3+ hour, 16+ min ago  (790+ words) If various news reports are to be believed, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical may come soon after Easter, and will address the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) and its challenges to human flourishing." There is a lot of anxiety around…...

18+ hour, 40+ min ago  (471+ words) I think my career on Catholic radio has come to an end. Now, let's be honest, most of you are saying collectively, "What Catholic radio career?" About four years ago, a radio producer "discovered" my columns through the Angelus website…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (186+ words) "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith" will be published June 16, the Harper Collins Publishers imprint Harper told AP. Harper Collins is also the publisher of Vance's memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," a bestseller that helped raise his national profile. "The story…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (744+ words) On March 17, as the world's 80 million people of Irish descent celebrate Ireland's national patron St. Patrick -- a Briton who brought Christianity to the island in 432 -- the Irish convent school that gave the world Oscar-winning actress Jessie Buckley is brimming with…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (817+ words) Leo Politi (1908-1996) walked, loved, wrote about, and illustrated the streets of LA, especially Bunker Hill and downtown's Olvera Street. His children's books number over 20 and include "Pedro: The Angel of Olvera Street" (J. Paul Getty Museum, $15. 95), "Juanita" (J. Paul Getty Museum, $77. 34), "Little…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (763+ words) Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" (1878) is widely considered one of the world's greatest novels. Often styled a romance " with Anna as the tragic heroine who dies for love " one of the story's real themes is the corrupting influence of adultery on…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (730+ words) A new exhibition in Rome is spotlighting the pivotal moment Pope Urban VIII entrusted a 25-year-old Gian Lorenzo Bernini with one of the most ambitious artistic commissions in Church history: creating the massive bronze canopy over the tomb of St....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (727+ words) The Vatican Museums announced that restoration work has begun on Michelangelo's "The Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel, a fresco an art historian describes as "a clarion call to the cardinals of what it means to be Catholic." "The cleaning…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (248+ words) The new romantic comedy "Solo Mio" (in theaters since Feb. 6) is a throwback film in many ways. One of them is that its plot revolves around getting left at the altar. Having sisters, I watched my fair share of these…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (767+ words) Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." Where words fail, music speaks." " Hans Christian Andersen Now that we're all…...