In advance of a visit to the United States in 1919, Irish patriot and politician Éamon de Valera argued in America's pages that Ireland deserved full independence from England.

The archbishop of San Francisco writes on the immorality and legal dangers of abortion in 1989.

If the world is to be saved from the evils of communism, Archbishop Fulton Sheen argued, only the Catholic Church, with its intolerance for falsehood, is up to the task.

At Christmas we can rejoice in a uniquely rich and mysterious gift, the new personal presence of “God with us.”

After Dorothy Day's death in 1980, her biographer William Miller wrote her obituary for America, noting that "the amazing thing about her life was the improbability of it all."

In 1993, America executive editor Thomas H. Stahel, S.J., interviewed the prominent political pundit Andrew Sullivan on, among other issues, homosexuality and the Catholic Church.