Certain scientific concepts can capture the public’s imagination and take on a life of their own. This is commonplace in science fiction where time travel, the...
TV and film
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, work-life balance was a term corporations used to lure new hires but an evasive concept to operationalize in day-to-day cubicle...
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino (2017–present) Four seasons and five years on, the award-winning Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs...
Slaves and Kings Directed by Pablo Moreno (Bosco Films, 2022) The Spanish-language film Slaves and Kings is subtitled “The Story of Saint Antonio María Claret...
Near the beginning of Meltdown, the four-part Netflix documentary series about the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant disaster, a scared-looking...
We Need to Talk About Cosby Directed by W. Kamau Bell (Showtime, 2022) The work of trying to see the many facets of a challenging topic is not commonplace in...
Catholic tradition has long been enriched by the work of men and women who turned to art as a means of coping with fear and loss. Dante’s Divine Comedy, and...
Jesus never missed an opportunity to turn a meal into a meaningful encounter. He had a deep awareness of the transformative capacity of sharing food. Some of...
The Northman Directed by Robert Eggers (Focus Features, 2022) Director Robert Eggers has already built a name for himself as an auteur of the grotesque...
A century and a half ago, Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days, and readers began to imagine that the world might be shrinking a wee bit. The new...
