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Joan Didion ponders her daughter's life in spare prose that is at once insightful and depressing.

Julian Barnes's new novel is a philosophical mystery that morphs into a morality tale.

Sidney Callahan on the drama of human happiness

Nefas literally ldquo unspeakable rdquo is a Latin word for evil It is a heavy word weightier than malum the term for a garden-variety moral wrongdoing It is an offense against the sacred sacrilege in the sense of a ritual violation but even more in the sense of a violation of the divine

Sin and grace in the work of Martin Scorsese

My Saturday morning with Catherine of Siena

The bishops now argue that an exemption should include any employer who finds the mandated coverage morally objectionable.