For filmgoers depressed by films from Israel and Palestine, “In Between” offers a change of place and point-of-view.
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., was the literary editor of America and the author of six books, including Dante to Dead Man Walking: One Reader’s Journey through the Christian Classics and American Journey of Eric Sevareid.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The ecstatic, tragic life of Muhammad Ali
Readers who identify with Ali will have to shut their eyes to the negatives and praise the positives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: A Christian town faces its sins in post-war Hungary in “1945”
World War II has just ended, and a little town is struggling to come to terms with its past
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A journey through an ever-evolving Catholic Church on El Camino
Changing churches, confessionals and saints through the centuries
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Jesuit on El Camino with The New York Times
Tuesday, May 4, was our first walk, a 10-mile, six-hour march with a band of 23 men and women.
Posted inArts & Culture
‘Faces Places’ may be the quintessential French road movie
“Faces Places” presents two modern artists rolling through southern France in a truck, a high-tech rolling photo-art laboratory.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam’ revisits a barbaric war and asks, what went wrong?
For nearly 20 years, the United States was severely divided by race, and a generational split not seen since the Civil War.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Can dance provide the meaning of life? The film “Polina” asks the question.
“Polina,” which premieres in the United States Aug. 25, focuses on what it means to find one’s calling in life, particularly one called to dance
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
The pope and the press: a surprisingly friendly relationship
How Pope Francis has changed the Catholic Church’s relationship with the media
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
In ‘The Midwife,’ a Christian message of forgiveness—without Christ
I am intrigued by new French films that dramatically apply religious principles without the mention of God.