Look, see the downy feather of ashen hue?
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
A peace activist with a monastic temperament: Remembering Jim Forest
Jim Forest, who died on Jan. 13, was a lifelong peace activist and the author of numerous books, including biographies of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ is the nostalgic film we need 2 years into the Covid-19 pandemic
Perhaps this is why Wes Anderson’s work resounds so strongly: We all long for homes to which we cannot return.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
PBS’s ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ is lovely to watch — and deeply untrue
Truly, at times watching “All Creatures Great and Small” is like visiting Disneyland and thinking Anaheim is amazing when three blocks away families are living in their cars.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: These six Ugandan leaders have enacted the ideals of Catholic social teaching
In “For God and My Country: Catholic Leadership in Modern Uganda,” J. J. Carney profiles a strategy for being both Catholic and catholic—both uniquely ourselves and totally for the world.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Father Greg Boyle’s newest must-read asks Catholics to trade moral outrage for a moral compass
In his new book about the power of God’s radical love, Greg Boyle introduces readers to new experiences in his ministry to former gang members and teaches valuable lessons about inclusivity.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: How the Catholic Church did—and didn’t—respond to the AIDS crisis
In his book “Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear,” Michael O’Loughlin has named some of the hidden glories of the Catholic Church’s responses to H.I.V./AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s in the United States.
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Review: In a dystopian future, a family navigates grief in the midst of political and environmental upheaval
The latest novel by Richard Powers, “Bewilderment,” is a meditation on love for our planet as well as our individual love for one another.