MPAA Rating: PG-13 USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: (4 out of 5 reels): Risen begins as a proto-detective story about a first-century Sherlock Holmes investigating the claims of Resurrection hours after its supposed happening. It’s […]
It seems that Cuba and Crete, two islands as remote from each other as can be, both geographically and culturally, have recently become connected by an invisible thread. One hosted a surprise meeting between Pope […]
This week the Obama administration finally delivered a long-promised plan to close Guantanamo Bay using the proper legal authorities. At first glance, this seemed to be an ethical advance that Congress and American Catholics ought […]
Twenty-five years ago, one of the 20th century’s greatest Catholic theologians passed away in the Avenue de Breteuil in Paris in the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Born in 1896 as the […]
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13 – unexpected and, for many reasons, tragic – draws a curtain on the life and public service of one of the most important Catholic figures in […]
Something quite remarkable—indeed historic—happened in Salzburg, Austria, on September 6th last. The occasion was an ecumenical Congress organized by the [Protestant] International Christian Network (Internationale Konferenz Bekennender Gemeinschaften). What made the event so notable was […]
Among the many interpretive tools that Sigmund Freud gave us for understanding human behavior, the concept of “projection” is among the most useful. Projection can come in several forms, but its classic example consists of […]
[Editor’s note: Spoiler alert!] When I saw the coming attractions for the new film Risen—which deals with a Roman tribune searching for the body of Jesus after reports of the resurrection—I thought that it would […]
For all the praise and accolades directed at Harper Lee, “serious” literary types have already weighed in, calling To Kill A Mockingbird a nice little story that doesn’t belong in the great literature category; simplistic, […]
Fear is underrated by most people. Fearlessness is what gets lauded. But fear is an essential part of a healthy perspective on life. If we don’t fear a hot stove, we may get burned; if […]
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