De Sales’s insistence that a life of prayer “finds its ideal in the ordinary” will appeal to modern readers.

Even the author's suicide does not exclude him from God's mercy.

Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., America's books editor, considers shifting masculine ideals in film and literature.

Father James Martin's new books talks clearly and openly about an issue that daunts and taunts our church.

'I saw the Catholic Church from the inside, like a tauntaun.'

Callanan, a professor and novelist from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will be awarded the $25,000 Catholic literary prize.