John Irving writes characters who, like Flannery O’Connor’s American South, seem somehow God-haunted.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane

Science fiction and religion might not seem like the most natural of bedfellows—but religion is usually a prominent theme in most contemporary sci-fi.

Kazakhstan, which Pope Francis will visit tomorrow, is largely an unknown country to many Catholics around the world. Here is a brief introduction to the country and its small Catholic community.

A mentor for a generation of scholars of American Catholic history, John W. O'Malley, S.J., died Sept. 11, 2022, at the age of 95.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world was in many ways a direct reflection of his understanding of reality.

Pope for only 33 days, John Paul I is known both as "The Smiling Pope" and "The Forgotten Pope." On Sept. 4, he will be beatified. What were his life and papacy like?

With the death of Frederick Buechner earlier this month, the nation lost one of its most profound novelists—as well as a spiritual writer of great depth and range.

Father Kabat, who called himself “a fool for Christ,” spent more than 17 of his 88 years in prison for his activism against the U.S. nuclear weapons program. He died on Aug. 4.

A violent assault on a famous author revives an ugly history: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.