“Stories of a Generation With Pope Francis” showcases stories from people over 70 from all quarters of the globe, including the pontiff himself, as they impart their life experiences to youthful filmmakers.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
John Updike: Suspicious of Santa, but fond of Christ
John Updike, long one of the nation’s finest novelists and short story writers, also wrote extensively about the Christian imagination (and once on his misgivings about Santa Claus).
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
‘Silent Night’: a song invoked in both World Wars and sung to a dying president
“Silent Night” is a song that seems to inspire the imagination in so many ways.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Nicole Kidman is fascinating as Lucille Ball, but that’s not enough to save ‘Being the Ricardos’
Aaron Sorkin’s take on the “behind-the-scenes” world of “I Love Lucy” depicts Lucille Ball in a most unsympathetic light.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
From ‘Ted Lasso’ to ‘Squid Game’ to ‘Midnight Mass,’ 2021 was a strange but wonderful year in TV
In 2021, there seemed to be fewer series to watch, or fewer worth watching. But a few stood out.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Broadway is (finally) embracing Black writers. But the work of diversifying theater is just getting started.
Can Black writers flourish in a marketplace dictated by white tastes?
Posted inArts & Culture, Jesuitical
Lidia Bastianich on why Jesus was always eating and drinking
A conversation with legendary chef and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Jimmy McGovern, the atheist with the most Catholic shows on British TV
Jimmy McGovern’s work is marked by a very Catholic instinct to look where no one else will.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A story of Indigenous family, trauma and survival
Diane Wilson’s book ‘The Seed Keeper’ is an immersive, affecting account of family and history, trauma and survival, seeds and gardening, stories and healing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: African soldiers find kinship in the trenches of World War I
David Diop’s new novel centers on the filial love between two Senegalese riflemen, close childhood friends who joined the French army because they hoped to become French citizens at the end of World War I.