How did Mother Teresa's ubiquitous presence in the media hinder us from really knowing her?

I have called myself a peacemaker. I have never held a gun and never want to. But I am also a father, and I will always protect my children.

Sometimes, standing in a spot and truly acknowledging pain may be the best thing we can do.

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

The essential Merton is all of these books taken together. Read them all, and in this order, if you can.

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.

Few artists in history have found as many devotees as Richard Wagner, for better or for worse.

A spy story that sounds like a novel, but is true to life.

As Christians have become more familiar and neighborly with people of other religious traditions, we have extended that familiarity to appreciation, and sometimes appreciation becomes appropriation. 

Some last-minute gift ideas: books!