America: The National Catholic Weekly

Gift to a Good, Gray World
The life and legacy of Corita Kent
ART
BY Suzanne Wielgos
At Home with Catholic Writers
BOOKS
BY Kerry Weber
Faith Undercover
A Catholic CEO promotes good values and good business—with a little help from reality television
TELEVISION
BY Kerry Weber
Family Circles
Alexander Payne's 'The Descendants'
FILM
BY Maurice Timothy Reidy
Faith at the Movies
The best religious films of 2011
FILM
BY John Anderson
The Accidental Christmas Standard
Wherein I discover the true meaning of 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'
MUSIC
BY Mary Valle
Heaven Boy
Reimagining a Polish Jesuit saint
ART
BY Edward W. Schmidt
The Horse and His Boy
Steven Spielberg's 'War Horse'
FILM
BY John P. McCarthy
Everything is Illuminated
An inviting new book on the sacred arts
ART
BY Judith Dupre
The Sacred Arts
A slideshow with commentary
ART
BY Judith Dupre
A Broadway Revival
'Godspell' gets updated
THEATER
BY Rob Weinert-Kendt
Together Again
The return of 'The Muppets'
FILM
BY Kamaria B. Porter
Faith Before Fatherland
Ludi Boeken's 'Saviors in the Night'
FILM
BY Robert E. Lauder
Girl Interrupted
Sean Durkin's 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'
FILM
BY Kamaria B. Porter
To the Ends of the Earth
Robert Barron's 'Catholicism'
TELEVISION
BY Maurice Timothy Reidy
Hollow Justice
Werner Herzog's 'Into the Abyss'
FILM
BY John P. McCarthy
What Will Happen in Syria?
Frontline's 'Syria Undercover'
TELEVISION
BY Raymond A. Schroth
Why Sitcoms Matter
The importance of being funny
TELEVISION
BY Jake Martin
Into the Desert
Il Poverello in portraiture
ART
BY Jon M. Sweeney
The Wrecking Crew
The financial thriller 'Margin Call'
FILM
BY Kamaria B. Porter
Rembrandt's Jesus
A slideshow
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
Imagining Jesus
Rembrandt's haunting view of Christ
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
The Father's Way
Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez on pilgrimages, family ties and the creation of their newest film.
FILM
BY Kerry Weber
Immaculata's Miracle
Tim Chambers's 'The Mighty Macs'
FILM
BY Kerry Weber
A Family Man
The pastel portraits of Stanislaw Wyspianski
ART
BY Karen Sue Smith
How Dry We Were
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick revisit Prohibition
TELEVISION
BY Maurice Timothy Reidy
Struggling with Each Other
Believers, Doubters and 'Higher Ground'
FILM
BY Bryan McCarthy
To See With God's Eyes
Mary Karr and the Ignatian imagination
IDEAS
BY Timothy O'Brien
Hidden Treasures
The plays of Teresa Deevy
THEATER
BY Andrew J. Garavel
Samples of Christian Rock
MUSIC
BY Kerry Weber
Show a Little Faith
My slightly guilty aversion to Christian rock
MUSIC
BY Kerry Weber
Greene Without God
Rowan Joffe's 'Brighton Rock'
FILM
With God on the Links
The quasi-Christianity of 'Seven Days in Utopia'
FILM
BY John P. McCarthy
The Song of Aibileen
What 'The Help' has to say
FILM
BY Michael V. Tueth
Temporary and Timeless
The 9/11 memorials, then and now
ART
BY Judith Dupré
Confessions of a Dangerous Diva
Lady Gaga's fascination with Christian imagery
MUSIC
BY Jon M. Sweeney
The Best We Can
'Terri' finds God in unexpected places
FILM
BY Bryan McCarthy
People of the Book
Celebrating Catholic books and bookstores
IDEAS
BY Michael Leach
Behind 'The Times'
Andrew Rossi's new documentary surveys the paper of record
FILM
BY Maurice Timothy Reidy
From Pages to Pixels
Will texts and tweets replace reading?
IDEAS
BY Jon M. Sweeney
Chicken Little Gets Her Gun
TNT’s 'Falling Skies'
TELEVISION
BY Terrance W. Klein
Moveable Feast
Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris'
FILM
BY Michael V. Tueth
Heaven No More
'The Last Mountain' documents West Virginia's destruction
FILM
BY John P. McCarthy
Funny Girls
Why 'Bridesmaids' succeeds where other summer films fail
FILM
BY Jake Martin
Really Human
Secular artists and saintly lives
IDEAS
BY John Wauck
A Higher Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins meets Elizabeth Taylor
IDEAS
BY Joseph J. Feeney
The Creator
Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life'
FILM
BY John Anderson
Kushner Meets Chesterton
Capitalism, communism and an “Intelligent Guide”
THEATER
BY Jon M. Sweeney
A Deficit of Trust
An economist's take on HBO’s 'Too Big to Fail'
TELEVISION
BY Charles K. Wilber
Laughs and Gasps
The many emotions of Broadway’s new season
THEATER
BY Rob Weinert-Kendt
Is Paris Worth a Mass?
