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Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
Protesters against illegal immigration hold signs and wave flags to motorists on highway overpass. (CNS photo/Sandy Huffaker, Reuters)
Signs Of the Times
Jim McDermott
The example of Christ looms large over the immigration debate here.
Robin Williams at "Stand Up for Heroes," a comedy and music benefit for injured U.S. servicemen. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
In All Things
Jim McDermott
“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
DOWNTIME: Taylor Schilling in “Orange Is the New Black”
Television
Jim McDermott
Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black’
Michael Pena stars in "Cesar Chavez." (CNS photo/Pantelion Films)
Film
Jim McDermott
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
POWER COUPLE. Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey in Season 2 of "House of Cards"
Television
Jim McDermott
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.
BAD BOY. Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Film
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott, S.J., reviews the big, bad "Wolf of Wall Street," up for five Oscars at this Sunday's Academy Awards.
Image courtesy the BBC
Television
Jim McDermott
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
The cast of "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD"
Television
Jim McDermott
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
Television
Jim McDermott
Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom'
Photo: Melissa Moseley/HBO
Jim McDermott
Can 'The Newsroom' help us to process the death of Travyon Martin?