For roughly two decades now, I’ve picked a Book of the Year for my annual list of favorites. (on rare occasions, such as last December, two titles share that spot). In 2018, it was Craig Childs’s
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice-Age America
(Pantheon), in which Childs tells of the gradual peopling of North America.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
