America Weekly – Old Magazine Articles

Statistics on American Religions (America Weekly, 1945)

In this study concerning the religions of the United States during the mid-to-late period of the Second World War, it was revealed that there were a total of 256 religious bodies in the country; of this 13 reported a membership numbering in excess of one million followers. All-in, there were 72,492,669 who were members of one faith or another:

Catholics:…………………………….. 23,419,791

Methodists:…………………………. 8,046,129

Baptists:………………………………. 5,667,926

All the Protestant denominations added up to 41,943,104. The Jewish congregations clocked-in at 4,641,184.

Mahatma Gandhi, RIP (America Weekly, 1948)

Shortly after hearing about the murder of Mahatma Gandhi (January 30, 1948) the editor of America Weekly typed up these six solemn paragraphs
in order to consecrate his memory and deeds.

“It is the death of a man of the highest moral prestige, and it leaves us with forebodings of the future.”

‘Is the Atom Bomb a Deterrent?” (America Weekly, 1945)

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Defending the Mentally Ill (America Weekly, 1945)

Here is a short notice from a Catholic weekly crediting the editors of THOUGHT magazine for having printed a 1940 protest lodged by the German Cardinals Faulhaber (Munich) and Bertram (Breslau) for the obscene Nazi practice of murdering mental patients.