Watching the same character fall short of redemption, or meaningful contrition, over and over again, dozens of times, is torture.
Arts & Culture
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Ms. Marvel’ isn’t just a superhero story. It’s an exploration of Pakistani-American religion and culture.
When it came to bringing Kamala Khan to the screen, Marvel has made all the right choices.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Some people see God’s grandeur when they look at space. I just see a blurry photo.
I usually love a good space story. But the more accolades I read about the new Webb Telescope image, the more I wondered if there was some other photo I hadn’t seen—because the one I kept seeing looked, well, like a blurry photo of stars.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
I asked an AI art generator to draw Catholicism in 20 different ways. Here’s what I learned.
I spent an evening running the word “Catholicism” through the 20+ filters of a popular AI image generator. The results were both stunning and revelatory.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Alice McDermott and the Brooklyn Irish Catholic community that inspired her writing
In her eight novels and many short stories, Alice McDermott has brought a distinctly Catholic imagination to her fiction—but not in the same way as her forebears.
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‘I believe that good will prevail’: A Ukrainian artist’s optimism in the face of Putin’s war
Ukranian artist Mykola Zhuravel talks about his exhibit “Invasion Redux” and the naked aggression of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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New exhibit lets you see the Sistine Chapel up close, in America—and on a budget
“Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel” is touring North America, with stops planned in Portland, Indianapolis and Albuquerque, among other cities.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The greatest American Jesuit you’ve probably never heard of
One of the great Catholic thinkers of 20th-century America is too often overlooked: William F. Lynch, S.J.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
The Case for the Classics: Without these ancient texts, our democracy will suffer
A dearth of classical education causes everyone’s education to suffer.
Posted inArts & Culture, Vantage Point
From 1943: William Lynch on the Catholic imagination
In 1943, William F. Lynch, S.J., tackled a question many America writers would explore before and after: Is there such a thing as a Catholic imagination?