My grandma Mary Pat Anderson lived into her 98th year and returned to her Lord on the great feast of All Souls’ Day. Her life ...

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud ...

Starring Anthony Hopkins as King Herod, Noa Cohen as Mary, and from Christian director DJ Caruso ...

Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...

A tourist who is out of time approaches the end of his or her trip and must return home soon. This is how the Rev. David May ...

Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...

The Florida Department of Education released a list of more than 700 books that were pulled from school shelves. during the ...

Before concluding his Wednesday audience and imparting his paternal blessing for pilgrims, the Holy Father concluded his ...

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

Ukrainian soldier-poets are springing up all along the front lines of their war against Russia, feeding a literary ...

Mary Alice has always told me that the true beauty of a tree can be seen when the tree has lost its leaves. There have been many poems written about trees ... When Kilmer wrote that “Only God can make ...

Rich Mercado can still feel the hug that his mom gave him on returning from Vietnam. Raised in Spanish Harlem as the son of a ...