Rebuilding Notre Dame will be a challenge for a France so proud of its modernity.

A well-known story says that when President Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he remarked, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."

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.

The early Christians give us the signs of the Christian life: broken bread and lives poured out.

Throughout the centuries, and especially during the Renaissance, this iconography was to inspire representations of the Resurrection.

Robert Redford's poignant farewell to cinema.

One might think that something called "plainchant" or "plainsong" would not furnish much to talk about; after all, its very name says it’s plain and it's chant.

Today, I will discuss what makes chant distinctive among musical forms, and then recommend my favorite chant recordings.

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…