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John W. Donohue

John W. Donohue, S.J., served as an associate editor of America from 1972 until 2007. 

Articles by John W. Donohue
Arts & CultureVantage Point
A portrait of Evelyn Waugh, Christian wayfarer
John W. Donohue
From 1993: The second volume of a biography of Evelyn Waugh occasioned John W. Donohue, S.J., to offer a survey of the great English Catholic writer's life.
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
‘It isn’t Latin or Greek I’m teaching, but how to think’: Memories of a formative Jesuit educator
John W. Donohue
As a young teacher at Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y., John W. Donohue, S.J., worked with Thomas J. Jones, the senior member of the lay faculty: “From him I was to learn more about the practice of teaching than from any book or course in education.”
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
John W. Donohue
Avery Dulles: A portrait of the theologian as a young man
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
John W. Donohue
The restless mind of Norris Clark, S.J.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
John W. Donohue
Two notable books from 90-year old Jesuits
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
John W. Donohue

One summer in the early 1920’s, Ms. Lorelei Lee, a resident of Manhattan who had grown up in Little Rock, Ark., made a trip to Europe. This diversion was sponsored by her gentleman friend, Mr. Gus Eisman, known as the Button King of Chicago. During the journey, Ms. Lee kept a diary, which, fortuitously preserved by Anita Loos, was published in 1925 as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It became an American classic.

Of Many Things
Of Many Things
John W. Donohue
Books, like houses, can be remodeled. The house and garden sections of city newspapers often include articles about energetic people who have transformed a rundown farmhouse in the Catskills or a cabin in the Maine woods by knocking down walls between cramped rooms, installing new lighting and build
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
John W. Donohue
Sometimes after a rain-swept day the skies clear and a golden sunset promises better weather for tomorrow. And sometimes, as Jeremiah said, the Lord provides consolation after tears (Jer 31:8-9). Loyola Jesuit College, a coeducational secondary school in Abuja, the federal capital of Nigeria, has du
The Stem Cell Debate
John W. Donohue
Orrin Hatch, Utah’s Republican senior senator, is a firm opponent of abortion. He is also a firm supporter of research on embryonic stem cells, even though this involves destruction of the embryos. The senator’s reasons for this latter position are mainly two. He believes, as he has said
Faith in Focus
Correspondence of a Foundress
John W. Donohue

On Nov. 11, 1841, a 63-year-old woman named Catherine McAuley was dying of tuberculosis in a commodious house on Baggot Street in southeast Dublin. Some years earlier, after she had come into a considerable fortune, she had had this building constructed for what she called “works of mercy.”