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Cheating death and “The Seventh Seal”

March 26, 2020 Titus Techera 5

You may judge it a curious or sobering coincidence—the great actor Max von Sydow has just died, during the worst global epidemic in a century. Von Sydow was famous for his performance in Ingmar Bergman’s […]

Coronavirus and the promise of Oberammergau

March 9, 2020 Father Seán Connolly 10

Alarm over the spread of coronavirus has led the Italian government to place more than a dozen northern provinces—including Lombardy, which totals 16 million people with its city of Milan—under travel lock-down for three weeks. […]