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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

Michael Centore is a writer and editor based in Connecticut. His work has appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, U.S. Catholic, Religious Socialism, Amethyst Review and other publications.

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.

These words were spoken with the confidence of a man who knows he is the subject of an Esquire feature. His photo catches him mid-laugh, brown eyes squinting behind horn-rimmed glasses, ...

Child of These Tears opens on a world that is, like ours, in flux. Many competing claims to space and place, many differing points of view, and many languages meet in Hartfield Falls, a New England ...

Stained glass window of St. Thomas More in a Catholic church. Credit: IStock. Thomas More’s choice to give up his life rather than go against his conscience is a primary reason why he is recognized as ...

“Last week, I dreamt I unfolded a map,” Christina Rivera writes in her collection My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women. “I kept unfolding the map, to a long river-meandering length.” Reading ...