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I am Catholic because my parents are Catholic (and their parents were Catholic, and so on). They had me baptized as a baby, and created a loving, faith-filled home. We regularly attended Mass as a family and received the sacraments. We had family rituals, traditions, pastimes, and shared meals — sacramentality in the domestic church at its finest.

The Vatican has published new norms for the church to discern alleged supernatural phenomena, such as Marian apparitions and mystical visions, which streamline the discernment process for bishops, allow the Vatican to avoid making definitive judgments on the authenticity of the events and reaffirm that Catholics are not obliged to believe in the purported phenomena.

Back in the early 1960s, French author Pierre Boulle published a novel about a world in which civilized simians dominated degenerate humans. When his book was brought to the big screen in 1968's "Planet of the Apes," starring Charlton Heston, the film was sufficiently successful to give rise, over the decades, to numerous sequels.

Of all the great Christian feasts, none, with the exception of Easter and perhaps Christmas, has been and is more widely celebrated than Pentecost.

May 15, Gov. Tim Walz signed into state law legislation that, in part, adds a new religious exemption to the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA).

John Krasinski wrote, directed and plays a prominent role in the generally wholesome fantasy "IF" (Paramount). Yet, while the good intentions behind his film are evident, it ends up registering as a sweet but flawed piece of entertainment, one that gets in its own way by trying too hard to be liked.

The cross over Notre Dame's choir and the eight bronze bells in the north tower can now be reinstalled in their rightful place in the iconic Paris cathedral.

The niece of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925) welcomed plans for him to be proclaimed a saint on the centenary of his death, predicting it will testify to the Catholic Church's confidence in young people.