I first discovered Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990 when I was in Peru to see a friend climb Machu Picchu and write an article That was the time when Vargas Llosa the novelist was running for president of Peru The guerilla movement Shining Path was terrorizing the countryside and the economy was fal

Michael Novak’s autobiography is another remarkable American success story.

A collection of essays by Ignacio Ellacuria

During the middle decades of the 20th century one of the best known Maryknoll priests in the United States was John J Considine who was widely admired for his books lectures and editorial supervision of Maryknoll rsquo s superlative mission magazine The Field Afar In 1963 Maryknoll rsquo s su

Rarely has a film haunted me as much as Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's French language film, "The Past." It is a story about dysfunctional families and their miscommunications, secrets and lies.

And I say to my people’s masters, Beware/ Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people/ Who shall take what ye would not give.