With this Fall Books literary issue, we offer writers and texts that we certainly feel are best read closely and conscientiously.

The Catholic Book Club continues to flourish, approaching 2,000 members.

Are the Dodgers now baseball’s cursed squad?

El Salvador celebrates the canonization of their patron saint—but should the ceremony have taken place in San Salvador?

“No matter how long or short our lifespan,” Barbara Lee writes, “we live our spiritual life in the present.”

"Lodge 49” is a "very personal story" for creator Jim Gavin. "It’s about losing a parent and losing everything you worked for as a family."

One of the leading novelists of our age on faith, fiction and his distrust of religious institutions.

Cixin Liu’s “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” trilogy, a series of science-fiction novels first published in China a decade ago, has been called “the Chinese Star Wars.”

Catholic moral theologians from around the globe conclude an international ethics conference with calls for prophetic action.

A worldwide gathering of theological ethicists in Sarajevo features almost 500 theological ethicists from 80 countries.