If Leonard Cohen failed to live at the center of righteousness, he maintained a sense of where that center remained, and of how to find it again in prayer
I've been visiting sisters’ homes across Britain and Ireland, seeking to collaborate with them in reflecting on suffering and its relationship to love.
Building a Catholic university is simple, argues John Garvey: a majority of its faculty must be Catholic. But executing that plan is harder, says Mark W. Roche.
Martin Scorsese talks about apostasy and faith, and how some of the films he's made (and some he's influenced by) have taken up these ideas in different ways.
Martin Scorsese talks about the challenges of filing a story set four hundred years ago, the similarities between Endo and Graham Greene, and the idea of vocation.
The director talks about growing up on the Lower East Side, his early dream of making a film about Jesus in New York City, and what led him to Endo's "Silence."
Henri Nouwen, a Pierrot-like figure with many masks, turned personal vulnerability into spiritual exploration, addressing other people’s pain by sharing his own.
Problems with faith cross religious boundaries. Here are the fruits of a conversation that I’ve been conducting, with my friend and in my mind, for a long time.
The provenance of the term “Benedict Option” actually offers at least some hope that it might actually fashion a meeting ground amid U.S. culture wars.
