Find today’s readings here. I have been on what I might call a “lawyer kick” recently: In a class I’m taking, I am reading Cicero’s “De Oratore” (“On the Ideal Orator”), which discusses how one should ...

These are the famous words of St. Thomas More, spoken to the crowds moments before his public beheading on July 6, 1535, just two weeks after the execution of St. John Fisher with whom he shares his ...

In a time when the Catholic Church in the United States is flirting with Communion bans and populist nationalism, it's good to consider anew why Thomas More, the patron saint of politicians, is not a ...

"David Byrne's American Utopia" received a special Tony Award. You might call this a career triumph, though he has his own way of describing of it. "I think there have been a few moments where ...

The skull of St. Thomas More, a prominent Catholic saint beheaded in 1535, may soon be exhumed from its centuries-old resting place at St. Dunstan's Church in Canterbury, England. Officials at the ...