The liturgical music tradition of polyphony with its blend of melodies and harmonies should lift people's spirits as it subtly transmits a message about diversity and unity, Pope Leo XIV said.
Traditionalist Catholics have urged Pope Leo XIV to ease his predecessor's restrictions on the Latin Mass, insisting the move was based on misunderstandings and is hampering a Western Church revival.
Access to vast amounts of data and information is not the same thing as having intelligence, which is uniquely human and requires being open to truth, goodness and the real meaning of life, Pope Leo XIV told AI experts and executives.
Fox Nation announced June 11 that an eight-episode second season of the docudrama series "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints" will become available for streaming beginning in November and continuing through the spring of next year. As before, celebrated director Scorsese will host, narrate and executive produce the programs.
For Karri Norris, being a lunch lady at East Ridge High School in Woodbury is an ongoing opportunity to pray for teens. And when she clocks out, she continues to seek “pray-tunities,” as she dubs them — thanking cashiers, smiling at strangers and inquiring about people’s tattoos.
A decade and a half after its popular animated namesake was released comes the live-action remake "How to Train Your Dragon" (Universal). While the basic story and some of the personnel remain the same, the new arrival, although appropriate for a wide audience, falls short of the heights to which its predecessor soared.
In the spirit of the Jubilee Year, a special time of grace and renewal in the Catholic Church, the Hmong community at Presentation of the Virgin Mary in Maplewood is giving $100,000 to the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.
Close to half of the nation's adults have a personal or family connection to Catholicism, but Mass attendance makes for significant differences in what Catholics say is essential to their identity.
After Father Bill Murtaugh offers his final Masses as pastor of Pax Christi in Eden Prairie on June 22 and begins his retirement, one of his projects will be a jigsaw puzzle.
The National Eucharistic Revival is formally slated to end June 22, this year's feast of Corpus Christi. But, the three-year initiative -- which included last year's 10th National Eucharistic Congress and the 2024 and 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimages -- laid the groundwork for more efforts to come, its leaders say.
