While Prohibition’s popularity would wane by the end of the decade because of its unintended consequences, at the time of its ratification and implementation, it enjoyed a fair amount of popular support. Except in the pages of America.

When is it permissible, acceptable or prudent to deny the Eucharist to someone?

Do Catholics truly believe in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist? A recent survey says most don't...but it's complicated.

Theologian and Jesuit priest Michael Buckley, S.J., died last week in Los Gatos, Calif.

The November 1967 issue of Liturgical Arts presented architectural drawings, conceptual essays and theological reflections on the topic “A Chapel on the Moon: 2000 A.D.”

It's not easy to portray Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' on film, but a new miniseries didn't miss the target.

In late fall we discussed Kate Bowler’s poignant memoir about being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. We followed that with one of three recent volumes of the collected short stories of Andre Dubus.

Books for every kind of reader are featured in our Spring Books special literary issue.

Looking back on sports stories designed to educate a certain class of white American male into the virtues of postwar civic culture.

America has published thousands of book reviews over 110 years...and some of them were more spot-on than others...