Drama can teach us active listening and public speaking, yes; but on a deeper level, it can shape our spiritual disposition.
Renée Darline Roden
Renée Roden is the author of Tantur: Seeking Christian Unity in a Divided City, due out in August 2025 with Liturgical Press. She lives at St. Martin de Porres Catholic Worker in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Review: The Catholic fragments of art, faith and sex in 1980s pop culture
Paul Elie’s ‘The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex and Controversy’ investigates pop culture’s crypto-religious, uncanny symbols of immanence and transcendence.
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Review: What Marshall McLuhan can teach us in the age of digital media
Marshall McLuhan’s media theories proved prophetic for the age of mass communications—and his religious beliefs played a role in his theories.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Across the U.S., Catholic pilgrims are walking together for racial justice
Modern Catholic Pilgrim, the company organizing these pilgrimages, aims to reform the culture of the American Church—and even secular society—through the spiritual practices of hospitality and pilgrimage.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
This band wrote a song in honor of Dorothy Day. Now their album could help make her a saint.
Eric Krewson and the band he headlines, The Chairman Dances, wrote a song that celebrates the friendship of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. And that song will shortly be on its way to the Vatican.
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Review: The racism in Western theological education
In his analysis of Western theological education, Willie James Jennings argues for an institution that does not replicate structures of exclusion or division, but rather reflects the image of the body of Christ.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
Pro-life Catholics: You can’t end abortion without taking on the patriarchy.
Until all structures of sexism are transformed and the patriarchal mores in our hearts and relationships are converted, there will always be unwanted pregnancies.
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Jeannie Gaffigan hosts panel urging Catholics to get Covid-19 vaccines
The panel consisted of six Catholics from across the medical field and around the globe and they made appeals to a shared faith identity and to “pro-life” values.
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‘Our work changed really overnight’: Afghanistan evacuations become top priority for faith-based resettlement groups
Keeping Our Promise, a volunteer-run refugee resettlement organization, partners closely with churches, synagogues and faith-based organizations to help Special Immigrant Visa hopefuls in Afghanistan.
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Is Britney Spears a Catholic? The internet has thoughts
Could the singer responsible for making Catholic schoolgirl uniforms a Halloween costume-party staple now herself be Catholic?