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Ciaran Freeman is an art teacher at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., and is a former O’Hare fellow at America Media.

Arts & CultureBooks
Ciaran Freeman
More than the costumes and settings, it is that humanity at the heart of Molly Shannon’s comedy which makes it Catholic to the core.
Joseph Ross is an English teacher at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C. (photo: Gonzaga High School).
FaithJesuit School Spotlight
Ciaran Freeman
Joseph Ross, an English teacher at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C., says poetry requires us to look deeply at the world around us.
Arts & CultureBooks
Ciaran Freeman
Sally Rooney writes for an audience that lacks faith in an institutional church, yet yearns for something to believe in. She writes for me and my friends.
Arts & CultureBooks
Ciaran Freeman
Douglas Stuart’s novel is an appropriate winner of the Booker Prize for the desolate year in which March seems never to have ended.
Kerry James Marshall (photo: HBO)
Arts & CultureArt
Ciaran Freeman
“Black is not the absence of color. Black is a particular color,” the artist Kerry James Marshall tells us. The particularity of Blackness as it pertains to art is the backbone of this documentary.
Paul Mescal as Connell and Daisy Edgar Jones as Marianne in ‘Normal People’ (photo: Hulu).  
Arts & CultureTelevision
Ciaran Freeman
Class gets placed front and center in this upstairs-downstairs romance between an upper class girl and her maid’s son.
Arts & CultureFilm
Ciaran Freeman
Waves is a film with strong film with a moving story, dynamic themes, and complex characters. But plot holes married with production missteps left me asking many questions.
Collage of the 10 Greatest Catholic School Movies of All Time
Arts & CultureFilm
Ciaran Freeman
Catholic schools are the perfect setting for a film. These are the best 10.
(photo: Evelyn Akhmerov/Unsplash)
Arts & CultureArchitecture
Ciaran Freeman
Part sculpture, part landmark, it is unclear what purpose the structure plays in the public sphere.
Arts & CultureArt
Ciaran FreemanBrandon Sanchez
Every other year it hosts the Whitney Biennial, which famously asks the question: What is art in America today? A question that can be broken down into two separate lines of inquiry: What is art? And, what is America?