Cyrano Directed by Joe Wright (United Artists Releasing, 2022) If I had to pick one word to describe Cyrano, it would be human. The thrill of first love, the...
Arts & Culture
Although Catholic themes, characters, and motifs feature prominently in his work, New York–based writer, political historian, and chronicler of all things...
By now it’s become a cliché that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social and economic ills that America long swept under the rug. Low wages, weak workplace...
Subversive Habits By Shannen Dee Williams (Duke University Press, 2022) I recently found a book I received as a first communion gift. It is about famous...
Before turning 13, being Catholic was easy for me. I went to a parochial school and was surrounded by a big Irish family at almost every waking moment. I knew...
I Pray for My Enemies Joy Harjo (Joy Harjo, 2021) In tumultuous times, to whom do we go for wisdom? In many cultures, poets, elders, and religious figures are...
Dust in the Blood By Jessica Coblentz (Liturgical Press Academic, 2022) “There are some things one knows from living them, even suffering them, and the story...
Who were you before you were born? Who will you be after you die? In church circles the responses to these questions might quickly move in the direction of...
The Fallout Directed by Megan Park (SSS Entertainment, 2021) “I feel so empty,” 16-year-old Vada (Jenna Ortega) tells her father in The Fallout, writer and...
