ARTS + CULTURE/ANGELUS

Two “Everyday” Stigmatists: September 4, 2026

The New Los Angeles County Musuem of Art: August 28, 2026

Facelifted: August 21, 2026

The Cult on the Cape: The Community of Jesus in Orleans, Massachusetts: August 14, 2026

My Pulitzers are Thank You Notes: August 7, 2026

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: July 31, 2026

Welsh vicar-poet R.S. Thomas: July 24, 2026

Dorotheus of Gaza, 6th-century Monk: July 17, 2026

Three More Great California Memoirs: July 10, 2026

LA’s Our Lady of Guadalupe Murals: July 3, 2026

Outsider Artists at NYC’s American Folk Art Museum: June 26, 2026

The Westwood Greenway: June 19, 2026

Georges Rouault, Painter of Clowns and Kings: June 13, 2026

The Rest is History: June 5, 2026

Three Catholic Traditions: May 29, 2026

Kim Phuc Phan Thi: The Triumph of Vietnam’s “Napalm Girl”: May 22, 226

Netflix Mania: May 15, 2026

Father Walter Ciszek: A Saint to Me: May 8, 2026

Galka Scheyer, Art Maven Friend to the Blue Four Expressionists: May 1, 2026

Martha, Martha: Choose the Better Part: April 24, 2026

Blue Trout and Black Truffles: April 17, 2026

Two Different Kinds of Silence: April 10, 2026

The Betrayal of Christ: April 2, 2026

Matt Talbot, Sober and Penitent: March 27, 2026

Hope Bourne, Queen of Exmoor: March 20, 2026

Leo Politi, LA’s Forgotten Storyteller: March 13, 2026

Anna Karenina and Tolstoy’s Championship of the Family: March 6, 2026

An Art Pilgrimage to Amsterdam: February 27, 2026

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove and China’s One-Child Policy: February 20, 2026

Classical Music for Lent: February 13, 2026

Ida Görres’ Bread Grows in Winter: February 6, 2026

California Central Coast’s Oso Flaco Lake: January 30, 2026

The Lord of the Flies: January 23, 2026

Belief and the Things that Really Matter: January 16, 2026

The Power of Story/My Writing Workshops: January 9, 2026

French painter Séraphine de Senlis: December 26, 2025

When We Were the Kennedys, a memoir by Monica Wood: December 19, 2025

SOG Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận: December 12, 2025

Three Great California Memoirs: December 5, 2025

Jane Eyre: November 21, 2025

Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation: November 14, 2025

Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire: November 7, 2025

Two food memoirs: Cold Kitchen and A Twist in the Tail: October 31, 2025

David Cronenberg’s The Fly and the Horror of Designer Babies: October 24, 2025

The Louis Armstrong House Museum: October 17, 2025

Heroic U.S. Army Chaplain Emil Kapaun: October 10, 2025

The Beverly Hills Socialite Who Devoted Her Life to Mexican Prisoners: October 3, 2025

Can a Christian Quit Money?: September 19, 2025

Divine Restlessness: September 12, 2025

Classic Film: Léon Morin, Priest: September 5, 2025

Romano Guardini’s The Lord’s Prayer: August 29, 2025

Wonderland, a memoir by Nicole Treska: August 22, 2025

The Most Overwhelmed Women of the Bible: August 15, 2025

Against Ease: August 8, 2025

Welcome to Folk Artist Nellie Mae Rowe’s Playhouse: August 1, 2025

A Rose Garden, and the Glory of a Chance Encounter: July 25, 2025

The Paradox of Beauty: July 18, 2025

:Our Father, Who Art in an Iron Lung: July 11, 2025

Four Great California Food Writers: July 3, 2025

The Church of Christ Without Christ: June 27, 2025

Snitches vs. Martyrs: June 20, 2025

John Cassavetes’ A Child is Waiting: June 13, 2025

Hans Christian Andersen, My Soulmate: June 6, 2025

Haptic & Hue, a Podcast About Textiles: May 30, 2025

The Undeserving Poor: May 23, 2025

Father Donald Haggerty’s The Hour of Testing: Spiritual Depth and Insight in a Time of Ecclesial Uncertainty: May 16, 2025

Four Iconic California Novels: May 2, 2025

Final Vows: A Documentary About Arizona’s Santa Rita Abbey: May 9, 2025

Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity: April 25, 2025

The Garden at Gethsemane: April 18, 2025

Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl, Patroness of “People without Categories”: April 11, 2025

C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man: April 4, 2025

Agata lzabela Brewer’s The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland: March 28, 2025

