On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. America editor John LaFarge, S.J., was there.

A man pursuing the diaconate must see his desire to serve as a true vocation.

“The right of Catholics to express disagreement with their leaders is a right as old as Peter and Paul.”

Thomas Merton's classic memoir was published 70 years ago.

July 17 marks the 50th anniversary of the coup d’etat in Iraq that brought the Baathist party to power.

Juzefa Maciokiene recalls her ministry to her fellow prisoners 50 years ago, when she served them—to use her word and theirs—as their priest.