There is no bigger question for Catholics today than this: Why should anyone become or remain Catholic?

We need to remember that even in the middle of dealing with whatever big thing is happening now: We are alive.

What I saw at the U.S.-Mexico border reminded me of the solidarity with migrants so often lacking in our country today.

Giacomo Puccini, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly,” has been called the world’s most popular songwriter, and with good reason.

Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain is a mystical novel, a story in which illness becomes an occasion for a new attention to one’s life and loves.

Vinson Cunningham's constant application of a critical eye in his work for The New Yorker must have helped in composing his first novel, "Great Expectations."

'The Cemetery of Untold Stories' reads like a novel made up of all the stories that Julia Alvarez no longer wants to carry in bits and pieces in her head,. And Alvarez knows that we all are—and need to be—story creatures.