Is hell empty? Pope Francis hopes so. Among the thinkers of the past century who speculated it could be so was Hans Urs von Balthasar, a favorite of the past two popes and a prominent theologian of his time.

In his 2008 book, Tomáš Halík calls on the church to provide “dressing stations” for the wounded. Halík’s book is now available for the first time in an English translation by Gerald Turner as 'Touch the Wounds: On Suffering, Trust, and Transformation.'

Like much of Liam Callanan’s fiction, 'When in Rome' hints at the action of divine grace in people’s lives and how the protagonists come to understand and appreciate its beneficence.

In 'The Deadline,' Jill Lepore uses her deep historical knowledge to ground the reader in truthful analysis, synthesizing complex ideas into their most digestible form.

Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for 'Afterlives,' which was not published in the United States until 2022.

In 'War Made Invisible,' Norman Solomon examines the variety of ways we are so often uninformed or misinformed by our mass media’s coverage (and non-coverage) of wars and their legacy of destruction.