I don rsquo t read on the beach The beach is for long walks and quick plunges into the surf I am at Sea Bright the northernmost town on the Jersey Shore for two weeks and I brought Pat Conroy rsquo s My Reading Life with me perfect company as I sit in the front room or on the balcony overloo

A provocative new approach to the Spiritual Exercises

An account of the sexual abuse crisis from a historian and former Franciscan provincial

A memoir of desire, relationships and spiritual transformation.

A few weeks ago I spent a muggy evening on my front porch ruminating: I wondered how it was that in a lifetime of reading I had seldom encountered a book whose primary character was a mother.

Shakespeare, Edmund Campion and the grace of forgiveness.