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Lady Ballers is uneven red-meat fare with serious shortcomings

December 12, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 12

In March 2023, the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles, a devout Catholic, set off a firestorm by stating bluntly, “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.” With some biological males identifying as women and now […]

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The farcical Napoleon and the failures of today’s leadership class

December 4, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 36

Napoleon Bonaparte is one of a handful of historical figures identifiable by his Christian name alone; and in his case, it is the Frenchified version of the Corsican-Italian Napoleone, the Lion of Naples. Napoleon’s native […]

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Sofia Coppola makes beautiful movies about sad women and immature men

November 16, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 8

For her eighth full-length feature film, Priscilla, Sofia Coppola chose to adapt Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, a story of feminine languor in sympathy with Coppola’s valuable oeuvre thus far. Like the best […]

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“It could be worse”: On Tarkovsky’s final film, faith, and the mystery of sacrifice

September 27, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 6

In a journal entry from 1982, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky described his struggle to believe: The most important thing and the hardest is to have faith. Because if you do have faith, then […]

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Facing a maskless future together

September 15, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 45

Are masks coming back? Let us hope not. A few weeks ago, I began to notice stray stories about how face coverings might make a return. We were told that cold and flu season was […]

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Called to be a man in Christ, not a Nietzschean superman

August 11, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 12

When I was a young man, I loved Peter Weir’s 1989 boarding school drama Dead Poets Society, featuring Robin Williams in one of his most celebrated roles. Back then, I admired Williams’s character, Mr. Keating, […]

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The Bomb and the Babel-of-the-self

July 26, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 24

In many respects, the task of modern theology has been to pretend to interrogate God in order to ignore Him. In the upper-middle-brow register, we half-heartedly ask, “Why is there evil in the world?” In […]

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Perhaps a red hat in Paris … next time?

July 13, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 17

Another consistory, another snub for Paris. While there are many different ways to approach Pope Francis’ recent appointment of twenty-one new members of the College of Cardinals, what immediately jumped out at me was the […]

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The war for the soul of the world

June 27, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 40

As another Pride Month comes to an end, the war for the soul of the world has intensified. I thought briefly that the tide may have been turning, but I was wrong. Let me explain. […]

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Pope Francis’s letter and Pascal’s wager

June 22, 2023 Andrew Petiprin 21

On June 19, 2023, Pope Francis marked the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher who remains one of the most important thinkers in the Western tradition. In […]

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