Culture
Daylesford Abbey plans Catholic music festival for new evangelization
The Norbertine Community in Paoli is expecting a crowd of 1,500 people for a Sept. 20 Catholic music festival organized as "a response to the repeated call of the Catholic Church for a new evangelization."
‘Let’s Be Cops’: One of those bad ideas from the start
This weak comedy and buddy movie combines a far-fetched premise, an obscenity-laden script and ill-advised forays into gross-out as well as kinky humor while only implicitly honoring police work.
Video game review: Tomodachi Life: Better Than the Real Thing?
"Tomodachi Life," a new title for the Nintendo hand-held consoles 2DS and 3DS, is exactly what it claims to be: a game about life.
Sword-wielding turtles are still kinda fun
The wise-cracking, pizza-loving "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" re-emerge from the sewers of New York City to save the world in this vivid 3-D film, with the turtles effectively rendered through live action and motion-capture technology -- along with a good script.
Movie review: The Hundred-Foot Journey
Like an airy souffle, director Lasse Hallstrom's food-themed romantic fantasy "The Hundred-Foot Journey" (Disney) has an elegant appearance and a charming taste, but not much substance.
Movie review: Calvary
Set in rural Ireland, the bleak but powerful seriocomedy "Calvary" (Fox Searchlight) kicks off with a startling premise.
Movie review: Get On Up
"Get On Up" (Universal) is director Tate Taylor's musically compelling yet morally troubling portrait of the "godfather of soul," singer James Brown (1933-2006).
Film ‘Mary of Nazareth’ now available for parish, school screenings
Viewing the movie "Mary of Nazareth" at a parish or school screening will enable Catholics to have a greater and a more profound understanding of the mother of God, said Anthony Ryan, director of sales and marketing for Ignatius Press.
In time of war, rabbi relates humanity’s tradition of peacemaking
A new book "From Enemy to Friend" interweaves Rabbi Amy Eilberg's personal experience, scriptural and rabbinic wisdom, and stories of numerous groups in the United States, Europe and Israel working on reconciliation between religious groups.
High in the Andes, Peruvian artisans create sacred art
Freddy Cerna is about the same height as the statue he carves from Italian Carrara marble. His backward baseball cap and buggy protective goggles are a sharp contrast to the delicate face he perfects with his carving tools. The statue of Mary, her hands folded in prayer, stares back at him.