I write because I breathe. It's what I do. I've always known that it was what I would do. As a child, making weekly trips to the local library and creating my own magazines, I knew in my heart that I ...

Phil Klay is pictured in this undated photo. He is a Catholic author whose works include the New York Times best-selling collection of short stories “Redeployment.” (Credit: Courtesy Hannah Dunphy via ...

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 ...

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.

Dana Gioia, Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. (CNS photo/courtesy Star Black) Few ...

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 ...

The ingenious debut treatise from legal scholar Ossei-Owusu asserts that the ways in which American lawyers are schooled and trained are a crucial factor in maintaining the Continue reading » The Book ...

New York based Irish American writer Peter Quinn is pictured in a file photo. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Don Pollard.) Listen A reader familiar with New York-based Irish American writer Peter Quinn’s ...

Lancaster Catholic High School student Katherine Hollister won a national silver medal in the Scholastic Art & Writing Award competition for her work, “The Smell of a Cigarette.’’ This year, students ...

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 ...

Last week’s “In Person” introduced readers to Piers Paul Read, best known for his 1974 non-fiction work Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. Now he’s got a new drama hitting bookstores, only it’s ...