Lady Bird, with her magenta hair and acne, is an original; Greta Gerwig, appropriately, takes chances.

Tommy Lasorda always called Him "The Big Dodger in The Sky."

Set in the early ’60s, “Novitiate” is yet another tale of the trauma suffered by the religious and their orders in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.

Daniel Berrigan, S.J., went from a poet to an activist, and turned activism into poetry.

On the Feast of All Souls, it is to the Day of the Dead altars that the departed ones return, caught almost as if by lure, by the florid colors, the smells and the flavors, of foods they cherished on earth.

Three recent books on Thoreau, prompted by the the 200th anniversary of his birth, deepen our understanding of him.