Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” explores a moment in American history not often read in history books—and not always reckoned with by our churches and country.
Most modern constitutional states today describe themselves as republics. Such republics sound as though they have a lot in common with Catholic social teaching. They do.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” makes a case that 80 is the new 30: Martin Scorsese, the most prominent of American auteurs and champion of film history, continues as an octogenarian to explore and expand the possibilities of the medium and scour his own soul.
Many Catholics overcame their antisemitic prejudices to rescue and save Jewish people in danger, “sometimes at the cost of their lives,” some Jewish and Catholic historians said at an international conference.