Arts & Culture

Make sure you have your tissues handy when you go to see “The Miracle Season” (Mirror).

Few people would suspect that the order of Capuchin monks, famous for their humble imitation of St. Francis, are special guardians entrusted with the duty of caring for Austria’s imperial crypt.

This year’s NCAA basketball tournament was one for the books for Catholic universities, because for the first time, Catholic university teams won both the men’s and women’s national championship games.

The Villanova men’s basketball team claimed its second national championship in three years April 2 with a 79-62 win over Michigan, and I was an ocean away from 99 percent of my fellow Wildcats.

Writer-director Tyler Perry pulls out all the stops in the lurid drama “Acrimony” (Lionsgate). Since his treatment of sexuality is as unbridled as all the other aspects of his film, this initially wild, ultimately over-the-top tale has a small appropriate audience.

Atheism is set at defiance once more in the franchise-extending drama “God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness” (Pure Flix).

Rusty Staub, 73, the New Orleans-born Catholic baseball star who was a fan favorite in a well-traveled, 23-season career, died March 29 in West Palm Beach following a heart attack.

Team chaplains, Father Rob Hagan, Villanova University, and Sister Jean, Loyola University, head to NCAA tournament with hopes for championship.