A Pope Francis-inspired summer reading list—if your idea of a beach read is an 700-page plague novel, a dystopian story about the Antichrist or a bizarre spy story beloved by media theorists and quantum physicists!

“The Reunion’’ shows “Friends” for the fantasy that it always was, while at the same time showing what sustained and continues to sustain that fantasy: the shared affection, admiration and respect of six very talented actors.

A Jesuit and an Italian, Giovanni Grassi, S.J., undertook a project to explain the United States to other Italians in 1818.

James Martin S.J.'s 1994 review of ‘Friends,’ published when it first aired.

The movie about a man stuck indoors for months was the perfect choice for my first trip back to the theater.

The series executes a breathtaking high-wire act, threading speculative fiction a history most of us still do not know well enough.