Being a kid in the summer is all about existing in an eternal present moment, a feeling of freedom and potential that it will never go away.
Film
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In new film ‘Nonnas,’ Italian grandmothers put love at the center of every meal
Although “Nonnas” is not an explicitly religious movie, the film’s motif of meals as a conduit for community is certainly also found in the Catholic imagination.
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‘Elio’ and Pixar’s struggle to define its future
Pixar’s best films understand that kids are capable of profound emotional intelligence. As they try to regain their former success, I think that is what they should focus on.
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Catholic Movie Club: An Iranian film that humanizes ‘the enemy’
In ‘Where is the Friend’s House?,’ we see the faces of the Iranian people captured with sensitivity and detail.
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Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry rejected religion. But he was searching for a god.
Gene Roddenberry’s son said his father was an atheist. But documented evidence tells a different, more nuanced story about the creator of “Star Trek.”
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ tells the oldest story in human history
You might think an Obama-era film would lose some relevance. But, tragically, “Us vs. Them” is evergreen.
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Is ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Wes Anderson’s most Christian film?
‘The Phoenician Scheme‘ centers on sin and redemption, the frail but fundamental hope that anyone can be saved, if they sincerely repent.
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A documentary on Carlo Acutis offers a spiritual roadmap from the first millennial saint
Blessed Carlo Acutis offers a counterexample for our digital age: a teenager who embraced technology not as an escape, but as a tool for communion—with others, and with God.
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Review: In ‘The Life of Chuck,’ every person contains a universe
How much does any one individual person matter, considered against the grand sweep of history and the cosmos? That’s the question that writer-director Mike Flanagan considers in his new film “The Life of Chuck.”
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Lessons on the Francis papacy from ‘The Flowers of St. Francis’
We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.