Garry Wills teaches cultural history at Northwestern University in Illinois and is a prolific author of books about American history, government and religion.

Richard Viladesau is author of Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty and Art (Oxford University Press, 1999), in which he discusses how beauty can reveal the divine. He is a professor of theology at Fordham University, a Catholic institution in New York, N.Y.

An independent journal from a more conservative viewpoint.

Our Sunday Visitor is a popular Catholic news weekly viewed as conservative.

A church run magazine for lay Catholics.

A Jesuit national Catholic weekly magazine in the United States.

Global Awareness Through Experience offers immersion trips to invite individuals to explore solidarity and compassion through giving. It’s based in La Crosse, Wis.

This online encyclopedia is the 1917 version. Journalists should be aware that it contains no updates, such as church reforms made during Vatican II and should not be relied upon for current information.