The New Yorker won three Pulitzers, and ProPublica was given the public service award for its coverage of the deadly ...

Claire Couche is visiting St. Thérèse and Lisieux again this October 2025 for a pilgrimage in honor of the 100th anniversary ...

shared a poem on Instagram comparing Pope Francis to a flower. British monarch King Charles said in a statement that he was “most deeply saddened” to learn of Francis’ death. “Our heavy ...

As a concept, death is hard to wrap our heads around ... At the service, my grandmother's pastor read aloud a poem that my grandmother had picked out years ago. There was no author and no title ...

At the opening of the new Scottish Parliament building in 2004, Liz Lochhead – later Morgan's successor as Makar – read a poem written by him for the occasion, in which he advised: “Don’t let your ...

The wounded from the battle-plain In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors, Lo! In that house of misery, A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering ...

Hedgehogs are holists; foxes are pluralists. Hedgehogs have a satisfying explanation of everything, but they can tend toward ...

On Monday, as news of the 88-year-old pope’s death traveled across the globe ... s frescoes,” in which nearly all people, including clergy, are depicted in plain garments.

There are still too many unanswered questions, many aspects to be studied, and deep taboos surrounding the most devastating ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

A former tour guide at Bonhoeffer’s historic house wrestles with the implications of mythologizing his story for our own ends ...

Laudato Si, meaning "praise be to you," addresses the environmental crisis as both a social and environmental issue. The author reflects on Pope Francis's legacy, including his focus on the poor and ...