A violent assault on a famous author revives an ugly history: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.

A Reflection for Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane

America's editors shy away from endorsing political candidates—but J.F.K. proved a hard case, both during his life and in the decades since.

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

The Rev. Andrew Greeley had an enormous impact on the American Catholic Church—including through his many contributions to this magazine.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

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

John Kennedy Toole's only novel was published after his death—but quickly became a classic of American comic fiction.

In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.

No, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not dead. No, Pope Francis is not resigning. And no, the Vatican is not hiding a secret time machine.