Space, place and liturgy in Notre Dame
ART
BY Dennis McNally
Dragon-Slayer
Roland Joffé presents a prehistory of St. Josemaria Escriva
FILM
BY Kerry Weber
Dragon Hunter
An interview with director Roland Joffé
FILM
BY Kerry Weber
It Don't Come Easy
'Forgiveness' explores a virtue fraught with hope and danger
TELEVISION
BY John A. Coleman
Stage Presence
A spirituality of theater
THEATER
BY Rob Weinert-Kendt
Divided We Fall
Robert Redford examines big ideas in 'The Conspirator'
FILM
BY John P. McCarthy
Searchers
James Franco, Hart Crane and me
FILM
BY Paul Mariani
Attention Must Be Paid
The observational power of 'Poetry’
FILM
BY Karen Sue Smith
Contemplative Compassion
Antonello da Messina and the suffering Christ
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
Hanging Ten, Steadied from Above
Faith takes action in 'Soul Surfer'
FILM
BY John P. McCarthy
A Mother's Love
Todd Haynes' 'Mildred Pierce'
TELEVISION
BY Maurice Timothy Reidy
Rock Your Faith
Elvis Presley, Keith Moon and St. Ignatius
MUSIC
BY David Nantais
They're Complicated
The women of Showtime's 'Nurse Jackie,' 'Weeds' and 'United States of Tara'
TELEVISION
BY Jake Martin
Master Plan
The flawed theology of 'The Adjustment Bureau'
FILM
BY Robert Barron
The Fire Last Time
The lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist catastrophe
TELEVISION
BY Clayton Sinyai
Spiritual Currency
The Vatican's coins of the realm
ART
BY William Van Ornum
Killer Comedies
Four sitcoms escape the shadow of criminal drama.
TELEVISION
BY Jake Martin
Soul Searching
Have art historians de-Christianized sacred art?
ART
BY Elizabeth Lev
Watson, Don't Come Quickly!
'Jeopardy,' HAL, Captain Kirk and Us
IDEAS
BY Kevin Clarke
A Still, Small Voice
Faith and doubt in the music of Josh Ritter
MUSIC
BY Kerry Weber
Praying with My iPhone
The best Catholic apps
NEW MEDIA
BY Jack McLain
The Monks of Tibhirine
Xavier Beauvois' 'Of Gods and Men'
FILM
BY John Anderson
Our Words and our Selves
Marie Ponsot and the rediscovery of language
IDEAS
BY Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
The Exorcist's Apprentice
What do horror films say about God?
FILM
BY Raymond A. Schroth
A Sisters' History
The legacy of women religious in America
ART
BY Camille D'Arienzo
Human Resources
The surprising moral probity of 'The Company Men'
FILM
BY Harry Forbes
Alt-Honeymoon
Seeking the sacred in Prague
IDEAS
BY Jon M. Sweeney with Michal Woll
Watch This
Truly must see TV
TELEVISION
BY Jake Martin
The Last Roundup
The movies Hollywood wants you to see
FILM
BY John Anderson
Visible Hands
Charles Ferguson’s 'Inside Job'
FILM
BY Karen Sue Smith
The First Noël
A meditation on three dazzling mosaics
ART
BY James Martin
Corps de Ballet
'Black Swan' chronicles a dancer's quest for perfection
FILM
BY Maurice Timothy Reidy
Highly Favored One
Meditating on new images of Mary
ART
BY Judith Dupré
Speak, Lord
'The King's Speech' is no musty historical drama
FILM
BY Harry Forbes
Our Sacred Selves
The mystery of the human body
THEATER
BY Robert E. Lauder
Fan Favorites
'Lombardi' and 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson'
THEATER
BY Michael V. Tueth
An Artist Outraged
The Abu Ghraib paintings of Fernando Botero
ART
BY Karen Sue Smith
Mining Talent
The populism of 'The Pitmen Painters'
THEATER
BY Karen Sue Smith
Life is Beautiful
The gruesome splendor of Danny Boyle's '127 Hours'
FILM
BY Maurice Timothy Reidy
Dorothy in Love
New letters reveal the frank sexuality of a possible saint.
IDEAS
BY Robert Ellsberg
Dearest Forster
The love letters of Dorothy Day
IDEAS
BY Robert Ellsberg
Following Marco Polo
“The World of Khubilai Khan” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ART
BY Leo J. O'Donovan
Under a Texas Sky
NBC's 'Friday Night Lights'
TELEVISION
BY Anna Nussbaum Keating
Un-Friendly
David Fincher's 'The Social Network'
FILM
BY Kerry Weber
Ghost Stories
The vacuous theology of Clint Eastwood's 'Hereafter'
FILM
BY John P. McCarthy
Comic Timing
Can five new comedies survive the fall rush?
TELEVISION
BY Jake Martin
The Problem of Pain
An interview with author Melanie Thernstrom
IDEAS
BY William Van Ornum
Still Waiting
A teacher's take on 'Waiting for Superman'
FILM
BY Raymond A. Schroth
The Seer
'Vision' profiles Hildegard von Bingen
FILM
BY John Anderson
Faith of a Nation
PBS looks at 'God in America'
TELEVISION
BY John A. Coleman