Drew Christiansen, S.J., reviews “Catholicism and Citizenship” by Massimo Faggioli
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Netflix’s “Chasing Coral” documents an unseen environmental disaster
A team of scientists set out to film the transition of coral from a brilliantly colored living organism to a decaying corpse.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A friar turned detective
The story spans 60 years, and as Broderick tells the tale of Roza Mojewska and Otto Brack he tells the story of Poland itself, touching on Hitler’s goal of annihilating the Poles to give the Germans space.
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Missing Robert Mitchum: nostalgia for the archetypal American male
In celebrating the centennial of Mitchum’s birth, we are really paying homage to a peculiarly American male archetype.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A God worthy of belief
The book grapples with the biggest of issues: the meaning of life, the problem of evil and the value of praying to a God who seems only rarely to intervene in human affairs.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The Peacock Pin
We pin you to the unfinished saints you leave behind.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
New Testament
I met Judas at a roof party in late October. The Ghost had warned me about the devil in the form of a man too charming to deny.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Heritage
I have the many and bright letters of my first and middle name Irish enough to outweigh the heaviness of the thick and rich Hispanic last name I carry slumped over my golden shoulders.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Pope Benedict XV and the forgotten campaign to end World War I
Overshadowed in his lifetime, Pope Benedict provided lessons for the world’s peoples and policymakers, then and now.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Sam Shepard: America’s show-us-who-we-really-are prophet
While Shepard’s plays would absorb different rhythms and influences, their essence and voice were unmistakably his—our—own.