Editor’s Note: The “2022 Catholic Imagination Conference” will be held this week at the University of Dallas. The following excerpt is adapted from a handout for participating students. The ...

When Catholic writers, artists, scholars, critics and philosophers refer to the Catholic imagination, what do they mean? Dana Gioia is a poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts ...

Friends and colleagues recalled the Washington native as a man of deep intelligence, keen insight and personal discipline ...

THERE are no living American Catholics who are major writers. By two rules of thumb I suggest that American Catholic writers have been found wanting: individually they have failed to produce (1) a ...

This essay was given as a talk at Union Theological Seminary in New York, during a conference on “Catholicism and the Public Square,” sponsored by Commonweal magazine and the Faith and Reason ...

In this kaleidoscopic account, Pulitzer-winning journalist Lichtblau (The Nazis Next Door) delves into the 2018 murder of University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein by Continue reading » The ...

Editor’s note: The following essay appeared in the Dec. 7, 1935 issue of America. I had the good fortune the other night to dine (in the best Catholic tradition) with two outstanding Catholic writers.

There are people in the world who derive no small pleasure from the game of “major” and “minor.” They think that no major work can be painted in watercolors. They think, too, that Hemingway writing ...

Awards to James Bernauer, S.J., Marina McCoy, and Andrea Vicini, S.J. Members of the Philosophy and Theology departments have been honored for their work by organizations recognizing outstanding ...