What connects these three books is the important role that parents play in the faith lives of their children. Each approaches the topic from a different perspective.

“The endearing animated comedy ‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’ gets a lot of things right. Principal among these is a lesson about the true nature of friendship.”

Pope Francis, Martin Scorsese, Jane Goodall and a group of less famous “over 70s” talk to young filmmakers about love in the first episode of a four-part documentary available worldwide on Netflix on Christmas Day.

During an online panel about the death penalty Oct. 19, panelists stressed how capital punishment goes against church teaching, and they also urged the nearly 500 participants to promote this discussion at their own parishes by tapping into available resources.

“If the life of faith is essential to us, we need to learn to speak our faith.”

“The speed of digital communication can breed complacency or slowness to act in the offline world.”

In the spotlight: pilgrimage bikers, young boy at papal audience, Spanish volcano

The Oct. 10 vandalization of Denver’s cathedral basilica that resulted in satanic and other “hateful graffiti” being scrawled on its doors and at least one statue brought to 100 the number of incidents of arson, vandalism and other destruction that have taken place at Catholic sites across the United States since May 2020.