Father Thomas J. Scirghi recognizes how much preparation good preaching requires.

Love cannot be violent, cannot force itself; love must endure injury with patience and without resentment.

Instead of the fusty old churchman we all know, Sarah Ruden’s Augustine is a dreamer, an artist, a poet.

De Sales’s insistence that a life of prayer “finds its ideal in the ordinary” will appeal to modern readers.

Even the author's suicide does not exclude him from God's mercy.

Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., America's books editor, considers shifting masculine ideals in film and literature.