Arts & Culture

Two women may hold the key to clearing up questions still surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I and to overcoming the first hurdle on his path to canonization.

The movie “Novitiate” (Sony Classics) falls short of presenting a well-rounded picture of what it is — or, in this case, was — like for a young woman to enter religious life and discern whether it’s right for her.

There’s plenty of combat but relatively little bloodletting in the sweeping Marvel Comics adaptation “Thor: Ragnarok” (Disney).

During the groundbreaking of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s, the 34th president of the United States, national memorial on the National Mall Nov. 2, the invocation came from a Catholic priest and military veteran, Father Leo Blasi of Hays, Kansas, that undoubtedly would have pleased Eisenhower as well.

Author delves into the life of Sister Helen Prejean and writes about how her own eyes were opened to what the death penalty is all about.

Catholic screenwriter, Frank Cottrell Boyce, adapted Ann Thwaite’s book “Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh” for the new movie “Goodbye Christopher Robin,” now in theaters and is rewriting a new script for a movie on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, with Anthony Hopkins in the title role.

The book, “Rebel in the Ranks” by Brad S. Gregory, is an understanding of the ironic overriding outcome of the Reformation, which sought to make society more Christian, and the Reformationists thought it was, ended up unintentionally in the long run secularizing society.

Aggressive vulgarity is the incongruous hallmark of the holiday-themed sequel “A Bad Moms Christmas” (STX).