All night, God peers from his gilded case,
nothing to do but wait for morning
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Arts & Culture
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The Catholic woman who mastered the art of a brutal movie review
Over 27 years beginning in 1947, Moira Walsh wrote over 750 movie reviews for America—each one possessed of an invincible authorial voice and informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of film history.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Catholic Movie Club: The wounded healers of ‘Short Term 12’
‘How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?’ This film provides one answer.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Review: ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘The Shark is Broken’ bring movie brands to Broadway
Two new Broadway productions offer case studies in brand extension and fan service.
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The America editor who ruined nuclear fallout shelters forever
Why don’t we have fallout shelters anymore? It’s a long story, but an editor at America had something to do with it.
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Catholic Book Club: The interstellar Jesuit spirituality of Mary Doria Russell’s ‘The Sparrow’
With ‘The Sparrow,’ Mary Doria Russell imagines an alien world in intimate and fascinating detail—and then sends along some humans with deep questions about faith, God and the universe.
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Catholic Movie Club: The strange and silly image of heaven in ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’
In his first and best known film, Pee-wee Herman approaches the world, and others, with simple joy and trust.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
What the editors of America magazine are reading this summer
America’s editors on some books that might catch our readers’ fancy in these final weeks of summer.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ have more in common than memes. They’re both about forgiveness.
Neither Barbie nor Oppenheimer directly apologizes or asks for forgiveness, and neither can truly dismantle the damage they have done.