DiMucci, known throughout his nearly 70-year recording career by his first name Dion, distinguished himself from many rock and roll colleagues in the late 1960s by publicly recommitting himself to his Christian faith.

Pope Leo stressed the importance of integrity, authenticity and transparency in the life of priests — antidotes to the double life that some priests have lived.

Catholic experts argue, Catholic schools may be the best place for children with special needs, because they root each child’s identity not in achievement, but in being a child of God. But that attitude alone does not erase real hurdles, they acknowledge.

Near the anniversary of his sudden and early death from a heat stroke on a hot, steamy Chicago street in July 1897, supporters of Venerable Augustus Tolton (1854-1897) gathered in South Bend to pray, discuss and recommit to promoting his cause for sainthood.

We can, in other words, move beyond our bubble, to become more than ourselves — or, rather, to become the selves that we were always meant to be, because we were created by God and redeemed by His Son and sanctified by His Holy Spirit — all realities in which no AI can ever share, no matter how much it might, through a combination of increasing accuracy and (ironically) “hallucination,” come to mimic human consciousness.