Markus Friedrich is passionate about Jesuit history—how it is studied, how it should not be studied and about its larger importance today.

Where have you gone, Vin Scully? A nation turns its lonely ear to you.

A very sunburned literary editor looks back on some Catholic Book Club columns of yore.

This story has no moral, only a great joy for Mrs. Toole, and a great sadness.

Readable, well researched and carefully documented, 'Saving Yellowstone' does not get bogged down in minutiae in its history of the park.

The papalization of the church reached its most robust form in the first half of the 20th century, but it might be seeing its twilight under Pope Francis.