The Cursillo de Cristiandad is a nearly 60-year-old lay-led Catholic renewal movement with origins on the island of Mallorca Spain whose signature event is a 72-hour short course in Christianity The Cursillo movement was inaugurated in 1944 by Eduardo Bonn n Aguil a Mallorcan Catholic layman

James Buchan’s new book, Days of God: the Revolution in Iran and its Consequence

In 'American Mirrors' Deborah Solomon presents a thoughtful—if a touch heavy-handed—biography of Norman Rockwell.

David Kertzer’s 'The Pope and Mussolini' examines the place of the church under the dictatorial regimes of the 20th century.

Duro Kolak, the narrator and fulcrum of Aminatta Forna’s excellent fourth book The Hired Man, is a patient man, loyal and solitary.

Dozens of well-known American and British actresses have portrayed religious women in film Some of them mdash Jennifer Jones in ldquo The Song of Bernadette rdquo and Susan Sarandon in ldquo Dead Man Walking rdquo mdash won Academy Awards for their performances There have been nuns who broke i