Ryan Di Corpo

Ryan Di Corpo is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Boston magazine, America and elsewhere. Previously, he was the managing editor of Outreach, an online resource for LGBTQ Catholics. 

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Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is seen at the Vatican March 4, 2013. (CNS/Reuters/Max Rossi)

'Acid on an old scar': Abuse survivors and advocates react to McCarrick's death

"With Cardinal McCarrick's death, we lose one of the great villains of Roman Catholicism in the U.S.," said Colt Anderson, a Fordham professor who is writing a book on clericalism and the clergy sex abuse crisis.

In "No Other Land," Palestinian activist and co-director Basel Adra chronicles the destruction of a Palestinian village in Masafer Yatta, a community struggling to survive and fighting for its basic rights in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (Dogwoof)

Oscar-nominated 'No Other Land' personalizes destruction of West Bank villages

An essential documentary that informs and infuriates in equal measure, "No Other Land," follows the destruction by Israeli forces of a West Bank community.

"Planetwalker" is a documentary about John Francis, an uncommon globetrotter who embarked on a yearslong silent trek for the environment. (Los Angeles Times)

Inspired by Thomas Merton, this 'Planetwalker' traversed the world in silent activism

"Planetwalker" is a documentary about John Francis, an uncommon globetrotter who embarked on a yearslong trek for the environment, with 17 of those years observing a vow of silence.

"Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints" premiered Nov. 17 on the streaming service Fox Nation and concludes with an additional four episodes next April. Hosted and narrated by Scorsese, episodes follow the lives and deaths of Sts. Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, Sebastian and Maximilian Kolbe.

Scorsese's 'The Saints' affirms legacy of the great Catholic filmmaker

A common thread runs through the lives of four major Catholic figures profiled in the first part of "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints": They each embody a faith with consequences, a devotion that demands sacrifice and suffering.

"Small Things Like These," based on the 2021 novel by Claire Keegan, thrusts Cillian Murphy ("Oppenheimer," "Peaky Blinders") into moral peril when family, acquaintances and respected women religious advise him to disregard institutional abuses that he has witnessed. (Lionsgate)

Magdalene laundries are topic of new Cillian Murphy film 'Small Things Like These'

A quiet storm of a film about secrets and those who keep them, "Small Things Like These," starring Cillian Murphy, highlights the horrors of the not-so-distant past in Irish Catholicism.

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