There are photos to prove it: Bob Dylan in the Vatican, shaking hands and sitting down for a chat with Pope Leo XIV. How did this happen? And what did they discuss?
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Harry Houdini died on Halloween. Of course.
Houdini, the famous escape artist, died on Halloween a century ago. His legend is a complicated but strikingly All-American one.
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Does a light show at St. Patrick’s Cathedral deliver transcendence? You decide.
A new light show at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York promises transcendence…but the real transcendence might be in the cathedral itself, rather than the performance.
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Sigrid Undset: Scholar, storyteller—and future saint?
Sigrid Undset’s writings were admired by everyone from Willa Cather to Dorothy Day. Her life is being studied by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. Who was this Norwegian teller of truths?
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The 1926 International Eucharistic Congress: When the Catholic Church triumphed despite gangsters, culture wars and the KKK
What can a divided country learn from this momentous gathering—in Pope Leo XIV’s hometown—which took place amid dizzying social change and the rise of the “new” Ku Klux Klan?
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Jesuits, Mohawks and Puritans meet in Molly McNett’s historical fiction
The deeply researched ‘Child of These Tears’ captures the profound humanness of Jesuit missionaries in colonial North America.
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Rapper Jelly Roll spent years in and out of prison. Now he’s bringing his Gospel-inspired music behind bars.
Jelly Roll takes seriously the command of Jesus in Matthew 25: “I was in prison and you visited me.”
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What I saw at the ‘Pope Hat’ White Sox game: A nun throwing the first pitch, a 5th-inning sign of peace and 35,000 miters
I went to a White Sox game and all I got was a papal miter (thanks be to God).
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Jesuit, Zen Master and Hiroshima bomb survivor: The legacy of Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
Enomiya-Lassalle, S.J., dedicated his four-plus decades of life after the bombing to bringing Zen meditation into the Catholic Church and creating a cathedral in Hiroshima dedicated to peace.
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The pioneering woman who photographed the Jesuits for Life magazine
Few people familiar with American Catholic history know Margaret Bourke-White’s name or how her camerawork popularized American Jesuits in the atomic age.