Two new books give a multi-hued portrait of Seamus Heaney as he pursued a late-20th-century vocation as a public advocate of poetry and as a somewhat private advocate of Catholicism as a folk culture.
How much does any one individual person matter, considered against the grand sweep of history and the cosmos? That’s the question that writer-director Mike Flanagan considers in his new film “The Life of Chuck.”
The Rev. David Tracy, who died on April 29, was a monumental figure in American Catholicism, renowned as a teacher, scholar, writer and mentor to thousands of theologians.