The Jesuits’ musical legacy: A mission opera debuts in Bolivia
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This week, a music festival returns to the Chiquitos missions in Bolivia, which the Jesuits established between 1691 and 1760. The story of the Jesuit "reductions" was made popular by the 1986 film ‘The Mission ..read more
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Pope Francis tells children: You can’t build peace while ‘lying on the couch’
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The world can change for the better only when people are out in the world, “not lying on the couch,” Pope Francis told some 6,000 Italian schoolchildren ..read more
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I’ve always loved relics. After my cancer diagnosis, they mean even more to me.
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Our theology of relics tells us something beautiful and profound not only about God but about what we believe about materiality itself ..read more
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Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ is a solid adaptation of the books. But it could use some religion.
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"3 Body Problem" is an imaginative Netflix adaptation of Cixin Liu's trilogy of sci-fi novels—and yet is mostly true to the books ..read more
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Review: New York City is Vampire Weekend’s muse on ‘Only God Was Above Us’
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“Only God Was Above Us” is a definitive “we’re back” statement from Vampire Weekend ..read more
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‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ is a take on faith that both believers and cynics can appreciate
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“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is the closest that the Coens have come to making a musical, and the film’s lush period folk soundtrack enriches its spiritual themes ..read more
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Earth Day 2024: It’s time for the Catholic Church to give up fossil fuels for good
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Pope Francis says that responses to climate change “have not been adequate.” This Earth Day, both clergy and laypeople must repent of our sins of omission and work toward decarbonization ..read more
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A mother’s mission to change how we talk about pregnancy and disease
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This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley are joined by Megan Nix, the author of Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth ..read more
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A solution to our epidemic of loneliness
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As we grapple with fragmentation, political polarization and rising distrust in institutions, a national embrace of volunteerism could go a long way toward healing what ails us as a society ..read more
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Another Doubting Sonnet
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I forget—did God make death ..read more
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