What does a Catholic priest make of “Midnight Mass”? Is the Netflix show anti-Catholic?
Spirituality
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
‘Trust the experts’ is the new ‘obey the priest.’ But it is not getting us closer to the truth.
The worship of expertise, detached from any transcendent perspective, has already plagued modern life. Now rationality is becoming just another weapon with which to attack others.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Three Reasons Everyone Should Try Anonymous Confession
Whatever a person’s experiences and fears of confession have been, going to confession behind a partition has a tremendous amount to offer us.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Tola Rotimi Abraham traces interior universes in her debut novel
Tola Rotimi Abraham is from Lagos, Nigeria. She writes this, her debut novel, with one foot placed in the intimate and communal confines of Lagos and the other inside her characters’ heads.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Ted Lasso’ officially has its own Judas character.
Both the heroes and villains of “Ted Lasso” remain quite ordinary. And it is the show’s portrayal of that daily reckoning with good and evil, those small temptations, that make it easy to relate to.
Posted inFaith, Features
Our Lady of Manhattan: What I learned praying the rosary while biking around New York City
During the pandemic, Matt Malone, S.J., e-biked and prayed around the perimeter of Manhattan—which happens to look almost exactly like the pattern of a rosary.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
From ‘Mr. Brightside’ to ‘Pressure Machine,’ The Killers are still singing about God.
On their last two albums, the Killers continue to circle around faith and eventually grasp it—if not in completely solid form.
Posted inArts & Culture, Features
Is this Christian poet Russia’s next Nobel laureate?
A profoundly Russian author, Olga Sedakova offers insights into Christian living for a worldwide audience.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
Jesus found me on Broadway. I can’t wait to go back.
Musicals are not merely a passion of mine—they were often my most profound experiences of prayer.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Father Greg Boyle: Moral outrage can feel good. But it does nothing to heal our divided world.
God doesn’t share in our outrage. God only invites us to kinship and connection.