The simultaneous pull of love and sadness is pure Cheever and permeates his Christmas story.
Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone has written for Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Paris Review and Esquire. His books include Ember Days, a collection of stories and Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction.
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Graham Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’ argues that to write is to be political
At a moment when reporters are being criticized from all sides, ‘The Quiet American’ feels painfully prescient.
Posted inFaith, Features
Close Encounters: A priest and a mysterious U.F.O. sighting
In 1949, a priest with a searchlight spotted something puzzling in the sky. The mystery remains unexplained.
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The spiritual curiosity of Traci Brimhall
In Brimhall’s work, Catholicism is a faith that marries the sensual and the sacred.
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Andy Warhol goes to the Vatican
The Vatican Museums and the Andy Warhol Museum are finalizing a dual exhibition of Warhol’s religious works in Rome.
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The humbling spirituality of (bad) fishing
My fishing life has been a series of snagged lines and broken dreams.
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A Catholic Media Trinity: Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong and Andy Warhol
Their Catholicism was not incidental to their theories and their art; it was their structure, their spirit and their sustenance.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
How the freaks of “Stranger Things” let the transcendent become real
The everyday and the fantastical continue to live side by side as show enters second season.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Why are Catholic horror films so popular? Revisiting ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ for clues
American horror is a God-drenched genre, and many of the essential films in the genre are explicitly Catholic.
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A theology of trash: What I learned during my summer as a garbage man
There is only so much room—in our houses, in our hearts. At some point, we have got to let go.