Like the first rain of spring

Our first four presidents—George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison—were influenced by the Enlightenment, but even more so by the classical Greeks and Romans.

What is it about Dante that has made him not just immortal, but urgent and modern?

A journey into the fictional worlds of Joshua Hren in his 'In The Wine Press' invites us to consider the character of our own grief and suffering.

Jonathan Roumie’s Jesus has fearsome power to open the Scriptures to us and the women and men who follow him are people in whom we can find traces of ourselves. It helps me love the Lord like I never have before.

If only the priest would turn his back on members of the congregation, the movie’s logic goes, and recite the liturgy in a language they don’t understand, the pews would be full and the seminaries overflowing.