Over 80 years after Bernadette’s canonization, Frank Wildhorn has composed the music for a new stage adaptation of “The Song of Bernadette.”
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
A portrait of Evelyn Waugh, Christian wayfarer
From 1993: The second volume of a biography of Evelyn Waugh occasioned John W. Donohue, S.J., to offer a survey of the great English Catholic writer’s life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Goodbye ‘Dear Evan Hansen.’ You helped us understand the anxieties of young people today.
On Sunday, Sept. 18, “Dear Evan Hansen” finished its Broadway run. During its six-year run, it was a touchstone in the ongoing conversation about the mental health of young people today.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ — to battle consumerism
‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ explores the pitfalls of materialism through characters who long for the elegance and glamor of designers like Christian Dior.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The God-haunted fiction of John Irving
John Irving writes characters who, like Flannery O’Connor’s American South, seem somehow God-haunted.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Unveiling the history of Black Catholic nuns: Shannen Dee Williams’s ‘Subversive Habits’
Shannen Dee Williams’s ‘Subversive Habits’ uncovers—with authoritative, painstaking scholarship—a great deal of what was hidden and some of what has been erased concerning white supremacy in the Roman Catholic Church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
A Nun Leaves the Veil
There are roses in the thorny crown, pick them!
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Could’ve/Could’ve Not
you could’ve chosen to be ignorant
to the demand that such a recognition
may’ve placed on your limbs,
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What happens when athletic heroes fall out of love with the game?
Sports memoirs tend to have a certain arc: the odyssey of the triumphant athlete. But every now and then, a retired athlete—like Jerry West, Abby Wambach and Gale Sayers—tells a more complicated story.