There is no way to explain the success of Catholic school athletes without taking into account a wide range of factors—historical, sociological and, yes, spiritual.

Jane Leavy chronicles Babe Ruth’s life and times, with a heavy emphasis not only on the culture Ruth played in, but the ways he radically altered that culture, with the help of his visionary agent Christy Walsh.

Writer William Trevor never shied away from something like the Gothic, the nearly horrific side of everything from romantic passion to parenthood.

Hunger strikes raise thorny political, philosophical and even spiritual questions.

In 'Beyond 15,' Jonathan Rosenblum scolds Barack Obama for being “more invested in bailing out the financial sector than in expending political capital for workers’ rights.”

Either way, if Trump’s candidacy is a problem, pundits on the right and left have thought of it specifically as a “white trash” problem.

'Éamon de Valera,' by Ronan Fanning

Race, assimilation and 19th-century Catholic immigrants

During a much-discussed speech at The National Defense University earlier this year President Obama cataloged the dreadful conditions at Guant namo Bay and then asked ldquo Is that who we are Is that something that our Founders foresaw rdquo The question was obviously rhetorical though as Lo

The most crucial swing vote in the 2012 election may have been cast by the late Rachel Carson.