By Archbishop Joseph Naumann, National Catholic Register - “Is God Dead?” This was the title cover story for the April 8, 1966, edition of Time magazine, when I was a junior in high school and Time was the most influential periodical in the United States. The 1966 article began with these words: “Is God dead? It is a question that tantalizes, both believers, who perhaps secretly fear that he is, and atheists, who possibly suspect the answer is No.