Me–Selfish?!: The Underrated Virtue of Humility: March 21, 2024

Sister Wendy Beckett’s The Art of Lent: March 14, 2025

The Thorn in Our Side: March 7, 2025

When Has Catholicism NOT Been Weird?: February 28, 2025

Richard Flanagan’s Question 7: February 21, 20205

Catholic Visionaries: February 14, 2025

Rosamond Purcell’s Owl’s Head and the Beauty of Clutter: February 7, 2025

Let Not Our Hope Be Put to Shame: The 2025 LA Wildfires: January 30, 2025

The Smartest Man Alive: January 23, 2025

Art is for Increasing Life: January 17, 2025:

Hannah’s Children: January 3, 2025

The Perils of Linguistic Subterfuge: December 27, 2024

Reading Suggestions for the Season: December 20, 2024

John Patrick Cobb’s Chapel Ikons: December 13, 2024

Solzhenitsyn’s “Matryona’s House”: December 6, 2024

“Lumen” at the Getty: The People of the Middle Ages Explore Light: November 22, 2024

My New Book: CONSUMED: The Joys, Sorrows, and Débacles of a Life Ordered to Art: November 16, 2024

Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awake a Child’s Imagination: November 8, 2024

All Saiints, Sung and Unsung: November 1, 2024

Queen of the Adriatic: The City of Venice: October 26, 2024

The Venice Biennale: October 18, 2024

The Cry of the Earth: October 11, 2024

Servant of God Élisabeth Leseur: October 4, 2024

Across the Street Around the Corner: A Good Neighbor: September 27, 2024

The Misunderstood Heron: A Connemara Food Truck: September 20, 2024

What is Truly the Point of Leisure?: September 13, 2024

NYC Tour Guide: September 6, 2024

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen: August 30, 2024

The Eucharistic Revival: August 23, 2024

The Falling Birth Rate and Frontline’s “Two American Families”: August 16, 2024

The Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During WWII: August 9, 2024

Roger Ackling: Artist of Sunlight and Wood: August 2, 2024

The Solitary Bee and Other Animal Loners: July 26, 2024

The “Filthy, Rotten System” is Us: July 19, 2024

Matters For You Alone: Leslie Williams’ Poems About Spiritual Friendship: July 12, 2024

Florida Scott-Maxwell’s The Measure of My Days: July 5, 2024

The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology: A Birder’s Paradise: June 28, 2024

Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague: June 21, 2024

The Unsung Saints Behind the Great Saints: June 14, 2024

The Unclaimed [Dead]: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Los Angeles: June 7, 2024

The Luminescence of Memory: Photographer Binh Danh: May 31, 2024

Bishop Erik Varden’s Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses: May 25, 2024

Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up: May 17, 2024

The Communion of Saints: My Mother: May 10, 2024

SHANE: A Western I Can Love: May 3, 2024

Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God, or How to Make a Humane Living as a Creative Writer: April 26, 2024

In Praise of Failure: April 19, 2024

Dante’s “Divine Comedy” on PBS: April 12, 2024

William Congdon, Crucifix-Obsessed Painter: April 5, 2024

Carrying the Cross: March 29, 2024

King of the Children: Nazi Era Hero Dr. Janusz Korczak: March 22, 2024

Thoughts on Virtue-Signaling from Flannery O’Connor: March 15, 2024

Into Great Silence: March 12, 2024

Contemplative Prayer with Fr. Donald Haggerty: March 8, 2024

The Blaschka Glass Sea Creatures: March 1, 2024

The Church Supplies: February 23, 2024

What Is a Man? Remembering My Father: February 16, 2024

American Poet Franz Wright: February 9, 2024

The Diaries Of Servant Of God Carmen Hernández: February 2, 2024

Always Mercy: A Kenyan Hospice: January 26, 2024

Iconic Jewels at LA’s Natural History Museum: January 19, 2024

Our Vocation is Love: January 12, 2024

Write Your Own Obituary: December 29, 2023

Becoming a Benedictine Oblate: December 22, 2023

The Holly and the Ivy: A 50s Christmas Movie: December 15, 2023

A Reflection on St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s Desire to Become a Priest: December 8, 2023

Zena Hitz’s Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life: December 1, 2023

La Reina de Los Angeles: November 24, 2023

Debacle on the Massage Table: November 17, 2023

All the Beauty in the World: The Memoir of a Met Museum Guard: November 10, 2023

Look: How to Pay Attention in a Distracted World: October 27, 2023

The Capacity for Liturgy: October 20, 2023

Sir Alec Guinness, Catholic Convert: October 13, 2023

George Saunders’ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: October 6, 2023

