Sotheby’s is facilitating the sale of what it says is an approximately 1,500-year-old tablet, which it describes as “the only complete tablet of the Ten Commandments still extant from this early era.”
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
A guide for Christmas reading—highlighting the Dickensian fiction of Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos’s ‘Mr. Ives’ Christmas’ doesn’t start out as a cheery story—but in the end, this parable of good will lost and good will regained is a perfect Christmas tale.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
What do you do when hope is hard to find? ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ offers an Advent answer
“Meet Me in St. Louis” asks: How do you have hope when the future holds so many unknowns?
Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
A radical Catholic among communist artists: The legacy of Jean Charlot
Jean Charlot was the friend and peer of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and other now-renowned Mexican muralists. But in one important way, he was not one of them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Chosen’ is an international phenomenon. Here are the ‘America’ staff’s favorite moments from the show.
“The Chosen” television series tells some of the well-known biblical stories about Christ and his disciples—and weaves into them fictional stories about the life of Christ and his disciples.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The Prayer of Unseeking Despair
just ordinary
sunlight
shimmering through a drizzling, autumn rain
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Two things can be true: Catholicism and feminism
Can you be a Catholic and a feminist? Julie Hanlon Rubio gives her answer in the introduction of her new book—in the form of a confident “yes.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Joyelle McSweeney mourns in verse
Joyelle McSweeney’s ‘Death Styles’—her 10th book across creative and critical genres—rewards our attention.
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Frantz Fanon is having a moment
With his new biography, ‘The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon,’ Adam Shatz seeks to give us Fanon the person, and not just his most famous soundbites.