America: The National Catholic Weekly

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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

America on Darwin

From April 1909 & January 1910

The Enduring Problems of Religious Liberty

From November 30, 1985

Return from Russia

From March 28, 1964

John Tracy Ellis and Catholic Intellectual Life

From June 3, 1995

Paul VI's Populorum Progressio

From April 1967

A Meditation on Death and Life

From November 28, 1987

Five Minutes With the Pope

From September 19, 1987

Caring for the Elderly

From January 30, 2006

Understanding Reconciliation

From March 7, 1992

The Lesson of Lourdes

From January 18, 1958

Culture Shock on Returning to America

From June 29, 1991

The Legacy of the Schiavo Case

From June 6, 2005

Khmer Rouge: Bleak Utopia

From August 2, 1975

On Loving Lent

From March 30, 1985

The Jesuits' Congregation: A Historical View

From November 19, 1983

Hitler and the Jesuits

From November 4, 1944

The Draft: An Occasion of Sin?

From August 9, 1980

The Church and the Fiction Writer

From March 30. 1957

Kennedy on the Campaign Trail

From May 21, 1960

Carl Sagan's Gospel of Scientism

From February 7, 1981

The Clintons & Health Care

From November 27, 1993

The Election of Father Kolvenbach

From October 8, 1983

Catholic Fundraising

From December 23, 2000

Don Pedro in History

From February 16, 1991

On Dying Well

From July 29, 2000

Catholics and Politics

From election season 2004

Perspectives of an Indian Convert

From July 31, 1993

Healing after the Sexual Abuse Crisis

From April 22, 2002

A Look at Postwar Japan

From Spring 1947

Victory of the Auto Workers

From November 28, 1970

The Alternative in Iran

From December 23, 1978

The Jews and Vatican II

From November 30, 1963

The Mystery of Bernard Lonergan

From October 11, 2004

On Mother Teresa and Lady Di

From October 4, 1997

The Imagination of Jesus

From December 20, 1975

Little Gray Cells

From May 30, 2005

The Contemporary Person & the Church

From July 30, 2001

Dominus Iesus & Ecumenism

From October 28, 2000

Alarm Bells in the East

From September 11, 2006

Fathering an Adolescent Boy

From June 4, 1988

Religion in the Emerald Tiger

From March 12, 2001

The American Laity: Memory, Meaning and Mission

From March 7, 1987

Remembering Heschel

From March 10, 1973

Only Higher Education, Mr. President?

From March 11, 1961

Of Many Things

From July 4, 1976

Holy Terrors

From May 13, 1995
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