A meditation on peace rooted in Christian solidarity, drawing on St. Augustine to explore charity, humility, the Eucharist, ...

Diego Mattei explores Jenny Erpenbeck’s life and work, tracing how history, memory, and divided Germany shape her powerful ...

An atheist writer follows Pope Francis to Mongolia, seeking answers on faith and eternal life. Javier Cercas’ unique ...

Being alone is a topic worth exploring. Do we avoid it? Do we fear it? Do we realize the help and riches it can offer? Rather than excluding it from our lives, we should in fact have a more positive ...

“Who is like the Lord our God?” This question appears only once in Scripture (Psalm 113:5), but there are many others like it. On several occasions, it is addressed to God himself: “O Lord, who is ...

The mention of this combination in three public circumstances in such a short space of time, and then repeated on many other occasions, is significant: a fact that is certainly striking, especially ...

Brandee Younger, the eclectic and experimental harpist, has released her new album “Gadabout Season.” Born in 1983 in Hempstead, New York, she began playing the harp at age 11. She earned a bachelor’s ...

On the occasion of the opening of the 80th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and ...

A visionary artist, Alphonse Mucha is one of the symbols of Art Nouveau, a movement that revolutionized European art and design between the 19th and 20th centuries. Born in Moravia, in what is now the ...

Alcide De Gasperi and Palmiro Togliatti, the two great protagonists of Italian political life in the post-war years, both died in the month of August, 10 years apart. The former on August 19, 1954, ...

A Significant Combination Pope Leo XIV began his pontificate with these significant words: “Peace be with ...