Hard truths spill out in the tentative friendship of two men in Samuel D. Hunter’s Off Broadway play, “A Case for the Existence of God.”
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
From poetry to Catholicism, Muriel Spark did nothing halfway
No list of brilliant Catholic novelists would be complete without Dame Muriel Spark.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Two new Broadway musicals show the pitfalls of turning complex history into song and dance
With “Suffs” and “Paradise Square,” Broadway offers two new musicals that address the great animating subject of the American musical: America itself.
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John L’Heureux: Prolific novelist, former Jesuit and author of an alternative Eucharistic prayer
John L’Heureux was rightly praised for his novels, short stories, poetry and memoir. But how many other writers do you know also once wrote an experimental eucharistic prayer?
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
From 1967: New Canons for the Mass
Those of us who have championed the vernacular cause over the years were never so naive (and we said so in print) as to believe that translation would put an end to all problems. In fact, it creates new ones.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Catholics: You should pay for your own Netflix account
Netflix is the service that has most invested in building a library of faith-based stories. And isn’t that worth supporting?
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The misfits of HBO Max’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ are the kind of loving community we go to church looking for
“Somebody Somewhere” is not a show about religion, but it is in its own way an exploration of what a truly religious community offers—namely, a space of radical acceptance.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The hallmarks of Black Catholic spirituality in the work of Toni Morrison
The reader can see God in all areas of Toni Morrison’s characters’ circumstances—in the “magic,” in the pain and suffering, and in the call to healing and wholeness that leads to life.
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Review: Catholics and religious liberty in early American history
If Catholics wanted to be tolerated in the early years of the Maryland Colony, they had to prove their loyalty—first to the Stuarts, then to Parliament, then the House of Hanover and then the fledgling American republic.
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Review: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the vocation of the poet
Neeli Cherkovski’s expanded edition of his biography of Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a book by “a poet who set out to celebrate another poet.”