This story of a Vietnamese immigrant growing up in the United States is constructed as a series of meditations on the lessons from great books that moved and instructed him.
Music
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Dioceses restrict David Haas hymns and concerts after abuse accusations
Mr. Haas has denied any wrongdoing, calling the accusations “false, reckless and offensive.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ made me feel all the things. It’s just what I needed.
Let this album make you feel something and, maybe, come alive again.
Posted inArts & Culture, Your Take
Where do you find God in ‘non-religious’ music?
Surely God and grace are in the music that we consider more “secular.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
What Lil Wayne’s latest album tells us about Black death in 2020
Lil Wayne pulls from this rich tradition of Black death celebration while dismissing the social conditions that forged it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Ennio Morricone, composer of Spaghetti westerns and ‘The Mission,’ dead at 91
In 2014 Morricone premiered his first-ever Mass in the Church of the Gesu, the Jesuits’ main church in Rome.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: When musicians go from outliers to icons
Ted Gioia’s new treatise on music and musicians covers everything from the Big Bang to gangsta rap.
Posted inFaith, Music
With ‘Chromatica,’ Lady Gaga comes home.
In her new album, Lady Gaga transports us light years away, ultimately, to return us to ourselves.
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Watch: A stay-at-home gala for the Metropolitan Opera
On April 25, the Met’s first virtual gala was held. It will be rebroadcast on June 12 and 13.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The legacy of Father Adolfo Nicolás
Adolfo Nicolás, S.J., former superior general of the Society of Jesus, helped to recenter the role of imagination in Jesuit education and in the intellectual and spiritual formation of the whole person.