“It was there / always and ever / and I had not seen it”

Readers respond to rules about the communion line, Catholic universities, the liberal reaction to political resentment, and airport security nightmares

How my family was allowed to come to the United States, despite our Jewish origins

Why Cardinal Bernardin deserves a fresh hearing

Mark Roche’s book is relevant to the discussion of the woes of Catholic higher education over the past 50 years, but it has ambitions beyond this discussion

Luke Timothy Johnson reviews books on (perhaps) the world’s oldest church, evolution and the Bible, the fear of God, and the relations between different monotheisms

Donald S. Prudio’s book explores whether papal canonization decisions are not indeed infallible in nature

Peter Parker provides an introduction to the poet A. E. Housman that goes deep “into the heart of England”

The clergy are right even when they’re wrong

Donald Trump is both indifferent to and ignorant of the norms and traditions of democratic governance