there is only one way to pray

Christ bursts into the manger, quickened into cows

Come to Yaa Gyasi's fiction, all you who are weary and burdened, and she will give you heartbreak.

Anne Tyler's new novel can help us realize that life often is not spectacular or about jumping from one big event to the next.

Those familiar with the Gilead story will find in Marilynne Robinson's latest novel another beautiful meditation on grace operative in spite of habits of despair and the social sins that feed them.

A longtime historian of Los Angeles explores and deconstructs the mythical city of boosters, developers and "perpetual reinvention."

If you think being a writer is nerve-wracking, try being a reviewer.

“It might be a good thing to discard this piece whose popularity is becoming unhealthy,” one early critic wrote.

'The root of Spiritism...is the diseased moral condition of the age,' one Catholic author wrote.

Hildegard von Bingen’s five ingredients for an abundant life.

A Korean War hero, the Rev. Emil Kapaun is now a candidate for sainthood, but the process is long and complicated.

Recalling his abduction and two-year captivity, Father Maccalli told Vatican News that during that time, "tears were my bread for many days and were my prayer when I didn't know what to say."

In “Fratelli Tutti,” Pope Francis writes that punishment must include “healing and reintegration into society.” A sentence of life without parole, writes Nicholas Goldrosen, violates this principle.

The United States is a unique achievement in a fallen world.

A selection of reader reactions to the 2020 election.

At the same time that the Covid-19 crisis has driven up the need for direct services from charities, it has depressed the dollar amounts in donations they are likely to receive.

Chess isn’t just a game, it’s also a handy metaphor—for braininess, for power, for geopolitical strategy.

My children are not unique because they suffer. They are unique because they do not hide suffering well—and they challenge me to live that way.

Instead of looking past the failings of Pope John Paul II, we should look squarely at them.