By a bizarre twist of fate, the taste of the age, “hipster taste,” runs parallel to monastic notions of work, prayer and what we might call the monastic aesthetic.

Who better to combat the absurd, dark joke at the heart of the rise of Trumpism than someone like Al Franken?

Well crafted stories about the “disabled experience” are still new, and too few-and-far between.

'I saw the Catholic Church from the inside, like a tauntaun.'

Religious studies professor William Reiser, S.J., reflects on his use of Harry Potter in the classroom.

It’s not that Mr. Comey told a bunch of lies and covered them up with a prize-winning performance. It’s that facts can sound like lies when you tell them under pressure. Mr. Comey, who has had experience testifying before Congress, didn’t buckle to the pressure.