With Father O’Malley, Crosby “concocted a fantasy priest—a perfect, albeit celibate, man.”

The church needs our young people. But we elders cannot nurture them in the faith if we repel them.

Two questions arise: First, is Dean Koontz to be listed among serious novelists at all? Second, what makes him a Catholic novelist?

For decades, the U.S. church has gifted its public servants with the social teachings and magisterium of the church.

I wonder what you would feel if you knew me. If you saw what the lives you ask us to lead are actually like.

People with intellectual disabilities are, as Jean Vanier is fond of calling them, “friends of time.”