In 2012, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared that 'Just Love,' by Margaret Farley, R.S.M., could not be used in Catholic classrooms. It was a different era in the church.

Thanksgiving may not be a religious holiday, strictly speaking, but in the pages of 'America' it has always been recognized as a holy day.

African theologians have emerged over the last few decades as leading voices in ethics, liberation theology, ecological theology, ecclesiology and more—and their contributions are changing the worldwide church.

Five decades ago, 'The Exorcist' proved to be a box office juggernaut—and caused America's editors to devote a special issue to the film.

James Dickey's public persona of fighter pilot, champion athlete and hard-drinking woodsman who wrote of “country surrealism” gave him an everyman appeal, even as he was perhaps the nation's greatest poetic talent.

Despite his public antipathy toward Catholicism, a number of Brian Moore’s novels dealt subtly and deftly with the profound emotional impact of struggles with faith.