I once heard Dorothy say, “When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.”

'The Liar's Wife,' by Mary Gordon

At the center of the spiritual life is the simple courage to be quiet.

From 1928 to 2003, the Catholic Book Club worked as a subscription service where America partnered with publishers to mail books to CBC readers. A (more or less) comprehensive list of 75 years worth of selections can be found here.

Would abolishing political parties revive the American political spirit?

Mary Gordon is a New York-based American Catholic writer and English professor at Barnard College She is best known for her novels memoirs and literary criticism on a wide variety of topics from religion to biography She holds a B A from Barnard College and an M A from Syracuse University In 20

In the 1980s, the American short story writer Raymond Carver penned a story called “A Small, Good Thing.” It is a haunting story that includes, at once, the death of a child and an ending that illustrates the hope of companionship: the breaking of bread together. The bread served to the

A spring poetry anti-review from America's poetry editor Joseph Hoover, S.J.

ldquo In our era the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action rdquo That claim by Dag Hammarskj ld is borne out in the books published in the series ldquo Orbis Modern Spiritual Masters rdquo The authors of these paperbacks are people of action whose holiness-spiritual

ldquo In our era the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action rdquo That claim by Dag Hammarskj ld is borne out in the books published in the series ldquo Orbis Modern Spiritual Masters rdquo The authors of these paperbacks are people of action whose holiness-spiritual