Movie Reviews
Radioactive
NEW YORK—The key to any good film biography of a scientist is found in the montages that show the discovery or invention that gained the subject fame. On that score, “Radioactive” (Amazon), the story of […]
Opinion
Columnists
The sisters keep showing up
On July 11, 2020, dignitaries, parishioners, new seminarians, a number of diocesan employees, and eight religious sisters occupied pews at the Basilica of St. Peter in Columbia. The occasion, as noted in the July 16 Catholic […]
Movie Reviews
The Outpost
With a commendable sensitivity to both the inanities and the unrelenting raw horror of combat — and careful attention to the emotional lives and steadfast valor of soldiers — “The Outpost” (Screen Media) seems likely […]
Columnists
Where two or three gather
Some years ago my brother Steve was sent on overseas jaunts to create text for promotional brochures for his then-employer, a travel agency. Several of them allowed for side trips into less inhabited areas, along with […]
Movie Reviews
Columnists
Coping with crisis requires action
To say that recent months have been stressful and strange would surprise no one. For those of us in ministerial roles, the unthinkable has happened: We’ve been called to provide service with minimal physical presence […]
Columnists
A too-familiar story needs to inspire change in our hearts
In this column I will be telling, in brief, the tale of two men — and more. One of the masterpieces painted by Henry Ossawa Tanner is my all-time favorite depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary. […]
Columnists
Pandemics our African American brothers and sisters face
Black Lives Matter is the voice that has been dominating the news for the past few weeks. Not only on the matter of systemic racism, but on the disproportionate number of African Americans being affected […]
Columnists
Making some sense of the Trinity
When Sister Philomena tried to wrap the minds of second-graders around the concept of the Blessed Trinity, she used an egg. There’s the white, the yolk, and the shell, she explained, but it’s all one […]
Columnists
Piecing together ecumenical and interfaith understanding
Sometimes imagining how the hundreds of groups which call themselves Christian might ever come together is as challenging as spilling out 1,000 pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and asking a family which has never done […]