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A passing grade is a sacred passport that allows passage into Boystown and Girlstown communities, where buildings rise from parched land like Mount Kilimanjar...

More than 6,000 teenagers and their chaperones participated in Youth Day at the 68th Los Angeles Religious Education Congress at Anaheim Convention Center.

Rousing people from ignorance and apathy, the film is doing much more than smashing box-office records, as audience members feel compelled to act.

On Sunday, Nov. 20, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras is thrilled to reteam with Joliet native and CYSO alum Mary Elizabeth Bowden, this time for the world premiere of "Bohemian Queen: Concerto for Trumpet and String Orchestra" by Clarice Assad at Symphony Centers Orchestra Hall.

Although their lives seem exciting and appealing, the lives of film, television, and stage actresses are not always easy. In some cases, failed

Guest conductor Karina Canellakis led the CSO in “Brio” (by Augusta Read Thomas); Robert Schumann’s lushly beautiful “Piano Concerto in A Minor” (featuring pianist Kirill Gerstein); and finally “Ein Heldenlaben (A Heroic Life),” Richard Strauss’ sweeping, fiercely emotional tone poem.

Two new books talk about the divergent paths that Blessed Carlos Acutis and Venerable Aloysius Schwartz took toward sainthood.

Tampa Tribune to priestly biographer. His latest book is Father Al, as he was called by many, was a tireless man, a profoundly holy and hard-working priest dedicated to serving the poor and marginalized. A native of Washington, D.C., he spent his priestly life in South Korea following the Korean War, and in the Philippines and Mexico, founding and reforming orphanages, hospitals, hospices, clinics, and schools. He also founded the Sisters of Mary, a religious order dedicated to the sickest and...

July 7, 2021 Liberation from lockdowns and quarantines ought not be liberation from serious reading, opportunities for which being one of the few boons of the recent past. Here are some suggestions for summer enrichment.   Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., may have retired from the tasks of episcopal governance, but he certainly hasn’t abandoned the fields where the battle for decency is being contested. To some bears of little brain, this makes him a “culture-war...

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