According to Catholic discipline, there is only one kind of person who can offer anointing of the sick: a priest. But there aren’t enough priests to go around.
The result of her years-long quest to find fellow victims of smear campaigns, Dreger’s ‘Galileo’s Middle Finger’ reveals a problem larger than political correctness.
Centered around the missing bomber pilot from ‘Life After Life,’ Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ examines the interplay of real life and the life of the imagination.
Spanning almost James Agee’s entire lifetime, these letters between author and his priest cover alcohol, God, poetry, childhood, and a “mouthful of sweet potato.”
In ‘The End of the Tour,’ James Ponsoldt addresses the life—and death—of David Foster Wallace, served as the Platonic ideal for a generation of younger writers.
Set on present day Staten Island Eddie Joyce’s ‘Small Mercies’ traces the effect of 9/11 on the families of people living in “the servants’ quarters of New York.”
At the Fifth Station of the Cross / I am asked to “accept in particular / the death that is destined for me” / Which I must keep myself from guessing...
Economist Diane Coyle and Pope Francis don’t speak the same language but address the same problem. The “haves” need to recalibrate over-use of the world’s resources.
Dying is an adult activity. This has been one of its bigger surprises for me. I find I need to leave behind the child side of myself to go where I now need to go.
When stories of minors being lured into the sex industry surfaced in Las Vegas, Nevadans for the Common Good decided to investigate. They knew there would be risks.
In Hebron I learned that the facts on the ground in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict tell a story Americans intent on “international diplomacy” don’t want to hear.
In his new book on labor, Thomas Geoghegan—a longtime labor lawyer in Chicago—lays out many of the depressing ways that American workers have been moving backward.
Readers write in about Catholics breeding like rabbits, writers using “man” to refer to “humanity,” the political tsunami in Scotland, and Jewish women cutting hair.
The leader of the nation’s largest school system discusses Common Core and student testing; her Catholic education; and her upbringing as the child of immigrants.
Opening our doors to Syrian refugees is the right thing to do and an acknowledgement of the responsibility the United States bears for the chaos in the Middle East.
