NEW YORK -- Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms. The two-day training, which ended Saturday ...

Perhaps no author’s name has appeared in ‘America’ more often than Flannery O’Connor’s over the years, from a 1956 editorial through to a story just last week. Pat Conroy was the epitome of the ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, social and political figures alike for his many contributions to Irish ...

Shortly after his 12th birthday, Mark Joseph Williams' father died, leaving him under the care of a mother suffering from alcoholism and mental illness. The fact that several men in his community ...

Eight years ago, Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio, founder of Ignatius Press, and Mark Middendorf, president of Ave Maria University, saw a need for what some would consider a David standing up to another ...