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.

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Daniel Hornsby's debut novel, 'Via Negativa,' is the story of a Roman Catholic priest on the road to many destinations, both material and spiritual.

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