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At a time when most schools are serving larger geographic areas, it might be a good idea to take a look at how dioceses structure their educational systems.

The books I’m recommending here I more or less bumped into by accident, usually when some reviewer or author of a memoir took the trouble to cite something good.

One of the frustrations of academic research is that the distinction between reading for work and reading for leisure becomes blurred.

Tempted as I am to recommend those I give as presents year after year, I’ll offer instead some very recent books that have already earned a home on our bookshelf.

No one says growing up is easy, and four novels I’ve read this year reiterate just how challenging the journey from youth (or youthfulness) to maturity can be.

Philosophical flights, lyrical poetry, and a graphic memoir of bipolar disorder are some of the reads topping my list.

Year in and year out, there are nonfiction books set in the present in which the central questions of Christian belief are taken up dramatically.

Looking westward through the porch screen, / White light from the full moon shivers / On snow crust, on glaze over fields.

The Hildesheim Cathedral in Germany is undergoing major renovation and has sent some of its most beautiful medieval objects to New York.

Spoofs, the importance of context, and "wild things."

In his Fordham lecture Bernardin mentions abortion ten times. The word “fetus” appears twice, but the words “woman” and “women” do not appear at all.

Thirty years later one wonders how many recall the debates the lecture engendered. It bears re-reading; the challenges it poses may be even more pressing now.

Bernardin grasped the idea that the Church’s most important contribution to public life is in shaping a cultural consensus on attitude.

To say that Bernardin's consistent ethic of life did not catch on with the American hierarchy would be an understatement.