A Catholic priest who gained national fame as an activist has been asked to step away from his ministry while allegations that he sexually abused a minor decades ago are investigated.

Powers’s chosen subjects—in cassocks or nay—are inevitably All-American, and his stories are careful studies of American mid-century life and ambition.

A Wisconsin judge ruled against the state prison system on Thursday, saying its Covid-19 visitor policy that barred Catholic clergy from meeting with inmates for more than a year violated religious freedom.

Jon Hassler wrote novels that examined with infinite compassion the lives of the residents of small-town Minnesota.

Forty years after its publication, Jon Sweeney revisits ‘Blue Highways’ and its iconoclastic author.

“People’s lives are complicated every place you look, and just as complicated as your own life is,” says author and director James Fallows.