A young man is sitting at his desk, his quill poised above the parchment while he glances toward a French poem at his side.

"Banner in the Sky" is an unmistakably Catholic book.

We can hope that Robert Hugh Benson, an author so long neglected, will once more be seen among the stars of the literary firmament, his own star once more in the ascendant…

Many literary critics consider Regina Derieva one of the great modern Russian poets.

Today marks the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Anyone who has read "Kristin Lavransdatter", Sigrid Undset's trilogy of novels about medieval Norway, is aware of the magnetic appeal of the headstrong title character and her saga of sin and redemption. 

Walker Percy (1916–1990), American novelist whose works include "The Moviegoer" and "Love in the Ruins", took as his subject "the dislocation of man in the modern age."

One century ago, as the shadows of World War I were fading away, shadows were closing in on Beatrix. "

A rare gift is to be the pastor of a parish, and one  of its greatest benefactions is a fatherly part in the lives of so many people.

There's a scene from Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed that captures the splendor of my subject this month.