'Dignitas Infinita' fails to apprehend even the basic situation of transgender people and therefore provides no useful intellectual or moral guidance for transgender Catholics.
"Like many others, I remember exactly where I was when the verdict came down in 1995. I was in Commonweal’s offices on Dutch Street in lower Manhattan."
There are two difficulties with writing about Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. One is saying anything fresh about them. The other is seeing them at all.
While some Cubans succeed in beginning new lives elsewhere, others are forced to return—a process that is often psychologically, physically, and financially traumatic.
A new staging of ‘La forza del destino’ offers audiences the chance to ponder the paradoxes at the heart of what is often considered Verdi's most “Catholic” opera.