Carol Zimmermann

Dec 5, 2024 | ncronline.org | Carol Zimmermann |Dale Gavlak

An uneasy calm hangs over Aleppo, Christian leaders report, following the recent lightning takeover of Syria's second-largest city by Islamist rebels driving out forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Concerns also mount over government airstrikes. "A relatively calm day compared to previous days," a Catholic priest in Aleppo, who asked not to be identified given the sensitivity of the situation, wrote in a letter made available to OSV News.

Dec 5, 2024 | ncronline.org | Céire Kealty |Carol Zimmermann

As the presence of artificial intelligence in our daily lives expands, so too do the ethical problems posed by the technology. As a Christian, I'm increasingly concerned with AI's presence in one of the most powerful artistic forms: religious art. While preparing a guest lecture in a colleague's classroom, I turned to the web to find electronic scans of religious artworks for my slide deck.

Dec 5, 2024 | ncronline.org | Carol Zimmermann |Erin Grace

Mary Ann Beckman awaited the late-arriving guest from her open front porch on a quaint postcard of a block that might have faded into Omaha oblivion had it not been for people like her husband, Mel. Saving Bemis Park was among Mel Beckman's many noble aims. He rehabbed old houses, pushed the city of Omaha, Nebraska, to save single-family homes from being chopped into apartments, and started one of the city's first neighborhood associations.

Dec 4, 2024 | ncronline.org | Carol Zimmermann |Thomas Adamson

The day after the inferno struck Notre Dame on April 15, 2019, Philippe Villeneuve walked despondently into the remains of his cathedral. Smoke choked the spring air, the spire lay in rubble, and charred beams littered the nave. “We had lost the framework, the roof, the spire, and three sections of the vault,” Villeneuve, its chief architect since 2013, said. Yet just hours earlier, President Emmanuel Macron had issued an extraordinary decree: Notre Dame would rise again — in just five years.

Dec 4, 2024 | ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Carol Zimmermann

The president of the largest group of women and men religious in Latin America and the Caribbean expressed her support Nov. 24 for religious life in Nicaragua as it lives out its mission under "tyranny."Sr. Liliana Franco, president of the Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean Religious, known as CLAR, said, "to the religious men and women in Nicaragua, we are with you."At the conclusion of the Nov.