America presents slideshow of ProFaunas work with distressed animals. Watch the slideshow.

By all accounts the poet Robert Frost 1874-1963 was a difficult man moody contrary competitive exacting Not one would have thought a sympathetic subject for a novel It is all the more miraculous then that Brian Hall rsquo s biographical novel mdash historical novel really mdash weaves

If Robert Satloff rsquo s recent book Among the Righteous Lost Stories From the Holocaust rsquo s Long Reach Into Arab Lands 2006 offers a freshly conceived if ultimately stark investigation into the archive of small kindnesses shown the occasional Jew during the Second World War Mimi Schwar

Awaiting a spring that is coming slowly to the Big Apple, I fast-forward my thoughts and summon the words of the 18th-century poet James Thomson: “…who can paint/ like Nature? Can imagination boast,/ amid its gay creation, hues like hers?” Signs and wonders will soon abound in all

A change of position by one Catholic Supreme Court justice could make a difference.

A new majority enters the culture wars.

A Watched Pot Never Boils In “Curbing Medical Costs” (3/10), Daniel Callahan starts a necessary discussion about health care. Unlike the proverbial frog in the pot of water, which did not detect the rising temperature until it was too late to jump out, the American people are becoming aw

Mary Oliver has done it again She has assembled a collection of poems that is moving intense and evocative in its engagement of the natural world Yet this latest book by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner is distinctive among her 17 volumes for the dark undercurrent that runs thro

What is the proper role of an ex-president Should he retire to enjoy his newfound freedom from public life write his memoirs and perhaps attend official functions as might be asked of him Most former presidents have done just that Presently we have three living ex-presidents in the United Stat

Under George W. Bush, the executive branch consolidated power to a dangerous degree.

There I was, a 50-something woman of privilege, in front of the Salvation Army homeless shelter in a seedy neighborhood of Austin on a sultry summer evening, dutifully putting bright orange traffic cones out in the street. I was startled by a tough-looking female police sergeant, who pulled me aside

Sewing up the torn paw of a Javanese leaf-monkey, with the help of an Indonesian vet, might seem an untried and unexpected form of interfaith dialogue, but it proved very productive for me. This particular encounter took place in a wildlife rescue center, ProFauna Indonesia, in the hill country of E

View a slideshow of images of Pope Benedict XVIs first visit to the U.S. as pontiff. This feature will be updated daily over the course of his visit.

New and selected stories from Tobias Wolff, reviewed

For those who were moved by the pope s meeting with abuse victims from Boston here is an interview from The Boston Pilot the archdiocesan newspaper with Cardinal Sean O Malley on how the meeting came about Q Can you explain your involvement in that unannounced meeting in Washington that

Cambridge MA There are many good things and interesting things to reflect on after the Pope s visit to the Washington and New York but here I pick up on only one Benedict s April 17th visit with representatives of various religions at the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington Benedict

Mark does not explicitly give us the purpose of his Gospel Certainly one can deduce that he is interested in encouraging Christians to follow Christ no matter what the cost for the rewards are great He also appears to want to show the injustice of the interpretation of Jesus that led to his d

Matt Malone has just posted the final installment of his review of the fabulous John Adams miniseries on HBO Read it here For those of you who haven t seen the series be sure to add it to your Netflix queue it comes out on DVD on June 10 You can find Matt s review and other notable W