More than the costumes and settings, it is that humanity at the heart of Molly Shannon’s comedy which makes it Catholic to the core.
Ciaran Freeman
Ciaran Freeman is an art teacher at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., and is a former O’Hare fellow at America Media.
Posted inFaith, Jesuit School Spotlight
A vibrant poetry program guides Jesuit high school students in their search for empathy and justice
Joseph Ross, an English teacher at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C., says poetry requires us to look deeply at the world around us.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Sally Rooney writes for millennials in a post-Catholic world
Sally Rooney writes for an audience that lacks faith in an institutional church, yet yearns for something to believe in. She writes for me and my friends.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
‘Shuggie Bain’ is a novel of queer, working-class, Irish Catholic life
Douglas Stuart’s novel is an appropriate winner of the Booker Prize for the desolate year in which March seems never to have ended.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
A new HBO documentary shows us the power of Black art in America
“Black is not the absence of color. Black is a particular color,” the artist Kerry James Marshall tells us. The particularity of Blackness as it pertains to art is the backbone of this documentary.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The corporeal imagination of Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’
Class gets placed front and center in this upstairs-downstairs romance between an upper class girl and her maid’s son.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: ‘Waves’ raises questions about storytelling in the black community
Waves is a film with strong film with a moving story, dynamic themes, and complex characters. But plot holes married with production missteps left me asking many questions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
The 10 Greatest Catholic School Movies of All Time
Catholic schools are the perfect setting for a film. These are the best 10.
Posted inArchitecture, Arts & Culture
Hudson Yards’ monument to late capitalism
Part sculpture, part landmark, it is unclear what purpose the structure plays in the public sphere.
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
What does America look like in 2019? The Whitney Biennial asks and answers.
Every other year it hosts the Whitney Biennial, which famously asks the question: What is art in America today? A question that can be broken down into two separate lines of inquiry: What is art? And, what is America?