NEW YORK. Evident good intentions are not matched by dramatic craftsmanship in the fantasy “Harold and the Purple Crayon” (PG, Columbia). Though director Carlos Saldanha’s blend of animation and live action, adapted from the 1955 children’s book by Crockett Johnson, makes some respectable moral points, it’s not especially entertaining.

COLORADO SPRINGS. Sister Jeannette Marie Weber, OSF, died July 26 at age 77.

Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Aug. 5 at St. Francis of Assisi Parish, followed by burial in Mount St. Francis Cemetery.

Ten years ago, Symbolon became the Augustine Institute’s first parish program that was core to their mission of handing down the Catholic faith. It was designed to help every Catholic know the Nicene Creed. Since its initial release, it has been used for catechetical formation and in the Rite of Christian Initiation (recently changed to the Order of Christian Initiation, or OCIA). 

Have you ever found yourself walking in a garden or on a path and happened upon a breathtaking statue of St. Francis of Assisi or a beautiful water fountain busy with birds splashing? It is sometimes in the awe of these moments that a person feels closest to God. He or she might silently thank him for encountering such beauty, or might think, “God sent this sacred message, personally, to me.”

Como obispo de la diócesis que tiene su sede en la Ciudad Olímpica, me sentí profundamente conmocionado y entristecido al presenciar la exhibición blasfema durante la ceremonia de apertura de las Olimpiadas en París. La vergonzosa burla de la Última Cena causó una gran herida en el corazón de Jesús y en el de muchos cristianos de todo el mundo.  ¿Cómo respondemos a esto los católicos?