“It is not easy to be a Catholic, and it is not easy to be a writer. To be a Catholic writer is doubly difficult,” wrote Jacques Maritain, who nevertheless became one of the most influential 20th-century Catholic writers on either side of the Atlantic.

Parody, Ernest Hemingway said, is a step up from writing on the wall above the urinal. He was wrong.

March Madness is upon us, and (as usual) there are a lot of Catholic schools in the mix. Can any of them prevail?

Opening Day is a reminder that there are, to quote Bill Veeck, only two seasons: winter and baseball.

Pedro Arrupe, S.J., is well on the path to sainthood. So who was he? And why do people have such strong opinions about him?

A Reflection for Good Friday, by James T. Keane

Wilfrid Sheed's books are a delight to read, but his reviews and essays are his true masterpieces.

Robert Giroux edited some of the 20th century's leading writers, including some prominent Catholic voices like Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy and Thomas Merton.

Graham Greene crafted some of English-language literature's finest works, part of a fascinating life marked by bouts of uncertainty and the certainty of doubt.

The death yesterday in a Russian penal colony of Alexei Navalny might naturally bring to mind the story of Walter Ciszek, S.J., the famed American Jesuit who spent 23 years in Soviet captivity.