Nobel Prize in Literature historian dissident exile critic nbsp ndash no words can capture the immensity of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Two remembrances stand out His 1978 lecture at Harvard University and his short story entitled Matryona rsquo s House Here are excerpts from both Harvard

I haven rsquo t read the novels of E M Forster Like many people I suspect I saw the films but skipped the books Still I was taken in by Zadie Smith rsquo s review of ldquo The BBC Talks of E M Forster 1929-1960 rdquo in the New York Review of Books Forster like T S Eliot was the ho

The U S Conference of Catholic Bishops has released the Vatican-approved new translation of the Mass after years of research debate and controversy nbsp The new translation now available on their website means that both priests and parishioners will soon find that the most familiar part of Ca

Largely triggered by the benign influence on me of Mary Evelyn Tucker the co-founder of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at a 2003 conference for my book Globalization and Catholic Social Thought I have tried for the last five years to stay abreast of the literature on global warming and oth

Here s an unusually perceptive article on the fifth anniversary of Cardinal Sean O Malley s installation as archbishop of Boston something that I would consider in the wake of Cardinal Law s departure an almost impossible job nbsp Michael Paulson at the Boston Globe does nbsp his usual

A new ad by Sen John McCain has caused controversy because of its use of religious imagery The ad features images of Obama and Charlton Heston playing Moses Flashing across the screen pictures of Obama rsquo s rapturous greeting in Berlin alternate with the phrase ldquo The One rdquo The ad i