Excerpts from America's editorials on Vietnam from between 1954 and 1974.

Conscious of his pastoral responsibility for the whole flock of Christ, Pope John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical letter “Ut Unum Sint” (No. 96) invited leaders and theologians of other churches to suggest ways in which the papal office, without prejudice to its essential features, could

From 1936, a Jesuit poet reviews the early poems of Robert Frost.

"Somewhere beneath all the ritualized, too often trivial, practices of my childhood Lent, there was the feeling that this day for which we were preparing was of great importance."

Robert F. Drinan's unscheduled retirement

We might think the battle for Christmas is over words. But the struggle is waged at a far deeper level of our lives.