December 20, 2010

A new exhibit highlights the achievements of women religious in America.

The Loneliness of All Saints Robert Ellsberg’s “Dorothy in Love” (11/15) reminded me of a day in high school in the 1950s when a teacher talked about Dorothy Day in the Newman Club. We visited her New York office. I have been an admirer of this remarkable laywoman ever since. These

How can we who belong to the body of Christ extend the grace of the Incarnation?

“Love is inventive, even to infinity,” St. Vincent told his followers. He also showed them what such inventiveness meant.

A lesson in flowers

Seamus Heaney's new boom of poems reveals the "marvelous as he has known it."

With its wild wordplay and serious ideas, Salman Rushie's latest work of fantasy is hardly tween-lit.