The Catholic literary canon saved my faith—and, I believe, my sanity. I mean both these statements quite literally. In the ...

Tragedy and hope vie for thematic supremacy in Philip Shenon's newest book, Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church, a highly readable, character-driven narrative ...

What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics? By Randy Boyagoda Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and professor of English at the ...