When HBO first announced that it had greenlit a television series about the Rapture, one would have been forgiven for assuming we were in for yet another twist on Hollywood’s seemingly endless obsession with the post-apocalyptic. Given the popularity of recent “scripturally inspired&rdqu

The example of Christ looms large over the immigration debate here.

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”

Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black’

I once had a homiletics professor who said not to worry too much if it appears that members of the congregation are daydreaming during your homily. A homily, he pointed out, is not an act of persuasion. You’re not up there trying to prove some point. (Or if you are, God help the people.) A goo

I can’t tell whether I was actually sick the week season two of Netflix’s House of Cards dropped, or if I was glued to the couch because I just couldn’t stop watching.

Jim McDermott, S.J., reviews the big, bad "Wolf of Wall Street," up for five Oscars at this Sunday's Academy Awards.

Late on Sunday nights when I was a kid I used to sneak downstairs to our family TV room, where more often than not my father was asleep in his chair, the news or sitcom reruns droning on. I would do my best to slip the remote control from off his chair, turn down the volume and switch the channel. I

Last year a number of critics complained that there are actually now so many good shows on television (mostly on cable) that they could no longer keep up with them all.And yet they keep on coming. Over the next few weeks in Hollywood’s small screen version of Christmas dozens of new and return

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