The Italian-American Museum of Los Angeles: September 29, 2023

Ards Franciscan Friary: September 22, 2023

The God of the Impossible: Adoration: September 15, 2023

Iulia de Beausobre’s “Creative Suffering”: September 8. 2023

He Who Dances on Wood: September 1, 2023

What It Is to be a Woman: August 18 and 25, 2023

Erik Varden’s The Shattering of Loneliness: August 11, 2023

Takashi Nagai: Songs of Nagasaki: August 4, 2023

Coachella Valley’s Galilee Center: July 28, 2023

The Huckleberry Explorers Club: July 21, 2023

In Praise of Mirth: July 14, 2023

Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”: July 7, 2023

Writing Your Life: June 30, 2023

Film Noir L.A.: June 23, 2023

The Gardens at Alcatraz: June 16, 2023

Celebrating the Real Sisters of LA: June 9, 2023

Strange Vagabond of God: Servant of God John Bradburne: June 2, 2023

In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust: May 27, 2023

The Friends of Griffith Park Newsletter: May 19, 2023

“All Consuming” at the Norton Simon Museum: May 12, 2023

San Miguel de Allende: May 5, 2023

From Prodigal to Priest: April 28, 2023

Well-Read Mom: April 21, 2023

Sing the Hours: Paul Rose and the Divine Office: April 14, 2023

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit: April 7, 2023

Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers: March 31, 2023

Orchards of Perseverance: The Monks of New Clairvaux at Vina, California: March 24, 2023

St. Joseph: The Silent Knight: March 17, 2023

Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete’s Cry of the Heart: March 10, 2023

Fiber Artist Judith Scott: March 3, 2023

Jed Perl’s Authority and Freedom: February 24, 2023

An Inspector Calls: February 17, 2023

Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: February 10, 2023

Dr. James Michael Sullivan, Anesthesiologist for God: February 3, 2023

Monica Aissa Martinez: Nothing in Stasis: January 27, 2023

A Philosophy of Walking: January 20, 2023

New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur: January 13, 2023

Apostle to the Addicted: RIP Msgr. Terry Richey: January 6, 2023

The Velveteen Rabbit: December 22, 2022

“Dress Codes” at the Autry Museum: December 16, 2022

Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park Paintings: December 9, 2022

