The central insight of David Walsh’s book is that “the person is transcendence."

Guantánamo Diary belongs in a canon of great social justice memoirs not only for the unique context in which the story was written but also for its power and eloquence.

“Ordinary moments make the life”—not the catastrophe that we humans experience, or imagine we will one day experience.

Despite the many pronouncements that the 2016 presidential election cycle is completely unprecedented, the biggest foreign policy debates in which this year’s candidates are engaged are actually very old.

All priests are in service to the church. The church, in turn, is in service to all humanity.

There are radiant truths within these Catholic documents. And then, it seems, the darker shroud of Rome is thrown down and ruins it all.

My faith is rooted in the tradition of my family, a line of Irish Catholics.

Have we become tone deaf to the concept of sacrifice and suffering?

Chicago’s long, hot summer of shootings came to an end over the three-day Labor Day weekend, with 65 people shot, 13 fatally, as homicides climbed toward 500 for the year. August was already on record as the city’s deadliest month in more than two decades.The wounded included a youn

Once over money and territory, violence in the country has taken a more destructive turn.