The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee late March 19 expressed grief over the lives and livelihoods lost and threatened by the historic flooding in the Midwest and offered prayers for recovery.
Midwest (U.S.)
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Stephen Markley’s ‘Ohio’ is the novel you need to read to understand the Midwest today.
Stephen Markley’s new novel is an intimate, long look at a single night in New Canaan, a fictional “corn and rust” town set somewhere between central and northeast Ohio.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
What you don’t know about Loyola’s Sister Jean
You have likely seen the profiles, the gifs, the memes, the television spots. But there is much that you have not seen.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Living in Trump’s America: A West Virginia town looks for a fresh start
Moundsville, while in decline, has never been nearly as bad as the picture of rusting hell Mr. Trump painted in his inauguration address.
Posted inFaith, Features
Faith is strong in middle America’s small towns—but its future is uncertain.
On any given Sunday, the pews of St. Michael’s in Axtell, Kan., are filled with more than half the town’s population.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture
The last Catholic novelist: The grace-filled fiction of Jon Hassler
Remembering Jon Hassler, the author of grace-filled Catholic fiction.