Elizabeth Cullinan's literary output was not prodigious—but her memorable characters and close attention to the Irish-American culture in which she lived made her a prominent fiction writer in the '70s and '80s.

Gerhard Lohfink, who died last week in his native Germany at the age of 89, leaves behind an impressive legacy of faith-informed scholarship on the New Testament and Christian discipleship.

“It is not easy to be a Catholic, and it is not easy to be a writer. To be a Catholic writer is doubly difficult,” wrote Jacques Maritain, who nevertheless became one of the most influential 20th-century Catholic writers on either side of the Atlantic.

Parody, Ernest Hemingway said, is a step up from writing on the wall above the urinal. He was wrong.

Opening Day is a reminder that there are, to quote Bill Veeck, only two seasons: winter and baseball.

Pedro Arrupe, S.J., is well on the path to sainthood. So who was he? And why do people have such strong opinions about him?