One Saturday morning, when I was around 10 years old, my elder brother Stuart and I were running and jumping off the side of our street down an embankment into a white sand pit left by builders. It ...

In this morning’s weekly general audience in the presence of 13,000 faithful at St. Peter’s Square, the Pope reflected on Psalm 40, which teaches us to overcome superficiality, vanity and sin, and ...

Editor’s note: This article was first published in the Aug. 2, 1997, issue of America, titled “Praying the Psalms: Some Notes.” For some years I have been keeping rather extensive reading notebooks.