The Union of the Holy Sacrifice: December 2, 2022

Anxiety and the Joyful Mysteries: November 25, 2022

The Lost Kitchen: Finding Freedom: November 18, 2022

St. Maximilian Kolbe: Love Without Limits: November 11, 2022

Viva Maestro!: Conductor Gustavo Dudamel: November 4, 2022

Dearest Sister Wendy: October 28, 2022

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: October 21, 2022

The Transubstantiation: October 14, 2022

Maria Sybilla Merian, Artist and Scientist: October 7, 2022

Rehabilitating St. Thérèse of Lisieux: September 30, 2022

Pilgrimage to the Met Museum: September 23, 2022

Music to Die For: Dr. Elaine Stratton Hild: September 16, 2022

Pianist Maria Yudina: Russia’s Holy Fool: September 9, 2022

Glendalough Hermitage and St. Kevin: September 2, 2022

I Stand at the Door and Knock: August 26, 2022

4Chan Culture in the Documentary TFW No GF: August 19, 2022

The Freedom to Do Good: August 12, 2022

On Pilgrimage: August 5, 2022

Kneaded: L.A. Bread Stories: July 29, 2022

Inside Madonna House’s Lay Community of Love: July 22, 2022

Agnes’s Jacket: The Inner Life of the Mentally Ill: July 15, 2022

Mariposas Nocturnas: The Splendor of Moths: July 8, 2022

“Flesh and Bones”: The Art of Anatomy at the Getty: June 24, 2022

Chantemesle: A Normandy Childhood: June 17, 2022

The Inner Life of an LA Street Painter: June 10, 2022

Fr. Patrick McNulty’s I Live Now, Not I: June 3, 2022

Back to Wonder: May 27, 2022

OPICA: An Innovative Program for the Elderly: May 13, 2022

Hallow: A Prayer App(!): May 6, 2022

Photographer Josef Sudek, the Poet of Prague: April 29, 2022

St. Kateri Habitats and Parks: April 22, 2022

Crucify Him!: April 15, 2022

Everyone’s Way of the Cross: April 8, 2022

Lenten Almsgiving: A Catholic Take on Money: April 5, 2022

Caryll Houselander’s Guilt: April 1, 2022

Living the Gospel at Down Home Ranch: March 25, 2022

Forty Days in the Desert of a New Child: March 18, 2022

Songs of the Soul: The Pacific Chorale: March 11, 2022

The Spring is Not For Me: A Lenten Reflection: March 4, 2022

The Genius of Jane Goodall: February 25, 2022

But Beautiful: Alto Saxophonist Art Pepper: February 18, 2022

The Lighted Window: Evening Walks Remembered: February 11, 2022

Let’s Not Die Before We Die: February 4, 2022

Maria Reiche and the Mystery of Peru’s Nazca Lines: January 28, 2022

A Dream Come True: Migrants and the Kingdom of God: January 21, 2022

An Interview–with ME!: January 14, 2022

The Hidden Life of Trees: December 24, 2021

J’Accuse!: On Snitch Culture: December 17, 2021

The Free World: December 10, 2021

The Guardians of My Desk: November 26, 2021

Zapotec Textile Artist and Master Weaver Porfirio Gutiérrez: November 19, 2021

Resurrecting the Dead: Art from Death Row: November 12, 2021

The Taft: Ojai’s Best-Kept Secret Garden: November 5, 2021

Heaven is Our Home: Fonthill Castle and Other Points East: October 29, 2021

Blondell Cummings: Art as Moving Pictures: October 22, 2021

The Inexact Science of Listening to Our Fellow Sufferers: October 15, 2021

National Bird: The Trauma of Drone Warfare: October 8, 2021

The Theater is Back!: Patrick Kerr Discusses “My Fair Lady”: October 1, 2021

Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring LIght and Life in the Deep Sea: September 24, 2021

The Martyrs of the Magadan Gulag: September 17, 2021

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures: September 10, 2021

Poulenc’s “Dialogue of the Carmelites” at the Met Opera: September 3, 2021

The Tsetse Flies that Separate Us from the Love of Christ:: August 27, 2021

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters: August 20, 2021

We Live On: The Actors’ Gang Takes On Studs Terkel’s Hard Times: August 13, 2021

Paolo Veneziano: Altarpieces at the Getty: August 6, 2021

Lourdes, a documentary: July 30, 2021

Skid Row Marathon: July 23, 2021

Santa Maria Novella: The World’s Oldest Apothecary: July 16, 2021

The Global Garage Sale: July 12, 2021

Spiky, Hairy, Shiny: Insects of LA at the Natural History Museum: July 2, 2021

Susan Orleans’ The Library Book: June 25, 2021

My Personal Communion of Saints: Bill Cunningham: June 18, 2021

Evolution and Faith: June 11, 2021

Magellanica: June 4, 2021

Catholic Road Trips Worth Taking: May 28, 2021

Martha Graham: Athlete of God: May 21, 2021

Resurrection, Reparation and Recovery: May 14, 2021

Women Visionaries: May 7, 2021

Stained Glass from Gothic to Street Style: April 30, 2021

Behind the Scenes with an Art Installer: April 23, 2021

Wanted: Disturbing Homilies!: April 15, 2021

Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, Astronomer of the Spirit: April 8, 2021

Night and Fog: Alain Resnais’ Holocaust documentary: April 1, 2021

Silence and the Existential Desert: March 26, 2021

Noah’s Ark Meets Long-Distance Learning at the Skirball: March 19, 2021

Lay Ministry Helps Abuse Survivors Find Healing In a New Way: March 12, 2021

The Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook: March 5, 2021

The Problem with Contriving to be Controversial: February 19, 2021

Cocktail Hour at the Frick, COVID-Style: February 12, 2021

Fallout: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: February, 2021

On the Execution of Federal Inmate Lisa Montgomery: January 29, 2021

Hobo for Christ: January 22, 2021

Robert Macfarlane’s Lost Words: January 15, 2021

Religion Around Billie Holiday: January 8, 2021

Happy New Year: Birds, Spiritual Companions, and Saving a Life: December 25, 2020 and January 1, 2021

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes: December 18, 2020

The Feminine Genius of Our Lady of Guadalupe: December 11 and 18, 2020

Forging Desire Lines in a Culture of Predictability: November 27, 2020

Grievance vs Gratitude: November 20, 2020

Saints Alive!: November 13, 2020

A Visit to Arcosanti: The Reimagined City: November 6, 2020

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit: October 30, 2020

A Vocation of Water: How One Man is Bringing New Life to El Salvador: October 23, 2020

Madame Walska’s Garden: Lotusland: October 16, 2020

The Cellist: Gregor Piatigorsky: October 9, 2020

The Four Quadrants of Conformism: October 2, 2020

Performance Artist Kimsooja: September 25, 2020

LA Immigration Lawyer Linda Dakin-Grimm’s Dignity and Justice: September 18, 2020

Harlem Renaissance Painter Horace Pippin: September 11, 2020

The Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve: September 10, 2020

Art Worth Dying For: James Dickson Innes: September 4, 2020

To Be or Not to Be: Masking: August 28, 2020

Old-Timey Quilts at the Library of Congress: August 21. 2020

The Little Locksmith, by Katharine Butler Hathaway: August 14, 2020

Mother Love: August 12, 2020

The Kindness of Strangers: July 30, 2020

Cancel Culture and René Girard’s The Scapegoat: July 20, 2020

The Deukmejian Wilderness Park: July 10, 2020

Visio Divina: Artist Mel Ahlborn’s Madonna Icons: July 3, 2020

Hope Jahren’s The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here: June 26, 2020

