Its subtitle is Zeitschrift für christliche Kultur, and it publishes articles on Christian culture in the broad sense of the word.
The journal was founded as a Jesuit publication by Gerhard Schneemann and Florian Rieß in the Maria Laach Abbey, a Jesuit abbey in the Eifel, under the name Voices of Maria Laach.
When during Bismarck's Kulturkampf the Maria Laach Abbey was closed, the magazine moved abroad, and after exile in Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, the publishers returned to Germany in 1914.
During the Nazi era the magazine (illegally) published the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge.
[1] It was shut down for four months and in April 1941 closed altogether;[2] one of its editors, Alfred Delp, was executed in 1945 in connection with the 20 July plot.