Arts & Culture

While it may be one of Netflix’s most popular recent shows, and although it features comic headliner Melissa McCarthy, “God’s Favorite Idiot” is a painfully unfunny misfire.

Despite the hint of evil and violence in the “crime novelist,” James Lee Burke, he still finds redeeming qualities in many of his characters.

The goal of the monthly newspaper is “to give a voice to those who are usually not heard: the poor, people wounded by life, those who are cast aside and excluded,” the Vatican said.

At his June 22 funeral Mass, Mark Shields — a fixture for 33 years as a commentator on the PBS “NewsHour” — was remembered as a man who believed in the power of politics serving the common good, and as a man of faith and humor.

Wise men say only fools rush in — and skip seeing “Elvis” (Warner Bros), a highly entertaining, turbocharged biography of a music legend.

The authors offer couples a range of information, from a step-by-step guide to what they should do after saying, “Yes,” to a cardinal’s reflections on the heart of marriage.

The statue portrays a woman carrying a baby in her womb.

Catholic priests from dioceses across Vietnam will compete in the first-ever national soccer championship to promote the spirit of synodality.