Richard Nixon called McLaughlin one of the only good Jesuits among “all-out, barn-burning radicals” in a conversation with Billy Graham.

A year after his death, a look back on the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh—and his influence on many American writers on nonviolence, mindfulness and contemplative spirituality.

A Reflection for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle, by James T. Keane

In his many articles for America over the years (his first appeared in 1968), Archbishop John Quinn tackled issues ranging from synodality to sex abuse to the priest shortage to abortion. Do those sound familiar today?

Coverage of abortion as an issue was far more limited editorially immediately after the decision than in the decades since. Why?

John LaFarge, S.J., a longtime editor at America, was also one of the nation's leading advocates for racial justice beginning in the 1920s.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen used radio, television, books and more to evangelize for decades—including some spicy articles for America.

Long before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote an essay for America on the universal church.

Michael Moore, the translator of the Catholic Book Club's latest selection, 'The Betrothed," on the process of translating the famous Italian novel.

What Catholics made the most news in 2022, and for what? A year-end list with America's choices.