Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

Do you have to believe in God to join a religious order?” asks the narrator of Charlotte Wood’s “Stone Yard Devotional.” The question would seem to be rhetorical, since the unnamed, middle-aged ...

One of the most tense and thrilling films of the season is this adaptation of Robert Harris’ 2016 novel. And it is surely one to get people talking, regardless of their relationship to the Roman ...

I began a strange and wobbly effort to write a book I tentatively called The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jesus Christ. It ...

The dispute involves Catholic precepts on immigration and charity—which the Church has administered for decades through U.S.A ...

Ross Douthat, a Catholic columnist for The New York Times, has written a new book in response to this moment and to the ...

Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover.

A nerdy love of science fiction, a yearning for adventure, a passion for science and a foundation of Jesuit education all helped in some way to lead a man from Detroit, Michigan, to become a master of ...

A book called "Mars Project" originated as a technical appendix to a science fiction novel, both of which were written by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun.  The technical appendix was ...

But lo! Now we leave it behind, and look ahead to all the fantasy and science fiction books coming out in February. Whether you want dark fantasy, steamy (or silly) romantasies, hard sci-fi or fae ...

There have been notable films that involved the conclave of cardinals selecting the new Pope. The Godfather III is most ...