We may have running water and better hygiene, but “Catherine Called Birdy” reminds us that we have plenty in common with our medieval ancestors.
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Sigrid Undset: Scholar, storyteller—and future saint?
Sigrid Undset’s writings were admired by everyone from Willa Cather to Dorothy Day. Her life is being studied by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. Who was this Norwegian teller of truths?
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SSPX Excommunicated: History, Pope Leo and why it all goes back to Vatican II
This week on Jesuitical, hosts Zac and Ashley speak to Shaun Blanchard, Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, about the history of the SSPX, their illicit decision to ordain new bishops, and what their excommunication means for more traditional groups within the Catholic Church.
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‘Dear America’ at the National Gallery: an invitation to national self-examination
“Dear America,” on view at the National Gallery through Sept. 20, is conceived as a letter from its artists to the public.
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The 1926 International Eucharistic Congress: When the Catholic Church triumphed despite gangsters, culture wars and the KKK
What can a divided country learn from this momentous gathering—in Pope Leo XIV’s hometown—which took place amid dizzying social change and the rise of the “new” Ku Klux Klan?
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Jesuits, Mohawks and Puritans meet in Molly McNett’s historical fiction
The deeply researched ‘Child of These Tears’ captures the profound humanness of Jesuit missionaries in colonial North America.
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‘Tony’ takes us back to Anthony Bourdain’s providential summer
Matt Johnson’s biopic ‘Tony’ takes us to parts unknown in the life of Anthony Bourdain: the summer of 1975 and the lessons he learned.
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‘The Gilded Age’: a deeply American story from the creator of ‘Downton Abbey’
What makes this show so rich is that it looks at the era through many different perspectives.
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40-mile Eucharist procession along Louisiana’s Bayou Teche celebrates Catholic faith and Cajun history
The single-day, 40-mile procession along the Bayou Teche honored both the 250th anniversary of American Independence and the 261st anniversary of Catholicism in the region.
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The future of Catholicism in Africa: Looking beyond the numbers
If the remarkable growth of Catholicism in Africa is to remain sustainable in the coming decades, the church will have to pay attention to significant cultural, spiritual and demographic realities.