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Christopher Parker is an O’Hare Fellow at America.
Sufjan Stevens performing at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee.
Arts & CultureMusic
Christopher Parker
The pace at which “Michigan” toggles between gratitude and loss would be jarring, if it weren’t so hauntingly beautiful.
Arts & CultureCulture
Christopher Parker
Twitter has done its best to make me cynical. But every once in a while, there is a Grimace Shake moment.
FaithGoodNews
Christopher Parker
Young adults with autism have few places to turn when the services they received as children end. This leads many autistic adults to live at home for years with parents who worry for their children as they age.
People participate in the annual Pride parade, in Athens, Saturday, June 10, 2023.
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Michael J. O’LoughlinChristopher Parker
In recent months, corporations and nonprofit organizations supporting L.G.B.T. Pride events have faced increased scrutiny from some conservative activists. Catholic celebrations aren’t immune.
FaithScripture Reflections
Christopher Parker
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Justin, martyr, by Christopher Parker
OSV News/Scott Audette, Reuters
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Michael J. O’LoughlinChristopher Parker
Ron DeSantis was raised Catholic, but he and and his wife, Casey, rarely discuss the particularities of their religious beliefs in public.
Elle Fanning as Catherine in Hulu’s ‘The Great’ (photo: Hulu)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Christopher Parker
For me, the plot events ahead are secondary to the show’s real strength, the paths that the characters themselves will take.
FaithScripture Reflections
Christopher Parker
A Reflection for Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter, by Christopher Parker
a sculpture with a lot of people, immigrants and people of color, with scared or hopeful faces; an angel's wings peak up in the midst of them
FaithArt
Christopher Parker
Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz has designed the most recent sculpture in the Vatican—the first there since the 1600s—and his many other works similarly show marginalized peoples in the church.
FaithDispatches
Christopher Parker
Starting in March 2023, victims of sexual abuse in Saint Paul-Minneapolis who still wish to receive the Eucharist but find it too traumatic to enter a church can have the sacrament brought to them.