Helpless Catholic that I am, I have a confession to make. I am a Bruce Springsteen devotee.
Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell teaches literature and creative writing at Fordham University and serves as associate director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Her poetry collection The View from Childhood (Paraclete Press) is forthcoming in 2026,
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In Our Sons’ Names
An intimate glimpse into the lives of two parents whose son was killed on Sept. 11.
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Race and Grace: A classic by Flannery O’Connor comes to life.
A classic by Flannery O’Connor comes to life.
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This Blessed Place: The faithful fiction of Marilynne Robinson
Reading a Marilynne Robinson novel is like going to church. Her books put us into conversation with the Bible, “a great ancient literature” (her words) whose powerful stories reveal their meanings gradually in multiple and ongoing ways. They posit a community of people who take their fai
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A Poet’s Corner
‘There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.” These famous words of Thomas Merton convey the vision he experienced standing on a street corner in Louisville, Ky., on March 18, 1958. It was 10 years and nine months before his untimely death, bu
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Everyday Sacraments: Final lessons of love
Each day after her mother’s fall had its attendant rituals, including an offering of key lime pie.
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Lost in the Bronx
The play ‘Grand Concourse’ refuses to simplify the cause or cure for spiritual desolation.
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The Bells of St. John’s
The monks of St. John’s Abbey Church welcome the stranger, as do those morning bells.
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Gathering Paradise
The best way to get to know a writer you love is to visit his or her home.