‘Blinded by the Light’ captures the angst and joy of being a teenager.
Music
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Catholic streaming service debuts all hymns, all the time
Great Catholic Music, an audio web streaming service, is a project of the Living Bread Radio Network, a group of Catholic radio stations in northeast Ohio.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
This Palestinian hip hop group’s new record is a feminist rallying cry
DAM is making feminism its focus in its latest album.
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Bruce Springsteen looks for mercy and deliverance in new album ‘Western Stars’
Springsteen has created a sprawling sonic landscape that, in its best moments, feels like the soundtrack to a film you would love to see.
Posted inFaith, Your Take
What’s your favorite hymn?
Do you have a “guilty pleasure” hymn that you love?
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The harrowing story of French nuns killed by the guillotine returns to the Metropolitan Opera
Originally written by Georges Bernanos, the “Dialogues of the Carmelites” was turned into an opera by the French composer Francis Poulenc.
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How a punk rock journalist found healing in the Catholic Church
Dawn Eden Goldstein was born into a Jewish family, but in her teens and 20s—dealing with cycles suicidal depression—charted her own path as a journalist and devotee of the religion of punk rock.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
How to get more people to sing at Mass: Stop adding new hymns
A supposed need for variety imposes more and more hymns on congregants, but the cost of novelty can be the full, active participation of those in the pews, writes John Zupez, S.J.
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Bruce Springsteen and Martin Scorsese talk Catholicism, films and creativity
The Netflix-hosted event was in support of the Emmys campaign for his one-man show “Springsteen on Broadway” at the streaming service’s FYSEE (a riff on “for your consideration”) space in the heart of Hollywood.
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Ye Is Risen: Welcome to the church of Kanye West
If you list all the details, Kanye West’s “Sunday Service” starts to sound like the invention of a heavy-handed satirist.