Intense competition can sometimes feel like clan warfare — and it’s all set aside in this celebration of baseball. The Catholic Church can learn from this game.
Catholic Identity
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Dear Conan O’Brien: Late night television didn’t deserve you.
Conan never did quite fit in, and I mean that in the best possible way.
Posted inFaith, News
Survey: Catholic homilies mention politics and racism less than Protestant ones
As the election, the pandemic and racism made headlines across the U.S. last year, priests’ homilies did not mention these events nearly as much as did sermons by Protestant preachers.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
As a Catholic writer, I criticize the church. Am I ‘giving scandal’?
The ever-present political talk of who is a good enough Catholic, or who should or should not receive Communion, hits close to home.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
In this prequel to ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Nick Carraway finally gets his chance to shine.
The narrator of ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Nick Carraway, is the focus of Michael Farris Smith’s new novel, ‘Nick.’
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What does faith have to do with ‘getting it’? It’s a question for the whole family.
Brendan Hodge’s debut novel ‘If You Can Get It’ centers on two young women seeking meaning along the axes of work, love and faith.
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
The Catholic Women Who Write Your Favorite TV Shows
“My hope is that the church can use the immense power of its storytelling to move toward more compassion, more kindness.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The crux of religious belief: Walter Miller Jr.’s ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
Parsing the pros and cons of ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz,’ the latest selection of the Catholic Book Club.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
New poll: QAnon embraced by 11 percent of white Catholics and 15 percent of all Americans
According to a new P.R.R.I.-I.F.Y.C poll, 15 percent of U.S. adults—including 16 percent of Hispanic Catholics and 11 percent of white Catholics—agree with a core belief of the QAnon movement.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The rituals of a Brooklyn Catholic community
‘Lifeblood of the Parish’ is an ethnographic look at Italian-American communal rituals in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.