‘The Phoenician Scheme‘ centers on sin and redemption, the frail but fundamental hope that anyone can be saved, if they sincerely repent.
John Dougherty
John Dougherty is the director of mission and ministry at St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia, Pa.
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Review: In ‘The Life of Chuck,’ every person contains a universe
How much does any one individual person matter, considered against the grand sweep of history and the cosmos? That’s the question that writer-director Mike Flanagan considers in his new film “The Life of Chuck.”
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Lessons on the Francis papacy from ‘The Flowers of St. Francis’
We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.
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‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’ reveals the lonely life of a pope
The election of a pope is a joyful thing. But in this 1968 film starring Anthony Quinn, being pope is the hardest job in the world.
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Why Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ was Pope Francis’ favorite movie
Throughout his papacy Pope Francis referenced ‘La Strada’ in homilies, interviews and public addresses.
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‘Sinners’: a tale of temptation and transcendence
As the film’s title promises, there is plenty of sin on display, even before the vampires arrive.
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‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’ is the perfect film for Holy Week
Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), a classic of the silent film era and widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.
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Robert Bresson’s ‘A Man Escaped’: the Catholic imagination of the 1956 prison break drama
‘A Man Escaped’ is a story of a man seeking temporal salvation, but Robert Bresson’s film takes on deeper meaning, becoming a parable of the Spirit.
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‘The Way’: A Lenten journey through grief along the Camino de Santiago
During Lent, we are called through death to new life. In “The Way” that journey becomes literal.
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Start your Lenten journey with ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
In Llewyn I see a reflection of the human soul: restless, fumbling towards eternal but frequently getting sidetracked.