Pope Francis has not weighed in on the new show. (As he doesn’t watch television, this is not unexpected.) But on his behalf, we have a couple of notes we’d like to share from a Catholic perspective.
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Better Call Saul’ is a story about the liberating power of confessing your sins
For six years, “Better Call Saul” has given the story equivalent of a graduate-level seminar on morality, and the series finale is both satisfying and surprising.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Review: Netflix’s ‘The Sandman’ invites us into gratitude, wonder and the depths of our dreams
Until recently, “The Sandman”—Neil Gaiman’s magnum opus about the eternal being who oversees the universe of dreaming—has remained an impossible quest.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Lessons for evangelization from Britney Spears’s journey with the Catholic Church
Britney Spears recently wanted to get married in the Catholic Church. The controversy that followed shows us what we still need to learn about turning our churches into welcoming spaces.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The spiritual discipline of missing out on things
Sometimes not getting to do the thing that you want can actually feel kind of wonderful, even luxurious.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Biblical parents are just like us
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Jim McDermott, S.J.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Ms. Marvel’ isn’t just a superhero story. It’s an exploration of Pakistani-American religion and culture.
When it came to bringing Kamala Khan to the screen, Marvel has made all the right choices.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’m a Catholic priest. But please don’t call me Father.
We will all be a lot better off when fewer distinctions are made between us clergy and everyone else.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Some people see God’s grandeur when they look at space. I just see a blurry photo.
I usually love a good space story. But the more accolades I read about the new Webb Telescope image, the more I wondered if there was some other photo I hadn’t seen—because the one I kept seeing looked, well, like a blurry photo of stars.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Scalpers are selling tickets to Pope Francis’ Mass in Canada. Please don’t buy them.
Every ticket scooped up by scalpers is one less ticket available to the very people that the pope is going to Canada to see.