-
1 month ago | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Kevin Considine
In the end, the world will be saved by beauty. This was one of Dorothy Day’s favorite quotes from Dostoyevsky. And it’s a fitting description of the experience of listening to U.K. artist Michael Kiwanuka. Kiwanuka is a gifted singer, musician, and songwriter who is not well-enough known on this side of the Atlantic.
-
Oct 18, 2024 | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Kevin Considine |Rhonda Miska
Sometimes a book needs to be read at a historical moment by as many people as possible. White Poverty is one of those rare books. In the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II’s new book, White Poverty, Barber, a Protestant pastor and a practitioner of Christian nonviolence, works to reconstruct America into a more just democracy with the renewed Poor People’s Campaign, which originated with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967 and led to his assassination.
-
Sep 20, 2024 | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Kevin Considine
Theologian Alejandro Nava argues that hip hop should be considered engraced “street scriptures.” Yet, by and large, most Catholics still do not listen to hip hop, and that’s a shame. At its best, hip hop weaves together the sacred and the secular into a living, breathing, playful, sonic force. It encompasses beats and rhythms that affect your soul while spitting lyrics that can awaken your deepest humanity. Lonnie Rashid Lynn—stage name Common—has sought to do this for decades.
-
Jul 17, 2024 | 
uscatholic.org | Kevin Considine
A la tradición católica le gusta el número siete. Hay siete pecados capitales, siete sellos en el Libro del Apocalipsis, siete dones del Espíritu Santo, siete días de la creación en Génesis 1: Es un número que significa conclusión. Incluso el músico Prince, no católico pero nominalmente cristiano, capturó esta fijación en su canción “7” de 1992, que tiene connotaciones religiosas y apocalípticas. Y, por supuesto, los católicos tienen siete sacramentos. ¿Pero por qué siete?
-
Jul 5, 2024 | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Kevin Considine
When you love a band, it can be a challenge to write about them. I have seen Pearl Jam live in concert at least six times and know all their albums well. If you don’t understand the draw, you need to realize this: As musical performers, their goal is to connect with the audience via catharsis, protest, and hope. No frills, minimal production, just the music and the mystery of authentic human connection.
-
May 31, 2024 | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Kevin Considine
Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians. Results are based on survey responses from 175 uscatholic.org visitors. God and guns, religion and violence. That marriage is as American as manifest destiny and apple pie. But is that relationship also “Catholic”? Can it remain faithful to the way of Jesus while simultaneously being meaningful and healing in the contemporary context?
-
Apr 5, 2024 | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Kevin Considine
In murder mysteries, why do audiences fixate on the killers? What about the victims? As one character puts it in the season finale of A Murder at the End of the World, what about the “terrifying culture that keeps producing them”? The FX series is a thoughtful whodunit, beautifully shot, well-acted, and with a fresh perspective on the murder mystery genre. The main character, Darby Hart (Emma Corrinson), is a young author and investigator who is involved in two stories.
-
Mar 8, 2024 | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Kevin Considine
An “Incompetent”: one who is not legally permitted to freely wield one’s own resources. Those are the words that Mollie (Lily Gladstone) must use to describe herself under the white man’s law. She is wealthy. She is smart. She has self-respect. But she is Osage, which makes her “less than” and a target, along with her entire nation. Killers of the Flower Moon is based on a true story and the book of the same name.
-
Feb 21, 2024 | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Kevin Considine
God and guns, religion and violence. That marriage is as American as Manifest Destiny and apple pie. But can it also be “Catholic”? Can it remain faithful to the tradition of the Way of Jesus while simultaneously being meaningful and healing in the contemporary context? In the past decade, some streams of U.S. Catholicism seem to be reembracing a connection between God and violence.
-
Nov 17, 2023 | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Kevin Considine
Protestant theologian Shelly Rambo once wrote, “Trauma is the suffering that does not go away. The study of trauma is the study of what remains.” This is a good way to frame the world of the award-winning series The Bear. The Bear centers around a family-owned restaurant called The Beef, run by Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White).
