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Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
Two people comfort Joseph Culver of Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12 as he kneels at a late night vigil to pay his respects for a friend injured in a car attack on counter-protesters rallying against white nationalists. (CNS photo/Jim Bourg, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
How do you continue to “bear witness” when every three or four days there is another crisis?
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
One option for promoting just business practices is divestment, but investing to gain a seat at the corporate table is also an important advocacy strategy.
Arts & CultureCulture
Jim McDermott
Last month, Disney announced that it would remove the "wench auction" from its popular Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Some fans were not happy.
Courtesy of Netflix
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
‘Kimmy’ takes on everything about life that is hard and makes it all so much bigger and more absurd.
FaithDispatches
Jim McDermott
I’ve only been a priest for 13 years. How could I possibly be at the point that I am just recycling ideas?
Los Angeles ordinations in 2017. Photo courtesy of the Jesuit Conference.
FaithDispatches
Jim McDermott
The consolidation is a work in progress. The brethren have mixed feelings about it, and their provincials know it.
Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington on June 1 to protest President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate change accord. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
In parts of the U.S. church 'Laudato Si'' has sparked creativity and innovation with impacts not so easily set aside. One such experiment is the Diocese of Monterey’s advocacy of Community Choice Energy.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
George “Jerry” Martinson, S.J., was one of the most significant Jesuits to work in China since World War II and almost certainly the most well known.
FaithDispatches
Jim McDermott
Given the number of those in the California legal system today who are Latino, “you can guess a large percentage of them are Catholic.”
Kyle MacLachlan in Showtime's relaunch of "Twin Peaks" (photo: CBS)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Jim McDermott
Our lives, “Twin Peaks” suggested, are far weirder than we generally care to consider, more ridiculous and more frightening