Sister Boniface reminds me of so many great women’s religious that I have had the good fortune of knowing—enormously competent, of deep integrity and undaunted in their commitment to helping people.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Peacock’s ‘Mrs. Davis’ is a show about a nun fighting A.I. But it’s really about God.
To those who are already exhausted by the all-A.I., all-the-time reporting of 2023, have no fear: “Mrs. Davis” is not a show about A.I., not really.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
In his new special, John Mulaney is a modern Prodigal Son with a message about mercy
After a stint in rehab, a break up from his wife followed almost immediately by a new relationship and then a baby with the actress Olivia Munn, comedian John Mulaney is back with a new Netflix special, “Baby J.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Shusaku Endo, ‘Silence’ and the challenges of Christian life in Japan
Shusaku Endo may not have liked the title “greatest Japanese Catholic novelist,” but his works—including ‘Silence’—are powerful meditations on the nature of belief and the vitality and viability of Christianity.
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
Shusaku Endo, Japanese Catholic novelist
A profile of Shusaku Endo from 1992, three years after America awarded the famous Japanese Catholic novelist the Campion Award.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ and ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ take a satirical aim at theater itself
The ambitions of these two comedies could hardly be more disparate, yet the craft employed in both is rooted in similarly precise calibrations of our attention and sympathies.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Unfinished Masterpiece
Rewrite God’s poems
until the mob in us
froths at the mouth.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The Dumpster Fillers
What is it
you cannot stand to live with
any longer? Toss it in
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Wendell Berry on healing our divisions
In his new book, ‘The Need to Be Whole,’ Wendell Berry strives to give a glimpse of the undivided foundation that underpins all he has ever tried to think and say.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
‘Dirtbag, Massachusetts’: a former Catholic’s memoir about growing up in a turbulent home—and a broken church
Isaac Fitzgerald’s collection of essays Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional isn’t a Catholic memoir. Except when it is.