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If the Pope Joan narrative is mystically powerful, and telling the tale of that narrative is also potent, then recounting the ...
The West Coast premiere of Tod Machover's opera 'Schoenberg in Hollywood' is a bizarre look at uncompromising modernism and ...
Early Monday morning, famous Voodoo queen Marie Laveau's house caught fire. The site suffered damages, but wasn't destroyed.
There’s something awry in my head that zigs when everybody else zags. I can’t explain it and can’t stop it. I’m weird.
In Pope Leo XIV, not only do we have an American Pope, but one who speaks with a midwestern accent. The commonalities of our ...
ROME – The surprising election of the first American pope felt fraught and disorienting to Roman Catholics around the world, who had considered such an outcome unlikely and perhaps unwelcome ...
Many Catholics have said they believe Prevost’s experience as bishop of Chiclayo, a city of 630,000 residents in Northern Peru and not too far from the Amazon, was one of the key reasons he was ...
Many Catholics across Connecticut are hopeful that history’s first American pope, Leo XIV, can unify a divided world and carry on his predecessor's legacy of inclusiveness. “My first ...
SIMOJOVEL, Mexico — At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at the altar as the deacon — his wife beside him — read ...
“That speaks volumes to us here in the U.S. of A.” Catholic University canon law professor Kurt Martens said there has always been an unwritten rule that the pope should not be ...
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a former Chicago priest, was elected to the papacy, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. The news sent shockwaves of joy across Catholic ...