Patrick Ryan, S.J., has produced a book that is a word of culmination and ratification. It is a kind of extended amen at the end of a long life of scholarly faith and faithful scholarship.

During her lifetime, poetry turned into a vocation that helped Marie Ponsot achieve her true essence.

Pete Holmes discovers a new meaning to Christ’s words “Go and do likewise,” not as a moralistic command, but as a call to an awakening, a conversion, the practice Catholic tradition calls the “imitation of Christ.”

Kristen Arnett’s novel is about intimacy and wanting what is forbidden, about childhood and family, about absent parents and absent lovers, and about the secondhand self-destruction that can be wrought by ignoring cries of the heart.

Science fiction writers continue to turn to religious characters, imagery and ideas to sort things out.

In 37 novels and two short story collections, Burke writes about characters who struggle to do good in a context of pervasive evil.