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Title of journal
America : Jesuit Review
Published since
1909
ISSN
1943-3697
Held at Heythrop Library since
1968 (1968-2018, plus 2025 onwards)
Our catalogue record
https://hey.koha.openfifth.net/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=86424
Subject(s) covered
Catholic Church, Catholic Church in America, USA
Publisher or issuing body’s name
America Media
Website
https://www.americamagazine.org/, last accessed 28 August 2025.
Unique holding for the UK
Yes (print), no (other institutions have online accces), last checked: 28 August 2025.
Description about this journal
‘America aggressively promoted racial and social justice from the 1930s through the 1960s, with the contributions of longtime editors like John LaFarge, S.J., and Benjamin Masse, S.J. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-38), the magazine was sympathetic to Spanish Catholics and therefore tended to support the Catholic aspects of Franco’s cause, and on this issue the magazine parted company with liberal U.S. journals with which it is sometimes compared. On the other hand, in the early 1950s, under the editorship of Robert Hartnett, S.J., America criticized Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was often championed by Catholics of that day for his supposed anti-Communism, and the magazine and its editor suffered for that principled stand.
In the 1960s, the magazine enthusiastically reported and supported the Second Vatican Council, and America Press Inc. published the first available English edition of the council’s documents. Between 1960 and 1970, C. J. McNaspy, S.J., one of the associate editors, enlivened the magazine’s appreciation of liturgy, music and the fine arts. Throughout its history, America has sought balance in its coverage, always preferring analysis to ideology. One historical example is the editorial of Aug. 17, 1968, carefully dissenting from that part of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical “Humanae Vitae” which prohibited all forms of artificial birth control. During the post-Vatican II period, the editors consistently promoted conciliar reform, but they struck a balance between the extremes of opinion in the reforming church, acting as a bridge for church dialogue.’ (from https://www.americamagazine.org/history/, last accessed 28 August 2025).
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