From poet Dana Gioia, powerful meditations on loss and the redemptive power of beauty

From Michael Sean Winters, a biography of Jerry Falwell

The rise of heresy persecution in the medieval West

Roger Haight on the Spiritual Exercises

What more can be said about the nine American Catholics who on a May afternoon 44 years ago stormed a Selective Service office in Catonsville Md seized draft files and burned them in a parking lot while praying the Our Father Their exploits have been memorialized in songs poetry literature fi

Thomas Hart Benton found authentic subjects on Manhattan subways and Martha’s Vineyard beaches.