Barbie Directed by Greta Gerwig (Warner Bros., 2023) My mom worked as a toy illustrator at Mattel in the late 1990s and early 2000s. When I was little, Barbie...
Arts & Culture
Just Church By Phyllis Zagano (Paulist Press, 2023) What does it mean for the Catholic Church to espouse justice to the world? In Just Church, Phyllis Zagano...
Signs of Life Neil Gaiman & the FourPlay String Quartet (Instrumental Recordings, 2023) Beloved author, graphic novelist, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman adds...
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (Gracie Films, 2023) Coming-of-age films are usually about men. There are more heroes than...
On the surface, the Catholic Church can seem downright staid and stuffy. Our ministers wear antique ceremonial garb and sometimes chant in a style that hasn’t...
Or/And By Jeannine Marie Pitas (Paraclete Press, 2023) “Plato’s Symposium did not quite get it,” writes Jeannine Marie Pitas. “We are not severed eight-limbed...
Tell Her Story By Nijay K. Gupta (InterVarsity Press, 2023) In the foreword to Nijay K. Gupta’s Tell Her Story, historian Beth Allison Barr describes how...
In July 2022, Elizabeth, a Catholic creator in the Midwest, noticed something that struck her as odd: The Little Catholic, a larger Catholic business...
The Last of Us Created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann (HBO, 2023) I rarely cry when watching television shows. I love the medium but don’t physically emote...
One of cinema’s most thoughtful and challenging filmmakers, Robert Bresson, once acknowledged that when he simply wanted some entertainment, he would watch a...
