I’ve found it necessary to root myself in anything that feels rehumanizing, whether it’s art or literature or learning.

The world came together on a warm April morning in Rome. Under Bernini’s wide colonnade, a simple wooden coffin lay, almost ...

Javier Cercas, a journalist and novelist who was raised in a devout Catholic household but is himself an atheist, was invited to join Francis ... themselves above the flock and becoming smitten by ...