“She was so inspiring, but she was also so human. She’d get herself in trouble, and she knew it,” co-director Nicole Bernardi-Reis said of Sister María Rosa Leggol in an interview with America.
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Catholic Movie Club: The wounded healers of ‘Short Term 12’
‘How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?’ This film provides one answer.
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Catholic Movie Club: The strange and silly image of heaven in ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’
In his first and best known film, Pee-wee Herman approaches the world, and others, with simple joy and trust.
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‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ have more in common than memes. They’re both about forgiveness.
Neither Barbie nor Oppenheimer directly apologizes or asks for forgiveness, and neither can truly dismantle the damage they have done.
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‘The destroyer of worlds’: 75 years of ‘America’ on Oppenheimer
A new movie treats the life of Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”—and someone whose exploits and commentaries received much treatment in ‘America’ over the years.
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Review: ‘Barbie’ is a film by women, about women, for women.
Greta Gerwig has made a movie as layered and paradoxical as the reputation of Barbie itself.
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‘Oppenheimer’ is a pitch-dark American nightmare. We cannot look away.
“Oppenheimer” is both a startling re-examination of American history and a bleak warning about the nuclear age.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘Spiderman 2’ channels the Book of Job
In this film, Peter Parker isn’t just down on his luck; he’s a cosmic punching bag.
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Catholics: There’s no reason to fear (or ban) Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’
I may not have wanted to talk to my family or friends about Judy Blume’s book, ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.’ But I did talk to God.
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Review: ‘The Miracle Club’ takes a very Irish tour of Lourdes
In ‘The Miracle Club,’ Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates do not expect quick cures at Lourdes, and viewers should not expect a perfect film. But there are some surprises among the clichés.