Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.

Athletes who never make mistakes, who never lose, do not exist. Champions are not perfectly functioning machines, but real men and women, who, when they fall, find the courage to get back on their feet.

In his video message at White Sox stadium, Pope Leo encouraged young people to look inside themselves, recognize God’s presence in their own hearts and “recognize that God is present and that, perhaps in many different ways, God is reaching out to you,

The June 14 celebration featured the first-ever airing of Pope Leo XIV’s video message to the world’s youth at the White Sox stadium in Chicago’s Southside.

Pope Leo called for a “commitment to build a world that is safer and free from the nuclear threat.”

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Tim Reidy

The neverending delight of “Good for you!”

You might think an Obama-era film would lose some relevance. But, tragically, “Us vs. Them” is evergreen.

‘The Phoenician Scheme‘ centers on sin and redemption, the frail but fundamental hope that anyone can be saved, if they sincerely repent.

No one I knew in Los Angeles was afraid to go downtown. That is, they were unafraid until President Donald Trump called in the National Guard and then the Marines.