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Dec 30, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Russell Shaw
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today for writing “Gulliver’s Travels,” but he wrote other things that are still read by students of classic English prose.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Russell Shaw
A short, simple statement — “Marley was dead” — ranks high in any list of the most famous first lines in all literature.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | David Agren |Carol Glatz |Russell Shaw
Catholic leaders in Central America expressed alarm over the idea of repealing a national prohibition on extractive activities in El Salvador -- putting the church in opposition to the country's popular president. Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador told reporters at a Dec.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Russell Shaw |Mike Cisneros
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Dec. 4 a challenge to a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender, the high court's first major step toward weighing in on the controversial issue. The high court agreed earlier this year to hear United States v. Skrmetti, the Biden administration's challenge to a law in Tennessee restricting gender transition treatments including puberty blockers for minors.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |Russell Shaw |Caroline de Sury
When the Called to Renew campaign was first launched in 2018, many took it simply as a way to raise funds for capital projects across the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Six years later, several such projects have come to completion: new wheelchair ramps at St. Thomas More Church in Alhambra, a modern PA system at St. Anastasia Church in Westchester, waterproofing against flooding at Holy Angels Church in Arcadia — among others.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Russell Shaw |Mike Cisneros |Caroline de Sury
Remember HAL? For those whose memories may not go back that far, HAL (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) was the murderous artificial intelligence (AI) machine in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Based on stories by Arthur C. Clarke, the movie contains a segment in which HAL deliberately causes the deaths of several astronauts in outer space. HAL’s villainy was fictitious, but 56 years later it’s a different story.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Russell Shaw |Scott Hahn |Heather King
Thanksgiving is one of those few national holidays when a semi-religious sentiment is allowed. It peeks through in reply to two obvious questions: thanksgiving to whom for what? In search of an answer, it seems appropriate to quote three notable Americans on what this observance meant to them. The three writers are Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, and George Washington. Henry David Thoreau: “My thanksgiving is perpetual.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Nirmala Carvalho |Cindy Wooden |Russell Shaw
When Bishop Bosco Puthur was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly last December, there was hope the 77-year-old might finally be able to bring peace to the troubled community, split for years over liturgy, money and power. Instead, the conflict shows no signs of abating, with the latest flashpoint coming Nov. 3 when clergy and laity joined in burning a new circular letter from Puthur outside churches where people had gathered for Sunday Mass.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Russell Shaw
When the Dodgers recorded the final out of the 2024 World Series on Oct. 30 against the New York Yankees, it was an emotional victory for players, coaches, staff, and fans. But there were other winners that night, namely Catholic school students. Thanks to a friendly wager made between Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez and New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Oct.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
angelusnews.com | Russell Shaw
Lately I’ve read two books by St. John Henry Newman. One is Newman’s first novel, “Loss and Gain,” while the other is that classic “history of my religious opinions” (Newman’s words), the “Apologia Pro Vita Sua.” Although the two volumes could hardly be more unalike in most respects, both are of considerable interest for what they tell us about the process of religious conversion.
