Wednesday 15 January |

Saint of the Day: Sts. Maurus and Placidus

Art & Culture

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Zelda Caldwell

George Washington’s “Rules of Civility” were copied from French Jesuits

OPACTWO WESTMINISTER

Daniel Esparza

Listen to (almost!) the whole Psalter, sung by the choir of Westminster Abbey

THE HOBBIT,BOOK,LAYFLAT

Tod Worner

Why ‘The Hobbit’ is not just for kids

SHILOH,BIBLICAL CITY

J-P Mauro

Can the Bible be used as a historical guide? One archaeologist thinks so

DOG,HOUND,PAINTING

Zelda Caldwell

Get the chills as Richard Burton reads “The Hound of Heaven”

HARRIET TUBMAN,SLAVERY

J-P Mauro

Listen to first-hand accounts of lives in slavery

AMAZING GRACE,PETER HOLLENS

J-P Mauro

Nearly 4,000 recordings of “Amazing Grace”

J-P Mauro

Hymn of the Week: “O God, Our Help In Ages Past”

NIEUDANA RENOWACJA

V. M. Traverso

Sixteenth-century sculpture of St. George ruined by another well-intentioned “restoration”

Black chocolate

V. M. Traverso

Rome’s favorite chocolate was created by Trappist monks 140 years ago

ALBAN PILGRIMAGE

John Burger

Anglican cathedrals reviving pre-Reformation practices in England

MUSICIANS

J-P Mauro

CMAA’s Sacred Music Colloquium is making gorgeous sacred music in Chicago

Israelite Footprint

J-P Mauro

Archaeologists ponder the mysterious “Israelite footprints” found in the Jordan Valley

LETANIAS

Pablo Cesio

The world’s smallest image of the Virgin Mary: Our Lady behind a magnifying glass

AMERICAN ANIMALS TRAILER

Matthew Becklo

Movie review: ‘American Animals’ explores the hunger of the human heart

SANTA MARIA DEL MAR,BARCELONA

Daniel Esparza

The curious case of the Barcelona FC’s crest on a Gothic stained glass window

13TH CENTURY COCKATOO

J-P Mauro

A drawing of a cockatoo in a 13th-century Vatican manuscript reveals unknown trade routes

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Jesús Colina

Are these the true faces of Saint Peter and Saint Paul?

JURASSIC WORLD

Bishop Robert Barron

Bishop Barron: What ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ gets right and wrong

BABYLONIAN STEW

J-P Mauro

Cooking a Babylonian recipe from a 4,000-year-old clay tablet

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