Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way people live and work. But who decides what society is owed by those who develop it, sell it and use it? Especially when it comes to the potential good or harm AI might — or can — do?

This fall the Vatican paved the way for the Worcester Diocese to begin the cause for the potential canonization of a local Catholic — Ruth V. K. Pakaluk.

With a Metuchen diocesan commission established, now-Archbishop James F. Checchio initiated a formal study into the possible canonization of a 20-year-old Catholic University of America student from New Jersey who was tragically killed in 2020 while protecting his parents from an armed attacker at their North Brunswick home.

OSV News spoke with Bishop Daniel E. Garcia of Austin, Texas, moments after the Nov. 20 announcement of his appointment as the inaugural chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion of Racial Justice and Reconciliation.

Movies with a Christmas theme abound but ones that focus on Thanksgiving are rarer. Still, a handful of notable films have incorporated the November holiday into their plots.