In the fifth episode of "Plague," Mike visits the small Midwestern city of Belleville, Illinois, where a Catholic Sister broke ground in the 1980s by opening an organization to provide services for people living with HIV and AIDS.

Even though manuscripts—handwritten books— are at least several technological stages behind the ways we access information today, we still rely on them for access to the past.

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Members of the Society of Jesus have been among the relatively few Catholic Christians with a discerning appreciation for Freud.

There are now a large number of graduate students in Catholic higher education, and few of them encounter anything substantive in regards to faith formation, religious meaning-making or the role of spirituality in their lives.

Kathryn Jean Lopez on her career, her new book and her ongoing drift from conservative politics to Catholic spirituality.