"An Orchestra of Minorities" is a profoundly tragic story of ambition and despair and how both come from the struggle to love.

A recent survey by the Pew Research Center reveals some of what Americans do or do not know about their own faiths and others.

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.

After a decade away from weekly Catholic worship, I realize that Roman Catholicism offers me the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of a poet.

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

Last thoughts on an intriguing book about how the Catholic Church confronted the realities of the 20th century in Europe.