Alexi Sargeant is a Catholic high school humanities teacher in Hyattsville, Maryland. He and his wife, writer Leah Libresco Sargeant, have three young children. Mr. Sargeant, a former assistant editor at First Things, holds a […]
Jesuit leaders asked the late Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J., to either stop defending Catholic teachings on hot-button social issues or leave their religious order. A candid new book shows he chose to obey, but with […]
Rev. Anthony R. Lusvardi, S.J. is an American Jesuit priest who teaches sacramental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He holds a B.A. in English and philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, […]
A recent book from a Catholic sociologist has stirred intense debate over its argument that marriage remains the quickest path to financial success and happiness for Americans. Brad Wilcox argues in Get Married: Why Americans […]
“Suffering is, in itself, an experience of evil,” Pope St. John Paul II once said. These words open the first chapter of the recent book Suffering: What Every Catholic Should Know. They also set the […]
A new “lives of the saints” book has resurrected the late Tomie dePaola’s unpublished illustrations for one last adventure. A lifelong New Englander, DePaola was the rare Catholic children’s artist who also achieved mainstream fame, […]
At the start of the 1955 British film The Prisoner, a regal cardinal played by Alec Guinness finds Communist secret police waiting for him as he walks out of Mass in an anonymous Central European […]
Ambassador Michele Burke Bowe is the Order of Malta’s ambassador to Palestine and president of the Holy Family Hospital Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the only maternity hospital in the West Bank area of Israel. […]
The heavenly art of the Sistine Chapel masks a human competition that produced the greatest creative work in history, according to a new book from a leading Italian Renaissance scholar. The walls of the small […]
Rhonda Gruenewald is a Houston-based Catholic convert, wife, and mother of two children who founded the organization Vocation Ministry. A former high school English teacher, she has now collaborated with thousands of vocation promoters and […]
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