The characters in ‘20th Century Women’ find themselves torn between embracing the new and retreating into the familiar.

Whether in the Middle Ages or a modern Marian renaissance, how Mary looks can reflect and affirm the people she appears to.

The complicity of ordinary Germans in the Holocaust is the central subject of two shows now running in New York City.

A poet and a woman religious whose work often appeared in America, M. Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., is known for much more than her verse. She was also a pioneer in Catholic education in the United States.

It would be an exaggeration to call “Juno” pro-life, but it is encouraging to see a popular film diverge from the familiar culture war battle lines.

“Shogun” is a dire portrait of the Catholic Church’s role in colonial history, but the Japanese are not mere victims in this story.