Much of the story of the Second Vatican Council was first told to Americans by Xavier Rynne in The New Yorker. But who was Rynne?
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Football, false prophets and forgiveness in the ‘Ted Lasso’ finale
For three seasons, ‘Ted Lasso’ has offered a potent vision of a better human condition.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: In ‘Padre Pio’, Shia LaBeouf may be a saint—but he’s no hero
Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio is not the hero of his movie.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The ‘Succession’ finale showed what the world looks like without God.
Am I the only person in the world who got to the end of “Succession” and wanted a happy ending?
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Martin Scorsese is making a movie about Jesus. Here are 4 pitfalls he should avoid.
While the path to creating a great story about Jesus is filled with good intentions, there are also a lot of landmines.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Joyce Kilmer: soldier, writer and lost voice in the American Catholic literary revival
Among the 53,000 Americans killed in World War I was Joyce Kilmer, a distinguished poet and essayist who died in battle at the age of 31.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
How Can a Room Breathe Fire
And when the trembling shook the entire house
it woke me into shock
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Remembering Martin Amis: literary bad boy—and an unexpected moralist
Martin Amis leaves behind a remarkable corpus of fiction, essays and memoir—even if he could be eminently dislikable.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Filmmaker Nida Manzoor’s vision of the modern Muslim woman: funny, rebellious—and imperfect
Nida Manzoor’s goal is to show that the culture surrounding Islam is as three dimensional and dynamic as any other faith’s.
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What Dorothy Day had to say about Dolores Huerta and the struggle for worker justice
A worker’s advocate, feminist leader and civil rights proponent whose work continues today at the age of 93, Dolores Huerta was an under-recognized leader.