Ramadan is set to happen later this month, marking the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It's a time held in high esteem by Muslims worldwide as they believe it's when the first verse of the ...

And liturgy is more than aesthetics. The Tridentine liturgy is one cultural expression, largely for traditionalist Catholics. There are others, more sensitive to local cultures. But what I miss in ...

While rooted in tropes of the Chicano aesthetic—intrinsic to Chavarria, who was raised in California by a Mexican father from a farm worker family and an Irish American mother also from the ...