Pietro Di Donato wrote 'The Penitent' because he thought it to be a profoundly human story—though both the murderer and the victim became larger than life in reality.

More than four decades after their murders, the four churchwomen of El Salvador remain powerful examples of faith and commitment to the Gospel.

Too many of us are attracted to a “spatial” life because we can control spaces and stop them from changing. But time, even when managed, is always beyond our control. In his new book, James K. A. Smith seeks to reorient us to the reality of human life as temporal.

In a 50-year career as a columnist, Mary McGrory wrote some of the most prescient political journalism around—including for America.

John T. Noonan, a consummate polymath, was perhaps one of the most lauded, influential and recognizable Catholics engaged in the public square in the last 50 years.

The characters of Kirstin Valdez Quade's stories often find grace to be just out of reach—but they still pursue it.