Professional tennis in the real world—as opposed to the reel world—is not quite as cool or sexy.
Film
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?
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
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?
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
‘Juno’ is neither a pro-life or a pro-choice movie
It would be an exaggeration to call “Juno” pro-life, but it is encouraging to see a popular film diverge from the familiar culture war battle lines.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
How Graham Greene’s ‘Brighton Rock’ helped me become Catholic
‘Brighton Rock’ made me feel ready to become a Catholic after so many years of deliberately not being one. I, too, frequently felt lost and agnostic. The story of Rose and Pinkie—so similar, so different, both human—was like a piece I found that had been missing from my puzzle.
Posted inArts & Culture, News
Jesuit scientist who bridged faith and science recounted in new PBS documentary
It is not surprising that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an eminent paleontologist, got himself in trouble with church officials and his Jesuit superiors.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
The lesson of ‘Petite Maman’: Have mercy on your parents
“Petite Maman” is a magical-realist story about children and parents, the things we can’t say and learning to understand each other.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Movie Club
‘Philomena’ asks: In the shadow of the church’s abuse, why do Catholics stay?
Philomena’s faith doesn’t dismiss or excuse the church’s sins, but she has made peace with living in the tension.