Blessed Carlo Acutis offers a counterexample for our digital age: a teenager who embraced technology not as an escape, but as a tool for communion—with others, and with God.
Arts & Culture
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Review: In ‘The Life of Chuck,’ every person contains a universe
How much does any one individual person matter, considered against the grand sweep of history and the cosmos? That’s the question that writer-director Mike Flanagan considers in his new film “The Life of Chuck.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
David Tracy was more than a theologian
The Rev. David Tracy, who died on April 29, was a monumental figure in American Catholicism, renowned as a teacher, scholar, writer and mentor to thousands of theologians.
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Lessons on the Francis papacy from ‘The Flowers of St. Francis’
We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.
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Dungeons & Dragons—and Jesuits
Unexpectedly, Dungeons & Dragons has become a beloved activity among men preparing for religious life.
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‘Andor,’ Star Wars and the costs of radical discipleship
‘Andor’ is a piece of art that is both thrilling to watch and spiritually enriching.
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Father sleuths best: Why priest-detectives make for good fiction
The genre of the crime-solving priest or religious might be a niche one, but it’s been around on the page and the screen for more than a century.
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Netflix and George Clooney bring fan service to Broadway
Fan service isn’t just for Marvel movies. It’s alive and well in ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow.’
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‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’ reveals the lonely life of a pope
The election of a pope is a joyful thing. But in this 1968 film starring Anthony Quinn, being pope is the hardest job in the world.
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What makes a movie Irish?
Questions of Irish identity and “Irishness” are, and always have been, in a state of flux.