The African novel has come of age in the early 21st century North American diaspora Straddling homelands histories myths looking for values and identity somewhere in between mdash those are the grand topics of the African novel ldquo Novelists are sorted by the language they wrote in rdquo St

There rsquo s no place better suited for supermen than long distance cycling Take the Tour de France the sport rsquo s greatest race This year rsquo s event covers 3 656 km over 21 days think Detroit to Los Angeles with the Alps standing in for the Rockies and the Pyrenees for the Sierras As o

Few works deliver on the promise of their title with such success as Mary Christine Athans rsquo s book on Mary The scholarship is solid the prose accessible and her personal reflections engaging The book can also be provocative since discussions of Mary lead to questions about the contested rol

I rsquo ve heard it said hurt people hurt If anyone was ever hurt as a child not physically but emotionally it was Tennessee Williams His mother Edwina rsquo s denial did the hurting denial she turned into an art form which her son turned into art And John Lahr senior drama critic of The Ne

When I was in doctoral studies in philosophy a Jesuit professor in another discipline asked me what my dissertation topic was ldquo Plato rdquo he chafed ldquo What could you possibly have to say about Plato that hasn rsquo t already been said rdquo His remark provided me with ample motivat

Expanded airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria serve as little more than a recruiting tool for extremists and place more innocent people in danger, the leadership of Pax Christi International said on Sept. 23. The three top leaders of the Catholic peace organization also called upon the wor

South Sudan’s bishops reiterated their call for an end to fighting in their country and warned of a humanitarian disaster. “The fighting and killing must stop immediately and unconditionally,” the bishops said on Sept. 25, at the end of a three-day meeting that coincided with the r

There is no world leader today truly free like Francis, or as original.

Returning to her home in Miami after a month-long assignment to West Africa, Dr. Aileen Marty, a former U.S. Navy doctor and expert in infectious diseases, said on Sept. 22 that the deadly Ebola outbreak will be contained only if all ports of entry in the region are adequately screened for infected

Imagine this: Against long odds, you, a midcareer anthropologist working with four other university teams, have gained grant support from the U.S. National Science Foundation and permission from the government of Brazil to be the sole research team allowed to investigate a newly discovered tribe of

International cooperation and funding needed to fight Ebola, prevent the next crisis.

Paul Ryan: There is a lot of untapped potential in this country; I have seen it firsthand.

After a Vatican investigation, Pope Francis removed a Paraguayan bishop from his post as head of the Diocese of Ciudad del Este because of “serious pastoral reasons.” But the bishop shot back later the same day, charging in an open letter that he was the victim of an ideological campaign

Both saints and celebrities are often reduced to mere ideas or idols, avatars of their flesh and blood bodies.

On Sept. 18, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria began a military offensive outside of the Kobane area in northern Syria, and in no time they had terrorized and seized 60 of the surrounding villages. Over the next three days an unprecedented flight of 160,000 refugees escaped across Turkey’s s

In Iraq and Syria, Obama must choose least worst among a number of awful policy options.

Marriage JusticeRe “Remarriage, Mercy and Law,” by The Editors (9/22): As a Catholic happily living in a sacramental marriage, I deeply value the indissoluble nature of that union. But my limited experience of people who have divorced is that almost always the divorce was inevitable, or

Despite the fact that I was starting to realize Jesus could understand my suffering, I was still unwilling to accept Jesus could love me for what had happened to me.

In many ways the success of In-N-Out Burgers in Los Angeles is mystifying.