Remembering Father Pedro Arrupe on the centennial of his birth.

Are joy, humor and laughter considered inappropriate for serious Catholics? If so, why?

One could do worse than devote some time during Lent to 'lectio divina' and reading the Scriptures prayerfully.

The first question surprised me. We had come to China in the spring of 2006 as a group of college faculty members to experience the old and the new China and to meet faculty and students at a variety of universities.

Postapocalyptic novels were once popular back in the last millennium when we all worried about the Bomb and what it might do to us.

Peter Faber may best have exemplified what a missionary to the church of the Reformation era needed.

It is often said that war brings out the best and the worst in people. This is profoundly true. Men who in civilian life would not have crossed the street to help a stranger often fall in the effort to help near strangers. There are many good things to be remembered.

In his 90th year, the indefatigable historian John Hope Franklin has written his life story. More than any other scholar, Franklin has made African-American history an essential part of American history.

We might think the battle for Christmas is over words. But the struggle is waged at a far deeper level of our lives.

The other day I asked a friend of mine, an old-timer and a longtime baseball fan, if he remembered the 1955 World Series. He thought a moment, and said: "Oh, yeah, wasn't that a Dodger-Yankee series?" Yes, it was. But 1955 was special.