The best essays in 'The God Beat' are quietly reflective, deeply informed, subjective but not solipsistic.

Did the singer-songwriter era come about specifically to fill a demand by retreat directors for a poignant soundtrack to accompany the spiritual epiphanies of 16-year-olds?

An authentically Catholic consistent life ethic means treating prenatal children as the equivalent of every other human being.

With his debut novel, Phil Klay lays out our country's new way of waging war, without clear beginnings, middles or ends and without clear moral goods and evils.

Princeton University is dropping the requirement for knowing Latin and Greek to major in Classics. Its decision is a frightening one and augurs ill for the future of the field.

Parsing the pros and cons of 'A Canticle for Leibowitz,' the latest selection of the Catholic Book Club.