From Sept. 21, 1940. No name was more closely associated with Catholic efforts for racial justice than America editor John LaFarge, S.J.

From 1934, a defense of the church's sexual teaching

In These Pages: September 29, 1934.

An essay by Dorothy Day from April 19, 1933.

There was once an Advent of some thousands of years.

The fleetingness of life itself, and its slipperiness, anchor Michael Haneke's film 'Amour.'

Bill Murray as Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Not an obvious choice but after watching him play the 32nd president in “Hyde Park on Hudson” it makes perfect sense. Over the last two decades, Murray has been venturing beyond clownish goofball parts to tackle more subtle and mature, if still m