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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‘The Great Gatsby’ got a bad review in America. A century later, how do we see F. Scott Fitzgerald?
F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a favorite of America’s editors for many years, but they all read ‘Gatsby.’ Everyone reads ‘Gatsby.’
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‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ gives us a ‘Crucible’ for a post-#MeToo world
We may be used to #MeToo stories at this point, but Kimberly Belflower brings a new twist to a classic tale with ‘John Proctor Is the Villain.’
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What will the restoration of Notre-Dame mean for the future of the French Catholic Church?
If the burning of Notre-Dame was a fitting symbol for the de-Christianization of France, could the restoration of Notre-Dame be a hopeful omen?
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A Catholic visit to the New York International Antiquarian Bookfair
At the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, you are guaranteed to find the following: a signed first edition of your favorite book, a celebrity (or two) and Bibles.
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‘King of Kings’ is a children’s version of the New Testament. Your spiritual results may vary.
A children’s version of the New Testament, ‘King of Kings’ is based on a work by Charles Dickens that was written as a gift to his children.
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Seven decades in the classroom: The teaching legacy of Ladislas Orsy, S.J.
In a long life as a priest, teacher and scholar, Ladislas Orsy, S.J., left an impressive legacy at his death last week at the age of 103.
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‘The White Lotus’ finale, sin and discernment: How (and why) do we make big life choices?
Take the money? Join a monastery? Grab the gun?
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‘Unreconciled’: A clergy sex abuse survivor’s attempt to find healing through theater
”Unreconciled” looks abuse, disregard and callousness in the eye and witnesses instead to radical kindness.
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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.