The development of iTouch devices is changing the way art museums provide interactive tools to educate the public The audioguides that started out as cassette tape players then morphed into to hand-held phones with text and music are morphing again This time the offer is an app designed to enhanc

In case you missed it Daniel and Sidney Callahan were honored last week at America House with the first Matteo Ricci S J Award nbsp The editors of America are pleased to honor Daniel Callahan and Sidney de Shazo Callahan with the Matteo Ricci S J Award for their distinguished contributio

An extremely funny -- and alarming -- piece by the actor Hugh Grant has been posted at the New Statesman which tells the story of how he secretly taped a conversation with a tabloid journalist about phone-hacking Read The bugger bugged in all its glory here The joy of the piece is that the

From the Catholic News Agency Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez of San Juan Puerto Rico recently asked singer Ricky Martin to refrain from promoting homosexuality and to set a good example for young people ldquo Personally I admire Ricky for the great artistic gifts the Lord has given him but I

As a big fan of The West Wing I always looked forward to any scenes in which President Bartlett s Catholicism came into focus Bartlett played of course by Martin Sheen was a generally likeable intelligent character who often grappled with moral implications of his faith In this recent inter

An update on a story we highlighted in In All Things last year Monks at St Joseph Abbey near Covington can sue for the right to sell handcrafted caskets to the public without a license from the Louisiana Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors a federal judge in New Orleans has decided U S