In his latest book, John W. O'Malley, S.J., serves up a hard-nosed history of so many saints and sinners.
Gail Godwin writes with the shrewdness and wit of Muriel Spark and a tender, fetching, Southern voice.
'Summertime' is a meandering series of interviews with relatives and former lovers of 'John Coetzee.'
The exhibit “Good Friday” explores the enduring power of the image of the suffering Christ for contemporary artists.
Homelessness appears to be making a comeback, but not in the urban and rural communities where it persisted in past decades.
Mexico has been involved in a crackdown on narcotics trafficking cartels that have been fighting turf wars over smuggling routes into the U.S.
A Vatican statement said that church leaders recognized the sense of “pain and anger, betrayal, scandal and shame” that the crisis provoked.