Ron Hansen reviews Andrew Dubus III’s memoir of his absentee father

The Rev George W Hunt, S.J., editor in chief of America magazine from 1984-1998, died this morning at the Fordham University Jesuit community in New York.

I have usually entertained some ambiguity if not cynicism about New Year s resolutions.

A memoir of desire, relationships and spiritual transformation.

Perhaps more than other Christians who seem more open to floating freely among various denominations for worship and identity Catholics tend to view some other churches as monolithic institutions with clear doctrine and discipline guiding all members along a straight and narrow path But the cove

The stunning news that a soon-to-be-saint was excommunicated for urging the church to take action against a sex offender is a reminder of the virulence of the crimes of clerical abuse.

A few weeks ago I spent a muggy evening on my front porch ruminating: I wondered how it was that in a lifetime of reading I had seldom encountered a book whose primary character was a mother.

St. Vianney spent upwards of 12 to 13 hours a day in the confessional. I once mentioned that in a lecture in a large parish and one young man immediately raised his hand and said, “Why, what did he do?”

Justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities

Have you ever noticed that Jesus begins and ends his public ministry in the wilderness ?