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Every week In These Pages will feature an article, editorial or book review from America's archives. Scroll through the links below to view selections from the magazine's 100 year history. We also invite you to read one of America's most popular articles, on Opus Dei In the United States.
Also now available, an online archive of articles by Cardinal Avery Dulles.
A Christian Community: Toward a Third Millennium
From May 2, 1998
By Carlo Maria Martini
America on Darwin
From April 1909 & January 1910
By The editors
The Enduring Problems of Religious Liberty
From November 30, 1985
By Charles M. Whelan
Return from Russia
From March 28, 1964
By Walter Ciszek
John Tracy Ellis and Catholic Intellectual Life
From June 3, 1995
By Thomas J. Shelley
Paul VI's Populorum Progressio
From April 1967
By The editors & Mary McGrory
A Meditation on Death and Life
From November 28, 1987
By William A. Barry
Five Minutes With the Pope
From September 19, 1987
By William F. Buckley Jr.
Caring for the Elderly
From January 30, 2006
By Daniel Callahan
Understanding Reconciliation
From March 7, 1992
By William J. O'Malley, S.J.
The Lesson of Lourdes
From January 18, 1958
By Frances Parkinson Keyes
Culture Shock on Returning to America
From June 29, 1991
By Peter Schineller
The Legacy of the Schiavo Case
From June 6, 2005
By Thomas A. Shannon
Khmer Rouge: Bleak Utopia
From August 2, 1975
By The editors
On Loving Lent
From March 30, 1985
By Jane L. Wiesman
The Jesuits' Congregation: A Historical View
From November 19, 1983
By John W. O'Malley, S.J.
Hitler and the Jesuits
From November 4, 1944
By The editors
The Draft: An Occasion of Sin?
From August 9, 1980
By Gordon C. Zahn.
The Church and the Fiction Writer
From March 30. 1957
By Flannery O'Connor
Kennedy on the Campaign Trail
From May 21, 1960
By Mary McGrory
Carl Sagan's Gospel of Scientism
From February 7, 1981
By William J. O'Malley
The Clintons & Health Care
From November 27, 1993
By The editors
The Election of Father Kolvenbach
From October 8, 1983
By Richard A. Blake
Catholic Fundraising
From December 23, 2000
By Francis J.Butler
Don Pedro in History
From February 16, 1991
By Peter Hebblethwaite
On Dying Well
From July 29, 2000
By Myles N. Sheehan
Catholics and Politics
From election season 2004
By The editors
Perspectives of an Indian Convert
From July 31, 1993
By Bobby Jindal
Healing after the Sexual Abuse Crisis
From April 22, 2002
By Harry J. Flynn
A Look at Postwar Japan
From Spring 1947
By The editors
Victory of the Auto Workers
From November 28, 1970
By The editors
The Alternative in Iran
From December 23, 1978
By The editors
The Jews and Vatican II
From November 30, 1963
By The editors
The Mystery of Bernard Lonergan
From October 11, 2004
By Richard M. Liddy
On Mother Teresa and Lady Di
From October 4, 1997
By Robert P. Waznak
The Imagination of Jesus
From December 20, 1975
By Gerald O'Collins
Little Gray Cells
From May 30, 2005
By James DiGiacomo
The Contemporary Person & the Church
From July 30, 2001
By Godfried Danneels
Dominus Iesus & Ecumenism
From October 28, 2000
By Francis A. Sullivan
Alarm Bells in the East
From September 11, 2006
By Drew Christiansen
Fathering an Adolescent Boy
From June 4, 1988
By William J. O'Malley
Religion in the Emerald Tiger
From March 12, 2001
By Andrew Greeley
The American Laity: Memory, Meaning and Mission
From March 7, 1987
By David O'Brien
Remembering Heschel
From March 10, 1973
By Jacon Neusner
Only Higher Education, Mr. President?
From March 11, 1961
By Charles W. Whelan
Of Many Things
From July 4, 1976
By John W. Donohue
Holy Terrors
From May 13, 1995
By John W. Donohue