The television series about an urban Catholic church was groundbreaking, and there has been nothing like it since.

The challenges notwithstanding, Joseph Caldwell presents his life as a Catholic as a gift.

Isabel Allende's novel of profound displacement reflects the life of someone who has known displacement as her permanent state.

The show's extreme makeover casts something of a spell but it comes off more and more like a self-serious period piece with some kicking tunes.

“Corpus Christi” is not a critique of Catholicism, though; it may not even be a deliberately Catholic film, writes film critic John Anderson.

As did Martin Scorsese in “The Irishman,” director Marco Bellochio poses challenging questions about guilt and the nature of truth in “The Traitor,” a film which does much to remove the glossy veneer of organized crime.