Forese had not been dead that long, not even five years. That’s why Dante wondered how he’d made so much progress. An old friend of Dante’s, Forese is found in the Purgatorio, Canto XXIII. Surprised ...

Over the last several weeks, as St. Luke’s Gospel has unfolded in our Sunday readings, some of us may have been reminded of a famous line from one of the first episodes of “The Chosen,” when the ...