarer
From 1993: The second volume of a biography of Evelyn Waugh occasioned John W. Donohue, S.J., to offer a survey of the great English Catholic writer’s life.
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From 1980: Science Fiction and Religion
In 1980, Dr. Willis E. McNelly, a pioneer in the academic study of science fiction as a literary genre, offered his thoughts to ‘America’ on sci-fi and religion.
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A quintessentially American question: How can I find God?
From 1995: James Martin, S.J., asked a number of the leading figures of American Catholicism to answer a short but complicated question: How can I find God?
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‘You will eventually find God whether you want to or not’: Perspectives on the search for God
In 1995, James Martin, S.J., asked a number of the leading figures of American Catholicism to answer a short but complicated question: How can I find God? In 1997, he returned to the question with a new group of interlocutors.
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From 1981: Father Carl Kabat of the Plowshares Eight on the risk of speaking truth
Five months after the “Plowshares Eight” performed a peace witness at the G.E. plant in King of Prussia, Pa., its members—including the Rev. Carl Kabat—were found guilty of burglary, criminal mischief and criminal conspiracy. Father Kabat is profiled here.
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From 1909: America’s first editorial announcement
When it was founded in 1909, America sought to be journal of general interest to all Americans despite its specific Jesuit charism. The goal remain the same today.