The Torture Report; Forgetting Sandy Hook

This Holy Week, we pray for all those affected by the Boston Marathon bombing and remember that ours is the God of Good Friday, who understands suffering and "will help us move beyond the blood and the tears."

Women in every social class are choosing to delay marriage. How should the church respond?

Voice of Conscience; George Shultz, Mr. Sunshine; Keystone State

Why are some in Washington starstruck by austerity, a bad idea whose time has not come?

The new pope might consider the cause of Oscar Romero with renewed seriousness.

Catholic Press Association award winner for Best Coverage of Immigration: "Beautiful scriptural based approach to looking at immigration through the concept of the biblical "stranger."

Talk About Steubenville; Catholic Opportunity; Iraq, the Lost War

Additional archive analysis of the Vietnam War from America's editors

The Gospels unanimously report that the risen Lord first appeared to Mary Magdalene.