After B-list careers in their primary professions, these men have found their callings in the earbuds of the young.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Mothers Cabrini and Seton come to life in two new documentaries
Two new films on the lives of Mother Seton and Mother Cabrini are placing the spotlight on lesser-emphasized aspects of these holy women’s lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
What meeting John Wooden taught a Muslim theologian about Jesuit education
What we do as teachers is a sacred trust. Coach Wooden helped me to do that in my Jesuit setting.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Tan Twan Eng’s new novel summons the spirit of Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham’s short story “The Letter” serves as the linchpin of Tran Twan Eng’s third novel, “The House of Doors,” which was selected for the 2023 Booker Prize long list.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Catholic Movie Club: Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’ is one long prayer
As much as ‘The Tree of Life’ is about a family, it’s just as much about Jack’s relationship with God, and how it changes as he grows.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
That Early-Eastering Crocus
Lonely, cold, but stubborn, it had somehow managed to rise
up from the half-frozen, slowly thawing soil.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Jacques Maritain’s life of writing on politics, liturgy and St. Thomas Aquinas
“It is not easy to be a Catholic, and it is not easy to be a writer. To be a Catholic writer is doubly difficult,” wrote Jacques Maritain, who nevertheless became one of the most influential 20th-century Catholic writers on either side of the Atlantic.
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Catholic Movie Club: Óscar Romero’s story reminds us of the cost—and purpose—of discipleship
The paradox at the heart of Christianity is that we must die in order to live again. And few movies witness to that truth like “Romero” (1989).
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Christ has sprung us from ourselves
Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection
made us into one with our great maker.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The sometimes-savage perfection of Catholic parody
Parody, Ernest Hemingway said, is a step up from writing on the wall above the urinal. He was wrong.