Despite his performative Catholicism, Michael Corleone puts more stock in the American vision of freedom than the Christian one.
Film
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Interview: Kevin Costner on resurrecting the Western in ‘American Saga’
With “Horizon: An American Saga,” Mr. Costner has realized an idea 36 years in the making.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Catholic Movie Club: Why do we glorify ‘The Godfather’?
The fact that audiences see the story as aspirational is more of a reflection on us as fallen people than the film itself.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
How Whoopi Goldberg evangelized beyond the convent walls in ‘Sister Act’
“Sister Act” embodies the welcoming spirit of a church willing to go out into the street.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Catholic Movie Club: 9 movies to watch for Pride Month
These are films that I find meaningful and believe resonate with our faith—particularly our call to love our L.G.B.T.Q. siblings and to uphold their human dignity.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
‘Challengers’ has made tennis cool again. Can today’s players live up to the hype?
Professional tennis in the real world—as opposed to the reel world—is not quite as cool or sexy.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Ethan Hawke on Faith, Imagination and Flannery O’Connor
Ethan Hawke on exploring religious questions through art and his new film, “Wildcat,” about the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
Catholic Movie Club: ‘The Birdcage’ asks us to reconsider traditional American family values
What makes a family a family: that they look like the model, or the way that they love each other?
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Catholic Movie Club: What happens when family and vocation collide in ‘Some Mother’s Son’
What do we do when we find ourselves, or someone we love, torn between convictions and relationships?
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The film ‘20th Century Women’ asks an age-old Catholic question: Embrace the world or retreat from it?
The characters in ‘20th Century Women’ find themselves torn between embracing the new and retreating into the familiar.