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The Moral Universe of Hannibal
A woman lovingly plucks a dead pheasant. A man places a human arm on a cutting board…
Go To Church, Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber famously got his start in the music industry at the age of thirteen after being…
I’ll Write Til I’m Right With God
“I am a sinner, who’s probably gonna sin again” Kendrick Lamar’s breakthrough album, good kid m.A.A.d. city,…
Planning for Beauty
Discussions of liturgical music in many Catholic parishes have become needlessly polemical. The one thing we all…
Is Vice More Interesting than Virtue?
Since at least the age of Milton, whose Satan in Paradise Lost allegedly outmatches the other characters in…
Suicide at the Oscars
This year two films on suicide took home Oscars: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 for best Documentary…
Lady Gaga’s Moment
Of all the events at this year’s Oscars, the one most anticipated was the tribute to The…
Catholics Don’t Sing Like Lutherans
I have been attending mass with more frequency of late, no longer as a tourist, so to…
The Theology of Patti Smith
Patti Smith is known as the “godmother of punk,” but she always had higher goals than trying…
Women of Mockery
More than ever, the makers of television and film attempt to portray women with the same depth…
The Joyful Mystery of Christmas
“And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes, and laid him…
Gnosticism 2.0
Humans typically situate their divinities at the border of the cosmos. The Israelites and Babylonians understood the…
Jesus Died for Someone’s Sins, But Not For Hers
The contemporary music that best appeals to me falls into a folk or urban folk genre, and…
Grateful Hearts
During the 1970s Paul Williams’s talents as a singer, songwriter, composer and actor were in high demand.…
Fear of Children
In a scene cut from The Exorcist’s 1973 theatrical version, Jason Miller’s Fr. Damien Karras sits with…
