In the midst of Ernest Hemingway rsquo s novel The Sun Also Rises a successful novelist Bill Gorton demands that his friend Jake Barnes mdash the novel rsquo s narrator mdash give him ldquo irony and pity rdquo one morning in a friendly repartee Jake Barnes has been trying to write fiction

In the epilogue of The Pope rsquo s Last Crusade How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI 39 s Campaign to Stop Hitler Peter Eisner offers an interesting insight on the men who held the seat of Peter during the 20th century Of the seven pontiffs that were elected during that time six are eith

In the October 20, 1928 issue of America, the editors of the magazine inaugurated the Catholic Book Club with the following notice:[T]he Catholic Book announces that it has selected “The Way It Was with Them” by Peadar O’Donnell, as the outstanding Catholic novel of the month. This

Life will break your heart So will Jonathan Kozol rsquo s Fire in the Ashes It is full of life mdash messy disorganized broken and tragic and yes sometimes still full of joy and mercy and grace at unexpected moments This latest account of the lives of the other Americans who peopled K

A convert from Islam to Roman Catholicism Lamin Sanneh possesses an in-depth knowledge of two of the world rsquo s most talked-about religions In an age in which individuals and churches too-often reject interfaith dialogue in favor of hate speech protests or violence Sanneh rsquo s voice is a w

When historians write the history of the development of our political ideas and institutions this past quarter century they would be amply justified to label it ldquo an unexpected revolution rdquo For beginning in the early 1990s there has been a proliferation of new practices and institutions