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The songs of Marie Bellet: Parables for the 21st century
Marie sings her parable-songs, and through them we learn of her husband, her family, her friends, her Christian faith…and herself. […]
Film & Music
Film & Music
“Paul, Apostle of Christ” depicts the extraordinary faith of ordinary people
Without being didactic or heavy-handed, the movie ably depicts the centrality of the Resurrection in the thought and life of St. Paul. […]
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“To stake one’s life for the truth”: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ in a narcissistic age
Disney’s film is nothing like Madeleine L’Engle’s strange and startling novel, a book that fleshes out the radically others-centric love inaugurated in Christianity’s revolutionary command […]
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Artful veneer of “Call Me By Your Name” masks shallow, distorted view of sexuality
The Best Picture–nominated film seeks to evoke a world of pre-Christian sexual mores, one often cited for its relatively permissive attitudes toward pederasty. […]
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From heroism to cynicism: The deconstruction of Luke Skywalker
The Last Jedi demythologizes Skywalker in order to deconstruct the cultural achievements of the original Star Wars trilogy and clear the way for a new […]
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Father Callam goes to the movies
A Catholic Goes to the Movies provides readers with an interpretive paradigm that they can use to decode the moral and philosophical assumptions of any movie […]
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“Stranger Things 2”: Not quite strange enough
In its second season, Stranger Things shifts from a show about human beings with monsters in it, to a show about monsters with human beings […]
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From Bukowski to Benedict
The cinema was once the light in which I sought purpose and escape. And then I was issued a challenge I could not escape: To […]
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“The Princess Bride” at 30
With a terrific characters, witty dialogue, and a credible romance at its core, The Princess Bride continues to enchant. […]
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It’s My Life, and I’ll Do What God Wants
The unlikely spiritual journey of a 1960s hit-maker Carl D’Errico, whose songs have been performed and recorded by The Animals, Neil Diamond, the Yardbirds, Gene Pitney, and […]