To guide my Lenten reflections this year, I am using the new book The Stations of the Cross in Slow Motion: A Daily Devotion by Suzan Sammons (Sophia Institute Press, 2023). This book guides the user each day through one Station of the Cross, considering several aspects of each for three to four days at…
VIENNA (ChurchMilitant.com) – A controversial art installation at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna that turns the Shroud of Turin upside down has sparked outrage among faithful Catholics. Gottfried Helnwein The Lenten cloth triptych is by Gottfried Helnwein, who has been dubbed a “shock painter” and a “rock star among hyperrealist artists with a penchant for provocation,”…
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null / Credit: OFFSTOCK/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 20, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Jerry Trzeciak leads a lot of Catholic retreats. But the participants aren’t your typical parishioners, and they live in a place where not many people have the courage to go. For the past several years, Trzeciak has worked with the Texas Department…
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null / Credit: Sora Shimazaki/Pexels Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 20, 2024 / 06:31 am (CNA). The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen human embryos constitute children under state statute, a decision that could have wide-reaching effects on in vitro fertilization and other medical concerns there. The nine-judge court said in the 8-1 ruling that…
null / Mehdi Kasumov/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 20, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A K–12 education initiative out of the Catholic University of America (CUA) seeks to bolster what its director calls “the distinctive excellence of Catholic education” by offering school accreditation and fostering professional development of Catholic school leadership around the country. The Institute…
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An illustration of the topic of Thomas Aquinas and AI created by DALL-E, a text-to-image model native to ChatGPT. / Credit: DALL-E/OpenAI CNA Staff, Feb 20, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). What would Thomas Aquinas think of artificial intelligence (AI), and what does a large language model think of Thomas Aquinas? According to one German…
