Looking for a new book to cuddle up with during the final stretch of this never-ending winter? Here are some new releases for March that you might want to pick...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Ten years after the release of The Passion of the Christ, a renewed interest in biblical films has landed Jesus back in Hollywood. On Ash Wednesday, February...
Directed by John Lee Hancock (Walt Disney Studios, 2013) It’s not hard to find a film that centers on someone who is suffering. In fact, it’s...
By Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking Adult, 2013) Surely Diarmaid MacCulloch appreciates the irony that after publishing the gargantuan Christianity: The First Three...
Directed by Stephen Frears (The Weinstein Company, 2013) Philomena, Stephen Frears’ touching film about the quest of an elderly Irish woman to find the...
Arcade Fire (Merge Records, 2013) What do you do after you’ve splashed onto the music scene with a monumental indie-rock sound that sparked boisterous...
Hollywood’s recent flood of slavery-themed films might be a sign that our nation is finally ready to confront the sins of its past. Theodore Parker, the...
By Reza Aslan (Random House, 2013) Reza Aslan’s Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth has stirred up plenty of controversy. Some critics fault...
By Katharine E. Harmon (Liturgical Press, 2013) Ellen Gates Starr, cofounder of Hull House and convert to Catholicism in 1920, was frustrated by “the apparent...
By Carol Lee Flinders (Orbis, 2013) In a previous study, Carol Lee Flinders profiled some of the best-known women among medieval Christian mystics: Teresa of...
