"We know that every effort to better a society, especially one that is so enmeshed in injustice and in sin, is an effort that God blesses, that God desires, that God demands of us."

From 1991: Are our governmental processes being skewed by sensational and inhumanly accelerated electronic images?

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.