Praying and savoring the Stations of the Cross with friends can add a new dimension to the season of Lent.

The pandemic is a terrible reality, but it is not hopeless. James Martin, S.J., offers a few tips drawn from Christian spirituality that have helped him avoid despair.

“Tenderness is something greater than the logic of the world. It is an unexpected way of doing justice,” Pope Francis said in his general audience on Jan. 19.

I wanted children to hear the story of the nativity through the eyes of a child, not the experience of an adult. And so the character of Leah began to take flight in my imagination; I wanted my young readers to see the first Christmas through her eyes.

An introduction to all the books, new and old, profiled in our Spring Literary Review 2021.

Even in the the eye of a storm that seems so colossal we can see no tomorrow, I know this: God is good.