The next issue of America features a book review by the Rev. Robert Lauder. He begins with an announcement that should thrill many of our readers: The good news for anyone whose literary tastes have ...

Flannery O’Connor wrote the following in her Mystery and Manners: “The novelist makes his statement by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every incident for a reason ...

Offering general absolution to the faithful without having them personally confess their sins first may still be done in places seeing serious or increasing levels of coronavirus infections, a Vatican ...