Despite the long and illustrious history of the Catholic Church in Germany, in the late 19th century Catholics became the great Other to modernizing, secularizing forces.

"An Orchestra of Minorities" is a profoundly tragic story of ambition and despair and how both come from the struggle to love.

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center reveals some of what Americans do or do not know about their own faiths and others.

Patrick Ryan, S.J., has produced a book that is a word of culmination and ratification. It is a kind of extended amen at the end of a long life of scholarly faith and faithful scholarship.

After a decade away from weekly Catholic worship, I realize that Roman Catholicism offers me the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of a poet.