Despite his popular image, Jack Kerouac was born and died a self-identified Catholic.

Can anyone hold a candle to Jonathan Franzen in the world of contemporary American belles lettres?

There is a certain image of a religious sister that is predominant in American culture Catholic and not one that has been reinforced by half a century of movies and literature but also buttressed by stereotypes both positive and negative that have developed over the years about the hundreds of th

Readers of this blog may recall my post from two weeks ago today about Joe Hoover S J a classmate of mine at the Jesuit School of Theology who was found guilty of obstructing a public thoroughfare during an Occupy Oakland march on January 28 2012 nbsp Joe was sentenced on Easter Monday to ten

This morning in my class at the Jesuit School of Theology on ldquo Jesuit Priesthood Theory and Praxis rdquo our opening prayer included the following verses from Psalm 142 ldquo When my spirit grows faint within me You know my way In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me

In his memoir novel A Million Little Pieces first pitched as the latter then sold and made famous as the former then eventually exposed as largely the latter author James Frey tells the harrowing tale of undergoing a double root canal without any anesthetic nbsp It rsquo s one of the most cri

Most of us are familiar with some variation of the King James Bible rsquo s translation of John 1 14 nbsp ldquo And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father full of grace and truth rdquo nbsp If one looks at the orig

William Carlos Williams rejected the poetic conventions of the time in favor of a distinctly American verse.

The American Academy of Religion is holding its annual meeting in San Francisco this year drawing academic theologians and religious scholars from over 1 000 colleges universities seminaries and other schools in every corner of the United States and in recent years other nations for several