Seekers of spirituality and meaning exist everywhere, in and out of religion, and Haight wishes to reach them.

So what defines a Catholic novel? I am still struggling with that question. But I know that that which asks most of us is most worthy of us.

Lynch possessed a deeply incarnational spirituality and criticized religion understood as mere assent to transcendent meaning.

Told in alternating chapters, the lives of painter, collector and forger blend and echo in ways that none of them could imagine.

The book offers detailed guidance on managing decisions a potential college student must make: whether to go to college right after high school, where one should attend and how to find internships along the way.

Helpless Catholic that I am, I have a confession to make. I am a Bruce Springsteen devotee.