If it’s not too early for Pope Francis to start listening to Christmas music, it’s not too early for us!
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ is the perfect Thanksgiving movie for this year
Most of us will enter into the weekend feeling like Steve Martin’s Neal Page, entirely justified in our desires. We should be able to have a Thanksgiving that is not filled with craziness or fighting!
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The Catholic Church is slow to change. When it comes to the names of our churches, that’s a good thing.
Staples Center in Los Angeles is now the Crypto.com Center. St. Patrick’s Cathedral will no doubt continue to change in the coming decades, but one thing it will never do is rename itself #JesusWins Cathedral.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
What kind of Catholic are you? How Mary Gordon’s writing tackles the expansiveness of our faith
Mary Gordon is one of America’s greatest Catholic writers—just don’t ask her why she stayed.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Olivia Rodrigo’s Gen-Z Gospel
Olivia Rodrigo’s lyrics cover many of the same topics I discuss with my Catholic high school students. As a church that infamously struggles to reach and retain young people, we have something to learn from her.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Get ready to hear Ed Sheeran’s new music at every wedding from now until his next album
No matter how far he has risen in fame, Ed Sheeran has stayed true to himself.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Interview: ‘King Richard’ director on the family story of Venus and Serena Williams
“King Richard” charts how Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams, made good on the promise few believed possible.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Netflix’s ‘Procession’ seeks to treat the trauma of sexual abuse with art
This is not a movie about crime and punishment, but damage and recovery.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Netflix’s ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’ is a miraculous resurrection of an artist we lost too soon
“Tick, Tick … Boom!” is also a soul-deep tribute by Lin-Manuel Miranda to an artist who inspired him at a formative age.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Advent Dawns at the Sacred Cafe
he opened up the window for Dec 24 even though it was like Dec 3