"God is not nice."

In the late 1990s I watched the rebuilding of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, replicating the nineteenth-century cathedral that had been dynamited by Stalin in 1931.

"A fascinating, unique spiritual feast." - Rodney Stark

When it comes to translation, prayers can be especially tricky. 

Jean Twenge's book iGen is one of the most fascinating — and depressing — texts I've read in the past decade. 

"Ecclesia semper reformanda": the Church always to be reformed.

The tale so often replicated in other parts of our culture has finally touched a sector deeply corrupt and most influential, that of celebrity entertainment.

When a mathematical problem stumped Professor Einstein, he played Mozart on his violin to put him "in touch with the harmony of the cosmos," and often the solution followed.

The writer Flannery O’Connor, in her wit, did not think highly of local Catholic newspapers. 

In the tumultuous eleventh century, seven monks including Saint Bruno formed the Carthusian order.