I have the many and bright letters of my first and middle name Irish enough to outweigh the heaviness of the thick and rich Hispanic last name I carry slumped over my golden shoulders.

Overshadowed in his lifetime, Pope Benedict provided lessons for the world’s peoples and policymakers, then and now.

While Shepard's plays would absorb different rhythms and influences, their essence and voice were unmistakably his—our—own.

Rather than simply showing artifacts and manuscripts, the American Writers Museum presents a number of screens and displays, many of them interactive, to engage visitors with the rich heritage of American writers.

Is there something in the very nature of sin and narcissism that wounds us, that makes us sad?

A tension between materialism and a yearning for greater meaning runs throughout the band's new album.