Perhaps we will realize that what we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

From the ancient Christian East, Doherty retrieved for the modern West a paradigm of peace.

George Eliot's masterpiece teaches us to live faithfully a hidden life.

Insights on the nature of beauty, from Jacques Maritain, Dorothy Day, Basil of Caesarea, and Annie Dillard.

The loneliness of the American male and the warmth of the group chat.

When I first met Sam, he was nearly feral. But he became more than a friend.

The Ukrainian literary sensation does far more than entertain.

America’s theologian isn’t worried about the death of cultural Christianity.

The great American writer addresses the thinning partition between this life and eternity.

When depression takes hold, why does even God seem to fall silent?

Join other Plough readers in your area for discussion and fellowship.

Edith Stein, a philosophy-professor-turned-nun, found a faith mighty enough to face down the evils of her day.

Faith comes before understanding and is a gift no human can impart.

Christians often desire ecstatic encounters with the divine. But not everyone has them.

The beloved Tennessee singer-songwriter gets the joke. Do the rest of us?

If we don’t talk about it, the recent past can feel more remote than a historical period where a consensus has been made, a picture fully rendered.

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The great American writer addresses the thinning partition between this life and eternity.

A non-appetite for glitz and glamour has kept Wendell Berry in Henry County for a lifetime.

The beloved Tennessee singer-songwriter gets the joke. Do the rest of us?

A father reads Katherine Rundell’s <em>The Poisoned King</em>, the second book in the <em>Impossible Creatures</em> series, to his twelve-year-old and six-year-old.

The beloved Tennessee singer-songwriter gets the joke. Do the rest of us?

Our Lord expects works from us. If you see a sick sister whom you can relieve, show compassion to her.

Is it God who torments the innocent, or is it me?

Why are the wealthy as exhausted and anxious as the poor, and how can both find freedom?

Join us online on August 18 as we announce the winning poet and two finalists of the sixth annual Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award.

Julia Ward Howe, who penned the Civil War anthem “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” spent her later years working for peace.

What drove thousands of Irish Catholics to visit a shrine in hopes of seeing a statue move?

What drove thousands of Irish Catholics to visit a shrine in hopes of seeing a statue move?

On the latest episode of Another Life podcast, David Bentley Hart convinces Joy of the transcendent beauty of baseball.

Nine Americans give their suggestions for an alternative national anthem. What is yours?

Is it God who torments the innocent, or is it me?

Why are the wealthy as exhausted and anxious as the poor, and how can both find freedom?

“Give us peace.” Humankind has longed for peace throughout history, and – the world being what it is – many musical settings of this prayer have a solemn, sorrowing, or wistful quality. Not so Mozart’...

A pillar of the Catholic Worker movement passes on.