Mariani, a former poetry editor of America, answered: All my life I’ve been a practicing Catholic. It’s the foundation of who and what I am, and I try to take my Catholicism seriously.

Project blending poetry, journalism and art has former residents feeling nostalgic and outsiders planning visits to ...

The phrase “poetry of Catholicism” is the late Andrew Greeley’s, whose writing often revealed the poet in the social scientist. Interesting as it may be, it presents a topic of questionable ...

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...

America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...

There’s poetry all over Scripture, in Psalms, Song of Songs, Lamentations, Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes and the Prophets. And there’s poetry in the liturgy and in the hymns and songs of the church.

America shall be! The poem is not from 1963, however, but from 1936, a year when the Communist Party of the United States ... Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, ...

The nation's first purpose-built mosque opened in Cedar Rapids in the 1930s, and its history is still instructive, writes ...

(RNS) — “I sing of a new American,” Pauli Murray wrote in her poem, “Prophecy,” in 1969. As a priest, legal scholar and civil rights activist, Murray recognized the often tragic history ...

PATERSON, BOOK IV (55 pp.)—William Carlos Williams—New Directions ($3).Since 1946, Poet and Pediatrician William Carlos Williams has been publishing parts of a long poem, Paterson. In ...

How ‘America the Beautiful’ was born. To gather inspiration for her patriotic poem, scholar and social activist Katharine Lee Bates traveled the U.S.