COMMENTARY: History and literature are full of femmes formidables who shine forth feminine faith and fortitude.

Christ truly present in the Holy Eucharist — and everything must change, because the wounds we carry need not be final.

When Maisie Ward titled her 1964 memoir Unfinished Business, it was in part a reference to her iconic Catholic publishing house, Sheed & Ward, which turns 100 this year. Had she and Frank Sheed left ...

KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER: The Bridal Wreath, The Mistress of Husaby, The Cross. One volume Nobel Prize Edition ($3). THE MASTER OF HESTVIKEN: The Axe, The Snake Pit. ($3 each). By Sigrid Undset.—Knopf.

He has been one of Europe's leading bass player since the early 70-ties. Andersen started out as a member of the Jan Garbarek Quartet (67-73). The group also included Terje Rypdal and Jon Christensen.

(RNS) — Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, a 38-year-old nun in the Dominican order, is often asked how she got from her upbringing in Kansas to life in a monastery in New ...

Westdeutscher Beobachter, a Nazi organ, demanded today a nation-wide ban on the works of Sigrid Undset, Norwegian authoress, for publishing a book in Lucerne, Switzerland, on the danger to ...

Liv Ullmann will be honored during the upcoming European Film Awards with a career award celebrating her body of work as an actress, director and screenwriter. Ullmann has been an international star ...

Norwegian actress, director and screenwriter Liv Ullmann will be honored by the European Film Academy with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 38th European Film Awards taking place in Berlin in ...

Here are some writers who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Henryk Sienkiewicz. Bjornstjerne Bjornson. Jose Echegaray. Karl Adolph Gjellerup. Selma Lagerlof. Rudolf Christoph Eucken. Harry E.

The Catholic literary canon saved my faith—and, I believe, my sanity. I mean both these statements quite literally. In the crucible of past culture wars that rocked both my college years and my ...