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NEW YORK -- "The family that prays together stays together." Although he popularized rather than originated that pithy saying, the sentence aptly sums up the message of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton (1909-1992), who advocated it both tirelessly and with great success.

Robin Puttock gave the students in her architecture class at The Catholic University of America in Washington an unusual assignment -- to consider how the design of a workspace affects mental health.

Ivereigh posits that the pope's reforms are starting to take root aided by his naming of like-minded bishops, a common tactic used by previous popes. He is optimistic, perhaps too optimistic, that they will be hard to derail.

NEW YORK -- Moviegoers anticipating the feature film about the story of the children of Fatima will have to wait a few more months to see the famous miracle story on the big screen.

LONDON, England -- For years, the dramatic paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi, a Catholic artist of the Counter-Reformation, were misattributed to male artists – most often her father, Orazio, who was also a painter.

“The Life of a Priest Buried in Time,” a two-volume memoir by retired Archdiocese of San Francisco priest Father Anthony Chung, brings out unforgettable moments gathered in his lifetime of ministry and travel.

VATICAN CITY -- An artistic masterpiece conceived by the Renaissance master Raphael was on display for one week in the Sistine Chapel to help celebrate the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.

A Netflix series takes its audience on an intelligent, spiritually risky journey to discover the answer to the question of what would happen if the Messiah returned today?

In “The Cave” women doctors and nurses work side by side with their male counterparts to patch together the broken bodies of civilians, children and adults caught in chemical and incendiary attacks ordered by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Author Ken Follett's point is not to investigate what happened in the 2019 fire, but to explain why cathedrals get built and why we want to preserve them.

Every day, television headlines are more tiring, the social media scrolling more soulless and popular culture continues its pursuit of "relevance" over actual meaning. It might be time to sink your teeth into written works that actually sought to plumb the depths of humanity and have withstood the test of time.

"Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story" documents the life of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and a "dangerous combination" of traditional Catholic and social and political radical.

A recent art exhibition by a Santa Rosa-based photographer tried to capture the experience of witnessing Fatima’s Miracle of the Sun.  

"Dolittle," starring Robert Downey Jr., is a chaotic comic adventure, colorful, jaunty but unfocused and somewhat slipshod.

An energetic pace, witty exchanges and the effective spinning of the plot's many wheels-within-wheels cannot compensate for Ritchie's lighthearted outlook on brutal mayhem.

Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson play two parents whose initial impulse to behave decently toward each other during their divorce is swiftly undermined by the legal system.

Bishop Robert Barron discusses the connection between the recent feast of the Baptism of the Lord and the World War I movie "1917."

Rose Rea's name may be on the cover of the book, but she downplays her role in the creation of "Spirit and Life: The Holy Sacraments of the Catholic Church," published by Sophia Institute Press.

NEW YORK -- "1917" (Universal) is a great movie about the Great War. By turns harrowing and lyrically beautiful -- and deeply humane throughout -- director and co-writer (with Krysty Wilson-Cairns) Sam Mendes' gripping historical drama displays both the horrors of trench combat and the endurance of fundamental decency and spiritual striving.

"Seculosity" is what happens when religiosity get transferred to the things of the world, such as career and parenting, says Christian writer David Zahl. Unsurprisingly, he says, it's a salvational dead-end.