In Della Owens’ best-selling novel “Where the Crawdads Sing,” which tells the story of a young girl surviving alone on the swampy coastline of North Carolina, readers are challenged to examine the quality of their own moral convictions. Our Sunday Visitor columnist
In July of 1948 Evelyn Waugh reviewed Graham Greene's new novel, "The Heart of the Matter" for "Commonweal" magazine. Waugh used the opportunity not merely to review the book, but to discuss the purpose of the Catholic artist. "There are … Catholics
Meet the ‘Shreveport Martyrs’: Graphic novel introduces holy men as bishops advance cause
A new graphic novel, titled “The Shreveport Martyrs and the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873,” introduces readers to five French-born priests known today as the “Shreveport Martyrs.” The 27-page book, being published in installments online at the website dedicated to the cause
Joseph Vukov is an associate professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, where he is also an affiliate faculty member in psychology and Catholic Studies. He is the author of "Navigating Faith and Science" (2022) and "The Perils of Perfection: On the
As we celebrate John Paul II’s birthday, find why Andrew and Sarah Swafford have written a new book on "gift" and "grit," inspired by the pope’s teachings.
Time magazine once called Lucinda Williams America’s greatest songwriter — a distinction with which columnist Kenneth Craycraft heartily agrees. Williams has penned a new memoir, “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You.” "Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You" is
A book review in the May 27, 1923, edition of The New York Times opined, "there seems to be no reason why … Lord Peter should not become one of the best-known and best-liked among the many amateur detectives of fiction." Thus
World Youth Day is an antidote against indifference, isolation and lethargy, Pope Francis said.
Since World Youth Days were established by St. John Paul II in 1985, "they have involved, moved, stirred and challenged generations of women and men," he said in the
“I don’t believe in that,” widely censored author Judy Blume scoffed in a recent interview with Variety magazine, responding to news that Puffin Books would revise Roald Dahl’s works. Dahl — the British author of “Matilda,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “James
Columnist Kenneth Craycraft looks at the decision by Puffin Books in the United Kingdom to publish books by Roald Dahl that have been removed or changed “hundreds of words and phrases that Puffin has determined violate canons of sensitivity and inclusivity.” An