Critics have described Cormac McCarthy as a writer beyond good and evil. But beneath the neuter austerity of McCarthy’s prose, a keen moral imagination is at work.
The powerful video images on which we fixate cannot answer the complex statistical questions needed to resolve the issue of police bias against black people.
In "The Terror Years," Lawrence Wright offers a view of the War on Terror through the lens of the individuals and societies that have taken part in it.
As a Catholic, O’Connor believed that the physical, perceptible, photo-graphable world is always pointing toward a larger and more enduring metaphysical reality.
Twice on this trip home to Virginia, Douglas had drifted toward a wrong exit and now she had the wheel. She suspected he was more hung over than he admitted.
Sixty-five works on display in a recent exhibit reveal the Le Nains’ excellence in religious work and genre scenes, mythological allegory, and portraits.
High-end residential towers in New York, Singapore, London, and elsewhere are just a particularly egregious example of the warping of the modern investment economy.
The number of families with children in religious education was growing at a healthy rate. The problem: many weren't engaged in any other aspect of parish life.
In an oval world where / points of view are eye-shaped, / out of a round world, helpless, / where even the hamburger has/ an accredited helper, dirt cheap...
Even when produced with the most meticulous scholarship, our dictionaries ought to remind us that words exceed our best efforts at definition and classification.
Does pop music matter really? Is it “only rock and roll” or “all we have”? 'Love for Sale' misses out on a key opportunity to explore the deep questions.
'American Prophets' is a true exercise in hagiography in every sense of the word, detailing the lives of modern saints while extolling their extraordinary vision.
What the Catholic Church teaches about civic and political duties is an invaluable resource in the battle against those who seek to delegitimize liberal democracy.
Diarmid MacCulloch wants us to understand the religious beliefs of centuries ago in their own terms, however strange they may seem to modern secular sensibilities.
How did President Erdoğan come to accuse the reclusive Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the United States, of treason and masterminding last July's coup in Turkey?
