Cancellations announced by the Vatican suggest the pope will be hospitalized for several days.

While American society is especially good among wealthy countries at producing poverty, it is especially bad at making the lives of the poor tolerable.

for I too take my bearings in a manner unfamiliar to solid daylit creatures

I lean into the gale

'Hockey Priest: Father David Bauer and the Spirit of the Canadian Game' shows the interplay of spirituality and sport in the world that Father Bauer helped create.

'A Ministry of Risk,' a collection of the writings and speeches of the late Phil Berrigan (1923-2002), is a provocative anthology destined to leave most readers bewildered, challenged and perhaps even a little angry.

The novelist and memoirist André Aciman chronicles his formative year in Rome as a teenager in 'Roman Year.'

'American Mother,' Diane Foley's and Colum McCann's story of Foley’s life and that of her son, James Foley, is written with a mother’s love, her eventual understanding of hostage situations and her desire for others to understand the struggle she faced.

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and perspectives, have written three extremely different books on aging. Yet even with their differences, they agree on the big points.

America reviewed a range of films over the last year, including many of the awards-show contenders.