Culture

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."

Briana Jansky says the new Lee Daniels flick integrates the African-American experience with a positive view of Christianity that's all too rare.

In The Crisis of Narration, Byung-chul Han suggests the real harm of information is that it has displaced a more essential practice of human life: narration.

Julia Walsh's spiritual memoir, For Love of the Broken Body, is a raw account of her early years preparing to become a Catholic sister. 

HGTV television shows are more than a guilty pleasure for writer Jennifer Sawyer — they are instructions on how to honor the past.

For artist Tim Schmalz, sculpture is more than a pastime or an excuse to carve captivating images in bronze. He believes public art is an ideal way to promote faith and spirituality at a time when many are looking for something meaningful in their lives.

The new graphic novel on the life of Dorothy Day is the perfect medium to convey the nuance, power and multi-dimensionality of Day's legacy, writes Jeromiah Taylor.

Reading this book by veteran journalist Ray Suarez from a Catholic perspective raises fundamental questions. What are we as a church failing to see in the waves of migration?