Voices
John Dougherty is the director of mission and ministry at St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia, Pa.
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"All That Breathes" links environmental degradation with the degradation of human beings.
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The documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" shows us how the man beneath the cape embraced off-screen heroism by accepting his own vulnerable humanity.
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A public toilet cleaner who lives alone, Hirayama has discovered deep meaning and beauty in a life that others would demean or reject.
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By focusing on parental grief, “Mass” grounds us in human tragedy even as it touches on the political and social implications of the epidemic of school shootings in the United States.
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James Earl Jones, who died this week, was a prominent figure on stage and screen. He also possessed a voice—and a presence—that has become iconic in American culture.
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We often don’t recognize our influences until much later. It’s the things we’re closest to that we have the most trouble seeing clearly.
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“Newsies” is the rare family-friendly musical that also serves as thematically appropriate Labor Day viewing.
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Gaston is troubling because he is the Disney villain who resonates most with reality: It’s unlikely that we’ll encounter an Ursula or a Jafar, but we all know a Gaston.
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Torn between religious devotion and his own children, Tevye struggles to hold onto his faith in a new and uncertain world.
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In “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” the ordinary becomes operatic and the everyday becomes extraordinary.