Joanne Paul wrote her powerful and considerable biography of Thomas More because she finds More’s life relevant to today’s world. But the book also addresses another question: Was More a saintly ...

Molly McNett’s 'Child of These Tears' displays the difficulties of translation, the irreducibility of meaning, and the frustrating limitations of human nature and society.

In a significant appointment to the Roman Curia, Pope Leo has chosen the Spanish-born Augustinian bishop Luis Marín de San Martín, 64, to be the new prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity ...

What does joy mean when life contradicts it? In the Christian context, it is a "crucified joy," on that does not deny suffering but rejoices in the triumph of love over death and loss.

Gayle Feldman’s new biography of Bennett Cerf, 'Nothing Random,' is a window into the past of American literary culture.

In Christina Rivera's new collection, we wander through waves of connections, an ebb and flow carrying us between climate ...

Anna Bruno’s 'Fine Young People,' set at St. Ignatius, an elite Jesuit high school in a Pittsburgh suburb, operates as a whodunit on multiple levels simultaneously.

Among all the news articles I have read in the past couple of years, I am not ungrateful that one poignant, below-the-fold story has remained with me, a ...

For the Christian, the matter of hospitality would seem to be straightforward, a given. But lately, the word hospitality sums up the challenge of discipleship.

Henrik Pontoppidan's 'The White Bear' gives us two novellas that work in conversation with each other. Both feature burly, uncouth protagonists who endure episodes of childhood trauma and develop a ...

The moral catastrophe of the Trump administration’s reversal on climate policy is even more significant than its strategic and economic shortsightedness.

I feel like I meet Jesus in those people that I meet on the street every day," said Luz Eugenia Alvarez, R.S.M.