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Movie & Television Reviews Movie Review: ‘Eddington’ John Mulderig July 21, 2025 2 min read Adult vi
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Movie & Television Reviews Movie Review: ‘Eddington’ John Mulderig July 21, 2025 2 min read Adult viewers willing to grapple with harsh material
Arts & CultureBooksNewsWorld News Whatever the genre, Dion’s music still focuses on life’s larger qu
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Arts & CultureBooksNewsWorld News Whatever the genre, Dion’s music still focuses on life’s larger questions Michael Mastromatteo July 20, 2025 7 min read
JournalismMovie & Television ReviewsNewsWorld News NBC’s Tom Llamas says Catholic education deepened
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JournalismMovie & Television ReviewsNewsWorld News NBC’s Tom Llamas says Catholic education deepened his faith, pushed him to always do his best Tom Tracy July 18, 2025 6
A Christian Consideration of Critical Theory
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In Carl R. Trueman’s most recent book, titled To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory From Marx to Marcuse (B&H Academic, 2024), the noted scholar and author hones in on the much-discussed but not always well-understood history, foundations, [...]
Arts & CultureMovie & Television Reviews Videogame Review: ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ Adele Chapl
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Arts & CultureMovie & Television Reviews Videogame Review: ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ Adele Chapline Smith July 17, 2025 3 min read “Clair Obscur:
The work of religious orders in Ireland and abroad
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An aspect of the Catholic Church we can be proud of is the work undertaken abroad by Irish missionaries, clerical and lay, whether in the work of spreading the Gospel and the work of service to people in need, for example through education and healthcare – two strands that
Going Astray with Dante: an incomplete version of the Comedy?
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The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri, translated by Charles S. Singleton, introduced by Simone Marchesi and illustrated by Roberto Abbiati Princeton University Press,  £25.00 / €29.99   Around half a century after its original completion, Princeton University Press has re-issued, in a single “handsome edition”, the complete translation of Dante’s
The many faceted genius of Dante’s Divina Commedia
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Dante’s Divine Comedy: A biography Joseph Luzzi Princeton University Press, £20.00 / €24.00   Author Joseph Luzzi, who gained his doctorate at Yale University, is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College, a private arts college in the Hudson River Valley, New York, where he also teaches
Trauma dices with trivia as summer sizzles
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Being July, the silly season, there are many blockbusters as well as sequels and remakes on our screens now. With the children being off school there’s much fare to suit them too, animated features like Smurfs, The Bad Guys 2 and The Girl Who Leapt Through Fire. Scarlet Johansson
FeatureMovie & Television Reviews Movie Review: ‘M3GAN 2.0’ John Mulderig June 29, 2025 3 min read T
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FeatureMovie & Television Reviews Movie Review: ‘M3GAN 2.0’ John Mulderig June 29, 2025 3 min read The same crackling wit that marked the
FeatureMovie & Television Reviews Movie Review: ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ John Mulderig July 3, 2025
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FeatureMovie & Television Reviews Movie Review: ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ John Mulderig July 3, 2025 4 min read Some 35 years ago, author Michael
Arts & CultureCR RadioFeatureLocal NewsNewsRadio Interview Radio Interview: The music and ministry o
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Arts & CultureCR RadioFeatureLocal NewsNewsRadio Interview Radio Interview: The music and ministry of Seph Schlueter Catholic Review Staff July 14, 2025 1 min read
The Warning Against Sloth
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The Warning and the problem of noise It is easy to underestimate The Warning at first glance. Three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico, who first came to attention through a viral Metallica “Enter Sandman” cover as [...]
Movie & Television Reviews Movie Review: Superman John Mulderig July 11, 2025 4 min read In the spri
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Movie & Television Reviews Movie Review: Superman John Mulderig July 11, 2025 4 min read In the spring of 1938, when the figure
Superman
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – In the spring of 1938, when the figure of Superman made his first appearance in the pages of DC’s “Action Comics #1,” President Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts to combat the Great Depression via the New Deal were at their height. There had as yet been only
Movie & Television ReviewsWorld News Movie Review: Sorry, Baby Kurt Jensen July 10, 2025 3 min read
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Movie & Television ReviewsWorld News Movie Review: Sorry, Baby Kurt Jensen July 10, 2025 3 min read It’s too simplistic to refer to
The Secrets of Daredevil: Born Again
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Power corrupts, but who decides justice? The clash between Daredevil and Fisk ignites again as Season 1 of Born Again asks: can heroes work within a broken system? Jeff Haecker, Patrick Mason, and Rob Leonardi dissect every twist. The post The Secrets of Daredevil: Born Again appeared first on StarQuest
Gunn’s Superman is silly and sincere, and that’s good. It could be smarter.
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Insofar as writer-director Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) was hired to make an definitive break from the nihilistic, grimdark Snyderverse DC movies and recover a sense of Superman as a character so decent and generous that it’s okay if he’s corny: mission accomplished.
With news coverage so grim these days it’s good to find inspirational people and stories in the media
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Nationwide (RTÉ One, Saturday) featured a special programme on St Oliver Plunkett to mark the 400th anniversary of his birth. Presented by Colm Flynn, it was a concise but comprehensive overview of his life and death. We heard from Fr Mark Mohan, Parish Priest of Oldcastle Co. Meath, home
End of Bacchanalian excesses in early Hollywood
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Last week I wrote about Will Hays, Fr Daniel Lord and the formation of the Production Code Administration (PCA). This prohibited the release of films deemed anathema to a Catholic ethos in early Hollywood. I mentioned the Roscoe Arbuckle scandal. Some years before, there was the drug death of