John LaFarge, S.J. was a longtime editor at America (and editor in chief from 1944 to 1948) known for his civil rights activism and his many writings against racism and anti-Semitism.

CHESTNUT HILL — No pithy statement can adequately explain why John La Farge died in 1910 as one of America’s best known artists, only to endure a long century of obscurity. But if you have ...

In 1938, John LaFarge, a Jesuit priest from New England, was directed by Pope Pius XI to draft a papal encyclical that would denounce anti-Semitism and Adolf Hitler's campaign against the Jews.

John LaFarge, S.J., graduated from Harvard in 1901; but during both his high school and university years he was plagued by poor health, which caused him to take periodic breaks from his studies.

John La Farge, born in 1835 in New York City and died in 1910, was an American artist and writer known for his contributions to stained glass design and his work in interior decoration.

John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred presents more than 85 paintings, stained glass windows, and works on paper by one of America’s finest and most complex artists.John La Farge (1835–1910) ...

So Mr. La Farge has imitated, or rather assimilated Japanese art. In this direction goes one of his most ambitious and interesting efforts exhibited here, the large oilpainting of Kuwannon.

But like “John La Farge and the Recovery of the Sacred,” a larger exhibition in 2015 at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, this show chiefly underscores John La Farge’s genius.

On John LaFarge. In his book Real Presences, George Steiner discusses at length the concept of intellectual hospitality and the need for the reader to freshly submit to the "presence" communicated ...

The artist primarily responsible was John La Farge (1835-1910), and his masterly innovations can best be seen in the five windows he created between 1883 and 1902 for Trinity Church, Boston’s ...