ROSE GALLERY’s Virtual Photography Series “This Seems a Home”: June 19, 2020

The Journey of Opera Singer Julia Rolwing: June 12, 2020

Getting Back to the Business of Life: Resurrection Cemetery: June 5, 2020

Movies Galore: A Quarantine Bucket List of Lesser-Known Classics: May 29, 2020

Pope John Paul XXIII’s Daily Decalogue: May 22, 2020

Brian Doyle’s One Long River of Song: May 15, 2020

Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling: May 12. 2020

Spreading the Gospel, One Zoom Call at a Time: May 7, 2020

Werner Herzog’s “Ecstatic Truth”: May 4, 2020

Mary Gandsey, Restorer of Wood: April 24, 2020

Harrowed: Notes from an Urban Garden: April 10, 2020

Locked Down in Assisi: April 3, 2020

“Poor Clare: A Play by Chiara Atik: March 27, 2020

Even the Dark: Poems by Leslie Williams : March 20, 2020

Angela Hewitt Plays Bach at the Wallis Annenberg: March 13, 2020

The Temptation in the Desert: Man on Wire and Free Solo: March 6, 2020

A Requiem For Our Common Home: Van Nuys High School Students’ Oratorio Re Climate Change: February 28, 2020

Iconicity: A Documentary About Art in the Southern California Desert: February 21, 2020

The Lameness of Singles Awareness Day: February 14, 2020

The Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden: February 7, 2020

Alexander Girard at the Palm Springs Museum: January 31, 2020

St. Andrew’s Abbey in Valyermo, CA: January 24, 2020

Outsider Artist James Castle: January 17, 2020

Sundays Live at St. James: Free Classical Music: January 10, 2020

A Fresh Look at Utopia at the Huntington: December 31, 2019

In This Place Christ Wants to Be Born: December 20, 2019

Hummingbird in Underworld: Deborah Tobolah’s Prison Teaching Memoir: December 13, 2019

Pershing Square Ice Rink: November 26, 2019

A Glass Panel Homage to Local Firefighters: November 22, 2019

“Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound”: October 25, 2019

Gordon Park’s “Flavio Story” at the Getty: October 17, 2019

August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean”: October 7. 2019

The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest: October 4, 2019

“Following the Box” at the Pacific Asia Museum: September 24, 2019

Chris Arnade’s Dignity: A Look at “Back Row America”: September 18, 2019

Art in the LA Metro Stations: September 10, 2019

The William S. Hart House and Museum: September 6, 2019

Dancing at the Vatican: A Documentary Short About Huntington’s Disease: August 16, 2019

Orange County’s Christ Cathedral: July 30, 2019

Washington DC and the Dominican Priory: July 19, 2019

Echo Park’s Lotus Pond: July 5, 2019

Tove Jansson’s “The Summer Book”: June 28, 2019

Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Museum in Joshua Tree: June 21, 2019

The Jubilee Museum in Columbus, Ohio: June 14, 2019

Misadventures at Mission San Antonio de Padua: June 7, 2019

The Los Angeles Printing Museum: May 31, 2019

RAVISHED: Notes on Womanhood: May 24, 2019

“Tiny Beautiful Things”: May 17, 2019

“Behind the Bullet”: A New Perspective on Gun Violence: May 10, 2019

“Defiant Requiem”: Verdi at the Nazi death camp at Terezin: May 2, 2019

South Coast Botanic Garden: April 26, 2019

“Faith Healer”: A Play by Brian Friel: April 19, 2019

Sold for a Farthing: The Story of a Sparrow: April 12, 2019

The Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles: April 5, 2019

The Life of Christ in Woodcuts by James Reid: March 29, 2019

Game, Set, Match: Tennis at Indian Wells: March 22, 2019

The Paley Center for Media: March 15, 2019

Jane Brox’s Silence: March 8, 2019

Pontormo’s “Visitation”: February 28, 2019

Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House: February 22, 2019

Steve Trovato, Master Guitarist: February 15, 2019

Andy Goldsworthy’s Leaning Into the Wind: February 8, 2019

The Unpredictable Beauty of Outlier Art: February 1, 2019

Dear Los Angeles: January 25, 2019

Finding Words for Today’s Court of Public Opinion: January 16, 2019

“The Notion of Family” at the California African American Museum: January 11, 2019

“Sweetheart, Come!”: Advent Waiting: December 21, 2018

Dicken’s A Christmas Carol: December 13, 2018

The LA Children’s Chorus Christmas Concert: December 7, 2018

Yosemite People: Photographys by Jonas Kulikauskas: November 23, 2018

Ceremonies and Celebrations: Textiles at Pasadena’s Pacific Asia Museum: November 16, 2018

Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum: November 9, 2018

Model Builder Extraordinaire Greg Kelly: November 1, 2018

Sunnylands: How the Other 1% Lives: October 26, 2018

Angel City Press: October 19, 2018

African Blacksmiths at UCLA’s Fowler Museum: October 12, 2018

The Poetic Justice Project: October 6 2018

Sam Maloof: Furnitute with a Soul: September 29, 2018

Whistle Down the Wind: September 22, 2018

A Theology of Faces: In Focus: Expressions at the Getty: September 14, 2018

Out of East Africa: Finding Triumph in this Vale of Tears: September 7, 2018

Remembering LA Legend Jonathan Gold: August 17, 2018

Dreaming the Universe: Southern California’s Rich Science Fiction History: August 6, 2018

Growing Habitat: LA’s Wildlife and Descanso Gardens: July 19, 2018

The Tesla Coil: July 9, 2018

The Beautiful Brain: Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal: June 28, 2018

The Wende Cold War Museum: June 21, 2018

A Field Trip to Oxford’s Dreaming Spires: June 14, 2018

Pasadena’s Arlington Garden: June 8, 2018

LA’s Shrine to Pope John Paul II: May 30, 2018

An Inland Soul to Sea: Point Fermin Lighthouse: May 24, 2018

A Painstaking Approach to Life: Stephen Taylor’s Oak: May 17, 2018

The Women Who Saved the California Deserts: May 10, 2018

Holding Court at El Alisal: May 3, 2018

Satan Lives!: Everything is Terrible: April 26, 2018

Jean Vanier’s Ark for the Broken and the Fragile: April 19, 2018

Flannery O’Connor: A Writer of Uncommon Grace: April 12, 2018

FAMISHED, My New Book: April 2, 2018

Music for the End of Our Lives: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Clarinetist Joshua Ranz: March 30, 2018

Dreams Deferred in Harlem: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: March 23, 2018

Waiting for the Swallows to Return to San Juan Capistrano: March 15, 2018

Rose-Lynn Fisher’s “The Topography of Tears”: March 10, 2018

LMU’s Casa de la Mateada: March 2, 2018

The Identity Politics of Getty’s “Outcasts”: February 24, 2018

“Without You, There Is No Us,” Suki Kim’s Memoir of North Korea: February 14, 2018

“Tattoo” at LA’s Natural History Museum: February 9, 2017

Rembrandt’s “Self-Portrait at the Age of 34”: January 31, 2018

“Impossible Dreamers”: Senior Athletes Go the Distance: January 24, 2018

“CUBA IS” at the Annenberg Space for Photography: January 17, 2018

Architect Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute: January 13, 2018

The Museum of Failure: December 20, 2017

Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane: December 13, 2017

McManus & Morgan Fine Papers: December 6, 2017

Lux Aeterna: The Centennial Light Bulb: November 29, 2017

“La Raza” at the Autry: November 15, 2017

Visas and Virtue: The Heroism of Chiune Sugihara: November 9. 2017

All Souls: L.A. County’s Annual Burial of the Unclaimed Dead: November 1, 2017

Christopher Wheeldon’s “Liturgy” at the Colburn: October 21, 2017

LACO@The Movies: Buster Keaton’s “The General”: October 11, 2017

The Industry Hills Charity Pro Rodeo: October 4, 2017

Terry Cannon’s Baseball Reliquary: September 27, 2017

E. Charlton Fortune at the Pasadena Museum of Art: September 20, 2017

The Red Shoes: September 13, 2017

La Sorgente: Ten Neoclassical Arias Set to the Music of Pope John Paul II: September 7, 2017

‘The Messenger,” a Songbird Documentary: August 30, 2017

The Museum of Neon Art: August 22, 2017

Artist Tomasz Misztal, Beloved Disciple: August 16, 2017

The Human Body at IMAX: August 9, 2017

“Generation Wealth” at the Annenberg Space for Photography: August 8, 2017

The Stained Glass of Will Frank: July 21. 2017

Re-enchanting the Catholic Literary Imagination: July 9, 2017

Dawn’s Early Light: A U.S. Naturalization Ceremony: July 6, 2017

Pantsula: The Coolest Dance You’ve Never Heard Of at UCLA’s Fowler Museum: June 29, 2017

The Sacrament of Holy Orders: My Friend Is Ordained a Priest: June 22, 2017

Light Upon the Scaffold: The Prison Letters of Jacques Fesch: June 15, 2017

Cherry Hill Pick-Your-Own Family Farm: June 7, 2017

Science is Fiction: 23 Films of Jean Painlevé: May 25, 2017

Corita Kent: May 18, 2017

The G2 Gallery: Nature and Wildlife Photography: May 10, 2017

The Charles and Ray Eames Foundation: May 4, 2017

The White Heart of Mojave: A Visit to Death Valley: April 27, 2017

Mary Ann O’Connor, Foot Washer: April 12, 2017

Children’s Religious Education: The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: April 5, 2017

Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir: March 29, 2017

The Mars 2020 Oxygen Experiment at JPL: March 23, 2017

Montecito’s Center for Spiritual Renewal: March 15, 2017

Donald Evans and His Fantastic World of Postage Stamps: March 8, 2017

“God’s Hotel” by Victoria Sweet, M.D.: February 23, 2017

The Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area: February 23, 2017

Peace Pilgrim: February 16, 2017

“Batchelder: Tilemaker” at the Pasadena Museum of History: February 9, 2017

The Ramones at the Grammy Museum: February 2, 2017

The Monarch Butterfly Grove of Pismo Beach: January 27, 2017

Pittance Chamber Music Ensemble: January 19, 2017

Skater Christopher Bowman: January 13, 2017

Limb from Limb: A Christmas Story: December 21, 2016

Caryll Houselander: The Little Way of the Infant Jesus: December 16, 2016

The Virgin of Guadalupe: Images In Colonial Mexico at the Bowers Museum: December 9, 2016

Manzanar: December 2, 2016

A Documentary: Bill W.: Co-founder of AA: November 18, 2016

The Cashore Marionettes: November 11, 2016

All Souls: East LA’s Calvary Cemetery: November 4, 2016

“The Tears of St Peter: Peter Sellars Directs the LA Master Chorale: October 28, 2016

Kazuo Ohno, Takao Kawaguchi, and the Art of Butoh: October 21, 2016

El Anatsui at The Broad: October 14, 2016

Cajun Catholics: A Field Trip to the Bayou: October 7, 2016

Salvation on Sand Mountain and the Reptiles at the L.A. Zoo: September 30, 2016

Super King: The Glory of LA’s Middle Eastern Markets: September 23, 2016

Marta Becket and the Amargosa Opera House: September 16, 2016

The Theodore Payne Nursery and Foundation: September 12, 2016

Revolutionary Vision: California Landscape Photographers at the Autry: September 2, 2016

Education Through Music LA: August 26, 2016

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House: August 19, 2016

The World According to Frederick Wiseman: August 12, 2016

Things Unseen: Illuminated Manuscripts at the Getty: August 5, 2016

The Mary & Joseph Retreat Center: July 29, 2016

The Little Prince: July 22, 2016

Royal Feathers: Hawaiian Bird Garments at LACMA: July 15, 2016

Christian Courage in a Secular Age: Dr. Tim Flanigan: July 8, 2016

To Russia, With Love: July 1, 2016

Madrigal Magic: The Briton Ensemble: June 24, 2016

Aaron Lipstadt: Urban Cyclist: June 17, 2016

Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez:June 10, 2016

LOADED: Money and the Spirituality of Enough: June 3, 2016

The Pottery of Beatrice Wood: May 27, 2016

The Sacred Beetle: Jean-Henri Fabre’s Book of Insects: May 20, 2016

St. Dymphna: Patron Saint of the Mentally Ill: May 13, 2016

Composer Arvo Pärt: Love for Every Note: May 6, 2016

The Gun Issue and Abigail Disney’s “The Armor of Light”: April 29, 2016

The Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve: April 22, 2016

Bill Cunningham New York: April 15, 2016

Baptized at Dachau: Anna Lidzbarski Tells Her Story: April 8, 2016

The Huntington Desert Garden: April 1, 2016

Dana Gioia: California’s New Poet Laureate: March 18, 2016

Pasolini’s “The Gospel According to St. Matthew“: March 11, 2016

Farewell My Lovely: Noir Novelist Raymond Chandler: March 4, 2016

Lenten Prayer: The Beauty of a Neighborhood Chapel: February 26, 2016

The L.A. River: February 19, 2016

The Religious Education Congress and Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write: February 12, 2016

The Rose Bowl Flea Market: February 5, 2016

Don Quixote: Love and Redemption with the Los Angeles Ballet: January 29, 2016

Where Chance Meets Necessity: The Boxes of Joseph Cornell: January 22, 2016

Songs from the North: A Documentary About North Korea: January 15, 2016

Johnny, Felicia and Soren: An Adoption Story: January 8, 2016

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy’s Reflections on Time: December 25, 2015

The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day: December 18, 2015

The Mystery of the Watts Towers: December 11, 2015

The Little Sisters of the Poor: December 4, 2015

Fr. Frank Sabatte: Random Stitch Embroiderer and Champion of the Arts: November 20, 2015

Postwar Shadows: The Work of Japanese Photographer Isuichi Miyako: November 13, 2015

MisshapenPearls: The L.A. Chamber Orchestra’s Baroque Conversations: October 30, 2015

Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance: October 23, 2015

In Rome: The Synod on the Family: October 16, 2015

The Secrets of the Mummies: October 9, 2015

Found Down: Identifying the Lost Sheep of Los Angeles: October 2, 2015

Hereafter: Pianist Glenn Gould: September 25, 2015

UCAN Zippers: September 18, 2015

Grist & Toll: An Urban Flour Mill: September 11, 2015

The Museum of Jurassic Technology: September 4, 2015

Bird L.A.: A Walk in Eaton Canyon: August 28, 2015

The Venice Canals: August 21, 2015

The King of Love My Shepherd Is: On the Nineteenth Anniversay of My Confirmation: August 13, 2015

The Otherworldly Photography of John Chiara: August 6, 2015

Magie Dominic’s The Queen of Peace Room: July 31, 2015

Randyland: A Folk Art Shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe: July 17, 2015

In Honduras with Unbound: July 10, 2015

FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Musuem and Galleries: July 3, 2015

Alma Backyard Farms: June 25, 2015

Summer Reading: Bring Back Betty MacDonald!: June 19, 2015

Gerard Thomas Straub: From Hollywood to Haiti: June 12, 2015

Vista Hermosa Natural Park: June 5, 2015

The Mt. Wilson Observatory: May 29, 2015

Walking the Camino with Annie O’Neil and Phil Volker: May 22, 2015

The Blood of Jesus, a Film by Spencer Williams: May 15, 2015

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: St. Damien and the Lepers: May 8, 2015

Samuel S. Soria, Head Organist at Our Lady of Angels Cathedral: May 1, 2015

Tax Time: Outside Lies Magic: April 24, 2015

Holocaust Memorial Day and Terrence des Pres’ The Survivor: April 17, 2015

Hawaiian Surfer/Folk Hero Eddie “Eddie Would Go” Aikau: April 10. 2015

Called to the Outskirts: Stumble: Vice, Virtue and the Space Between: March 27, 2015

L.A. Master Chorale Director Grant Gershon and The Water Passion:March 20, 2015

Van Gogh’s The Mulberry Tree at the Norton Simon: March 13, 2015

The Good Shepherd Domestic Violence Shelter: March 6, 2015

The Loyola Institute for Arts, Culture and Faith: February 27, 2015

Martin Sheen and Sister Rose: Activist Catholics: February 20, 2015

Jeanne McNulty, Order of the Consecrated Virgins: February 13, 2015

The Sound We See: The Echo Park Film Center: February 6, 2015

Margot Fonteyn, the L.A. Ballet, and “The Sleeping Beauty”: January 30, 2015

Dana Gioia and the Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination: January 23, 2015

A Folk Art Treasure: Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village: January 16, 2015

Happy New Year to the City of Angels: January 9, 2015

St. Therese of Lisieux’s Christmas Eve Conversion: December 19, 2014

The Mater Dolorosa Retreat Center: December 12, 2014

Advent: Tom Wilson: Waiting in the Wings: December 5, 2014

Land of Silence and Darkness: Werner Herzog’s Documentary About the Deaf-Blind: November 21, 2014

Senior Lead Officer Skid Row Cop Deon Joseph: November 14, 2014

Book Review: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: November 7, 2014

Dido and Aeneas/Bluebeard’s Castle: October 31, 2014

A Bluebird Day: Commercial Fisherman Captain Geordie King: October 24, 2014

The Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden; October 17, 2014

Catholic Worker Dennis Apel and His U.S. Supreme Court Case: October 10, 2014

Joan of Arc, Voices of Light, and Composer Richard Einhorn: October 3, 2014

Lost for Life: Documentarian Josh Rofe on Juvenile Lifers: September 25, 2014

Meditations of a Beekeeper: September 19, 2014

The Rise and the Resurrection: Book Review: September 12, 2014

“Country: Portraits of an American Sound” at the Annenberg: August 29, 2014

Secret Stairs: A Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles: August 22, 2014

Anne Frank at the Museum of Tolerance: August 15, 2014

Hiroshima Notes: The Life and Work of Kenzaburo Oe: August 8, 2014

Book Review: JESUS: A PILGRIMAGE, by Fr. James Martin: August 1, 2014

Masstimes.org: The Resource for Traveling Catholics: July 18, 2014

The ALOUD lecture series, with Louise Steinman, at the L.A. Public Library: July 11, 2014

Barbara Nicolosi: The Special Cross of the Artist: July 3, 2014

The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America: June 27, 2014

For the Benefit of Those Who See: June 20, 2014

This Is My Body: The Thin Line Between Passion and Pathology: June 13, 2014

Songfest at the Colburn School: June 6, 2014

The Pollinator Garden at the Museum of Natural History: May 29, 2014

Soul-Stirring: African-American Self-Taught Artists from the South: May 22, 2014Insane for the Light: May 15, 2014.