Valentine’s Day has not historically been the favorite holiday of America writers, but reflections on love have always found a home in these pages.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
What the Jesus Super Bowl ads get right (and wrong) about evangelization
The Super Bowl ads are effective precisely because they’re less interested in Jesus and more interested in getting us to think about our choices.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Catholics: You don’t have to feel bad about reading romance novels
The genre that spawned “Bridgerton” is perhaps the least Catholic type of fiction available today, but its relationships are more Catholic than expected.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: God doesn’t make us sick or well. So what is faith’s role in the face of illness?
To face potential mortal illness with wry humor and a taste for the ironic takes a delicate touch, but that is what the United Church of Christ pastor and writer Molly Baskette does in her new book.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Former Jesuit, failed Senate candidate and Nixon speechwriter: the colorful life of John McLaughlin
Richard Nixon called McLaughlin one of the only good Jesuits among “all-out, barn-burning radicals” in a conversation with Billy Graham.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
I wanted to enjoy the new ‘Top Gun.’ But the world has changed since 1986.
“Top Gun” was cheesy. It was shallow. But it told a story that was in touch with its time.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
‘Sin is the failure to bother to love’: A history of Catholic ethics and morality
In ‘A History of Catholic Theological Ethics,’ James Keenan, S.J., offers intellectual history with flesh and bones and a soul.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Merton and the modern antiwar movement
A year after his death, a look back on the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh—and his influence on many American writers on nonviolence, mindfulness and contemplative spirituality.
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Black Catholic artist’s ‘Baltimore Pietà’ reimagines Michelangelo’s masterpiece through the lens of police brutality
Black Catholic artist Wayman Scott’s Baltimore Pietà depicts a Black mother holding her dead son, reframing the famous Michelangelo piece through the lens of police brutality.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ and the question of Indigenous representation
Should James Cameron have involved more Indigenous creatives in making a movie rooted in Native American history?