In Perfect Eloquence, journalist Tom Hoffarth has assembled an entertaining, detailed and assuming history of Vin Scully's long, charmed life in the form of 67 essays by people who knew him.
If you're among the Catholics disappointed by the synod's failure to sufficiently amplify the voices and perspectives of women, you might take heart in one (or all) of the many female-led films being released this fall.
In his new release, The Jesuit Disruptor: A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis, Michael Higgins makes a compelling apology for the Argentina-born pontiff's plans to free the church from an overreliance on doctrine and tradition and bring fresh thinking into hidebound curial operations.
In excerpts from Solidarity and Mercy, a new book compiling and adding to his reporting for GSR and NCR, Chris Herlinger profiles Fr. Aleksandr Bohomoz, a Catholic cleric who left Russia-occupied Ukraine in late 2022.
While MJ Lenderman uses religious language throughout, this is not an album about spiritual longing, but about storytelling. It is up to the audience to determine if redemption is on offer here.
The Season Two finale of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" is now streaming, and invites us to consider how we engage with our own source material.
The church can hear the stories of women who have chosen to follow their call to the priesthood through ordination, thanks to the new book Women Called to Catholic Priesthood: From Ecclesial Challenge to Spiritual Renewal.
The show's lasting reputation has little to do with politics or policy, "West Wing" writer Lawrence O'Donnell told NCR. It comes from the series' ability to "teach empathy and sympathy for other people's conditions."
