Ending conflict lies in human hands, Pope Francis said, so every individual "can and must become a peacemaker."

'A Man Called Ove,' ultimately, is about love in its many forms.

The biggest attraction of all was the presence of the crucifix of John Sullivan, S.J., an Irish Jesuit who died in 1933.

Catholics with their “sacramental imagination” might make sense of what this man meant to some of his contemporaries.

'The Boys in the Bunkhouse' is a gentle though ultimately damning exposé.

Of the six jurisdictions that constituted the Society of Jesus in the United States in 1900, five of them owed their origin to Jesuit immigrants of the mid-to-late 19th century.

Candidates will have to combine American Amnesia’s policy prescriptions with a broader call to Americans’ better angels. Otherwise, Hacker and Pierson’s next book might well be titled American Dementia.

"We are more comfortable with Ezra Pound the madman, because we do not want to ponder Pound the monster."

In spite of our common progress, the country is still beset by the consequences of our original sin: lingering racial prejudice and outright bias, and deep distrust between Americans of different races and between large swaths of our citizenry and those charged with protecting and serving them.