For artist Tim Schmalz, sculpture is more than a pastime or an excuse to carve captivating images in bronze. He believes public art is an ideal way to promote faith and spirituality at a time when many are looking for something meaningful in their lives.

Reading this book by veteran journalist Ray Suarez from a Catholic perspective raises fundamental questions. What are we as a church failing to see in the waves of migration?

The shroud remains an object of faith, intrigue and controversy that reappears periodically in the public sphere, as it has in recent weeks. As a scholar of early Christianity, I have long been interested in why people are motivated to create objects like the shroud and also why people are drawn to revere them as authentic.