Daniel Esparza

The feast of St. James is July 25. If you are thinking about walking to Compostela, you should know what most people get wrong before they start.

The newly discovered texts tackle one of the Bible's most theologically awkward passages.

Fifteen centuries before the smartphone, the monks of Egypt named a spiritual illness that strikes hardest in summer heat. Their diagnosis is uncomfortably accurate.

In one of Latin America's largest slums, the Church mobilized within hours of the Venezuelan earthquakes. A bishop's account from the ground.

The children were playing in the rock pools when their father started what would become the most widely read work of fiction of the twentieth century.

He borrowed a friend's country villa, brought his mother and his students, and spent the time arguing about happiness. A model for any summer retreat.

Between May and August, the liturgical calendar offers five encounters with the Virgin Mary. Each has its own landscape, its own traditions, and its own theology.

The welcome of the stranger has a long history. Christianity didn't invent it—but it changed it in ways still felt every time someone opens a door.

The Church has a blessing for beer and a saint who may have invented windsurfing. So of course there's a patron saint for swimmers. His story is better than you'd expect.

Father Francis Morgan gave Tolkien a home and a father. Father Robert Murray gave him the words to describe what he had made.