Perhaps the most important thing about Abraham Lincoln—and what makes him so enduring in the popular memory—was the plain fact that he was so human.
History
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The Feminist Case Against Abortion: the pro-life roots of the women’s movement
Properly defined, feminism is a philosophy that embraces basic rights for all human beings without exception.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Saints Among Us
Robert Bartlett’s book will also be welcome to those who have experienced something of the power of the cult of the saints in their own time and place.
Posted inFaith, Features
The unlikely story of how the Jesuits were suppressed (and then restored)
Without Pius VII, it is fair to say, there would be no Society of Jesus today, no Jesuit schools, colleges or universities, no Jesuit retreat houses and no Jesuit periodicals.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Joseph Ratzinger: The local church and the universal church
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger responds to a 2001 America article by Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
A President for Peace: The deadly consequences of J.F.K.’s attempts at reconciliation
The day President John F. Kennedy was murdered, a Divine Word seminarian walked up the hill to our family’s apartment in Rome to tell my wife Sally and me the terrible news. Seeking wisdom, I wrote Dorothy Day.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
From 1964: A New Breed: There aren’t very many of them, but they’re important just the same.
A classic article on the next generation of Catholics—including priests and men and women religious—from the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
How To Read an Encyclical: From May 18, 1963
A poem for ‘Mater et Magistra’
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America’s Theologian: An archive of articles by John Courtney Murray
An archive of articles by the Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Oops! Now and then America got it wrong
There is a surefire cure for pride, however, and it is as simple as a reminder of some of the moments when we got things just a little wrong. Or a lot wrong.