Illustration by Phil YounkClick on the photo for a printable PDF!Based on the Gospel of Luke 19:1-10Lost, found and saved! [...]

Of all the challenges Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan has in New York, the biggest one might be The New York [...]

NEW YORK –– In "The Calling" (Pleasant Avenue), filmmaker David Ranghelli focuses on the struggles involved in responding to a religious vocation. This absorbing documentary follows a young male novice and a mother superior, both of whom belong to a small community called the Family of Jesus the Healer.

Ranghelli turns his camera on this recently established, traditionally inclined group of priests, brothers and sisters at an interesting moment, just as their founder, Father Philip Scott, announces his prayer-based decision to relocate them from Tampa, Fla., to Peru to serve that country's poor.

For Tampa native Orlando Castillo, a young man from a prosperous background who wishes to "live simply," and who seeks spiritual formation from Father Scott as he discerns a vocation to the priesthood, this move adds a further strain to an already difficult situation. As frank interviews with them show, Castillo's parents – his father in particular – have serious reservations about the life their son is embracing.

NEW YORK –– "Let justice be done though the heavens fall" ran an ancient Roman maxim. The fact-based portrait of [...]

NEW YORK –– No excretory function is left unexamined in "Jackass 3-D" (Paramount), the third feature-length installment of violent and [...]

"Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church" by Kenda Creasy Dean. Oxford University Press [...]

Illustration by Phil YounkClick on the photo for a printable PDF!Based on the Gospel of Luke 18:9-14Prayer – part two! [...]

Q. We were always taught that married men could not be ordained Catholic priests. How is it possible that we [...]

NEW YORK –– Not many Hollywood films open by quoting the Book of Job on the grandeur of horses: "In [...]