When it comes to their religion, the criminals embrace the rituals and ignore the meaning.
Catholic Identity
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
Notre Dame football is off to a hot start. Don’t get your hopes up.
Yes, the Fighting Irish are undefeated. Yes, they have beaten several very good teams. Yes, their opponent this weekend, Cincinnati, is the only currently nationally-ranked team left on their schedule. Who are we kidding? Notre Dame is doomed.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Has the Catholic Church in Ireland learned anything from the testimonies of abuse survivors?
In his portrait of a once ultra-devout country undergoing rapid spiritual decline, Derek Scally paints a vivid picture of Irish indifference toward the church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
What has the Catholic Book Club been reading recently? Novels.
The two most recent selections for the Catholic Book Club were novels that originally began as short stories.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Review: Netflix’s ‘Midnight Mass’ is Catholic horror at its best
“Midnight Mass” feels like a throwback to the world that received “The Exorcist” in 1973.
Posted inArts & Culture, Short Take
The Catholic Church needs its own Met Gala
I know what you are thinking—a decadent spectacle of wealth, really, that’s what the church needs right now? But hear me out.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Heroes and saints: 10 powerful books about sports and Catholicism
A diverse cadre of authors and publishers have produced notable books about sports and Catholicism over the last 10 years. Here are some of the best.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
How vaccines became a battle line in the Catholic culture war
On this week’s episode of “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” Sam Sawyer, S.J., shares what more we can do during the pandemic for ourselves and our neighbors in light of our Catholic moral tradition.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Short stories that show the wasteland of contemporary American Catholic life, but also a little hope
A journey into the fictional worlds of Joshua Hren in his ‘In The Wine Press’ invites us to consider the character of our own grief and suffering.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Is Britney Spears a Catholic? The internet has thoughts
Could the singer responsible for making Catholic schoolgirl uniforms a Halloween costume-party staple now herself be Catholic?